Since Bart Gunn won the Brawl for All, what prize awaits him? A. A main event run and a feud with Stone Cold Steve Austin or any top guy B. A decent mid-card run C. Get squashed by Butterbean
People were never going to boo JR, by this point he built up so much good will, and everyone felt bad with what he was going through. It's clear the only people who never liked JR were Russo and Dunn, hence why they tried to keep him off TV.
The epitome of Russo booking: Chyna comes in as a heel, turns face on Kane and reunites with Triple H, and then turns heel again when she and Chyna betray X-Pac. She goes from heel to face back to heel within the span of an hour.
Oh buddy, you ain't lyin'!! I haven't seen this card in years, but the sheer amount of run-ins is a bit heavy in retrospect. I get that he wanted to give everyone on the roster a spot, but I'm not sure having everyone coming out at the same time is the best way to accomplish such a goal, lol.
In the Undertaker’s entire illustrious career THIS was his peak physically. He was absolutely JACKED at this point, and his look was pure evil. So badass…
6-months later hes laid up in hospital bed with a hip f***** 10 Waze from Sunday maybe a little too good push himself too hard subsequently missed the next WrestleMania one of the only three in his entire career
Taker had been working since early 1998 with various injuries like a broken foot and overcompensating to work thru the injuries messed his hips and back up and necessitated his exit in late 1999
All eyes on the Federation at this time and for the most part they kinda fumbled this Mania? Goes to show how impervious WWF was from negativity as long as Steve Austin won at the end of the night. Fascinating time at the height of the attitude era.
Really? I found it goofy maybe a little funny 1x then Brian chose to run it into the ground. Big Brian fan but give it up with that and jacob the snakeob
The only part of this WrestleMania that is worth remembering is The Rock's infamous flipping sell job from the Stunner. Every WWF/E video game from then on had the opponent flopping like a fish after Austin's finisher.
This just goes to show just how popular wrestling was at the time because this is a Bad Wrestlemania overall but WWF was just doing so good at the time, that it seemed like Nothing could really hurt them during this time.
@@freezhollywood It was a bad year for WWF. Thankfully Russo would get his ass canned at the end of the year and there was an influx of good wrestlers to make 2000 one of the greatest years in company history.
@@robfinlay8058 it wasn't a bad year for them though. It was the absolute height of their popularity what ever you want to say about the quality of the product
@@freezhollywood y2k I'll never forget that shit somebody made alot of money convincing the media and politicians that it was gonna be apocalypse if the computer reads 00 for the year instead of 99 and all that for nothing not much happened lol my grandpa's computer from 1991 is still going lol
This is one of those “what if” Wrestlemanias that I like to fantasy book. Given the roster at the time we could have had some better matches. Undertaker and Shamrock were great the following month at Backlash, but it would’ve been better as a Wrestlemania match. Weird how they had Billy Gunn chase the IC title only to switch Billy and Road Dogg. Mankind vs Big Show was a waste of both men’s time.
The thing is I’m not really sure what else they could have done with Mankind and Show on this show. I mean i guess you could have added Foley to the main event, a triple threat between the three biggest stars of that era was a match I wished we would have got at some point. I’ve always believed Taker vs Shamrock should have happened at Mania 15 instead of Backlash also, the only other alternative would have been Terry Funk maybe?
Revised Card: WWF Title Match - Rock v Stone Cold v Mankind (maybe have Big Show as guest referee and his face turn happens in this match which leads to Austin winning) you can then have the Austin v Rock 1 on 1 at Backlash. Undertaker v Shamrock (HIAC) none of that stupid hanging nonsense either at the end- Taker wins but it's a very screwy finish with ministry interfering. Euro Title - Shane v Xpac (this match was fine, no change needed and same outcome) IC title - Val Venis (C) v Billy Gunn v Goldust - Billy Gunn wins IC title Hard-core title - Hard-core Holly (C) v Road Dogg v Al Snow - Road Dogg wins title Tag Titles - Owen & Jeff v Test and Bossman v DLo & Godfather v APA (dunno what Godfather was doing at this time or if he was injured but never understood why he wasn't paired up with DLo. Would have made a lot more sense than a random pairing with Test. Also didnt get why APA were not on the card) - Owen and Jeff win Kane & Chyna v HHH - 2 on 1 match - Chyna turns face and HHH pins Kane (Kane chokeslams HHH at end of xpac v Shane match and almost does same to Chyna but she escapes to keep him looking strong) Sable v Tori - this was gunna be a train wreck regardless so let's keep it the same and write off the inevitable damage.
As someone who attended the show, I can tell you the crowd was really hot that night. Really excited for the main event, the HitC match, the HHH /Kane match, Shane/X-PAC and the other title matches (not including the womans and tag titles) and the Brawl for All. Might not have been the best show but it was still a mainly enjoyable show for those of us in attendance. I also think the crowd was hot because the Flyers had won the Stanley Cup recently too? Sorry, I'm English so don't follow American sports!
The Flyers had most definitely not won the Stanley Cup. Most Philly sports teams did pretty poorly that year. But this was Philly's first WM, the first, er, Premium live event since IYH IN 96, and Philly has always been a hot wrestling town in general. The Original ECW was still going strong there at this time as well.
For anyone confused about Pete Rose and Kane feud, and why *Kane* specifically.. Pete Rose was a part of the Cincinnati Reds when they were one of the best teams in Baseball, and they were called collectively, as "The Big Red Machine". As Cornette has said, this is a Kevin Dunn thing, he was a huge baseball fan. As to why Pete Rose, A.) He has the most hits of all time, and is considered the face of that team era, and B.) Was and still is banished from the Hall and managerial, but also was for a long time banished from color commentating and yada yada with baseball. In laments terms, Pete had nothing else going on, Kevin Dunn wanted a baseball player to be a part of the action because sports, and Kane is The Big Red Machine.
@@godfather71190 not saying he wasn't, just that because he couldn't do color commentary on games, or getting inducted, or anything baseball related; that his schedule was open to getting tombstoned lol.
