Between the Concrete Crypt Match, killing off Muhammad Hassan, and the 1st Punjabi Prison Match, Undertaker has a bizarre history at the Great American Bash PPV.
Those Mania matches with hbk and onwards cemented his legacy I think. If those matches never happened, you couldn't really point out a great match he had.
@@04h239 I will say that Undertaker vs Kurt Angle at No Way Out 06 was a great match as well as his match with Batista at WM 23 was great but other than that but I agree with you and Taker is one of my favorite wrestlers ever.
One of the good things about these early Brand exclusive PPVs is seeing guys like London/Kendrick having lots of PPV time. In a dual branded PPV, this match probably wouldn't even have been on the main card.
It's in extremely poor taste (which was probably the point given who delivered it) but JBL saying "I've got a liver like Jake Roberts!" got me to laugh.
I wish they had come back during Ryback's push when he would go against 2 guys at a time. London and Kendrick would've ended that push pretty quickly. Instead of us having to endure his presence for 3 years or however long it was.
I absolutely adored the King Booker gimmick, especially once he got the court and the title. It was just so over the top and so cartoonishly obsurd I couldn't help but enjoy it. The biggest crime is that it was Booker's one and only world title reign with the company.
Undertaker in the PPM is more "Jordan with the Birmingham Barons"; he still looks good, but he's definitely out of his element, and the circumstances around him being there are open to many questions.
Botchamania forever immortalized the "elevated liver enzymes" thing. I can't think about GAB 06 without hearing the Gygas boss music from Earthbound lol
JBL spending a half hour talking about how The Undertaker is a complete has been, shell of himself, MJ on the Wizards etc. only to tell Michael Cole the next segment "I've never seen The Undertaker look better" totally popped me.
Glad to see JBL's commentary highlighted. I loved him on commentary from 2006-2007, the way he would put people over. Particularly Batista and Taker during their feud was GREAT.
I remember in 2007 JBL did a promo about in England before cyber Sunday event and began it by saying: "ladies & gentlemen... And English people" lol classic a-hole JBL
But Brian, WWE held The Great American Bash until 2008, then renamed it to just The Bash in '09 and brought it back on NXT during the pandemic. This was not the last edition as a PPV/PLE
@@joshgallie1543 but there were 2007 and 2008 editions for GAB as a PPV. 2007 was main evented by Cena v Lashley and 2008 was main evented by Triple H v Edge
2:49 "JBL openly questioning why the Spanish announce team is in his presence - COOL!" -BZ 😂😂😂 Dude!!!! I spit my drink all over my dang shirt, mate! I don't know why I laughed so hard at that, but the 'COOL! ' was too much!
Seeing Ashley here is really said given what we know now. The Punjabi Prison Match is a terrible match to try and watch if you were in the Arena. You couldn’t freaking see anything.
ashley's passing hit a little harder with me as i was lucky enough to have her as a follower on twitter, one of the nicest and most genuine you could interact with
@@cole003f a Twitter follow? that somehow makes her death more painful for you? do you mourn all your Twitter followers who pass away? or just the ones you fap to?
Seeing Ashley at times makes me sad. Sure, she wasn’t the best wrestler but I enjoyed her and thought she was great. But she was one of the many cases that got dealt a bad hand in wrestling and her passing still hurts for me.
Brian's feelings on the King Bookah run exactly mirror my own. At the time, I detested everything about the gimmick, and thought they were ruining one of my favorite WCW transplants even harder than they already had (looking at you, Hunter). Looking back, I was completely wrong. The whole thing was hilarious, got heat in a way that Booker T never really had in WWE before, and succeeded mostly on the strength of how much commitment Booker and Sharmell threw into it. My biggest gripe now about it is that they broke up King Booker's Court way too soon. Finlay and Regal were a perfect complement to King Booker's delusions of grandeur.
Also, I wish they'd acknowledge him as a (bear with me here) six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time... SIX-TIME champion given this was his one and only world championship in WWE.
From one to another, thank you. I stopped by your table this morning in Nashville at the fairgrounds. Picked up a WWW Gildjan t-shirt (and as I leaned, pronounced gild-john) and even got a photo op. Thank you and on behalf of everyone, please continue to do what you do.
