I'll tell ya I remember coming across OSW for the first time too. 6 years ago and they still remain my favorite channel on TH-cam and my favorite internet personalities right next to James Rolfe.
30:15 I come back to this episode like clockwork every two months just to hear Steve's demonstration of a Chinese vs. Japanese accent. Truly touched greatness there
Sullivan’s line “The only man who can beat Hulk Hogan is himself” is prob a half shoot from Sullivan / the booker / who was constantly frustrated by having to feed Hogan’s ego and his creative control.
In retrospect sullivan was one of the more professional and decent guys in wrestling history. Put up with Hogan, kept flair happy, even put the belt on Chris after Nancy left him for Chris. Truly a guy who put business first.
the face Sting and heel Luger best friends shit was golden during this time, and hasn't barely been tried again since. takes the right chemistry for something like this to work.
Hell yeah I loved that shit!! I wasn't watching wrestling anymore by this point but even seeing it like this for the 1st time is amazing. Great idea & they both play it perfect with each other. Side note-hogan just could not let someone else have a great moment in their career. It ALWAYS has to be about him! This shit was planned for a while but he did not care. What friend does some shit like that?!? Changes the ending during the match. Fuckn selfish dick...
1:22:37 Hulk Hogan: Did I go under the ropes or not!? Fans: He went over the ropes ref! 1:22:53 Hulk Hogan: I deserve a shot at my belt! Fans: No you don't!!
Okay, I have a feeling I simply missed the initial reference & reasoning, but where did you (read: OSW) find/comeup with the "Happy days are here again" tagline? I thought maybe it was an inside joke or obscure reference to something I'm unfamiliar with, but just the other day, listening to a Lapsed Fan podcast on Wrestlemania 9, they referenced a Wrestlemania book (or was it the True Story of Wrestlemania documentary?) where it was written someone witnessed Vince McMahon run out, joyously embrace, and proclaim that now infamous quotation to The Immortal Hulk Hogan, who was doing a run-through of his hot-dogging routine that would occur following his pathetic, back-handed theft of the Championship over Yoko later that night. Is this the true origin story guys?
@@SuperDevolution OH man I loved watching Sailor Moon in syndication, but I also hated keeping up with wonky scheduling. I loved the era of syndicated anime and cartoons, but you will have to pry VODs and torrents out of my cold dead hands as an nostalgia-indulgent adult.
Close but no Cuty wore more “flashy” costumes as even around this time AJW the big promotion was still using leotards as gear with the exceptions of the top stars like Bull. But Cuty and Ozaki both came from JWP who pioneered the flashy gear in women’s wrestling
Had anyone noticed that the guy in the crowd holding the replica 2x4 in the Duggan/Bossman match is the same plant that held DDPs book at Halloween Havoc.
That's how good he is. Even in a match where he's barely a footnote, he's able to do something to get his character across and get a memorable couple seconds wherever he can get it.
Except, in "It's Magic, Charlie Brown", Snoopy used magic to turn Charlie Brown invisible & thanks to being invisible, he kicked the football & even mocked Lucy for it. In another instance, although he missed the ball like normal, he actually kicked Lucy in the arm. Justified, given Lucy's bitchiness, but still....
The people giving this video a thumbs down are the same ones cheering for Sgt Slaughter to beat Warrior at the Rumble and voting for Jack Tunney not to reinstate Macho Man.
On the racial discrimination lawsuit: Vince Russo when hired chided Japanese and Mexican wrestlers, and basically said they’ve got no place in WCW. Aka perfect ground for a lawsuit.
There was plenty of racism in WCW before Russo... how about when Harlem Heat first debuted, when they were supposed to be "owned" by Colonel Parker, who won them in a card game, or when Bill Watts, who was running WCW at the time, said in an interview that restaurants should be able to refuse service to African-American customers, or Sonny Onoo's entire gimmick. There was no question in my mind that they'd win the discrimination lawsuit, or WCW/AOL/Time Warner would settle, which is exactly what happened.
Lmao I think I saw the same thing. I was really young when he first came into the WWF as Narcissus with his manager being gay as hell and that shit was still terrible to my unsuspecting child brain
Funny the guys should mention the Circus- I caught Ringling Brothers at one of their last shows at the Scope. The very next night, the show and the crowd got snowed in at the venue for a few DAYS. Imagine a couple days worth of stale hot dogs, popcorn, and a Zoo's worth of animal stench while trying to stay warm sleeping on a bench...
@@danishhald It is _Stranger Things_ for they basically used the series' intro & font face, complete with the memorable, synthesized theme music. Fitting, since the Netflix original takes place in the fictionalized town of Hawkins, Indiana, as a sort of contemporary (and therefore, "acceptable in") 80's nostalgia homage to _Monster Squad_ / _Goonies_ & other 80's properties (the Dungeon & Dragons table top game & 1984's _Ghostbusters_ for 2 other examples), essentially using the thriller horror template of earlier 90's very similar series _Erie, Indiana_ (sister series of 1995-1998's _Goosebumps_ loosely adapting the still-ongoing kid's horror book franchise created in 1992 by _Eureeka's Castle_ co-creator & writer-producer, "Jovial Bob" Robert Lawrence - R.L. - Stine) as a model, sort of.
