Holy crap, this comments section would be a lot lighter if I just said "his one and only title shot AT THAT TIME BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THE STORY WAS BOOKED"!
Jerry Lawler and his Knights at Survivor Series 93 makes more sense than Shawn Michaels and his Knights had it not been for Lawler's ummm legal matters.
Vince is a sleazy creep with deep seated issues going back to a screwed-up childhood. After all the crap he's allowed on TV, nothing he does surprises me.
Sapphire was really upset about the whole angle because she genuinely liked Duthty. "In a later shoot interview, Sherri Martel revealed that Wright's admiration for Rhodes was legitimate, and that she literally broke down crying when the office told her that they were severing her and Rhodes' on-screen partnership. Martel believes that Wright lost complete interest in the wrestling business after this, which is why she left the company not long after SummerSlam." -Wikipedia
Can't say that I blame her if she was a Dusty Rhodes fan. I do wonder if Dusty left the WWF later on partly because they made Sapphire cry and for severing their partnership.
Lex luger beating yokozuna by countout and then celebrating like he won the wwf title is still one of the stupidest things I ever saw in wrestling. And I saw Mae young give birth to a hand that says something
@@southpawslim1 oh I have I seen it all from Robocop saving sting from the 4 horseman to the shockmaster to everything above. Lex luger not winning the title and celebrating was pretty dumb. I wasn't the biggest of lex luger fans but he should've won the title.
I'm pretty sure Shane's transformation into a "tough as nails demigod" happened at King of the Ring 2001 after he cheated death multiple times in one night
Between this and the angle where Linda was in a catatonic state while Vince and Trish were together two years earlier, it's no wonder why Linda wanted out in the wrestling business and went straight to politics years later.
Some moments I was surprised wasn’t on here: -Shawn Michaels burying Vader in the middle of their match -Austin not wanting to lose his title to Triple H but instead to Mankind -Goldberg first loss in 2003 -Derailing the summer of Punk in 2011
@@tinotica on the rise by kissing Shawns ass THEN marrying Steph. Don't give me that bullshit of "he wasn't married" he was still fucking her. Paul NEVER earned his spot.
Edge and Chris Jericho both told Cena not to go with that ending of the match as it would kill the Nexxus’ heat. Also Mark Henry was laughing so hard at Lawler’s pre match insults about Jake that Vince kicked him under the announce table.
At the time he thought it was a good idea. After the match he realized he was wrong. Believe it or not he tried to do the same thing with the Shield but they went to Vince and said no way they were doing it. He agreed and so ended Cena’s reign of terror
That's why I naturally like the smaller wrestlers way more than the big guys. I know that if a wrestler isn't 6'5" 240lbs, he probably had to work his ass off to get there. It might not be fair, but I assume every big guy just got hired because of Vince's big man fetish.
@@fattiger6957 that's especially unfortunate (if completely understandable) because it's so much more difficult to do exactly the same stuff when you're even just a little bit heavier, never mind a lot. But Vince never seemed to understand that's not an excuse for mixing world class with no class and calling them the same. Ends up underrating the big wrestlers who can actually move in the eyes of the fans, just because they aren't doing flips to the outside. You throw a Khali in here and a Mabel in there and their inconsistency and hazard level... makes the next superheavy to come along seem like trash even if they aren't since the push is the same so you expect the same. I'm 330lbs myself. I have a reasonable cross body press and standing dropkick, takes a hell of an effort. It probably wouldn't quite be enough for WWE fans just because they've been fed this diet of overrated superheavies. I'd probably be seen the same way (and at my current standard I'd BE the same way but I would hope not to be put on TV until my standard was on par... but that's the problem, isn't it?). The smaller wrestler isn't allowed to be the big deal, and the bigger wrestler isn't allowed to be the appreciated worker. Either way whoever you are you're losing out on something. Really a rotten status quo they've cultivated whichever way you slice it. I like basic giant type moves, too! Quite old school tastes in that way. But that doesn't mean they can't be done sloppily and sadly that's what you usually see. I was still a fan of Mabel for that spinning wheel kick he did. Even though he botched it probably more than half the time. When he hit it well... just to appreciate the sheer power necessary to move 480lbs off the mat in that fashion. Why was that not his finisher? Plus, much less danger of injury than the hip drop. He shouldn't have been doing the hip drop if he was injuring people with it. If you can't do a move safely against a sandbag, don't do it at all. Good rule of thumb.
@@Torthrodhel If you're a big guy and you can do more than the standard WWE bodybuilder type, or tall guy or big fat guy worker, fantastic. You have my respect. I recently got back into watching wresting through AEW and I am blown away by the ring work. They all seem to be hired based off skill. There's even a few big guys who really impressed me. There's a very good chance my big guy prejudice is based off of slow, lumbering giants that dominated WWE and WCW's main event scene. I watched workers like Bret, Jericho, Daniel Bryan work their asses off to get where they are while big men like Nash, Big Show and Reigns got hotshotted to the top just based off their look. I'm probably going to look into Japanese wrestling now too since I've broken out of WWE's bubble.
@@fattiger6957 a big gal rather than a big guy, but thanks I appreciate the praise. :) AEW's what I'm watching these days, myself. I get it, I do. I've been training for years but watching for longer and I'll never not be a fan. I've felt the same way for the same reasons during the same eras.
About Lawler wearing a Ravens jersey. The Browns team relocated to Baltimore and became the Ravens in 96. Then the Cleaveland Browns reformed and came back in 99.
The One with Jake is just sad. I remember an interview with him questioning why the company felt the need to use real whiskey instead of apple juice in the bottle. A few people at ringside catching on the booze was fake was not worth Roberts having the demons return!
Shame on those guys too. But this has at least contributed. No way around it. And I have my doubts, that it was solely LawLers idea. Vince did so much tone deaf, inexcusable 💩 in his company through the years, I absolutely wouldn't put it past him to sanction the alcohol ringside.
Jake actually won that feud with Lawler. He pretended to be drunk before a match on Raw and tricked Lawler to win with a DDT. No I don't feel better typing that
The best part of the Lex/Yokozuna match was that during the entire celebration for Lex's count-out victory, Bobby Heenan literally called out the stupidity of it all. Vince McMahon would cheer alongside everyone, touting how Lex managed to beat the odds, only for Heenan to constantly retort with "Why is everyone going crazy over this? HE DIDN'T WIN THE TITLE!!!!!". It's the kind of call you'd never hear nowadays, since Vince is in everyone's ear, and I love it.
