Keep in mind that for the people like me, who had limited access to PPV and only got the shows because a friend taped them for me, I appreciated the main event replay on RAW. That said the Mega Powers always get my point. Even with Hogan's worsening no selling, I was Mega Powers, baby. Randy Savage is the absolute pro
Much like how Eric Bischoff used to look forward to Tuesday’s to see the ratings, I look forward to Thursday’s to see a new edition of Reliving the War!
I would straight up scrub the house top to bottom, do dishes, laundry, etc to get a ppv cause that's when you couldn't use the black box anymore lol so they were like 45 dollars. Now they're like 70 aren't they??
When people talk about the best wrestler never to be WWE champ, they tend to focus on the usual suspects - Perfect, Piper, Rude, Hall, Dynamite, Roberts, Steamboat, Owen Hart etc, all of whom are legitimate choices, but I would absolutely include Regal in that list. I don't think I've ever seen in him in anything less than a three-star match and his promo work was exceptional. Insanely talented guy.
Bro He can bring the better out of a normal wrestlers too look how he made the way for wwe in the modern era by giving us gem wrestlers like Seth Rollins , Jon Moxley ,Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch.
The midcard was integral to the success of WCW Nitro. At the time, very few WWF diehards would argue that WCW didn't have the better undercard. Eddie, Benoit, Booker, Malenko, Mysterio, Jericho, etc. They were admired by fans on both sides, and when some of them got to the WWF during the wars, it was exciting as hell, because we long wondered what the matches would be like with WWF talent, and we finally got to see it.
Hey man, I love what this show has become. It is clear you care very much about the product you are putting out. Im a fairly new fan, but i have binged a ton of your videos, new and old. Keep up the great work 👍
Thanks John! Always surprises me to hear people binge these videos, it's a pass-time thats turned into something people really seem to enjoy so complete win-win! Thanks again and hope you enjoy :)
I enjoyed your comments about Regal. As a young person when this was happening I was not a fan. In fact I often found him annoying & wanted him to lose, but turns out I was actually being worked on another level. Appreciating wrestling psychology vs. high spots is an interesting dynamic. I know many of us always say the "good old days" were better & while I try to watch from time to time, I just can't get into the current product. Thank you for making these videos for us to not only relive the good times, but also to reiterate the fact that the "good old days" truly were great.
@@hoodclassic_nl5382 I like this question as the answer is ever evolving and could be different at any time. Currently, I am enjoying watching AEW, particularly because of MJF. While WWE can still put on some good matches in the ring, I don't care for the story telling (minus the Bloodline angle, that was well done). Something about the free, mostly unscripted, raw (unintentional pun) bits that we get from AEW are more appealing to me than overproduced, forced acting. None-the-less, nothing holds a candle to these days that this channels recaps in my opinion. Still, the wrestling/sports entertainment business is always changing, adapting, and evolving, and I respect anyone's reasons for finding joy watching on any platform presently or from the past.
I legit wait for these uploads. This was such a great idea for a series!!! I love re living the story week to week, really brings back memories...Can't wait to get to the episodes of RAW that I'm actually in attendance! Cheers!
@@danielhudson5424 I don't remember the date off the top of my head, but its the first RAW at Madison Square Garden, when Austin stunned McMahon for the first time. I can be seen at the start of the show when Austin comes out through the Audience, and I can be seen for a good few seconds before Hunter comes out for his match with Cactus Jack
@@CaptnMasm Thanks & You Was At Those Great Shows You Lucky Person-I'm From England & I'm A Fan & I Had WWF/WWE Merchandise Like The Hasbro WWF Ring With WWF Championship Belt & Toy Wrestlers Along With WCW Toy Wrestlers Each Came With Belt (Bought By Parents & Aunty & Uncle When I Was a Kid), Bedsheets, Posters, etc. I Bought The Magazines, T-Shirts, DVD's, Video Games When I Became a Fully Grown Adult But Todays WWE is Mostly shitty Writing (Except For Nxt) Compared To The Golden Age & Attitude & Ruthless Aggression Era's.
Ted went to WCW not long after the NWO formed so it kind of had to end. I was watching the Kane session on Austin's Broken Skull podcast last night and Austin said he hated the ring master gimmick and wanted to do his own thing.
I’ve been enjoying how you see the stories developing in the ring and how they build them prematch. I stop watching wrestling a long time ago but find myself watching again looking for the stories being told in the ring seeing if wrestlers remember during the match that their knee was supposed to be injured. How they sell or no sell their opponents.