My dude. You do those Homestar figurines behind you proud. The jungle of inside jokes, the wordplays on top of wordplays, the making phrases rhyme the aren’t supposed to. Love love love the comedy you inject into this stuff
hahaha it always killed me that at home Michael Cole immediately excitedly cuts a recap for last night's Rage Party as The Bossman just dangles there. The level of enthusiasm in his voice sounds like he's doing an ad for Chuck E. Cheese it makes me laugh so hard every time
Can you remember the Brood not getting down on top of the cage properly because the harnesses didn't work properly? We all laughed at the time...but two months later, it was Over the Edge where Owen died. That should have been a warning to WWE then that their harnesses didn't work
@@michaelbandada9887 well Steve Williams was supposed to win cause it was preplanned for him to do so and I believe get this big push to feud with Steve Austin I think
@@jayharv285 I wonder if a Steve Austin vs Steve Williams feud would put butts in the seats and be a money making program. And also, will Austin be willing to work with Dr Death without any hassle in terms of creative direction and determining the overall winner of the feud?
@@michaelbandada9887 doubt it as they have two completely different styles. Austin is a brawler while Williams was a legit tough guy who did a lot in Japan. Austin's neck wouldn't take it well and plus Williams was 39 at the time of the brawl for all.
Wrestlemania 25 review in two weeks, Zane? I CAN NOT WAIT! :) The reason being is when Brian Zane made the "8 Worst Wrestlemanias" video, I was shocked to see WM 25 ranked so high. Was it really that bad? IMO, no. But I would love to see what Brian Zane thinks of WM 25 in 2022 compared to how he felt in 2014. :)
@@kyokugenryudisciple9349 were you baffled when you saw WM 25 ranked high in the 8 Worst WrestleManias video? It's not a knock towards Zane. I just don't think WM 25 is that bad.
WM25 was not a bad show. I think the problem is that it has one of the most disappointing main events of all time while simultaneously having the greatest Wrestlemania match.
@@kenterminateddq5311 Looking back at it…it was disappointing…but now with time and hindsight…it was a middle-of-the-road Wrestlemania. It had a solid card with one of the Greatest Matches in the Streak’s History & Mania’s history. But yeah…I think Triple H Vs. Orton was handicapped by not only it’s stipulations but the wrong person won.
Called it the third worst Wrestlemania, which seems like a stretch. It’s the definition of an average Mania. HBK/Taker was phenomenal but the rest of the card doesn’t really hold up, especially Orton/HHH.
Gorilla Monsoon looks like he's 85 years old here, months before his death. Meanwhile, Sting is currently older than Monsoon lived to be and is jumping off entrances through tables.
I always get really upset thinking about Gorilla here because he looks so ill and frail. It's especially jarring given that we're accustomed to seeing Gorilla has this physically imposing, massive sized man.
When he showed Gorilla i thought "wow he looks old, he must be in his mid 80s." then he tells us hes 62 and i was just like wow he looks awful. I know that might sound mean but im not trying to be. I was just shocked seeing him look that old when he really wasnt.
I know you made this comment a year ago, but I too fight that demon known as depression, and wanted to check in. I pray that you're doing well and living your very best life. Sending you lots of love 💖
While I don't follow wrestling much anymore- I really enjoy your Classic PPV reviews of when I was a big wrestling fan. Thanks for all you do- your channel is great.
Man these classic reviews are awesome. I always watch these during my "chill time" of the day. New and old. It's always a fun review. Plus on older year PPVs I get to learn things I never did before. Thank you Brian.
This was my first mania too. I started watching wwf august 1998. I was in 4th grade and my friend Danny had a sleep over. We were bored untill Danny brings out these dusty vhs wrestling tapes. “Hell raiser - stone cold” / king of the ring 1998. From the moment he pressed play on that hot summer august night, I’ve been hooked.
Man thats a bit much that you laugh at a dude getting savagely knocked out like he did. I cringe when I see it. It was a nasty ass shot and could have seriously fucked Bart Gunn up if it went wrong.
@@ziahamm1603 I laugh because of how abrupt it is. I feel bad that his career was just destroyed in a matter of seconds, but it was a blink and you miss it
Wrestlemania 15 was also my first Wrestlemania on PPV. I guess I don't remember it being that awful, but I think my brother and I were so pumped for Rock and Austin, and because it was Wrestlemania. Also, that was interesting about the Rock's breast reduction surgery...I had always heard rumors that he had a 3rd nipple or a 3rd nipple was growing because of some medications (steroids) he was taking, and that he supposedly wore the shirt after he got it removed. Good stuff, man!
Also, Triple H and Kane is only the second time that a double turn took place at Wrestlemania. The most underrated double turn was at Survivor Series 98 with Foley and the Rock
I remember watching this live and there was some discussion amongst my friends and I as to whether the Brawl for All match would be worked or not. Thirty seconds later: "I dunno, man. That looked pretty real to me".
8:26 My favorite part of Wrestlemania 15 was when Paul Wight splats Mankind while carrying Foley on his back, Jerry Lawler laughed his face off (pretty similar to when King laughed at Mae Young & Moolah being clotheslined by Jeff Jarrett in Unforgiven 99) and says,"That might be the greatest thing that I've ever seen!". :)
Jay Lethal: You know, I haven't really done much since debuting in AEW Paul Wight: At least, you didn't accidentally cost the guy you work for a big match and go on to repeatedly attack the wrong person
I have been waiting for you to do this one for awhile now. This is the one and only WrestleMania I attended. In the nose bleeds but I was there. Wasn't the best show ever but its special to me.
Brian love the videos my man. You're definitely getting better and evermore hilarious. Everytime I watch a video I go down a wrestling with wregret rabbit hole and enjoy every second of it keep it up bud.
Been rocking with you since you did a panel with Adam Blampied, Steve and Larson, and others back in 2015-16. Love all your material but especially the Classic PPV Reviews.
I completely understand the near and dearness of this show. It was also my first mania. I started watching wrestling the night Goldberg beat hogan for the title. 14 year old me loved this stuff. I'm excited about seeing Austin at mania this year.
Bart Gunn gets knock the F out by ButterBean: Is immediately Fired Johnny Knoxville gets knock the F out by ButterBean: Almost gets an IC title shot at mania.
Butterbean has said that if Bart Gunn had fought the way he fought in the Brawl (minus takedowns) he might have had a chance. But instead Bart tried to learn how to box, over the course of only a few months, and was totally out of his element.
I still remember watching the Brawl For All match live with my girlfriend. When Butterbean hit Bart Gunn with that punch and Bart slumped to the mat, she yelled, "Holy Shit, He Killed Him!"
This was the absolute peak of my wrestling fandom. The end of 1998 and the first few months of 1999 was a special time. I was so pumped for this WrestleMania. Had high school friends over to watch it on Pay Per View. It was…fine.