I’m convinced Lex was supposed to win the title..they paid for the production of the whole balloons and confetti gimmick, and Vince decided to change his mind before the show. But since all that crap was paid for , they decided to use it anyway
Zeus: *snatches Hogan's gold necklace and takes off on a bike* Hogan: "My grandmama gave me that chain!" *runs off crying to his red & yellow Dodge Viper* Brutus: "He gon' cry in the car?"
it kind of goes to show that sometimes you have to seize the opportunity and put pride aside...easier said than done but damn it's tough to think about anything in regards to Owen and Austin
King Mabel's face when people were first throwing trash at him following his win will forever be one of the genuinely saddest moments in WWE history imo lol Aha Jerry Lawler the cunning linguist.. I got it!
I just want to know what planet Cena was on when he came up with that finish and thought it was a great idea. Edge and Jericho tried talking him out of it and he STILL insisted on looking like Superman...amazing
Yeah Mr. Perfect was the guest ref for the WM match and was hinted to have called to quickly for the DQ to set up a rivalry with Luger, but those plans were scrapped when Perfect's back issues arose again and he had to take time off to heal.
I remember as a kid being delighted to see Lex win. But shortly thereafter, was confused as to why people were celebrating the fact he never won the title.
I noticed that over the years wwe/wwf treated former wcw members like crap when they work for them. Flair, Foley. and goldburgh were the only ones not treated like crap when working at wwe.
Yeah Steve Austin, The Undertaker, Eddie Guerrero,Chris Benoit, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall Triple h was treated like crap won't they I mean not one world title between them or main event spot 🙄😂
I loved Ted DeBiase and how he could get random people to sell out and join his team. I miss the good old sell out heel turn. We need more of that these days
Kevin Nash, does that Lucha move a couple of times in his career. I think he does it against the Giant at Souled Out 97. He also does it against Sid at that lumberjack match. He botches it like every single time. I never knew why he did it.
"The first and last Lucha spot of Kevin Nash's career" he did it a second time at Souled Out 1998. "Luger blew his one and only title shot" he got a second shot at the title at Wrestlemania X.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the endings of the two main event matches at Summerslam 2015. You remember, the one where Jon Stewart helped Seth Rollins beat John Cena and then later on had Taker beat Lesnar because the time keeper rang the bell for Taker tapping out despite the Referee not singling it.
i actually love both those matches and dont have any issues with either. the lesnar vs undertaker finish was actually kinda creative, something we hadnt seen in..... i dunno, ever? it protects both guys too. its better than just having undertaker win clean in my opinion.
apparently Luger was despised by everyone in the back due to his horrible attitude and everyone threatened to walk out should Vince put the strap on him so they went with that dumbass ending
Funny you mention the 1993 and 1995 moments with Lex Luger. You could add 1994 when you had Lex Luger face off against Tatanka in a feud that ended going nowhere by WrestleMania XI. Another example of The Million Dollar Man buying someone off.....with no payoff. Jeez, no wonder Luger left in '95
are u sure? bc why didnt he just pin him after the piledriver? i think austin was supposed to win, hense owen just killing time and then getting rolled up very awkwardly + there was a stipulation austin was supposed to kiss owens ass if austin lost, i dont think they woulda made that stipulation then follow up on it.
Warrior vs savage - summer slam 92 is high on my list. People talk about how bad Hogan warrior 2 was but they forget how rotten savage warrior 2 was. Screwy finish and just all around bad. Vader vs Shawn Michaels - summer slam 96. Go listen to Jim Cornettes review from a few weeks back. He cleared it up well why this was bad. Sabu vs Big Show - Summerslam 2006. 😐..... moving on Bret Hart vs Doink - Summerslam 93. Lugers main event was much better than the earlier mess that was Bret vs Lawler which became Bret vs Doink with Lawler involved. This was 1 of the many matches Bret had during the mid 90’s that imo made him look bad. Honorable mention to a segment that took place at Summerslam 97 I believe where they ran a million dollar contest for months in wwf magazine to get a chance at the big prize. In the end it took up several minutes of the show for everyone to try to open a coffin of money but everyone picked the wrong key. Sable who was there for everyone to look at eventually grabbed the right key and opened the coffin to show everyone the money Vince would get to keep. Good thing too cause he would need it for mike Tyson in the coming months
Great list as usual Brian, but I would add Goldberg getting screwed by HHH and Evolution and when Kurt Angle got legit knocked out in 2000 and got dragged put by Stephanie to continue the match. It was ugly, scary, and the match suffered for it.
I have to disagree on the part about Sapphire. I can see how with the way people think about things today you can view it that way. But at the time the fact she was black was irrelevant. That wasn't the focus. She was for lack of a better term the every fan. She represented the audience and viewers at home. Blue collar, good morals, and passionate about Wrestling that was a reward for a hard weeks work. The one fan who got to step onto the other side of the blue barricade and be a part of it, which deep down in our heart of hearts is every Wrestling fans dream. So to see her become corrupted and betray not just Dusty but the fans was shocking and devastating. It would be like playing a Legend of Zelda game and in the middle Link becomes the villain and joins Ganon. You'd just stop and go "No way that just happened!" And that's what those of us watching at the time all said. Personally I think reading anything more into it is missing the point and anachronistic, but as stated I get why people would look at it that way.
On several occasions, I have told people that the reason for the existence of some characters is because that character represents us? If you are a fan of the Three Stooges, for instance, Larry was the "everyman" of the group. You could kind of imagine yourself in one of their skits by putting yourself in Larry's spot. If you were a fan of The Transformers from the 1980s cartoon, Spike would have been the "everyman." If you were a young teen like me watching that show, you would have imagine yourself going on adventures with Optimus and the others through Spike (of course, no one asks why a young kid is going on dangerous missions with robotic warriors, but it was a 1980s cartoon, so there's that). I'm sure you could come up with hother examples, but Sapphire was definitely an example of what you are talking about. The common person getting to manage and even wrestle with a superstar like Dusty Rhodes was basically her. And for her to sell out to DiBiase was, on many levels, pretty crushing. How could the ordinary person like her do that with such an evil man? I like that take of yours. Thanks for sharing this.