Early era JBL on commentary is what Cory Graves wishes he could be; like, JBL deserves all the shit for being a total horrible human being, but my god he was surprisingly good at commentary, especially in this era.
That's what made people excited he was coming back to commentary and why everybody was so disappointed when they actually heard him the second time. He was really good as an announcer, and Cole should get credit too. Had great chemistry with JBL and Tazz both.
@@Hulkling93 Oh, yeah, like, second time around he fucking sucked, but this era of JBL was both witty, still true to his douchebag heel character but he also would sometimes support faces, I remember him often singing the praises of London and Kendrick at around this time period, despite Bradshaw being a heel and Londonrick being faces.
@@siegmund87 God, Cole is one of those people I will never understand the hate for; I mean, I get that he says a lot of stupid shit but when he's left to his own devices, he's great and; I don't know if this is a hot take or not: But Tazz and Cole are a far, far better announce team than JR and King.
@@Kaltagstar96 Cole got heat because of his position as VKM's mouth piece at the commentary desk. He's admittedly very good at his job, which is mostly using as much WWE's buzzwords and lingo as much as possible to talk about anything but the action that are happening in the ring. His unbearable heel run a decade ago probably didn't help, although that should've been blamed on creative instead
Regarding the finish of the Punjabi Prison match, I'd say it makes sense that The Undertaker won, since his feet were touching the floor outside of the structure. Yes, Big Show's body landed first, but his feet were JUST at the line of the structure first whereas Taker's feet landed further away.
When I started watching wrestling again in 2006, this was the first PPV I ordered. I've got a lot of nostalgia for this event because of how excited I was for it at the time.
@@JoshuaC the joke would be that if he wasn't so uncertain about the cause of the changes, Lashley would sue for saying he was on steroids. Which is clearly ridiculous because he obviously had Hep C at the time.
Its so surreal seeing the miz and Mr Kennedy Kennedy, cause I would have bet all of the money in the world of Ken Kennedy having the career that the miz ended up having.
2006 was one weird year for WWE it simultaneously felt like so much happened but also nothing happened lol. Also slight correction Brian there was a Great American Bash in 2007 and 2008
I really dug London and Kendrick's title reign, even if it was very formulaic, and they were scraping the barrel. New team arrives > beats individual members of the team on SmackDown > London and Kendrick retain the titles on PPV. It was really sad how the title reign was pretty much a result of WWE just absolutely giving no shits about the tag division. The team had no name, they didn't even get merch until they moved to RAW in 2007, and never made it onto any of the cross-brand PPVs during their reign. A lot of the teams they faced were makeshift (the Jamie Noble/Kid Kash team here, or Gregory Helms/Chavo Guerrero), or just called up from development for want of anyone else to feud with them (KC James and Idol Stevens). The matches were often great, but it was just impossible to feel like they weren't an afterthought.
They weren't even included in Smackdown VS Raw 2008 when the majority of their TV time was spent as the WWE Tag Team Champs. Instead the game defaulted to put the titles On Batista and Rey Mysterio even though they haven't been a consistent team since the end of 2005. London and Kendrick really were done dirty.
And another Fun Fact: this was JBL'S First PPV as a color commentator which is very interesting JBL did a great job on Commentary with Michael Cole on Smackdown from 2006-2007 Paul London and Brian Kendrick are a very Underrated tag team and they need to be talked about more often.
"The last great American Bash in 14 years." I seem to remember a certain Bash that had a title match between Bobby Lashley and John Cena during his year-long title reign the next year...
Eddie died in Minneapolis, not Indianapolis, no matter what that sign says. Easy mistake since when I flew into Minneapolis last October, the flight attendant on the intercom kept calling it mindianapolis
Early JBL commentary was great. He had his sport references, he knew all the history, and he was so enthusiastic about wrestling that if he was any good at commentary he'd be known as the greatest of all time!
Before I found out Kahli had elevated liver enzymes I always thought they replaced him with Big Show just to swerve everyone. Sounds like something Russo would do. "Bro we are gonna make a match baised around this wrestler bro. But then bro, we are gonna take that wrestler out of the match bro. I swear to god they won't see it coming bro."
For the Punjabi Prison I'd say it was treated as a regular cage or rumble match in that the feet have to touch the ground, but big show's feet were still within the confines of the cage.