OBSERVE THIS, BROTHER!!! Love that whole bit. Macho clearly was hurt. They didn't pick The Giant. And Hulk doesn't understand where internet rumors come from. What a tool lol
1:29:10 I love how there's a bunch of guys in the front row in the back ground pointing and going wtf as Macho so obviously and openly(from their perspective) cuts up Flair's forehead with a razor. XD
Around 53:30, the "biddle" music, lolz. I actually like it, and at that point, with a nice crowd shot & some decent lighting/stage setup, I noticed I was digging the overall atmosphere/ambience of these mid 90's WCW PPVs. I like the biddle music haha, very different from WWF in that they don't splicey random music between wrestler's entrances, but I'm surprisngly digging this PPV and "snapshot" into an early Hulk Hogan/WCW string of PPVs you've graciously covered for us noggers!! Gracias, brahsss!!!
@@natwolf687 as if their faces aren't bad enough - a bunch of positively hideous looking wankers. Good thing they're pretty smart and rather hilarious, though.
5:38 - So, let's talk flags for a moment, because there are, after all, "60 International Superstars from around the globe"! Among the flags briefly shown: *Uganda*- Nice touch, honoring the kayfabe origins of Kamala *Tonga*- Hi, Meng! *Italy*- ...Um...hi, Santino?...Who's this one for? *Singapore*- ...Who? followed by... Ric Flair followed by... *North Korea*- Um...Was Ric granted citizenship when he wrestled there back in April?
OSW, They're two cuts of the Collision in Korea PPV The WCW "Collision in Korea" And The NJPW Shot and directed "Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival For Peace." Watch the Latter if you want a more WWF Styled Production.
@@ManimalPatB While the other vince had a hard on for his wife and did everything he could to push her to the moon while making mero look like the chump he was.
Don't know why they didn't just repackage him as a Johnny B Badd like character. Guess everyone had to be cool and realistic at this point in WWF. You'd think Tazz would've had a better run then. Even back then WWF/E mostly wanted other companies guys to bury them. Guerrero, Jericho and Benoit being the most notable exceptions.
I can't imagine how devastating it must have been for a WCW fan back in the day seeing Hogan and all these WWF people come in and absolutely ruin the place.
It did... WCW was an alternative to WWF for a long time... After Hogan and Friends came in, there was no more alternative... Until ECW exploded, that is ..
Especially since WCW fans liked a different kind of wrestling. They didn't go in so much for this cartoony good guys vs bad guys thing the WWF did, they preferred their wrestling a touch more series and a touch more realistic. I'm sure many WCW fans were initially thrilled they signed the biggest star in the business, but I'm sure seeing him beat Flair for the belt in his first match soured a lot of people. Him running roughshod over the company for the next 7 years didn't ingratiate him to them.
I cant imagine how devastating it must have been for a TNA fan back in the day seeing Hogan and all these WWE people come in and absolutely ruin the place.
I LOVED going to NWA cards at the scope in the 80's- Great American Bash, Starrcade, and the occasional 'Card-subject-to-change' House shows, etc. I saw Starrcade '88 from the nosebleed section while pitching paper airplane towards the ring in the hopes that maybe just ONE of them would be caught on camera. I imagine they're probably using the same guard rails that Hawk was bent over when Sting caught him with a flying press from the top turnbuckle at the above mentioned Starrcade. The move was impressive enough to make the evening news (so I saw the 'replay' just 90 minutes after seeing it Live)! It'd be GREAT if you blokes covered the formation of the 4 Horsemen... At least until Arn and Tully left... Keep up your AWESOME work!
While I want to say I wish more wrestlers had polotic'd against Hogan... considering how it turned out when Vince Russo did just that, maybe not... Kinda just wish Ted Turner had fired Hogan's ass at some point.
@@TyrannosaurusCHEX God the mark bull on this comment section. I swear you'd think it was the early 2000's all over again. "If only Hogan had put over wrestler X; everything would've turned out fine" blah, blah blah.
@@jmg3116 He never said anything about Hogan putting someone over. He just pointed out that Hogan would've fucked the Attitude Era, which given by what we saw happened to WCW- is a pretty fair assessment. Attitude Era had its problems, Hogan would've probably made it worse. The biggest draw of all time, yeah, but he never had any business controlling booking.
I didn't see badd before he was the wildman in the WWF so that was cool to see him before he had that garbage boxing gimmick and get powerbombed by his then wife..
Was watching a Japanese tv show a while ago (Wednesday's Downtown for anyone interested XD) and Bull Nakano was randomly on it. You wouldn't believe how different she looks now! She actually looks great!
I saw her in a match in Rise from 2017 where she was managing Kris Wolfe against Shotzi Blackheart managed by Madusa.... My God Bull looked amazing. Like she looked 35, a bit slimmed down and 100% a knockout. Just gorgeous. And you could tell she was having a great time.
A historically bad ppv! A great review. If they ever do a "10 Cuntiest Things Hogan Has Ever Done In Wrestling" list, I'm picking changing the ending to WW3 as my number 1. Complete side note: Mayumi Ozaki IS awesome. Just seemed to have a bad night here.
Worst part of it, at least to me, is that Savage likely didn't even realize what was going on until Hogan was in his face shouting about how he (Hogan) had been cheated out of winning HIS belt. I applaud Savage for not snapping right then and there to batter Hogan.
@@roetheboat1 Yeah, how the fuck didn't Macho completely lose his shit over this? Hogan is the worst when it came to backstage politicking, and he stole Macho's thunder at Wrestlemania 4. Hell, Macho/Flair was the WWF title match at WM 8 and Hogan STILL had to close the show. Now he's changing the finish of this show on the fly and ruins Savage's moment AGAIN. He should've punched Hogan square in the jaw at the very least.
Knowing Jay, he’s probably had a list made for years now and been hinting at it but V1 and OOC never said ‘I wonder how many cunty things Hogan has done’ and Jay would smack the paper ‘I’ve got it right here!’