I fell asleep listening to Wrestling Bios on autoplay and spent the next day at work listening to him on my Bluetooth earbuds--i am starting to speak with an Irish brogue now 😂😂😋😋
These are such a memory lane trip. I was 3 three days away from 14th birthday when this Raw aired. I always watched the Raw live as I lived with my Mum, and I used to watch Nitro on the weekends when I went to visit my Dad.
This series is brilliant for someone like me born in 97 who grew up watching wrestling just after the wars era and attitude era Thank you for all your effort!
Johnson’s weird move on the jobber looks like a turbo-charged Uranage, a judo throw made popular by Hiroshi Hase. except he grabs the guy by the neck with both hands instead of one hand around neck, and the other around waist. And it seems he was trying to launch him on the moon. Alright, enough nerding out on moves.
@@HPKazan You'd probably have a good time analyzing Mike Awesome's innovative moves, he was always innovative during his time. Very underrated wrestler unfortunately.
I'd just like to point out the attention to detail in the intro alone - note how when the intro track gets to the "Move to the music" bit, the clip shown is of guys playing air guitar on chairs XD Noticing this on episode 17 of this phenomenal series only makes me love this guy more. He deserves awards for this work!
This is becoming my favourite TH-cam segment. Watching this makes me relive this time when i watched wrestling. WCW opening/cruiser weight was stacked. This is before the NWO. I'm not expecting raw to win anything until the attitude era is in full swing (late 97?)...if i remember correctly when i was watching it, nitro going 3 hours instead of 2 was the turning point for me...it wasn't the same after that. Only now do i realise what a golden era this was for wrestling. WCW may have lost in the end but it really changed wrestling for the better. It really does feel like we need another war.. wwe is so boring now...
This is a highlight of my week! Man, I miss the Monday Night Wars. Keep up the awesome work, and keep these coming for as long as you want, I will watch these until you stop. Awesome job as always Wresling Bios!
Steve Regal was the quintessential example of the concept of Television champion. The showcase champion that got to show off his talent week in and week out. Guys like him are why I miss the Television championship concept. People were enamored when Cena used the concept with US championship. Defending the belt every week against a different opponent. That is the very essence of what the Television championship was. Folk like seeing gold on the line. Even if its gold the brass doesn't see as important. Regal, Arn, and Booker in WCW, Van Dam in ECW, and now Cody in AEW. They all solidified what a showcase match with a Television championship can bring to the table.
So great man! You have the best Wrestling Channel on TH-cam! I loooooove your videos!! I was too young to really appreciate the monday night wars back then. Thanks so much for your excellent videos.
@Seth Kaplan yeah that ring master guy just disappeared. What? Vanished, What? Into thin air, What? You can't see him, What? I ain't talking about John cena son, What? I'm talking about stone cold steve austin, What? The toughest, What? Badest, What? Son of a bitch, What? And that's the bottom line cause stone cold said so...
Even though you're a WCW guy haha i am glad i found this series, i started with episode one last week and I look forward to watching every one. I can appreciate the time and effort you have in making them (although the watching the shows part sounds more like pleasure than work )
To the person or persons responsible for wrestling bios thank u so much for all the videos to put out on all topics. Giving me a chance to relive the best part of my childhood growing up. Thank u. Now if I can find a way to relive mighty morphin power Rangers, we be on...
Also I wanted to thank you nothing brings me back to a young adult and thinking about how much the world has changed like watching the ultimate ratings fight of the 90s I really appreciate your work even if I disagree with a few things you are still awesome
WWF: At one of the lowest points in company history, over-reliance on squash matches, several characters and gimmicks painfully behind the times. WCW: A few goofy storylines here and there, but some pretty good ones too, and overall, some of the best pro wrestling anywhere on the planet, even if a lot of the matches never really built to anything. Reliving the War haters: WCW favoritism! Me: ?_?
Yep, you nailed it. If only WCW would have allowed the talented mid-card guys to elevate to the next level. Like Eddie and Steve Regal maybe they would not have gone under. Instead they let the NWO angle run for way too long and it should never have grown as large as it did. It was way too much of a circus by the end of the NWO days.
I really hope you continue this show beyond the Monday Night Wars & eventually get into Thunder vs Smackdown, Raw vs Smackdown, Monthly WCW vs WWE PPV comparisons & eventually the Wednesday night wars with NXT vs AEW. Keep up the excellent work my friend.