You know, I always heard that the deciding factor in Lex not winning the strap from Yoko was that he'd gotten drunk in a bar in Detroit a few nights before the show and blabbed to people that he was going to win the championship.
Even without context, I still laughed my ass off at HBK flopping as a 12 year old at the time. And now knowing what I know now that led to it, it’s even more funnier
The nexus was top for me. I honestly thought if they were serious about pushing them, why not give nexus a 7-0 win? Literally take out the lot and standing tall. Those stables need to implode into loads of individual feuds, not be buried publicly
I don't get why everyone still pretends The Nexus was this massive wasted opportunity. The only person in the group that had any star potential was Wade Barrett, there's no way you can convince me that if Cena lost we'd be seeing Darren Young vs. Skip Sheffield in the main event of Summerslam this year.
The debatable amount of star potential in a group is wholly irrelevant to the inherent stupidity of burying an entire upstart faction right out of the gate.
Have we seem to forget “Die Rocky Die” at one of the most successful people in the wrestling and entertainment world? Point is, while it might be a risk, star power can come at the most unusual people and The Rock wasn’t the only instance. That is why having the Nexus loose at SummerSlam especially in the way Cena did was a mistake.
Some folk could have broken through. Justin Gabriel could have been a star. Sheffield was over as hell as Ryback until booking derailed him. Barrett as you mentioned would have broken through. Slater did have a solid career as a comedy act. But whose to say he couldn't have channelled that charisma into a serious face run. Main event? Probably not but a solid upper midcarder? I can see that. Tarver, Otunga and Young wouldn't have made it. But we still had the potential for 4 stars on various points of the card. Instead we got nothing unless you want to count former member Bryan who had no connection after summerslam. To make it worse this came during a period of creative stagnation where no new stars broke through and the matches in the main event were repetitive as hell and WWE were relying on guys like Bret Hart in the midcard. The Nexus looked like WWE were changing their ways and this killed all that hope in fans.
My wife and I were there in the Meadowlands for Owen's botched piledriver. A lot of people, us included, had no clue what was going on and why Owen didn't do anything afterward until the pin made it more obvious. Yikes.
6:49 that absolutely made my day especially the last sound you made XD i can feel your anger^^ back then i didn´t know what that loss will mean for the Nexus... what a big missed opportunity that was and once again... because of Ego... thanks Cena apologizing years later doesn´t change the finish -.-
I was talking with my friend who was a wrestling fan when he was kid and he said the Nexus losing at Summer Slam was the right move. I’m not sure we can be friends anymore.
@@outlawrip-offartist4161 Well he had to campaign for the SummerSlam shot, then won the Rumble with Bret. Then came the coin toss where the winner would face Yoko first, winner faces the Loser (Which seems backwards, though the person facing one less match would have another, Bret V Owen and Luger V Crush (for some reason)
Though I will agree with you on #1, and for the reasons that you gave, it was a bad botch. However, maybe a blessing in disguise. Hear me out. In the aftermath, it helped make Austin all more tougher in the fans eyes, which I'm sure helped get him more over on his way from Upper Mid Card to Main Event level, and it was during the aftermath that lead to them planting the seeds for Austin VS McMahon with the first time Austin gave Vince The Stone Cold Stunner during the segment where Vince tried to Austin to take some time off from the ring. So, there was some good to come from the bad as well.
@@Thecallmemisterajp I don't think so. I only heard about it through comments and then saw the actual match. Never did hear Steve in a shoot mention it. He may have though...dunno.
@@Thecallmemisterajp He discussed it during his top 8 greatest comebacks video. Chono was one of the entries, and he mentioned Austin breaking his neck in 1992.
@Sassy Troy, @JustMister13, @TheQueenFan9 he goes into it here: th-cam.com/video/RMvscdOYdNQ/w-d-xo.html . He didn't know about it at the time and only heard about it later.
A "Lex Luger in WWF" retrospective is among the videos I'd most like to see. Pushed sky high in the summer of '93 then just a two-bit mid-carder a couple years later. What a rise and fall. BTW the Lex Express was several weeks not months.
This is my top eight worst SummerSlam moments 8. Eric Bischoff Confronting Linda McMahon 7. Jerry Lawler VS Jake Roberts 6. Ted DiBiase Buys Sapphire 5. Bertha Faye VS Alundra Blayze 4. The Lex Express Breaks Down 3. Diesel VS King Mabel 2. The Nexus VS Team WWE 1. Owen Hart Breaks Steve Austin's Neck
Roman was getting cheered, they were tired of Brock reigning as champion. Otherwise, it was a good match, and it started a chain reaction that's got us here today, no need for it to be an honorable mention
Sapphire hated the angle when she was bought by Dibiase. It was Rhodes idea cause he wanted to get rid of her & bring in Dustin. It was rather heartbreaking when you hear about it from her perspective.
@@attiepollard7847 - the money wasn't the issue. Listen to Bruce Pritchard or Sherri Martel's interviews on the subject. Juanita did not want to do this at all. It was either do the angle & continue to get a paycheck or be let go cause Dusty doesn't want you anymore & we have nothing else for you. So she begrudgingly agreed to it but hated it so much she left on her own accord. She was not into being a heel at all.
@@attiepollard7847 - you're given two options. Either do an angle you hate or take your release. You honestly think that's putting somebody in a good position? Because I, and many others don't.
Holy crap, this comments section would be a lot lighter if I just said "his one and only title shot AT THAT TIME BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THE STORY WAS BOOKED"!
Screw em Zane. They’re most probably not Patreons anyways.
People make mistakes Brian. And anyway, wikipedia excests😎😎
Pronouncing something incorrectly or getting a fact wrong is a great way to get people to engage with the video
There are ways around the one time only stipulation. Winning the Royal Rumble is one of those ways.
Never worry about those "smrt" marks.
Lex, why are you celebrating even though you know the title doesnt change hands via DQ or count out?
Lex: I DONT KNOW!!!!!!!
Hahaha. Botchamainia.
JEEEEZUS!
SUPER DRAGON!!!
MINUS FIVE STARS!!!!
Ahha I see what you did there
Jerry Lawler: noted youth enthusiast
Lmfao Jesus dude....that was a good one.
So hilarious 🤣
Jerry Lawler and his Knights at Survivor Series 93 makes more sense than Shawn Michaels and his Knights had it not been for Lawler's ummm legal matters.