This is my 4 millionth time watching this review, and during the World War 3 match, all I could do was keep an eye out for Black Bart! What a dadgum match it was!
Flair is so good. Forget the charisma and character and focus on the little crap that he does to make you believe it s all legit. His casual ref grab while he low blows. The psychology of switching rings the perfect timing of dumping sting as the ref glances away. Amazing
I love that shot at the Fall Brawl review of Eddie telling Alex Wright to take notes during the Ric/Arn match. I have a strong feeling that wasn't kayfabe and was Eddie telling Alex Wright to pay attention and learn from these two masters. Eddie Guerrero's Lying Cheating and Stealing gimmick is a love letter to Ric Flair.
Early Kimberly, before she got the Nitro girl gig, was ridiculously underrated in terms of beauty. She's superior to the supermodels of the time, like Cindy Crawford and Kathy Ireland. No one in the sports world, not even Sunny, could compete. Her gimmick, that of a innocent, girly girl cheerleader didn't help matters any. Anyway, I was there and have absolutely no recollection of the Duggan/Boss match.
Rein Engel she was gorgeous to be sure. She looked even hotter when she was heel with those outfits she used to wear. Which is why in WWE when DDP was stalking Taker’s horse faced wife made 0 sense as he was still married to Kimberly. It’s like eating a prime steak but stalking a McDouble .
An explanation for Mayumi Ozaki & Cutie Suzuki: Cutie was never really good at doing moves, but sold pretty well. She was an "Idol Wrestler" who sold videos and such. Ozaki was a real star in JWP (same company as Cutie), and had great expressions, character stuff, and selling. The bump onto her head wasn't a botch- she always does insane stuff like that. This match just wasn't really a good showcase for her, as she was a glorified jobber.
The shot of Hogan's Observer awards kills me every time I see it. At the same time he's winning 10 straight "best babyface" awards and 6 total "most charismatic" awards, he nabs "least favorite wrestler" and "most overrated" 3 times each, and a "worst worked match" and "worst feud" on the way out. Wrestling fans have no idea what they want or what they're talking about.
While I agree that wrestling fans only THINK they know what they want, my guess is that Hogan was just incredibly polarizing, even at the apex of his "good guy" powers. In the 80's thru the mid 90's fans were fooled by his schtick..... The only ones who wouldn't buy his BS in this era would be your early internet users, the tape trader types- i.e. the kinda guys who sub to WON and hang on Tuna Meltzer's every word. To each their own.🤷🏻
@@zackschilling4376 Hey sometimes doctors will legit inject vitamin solutions if there are obvious deficiencies and they don't have to be processed by the GI tract.
14:25 This comes from old school British Wrestling. Johnny B Badd learned it from Lord Steven Regal with whom he worked (and from whom he first won that TV title). Owen did it because he spent a good chunk of his early years in Britain (he wrestled on ITV at least 3 times) and learned to work the World Of Sport style and the habit never wore off. EVERYONE in the UK except the giants used to do that or variations. Even nowadays, lots of young kids wrestling over here do all that.
Isn't "Pomp and Circumstance" a public domain song? It's incredibly old and it's played at every school graduation in America. Why does Macho go with the whammy guitar version in WCW when he could've used the same version he used in WWF without worry of a lawsuit?
No. It's Stranger Things. Netflix's original thriller-horror by the Duffer Bros. seemingly using the template of 90's "sister series" _Eerie, Indiana_ kind of as its premise, however set in the 80's, complete with a bevy of nostalgic callbacks from that time period.
The sting Luger friendship angle is something I’m surprised hasn’t been done before in wrestling imagine a cutthroat heel and a super baby face who are secretly best friends and that overcomes all storyline motivations. It could add some real depth to storylines
The Lucha Brothers and Pac pretty much cover this. Pac is heel, Penta is tweener and Fenix is face. But you're right, in the specific way it's being done, it would be interesting. They sort of did it with Cody and MJF, but it didn't last that long and it didn't overcome. But you're also right. Nobody had done it before, that I can remember at any rate.
subbed/bell'd/shared with friends and enemies!! there are tons of great wrestling channels but OSW is my new favorite. thanks for the rad content!! yinz are grrrrreat!!
Technically speaking this wasn't the first 60 man battle royal to ever happen. Jerry Jarrett held a 60 man battle royal in a single ring that was 30 foot square in memphis in the 1970's, the match only happened once.
A 30 foot square ring? Can you elaborate a little? If it’s 30 square foot ring, that’s tiny, roughly 5.5x5.5 ring A ring that’s 30x30 would be MONSTEROUS
@@paulk6399 According to jim cornette the ring was 30X30 and was "hard as concrete". Apparently a bunch of guys got hurt and pretty much everyone complained about how hard the ring was so jarrett never did it again.
The more Lex is remembered like this, the more I wish he replaced Hogan altogether. Putting Bret over after Wrestlemania IX, starring in No Holds Barred, leaving Macho the f’ alone. he was our hero.
I love 10:15 with Hulk Hogan's Wrestling Observer accolades because most of them are negative; Worst Match, Worst Fued, Most Overrated etc. but the last one is the WON Hall of Fame induction. Because it's basically going "Hey, we think you fucking suck, we're gonna put you into our Hall of Fame though."
I’ve just discovered this channel. My life is forever changed.
These boys are family now! Love the evolution
Yes yes it is....
Welcome to the stable, BOYS!
I'll tell ya I remember coming across OSW for the first time too. 6 years ago and they still remain my favorite channel on TH-cam and my favorite internet personalities right next to James Rolfe.