More than anything else i enjoy about watching through all of this, is the sudden "OH YEAH I REMEMBER THAT GUY!" i get at least once a video. So many wrestlers that i thought were great got very short runs, eventually turned into jobbers, and then vanished. Meanwhile guys who sucked were around forever and got constant titles and big events just because they were big fat guys or because they were friends with someone backstage. Especially in the WWF. Although watching this it seems just as common in WCW, but with bigger names who used to be big or would go on to be big somewhere else. Hakushi, The Portugese Man o War, HOG and PIG. Belfast Brusier, Boston Brawler. I Always wanted to see more of the Japanese guys especially, but they never stayed long.
Your website is as awesome as your channel. I especially like the search option, where you can filter the videos according to your wrestler or topic of preference. Perfect for binge watching your materials. Great job!
I love this series; keep up the good work please. I will respectfully disagree on one of your calls here (I normally agree with you.) You give the point to the debut of the Ringmaster because of the "historic" importance of Steve Austin in the Monday Night Wars, but if you are watching this in January 1996 you do not know about that historic importance. You are not seeing "Stone Cold" Steve Austin; you are seeing the Ringmaster, quite a lame gimmick for a guy who had a pretty good career up to this point. Meanwhile, the Sting/Lugar thing was unique. I have been watching wrestling a long time, and this was the first time we had seen a heel and a babyface as friends without either of them turning for a prolonged period. This made for a lot of interesting storylines and it was very creative. I would say it was historic, because one thing that separated the Monday Night War era from the earlier era was that heels and babyfaces were being redefined and there were more "tweeners." There was also realism that hadn't existed before. The stringent separation of heels and babyfaces was becoming more nuanced and it made wrestling a lot better than it had been. This angle with Lugar was the first step in that direction and it was compelling at the time because it was so different. There was nothing compelling about the Ringmaster, which is why it was scrapped in short order.
I literally look forward to this series all week n have watched every episode amazing work much love from south Carolina bro n I look forward to seeing next week bro
Thank you for your stellar work as always. I would really like to see you dip your toes into international wrestling stars in the future if you have the time and patience. Jinsei Shinzaki and Masato Tanaka would be great to cover since they both wrestle and are still very very good at what they do. Thanks for everything you do on this stellar channel
Duuuuuuuude your website is beautiful, your dedication and devotion is truly impressive. So inspiring. It can't be easy, so thorough too! I'm late and Binge watching these post wrestlemania 39 (currently April 7th Friday 4:20 AM 2023) but even though unlikely to be seen I want to say thank you for your passion. I absolutely am looking to participate in your patreon soon! Take care.
Had the honor of whipping and nailing all of them with batteries. Dropped them all clipping the ankle bone or wrist. I can’t think of a wrestler I didn’t nail with batteries in the 90s. During walkouts and walkouts.
These reviews of what is arguably the most important era of Pro Wrestling are great! I'd just like to say that having lived through the wrestling eras since the late 70s, it's hard to overstate how important Hulk Hogan was to the industry. I know that in these later years before his iconic heel turn, Hogan was extremely boring and obviously just going through the motions for a payday, but at the time, Hulk was still extremely over. It's easy to look back on it now and see it for what it really was, but when it was happening, there was still something about Hogan that popped the crowds every time. And his heel turn came at absolutely the perfect moment because his shine was just starting to fade then. That heel turn changed the industry as much as his face turn back in the early 80s when he won the title for "America" against the Iron Sheik.
22:38 ECW fan giving Mikey Whipwreak some WWF PPV time with a sign. I use to love spoting ECW signs in the crowd on WWF and WCW television. Wrestling Bios should do an entire episode on cool or funny fan made signs lol it was such a big part of seeing live shows in the 90's. Everytime we went to a live show for either we spent weeks deciding what our signs would say.
My god!. How far you come already you take all the time you need we ant going anywhere and it looks so exciting!!. I dint post enough but i hato say how grate this channel is!!. 💪💪
WCW did that a lot too. They would advertise a match next week whether it was one of their ppv or Nitro that was the exact same or just slightly different then the main event you were seeing that night. They might as well say "We're going to show you the same thing again next week!"