For me the change of card made the show better for me, the problem with the Punjabi prision match is that needs 2 participants that have great chemistry againts each other
Oh how I loved the King Booker character, he had me rolling the whole time. The accent, saying king of the world, and the best part of it was him saying his name.
I'm curious if this opener was a late example of what a Cruiserweight Tag Team Match would've been like if WCW didn't close down. Honestly, as ugly as the belts were, the potential was there.
Damn shame that things didn’t go as planned out for Kennedy I mean beating so many established stars like Batista and Undertaker and winning Money In The Bank Only for the 2007 steroid scandal and Randy Orton being triggered make it all go south
It's funny you mention the king booker character. I met booker t once and asked him what was his favourite time in wrestling he said playing king booker because he could ham it up and have as much fun as possible with it
I was at this show, and how much this card got changed in the last couple of weeks and last second was ...oof. Still have the T-Shirt with the card that was supposed to be on the back and Ouch.
“I got a liver like Jake Roberts” is a god-tier line. JBL may have been one of the worst champions of the Ruthless Aggression era, but he was one of the best commentators 🤠
The fact so many people hated him during his run means he did his job. It's like the IWC has no real idea what a _heel_ is really supposed to be and do ... cause most of you don't have a clue.
For every example of JBL just shitting all over a performer or angle on commentary (in the least helpful manner), or inserting barely disguised racism into the discourse, there's a one in a million line from him that I love. What a dichotomy. I continue to insist that "they don't call it the Tombstone 'cause you get up from it!" is one of the very best calls from that era, and maybe the best commentary line ol' Jables ever said.
First and foremost I love wrestling with wregret Brians content is honestly why I keep watching these clips about wrestling today!with that said.... I was wondering if anyone had noticed that everybody aside from the commentators were at one point WCW Superstars from Booker T , Rey Mysterio , charmelle and even Nick Patrick the Ref.. are all former WCW employees I thought that was kind of cool to have an old WCW pay-per-view like Geeat American Bash... and main event for the former WCW heavyweight title i dont know if it was something done on purpose or a happy accident but i thought it was cool none the less.. Please keep up the good content Brian we love it brother!
I havent watched my boy in a bit forgot how much i love this channel. And at the end when he does the pros and cons for the show and has jbl commentary on both sides 😂 also under cons is the elevated liver enzymes lol between the shows quality and this guys personality this page deserves so much more attention we appreciate you so much brother
If I remember correctly, Kennedy got badly busted open on a spot with the steel steps during this match. I heard it described as a laceration of the cranium.
I remember being in Mexico when this Ppv happened and I was a smack down Stan . I could never buy Ppv but in the street market they had it for sale for 20 pesos on dvd
Same, especially after hearing about what she told Paul London. Like holy fuck she didn't deserve any of that, I really wish she could've been on the same level as Lita or Trish Stratus ability wise
3:13 if I remember correctly, the last match Eddie Guerrero had against Mr. Kennedy was in Indianapolis (my hometown), so that might be what that sign was referencing
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Big Show cried because he was worried Undertaker would take him on a motorcycle ride through the desert again.
🤣 next level savage
You're gonna be living on a motorcycle down by the desert!
with only enough gas to get there
Snakeskin isn't in style anymore
"I'm too old and fat for this shit 😭 "
Between the Concrete Crypt Match, killing off Muhammad Hassan, and the 1st Punjabi Prison Match, Undertaker has a bizarre history at the Great American Bash PPV.
lol yep, almost LITERALLY killing Hassan lol
Don’t forget him almost losing out on the WWF for his 1990 Bash vs lex
Don't think of it as 'The Undertaker's History;' think of it as: 'Mean Mark's Strange Summer Vacation.'
And burying Paul Bearer in Cement
He’s so anti WCW that he would sacrifice his own matches being terrible at one of their PPVs.
Undertaker has to be the most bulletproof wrestler ever. involved in so many crap feuds/matches and still renowned as a legendary performer
nothing can kill the Dead Man...
...not even WWE Creative
He was given the task of trying to get blood from a stone way too many times
Those Mania matches with hbk and onwards cemented his legacy I think. If those matches never happened, you couldn't really point out a great match he had.
He’s a clone bro
@@04h239 I will say that Undertaker vs Kurt Angle at No Way Out 06 was a great match as well as his match with Batista at WM 23 was great but other than that but I agree with you and Taker is one of my favorite wrestlers ever.
