WWE WrestleMania 9 | WORST Wrestling Shows Ever

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  • @mcrook6780
    @mcrook6780 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

    As a 5 yr old, my dad recorded this for me onto vhs from sky sports because I’d just got given a Jake the snake Robert’s and Hulk Hogan hasbro toy at my birthday the month before.
    I watched that tape to death. My dad, a printer at the time, made a coloured paper video sleeve for the vhs, with the match card on the back. He did this with subsequent ppv, through into 95, the in your house era and monthly ppvs signalling a vhs recording and then a re recording over it for the next one.
    This PPV was my first experience of wrestling, so, as objectively rubbish as it is, it holds a gigantic spot in my heart

    • @tenaciousb9186
      @tenaciousb9186 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I just came here to say I appreciated your story. I can respect that. I started watching wrestling at the tail end of the Monday Night Wars so when the Invasion came, I thought it was good. I was just a 12 year old kid who didn’t know Dusty Rhodes from Harley Race. Looking back, I understand the let down but at the time, I loved every bit of it.

    • @anthonyr.9605
      @anthonyr.9605 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Those shows are the most important. Keep it in your heart and cherish those memories. Your dad was so cool, recording the show + printing a cover for you was an awesome move.
      I still remember the day I entered the wrestling world, and I'd be pleased to read your stories about the PPV your dad recorded after Wrestlemania IX

    • @TheNath87
      @TheNath87 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I feel the same about KOTR 1993. I cherish it dearly as Hogan vs Yokuzuna was the first wrestling match I ever remember watching.

    • @rommyremus9650
      @rommyremus9650 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Awesome story!! I'm from CT, so I was "lucky" enough to have my mom randomly say to me, do you wanna go to a wwf event next month? I excitedly said of course!!! Imagine my surprise when I found out it was WrestleMania 11!!!

    • @romibodoni
      @romibodoni 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That was actually really sweet of your dad ❤

  • @Angieeee93
    @Angieeee93 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +112

    Fraser waited so long to bust out that solo and nailed it!

    • @wyattangle
      @wyattangle 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Right? And he nailed it! Needs to be on Broadway...or whatever the English version of that is. East End?

    • @lewsmith9708
      @lewsmith9708 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@wyattangleWest End

    • @SlendyPlaysGames
      @SlendyPlaysGames 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      hope the boys nominate his singing skills for the hall of fame on the podcast

    • @wyattangle
      @wyattangle 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@lewsmith9708 Oops, I was close. Wrong direction, lol

    • @fraserporter98
      @fraserporter98 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I’m a theatre kid really

  • @stuartmcmillan9004
    @stuartmcmillan9004 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Randy Savage should have won the 93 Rumble. Bret vs Savage with Bret going over would have been an excellent main event and would have done wonders for Bret.

  • @Kalel2.0
    @Kalel2.0 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

    Honestly it would've been cool if Macho Man won the Rumble and faced Bret instead in my opinion. I have to know tho who thought it was a good idea to saddle Taker with a guy who could barely move and this no offense to Gonzalez as he was apparently a sweetheart

    • @DYLANJJK94
      @DYLANJJK94 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Plus his knees were wrecked, that’s apparently why he quit basketball before getting into wrestling.

    • @Realistic316
      @Realistic316 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      it wasn’t about in-ring talent… it was just to sell the show… Undertaker vs a gigantic guy

    • @Mattyman1987
      @Mattyman1987 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@Realistic316 exactly. Workrate wasn't really a thing back then, especially in WWF.

    • @Realistic316
      @Realistic316 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@Mattyman1987 yea, Vince just wanted to sell tickets with larger than life characters.. either physically large and/or with charisma…. and i probably would’ve done the same

    • @mrg8581
      @mrg8581 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Rest in peace Giant Gonzalez

  • @diamondhead1984
    @diamondhead1984 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Hulk cashing in his money in the bank long before it was a thing.

  • @HeyItsAJOmega
    @HeyItsAJOmega 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Been marathoning this series recently, my favourite on the channel - what a treat to have a new upload!! Big ups Frasier 😁

    • @marybonner7432
      @marybonner7432 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I have been doing the same they're great videos

  • @glenndallas7171
    @glenndallas7171 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    "That ending was flat enough for Flip Gordon to live on." Absolutely savage and perfectly delivered.

  • @kristimccabe8288
    @kristimccabe8288 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    "If you look into the sky you can see Undertaker's vulture circling the event" ☠️😂

  • @newell0214
    @newell0214 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    However this is one of the most rewatchable ones. The venue and the atmosphere make it so much fun.

  • @willisapril
    @willisapril 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I had always heard the original plan was Bret would beat Yoko. That match would happen at the middle of the card and Last match of the card Hogan and Beefcake would beat Money Inc to win the belts and end the show. So WM9 would have ended with Hogan winning a belt anyway. But Hogan decided the tag belts were beneath him and wanted the WWF title again so Vince gave in to him.