I cant help a feeling I’m having..... I love Reliving the War. I came upon the 1st episode way back now and I’ve truly enjoyed every week since. I didn’t watch either WWF or WCW during ‘95 and ‘96. I stopped somewhere around WM9 and picked back up somewhere around 1997. So, it’s been cool seeing RAW vs. Nitro in the early years. My fear? This show is going to get even more awesome in 2-3 years. I have a feeling that it will become so popular that it either will go somewhere other than youtube or somehow lawyers wont let it be made anymore. 6 straight years of youtube Re-living the War would be so awesome and i just feel like there’s no way it will get the chance to finish.
I had the honor of whipping a better and tearing Barry horrowitz ear off in 97. Shriners to wrestlers. Nailing them with dead batteries was a true thrill. I saw a guy hit arn Anderson directly down his windpipe with a battery back in 1990 at a house show. He collapsed grabbed his throat and the ref did the Heimlich maneuver.
Botched again - date at the start should say Jan 8th. Andre The Giant facepalm.
You get a pass! Great job as alway
You're videos are top notch quality. The concept is original amongst so many other wrestling channels. We really appreciate you. Keep the good work.
You're only human
We knew what you meant!
Keep in mind that for the people like me, who had limited access to PPV and only got the shows because a friend taped them for me, I appreciated the main event replay on RAW. That said the Mega Powers always get my point. Even with Hogan's worsening no selling, I was Mega Powers, baby. Randy Savage is the absolute pro
As a kid who could never convince their parents to order a PPV, getting a PPV match on TV was amazing. Let alone a Bret Hart title match.
A landmark Raw without anybody realising it. And now it begins.
I saw what you did there
@@ZaidKhan-dc4wo
What? What did he say?
I don't understand. 😂
(j/k)
Much like how Eric Bischoff used to look forward to Tuesday’s to see the ratings, I look forward to Thursday’s to see a new edition of Reliving the War!
I would straight up scrub the house top to bottom, do dishes, laundry, etc to get a ppv cause that's when you couldn't use the black box anymore lol so they were like 45 dollars. Now they're like 70 aren't they??
@@kyle7053
When were you watching?
I used to know people who had free per views. 😂
"Steve Austin's debut is quite important to the Monday Night War"
Hell of an understatement!
"Give me a little time." Lol You take as much time as you need brother this is awesome what you're doing and thank you 👍👏
I want to reiterate the thank you. I literally look forward to this every week.
Take all the time you need, reliving the war is brilliant, the memories that come flooding back are awesome
Still working my way through these I love them!
When people talk about the best wrestler never to be WWE champ, they tend to focus on the usual suspects - Perfect, Piper, Rude, Hall, Dynamite, Roberts, Steamboat, Owen Hart etc, all of whom are legitimate choices, but I would absolutely include Regal in that list. I don't think I've ever seen in him in anything less than a three-star match and his promo work was exceptional. Insanely talented guy.
I agree he a real wrestler.
Regal certainly deserves to be mentioned.
Bro He can bring the better out of a normal wrestlers too look how he made the way for wwe in the modern era by giving us gem wrestlers like Seth Rollins , Jon Moxley ,Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch.
I read your comment as if those were 4 wrestlers:
Perfect Piper
Rude Hall
Dynamite Roberts
Steamboat Owen Hart
They actually wanted make him champion in 08 (when he was RAW evil manager), but he was suspended for Substance Abuse and Drug Testing Policy.
At the moment, this really reinforces what Eddie said himself. 'They lost their backbone, when we left.'
The midcard was integral to the success of WCW Nitro. At the time, very few WWF diehards would argue that WCW didn't have the better undercard. Eddie, Benoit, Booker, Malenko, Mysterio, Jericho, etc. They were admired by fans on both sides, and when some of them got to the WWF during the wars, it was exciting as hell, because we long wondered what the matches would be like with WWF talent, and we finally got to see it.
Cannot stress enough how good this series is. Litterally reliving those things weekly is class and if this goes and goes its a series I'll rewatxh
Hey man, I love what this show has become. It is clear you care very much about the product you are putting out. Im a fairly new fan, but i have binged a ton of your videos, new and old. Keep up the great work 👍
Thanks John! Always surprises me to hear people binge these videos, it's a pass-time thats turned into something people really seem to enjoy so complete win-win! Thanks again and hope you enjoy :)
@Turd Ferguson I second this question. He obviously watched in the 90s but I'm wondering when he actually started watching.
I remember Austin's debut like it was yesterday. Another great video from Wrestling Bios.
