@@Retroactive93I miss the absolutely insane stupidity of this era. Say what you will about AEW but it isn't even remotely close to WCW 2000 it's not the best booking but it's not near this level of what the f.uck is happening through the entire show.
"a steel cage like nothing you can possibly imagine... unless youve seen ready to rumble then you know exactly what these men have in store this Sunday" Mike Tenay
What’s crazier to me about Hogan not giving anything to Awesome is that Mike Awesome and Horace Hogan are cousins, which means Hogan DIDNT EVEN WANT TO PUT OVER HIS OWN FAMILY
Those of us who were watching WCW as it was happening, we knew that Kimberly Page was the hottest-hottest-hottest ever. Which makes the ddp stalker angle even more ridiculous. This man was with da hottest chick eva, and you expect me to believe he's stalking Sara Taker? Nah, bro.
I love this episode so much. I remember dying laughing hearing it at work. I was just listening to it a few hours ago. Definitely my favorite episode. Long Live DEADLOCK 🤘🏾
Bro, Kurt was already talking to Brock directly in 2000? And I wanna see the parallel universe where Brock is running Thunder. Brock Lesnar vs Mike Awesome in 2002 at like Halloween Havoc?! Brock joining the "fück Ric Flair" club?!
If your going to do more Thunder, there's a Royal Rumble style match on Thunder in like October & David Flair has two hilarious spots in the match, he randomly starts dancing for no reason
Loved WCW and ready to rumble. But watching as a kid it felt like.... HUH? 2 Weeks ago The Wall was on the roof and Vampiro had hammerheads ready to go. How did we get here!? Lol
You know I question sometimes how WCW let Russo do this stuff on a basis before they took him away from writing there shows this is the same dude that wanted Tank Abott win the big gold belt. Also this is the last mainstream appearence in wrestling for Macho Man until TNA. Oh and for my opinion on the New York Rules match it could work but if the purpose of the match is no ref should it not be a whoever ko's the opponent should win instead of a pinfall like those ko stips in later WWE games where you beat your opponent so badly you win. 🤔
GET OUT OF OUR COMPANY and “Newark rules baby” make me laugh every time. Also, Jim Duggan, mercenary for hire is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard.
That battle royal is an acid trip. And bischoff wants to criticize AEW booking when this is what he was doing???? Look ik AEW isn't the best at the storytelling but it's definitely more coherent than a guy getting fired on the last show and rehired at the start of this show to being fired later than rehired by the end with no explanation. WHAT THE HELL? Eric is a really shitty booker if you think about it. His one great idea was stolen from Japan. Ran it into the ground killing a company went to WWE and lesbians was his revolution their and then TNA tried just doing nwo again the thing that would lead to TNA getting kicked off spike. TK is no genius Booker but bischoff sure isn't either.
I think they missed the best part of the battle royal. Jeff Jarret and ddp were both in the number 1 contender battle royal. They already had a title shot 4 days later. Why were they in the royal, what if Jarret won the battle royal then won at slamboree?
Kimberly Page was in Playboy at that time in her career and not a single word was said about it. I remember the pics were smoking hot! If the internet was a thing then, you better believe Kimberly would've been a social media megastar.
I actually watched this episode live as a kid and remembered ALL of this!!! I even suggested to OSW on their fb page in 2014 that they review this and they basically said they would if they ever did that arc… they did the david arquette winning the title episode and NEVER DID THIS ONE!!! Love u guys for doing it.
Straight up Kimberly Page was so damn hot back then, I remember her the most cause she was a Nitro Girl for ages. I'm assuming they weren't around by this point but yeah, goddamn she was just stunning.
I'm not gonna lie Konan had a great point on his podcast not too long ago so Russo was kept in line at WWE because they had so many bookers working there to handle the roster size at the time so Russo only got a few of his crazier ideas through at WCW and TNA Russo was given free reign to do whatever he was the sole person responsible to book the shows and have them make sense but the rosters at WCW and TNA thought he was stupid and a hack so they just did their own things which caused a lot of miscommunication and awkward shifting storylines that make no sense so yes Russo is the guy who killed Pro Wrestling but it wasn't entirely his fault no one stepped in to check him no one made sure he could even do the job on his own and it shows
Part of that was that Russo is great at selling himself to employers. He turned "Was on the staff when WWE started turning into Attitude" into "Bro, I made Austin bro, hire me, bro!" and in two separate companies thought he would make a fine chief creative.