“If he’s not careful, he will get disqualified” as he is whacking a chair against Mankind’s back. And the deciding factor is choke slamming into 2 stationary chairs, which isn’t a DQ in normal conditions. Wrestling!
Hey Brian, great review of, what was my first Wrestlemania since #4. We had a big party at my first apartment, smoked a lot of weed and loved the show. The double swerve was great, the Boss man being murdered was wtf and the main event was insane! It would only be years later, in hindsight that I realised that this Mania was not very good, and about as far from a 'Ragin' climax' as you could get. Lol Nostalgia is a powerful drug! Cheers from Montreal mon ami :)
Michael Cole was the one who spoiled the main event. During the live broadcast Cole was hyping up WWE stars on the Home Shopping Network after WM and said the new champion Stone Cold would be there. This was a few matches before the main event.
As I recall, the Austin/Show match that's referenced wasn't just a case of one stunner and done. Austin hit him in the head with a chair 3 or 4 times and THEN hit him with a stunner.
May as well have been. Having Big Show get beat that soon off one stunner even with chair shots just deflates all the momentum you could've built with your new acquisition and firmly places him below the relevant starts.
@@denniswilliams6519 Yet Big Show had a long and storied career in the company. Some good, some bad. Losing to Austin early didn't hurt him. Whereas Austin losing would have killed his momentum going into Wrestlemania against the Rock. The Big Show was protected in the match because of the chair shots. And omitting the fact that they happened is disingenuous.
@@joshuahewlett4340 "Protected" is being generous. Having your new acquisition lose their first match in the company immediately puts a firm ceiling under their head. Austin did not need that win no matter how much you tried to sell it. "He had a long career" is not justification of shitty booking. Any momentum Big Show had coming over from WCW was all but gone by that three count and he just became another stooge of McMahon. He went from a giant to a clown.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Michale Cole's live comment at the time about the "new champion" pertaining to Austin well before the match, don't know if you recall that. I'm sure it's edited out now, i remember watching this live at the time, still have this recorded on a VHS. Classic, loved this WM.
For some reason I thought you already did Wrestlemania 18 and I’m surprised you haven’t done it yet hopefully you do it this year as it’s the 20th anniversary 😊
As others have said. It’s interesting to note that every Mania in the biggest era of the WWE.. Well… They were the shits. Except the Mania that signalled the end of the era. That’s considered the greatest. Just goes to show how special that collection of Talent was.
I grew up 20 miles outside of Philly and was in high school when this happened. An upperclassman brought his tickets to school for some reason. In the locker room after school, he was screaming and running around yelling that they had been stolen. Never heard how that ended.
This was the only Wrestlemania I ever "saw" in beautiful Scramblevision. I didn't buy the PPV, but my cable company only scrambled the picture, not the audio. I couldn't see the action, but I heard every word.
@@BBoy4040 I remember these days too, never watched full events though, but I remember "seeing" bits of em. Ah the good ole days......remember watching pre-shows on the old TV Guide/Preview channel too in that damn little box lol. Heard about Brian Pillman's death that way, and my friends across the street from my mom's and I were shouting from our houses about it as the news broke. Stuff like this would be unheard of today....let alone the style of the old Guide channel, where you had to literally WAIT for your channel to be shown to see what was on it, and if you missed it, you missed it and had to wait for the next cycle to go through. Whole different animal to what we have at our disposal now. Younger generation has NO IDEA what it once was like lol. Sidenote also....it's really quite sad....both Gorilla Monsoon's and Owen Hart's (unmentioned but deserves to be noted), final Mania appearances (and of course Gorilla's last of any kind) came in forgettable matches/exhibitions. They both deserved better, although at least Monsoon got a nice and well deserved ovation from the Philly crowd (of all crowds considering they once booed Santa Clause lol), that was good anyway.
I'm unfortunately not surprised by how Paul Wight was treated when he moved to the WWF. WWF has historicly treated acquired talent horribly, its basically to be expected unfortunately. I never had the opportunity to watch PPV events at the time, but this seems par for the course.
I always find that notion of acquired talent being treated horribly in WWE somewhat confusing. After all, Vince McMahon was able to transform the WWE into what it would eventually become back in the 80s because of the talent he acquired (or raided depending on your point of view) from all the various territories. He didn't make Hulk Hogan. He didn't make Roddy Piper. He didn't make Andre the Giant. He didn't make the likes of Greg Valentine, Junkyard Dog, Paul Orndorff or the majority of wrestlers who appeared at the first WrestleMania. Sure, he gave them a WWE polish and a bigger platform to perform on. But he didn't create them. So for him to not push acquired talent simply because he didn't create them seems a bit asinine.
I can relate to your opening statement, Brian.... Mania IV was my first, and I still think fondly of it to this day, but it was a rushed affair for the most part, with many lackluster matches and finishes.... But like Deadly Game, I look back on it more as a 4 hour story than a wrestling masterclass...
It's been said before but I'll say it again here, WCW booked The Giant WAY better than WWE ever booked the Big Show (stupid name). One of the rare instances WCW did it better than WWE.
I like Big Show more instead of The Giant because he's just.... The Giant. Of course they made that name mean something but it's kinda bland. Big Show just sounds better to me.
Dude I know what you're saying, and I love WCW, but they had him in the Dungeon of Doom doing rhyming promos, then falling off a building miraculously surviving unscathed, and later on smoking at ringside. Wight had it bad with both companies 😂
Fun fact wwe release a vhs that shows the highlights and commentary on the best matches from 1998-1999 and that Shane and xpac match was on it, the vhs was called wwf eve of destruction
Great take on the Road Dog / Billy Gunn switch; made zero sense at the time. Road Dog thrived in the Hardcore division, like he'd finally found his singles niche. Gunn was good looking and had a clean style, the perfect IC title candidate. The switch made no sense and didn't help either guy.
Red ass Brian, I love it. This was if I was reviewing Mania 15 myself 😆 I just rewatched Raw from all of 1998 and 1999 and the referee nonsense between Show and Mankind lasted absolutely forever!
Butterbean apparently knocked out Johnny Knoxville with a punch as well. Johnny recalled ‘he’s a nice guy…but he gets this scary look in his eyes when he puts the gloves on!’
Goddam i never not feel bad for Bart Gunn. The way he talks about how he was treated during the whole tournament on Dark Side of the Ring just makes me sad
"And unfortunately, the fact that it was the first one I watched is the ONLY reason it's near and dear to my heart." Same thing for me, only with WrestleMania XI.