It cracked me hard 😂😭
Say what you will but Jerry Lawler on commentary back then was savage before savage became what it means today.
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 Thought I was the only one who caught that
I’ll never get over the fact that Vince booked his own wife and daughter being sexually assaulted by his former rival
Not to mention he longed for a Shane/Steph incest angle. What does go on in that man’s mind when it comes to his family?!
Vince is a sleazy creep with deep seated issues going back to a screwed-up childhood. After all the crap he's allowed on TV, nothing he does surprises me.
Good for business kids.
He also wanted to do another incest angle, where he impregnates Stephanie.
Stephanie had Cole get raped by Heidenreich. They're like some purge family but with orgys instead of murder.
The worst moment was when Jeremy Piven banned John Cena from the Summerfest.
Summer Slammed out
Was it even Cena he banned from the Summerfest?
You mean Miz?
TakerKaneanite619 no, it was Miz lol
@@joshhale9355 Thought so.
They used actual whiskey too. Jake mentioned he didn’t understand why they couldn’t just use apple juice or something.
They couldn't use apple juice because they're ghouls.
Tea is a good substitute.
@Disaster Kick kind of like your mom
Cause it’s Vince McMahon
while brian isn't gonna put the blame on WWE, i absolutely am. that match was the reason jake fell off the wagon that time
Sapphire was really upset about the whole angle because she genuinely liked Duthty.
"In a later shoot interview, Sherri Martel revealed that Wright's admiration for Rhodes was legitimate, and that she literally broke down crying when the office told her that they were severing her and Rhodes' on-screen partnership. Martel believes that Wright lost complete interest in the wrestling business after this, which is why she left the company not long after SummerSlam."
-Wikipedia
Well that makes it even more of a bummer.
Poor Sapphire :(
Pfft wikipedia
@@slyfox2022 Wikipedia has sources you can check yourself, y'know
Can't say that I blame her if she was a Dusty Rhodes fan. I do wonder if Dusty left the WWF later on partly because they made Sapphire cry and for severing their partnership.
"Noted youth enthusiast" Jerry Lawler lmao.
Lmfaoo I was eating when he said that and almost choked on my food. Had to pause the video and regain composure 😂
That dig didn't even hit me until seeing this comment. Bloody hell
Jerry Lawler used to date Su Yung and I imagine that's how he likes his women
Rellik Backwards He was also accused of raping a 13 year old in a hotel room in the 80s or 70s I can’t remember
@@rellikbackwards2308 He also first met Stacy Carter (The Kat) when she was 9 years old who he ended up later marrying.
Lex luger beating yokozuna by countout and then celebrating like he won the wwf title is still one of the stupidest things I ever saw in wrestling. And I saw Mae young give birth to a hand that says something
It was like Vine said drop the confetti and have him celebrate maybe they won’t realize he didn’t actually win the belt
Actually it was a count out lol
@@6oclocknewsat8 my mistake either way he still didn't win the title and still looked like a fool celebrating like he won something
You haven't watched a lot of wrestling if that was one of the stupidest things you saw. Don't get me wrong, it was stupid... very, very stupid
@@southpawslim1 oh I have I seen it all from Robocop saving sting from the 4 horseman to the shockmaster to everything above. Lex luger not winning the title and celebrating was pretty dumb. I wasn't the biggest of lex luger fans but he should've won the title.
"Luger blew his one and only title shot. WHY IS EVERYBODY HAPPY ABOUT THIS?"
...I think you just answered your own question, Brian.
Actually he didn't because this wasn't Luger's only chance at the title
Don't get me wrong he still blew it but this wasn't his only title shot
well played weimaj
@@NoName-wg7lnin that storyline, a repeated and huge deal that this was lugers only shot at any tit
I'm pretty sure Shane's transformation into a "tough as nails demigod" happened at King of the Ring 2001 after he cheated death multiple times in one night
Nope. That huge bump at Summerslam 2000 is what started it.
I mean, of course Shane would be tough. He's the Best Wrestler in the World.
This is what I mean about Brian zane.. he knows nothing about wrestling
@@kandyperez9917 it started there... but the transformation was complete after KOTR '01
@@charliebowen5071 he knows a lot actually. People make mistakes geezus
Linda playing dead after the Kane tombstone is the best acting she ever did
She gets it from the bedroom
@@RestingBeachFace721 Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawk 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@RestingBeachFace721 oh shit!😂😂😂
Erm, ill think your forgetting about Zombie Linda in the lead up to X7.
"How did you get- How did you get in?"
That's a thing now.
Between this and the angle where Linda was in a catatonic state while Vince and Trish were together two years earlier, it's no wonder why Linda wanted out in the wrestling business and went straight to politics years later.
Some moments I was surprised wasn’t on here:
-Shawn Michaels burying Vader in the middle of their match
-Austin not wanting to lose his title to Triple H but instead to Mankind
-Goldberg first loss in 2003
-Derailing the summer of Punk in 2011
Austin did the right thing not dropping it to HHH
Brock busting orton open
The Sedaiv Austin should’ve dropped it. HHH was on the rise and that would’ve cemented him as another top guy
Frozyre same thing with Austin breaking his neck
@@tinotica on the rise by kissing Shawns ass THEN marrying Steph. Don't give me that bullshit of "he wasn't married" he was still fucking her. Paul NEVER earned his spot.
Yeah, what kind of company uses a wrestler's addiction problems as a story line?
*WCW and Scott Hall awkwardly stare at each other*
@Brandi lord that's the whole thing, other companies have done it. Doesn't excuse WWE doing it multiple times, but they're far from the only ones
Yeah that's pretty tasteless thankfully it doesn't happen as much in the modern er- Rhyno in TNA
*Jeff Hardy and WWE look at each other*
Mr. OOC isn't going to appreciate the Lex bad mouthing.
There’s a bomb in yerr car Brian
*LEX SCREAMS*
@@comixproviderftw_02 AARGH! OOOFF! GAHHH!
Pele! Messi! Narcissus!!!
I’m honestly wondering if Brian can top the OSW video on the Lex Express.
Edge and Chris Jericho both told Cena not to go with that ending of the match as it would kill the Nexxus’ heat. Also Mark Henry was laughing so hard at Lawler’s pre match insults about Jake that Vince kicked him under the announce table.
What did Cena say?