TotinoThePizzaBoy DITTO
30:15 I come back to this episode like clockwork every two months just to hear Steve's demonstration of a Chinese vs. Japanese accent. Truly touched greatness there
Possibly my all-time favourite osw moment
Sullivan’s line “The only man who can beat Hulk Hogan is himself” is prob a half shoot from Sullivan / the booker / who was constantly frustrated by having to feed Hogan’s ego and his creative control.
OBSERVE THIS BROTHER!!!
I respect you, BOOKER MAN!
In retrospect sullivan was one of the more professional and decent guys in wrestling history. Put up with Hogan, kept flair happy, even put the belt on Chris after Nancy left him for Chris. Truly a guy who put business first.
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@@billhicks808 Maybe check out why Nancy left him before you talk about what a 'great guy' he is.
"She doesn't want to go home with, what's ostensibly a homosexual."
Oh my sides...pitch perfect
1:19:43 Guy in the front row flips off Hogan. What a hero
the face Sting and heel Luger best friends shit was golden during this time, and hasn't barely been tried again since. takes the right chemistry for something like this to work.
I always liked anything Sting and Luger did together
It helps that they had almost a decade of history together by this point. It's hard to have that much patience in booking these days
Hell yeah I loved that shit!! I wasn't watching wrestling anymore by this point but even seeing it like this for the 1st time is amazing. Great idea & they both play it perfect with each other.
Side note-hogan just could not let someone else have a great moment in their career. It ALWAYS has to be about him! This shit was planned for a while but he did not care. What friend does some shit like that?!? Changes the ending during the match. Fuckn selfish dick...
Kenny Omega and hangman Adam page storyline Kota ibushi and Kenny Omega in New Japan
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1:22:37 Hulk Hogan: Did I go under the ropes or not!?
Fans: He went over the ropes ref!
1:22:53 Hulk Hogan: I deserve a shot at my belt!
Fans: No you don't!!
Alex Casares macho man thinking “fuck off”
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Macho Man's thoughts are our own.
OSW appearing in my subscriptions?
YAY! Happy days are here again!
I know people keep saying this but you'll have much better luck just following their website, every video is there and much sooner than on YT.
Jay Snow hey Jay and maffew ain't bad
Okay, I have a feeling I simply missed the initial reference & reasoning, but where did you (read: OSW) find/comeup with the "Happy days are here again" tagline? I thought maybe it was an inside joke or obscure reference to something I'm unfamiliar with, but just the other day, listening to a Lapsed Fan podcast on Wrestlemania 9, they referenced a Wrestlemania book (or was it the True Story of Wrestlemania documentary?) where it was written someone witnessed Vince McMahon run out, joyously embrace, and proclaim that now infamous quotation to The Immortal Hulk Hogan, who was doing a run-through of his hot-dogging routine that would occur following his pathetic, back-handed theft of the Championship over Yoko later that night. Is this the true origin story guys?
Cutie Suzuki's costume I think is meant to have a Magical Girl vibe. They were big in Japan already but even Sailor Moon hadn't crossed the ocean yet.
That makes total sense. Thank you for the knowledge drop.
Actually, Sailor Moon debuted on the UPN network in the US in September of 1995.
@@SuperDevolution OH man I loved watching Sailor Moon in syndication, but I also hated keeping up with wonky scheduling.
I loved the era of syndicated anime and cartoons, but you will have to pry VODs and torrents out of my cold dead hands as an nostalgia-indulgent adult.
@@SuperDevolution Yeah, I do recall catching some Sailor Moon episodes paired with Dragon Ball Z at like 6 AM in the morning in '95 or '96.
Close but no Cuty wore more “flashy” costumes as even around this time AJW the big promotion was still using leotards as gear with the exceptions of the top stars like Bull. But Cuty and Ozaki both came from JWP who pioneered the flashy gear in women’s wrestling
Sabu's theme would also go on to be used for La Parka. I don't blame them, it's amazing - I may have used it for every wrestler
Had anyone noticed that the guy in the crowd holding the replica 2x4 in the Duggan/Bossman match is the same plant that held DDPs book at Halloween Havoc.
Falling Nine nope...didnt notice, but great eye!!
Falling Nine nope...didnt notice, but great eye!!
So Jay was right he doesn't have fans!
look, everyone has planted "merch marks" but leave it to wcw to give that job to one person.
Falling Nine The real WCW Power Plant
I love Regal behind Buffer during the WW3 intro, paranoid of babyfaces in all directions. Perfect facials, naturally
Lol I was looking at him the whole time.
I came here to see if anybody else noticed lol Love how he got himself on cam that whole time.
Regal’s facials at 1:10:30, brilliant man.
That's how good he is. Even in a match where he's barely a footnote, he's able to do something to get his character across and get a memorable couple seconds wherever he can get it.
Okay when DDP missed the kick on Badd I immeadately though Charlie Brown trying to kick the football.
Except, in "It's Magic, Charlie Brown", Snoopy used magic to turn Charlie Brown invisible & thanks to being invisible, he kicked the football & even mocked Lucy for it. In another instance, although he missed the ball like normal, he actually kicked Lucy in the arm. Justified, given Lucy's bitchiness, but still....
that luger shit was the best, even yelled going thru the ropes XD
He's the best
Oh an 54:58/55:13 OUCH!!
Ooh!
The people giving this video a thumbs down are the same ones cheering for Sgt Slaughter to beat Warrior at the Rumble and voting for Jack Tunney not to reinstate Macho Man.
I think it's the Chinese and Japanese fans who weren't happy about those spot on impressions.
really annoying guy right here bapita boopy
ha ha ha ha...