I'll always associate this Wrestlemania with WWE 13 because for some reason this was the final chapter of Attitude Era mode. Looking back it baffles me they stopped there and not continue into the companies best year of 2000
"With the deepest regrets, and tears that are soaked, I'm sorry to hear your dad finally croaked. He lived a full life on his own terms, soon he'll be buried and eaten by worms. But if I had a son as stupid as you, I'd wish for cancer so I would die too."
Undertaker's Entrance @ Wrestlemania 15 was awesome This Version of Undertaker was so over sucks that the Corporate Ministry happened because I think that the Ministry of Darkness Had a lot left in the tank the Only Good thing about this Match was Undertaker's Entrance it's great seeing Brian Cover this wrestlemania just watched this a few days ago Brian's the best 👌
You could see the shitty Vince Russo booking that would later destroy WCW. The major differences, the WWF was red hot and had better stars to gloss over the crap, and McMahon was able to reign in some of his worst tendencies
Mid 99 has to be my least favorite part of the attitude era. After the amazing year 1998 Russo's booking got even more swerve oriented. I was a big DX fan so didn't like Triple H turning on them and of course the whole Corporate Ministry ending. Later 99 into 2000 was definitely a big improvement.
The problem is, H's heel turn made no sense and you could tell they had nothing for him outside of "Is now bad and in the Corporation." Grey gear, WWF Attitude poncho, wet hair, generic music, no motivation behind the turn. Mm-hmm. That's not to say it didn't get better, but it was Russo as fuck to start with.
That dig at Mankind being "young" at 33 hurts considering I just turned 33 2 weeks ago. I mean I've gone through a lot less hell than Mrs Foley's baby boy, but I don't feel old yet!
Since Bart Gunn won the Brawl for All, what prize awaits him?
A. A main event run and a feud with Stone Cold Steve Austin or any top guy
B. A decent mid-card run
C. Get squashed by Butterbean
A live execution by a huge man.
@@JoeChillton that’s correct!
D. Wait a second, Bart who?
@@harleyjones6222 It's stupid how people criticize Russo for supposedly "burying" Bart Gunn when no one really cared or knew him.
“It’s such good shit!”
JR is one of those people I can never imagine as a heel despite WWE trying twice in 1996 with Fake Razor and Diesel and in 1999.
It's like heel Tony Schiavone in TNA, though I wish they would've played it out
People were never going to boo JR, by this point he built up so much good will, and everyone felt bad with what he was going through. It's clear the only people who never liked JR were Russo and Dunn, hence why they tried to keep him off TV.
Honestly I can't blame him for acting like a heel cause when you mock someone's Bell's-Palsy that's considered unforgivable
He is known as GOOD Ol JR
Or Heel Don West in TNA back in 2009. It was so out of nowhere and wrong.
Ah, the Wrestlemania that perfectly encapsulates Vince Russo's time as head booker.
Thank fuck he was out not too long after this. Wrestlemania 2000 was middling but it was still miles above this crash TV mess.
Russomania running wild, bro! *read in Vince Russo's voice*
Swervemania, bro
The epitome of Russo booking: Chyna comes in as a heel, turns face on Kane and reunites with Triple H, and then turns heel again when she and Chyna betray X-Pac. She goes from heel to face back to heel within the span of an hour.
Oh buddy, you ain't lyin'!! I haven't seen this card in years, but the sheer amount of run-ins is a bit heavy in retrospect. I get that he wanted to give everyone on the roster a spot, but I'm not sure having everyone coming out at the same time is the best way to accomplish such a goal, lol.
In the Undertaker’s entire illustrious career THIS was his peak physically. He was absolutely JACKED at this point, and his look was pure evil. So badass…
Love Ministry Taker
Higher Power should've been Callis Imo.
@@Mambaman7771 *hower power* ftfy
6-months later hes laid up in hospital bed with a hip f***** 10 Waze from Sunday maybe a little too good push himself too hard subsequently missed the next WrestleMania one of the only three in his entire career
Taker had been working since early 1998 with various injuries like a broken foot and overcompensating to work thru the injuries messed his hips and back up and necessitated his exit in late 1999
@@SyndicateSuperman it was a torn groin injury that kept him out the rest of 99 then tore his bicep not long before the royal rumble
All eyes on the Federation at this time and for the most part they kinda fumbled this Mania? Goes to show how impervious WWF was from negativity as long as Steve Austin won at the end of the night. Fascinating time at the height of the attitude era.
It didn't matter as long as the characters were there. Goldust, Mankind, Pac, Austin.......all their weight in gold.
yup 99 was pretty meh when you go back and watch the raw episodes
Just wait till the next year's mania... 2000 was... A facepalm of a mania...
@@JoeChillton
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The triple h and Chyna double heel turn was memorable tho
"It's time for Hecc in a Secc!"
God damnit, why did that break me? That got a legit laugh out of me.
Really? I found it goofy maybe a little funny 1x then Brian chose to run it into the ground. Big Brian fan but give it up with that and jacob the snakeob
The only part of this WrestleMania that is worth remembering is The Rock's infamous flipping sell job from the Stunner. Every WWF/E video game from then on had the opponent flopping like a fish after Austin's finisher.
Butterbean surely? Only thing I remembered
@@SmegulonPrime You are correct, it's hard to forget Bart Gunn's career getting knocked the f out.
@@SmegulonPrime I don't know if that's "worth" remembering.
@@Demiglitch it was awesome a fond memory made better by the dark side of the ring episode
Taker's entrance was memorable
I always enjoy your classic reviews. watch them all the time!
This just goes to show just how popular wrestling was at the time because this is a Bad Wrestlemania overall but WWF was just doing so good at the time, that it seemed like Nothing could really hurt them during this time.
thats the year of 1999 in general most of it is dirt but nobody cared lol
@@freezhollywood It was a bad year for WWF. Thankfully Russo would get his ass canned at the end of the year and there was an influx of good wrestlers to make 2000 one of the greatest years in company history.
@@robfinlay8058 it wasn't a bad year for them though. It was the absolute height of their popularity what ever you want to say about the quality of the product
@@freezhollywood y2k I'll never forget that shit somebody made alot of money convincing the media and politicians that it was gonna be apocalypse if the computer reads 00 for the year instead of 99 and all that for nothing not much happened lol my grandpa's computer from 1991 is still going lol
@@MBM1117727 It was still a bad year. There were a lot of absolutely terrible PPVs and people felt ripped off paying for them,
Vince McMahon’s reaction when Stone Cold won the WWE title was hilarious 😆
I agree
WWF title
Easily one of Vince’s greatest Memeworthy Faces in WWE History!