Also seeing the undertaker in a bright backstage segment was kinda rare
9:44 is definitely a weird sight.
Especially during the non-American Badass days
“Aargh! My enzymes!”
-two thirds of the SmackDown roster, 2006.
One of the good things about these early Brand exclusive PPVs is seeing guys like London/Kendrick having lots of PPV time. In a dual branded PPV, this match probably wouldn't even have been on the main card.
Early? Brand-exclusive PPVs began in June of 2003!
@@oliverraven Fair point. Anything from 2003 to 2010 feels like forever ago and "Early". haha :)
@@oliverraven early relative to the 2016-2018 run of single brand PPVs
It's in extremely poor taste (which was probably the point given who delivered it) but JBL saying "I've got a liver like Jake Roberts!" got me to laugh.
I’m sure Jake heard that and went “try me boy”
Brian Kendrick and Paul London always delivered on their matches, such an underrated team
Great theme
Love London's drop-sault into moonsault on the other dude
One of my favorite tag teams from the 2000s
I wish they had come back during Ryback's push when he would go against 2 guys at a time. London and Kendrick would've ended that push pretty quickly. Instead of us having to endure his presence for 3 years or however long it was.
Despite getting buried to an extent. WWE had little plans for cruiserweights or tag teams at the time, so just combined them
I was actually impressed with Rey and Booker's chemistry in the ring. That match actually looked pretty good!
I absolutely adored the King Booker gimmick, especially once he got the court and the title. It was just so over the top and so cartoonishly obsurd I couldn't help but enjoy it. The biggest crime is that it was Booker's one and only world title reign with the company.
I could watch Regal and Finlay wrestle matches all day.
@Holy who cares. Still fun to watch
I credit the two of them for awakening my love of a more technical and hard hitting style.
@@jayharv285 the matches are just for hardcore fans
Fans didn't deserve them.
Undertaker in the PPM is more "Jordan with the Birmingham Barons"; he still looks good, but he's definitely out of his element, and the circumstances around him being there are open to many questions.
Indianapolis always sounds like a zone in Sonic 3 or something.
Best description of the city of Indianapolis ever 😂
Indianapolis Zone Act 1.
Having been there several times, it is.
That was what Sandopolis was called before they decided to change it.
Tragic
Lmao Brian imitating the big show made my day xD
Botchamania forever immortalized the "elevated liver enzymes" thing. I can't think about GAB 06 without hearing the Gygas boss music from Earthbound lol
We're not all nerds
@@rubberchix look at where you are, what this video is. You are a nerd in denial.
@@rubberchix bro I've never played Earthbound but it's badass and the lore is amazing
JBL spending a half hour talking about how The Undertaker is a complete has been, shell of himself, MJ on the Wizards etc. only to tell Michael Cole the next segment "I've never seen The Undertaker look better" totally popped me.
Glad to see JBL's commentary highlighted. I loved him on commentary from 2006-2007, the way he would put people over. Particularly Batista and Taker during their feud was GREAT.
When the lights are on bright Maggle!
JBL sold King Booker extremely well.
I remember in 2007 JBL did a promo about in England before cyber Sunday event and began it by saying: "ladies & gentlemen... And English people" lol classic a-hole JBL
He was great at selling the undertaker and his presence
But Brian, WWE held The Great American Bash until 2008, then renamed it to just The Bash in '09 and brought it back on NXT during the pandemic. This was not the last edition as a PPV/PLE
And they did it as a special edition of Smackdown in 2012.
@@joshgallie1543 but there were 2007 and 2008 editions for GAB as a PPV. 2007 was main evented by Cena v Lashley and 2008 was main evented by Triple H v Edge
@@Felipeeeeeeeeee oh yeah when did he said that? Timestamp please
Yeah I agree, I was going to comment on the same thing.
NERD
2:49 "JBL openly questioning why the Spanish announce team is in his presence - COOL!" -BZ
😂😂😂 Dude!!!!
I spit my drink all over my dang shirt, mate! I don't know why I laughed so hard at that, but the 'COOL! ' was too much!
Red White Blue & Black... Thank you so much for that
"Big Show grunts to get the door open." That made me laugh really hard.
he never looked worse than in 2006 even asking to get the door open was too much effort he had to grunt lol
@@cjvaye99That's true.