I enjoyed your comments about Regal. As a young person when this was happening I was not a fan. In fact I often found him annoying & wanted him to lose, but turns out I was actually being worked on another level. Appreciating wrestling psychology vs. high spots is an interesting dynamic. I know many of us always say the "good old days" were better & while I try to watch from time to time, I just can't get into the current product. Thank you for making these videos for us to not only relive the good times, but also to reiterate the fact that the "good old days" truly were great.
Well two years later, did you eventually get into the current product?
@@hoodclassic_nl5382 I like this question as the answer is ever evolving and could be different at any time. Currently, I am enjoying watching AEW, particularly because of MJF. While WWE can still put on some good matches in the ring, I don't care for the story telling (minus the Bloodline angle, that was well done). Something about the free, mostly unscripted, raw (unintentional pun) bits that we get from AEW are more appealing to me than overproduced, forced acting. None-the-less, nothing holds a candle to these days that this channels recaps in my opinion. Still, the wrestling/sports entertainment business is always changing, adapting, and evolving, and I respect anyone's reasons for finding joy watching on any platform presently or from the past.
I legit wait for these uploads. This was such a great idea for a series!!! I love re living the story week to week, really brings back memories...Can't wait to get to the episodes of RAW that I'm actually in attendance! Cheers!
Any Hint's Where You'll be Standing/Seated When The Episodes on Reliving The Monday Night War by Wrestling Bio's come on That Have You Attendance?
@@danielhudson5424 I don't remember the date off the top of my head, but its the first RAW at Madison Square Garden, when Austin stunned McMahon for the first time. I can be seen at the start of the show when Austin comes out through the Audience, and I can be seen for a good few seconds before Hunter comes out for his match with Cactus Jack
@@CaptnMasm Thanks & You Was At Those Great Shows You Lucky Person-I'm From England & I'm A Fan & I Had WWF/WWE Merchandise Like The Hasbro WWF Ring With WWF Championship Belt & Toy Wrestlers Along With WCW Toy Wrestlers Each Came With Belt (Bought By Parents & Aunty & Uncle When I Was a Kid), Bedsheets, Posters, etc. I Bought The Magazines, T-Shirts, DVD's, Video Games When I Became a Fully Grown Adult But Todays WWE is Mostly shitty Writing (Except For Nxt) Compared To The Golden Age & Attitude & Ruthless Aggression Era's.
It's kind of bananas how much I look forward to this every week.
Same. I watch both the Nitro and Raw before the Wrestling Bio weekly review comes out so i know exactly what he is talking about.
I'm glad Austin didn't keep the ringmaster gimmick for too long.
Ted went to WCW not long after the NWO formed so it kind of had to end. I was watching the Kane session on Austin's Broken Skull podcast last night and Austin said he hated the ring master gimmick and wanted to do his own thing.
@@herpderp7264 Lucky Vince agreed
It was a pretty good starting gimmick though. I don't think the stone cold gimmick would've worked if it was introduced right at his debut
My favourite time of the week.
Thanks again WB.
Steven Regal V Eddie Guerrero now thats a match I would always pay to watch.
Definitely. There's no higher echelon of professional wrestling than those two.
@Sky Blaze21
Regal is the cup of tea of wrestling.
The most deserving to never win the big one.
They don't make 'em like Regal anymore.
Cool idea to relive those crazy days..this is better than the dull WWE of 2020,
I’ve been enjoying how you see the stories developing in the ring and how they build them prematch. I stop watching wrestling a long time ago but find myself watching again looking for the stories being told in the ring seeing if wrestlers remember during the match that their knee was supposed to be injured. How they sell or no sell their opponents.
How the heck are there 4 dislikes? This series is my life now 😂
I fell asleep listening to Wrestling Bios on autoplay and spent the next day at work listening to him on my Bluetooth earbuds--i am starting to speak with an Irish brogue now 😂😂😋😋
These are such a memory lane trip. I was 3 three days away from 14th birthday when this Raw aired. I always watched the Raw live as I lived with my Mum, and I used to watch Nitro on the weekends when I went to visit my Dad.
This series is brilliant for someone like me born in 97 who grew up watching wrestling just after the wars era and attitude era
Thank you for all your effort!
Be he either Steven or William, Lord Regal is your favorite wrestler's Favorite Wrestler.
Johnson’s weird move on the jobber looks like a turbo-charged Uranage, a judo throw made popular by Hiroshi Hase. except he grabs the guy by the neck with both hands instead of one hand around neck, and the other around waist. And it seems he was trying to launch him on the moon.
Alright, enough nerding out on moves.