Lol Im a superhero
At the time he thought it was a good idea. After the match he realized he was wrong. Believe it or not he tried to do the same thing with the Shield but they went to Vince and said no way they were doing it. He agreed and so ended Cena’s reign of terror
I've defended Cena many times. This is the one time I've never even tried. It was dumb booking and nobody ended up getting over.
He should've Listened to edge and Chris Jericho that match killed the nexus's momentum
Damn Brian you nailed it all with one line “small guys have to prove they can get over and big guys have to prove they can’t” it’s 1000% true in WWE.
That's why I naturally like the smaller wrestlers way more than the big guys. I know that if a wrestler isn't 6'5" 240lbs, he probably had to work his ass off to get there. It might not be fair, but I assume every big guy just got hired because of Vince's big man fetish.
@@fattiger6957 that's especially unfortunate (if completely understandable) because it's so much more difficult to do exactly the same stuff when you're even just a little bit heavier, never mind a lot. But Vince never seemed to understand that's not an excuse for mixing world class with no class and calling them the same. Ends up underrating the big wrestlers who can actually move in the eyes of the fans, just because they aren't doing flips to the outside. You throw a Khali in here and a Mabel in there and their inconsistency and hazard level... makes the next superheavy to come along seem like trash even if they aren't since the push is the same so you expect the same. I'm 330lbs myself. I have a reasonable cross body press and standing dropkick, takes a hell of an effort. It probably wouldn't quite be enough for WWE fans just because they've been fed this diet of overrated superheavies. I'd probably be seen the same way (and at my current standard I'd BE the same way but I would hope not to be put on TV until my standard was on par... but that's the problem, isn't it?). The smaller wrestler isn't allowed to be the big deal, and the bigger wrestler isn't allowed to be the appreciated worker. Either way whoever you are you're losing out on something. Really a rotten status quo they've cultivated whichever way you slice it.
I like basic giant type moves, too! Quite old school tastes in that way. But that doesn't mean they can't be done sloppily and sadly that's what you usually see.
I was still a fan of Mabel for that spinning wheel kick he did. Even though he botched it probably more than half the time. When he hit it well... just to appreciate the sheer power necessary to move 480lbs off the mat in that fashion. Why was that not his finisher? Plus, much less danger of injury than the hip drop. He shouldn't have been doing the hip drop if he was injuring people with it. If you can't do a move safely against a sandbag, don't do it at all. Good rule of thumb.
@@Torthrodhel If you're a big guy and you can do more than the standard WWE bodybuilder type, or tall guy or big fat guy worker, fantastic. You have my respect.
I recently got back into watching wresting through AEW and I am blown away by the ring work. They all seem to be hired based off skill. There's even a few big guys who really impressed me.
There's a very good chance my big guy prejudice is based off of slow, lumbering giants that dominated WWE and WCW's main event scene. I watched workers like Bret, Jericho, Daniel Bryan work their asses off to get where they are while big men like Nash, Big Show and Reigns got hotshotted to the top just based off their look.
I'm probably going to look into Japanese wrestling now too since I've broken out of WWE's bubble.
@@fattiger6957 a big gal rather than a big guy, but thanks I appreciate the praise. :) AEW's what I'm watching these days, myself. I get it, I do. I've been training for years but watching for longer and I'll never not be a fan. I've felt the same way for the same reasons during the same eras.
It's mind blowing that Team WWE vs Team Nexus was made 10 years ago
Crazy ECW on Syfy has been gone that long as well
About Lawler wearing a Ravens jersey. The Browns team relocated to Baltimore and became the Ravens in 96. Then the Cleaveland Browns reformed and came back in 99.
Owen broke austins neck right out of his neck !!
And his leg out of his leg! Gotta be my favorite promo botch ever
It was a spinal cord actually
Underated comment
@@markmagician2471 Who cares, we know what he meant.
I am astounded "Til Death Do Us Part" between Matt Hardy and Kane ain't here.
Dennis Crosby The storyline was dumb but Kane and Hardy at least worked well together.
Good matches but dumb story
I think the Edge and Matt Hardy street fight was, both in ending and general optics
@@20marvelman I just think "the winner will now OWN Lita" was the wrong thing to push.
@@DenOfVipers thing is Matt Hardy gotten injured so there's wasn't much they could do at that time
The Diva search Dodgeball was rather silly in 2004.
...Rather a mark in 04
And the Diva Search contestants won over the actual female roster. That sucks.
to be honest that was on my short list of match of the year.. the diva dodgeball
I always felt like Linda was intentionally phoning things in, because she hates being on tv.
Maybe so
Vince: Alright Eric, we hired you for one very important thing.
Eric: Here we go, what?
Vince: I want you to force yourself upon my wife and daughter.
Eric: THIS was the guy I was competing against in the Monday Night Wars? YEEEESH...
@@comixproviderftw_02 eh, let's not pretend Bischoff is above any of this
VKM: Eric, let me tell you about my first homosexual experience...
Bischoff: *Sweating bullets*
I'm surprised no one has chanted “cuckold” to both Vince and hhh.
I just noticed when Khali held up the belt and screamed, it was upside down.
I thought that, but wasn't sure if I was right!!!
The One with Jake is just sad. I remember an interview with him questioning why the company felt the need to use real whiskey instead of apple juice in the bottle. A few people at ringside catching on the booze was fake was not worth Roberts having the demons return!
Guys were spiking Jake's drinks with booze on the road. He was doomed by going back to the WWF in the first place.
Shame on those guys too. But this has at least contributed. No way around it.
And I have my doubts, that it was solely LawLers idea. Vince did so much tone deaf, inexcusable 💩 in his company through the years, I absolutely wouldn't put it past him to sanction the alcohol ringside.
I got hyped seeing like a second of you on that "cannot kill david arquette" movie trailer.
What?! I watched that documentary recently I didn't see WWR wtf damnit
Jake actually won that feud with Lawler. He pretended to be drunk before a match on Raw and tricked Lawler to win with a DDT.
No I don't feel better typing that
He also got to eliminate Lawler during their team match at Survivor Series, so there's that too.
He lost at Summerslam though.
I don't think winning the Raw match makes up for losing at SUMMERSLAM! Doesn't feel like a win in the feud to me.