"O."
Can you believe almost 20 years of The Miz. As someone who watched him on The Real World with that toy belt. Damn has he lived the life
to be fair to The Miz, dude had to eat shit for years and never complained. He worked his ass off to get to where he is
This show is one of my favourite PLE’s (Premium Liver Enzymes)
10 points for you
24:03 "And that was the Final 'Great American Bash' for 14 years." What about Great American Bash 2007 & 2008?
Yeah, well and 2009 really, albeit abbreviated to just 'The Bash'.
Seeing Ashley here is really said given what we know now.
The Punjabi Prison Match is a terrible match to try and watch if you were in the Arena. You couldn’t freaking see anything.
ashley's passing hit a little harder with me as i was lucky enough to have her as a follower on twitter, one of the nicest and most genuine you could interact with
@@cole003f a Twitter follow? that somehow makes her death more painful for you? do you mourn all your Twitter followers who pass away? or just the ones you fap to?
Seeing Ashley at times makes me sad. Sure, she wasn’t the best wrestler but I enjoyed her and thought she was great. But she was one of the many cases that got dealt a bad hand in wrestling and her passing still hurts for me.
WWE did her dirty. They were supposed to protect her, and then told her to not saying anything.
Brian's feelings on the King Bookah run exactly mirror my own. At the time, I detested everything about the gimmick, and thought they were ruining one of my favorite WCW transplants even harder than they already had (looking at you, Hunter). Looking back, I was completely wrong. The whole thing was hilarious, got heat in a way that Booker T never really had in WWE before, and succeeded mostly on the strength of how much commitment Booker and Sharmell threw into it. My biggest gripe now about it is that they broke up King Booker's Court way too soon. Finlay and Regal were a perfect complement to King Booker's delusions of grandeur.
Also, I wish they'd acknowledge him as a (bear with me here) six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time, six-time... SIX-TIME champion given this was his one and only world championship in WWE.
I hated it until I realized it was a main event heel push.. I was just happy to see Booker with that big belt again
My biggest gripe is that it took WWE that long to finally push Booker as a main eventer
Now see, I thought it was dumb for a second, too. Then he called Taz "Tazwell" and got permanently over with me.
@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 gotta keep that "Dub Cee Dubya" Booker says..It's Iconic
The Big Gold Belt looks great on pretty much anyone but man does it look good on Booker.
From one to another, thank you.
I stopped by your table this morning in Nashville at the fairgrounds. Picked up a WWW Gildjan t-shirt (and as I leaned, pronounced gild-john) and even got a photo op.
Thank you and on behalf of everyone, please continue to do what you do.
16:00 even more so now Brian, man poor Ashley and nobody in power cared.. truly heartbreaking 💔
I was 17 at the time, and would've shat myself if I knew Taker would still active by the time I reached 30. All-time legend.
I was 8 when he debuted, if you told Ethen that he’d be going for almost another 30 years, I’d have called you crazy
Regal wasn't screaming. He was doing his Lex Luger tribute.
I love these nostalgic trips!!!
Early era JBL on commentary is what Cory Graves wishes he could be; like, JBL deserves all the shit for being a total horrible human being, but my god he was surprisingly good at commentary, especially in this era.
I enjoyed JBL's commentary until probably a year into his 2nd stint when he just became an angry Foghorn Leghorn and didn't say much of note.
That's what made people excited he was coming back to commentary and why everybody was so disappointed when they actually heard him the second time. He was really good as an announcer, and Cole should get credit too. Had great chemistry with JBL and Tazz both.
@@Hulkling93 Oh, yeah, like, second time around he fucking sucked, but this era of JBL was both witty, still true to his douchebag heel character but he also would sometimes support faces, I remember him often singing the praises of London and Kendrick at around this time period, despite Bradshaw being a heel and Londonrick being faces.
@@siegmund87 God, Cole is one of those people I will never understand the hate for; I mean, I get that he says a lot of stupid shit but when he's left to his own devices, he's great and; I don't know if this is a hot take or not: But Tazz and Cole are a far, far better announce team than JR and King.
@@Kaltagstar96 Cole got heat because of his position as VKM's mouth piece at the commentary desk. He's admittedly very good at his job, which is mostly using as much WWE's buzzwords and lingo as much as possible to talk about anything but the action that are happening in the ring.