@@kyokugenryudisciple9349 his facial expressions during the whole segment with Stacy Keibler is truly epic
Yep
Good lord Shane was fantastic at this time. He was the perfect representation of the “Boss’s Son” archetype.
This is one of those “what if” Wrestlemanias that I like to fantasy book. Given the roster at the time we could have had some better matches. Undertaker and Shamrock were great the following month at Backlash, but it would’ve been better as a Wrestlemania match. Weird how they had Billy Gunn chase the IC title only to switch Billy and Road Dogg. Mankind vs Big Show was a waste of both men’s time.
I don't like this communication
The thing is I’m not really sure what else they could have done with Mankind and Show on this show. I mean i guess you could have added Foley to the main event, a triple threat between the three biggest stars of that era was a match I wished we would have got at some point.
I’ve always believed Taker vs Shamrock should have happened at Mania 15 instead of Backlash also, the only other alternative would have been Terry Funk maybe?
Revised Card:
WWF Title Match - Rock v Stone Cold v Mankind (maybe have Big Show as guest referee and his face turn happens in this match which leads to Austin winning) you can then have the Austin v Rock 1 on 1 at Backlash.
Undertaker v Shamrock (HIAC) none of that stupid hanging nonsense either at the end- Taker wins but it's a very screwy finish with ministry interfering.
Euro Title - Shane v Xpac (this match was fine, no change needed and same outcome)
IC title - Val Venis (C) v Billy Gunn v Goldust - Billy Gunn wins IC title
Hard-core title - Hard-core Holly (C) v Road Dogg v Al Snow - Road Dogg wins title
Tag Titles - Owen & Jeff v Test and Bossman v DLo & Godfather v APA (dunno what Godfather was doing at this time or if he was injured but never understood why he wasn't paired up with DLo. Would have made a lot more sense than a random pairing with Test. Also didnt get why APA were not on the card) - Owen and Jeff win
Kane & Chyna v HHH - 2 on 1 match - Chyna turns face and HHH pins Kane (Kane chokeslams HHH at end of xpac v Shane match and almost does same to Chyna but she escapes to keep him looking strong)
Sable v Tori - this was gunna be a train wreck regardless so let's keep it the same and write off the inevitable damage.
Taker v Shamrock sounds fucking amazing
Thank you, Brian for my Favorite pay per View matches of the late 1990s.👍🏾👍🏾
7:35 Keep in mind, Vince signed Big Show because he said WCW didn’t know how to book a giant.
I would be curious to see Brian do a video on this actually. "Big Show's time in WWE vs WCW". Maybe a breakdown on which one is worse.
As someone who attended the show, I can tell you the crowd was really hot that night. Really excited for the main event, the HitC match, the HHH /Kane match, Shane/X-PAC and the other title matches (not including the womans and tag titles) and the Brawl for All. Might not have been the best show but it was still a mainly enjoyable show for those of us in attendance.
I also think the crowd was hot because the Flyers had won the Stanley Cup recently too? Sorry, I'm English so don't follow American sports!
The Flyers had most definitely not won the Stanley Cup. Most Philly sports teams did pretty poorly that year. But this was Philly's first WM, the first, er, Premium live event since IYH IN 96, and Philly has always been a hot wrestling town in general. The Original ECW was still going strong there at this time as well.
The last time the Flyers won a cup the building that hosted this WrestleMania didn't even exist
For anyone confused about Pete Rose and Kane feud, and why *Kane* specifically.. Pete Rose was a part of the Cincinnati Reds when they were one of the best teams in Baseball, and they were called collectively, as "The Big Red Machine".
As Cornette has said, this is a Kevin Dunn thing, he was a huge baseball fan. As to why Pete Rose, A.) He has the most hits of all time, and is considered the face of that team era, and B.) Was and still is banished from the Hall and managerial, but also was for a long time banished from color commentating and yada yada with baseball.
In laments terms, Pete had nothing else going on, Kevin Dunn wanted a baseball player to be a part of the action because sports, and Kane is The Big Red Machine.
So absolutely fucking nothing to do with wrestling. Got it.
@@sumthingwikked4257 lmao yep. Exactly.
@@stevenreid2571 Pete Rose is one of the most hated figures in baseball.
@@godfather71190 not saying he wasn't, just that because he couldn't do color commentary on games, or getting inducted, or anything baseball related; that his schedule was open to getting tombstoned lol.
My dude. You do those Homestar figurines behind you proud. The jungle of inside jokes, the wordplays on top of wordplays, the making phrases rhyme the aren’t supposed to. Love love love the comedy you inject into this stuff
Holy crap!
Wonder if Brian can do a second part of his Wrestling in animation video specifically so he can talk about the "yes, wrestling" sbemail
Dear Z Man. How do you type with tracksuit on? Crapfully yours, HH.
I was at this show. The stunned silence after Boss Man was murdered still haunts me to this day.
hahaha it always killed me that at home Michael Cole immediately excitedly cuts a recap for last night's Rage Party as The Bossman just dangles there. The level of enthusiasm in his voice sounds like he's doing an ad for Chuck E. Cheese it makes me laugh so hard every time
Can you remember the Brood not getting down on top of the cage properly because the harnesses didn't work properly? We all laughed at the time...but two months later, it was Over the Edge where Owen died. That should have been a warning to WWE then that their harnesses didn't work
@@MCWFanatic Honestly, I never connected those dots. You’re absolutely right I bet. What a tragic shame.
It's REALLY all fucked up considering that Bossman actually dies less than a decade later... 😒
@@MCWFanatic Edge talked about it in his autobiography how his harness wouldn't pull him back up and he was almost squished by the rising cage
WWE really had Bart Gunn's career implode in real time on live TV for his crime was winning the SHOOT boxing tournament.
Bart holding remote: You can actually pinpoint the exact moment Bart Gunn's stateside careers died.
What could have happened if “Dr Death” Steve Williams won the Brawl for All instead of Bart Gunn?
@@michaelbandada9887 well Steve Williams was supposed to win cause it was preplanned for him to do so and I believe get this big push to feud with Steve Austin I think
@@jayharv285 I wonder if a Steve Austin vs Steve Williams feud would put butts in the seats and be a money making program. And also, will Austin be willing to work with Dr Death without any hassle in terms of creative direction and determining the overall winner of the feud?