@@jacobwilliams1223 technically if you win the last match its a feud win
Not a good one, just one
The best part of the Lex/Yokozuna match was that during the entire celebration for Lex's count-out victory, Bobby Heenan literally called out the stupidity of it all. Vince McMahon would cheer alongside everyone, touting how Lex managed to beat the odds, only for Heenan to constantly retort with "Why is everyone going crazy over this? HE DIDN'T WIN THE TITLE!!!!!". It's the kind of call you'd never hear nowadays, since Vince is in everyone's ear, and I love it.
I’m convinced Lex was supposed to win the title..they paid for the production of the whole balloons and confetti gimmick, and Vince decided to change his mind before the show.
But since all that crap was paid for , they decided to use it anyway
10:40 *Lex Luger HIP TOSSED Yokozuna on an aircraft carrier
There I fixed it for ya.
Just for that, your bus pass on the Lex Express has been revoked lol
To be fair WCW also made fun Of Scott Hall adictions
0:48 Don't you mean The Great Khaki?
The Great Khazi!
Zeus should have brought out his inner Deebo and beat Hogan like he asked for his bike back.
Zeus: *snatches Hogan's gold necklace and takes off on a bike*
Hogan: "My grandmama gave me that chain!" *runs off crying to his red & yellow Dodge Viper*
Brutus: "He gon' cry in the car?"
He wasn't Deebo yet, but lol😂
Hogan be like "pops trippin' men"
When Kevin Nash is starting to do dives do the outside to make you look good, you know you suck.
That Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy joke on King Mabel was great 😂
“Noted youth enthusiast “. Dammit, Zane, I was drinking something 😂
I always knew Nash could do some Good Lucha Things
(Nash breaks Quad)
Goddamnit, Whoo!
Ironically Austin did the same thing to Masa Chono years earlier and had the same effect on his career
And yet, wrestling fans that gloat over Owen's death support what Austin did to Chono.
wait fr?
Also on a side note, before his death, Austin wanted to bury the hatchet with Owen
At the same anger management course Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage apologized at, I'm sure.
Austin would confirm this on his podcast
it kind of goes to show that sometimes you have to seize the opportunity and put pride aside...easier said than done but damn it's tough to think about anything in regards to Owen and Austin
Bullshit he probably caused his death along with Vince.
King Mabel's face when people were first throwing trash at him following his win will forever be one of the genuinely saddest moments in WWE history imo lol
Aha Jerry Lawler the cunning linguist.. I got it!
I just want to know what planet Cena was on when he came up with that finish and thought it was a great idea. Edge and Jericho tried talking him out of it and he STILL insisted on looking like Superman...amazing
You are aware that Vince McMahon made the decision for Nexus to lose right? They were discussing HOW Nexus were going to lose
Planet Stasiak?
@@lancethefilmguy9392 I know Vince made the decision but Cena came up with the finish to the match which is what I was talking about.
Hang on, DIdn't Lex have a title match a Wrestlemania 10 again against Yoku, for co-winning the rumble with Bret, but yet again losing but by DQ?
SummerSlam, he won by Count Out. WM Lex was DQ'd. Same end result though.
Yeah Mr. Perfect was the guest ref for the WM match and was hinted to have called to quickly for the DQ to set up a rivalry with Luger, but those plans were scrapped when Perfect's back issues arose again and he had to take time off to heal.
I cannot WAIT for that Luger video!
I remember as a kid being delighted to see Lex win. But shortly thereafter, was confused as to why people were celebrating the fact he never won the title.
I noticed that over the years wwe/wwf treated former wcw members like crap when they work for them. Flair, Foley. and goldburgh were the only ones not treated like crap when working at wwe.
Yeah Steve Austin, The Undertaker, Eddie Guerrero,Chris Benoit, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall Triple h was treated like crap won't they I mean not one world title between them or main event spot 🙄😂
How we all dodged the Linda Playboy Issue this dimension is a blessing enough, so I can live with all of this...
I loved Ted DeBiase and how he could get random people to sell out and join his team. I miss the good old sell out heel turn. We need more of that these days
That’s half of The Big Show’s heel turns 😂
Lmfao BZ if there was ever a time for THAT Johnny Ace promo cutaway... that was it, well done
I do remember being confused as to why Lex Luger celebrated so hard for beating Yokozuna by count out. He literally had a parade.
Kevin Nash, does that Lucha move a couple of times in his career. I think he does it against the Giant at Souled Out 97. He also does it against Sid at that lumberjack match. He botches it like every single time. I never knew why he did it.
Its all that built up rage for small guys.
It comes out in bursts of Lucha
Linda McMahon's acting is as good as Tommy Wiseau's.
Your Tearing me APART Eric!!
🤣😂
Tommy Wiseau finds that offensive lol
Oh hai Eric.
It isn't, it isn't, it is naaahhhht. Oh hai Mark
That awful lottery segment with Sunny & Sable was insufferable
I don't remember that one...
@@Hawkeye26 If you were watching, you may have slept through it. It was that boring.
"The first and last Lucha spot of Kevin Nash's career" he did it a second time at Souled Out 1998.
"Luger blew his one and only title shot" he got a second shot at the title at Wrestlemania X.
In the angle Cornette added language that this was supposed to be his only shot, as far as Luger should be concerned he'd never have another shot.
Vince McMahon: We in the WWE don't condone racism of any kind Rich guy buys black people
Yes yes slavery bad
Ya know, watching the part in this video about the "Ted Dibiase buys Sapphire" thing just kinda makes me realize how great Sherri was. RIP
I'm surprised you didn't mention the endings of the two main event matches at Summerslam 2015. You remember, the one where Jon Stewart helped Seth Rollins beat John Cena and then later on had Taker beat Lesnar because the time keeper rang the bell for Taker tapping out despite the Referee not singling it.
i actually love both those matches and dont have any issues with either. the lesnar vs undertaker finish was actually kinda creative, something we hadnt seen in..... i dunno, ever? it protects both guys too. its better than just having undertaker win clean in my opinion.
Jon Stewart helping Seth Rollins is funny as Seth Rollins trained Nathan Frazer who’s gimmick in NXT is basically John Oliver
apparently Luger was despised by everyone in the back due to his horrible attitude and everyone threatened to walk out should Vince put the strap on him so they went with that dumbass ending
Proof?
@@sheepdavis haven't got any its just what I've heard over the years
"Noted youth enthusiast." You are a legend, Zane.
1:31 holds the belt upside down. How fitting.