I know it's a bit preposterous, but I have to say that I found the Brock Lesnar cowboy persona to have something about himself that reminds me of the most playful part of good 'ol Stone Cold, soooooo... maybe uncle Meltzer wasn't completely wrong? LOL
I happened to see this Battle Royale on my YT Recommended feed and it was apparently the "other" cut-for-TV version without Arquette. And even without that, the whole thing was so wild and the ending was so ludicrous that I went looking to see if anybody had covered it the way that WhatCulture/Culatholics "Weird-and-bad Wrestling Episode" style content did. That's how I ended up here, now I've got a gigantic library of podcasts to crawl through. I'm about to have so much fun at work lol Until I got back into wrestling recently, I really only know the NWO-era WCW so when people say late WCW is all weird and bananas and not good I didn't get it, I loved all of this as a kid. Doesn't change the fact it's all ridiculous and kinda stupid at times, that's just how I like my wrestling, though.
..... This is the shit people tried comparing AEW to? Look don't like it i don't like everything they or WWE or any other promotion does but WCW 2000 is legit written by a schizophrenic monkey fu.ckin a typewriter. You can't reach this level of WTF stupidity easily. This takes years. Hangman just burned swerves house down nothing that badass with a consistent story has ever happened on thunder. Still one of my favorite shows to watch. It's like a comedy i love the stupidity of this era
I know you gotta make the stage weak enough to fall through, but like I blame whoever made that section so fucking brittel that a light breeze could make it collapse lol
This was easily the most fucked up episode of Thunder ever. The battle royal went completely off the rails once Macho Man showed up, and that's saying something considering how crazy everything else was.
2000's WCW was booked specifically for Deadlock.
Jawnny and Pulse should do a tew for 2000s wcw
Absolutely 😂😂😂
@@Retroactive93I miss the absolutely insane stupidity of this era. Say what you will about AEW but it isn't even remotely close to WCW 2000 it's not the best booking but it's not near this level of what the f.uck is happening through the entire show.
James yelling "THEY POINT AND LAUGH!" like Mike Awesome was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself, he was so appalled
I would listen to an entire compilation of every time y’all read the observer notes. That’s almost my favorite part every video
@@DarkDashV6 lmaooooo 😂
and who could forget the other all-timer, Gape Sapolsky?
@@DarkDashV6What episode of Deadlock was that?
@@DarkDashV6THEY JUST COVERED THIS IN THE MOST RECENT EPISODE!
@@n0b0dy145The most recent now, 2000 thunder with Kevin Nash 😊
God I crack up every time I hear "GET OUT OF OUR COMPANY" lol
YOU ARE FIRED!
WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?!
YOU CAN’T SIT WITH US!
Whenever I see y'all in my subscription, I make the Jerry Lawler noise.
And then fall to your knees in Walmart
AHHHH
*high pitch squeal* AHHH THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN JR
AHHHH!!
Puppies!
"a steel cage like nothing you can possibly imagine... unless youve seen ready to rumble then you know exactly what these men have in store this Sunday"
Mike Tenay
What’s crazier to me about Hogan not giving anything to Awesome is that Mike Awesome and Horace Hogan are cousins, which means Hogan DIDNT EVEN WANT TO PUT OVER HIS OWN FAMILY
Yooooo😭😭
Scumbag to the very end..
makes sense since he never put over Horace neither
Meltzer must have been on drugs if he thought Brock Lesnar looked like Stone Cold.
Didn't Brock had a goatie in OVW I remember he had one in the dark matches he had in Heat and Metal from 01-02 before he debut
I think he meant pre-Stone Cold blonde hair Austin. Dubya Cee Dubya Austin.
@@SonBlackHeart22 I think he did but he didn't look like Stone Cold.
Those of us who were watching WCW as it was happening, we knew that Kimberly Page was the hottest-hottest-hottest ever. Which makes the ddp stalker angle even more ridiculous. This man was with da hottest chick eva, and you expect me to believe he's stalking Sara Taker? Nah, bro.
Personally, I think Velvet Sky might be the hottest woman to ever be in the wrestling business. But, that is just my opinion :)
I watched WCW as it happened
Miss Hancock was the hottest hottest hottest ever
Legit the fact that this was going on in WCW on national tv is insane
I love this episode so much. I remember dying laughing hearing it at work. I was just listening to it a few hours ago. Definitely my favorite episode. Long Live DEADLOCK 🤘🏾
Bro, Kurt was already talking to Brock directly in 2000? And I wanna see the parallel universe where Brock is running Thunder. Brock Lesnar vs Mike Awesome in 2002 at like Halloween Havoc?! Brock joining the "fück Ric Flair" club?!