@@michaelbandada9887 doubt it as they have two completely different styles. Austin is a brawler while Williams was a legit tough guy who did a lot in Japan. Austin's neck wouldn't take it well and plus Williams was 39 at the time of the brawl for all.
In an alternate universe, Stone Cold didn’t forget his vest and WrestleMania 15 ended up being a top 5 mania of all time
Lol
Wait... their are seven other time lines?
Or he had more than one vest!
I liked how he had the shirt on when he came out but I do remember being 9 years old and really confused why he was wearing it
HOW DO YOU KNOW!? HUH!! WHERE YOU THERE!!
I'm so glad ROH is having you back, and I really really hope that we can say Brian Zane is All Elite soon. You deserve it dude.
Wrestlemania 25 review in two weeks, Zane? I CAN NOT WAIT! :)
The reason being is when Brian Zane made the "8 Worst Wrestlemanias" video, I was shocked to see WM 25 ranked so high.
Was it really that bad? IMO, no.
But I would love to see what Brian Zane thinks of WM 25 in 2022 compared to how he felt in 2014. :)
Yep…this is gonna be hype!
@@kyokugenryudisciple9349 were you baffled when you saw WM 25 ranked high in the 8 Worst WrestleManias video?
It's not a knock towards Zane. I just don't think WM 25 is that bad.
WM25 was not a bad show. I think the problem is that it has one of the most disappointing main events of all time while simultaneously having the greatest Wrestlemania match.
@@kenterminateddq5311 Looking back at it…it was disappointing…but now with time and hindsight…it was a middle-of-the-road Wrestlemania.
It had a solid card with one of the Greatest Matches in the Streak’s History & Mania’s history.
But yeah…I think Triple H Vs. Orton was handicapped by not only it’s stipulations but the wrong person won.
Called it the third worst Wrestlemania, which seems like a stretch. It’s the definition of an average Mania. HBK/Taker was phenomenal but the rest of the card doesn’t really hold up, especially Orton/HHH.
Gorilla Monsoon looks like he's 85 years old here, months before his death. Meanwhile, Sting is currently older than Monsoon lived to be and is jumping off entrances through tables.
Yeah, when I first saw the show, if they didn't say it was Gorilla, I wouldn't have believed it. He looked so different! And awful.
I always get really upset thinking about Gorilla here because he looks so ill and frail. It's especially jarring given that we're accustomed to seeing Gorilla has this physically imposing, massive sized man.
When he showed Gorilla i thought "wow he looks old, he must be in his mid 80s." then he tells us hes 62 and i was just like wow he looks awful. I know that might sound mean but im not trying to be. I was just shocked seeing him look that old when he really wasnt.
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Always love these classic reviews. So glad to be subscribed.
I imagine Bart Gunn pulled a Johnny Knoxville and asked if Butterbean was okay when he regained consciousness.
The best of this wrestlemania was Vince McMahon dancing during the rage party
Big Show has always been one of my favorite characters/wrestlers and it always hurts to see how he got mistreated.
While I don't follow wrestling much anymore- I really enjoy your Classic PPV reviews of when I was a big wrestling fan.
Thanks for all you do- your channel is great.
Man these classic reviews are awesome. I always watch these during my "chill time" of the day. New and old. It's always a fun review. Plus on older year PPVs I get to learn things I never did before. Thank you Brian.
This was my first mania too. I started watching wwf august 1998. I was in 4th grade and my friend Danny had a sleep over. We were bored untill Danny brings out these dusty vhs wrestling tapes. “Hell raiser - stone cold” / king of the ring 1998. From the moment he pressed play on that hot summer august night, I’ve been hooked.
Seeing Bart Gunn getting KTFO makes me laugh so hard whenever I see it. Also, I was a year old when this came out.
Man thats a bit much that you laugh at a dude getting savagely knocked out like he did. I cringe when I see it. It was a nasty ass shot and could have seriously fucked Bart Gunn up if it went wrong.
@@ziahamm1603 I laugh because of how abrupt it is. I feel bad that his career was just destroyed in a matter of seconds, but it was a blink and you miss it
Brian, this was the first PPV my parents let me and my brother order. It’s also near and dear for that reason. Thanks for reviewing it!
I popped for the "Somebody get that man to the bathroom!" line not gonna lie that was hilarious
Me too lol, I'm also hearing Dusty Rhodes voice saying that now.......lol. It seems exactly like something he'd say lol.
Wrestlemania 15 was also my first Wrestlemania on PPV. I guess I don't remember it being that awful, but I think my brother and I were so pumped for Rock and Austin, and because it was Wrestlemania. Also, that was interesting about the Rock's breast reduction surgery...I had always heard rumors that he had a 3rd nipple or a 3rd nipple was growing because of some medications (steroids) he was taking, and that he supposedly wore the shirt after he got it removed. Good stuff, man!
Mine too, we'll I watched it on vhs since I was poor but this was my first wrestlemania
It was probably gyno after roids. A third nipple just means more milk for Angle's milk truck.
I still remember vividly my dad laughing himself to tears when Bart Gunn got his head knocked off. Great memories 😂
The Higher Power payoff was WWF's own Black Scorpion moment.
“Seeing a man’s career implode right in front of your eyes is…somewhat satisfying!” -Brian Zane
Also, Triple H and Kane is only the second time that a double turn took place at Wrestlemania.
The most underrated double turn was at Survivor Series 98 with Foley and the Rock
First triple turn. Chyna/HHH/Kane
I remember watching this live and there was some discussion amongst my friends and I as to whether the Brawl for All match would be worked or not.
Thirty seconds later: "I dunno, man. That looked pretty real to me".
8:26 My favorite part of Wrestlemania 15 was when Paul Wight splats Mankind while carrying Foley on his back, Jerry Lawler laughed his face off (pretty similar to when King laughed at Mae Young & Moolah being clotheslined by Jeff Jarrett in Unforgiven 99) and says,"That might be the greatest thing that I've ever seen!". :)
This episode is so nostalgic! The Blue Meenie. Road Dogg's epic Shake, Rattle, and Roll!
Jay Lethal: You know, I haven't really done much since debuting in AEW
Paul Wight: At least, you didn't accidentally cost the guy you work for a big match and go on to repeatedly attack the wrong person
I have been waiting for you to do this one for awhile now. This is the one and only WrestleMania I attended. In the nose bleeds but I was there. Wasn't the best show ever but its special to me.