Or they were Hogan fans and booed at Randy since Hogan was cheated
On the racial discrimination lawsuit: Vince Russo when hired chided Japanese and Mexican wrestlers, and basically said they’ve got no place in WCW. Aka perfect ground for a lawsuit.
And passed polograph.
There was plenty of racism in WCW before Russo... how about when Harlem Heat first debuted, when they were supposed to be "owned" by Colonel Parker, who won them in a card game, or when Bill Watts, who was running WCW at the time, said in an interview that restaurants should be able to refuse service to African-American customers, or Sonny Onoo's entire gimmick. There was no question in my mind that they'd win the discrimination lawsuit, or WCW/AOL/Time Warner would settle, which is exactly what happened.
In the early days of the Internet I remember finding a "Top 10 Lex Luger Quotes" list, and all ten items were just some variation of OWWWW.
Lmao I think I saw the same thing.
I was really young when he first came into the WWF as Narcissus with his manager being gay as hell and that shit was still terrible to my unsuspecting child brain
Funny the guys should mention the Circus- I caught Ringling Brothers at one of their last shows at the Scope. The very next night, the show and the crowd got snowed in at the venue for a few DAYS. Imagine a couple days worth of stale hot dogs, popcorn, and a Zoo's worth of animal stench while trying to stay warm sleeping on a bench...
18:25 "This sir is a history of your family."
"WOW!!!!"-Duggan 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wrestling needs to be campy. I don't want restrained subtlety unless it serves a character or build.
The intro got me hooked immediately
Robbie RuPac Radio what's it supposed to be a reference from? I thought it was Mr. roboy
V B Stranger Things.
Robbie RuPac check out the Childish Gambino remix of the Stranger Things theme. It's so weird and wavy.
@@danishhald It is _Stranger Things_ for they basically used the series' intro & font face, complete with the memorable, synthesized theme music. Fitting, since the Netflix original takes place in the fictionalized town of Hawkins, Indiana, as a sort of contemporary (and therefore, "acceptable in") 80's nostalgia homage to _Monster Squad_ / _Goonies_ & other 80's properties (the Dungeon & Dragons table top game & 1984's _Ghostbusters_ for 2 other examples), essentially using the thriller horror template of earlier 90's very similar series _Erie, Indiana_ (sister series of 1995-1998's _Goosebumps_ loosely adapting the still-ongoing kid's horror book franchise created in 1992 by _Eureeka's Castle_ co-creator & writer-producer, "Jovial Bob" Robert Lawrence - R.L. - Stine) as a model, sort of.
OBSERVE THIS, BROTHER!!!
Love that whole bit. Macho clearly was hurt. They didn't pick The Giant. And Hulk doesn't understand where internet rumors come from. What a tool lol
1:29:10 I love how there's a bunch of guys in the front row in the back ground pointing and going wtf as Macho so obviously and openly(from their perspective) cuts up Flair's forehead with a razor. XD
planescaped it’s so weird that Flair who blades when the phone rings had Randy blade him. I wonder why Ric didn’t blade himself
How you dont have a million subscribers is beyond me.
Wrestling isn't very popular in the mainstream much less a podcast
@@A-small-amount-of-peas Luckily with Patreon, they're making well enough money now to keep the quality without having to pander to get more subs.
Morgan Z. Sowell Wrestling isn’t popular enough. And while I like their reviews generally, they’re jokes wear thin after awhile.
"Chalk that up to ignorance" - Mr. OOC
I've gotten half of my bar at least onto this show. They deserve to hit that milly.
Shawn "struggling" to use the laptop was hilariously cartoony and amazing.
Lex's selling is so stellar, he could sell me 50 cents for a dollar.
OH! AH! WOAH!
Smooth lol
@Mike The Scott Ah your comment is so ironic....
SaskRider2 how about an 50 cent's album for a dollar?🧐
cli260 Virgil couldn’t even get a tenner for that
Around 53:30, the "biddle" music, lolz. I actually like it, and at that point, with a nice crowd shot & some decent lighting/stage setup, I noticed I was digging the overall atmosphere/ambience of these mid 90's WCW PPVs. I like the biddle music haha, very different from WWF in that they don't splicey random music between wrestler's entrances, but I'm surprisngly digging this PPV and "snapshot" into an early Hulk Hogan/WCW string of PPVs you've graciously covered for us noggers!! Gracias, brahsss!!!
The breadth of knowledge these guys have of obscure candy bars never ceases to blow my mind.
They said the fans submitted these. And google can bring you fifty billion images of candy bars from various regions.
Imagine their teeth.
Ew.
@@natwolf687 as if their faces aren't bad enough - a bunch of positively hideous looking wankers. Good thing they're pretty smart and rather hilarious, though.
"...mid-match."
*Listen to Steve's indignity reach boiling point*
"...fuck...get OUT!"
*my sides start exploding*
5:38 - So, let's talk flags for a moment, because there are, after all, "60 International Superstars from around the globe"! Among the flags briefly shown:
*Uganda*- Nice touch, honoring the kayfabe origins of Kamala
*Tonga*- Hi, Meng!
*Italy*- ...Um...hi, Santino?...Who's this one for?
*Singapore*- ...Who?
followed by...
Ric Flair
followed by...
*North Korea*- Um...Was Ric granted citizenship when he wrestled there back in April?
Bruno Sammartino was born in Italy, The Great Kabuki was billed from Singapore. That's my best guess.
@@JonXXII Bravo, my good man. Can of Coke to you.