His unbearable heel run a decade ago probably didn't help, although that should've been blamed on creative instead
The Miz...being born from the verbal beatdown he received by Coral on The Real World!
Regarding the finish of the Punjabi Prison match, I'd say it makes sense that The Undertaker won, since his feet were touching the floor outside of the structure. Yes, Big Show's body landed first, but his feet were JUST at the line of the structure first whereas Taker's feet landed further away.
When I started watching wrestling again in 2006, this was the first PPV I ordered. I've got a lot of nostalgia for this event because of how excited I was for it at the time.
I appreciate Brian's efforts to avoid a lawsuit. Indeed, whatever the reason that these matches had to be changed... we'll never truly know, will we?
What’s with the lawsuit?
@@JoshuaC the joke would be that if he wasn't so uncertain about the cause of the changes, Lashley would sue for saying he was on steroids. Which is clearly ridiculous because he obviously had Hep C at the time.
Its so surreal seeing the miz and Mr Kennedy Kennedy, cause I would have bet all of the money in the world of Ken Kennedy having the career that the miz ended up having.
Hot take: the Punjabi Prison Match would work great as a cinematic match. With the right talent in it, of course.
Hot take : all cinematic matches are dogshit and you gotta be a brain dead WWE mark to enjoy them.
AGREE (maybe a different color for the stakes tho)
This entire PPV is basically King Ross's wet dream. Uncountable John O'Clocks all around
I miss the John O’clocks
A KING ROSS REFERENCE IN 2022!?
THE END IS NIGH, THE END IS NIGH TIME TO RUN AWAY
@@hammyjammies you for got to say
Grab one of each animal and run for the blasted border
MAGGLE MAGGLE MAGGLE MAGGLE MAGGLE MAGGLE MAGGLE
MAGGLE MAGGLE MAGGLE
MAGGLE
2006 was one weird year for WWE it simultaneously felt like so much happened but also nothing happened lol. Also slight correction Brian there was a Great American Bash in 2007 and 2008
An Irish man fighting an English man for a U.S Champion at an America themed PPV.
Makes sense.
Northern Irish even, TWO BRITS
@@TheProfProfessor Tis fighting words!
@@TheProfProfessor calls himself Irish for a reason
This hasn't aged well.
It was an epic match
I really dug London and Kendrick's title reign, even if it was very formulaic, and they were scraping the barrel. New team arrives > beats individual members of the team on SmackDown > London and Kendrick retain the titles on PPV.
It was really sad how the title reign was pretty much a result of WWE just absolutely giving no shits about the tag division. The team had no name, they didn't even get merch until they moved to RAW in 2007, and never made it onto any of the cross-brand PPVs during their reign. A lot of the teams they faced were makeshift (the Jamie Noble/Kid Kash team here, or Gregory Helms/Chavo Guerrero), or just called up from development for want of anyone else to feud with them (KC James and Idol Stevens). The matches were often great, but it was just impossible to feel like they weren't an afterthought.
They weren't even included in Smackdown VS Raw 2008 when the majority of their TV time was spent as the WWE Tag Team Champs. Instead the game defaulted to put the titles On Batista and Rey Mysterio even though they haven't been a consistent team since the end of 2005. London and Kendrick really were done dirty.
And another Fun Fact: this was JBL'S First PPV as a color commentator which is very interesting JBL did a great job on Commentary with Michael Cole on Smackdown from 2006-2007 Paul London and Brian Kendrick are a very Underrated tag team and they need to be talked about more often.
London and Kendrick were awesome
@@claymathewselevator8121 Yes They were and WWE'S tag team division nowadays doesn't compare to the tag division in WWE today it's like night and day.
"The last great American Bash in 14 years."
I seem to remember a certain Bash that had a title match between Bobby Lashley and John Cena during his year-long title reign the next year...
I just started watching, and I can already feel my liver enzymes elevating.
Random wrestler: Man, I can't wait for my match at the Great American Bash
His liver for no reason: I need more enzymes than usual and I need them now
Eddie died in Minneapolis, not Indianapolis, no matter what that sign says. Easy mistake since when I flew into Minneapolis last October, the flight attendant on the intercom kept calling it mindianapolis
The sign didn't say he died in Indianapolis. It's where his last ever match was against Mr Kennedy
Holy crap! Brian Zane reviewed a show I nominated and gave me a name drop at the same time! Talk about awesome!