Funny you mention the 1993 and 1995 moments with Lex Luger. You could add 1994 when you had Lex Luger face off against Tatanka in a feud that ended going nowhere by WrestleMania XI. Another example of The Million Dollar Man buying someone off.....with no payoff. Jeez, no wonder Luger left in '95
Owen was booked to win so they improvised a shoot finish. That austin even dragged himself over was a miracke
are u sure? bc why didnt he just pin him after the piledriver? i think austin was supposed to win, hense owen just killing time and then getting rolled up very awkwardly + there was a stipulation austin was supposed to kiss owens ass if austin lost, i dont think they woulda made that stipulation then follow up on it.
@@heyyoitsmebrian Owen was supposed to win but when Austin got hurt they changed the outcome
Loving the uploads Brian, binge watching all your classic vids/reviews
Warrior vs savage - summer slam 92 is high on my list. People talk about how bad Hogan warrior 2 was but they forget how rotten savage warrior 2 was. Screwy finish and just all around bad.
Vader vs Shawn Michaels - summer slam 96. Go listen to Jim Cornettes review from a few weeks back. He cleared it up well why this was bad.
Sabu vs Big Show - Summerslam 2006. 😐..... moving on
Bret Hart vs Doink - Summerslam 93. Lugers main event was much better than the earlier mess that was Bret vs Lawler which became Bret vs Doink with Lawler involved. This was 1 of the many matches Bret had during the mid 90’s that imo made him look bad.
Honorable mention to a segment that took place at Summerslam 97 I believe where they ran a million dollar contest for months in wwf magazine to get a chance at the big prize. In the end it took up several minutes of the show for everyone to try to open a coffin of money but everyone picked the wrong key. Sable who was there for everyone to look at eventually grabbed the right key and opened the coffin to show everyone the money Vince would get to keep. Good thing too cause he would need it for mike Tyson in the coming months
Great list as usual Brian, but I would add Goldberg getting screwed by HHH and Evolution and when Kurt Angle got legit knocked out in 2000 and got dragged put by Stephanie to continue the match. It was ugly, scary, and the match suffered for it.
Really missed your top 8 videos
Me too
Same here!!
Yes
"noted youth enthusiast, Jerry Lawler" absolutely killed me
Cunning linguist and youth enthusiast- LOL!!!
I have to disagree on the part about Sapphire. I can see how with the way people think about things today you can view it that way. But at the time the fact she was black was irrelevant. That wasn't the focus. She was for lack of a better term the every fan. She represented the audience and viewers at home. Blue collar, good morals, and passionate about Wrestling that was a reward for a hard weeks work. The one fan who got to step onto the other side of the blue barricade and be a part of it, which deep down in our heart of hearts is every Wrestling fans dream.
So to see her become corrupted and betray not just Dusty but the fans was shocking and devastating. It would be like playing a Legend of Zelda game and in the middle Link becomes the villain and joins Ganon. You'd just stop and go "No way that just happened!" And that's what those of us watching at the time all said. Personally I think reading anything more into it is missing the point and anachronistic, but as stated I get why people would look at it that way.
On several occasions, I have told people that the reason for the existence of some characters is because that character represents us?
If you are a fan of the Three Stooges, for instance, Larry was the "everyman" of the group. You could kind of imagine yourself in one of their skits by putting yourself in Larry's spot.
If you were a fan of The Transformers from the 1980s cartoon, Spike would have been the "everyman." If you were a young teen like me watching that show, you would have imagine yourself going on adventures with Optimus and the others through Spike (of course, no one asks why a young kid is going on dangerous missions with robotic warriors, but it was a 1980s cartoon, so there's that).
I'm sure you could come up with hother examples, but Sapphire was definitely an example of what you are talking about. The common person getting to manage and even wrestle with a superstar like Dusty Rhodes was basically her. And for her to sell out to DiBiase was, on many levels, pretty crushing. How could the ordinary person like her do that with such an evil man?
I like that take of yours. Thanks for sharing this.
Don’t knock gas station sandwiches if you’ve never been to Buc-ee’s
Citgo has some decent sandwiches.
The Demi Lovato promo by Stephanie. Nuff said.
You know, I always heard that the deciding factor in Lex not winning the strap from Yoko was that he'd gotten drunk in a bar in Detroit a few nights before the show and blabbed to people that he was going to win the championship.
Even without context, I still laughed my ass off at HBK flopping as a 12 year old at the time. And now knowing what I know now that led to it, it’s even more funnier
The nexus was top for me. I honestly thought if they were serious about pushing them, why not give nexus a 7-0 win? Literally take out the lot and standing tall. Those stables need to implode into loads of individual feuds, not be buried publicly
There's a Brian Zane in all of us.
Fantastic job with this Brian!
I don't get why everyone still pretends The Nexus was this massive wasted opportunity. The only person in the group that had any star potential was Wade Barrett, there's no way you can convince me that if Cena lost we'd be seeing Darren Young vs. Skip Sheffield in the main event of Summerslam this year.
It buried an etire faction
The debatable amount of star potential in a group is wholly irrelevant to the inherent stupidity of burying an entire upstart faction right out of the gate.
Have we seem to forget “Die Rocky Die” at one of the most successful people in the wrestling and entertainment world? Point is, while it might be a risk, star power can come at the most unusual people and The Rock wasn’t the only instance. That is why having the Nexus loose at SummerSlam especially in the way Cena did was a mistake.
Some folk could have broken through. Justin Gabriel could have been a star.
Sheffield was over as hell as Ryback until booking derailed him.
Barrett as you mentioned would have broken through.
Slater did have a solid career as a comedy act. But whose to say he couldn't have channelled that charisma into a serious face run. Main event? Probably not but a solid upper midcarder? I can see that.
Tarver, Otunga and Young wouldn't have made it. But we still had the potential for 4 stars on various points of the card. Instead we got nothing unless you want to count former member Bryan who had no connection after summerslam.
To make it worse this came during a period of creative stagnation where no new stars broke through and the matches in the main event were repetitive as hell and WWE were relying on guys like Bret Hart in the midcard. The Nexus looked like WWE were changing their ways and this killed all that hope in fans.
My wife and I were there in the Meadowlands for Owen's botched piledriver. A lot of people, us included, had no clue what was going on and why Owen didn't do anything afterward until the pin made it more obvious. Yikes.
Soo no ones gonna mention the random Supernatural reference throw in there? Or how awesome Brian is for bringing it up?