"You don't take four double stomps and kick out at two." Tell that to Seth Rollins and The Fiend :D
But that was only 7 single foot stomps, so 3.5 double stomps!
Loophole!
@@SennaHawx THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE!
OSW, They're two cuts of the Collision in Korea PPV
The WCW "Collision in Korea"
And The NJPW Shot and directed "Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival For Peace."
Watch the Latter if you want a more WWF Styled Production.
Jim Cornette had stated that Mero learned to be Johnny B. Badd and work Johnny B. Badd matches and that's it. That's why he sucked in WWE.
Matt S In 1996 He was good
@@yasin_GD As Johnny B Badd....
JBL even states something similar. He could only do Johnny B. Badd. Vince loved Johnny B. Badd, Vince HATED MERO
@@ManimalPatB
While the other vince had a hard on for his wife and did everything he could to push her to the moon while making mero look like the chump he was.
Don't know why they didn't just repackage him as a Johnny B Badd like character. Guess everyone had to be cool and realistic at this point in WWF.
You'd think Tazz would've had a better run then. Even back then WWF/E mostly wanted other companies guys to bury them. Guerrero, Jericho and Benoit being the most notable exceptions.
"You can keep your Savage Steamboat. I will take this." Whopper quote
I can't imagine how devastating it must have been for a WCW fan back in the day seeing Hogan and all these WWF people come in and absolutely ruin the place.
Same. Must've sucked.
It did... WCW was an alternative to WWF for a long time... After Hogan and Friends came in, there was no more alternative... Until ECW exploded, that is ..
Especially since WCW fans liked a different kind of wrestling. They didn't go in so much for this cartoony good guys vs bad guys thing the WWF did, they preferred their wrestling a touch more series and a touch more realistic. I'm sure many WCW fans were initially thrilled they signed the biggest star in the business, but I'm sure seeing him beat Flair for the belt in his first match soured a lot of people. Him running roughshod over the company for the next 7 years didn't ingratiate him to them.
I cant imagine how devastating it must have been for a TNA fan back in the day seeing Hogan and all these WWE people come in and absolutely ruin the place.
I can't imagine how devastating it must be for an AEW fan seeing Punk and all these WWE people come in and absolutely ruin the place.
Bull Nakano was awesome. She looks fantastic even now.
This episode introduced me to Nakano. In my opinion she is the best female wrestler of all time.
Imagine her in modern day WWE! 😮
I LOVED going to NWA cards at the scope in the 80's- Great American Bash, Starrcade, and the occasional 'Card-subject-to-change' House shows, etc. I saw Starrcade '88 from the nosebleed section while pitching paper airplane towards the ring in the hopes that maybe just ONE of them would be caught on camera. I imagine they're probably using the same guard rails that Hawk was bent over when Sting caught him with a flying press from the top turnbuckle at the above mentioned Starrcade. The move was impressive enough to make the evening news (so I saw the 'replay' just 90 minutes after seeing it Live)! It'd be GREAT if you blokes covered the formation of the 4 Horsemen... At least until Arn and Tully left... Keep up your AWESOME work!
"OBSERVE THIS, BRUTHERRR"
GrappleVision "THIS IS WHAT WE CALL A RAGSHEET, BRUTHER!"
K
At least the 3 ring circus let everyone watch which act you want at the time in case you don't like one of the acts....
The spooter discussion might be my favourite ever OSW moment.
Irredeemable :)
Man imagine if Giant had still thrown Hogan over the top rope at the end, despite Hogan's ego booking.
If only...
While I want to say I wish more wrestlers had polotic'd against Hogan... considering how it turned out when Vince Russo did just that, maybe not...
Kinda just wish Ted Turner had fired Hogan's ass at some point.
And he landed on his neck!
IT WAS A JOKE BROTHER!
@@TyrannosaurusCHEX God the mark bull on this comment section. I swear you'd think it was the early 2000's all over again.
"If only Hogan had put over wrestler X; everything would've turned out fine" blah, blah blah.
@@jmg3116 He never said anything about Hogan putting someone over. He just pointed out that Hogan would've fucked the Attitude Era, which given by what we saw happened to WCW- is a pretty fair assessment. Attitude Era had its problems, Hogan would've probably made it worse. The biggest draw of all time, yeah, but he never had any business controlling booking.
I feel like Johnny B Badd opened every PPV and Clash from 94 to 96.
Must've been nice to have so many early nights. Show up, have your match, and beat the traffic home.
I didn't see badd before he was the wildman in the WWF so that was cool to see him before he had that garbage boxing gimmick and get powerbombed by his then wife..
Man, I remember watching this! This was my first exposure to WCW. Good times 😊
You guys have the best intros for real great work fellas
Thank you my dude!
Wooo 1 million views!!!! See a Surfer Sting arc would be money. More Lex and is what WCW was doing during the WWF Hogan arc!
Thank u matey! To celebrate let's turn on Sting!
Seriously... More people need to like these videos. The amount of love and effort that goes into them! And yes, I am an OSW fan boy!
Anyone that takes the time to watch the videos becomes one!
All of us together are the ultimate boy stable.
"Hey! look at Jim Duggen!... He's the prime minister of Ireland!!!"
Barrel on his head and all
Was watching a Japanese tv show a while ago (Wednesday's Downtown for anyone interested XD) and Bull Nakano was randomly on it. You wouldn't believe how different she looks now! She actually looks great!
I saw her in a match in Rise from 2017 where she was managing Kris Wolfe against Shotzi Blackheart managed by Madusa.... My God Bull looked amazing. Like she looked 35, a bit slimmed down and 100% a knockout. Just gorgeous. And you could tell she was having a great time.