Dang, I'd love to see you analyze wrestling matches.
RandomNerd RightHere LOL !
Hey. Hey...its always time to talk about pro wrestling moves.
Always!
Paul Sletten My favorite part of wrestling
@@HPKazan You'd probably have a good time analyzing Mike Awesome's innovative moves, he was always innovative during his time. Very underrated wrestler unfortunately.
You have the best historical wrestling channel. Hands down. Keep doing what you do, I look forward to every video.
I'd just like to point out the attention to detail in the intro alone - note how when the intro track gets to the "Move to the music" bit, the clip shown is of guys playing air guitar on chairs XD Noticing this on episode 17 of this phenomenal series only makes me love this guy more. He deserves awards for this work!
This is my favourite thing on you tube, so jazzed when a new episode is posted
We all appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos. We love them.
Bischoff: "Hey, Hulk, you think you can just sell for ONE move, in your match with Flair and AA?"
Hogan: "DOESN'T WORK FOR ME BROTHER!"
Ahhhh.....sure, just the chokeslam. Oh, they can't do that move? Well have the Giant come to the ring for whatever reason.
Don't forget Hogan sold out the Tokyo skydomme brother
This is becoming my favourite TH-cam segment. Watching this makes me relive this time when i watched wrestling. WCW opening/cruiser weight was stacked. This is before the NWO. I'm not expecting raw to win anything until the attitude era is in full swing (late 97?)...if i remember correctly when i was watching it, nitro going 3 hours instead of 2 was the turning point for me...it wasn't the same after that. Only now do i realise what a golden era this was for wrestling. WCW may have lost in the end but it really changed wrestling for the better. It really does feel like we need another war.. wwe is so boring now...
I really look forward to this every week.
Always love when the heel uses the rope with the abdominal stretch.
This is a highlight of my week! Man, I miss the Monday Night Wars. Keep up the awesome work, and keep these coming for as long as you want, I will watch these until you stop.
Awesome job as always Wresling Bios!
these always give me flashback. thanks
Good gawd a mighty, thats the music for Wrestling Bios!
These episodes makes my Thursday
Steve Regal was the quintessential example of the concept of Television champion. The showcase champion that got to show off his talent week in and week out.
Guys like him are why I miss the Television championship concept. People were enamored when Cena used the concept with US championship. Defending the belt every week against a different opponent. That is the very essence of what the Television championship was. Folk like seeing gold on the line. Even if its gold the brass doesn't see as important.
Regal, Arn, and Booker in WCW, Van Dam in ECW, and now Cody in AEW. They all solidified what a showcase match with a Television championship can bring to the table.
I love how you blend it both Monday nitro and Monday night raw entrance music together that was cool
I just got to 11 Aug 1997... damn if that won't be one of the best match ups in reliving the war. It's like the birth of the best days of wrestling.
Raw Post mania 97 is great
Best channel on TH-cam. Will be checking out the site for sure
I'm a crack head when it comes time to watch ur bio's...I don't watch it anymore but was a die hard fan during this era....great fu*king shows
Favorite part of my week now!
Great video, amazing content with so much care as usual. Thanks!
So great man! You have the best Wrestling Channel on TH-cam! I loooooove your videos!! I was too young to really appreciate the monday night wars back then. Thanks so much for your excellent videos.
Aw yeah highlight of our Thursday! Keep it up you beautiful beautiful man
Awesome memories from the golden era of wrestling entertainment 👍
I remember watching steve austins debut and this promo
@Seth Kaplan yeah that ring master guy just disappeared. What? Vanished, What? Into thin air, What? You can't see him, What? I ain't talking about John cena son, What?
I'm talking about stone cold steve austin, What? The toughest, What? Badest, What? Son of a bitch, What? And that's the bottom line cause stone cold said so...
OH HELL YEAH
@Turd Ferguson don't What me son I'm liable to open up a can of woop ass on ya
100% agreed on William Regal. Tremendous performer, both in the ring and behind the mic.
Regal vs Eddie that was WCW Gold both looked strong in it. I am glad you put this up
Even though you're a WCW guy haha i am glad i found this series, i started with episode one last week and I look forward to watching every one. I can appreciate the time and effort you have in making them (although the watching the shows part sounds more like pleasure than work )
I really appreciate the amount of work you put into the whole Channel content - Well done buddy 🖒
To the person or persons responsible for wrestling bios thank u so much for all the videos to put out on all topics. Giving me a chance to relive the best part of my childhood growing up. Thank u. Now if I can find a way to relive mighty morphin power Rangers, we be on...