Tell me about it!
Love your music. Shame you beat up Rihanna that time tho.
My favorite part of JBL on commentary in 06 was when he accused Thaddeus Long (Teddy Long) of being racist and he told Michael Cole to shut up lol
Also he called Teddy Long a peanuthead and sad also as he won at GAB04 that Cole were do commentary with a midget😂
Safe to say:
JBL Commentary 2006 - 2007 >
JBL Commentary 2012 - 2017.
My fav part of JBL on commentary is when he called Undertaker a cool cunt at No Way Out 2007 lol
Theodore??? Lol
TBF, Teddy (kayfabe) was behind the White Boy Challenge.
I absolutely loved king bookers accent
Early JBL commentary was great. He had his sport references, he knew all the history, and he was so enthusiastic about wrestling that if he was any good at commentary he'd be known as the greatest of all time!
Your impressions of The Undertaker and Big Show cracked me up! Great review man!
Before I found out Kahli had elevated liver enzymes I always thought they replaced him with Big Show just to swerve everyone. Sounds like something Russo would do.
"Bro we are gonna make a match baised around this wrestler bro. But then bro, we are gonna take that wrestler out of the match bro. I swear to god they won't see it coming bro."
Great American Bash 2006: Better known as Card subject to change!
Brian there were actually 2 more great American bash PPV in 07 and 08 and just the bash in 09
For the Punjabi Prison I'd say it was treated as a regular cage or rumble match in that the feet have to touch the ground, but big show's feet were still within the confines of the cage.
That's how I viewed it, as well, since Taker rolled outside of its confines and on to the part of the floor that wasn't covered by padding.
Love JBL on commentary being both a pro and a con😂
I really love that brand exclusive ppv concept
For me the change of card made the show better for me, the problem with the Punjabi prision match is that needs 2 participants that have great chemistry againts each other
Punjabi Prison Match also has the problem that if you are in the arena, you can't really see what's going on through the two cages.
I mean i liked Big Show vs Taker myself. Like yeah Show looked gassed but was a mostly good match
@@edward66703 I mean considering he was added last minute Show did good.
Seeing Nick Patrick without the long hair and mustache is just weird to me.
My liver enzymes got elevated after watching this
Oh how I loved the King Booker character, he had me rolling the whole time. The accent, saying king of the world, and the best part of it was him saying his name.
i think the best part was he'd go back into booker t mode whenever he was really pissed
Brian bro, this wasn’t the last GAB until 14 years later. The last one being in 08
Ahhh, Women’s Wrestling pre-2016, Where the phrase “could you imagine…” is used for modern day Women’s Wrestling :)
“Elevated enzymes of the liver, liver, liver!”
Homer: “Yeah! Liver!”
That was actually pretty good Gregory Helms impersonation
I still have no clue how Punjabi Prison Matches work.
It's simple: to win the match you need to be the last man standing in the arena an make everyone in attendance leave.
It's cool that Regal and Finlay were given that match on ppv, shame the crowd wasn't into it at all. 😕
Eddie didn't die in Indianapolis, that's where he had his last match.
I'm curious if this opener was a late example of what a Cruiserweight Tag Team Match would've been like if WCW didn't close down. Honestly, as ugly as the belts were, the potential was there.
2006-07 was peak JBL for commentating
This and Summerslam 2006 were the first PPVs I ever bought on DVD and watched lol, I started watching around September 2006, what a time
''ELEVATED LIVER ENZYMES'' should be a hilariously good name for a ppv.
"Bats" for Batista is a hilarious contraction. 😂
Damn shame that things didn’t go as planned out for Kennedy
I mean beating so many established stars like Batista and Undertaker and winning Money In The Bank
Only for the 2007 steroid scandal and Randy Orton being triggered make it all go south
And talking about the Chris Benoit murders
Vince: It's just a little airborne. It's still good it's still good.
Shane: It's gone.
Vince: I know. 😟
2007 ss?
Too bad Ken Anderson was a legit asshole.
Pretty much why I don't have much respect for Cena or Orton.
Pushed to the moon and back, and yet you're still that insecure. Fucking yikes.
The Regal/Finlay match was hilarious due to Micheal Cole's commentary.