She ALWAYS looked great. Even at her biggest when she went out of her way to look scary.
A bizarre moment of Hulk Hogan calling out Dave Meltzer in 90’s WCW and acts as if the audience knows what he’s talking about.
I doubt it’s anyone’s favorite arc, but coming back to this WCW run just feels like a warm blanket sometimes ❤
A historically bad ppv! A great review. If they ever do a "10 Cuntiest Things Hogan Has Ever Done In Wrestling" list, I'm picking changing the ending to WW3 as my number 1.
Complete side note: Mayumi Ozaki IS awesome. Just seemed to have a bad night here.
Worst part of it, at least to me, is that Savage likely didn't even realize what was going on until Hogan was in his face shouting about how he (Hogan) had been cheated out of winning HIS belt.
I applaud Savage for not snapping right then and there to batter Hogan.
@@roetheboat1 Yeah, how the fuck didn't Macho completely lose his shit over this? Hogan is the worst when it came to backstage politicking, and he stole Macho's thunder at Wrestlemania 4. Hell, Macho/Flair was the WWF title match at WM 8 and Hogan STILL had to close the show. Now he's changing the finish of this show on the fly and ruins Savage's moment AGAIN. He should've punched Hogan square in the jaw at the very least.
Knowing Jay, he’s probably had a list made for years now and been hinting at it but V1 and OOC never said ‘I wonder how many cunty things Hogan has done’ and Jay would smack the paper ‘I’ve got it right here!’
Rest In Peace Eddie Guerrero. Latino heat.
This is my 4 millionth time watching this review, and during the World War 3 match, all I could do was keep an eye out for Black Bart! What a dadgum match it was!
Thanks brah brah! Glad ur digging it 🤘🙂
Flair is so good. Forget the charisma and character and focus on the little crap that he does to make you believe it s all legit. His casual ref grab while he low blows. The psychology of switching rings the perfect timing of dumping sting as the ref glances away. Amazing
There's a reason he was on top over twenty years. You can criticize him for doing the same spots too often, but Flair was a master of psychology.
I love that shot at the Fall Brawl review of Eddie telling Alex Wright to take notes during the Ric/Arn match. I have a strong feeling that wasn't kayfabe and was Eddie telling Alex Wright to pay attention and learn from these two masters. Eddie Guerrero's Lying Cheating and Stealing gimmick is a love letter to Ric Flair.
Happy Christmas lads... great to see you back on TH-cam fully and properly.
+TheBarrymanfan cheers! Merry Christmas brother brah 😊
39:11 Nice timing!!!
It baffles me why the whole heel and face being friends and the face friend trying to appeal to the heel's better nature angle has never been redone.
It works well as an idea with relatives, married couples or well known best friends. WWE could have easily have done this with Eddie and Benoit.
What about RK Bro and Misdow? Take?
Anyone notice Eddie when sting wouldn't let go of Flair till lex came to talk to him? Eddie had one boot on & one sandal!?! Lol wtf
the old wcw stuff is your best work
Thank you my Irish Lads for getting me through some bland work days with these reviews!
This is my favorite review on this channel. The guys taking the piss out of the 3 rings and The Yeti just cracks me up so much.
I lost it at Duplo Ref.
I've been waiting for this for so long thank you so much I know it's going to be good!!!
lucas williams It's been on the website for about a month.
lucas williams it's already been out for a while
Oh yea thanks guys I thought it was starcade sorry lol
Have we considered... that Mean Gene is actually the one correctly pronouncing "packeej" and the rest of us are wrong
Early Kimberly, before she got the Nitro girl gig, was ridiculously underrated in terms of beauty. She's superior to the supermodels of the time, like Cindy Crawford and Kathy Ireland. No one in the sports world, not even Sunny, could compete. Her gimmick, that of a innocent, girly girl cheerleader didn't help matters any.
Anyway, I was there and have absolutely no recollection of the Duggan/Boss match.
Rein Engel she was gorgeous to be sure. She looked even hotter when she was heel with those outfits she used to wear.
Which is why in WWE when DDP was stalking Taker’s horse faced wife made 0 sense as he was still married to Kimberly. It’s like eating a prime steak but stalking a McDouble .
Another WHAT BAAARRR? for Hokuto: She's a biscuit and raisin Yorkie.
An explanation for Mayumi Ozaki & Cutie Suzuki:
Cutie was never really good at doing moves, but sold pretty well. She was an "Idol Wrestler" who sold videos and such.
Ozaki was a real star in JWP (same company as Cutie), and had great expressions, character stuff, and selling. The bump onto her head wasn't a botch- she always does insane stuff like that. This match just wasn't really a good showcase for her, as she was a glorified jobber.
Didn't these 2 have nudes in some Jap magazine?
@@SirPunzalot Indeed.
Here here, Ozakisan rules... just, like many things, not in WCW.
Bull Nakano looks SMOKIN gorgeous in 2020! She is 52!
Yay I'm glad you're back
Duggan tripping on the stairs during the Irish coffee joke is perfection 😂
I watch this just to hear them laugh and have fun. This shit is comedy gold
Great series guys, I love each and every episode.
"Muscular-backed Kimberly"
Jesus Christ. Jay you are a treasure
The shot of Hogan's Observer awards kills me every time I see it. At the same time he's winning 10 straight "best babyface" awards and 6 total "most charismatic" awards, he nabs "least favorite wrestler" and "most overrated" 3 times each, and a "worst worked match" and "worst feud" on the way out. Wrestling fans have no idea what they want or what they're talking about.