The absolute best intro song ever for a vid, this mix is absolute 🔥
Best part of the week. Cheers mate like always!
Also I wanted to thank you nothing brings me back to a young adult and thinking about how much the world has changed like watching the ultimate ratings fight of the 90s I really appreciate your work even if I disagree with a few things you are still awesome
WWF: At one of the lowest points in company history, over-reliance on squash matches, several characters and gimmicks painfully behind the times.
WCW: A few goofy storylines here and there, but some pretty good ones too, and overall, some of the best pro wrestling anywhere on the planet, even if a lot of the matches never really built to anything.
Reliving the War haters: WCW favoritism!
Me: ?_?
I agree. The WCW product is simply better at this moment in the war.
Agree 110%
It's gonna be a lotta WCW wins until mid to late 98, where it'll slowly turn around until the WWF is eventually dominating
Just like real life
Raw has some really good in 96 including the Pillman gun episode which I don’t see how wcw can beat that episode
Yep, you nailed it. If only WCW would have allowed the talented mid-card guys to elevate to the next level. Like Eddie and Steve Regal maybe they would not have gone under. Instead they let the NWO angle run for way too long and it should never have grown as large as it did. It was way too much of a circus by the end of the NWO days.
I really hope you continue this show beyond the Monday Night Wars & eventually get into Thunder vs Smackdown, Raw vs Smackdown, Monthly WCW vs WWE PPV comparisons & eventually the Wednesday night wars with NXT vs AEW. Keep up the excellent work my friend.
I'm a old man who grew up with this unfolding live. Good times.
The amount of work you put in is incredible.
Thank you
More than anything else i enjoy about watching through all of this, is the sudden "OH YEAH I REMEMBER THAT GUY!" i get at least once a video. So many wrestlers that i thought were great got very short runs, eventually turned into jobbers, and then vanished. Meanwhile guys who sucked were around forever and got constant titles and big events just because they were big fat guys or because they were friends with someone backstage. Especially in the WWF. Although watching this it seems just as common in WCW, but with bigger names who used to be big or would go on to be big somewhere else.
Hakushi, The Portugese Man o War, HOG and PIG. Belfast Brusier, Boston Brawler. I Always wanted to see more of the Japanese guys especially, but they never stayed long.
Love the Series 🥰 as an one man i Love all these old memories. Gz from germanY
Your website is as awesome as your channel. I especially like the search option, where you can filter the videos according to your wrestler or topic of preference. Perfect for binge watching your materials. Great job!
Awesome Crippler v Wunderkind match, great work from all THREE men
I love this series; keep up the good work please. I will respectfully disagree on one of your calls here (I normally agree with you.) You give the point to the debut of the Ringmaster because of the "historic" importance of Steve Austin in the Monday Night Wars, but if you are watching this in January 1996 you do not know about that historic importance. You are not seeing "Stone Cold" Steve Austin; you are seeing the Ringmaster, quite a lame gimmick for a guy who had a pretty good career up to this point. Meanwhile, the Sting/Lugar thing was unique. I have been watching wrestling a long time, and this was the first time we had seen a heel and a babyface as friends without either of them turning for a prolonged period. This made for a lot of interesting storylines and it was very creative. I would say it was historic, because one thing that separated the Monday Night War era from the earlier era was that heels and babyfaces were being redefined and there were more "tweeners." There was also realism that hadn't existed before. The stringent separation of heels and babyfaces was becoming more nuanced and it made wrestling a lot better than it had been. This angle with Lugar was the first step in that direction and it was compelling at the time because it was so different. There was nothing compelling about the Ringmaster, which is why it was scrapped in short order.
Never knew until this that the combination of DiBiase and Love introduced both Undertaker and Austin to WWF!
I literally look forward to this series all week n have watched every episode amazing work much love from south Carolina bro n I look forward to seeing next week bro
Thank you for your stellar work as always. I would really like to see you dip your toes into international wrestling stars in the future if you have the time and patience. Jinsei Shinzaki and Masato Tanaka would be great to cover since they both wrestle and are still very very good at what they do. Thanks for everything you do on this stellar channel
Duuuuuuuude your website is beautiful, your dedication and devotion is truly impressive. So inspiring. It can't be easy, so thorough too!