6:49 that absolutely made my day especially the last sound you made XD i can feel your anger^^ back then i didn´t know what that loss will mean for the Nexus... what a big missed opportunity that was and once again... because of Ego... thanks Cena apologizing years later doesn´t change the finish -.-
I was talking with my friend who was a wrestling fan when he was kid and he said the Nexus losing at Summer Slam was the right move. I’m not sure we can be friends anymore.
SummerSlam 93 is Lex's only title match? Does Wrestlemania 10 mean so little?
In storyline it was supposed to be his only match for the belt, and that’s why he had to win the royal rumble 94, and don’t ask why I remember that.
@@outlawrip-offartist4161 Well he had to campaign for the SummerSlam shot, then won the Rumble with Bret. Then came the coin toss where the winner would face Yoko first, winner faces the Loser (Which seems backwards, though the person facing one less match would have another, Bret V Owen and Luger V Crush (for some reason)
To be fair, that WrestleMania 10 match was pretty bad
The first ever WWF VHS my dad bought me was Summerslam 1993. God knows how I still watch wrestling 27 years later.
Dig the new intro. Being carried up those stairs was def the best part. Rocky 10?
Unsafe working conditions....he set him on fire. Only in WWE...
Though I will agree with you on #1, and for the reasons that you gave, it was a bad botch. However, maybe a blessing in disguise. Hear me out. In the aftermath, it helped make Austin all more tougher in the fans eyes, which I'm sure helped get him more over on his way from Upper Mid Card to Main Event level, and it was during the aftermath that lead to them planting the seeds for Austin VS McMahon with the first time Austin gave Vince The Stone Cold Stunner during the segment where Vince tried to Austin to take some time off from the ring. So, there was some good to come from the bad as well.
Owen Hart breaking Steve Austin’s neck, also known as, Chono’s revenge.
Was gonna say. As bitter as Austin was he sure didn't seem to be caring when it happened to Chono...
Sassy Troy has he ever discussed the Chono thing? I didn’t even know about that until recently.
@@Thecallmemisterajp I don't think so. I only heard about it through comments and then saw the actual match. Never did hear Steve in a shoot mention it. He may have though...dunno.
@@Thecallmemisterajp He discussed it during his top 8 greatest comebacks video. Chono was one of the entries, and he mentioned Austin breaking his neck in 1992.
@Sassy Troy, @JustMister13, @TheQueenFan9 he goes into it here: th-cam.com/video/RMvscdOYdNQ/w-d-xo.html . He didn't know about it at the time and only heard about it later.
I Just Want To Say.... You have made my days sooo smooth watching all your old & new videos!! Keep up the great work!!
Noted Youth Enthusiast made me pause the video and laugh for a whole minute.
8:18 Husky Harris also got a serious push, sure, he had to wait 10 years, but he became WWE champion.
Who'd have thought he would be the best talker in a group with CM Punk and of course
Ryback
While constantly getting played with by horrid booking
@@MrT571 shhhhhh let's just believe together for a bit
A "Lex Luger in WWF" retrospective is among the videos I'd most like to see. Pushed sky high in the summer of '93 then just a two-bit mid-carder a couple years later. What a rise and fall.
BTW the Lex Express was several weeks not months.
This is my top eight worst SummerSlam moments
8. Eric Bischoff Confronting Linda McMahon
7. Jerry Lawler VS Jake Roberts
6. Ted DiBiase Buys Sapphire
5. Bertha Faye VS Alundra Blayze
4. The Lex Express Breaks Down
3. Diesel VS King Mabel
2. The Nexus VS Team WWE
1. Owen Hart Breaks Steve Austin's Neck
Two favorite TH-camr channels , Cinemassacre and Wrestling With Wregret!
Should have Luger won the WWF title....I DON'T KNOW!!!
Dam right.
He probably would have found the belt to be too tight.
More than likely would have flopped and he would have to loose it at SUrvivor Series of that year.
Taker v Faker was awful. If it’s on the Greatest Moments List... I’m not sure what to think
I would say the build up, the entrances and the stare off are all great! Then they have a mediocre match.
Yea but the detectives from naked Gun 33/3rd looking for him are priceless
I loved the match, it’ll always have a place in my heart. Cool idea.
There's a note at the end saying he screwed up by omitting it.
I never knew about the Lex Luger one. It retrospect it's not as funny as "Billy what's his name" but it's a worse fail
Roman beating Brock needs an honorable mention. Just the way they used Braun and editing to make it seem like Roman was getting cheered.
Roman was getting cheered, they were tired of Brock reigning as champion. Otherwise, it was a good match, and it started a chain reaction that's got us here today, no need for it to be an honorable mention
@@AnyThingWorx it wasn't a good match, don't kid yourself
@@Neags It was better than anything the other two produced by themselves
@@AnyThingWorx what are you talking about Roman was getting booed🙄🙄🙄
People actually did cheer Roman tho. Mainly because we all thought Brock was going away. We were wrong.
Sapphire hated the angle when she was bought by Dibiase. It was Rhodes idea cause he wanted to get rid of her & bring in Dustin. It was rather heartbreaking when you hear about it from her perspective.
@@attiepollard7847 - she was coaxed into it. Dusty was a master manipulator.
@@attiepollard7847 - the money wasn't the issue. Listen to Bruce Pritchard or Sherri Martel's interviews on the subject. Juanita did not want to do this at all. It was either do the angle & continue to get a paycheck or be let go cause Dusty doesn't want you anymore & we have nothing else for you. So she begrudgingly agreed to it but hated it so much she left on her own accord. She was not into being a heel at all.
@@attiepollard7847 - Then she would have been released on the spot and we all would've wondered for years what ever happened to her.
@@attiepollard7847 - you're given two options. Either do an angle you hate or take your release. You honestly think that's putting somebody in a good position? Because I, and many others don't.
@@attiepollard7847 - well that is one opinion. Thank you for sharing.
Lex Luthor might as well put on a DUNCE hat in that celebration.
Dibiase is one of the best heels of all time. He knew how to get all the heat
Zeus was the first guy that popped into my head when I saw the words "worst Summerslam moments." I'm surprised he only got honorable mention.
Dishonorable mention: Shawn Michaels vs Vader.
No way. Botch/HBK meltdown aside the match was great. And it still put Vader over since he technically won twice before ultimately losing.
Biased much? No way in hell that is in the "Worst" category