While I agree that wrestling fans only THINK they know what they want, my guess is that Hogan was just incredibly polarizing, even at the apex of his "good guy" powers. In the 80's thru the mid 90's fans were fooled by his schtick..... The only ones who wouldn't buy his BS in this era would be your early internet users, the tape trader types- i.e. the kinda guys who sub to WON and hang on Tuna Meltzer's every word. To each their own.🤷🏻
He won the positive awards mostly early on and the negative ones as fans grew tired of his schtick.
That Broken Sword interlude made me happy
1:11:08 William Regal is just the best.
Btw. This ppv was named "War of the World Superstars" in Germany for obvious reasons
Did sting think hogan was talking to him about the “rag sheets”? His reactions are amazing.
OOC's unconditional love for Lex is one of the highlights of OSW.
It can only be matched by their hatred of Hogan lol
Hogan looks like he left his "vitamins" back in Connecticut...mehhh 😉
So that's what he meant about "vitamins"...
His vitamins were injectable
@@zackschilling4376 Hey sometimes doctors will legit inject vitamin solutions if there are obvious deficiencies and they don't have to be processed by the GI tract.
@@andrejg4136 I was loosely quoting Jesse The Body
14:25 This comes from old school British Wrestling. Johnny B Badd learned it from Lord Steven Regal with whom he worked (and from whom he first won that TV title). Owen did it because he spent a good chunk of his early years in Britain (he wrestled on ITV at least 3 times) and learned to work the World Of Sport style and the habit never wore off. EVERYONE in the UK except the giants used to do that or variations. Even nowadays, lots of young kids wrestling over here do all that.
The number of times of said "observe this, brother" and called something a rag sheet because of this show 😂
Isn't "Pomp and Circumstance" a public domain song? It's incredibly old and it's played at every school graduation in America. Why does Macho go with the whammy guitar version in WCW when he could've used the same version he used in WWF without worry of a lawsuit?
love the intro lads & awesome work as always cans of coke all round was that Big trouble in little China??
stephen mc shane no stranger things.
No. It's Stranger Things. Netflix's original thriller-horror by the Duffer Bros. seemingly using the template of 90's "sister series" _Eerie, Indiana_ kind of as its premise, however set in the 80's, complete with a bevy of nostalgic callbacks from that time period.
Regal @1:11:07 is simply amazing!
39:17
I've watched this dozens of times and no doubt will again, I'll never not laugh at this 😂😂
Hokuto is a Fry’s Turkish Delight and give Cutie Suzuki the bounty bar instead
I remember this well. Hogan was boo'd big time this PPV. People were just sick of him at this point. Heel turn was coming soon.
"600 paid" was the best
The sting Luger friendship angle is something I’m surprised hasn’t been done before in wrestling imagine a cutthroat heel and a super baby face who are secretly best friends and that overcomes all storyline motivations. It could add some real depth to storylines
The Lucha Brothers and Pac pretty much cover this. Pac is heel, Penta is tweener and Fenix is face.
But you're right, in the specific way it's being done, it would be interesting.
They sort of did it with Cody and MJF, but it didn't last that long and it didn't overcome.
But you're also right. Nobody had done it before, that I can remember at any rate.
Happy days are here again! OSW reviews are back on youtube in glorious grapple-vision and encoded with blast processing!
subbed/bell'd/shared with friends and enemies!! there are tons of great wrestling channels but OSW is my new favorite. thanks for the rad content!! yinz are grrrrreat!!
That spinning tombstone or whatever DDP did looked incredible
Aka Riddle's Bo Derek nowadays.
Hokuto's get up looks more like a Fry's Turkish Delight.
I love how you guys mention Luger staring at his cue cards when he cuts his promo, but @ 37:43 he looks at the cards while flexing as well! Lol why?
1:18: 30 Flair shouldn't have been eliminated. He didn't really go over the top
Going back again to the birthplace of V1's Irish Coffee. Who'd have thought Duggan would leave such a legacy.
5:47
Subtle background fart noises, or sound effects for the impacts.
Fart impacts.
SolidMike84 TNA (fart) iMPACT
Technically speaking this wasn't the first 60 man battle royal to ever happen.
Jerry Jarrett held a 60 man battle royal in a single ring that was 30 foot square in memphis in the 1970's, the match only happened once.
A 30 foot square ring? Can you elaborate a little?
If it’s 30 square foot ring, that’s tiny, roughly 5.5x5.5 ring
A ring that’s 30x30 would be MONSTEROUS
@@paulk6399
According to jim cornette the ring was 30X30 and was "hard as concrete".
Apparently a bunch of guys got hurt and pretty much everyone complained about how hard the ring was so jarrett never did it again.
@@Hammerhead547 30x30 is insane, I would love to see a ring that size
By comparison, WWE uses 20x20
That is how to do World War 3, a gimmick mega sized ring that comes out once a year. One ring, not three at once.
Knowing Jarrett, everyone not named Lawler made about 3.50 from that match,
😂😂😂😂😂 jeff Jarretts guitar pooter...lol
The more Lex is remembered like this, the more I wish he replaced Hogan altogether. Putting Bret over after Wrestlemania IX, starring in No Holds Barred, leaving Macho the f’ alone.
he was our hero.
I love 10:15 with Hulk Hogan's Wrestling Observer accolades because most of them are negative; Worst Match, Worst Fued, Most Overrated etc. but the last one is the WON Hall of Fame induction. Because it's basically going "Hey, we think you fucking suck, we're gonna put you into our Hall of Fame though."
Finding this channel is one of the bright spots of 2020. Thank you guys for all the hot dogging and grandstanding.
Much love ✌🏾