I'm late and Binge watching these post wrestlemania 39 (currently April 7th Friday 4:20 AM 2023) but even though unlikely to be seen I want to say thank you for your passion. I absolutely am looking to participate in your patreon soon!
Take care.
When I started to watch WCW in 1994, 'Lord' Steven Regal quickly became a huge favourite of mine. I thought he was awesome.
Dude it's really cool u have a Website. U are 1 of the BEST Wrestling Channels on TH-cam right now
That WCW Nitro theme music was legendary!
What I find is hilarious is while Vince was mocking Hogan and Savage, you know he would've welcomed one or both back with open arms
Had the honor of whipping and nailing all of them with batteries. Dropped them all clipping the ankle bone or wrist. I can’t think of a wrestler I didn’t nail with batteries in the 90s.
During walkouts and walkouts.
Thank you for showing your site. I literally had no idea you had one. Definitely checking that out. Got to support you however I can.
Take me back to those days life was easier and wrestling was good
These reviews of what is arguably the most important era of Pro Wrestling are great! I'd just like to say that having lived through the wrestling eras since the late 70s, it's hard to overstate how important Hulk Hogan was to the industry. I know that in these later years before his iconic heel turn, Hogan was extremely boring and obviously just going through the motions for a payday, but at the time, Hulk was still extremely over. It's easy to look back on it now and see it for what it really was, but when it was happening, there was still something about Hogan that popped the crowds every time. And his heel turn came at absolutely the perfect moment because his shine was just starting to fade then. That heel turn changed the industry as much as his face turn back in the early 80s when he won the title for "America" against the Iron Sheik.
The look on Anderson's face in that still sums it all up when it comes to Hogan..
Really enjoy this, takes me back.More fans should subscribe. Quality, factual... Keep it up.
Wish Hogan sold just a bit..
I like this idea. Its a segment thats gonna last for a good while. Smart stuff, kudos
Love this series and look forward to it each week. Keep going! 🙂
The idea that Cena was anything like Hogan is absurd.
Grettler seems to be wearing the 'lower half' of a Ghillie suit! 👀
22:38 ECW fan giving Mikey Whipwreak some WWF PPV time with a sign. I use to love spoting ECW signs in the crowd on WWF and WCW television. Wrestling Bios should do an entire episode on cool or funny fan made signs lol it was such a big part of seeing live shows in the 90's. Everytime we went to a live show for either we spent weeks deciding what our signs would say.
Please!!
Greatest Wrestling chanel of all time!
Man...Dibiase introduced the world to BOTH Undertaker AND Steve Austin.... What a legend
My god!. How far you come already you take all the time you need we ant going anywhere and it looks so exciting!!. I dint post enough but i hato say how grate this channel is!!. 💪💪
Favorite time of the week
Great stuff!!! I remember never really being impressed with Hulk through the 90's.
Keep it up brother. Excellent stuff. You made me found an appreciation of 123 Kid
I fuggin LOVE Regal!
WCW did that a lot too. They would advertise a match next week whether it was one of their ppv or Nitro that was the exact same or just slightly different then the main event you were seeing that night. They might as well say "We're going to show you the same thing again next week!"
Awesome website, I am going to favorite it now.
Yes! Always wanted to look up Graig Pittman!
You will cover all the weeks until 2001? Awesome!
I cant help a feeling I’m having.....
I love Reliving the War. I came upon the 1st episode way back now and I’ve truly enjoyed every week since.
I didn’t watch either WWF or WCW during ‘95 and ‘96. I stopped somewhere around WM9 and picked back up somewhere around 1997.
So, it’s been cool seeing RAW vs. Nitro in the early years.
My fear? This show is going to get even more awesome in 2-3 years. I have a feeling that it will become so popular that it either will go somewhere other than youtube or somehow lawyers wont let it be made anymore.
6 straight years of youtube Re-living the War would be so awesome and i just feel like there’s no way it will get the chance to finish.
I had the honor of whipping a better and tearing Barry horrowitz ear off in 97.
Shriners to wrestlers. Nailing them with dead batteries was a true thrill.
I saw a guy hit arn Anderson directly down his windpipe with a battery back in 1990 at a house show. He collapsed grabbed his throat and the ref did the Heimlich maneuver.
Great work! great episode! Digging the MNW stuff on your page as well.
16:18 I was poor af and relied on those matches as a kid to see what happened.
I've always loved William Regal. It was the pantomime facial that sold it for me.
After watching this and then watching a current Raw theres no comparison
Regal is one of my all time favorites