Brock and Awesome just throwing each other on their fucking necks, potatoing the living shit out of each other?! Yes please 😍
1:04:39. Greatest "GET OUT OF OUR COMPANY" ever
"ALL THE STARS ARE HERE!"
based Normchads. You have earned a sub
WCW? Reminds me of that tragedy…
1:05:42 - Huge miscommunication between Scott Steiner's arm pose and the universal FU.
If your going to do more Thunder, there's a Royal Rumble style match on Thunder in like October & David Flair has two hilarious spots in the match, he randomly starts dancing for no reason
i'd honestly put this episode in "so bad it's good" territory. _it's completely batshit insane!_
The stage spot botch is legit incredible. Absolutely hilarious.
That Sabu vs. Mr. Gannosuke match didn't have the XPW title on the line for those wondering.
Tiny little Billy Kidman is escaping the beatdown and we hear "...OR IS HE, BROTHER?", as 6'9" Hulk Hogan shows up to stop him.
GET OUT OF OUR COMPANY
Me: *dies laughing every single time*
YOU DONT WORK HERE
Loved WCW and ready to rumble. But watching as a kid it felt like.... HUH?
2 Weeks ago The Wall was on the roof and Vampiro had hammerheads ready to go. How did we get here!? Lol
I GOT MY HULKAROOS READY JACK!!
37:55 Two wise men once said "You got got Jawnny..." "Baby-face Heel Style"
THERE’S NO WORDS ON IT
I think botchamania did have a segment about this. They cut in a bit from Bruce Pritchard's podcast talking with Bishoff. And they talked through it.
You know I question sometimes how WCW let Russo do this stuff on a basis before they took him away from writing there shows this is the same dude that wanted Tank Abott win the big gold belt.
Also this is the last mainstream appearence in wrestling for Macho Man until TNA.
Oh and for my opinion on the New York Rules match it could work but if the purpose of the match is no ref should it not be a whoever ko's the opponent should win instead of a pinfall like those ko stips in later WWE games where you beat your opponent so badly you win. 🤔
Tank Abbott was awesome. Not the singing Tank Abbott, but the UFC "I will merc you and throw you out of the Octagon, deal with it" Tank Abbott.
They let MANY people get away with worse shit than Russo ever did
1:04:30 Jawnny's best "What?!" ever
11:16 Seven was actually in 1999, so this is something else entirely. I'm afraid of what it could have been.
GET OUT OF OUR COMPANY and “Newark rules baby” make me laugh every time. Also, Jim Duggan, mercenary for hire is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard.
A Scott Steiner (w/ freaks) house call is HEINOUSLY SCARY
That battle royal is an acid trip. And bischoff wants to criticize AEW booking when this is what he was doing???? Look ik
AEW isn't the best at the storytelling but it's definitely more coherent than a guy getting fired on the last show and rehired at the start of this show to being fired later than rehired by the end with no explanation. WHAT THE HELL? Eric is a really shitty booker if you think about it. His one great idea was stolen from Japan. Ran it into the ground killing a company went to WWE and lesbians was his revolution their and then TNA tried just doing nwo again the thing that would lead to TNA getting kicked off spike. TK is no genius Booker but bischoff sure isn't either.
Slowly but surely, Pulse is becoming a new member of NL!
nah, nl will slowly become members of the deadlock pod
The Boys are back in town bring it around town insert spongebob reference 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's crazy how these guys don't have atleast half a mill subs yet.
After the dilf Tony comment, I read that as half a milf subs.
I...
was confused.
@@Eidenhoek 🤣
@@Eidenhoek OH MY?!
6:32 “brockweisers” “ duo stunners” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I think they missed the best part of the battle royal. Jeff Jarret and ddp were both in the number 1 contender battle royal. They already had a title shot 4 days later. Why were they in the royal, what if Jarret won the battle royal then won at slamboree?
BROOOO
ITS FOIK U FUHHHCKANG MARRRRKKK
never forget this was Macho Man's LAST WCW appearance, the battle royal was his last time in the company
2:58 “He’s a DILF. 🤣
Alright!!!! I'm a member 😎
Kimberly Page was in Playboy at that time in her career and not a single word was said about it. I remember the pics were smoking hot! If the internet was a thing then, you better believe Kimberly would've been a social media megastar.
2:57 he’s a dilf 😂😂😂😂😂
Mike Awesome is the prime example of how pettiness can ruin careers in professional wrestling.