They botched Rey’s title reign so badly. Their exploitation of Eddie’s death is still gross all these years later.
Making my weeks bearable till the weekends thanks Zman
That’s What I’m Talking About Big Man! 😂
It's funny you mention the king booker character. I met booker t once and asked him what was his favourite time in wrestling he said playing king booker because he could ham it up and have as much fun as possible with it
>Big Show and Undertaker superplex
Brian Zane: Oh THAT doesn’t break the ring now does it?
I was at this show, and how much this card got changed in the last couple of weeks and last second was ...oof. Still have the T-Shirt with the card that was supposed to be on the back and Ouch.
“I got a liver like Jake Roberts” is a god-tier line. JBL may have been one of the worst champions of the Ruthless Aggression era, but he was one of the best commentators 🤠
Damn I didn't mind JBL as champ I thought him and Eddie had a pretty good storyline
Jbl was the shit as wwe champion
The fact so many people hated him during his run means he did his job. It's like the IWC has no real idea what a _heel_ is really supposed to be and do ... cause most of you don't have a clue.
For every example of JBL just shitting all over a performer or angle on commentary (in the least helpful manner), or inserting barely disguised racism into the discourse, there's a one in a million line from him that I love. What a dichotomy.
I continue to insist that "they don't call it the Tombstone 'cause you get up from it!" is one of the very best calls from that era, and maybe the best commentary line ol' Jables ever said.
@@Umega101 they don't they call everything x pac heat 😂 😆
First and foremost I love wrestling with wregret Brians content is honestly why I keep watching these clips about wrestling today!with that said.... I was wondering if anyone had noticed that everybody aside from the commentators were at one point WCW Superstars from Booker T , Rey Mysterio , charmelle and even Nick Patrick the Ref.. are all former WCW employees I thought that was kind of cool to have an old WCW pay-per-view like Geeat American Bash... and main event for the former WCW heavyweight title i dont know if it was something done on purpose or a happy accident but i thought it was cool none the less.. Please keep up the good content Brian we love it brother!
I've had elevated liver enzymes since I was 16 (I'm 42 now).
No doctor has ever figured out why. And no, I've never been on PEDs.
I still want a Finlay/Regal match.
Yessss I’ve been waiting for this one! I love PPV reviews from 2005-2008!
One year later and the Ashley Massaro situation looks even worse.
Ashley Massaro showed incredible potential and is very sorely missed. #AshleyDeservedBetter R.I.P.
Serious Gregory Helms is my favorite Gregory
I havent watched my boy in a bit forgot how much i love this channel. And at the end when he does the pros and cons for the show and has jbl commentary on both sides 😂 also under cons is the elevated liver enzymes lol between the shows quality and this guys personality this page deserves so much more attention we appreciate you so much brother
I remember buying the DVD of this PPV and the '07 GAB from Kmart when I was a kid. I watched the 07 one a lot more lol.
As a kid I always remember this being one of the first big “shocks” when Chavo smacked Rey with the chair. I have an affinity towards this PPV
Oh, Brian. Eddie's last ever WWE match was in Indianapolis. He passed away in *Minneapolis*. It's easy to confuse the two cities.
This PPV is 16 years old and Bobby and Rey are STILL THERE
If I remember correctly, Kennedy got badly busted open on a spot with the steel steps during this match. I heard it described as a laceration of the cranium.
Wouldn't Cole have called it a laceration of the SKULL
I remember being in Mexico when this Ppv happened and I was a smack down Stan . I could never buy Ppv but in the street market they had it for sale for 20 pesos on dvd
Oh man seeing Ashley Massaro in wwe still doesn't get any easier I wish all that stuff never happened to her she had potential
It really is sad that she never went on to be a big star at that time.
@@comixproviderftw_02 yup
@@kyleshiflet9952 while she is beautiful no offense she was bad in the ring and didn't seem to get any better
Same, especially after hearing about what she told Paul London. Like holy fuck she didn't deserve any of that, I really wish she could've been on the same level as Lita or Trish Stratus ability wise
@@jayharv285 In ring work is the least important part of the show. Charisma is what matters and she had it
3:13 if I remember correctly, the last match Eddie Guerrero had against Mr. Kennedy was in Indianapolis (my hometown), so that might be what that sign was referencing