“He’s put in a regular ass car.” Hahaha that got me.
Brian love the videos my man. You're definitely getting better and evermore hilarious. Everytime I watch a video I go down a wrestling with wregret rabbit hole and enjoy every second of it keep it up bud.
Been rocking with you since you did a panel with Adam Blampied, Steve and Larson, and others back in 2015-16. Love all your material but especially the Classic PPV Reviews.
I completely understand the near and dearness of this show. It was also my first mania. I started watching wrestling the night Goldberg beat hogan for the title. 14 year old me loved this stuff. I'm excited about seeing Austin at mania this year.
Bart Gunn gets knock the F out by ButterBean: Is immediately Fired
Johnny Knoxville gets knock the F out by ButterBean: Almost gets an IC title shot at mania.
Butterbean has said that if Bart Gunn had fought the way he fought in the Brawl (minus takedowns) he might have had a chance. But instead Bart tried to learn how to box, over the course of only a few months, and was totally out of his element.
I still remember watching the Brawl For All match live with my girlfriend. When Butterbean hit Bart Gunn with that punch and Bart slumped to the mat, she yelled, "Holy Shit, He Killed Him!"
This was the absolute peak of my wrestling fandom. The end of 1998 and the first few months of 1999 was a special time. I was so pumped for this WrestleMania. Had high school friends over to watch it on Pay Per View. It was…fine.
“If he’s not careful, he will get disqualified” as he is whacking a chair against Mankind’s back. And the deciding factor is choke slamming into 2 stationary chairs, which isn’t a DQ in normal conditions. Wrestling!
Hey Brian, great review of, what was my first Wrestlemania since #4. We had a big party at my first apartment, smoked a lot of weed and loved the show. The double swerve was great, the Boss man being murdered was wtf and the main event was insane!
It would only be years later, in hindsight that I realised that this Mania was not very good, and about as far from a 'Ragin' climax' as you could get. Lol
Nostalgia is a powerful drug!
Cheers from Montreal mon ami :)
Michael Cole was the one who spoiled the main event. During the live broadcast Cole was hyping up WWE stars on the Home Shopping Network after WM and said the new champion Stone Cold would be there. This was a few matches before the main event.
As I recall, the Austin/Show match that's referenced wasn't just a case of one stunner and done. Austin hit him in the head with a chair 3 or 4 times and THEN hit him with a stunner.
May as well have been. Having Big Show get beat that soon off one stunner even with chair shots just deflates all the momentum you could've built with your new acquisition and firmly places him below the relevant starts.
@@denniswilliams6519 Yet Big Show had a long and storied career in the company. Some good, some bad. Losing to Austin early didn't hurt him. Whereas Austin losing would have killed his momentum going into Wrestlemania against the Rock.
The Big Show was protected in the match because of the chair shots. And omitting the fact that they happened is disingenuous.
@@joshuahewlett4340 "Protected" is being generous. Having your new acquisition lose their first match in the company immediately puts a firm ceiling under their head. Austin did not need that win no matter how much you tried to sell it.
"He had a long career" is not justification of shitty booking. Any momentum Big Show had coming over from WCW was all but gone by that three count and he just became another stooge of McMahon. He went from a giant to a clown.
After seeing Dark Side of the Ring's episode on the Brawl for All, I think all of us wanna buy Bart Gunn a beer and tell him what a badass he is.
Nah. I just wanna watch Butterbean knock him out and laugh
@@TheOneandOnlyCSG is that u Vince?
I'm surprised you didn't mention Michale Cole's live comment at the time about the "new champion" pertaining to Austin well before the match, don't know if you recall that. I'm sure it's edited out now, i remember watching this live at the time, still have this recorded on a VHS. Classic, loved this WM.
The best way to describe Butterbean vs Bart is what Billy Keable said on the AE Podcast:
The match starts, the match ends.
For some reason I thought you already did Wrestlemania 18 and I’m surprised you haven’t done it yet hopefully you do it this year as it’s the 20th anniversary 😊
As others have said. It’s interesting to note that every Mania in the biggest era of the WWE.. Well… They were the shits. Except the Mania that signalled the end of the era. That’s considered the greatest. Just goes to show how special that collection of Talent was.
The big boss man in 1999 had the weirdest year in wrestling history.
6:25 "Butterbean knocks Bart Gunn the f*** out and that's it!'
I grew up 20 miles outside of Philly and was in high school when this happened. An upperclassman brought his tickets to school for some reason. In the locker room after school, he was screaming and running around yelling that they had been stolen. Never heard how that ended.
This was the only Wrestlemania I ever "saw" in beautiful Scramblevision. I didn't buy the PPV, but my cable company only scrambled the picture, not the audio. I couldn't see the action, but I heard every word.
Yep, same here. My cable channel 41 was always the secret PPV channel I remember "watching" so many PPV's on it lol
@@BBoy4040 I remember these days too, never watched full events though, but I remember "seeing" bits of em. Ah the good ole days......remember watching pre-shows on the old TV Guide/Preview channel too in that damn little box lol. Heard about Brian Pillman's death that way, and my friends across the street from my mom's and I were shouting from our houses about it as the news broke. Stuff like this would be unheard of today....let alone the style of the old Guide channel, where you had to literally WAIT for your channel to be shown to see what was on it, and if you missed it, you missed it and had to wait for the next cycle to go through. Whole different animal to what we have at our disposal now. Younger generation has NO IDEA what it once was like lol.
Sidenote also....it's really quite sad....both Gorilla Monsoon's and Owen Hart's (unmentioned but deserves to be noted), final Mania appearances (and of course Gorilla's last of any kind) came in forgettable matches/exhibitions. They both deserved better, although at least Monsoon got a nice and well deserved ovation from the Philly crowd (of all crowds considering they once booed Santa Clause lol), that was good anyway.
That Owen Hart dropkick into a pin combination was my best friend and I tag team finisher in our Trampoline Wrestling Federation. 😂
The Raging Climax? Val Venis should’ve been in the main event.
"I choppy choppy your P-P-V!"
It was a DX reference, just like WM14 was.
For me this is my favourite Wrestlemania. Peak WWF for me absolutely loved it and still do.
So theoretically you and Jim cornette are all elite together
I live for Wednesday's W3 content. So glad this channel is around 💯
I'm unfortunately not surprised by how Paul Wight was treated when he moved to the WWF. WWF has historicly treated acquired talent horribly, its basically to be expected unfortunately. I never had the opportunity to watch PPV events at the time, but this seems par for the course.