I actually watched this episode live as a kid and remembered ALL of this!!! I even suggested to OSW on their fb page in 2014 that they review this and they basically said they would if they ever did that arc… they did the david arquette winning the title episode and NEVER DID THIS ONE!!! Love u guys for doing it.
I think they had already done Slamboree 2000 in 2013, so maybe if they revisit this era... someday.
When Russo said cut the music Shane Douglas probably thought "That's my phrase."
Straight up Kimberly Page was so damn hot back then, I remember her the most cause she was a Nitro Girl for ages. I'm assuming they weren't around by this point but yeah, goddamn she was just stunning.
Hey that’s my birthday! would have been 1 when this show happened
24:48 We MDickie now bois
Gibbering Ric Flair as Don Vito is such a good call. 😅
Now i gotta see this battle royal cus it sounds like a fever dream
YOU BEAT IT, YOU COUNT IT!
If you watch enough Nitro and Thunder you quickly realize the answer to the question "why?" Is always "because WCW"
I'm not gonna lie Konan had a great point on his podcast not too long ago so Russo was kept in line at WWE because they had so many bookers working there to handle the roster size at the time so Russo only got a few of his crazier ideas through at WCW and TNA Russo was given free reign to do whatever he was the sole person responsible to book the shows and have them make sense but the rosters at WCW and TNA thought he was stupid and a hack so they just did their own things which caused a lot of miscommunication and awkward shifting storylines that make no sense so yes Russo is the guy who killed Pro Wrestling but it wasn't entirely his fault no one stepped in to check him no one made sure he could even do the job on his own and it shows
Part of that was that Russo is great at selling himself to employers. He turned "Was on the staff when WWE started turning into Attitude" into "Bro, I made Austin bro, hire me, bro!" and in two separate companies thought he would make a fine chief creative.
People keep using Mark as an insult today. I might be stupid but I don’t think it means what people think it means
As OSWReview would say, Horace Hogan is the key.
Needed more Horace
Was at the first two xpw shows rebirth and killiforinia. U c me in the crowd in both shows
I know it's a bit preposterous, but I have to say that I found the Brock Lesnar cowboy persona to have something about himself that reminds me of the most playful part of good 'ol Stone Cold, soooooo... maybe uncle Meltzer wasn't completely wrong? LOL
I happened to see this Battle Royale on my YT Recommended feed and it was apparently the "other" cut-for-TV version without Arquette. And even without that, the whole thing was so wild and the ending was so ludicrous that I went looking to see if anybody had covered it the way that WhatCulture/Culatholics "Weird-and-bad Wrestling Episode" style content did. That's how I ended up here, now I've got a gigantic library of podcasts to crawl through. I'm about to have so much fun at work lol
Until I got back into wrestling recently, I really only know the NWO-era WCW so when people say late WCW is all weird and bananas and not good I didn't get it, I loved all of this as a kid. Doesn't change the fact it's all ridiculous and kinda stupid at times, that's just how I like my wrestling, though.
Dude give me a 5 hour compilation of everytime they do the stone cold and or hulk hogan voices. Mixed with a little JR
..... This is the shit people tried comparing AEW to? Look don't like it i don't like everything they or WWE or any other promotion does but WCW 2000 is legit written by a schizophrenic monkey fu.ckin a typewriter. You can't reach this level of WTF stupidity easily. This takes years. Hangman just burned swerves house down nothing that badass with a consistent story has ever happened on thunder.
Still one of my favorite shows to watch. It's like a comedy i love the stupidity of this era
Lol ok
mo' dubya c dubya 2k
AWWWWWWW HERE IT GOES!
Super random but imma definitely need these guys to do either an episode on Kennel from Hell match or the the programs leading up to it😂😂
Buff and Lance Storm are great tag partners.
I know you gotta make the stage weak enough to fall through, but like I blame whoever made that section so fucking brittel that a light breeze could make it collapse lol
What episode?
Y'all should make an episode completely not about wresing just like a random history event
This was easily the most fucked up episode of Thunder ever. The battle royal went completely off the rails once Macho Man showed up, and that's saying something considering how crazy everything else was.
ALRIIIGHT
Watching Russo is so much fun. EXCEPT WHEN IT ISNT BROTHER
Top guys: 5* Horrace 5* Lars
It’s funny because Johnny said that that was 22 years ago i’m born February 23, 2000 I’m 22 😂 lol
The one dude sounds like jontron
I hate how you guys pronounce Newark it’s “Nork”
this is funny podcast ever
I think Steiner was beating the fuck out of a fan not refs
NEWARK RULES
Enjoy Misfits wade
No important but Mike awesome is 6'6