I always find that notion of acquired talent being treated horribly in WWE somewhat confusing. After all, Vince McMahon was able to transform the WWE into what it would eventually become back in the 80s because of the talent he acquired (or raided depending on your point of view) from all the various territories. He didn't make Hulk Hogan. He didn't make Roddy Piper. He didn't make Andre the Giant. He didn't make the likes of Greg Valentine, Junkyard Dog, Paul Orndorff or the majority of wrestlers who appeared at the first WrestleMania. Sure, he gave them a WWE polish and a bigger platform to perform on. But he didn't create them. So for him to not push acquired talent simply because he didn't create them seems a bit asinine.
I can relate to your opening statement, Brian.... Mania IV was my first, and I still think fondly of it to this day, but it was a rushed affair for the most part, with many lackluster matches and finishes.... But like Deadly Game, I look back on it more as a 4 hour story than a wrestling masterclass...
Deadly Game did it better I'd say, and with less fluff. But it's a fair point.
It's been said before but I'll say it again here, WCW booked The Giant WAY better than WWE ever booked the Big Show (stupid name). One of the rare instances WCW did it better than WWE.
I like Big Show more instead of The Giant because he's just.... The Giant. Of course they made that name mean something but it's kinda bland.
Big Show just sounds better to me.
@@tyratooOP big show ended up being lost shuffle with nwo
WCW never had idea or character better then WWF expect original nWo Hogan , Scott hall and Kevin Nash
Dude I know what you're saying, and I love WCW, but they had him in the Dungeon of Doom doing rhyming promos, then falling off a building miraculously surviving unscathed, and later on smoking at ringside. Wight had it bad with both companies 😂
@@vilotfox1 Here's a few:
Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero, Ric Flair, Scott Steiner, Sting, Goldberg, La Parka, DDP, Booker T, Norman Smiley!! 🤣
Fun fact wwe release a vhs that shows the highlights and commentary on the best matches from 1998-1999 and that Shane and xpac match was on it, the vhs was called wwf eve of destruction
Great take on the Road Dog / Billy Gunn switch; made zero sense at the time. Road Dog thrived in the Hardcore division, like he'd finally found his singles niche. Gunn was good looking and had a clean style, the perfect IC title candidate. The switch made no sense and didn't help either guy.
Why was Brian Zane referring to the match between The Undertaker & The Big Boss Man as "Heck In A Sec" around 23:44, again?...
Owens spinning heel kick, 11/10 everytime.
Red ass Brian, I love it. This was if I was reviewing Mania 15 myself 😆
I just rewatched Raw from all of 1998 and 1999 and the referee nonsense between Show and Mankind lasted absolutely forever!
"Michael Barton" always gets a laugh out of me
Butterbean apparently knocked out Johnny Knoxville with a punch as well. Johnny recalled ‘he’s a nice guy…but he gets this scary look in his eyes when he puts the gloves on!’
@@supersasukemaniac I finally saw the video! He's actually snoring O_O
Shane should be pleased he did a leap frog - he didn't break anything this time
I was there and I started that Let’s Go Flyers chant!
Goddam i never not feel bad for Bart Gunn. The way he talks about how he was treated during the whole tournament on Dark Side of the Ring just makes me sad
Right? He was done so dirty
Does what they asked...gets punished for it
Poor guy should have never had that happen to him
Thanks Brian! I needed this today.
my mom got tickets to this, we had the floor seats with the folding chairs. We took one of the chairs home, and it became our computer chair for years
I remember seeing this on tape back in the day when I was young, the good old days
"And unfortunately, the fact that it was the first one I watched is the ONLY reason it's near and dear to my heart."
Same thing for me, only with WrestleMania XI.
Freaking ow man. My condolences
Same with me for WrestleMania 2000
that is me with 16/2000
This one has always held a special place in my heart too.
I remember this show being a lot better. I guess being13 years old at the time helped.
I'll always associate this Wrestlemania with WWE 13 because for some reason this was the final chapter of Attitude Era mode. Looking back it baffles me they stopped there and not continue into the companies best year of 2000
In a ironic way the bossman was going to be involved in another death angle later that year
"With the deepest regrets, and tears that are soaked, I'm sorry to hear your dad finally croaked. He lived a full life on his own terms, soon he'll be buried and eaten by worms. But if I had a son as stupid as you, I'd wish for cancer so I would die too."
I didn't have cable yet, and was SHOCKED when I saw the stills of Triple H hitting the pedigree on Xpac on Shotgun I think it was
😁😁😁
Me too. But was very necessary.
I'm drunk about to go to sleep. And this is exactly what I wanted.
Undertaker's Entrance @ Wrestlemania 15 was awesome This Version of Undertaker was so over sucks that the Corporate Ministry happened because I think that the Ministry of Darkness Had a lot left in the tank the Only Good thing about this Match was Undertaker's Entrance it's great seeing Brian Cover this wrestlemania just watched this a few days ago Brian's the best 👌
You could see the shitty Vince Russo booking that would later destroy WCW. The major differences, the WWF was red hot and had better stars to gloss over the crap, and McMahon was able to reign in some of his worst tendencies
I remember watching this in high school and now I'm seven years older than Mankind was at this show. Time flies.
Mid 99 has to be my least favorite part of the attitude era. After the amazing year 1998 Russo's booking got even more swerve oriented. I was a big DX fan so didn't like Triple H turning on them and of course the whole Corporate Ministry ending. Later 99 into 2000 was definitely a big improvement.
The problem is, H's heel turn made no sense and you could tell they had nothing for him outside of "Is now bad and in the Corporation." Grey gear, WWF Attitude poncho, wet hair, generic music, no motivation behind the turn. Mm-hmm.
That's not to say it didn't get better, but it was Russo as fuck to start with.
16:16 "Which therefore makes her a better worker than the Ultimate Warrior." And a better human being, but neither bar was tough to clear
Ah yes: The Ragin' Climax
It was more like a raging tease where nobody ends up climaxing in the end
All of the sudden I feel an urge to purchase and consume NEW M&M's Crispy.
So Russo with his wife? LOL
@@DLRX Nah... Russo climaxes whenever she says bro.
That dig at Mankind being "young" at 33 hurts considering I just turned 33 2 weeks ago.
I mean I've gone through a lot less hell than Mrs Foley's baby boy, but I don't feel old yet!
FINLAND!
Where?