    • @joee7452
      @joee7452 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      People always say it's Hogan. Be honest, it was Vince. Vince wanted the bigger draw back. The issue was that Hogan's draw was getting old. As great as Brett was, as great as Shawn was (in the ring), neither were going to draw like Hogan before them. Vince was looking for Hogan 80s draws back and at the time in the 90s, no one was going to be able to do it. That was just facts until the lightning strike that was Austin.

    • @daviddalrymple2284
      @daviddalrymple2284 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@joee7452 Yeah. Vince was clearly desperate at this time. Putting the belt back on Hogan was a big risk, for several reasons: Hogan's contract was up at the end of the year, he still had Hollywood ambitions, the steroid scandal was ongoing, and there was no guarantee that an aging Hogan would even be draw going forward.

    • @HeyItsAJOmega
      @HeyItsAJOmega 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@joee7452 Reminds me of a joke the OSW Review lads make when reviewing this show. 'Maybe it was just Vince being a mark, he's the real Hulkamaniac' xD

    • @joee7452
      @joee7452 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@HeyItsAJOmega I think he thought he knew best and since Hogan was his creation, that it was the best option at the time to get the numbers back up. This is Vince. If he thought he could fill an arena by getting crap dumped on himself, he would do it. I am sure he liked Hogan and Hulkamania, because it brought in large amounts of cash for him. I don't know of anyone that has said that Vince back then had anything less the both eyes on numbers and money.

    • @musicaladdiction4147
      @musicaladdiction4147 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joee7452 Yeah you’re definitely right it was Vince 100 percent he was actually pretty stupid and surrounded himself with yes men. Austin was the biggest thing to hit wwf/wwe but even that got old after 3-4 years and a lot of people forget there was well over a year between the famous 3.16 speech that is widely considered the birth of the stone cold era and him actually being the main man.
      It wasn’t Hulk Hogans draw it was just how lame his stuck in the 80s good guy character had become in the 90s.
      I didn’t watch wcw ever was always a wwf fan but turning him heel in 96 with the NWO before the stone cold shit really kicked off proved he was still a huge draw and a licence to print money.
      Hogan probably pulled in more money than Austin did in the NWO merchandise, plus it gave the industry a much needed boost in the short term it dragged it out of the past and I would go as far as to say it probably saved the business.
      WCW ripped every single cent from that angle and it killed the company because they couldn’t get past what was working in 96-97 in and just kept beating a dead horse when numbers dipped. Vince even tried to copy the idea of a hostile takeover of the company but much darker with the corporate ministry a good few years after WCW had a ring full with one stable of wrestlers and I’m convinced that higher power reveal was a course correction to disband the angle and bury it. Probably not a stroke of genius by Vince more watching what was going wrong in the opposition.

  • @DJDoubleCee
    @DJDoubleCee 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

    Yokozuna should have left the show as champion. I think him losing to Hogan like that hurt his momentum.

    • @Venemofthe888
      @Venemofthe888 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      I think Yokozuna having one continuous reign from wrestlemania to wrestlemania it would have made it a little more impactful especially running Hogan out of the company

    • @PlusUltraAdrian
      @PlusUltraAdrian 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Agreed.

    • @SakAttack87
      @SakAttack87 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I'll take WrestleMania 9 over WrestleMania 11 or 27 any day of the week.

    • @mentalphilanthropist35
      @mentalphilanthropist35 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@SakAttack87It is memorable, I can't tell you one thing about wm 27. Or 18, 31, 7, 13, 😂.

    • @Supreme_Rage
      @Supreme_Rage 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      ​@mentalphilanthropist35 so you don't remember Icon vs Icon, The Heist of the Century, or the Stone Cold Bret Hart double turn?

  • @LwandaMandla-eo3io
    @LwandaMandla-eo3io 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Fraser has good vocals. Watch out, Jack 😂

  • @johnepants
    @johnepants 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I think people forget that the Ceasers Palace outdoor arena was a major boxing event venue that held a lot of major prize fights in the 80’s and early 90’s, so while the venue itself was small and just a bunch of bleachers on a parking surface, it’s similar to Trump Plaza in the late 80’s where the venue was synonymous with major prize fight events

  • @joshparnell7755
    @joshparnell7755 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    "Vultaholic" made me chuckle far more than it had any right to.

  • @sventhiede6505
    @sventhiede6505 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    In Kayfabe the ending made even less sense since they made a whole show and dance about the contract signing between Bret and Yokozuna before, which was the first time that I had ever seen that at that point, and I had been a fan for about 5 years already at that time, so how could it be a legit title match if they didn't had a contract for it?
    They explained it away in WWF Magazine with Mr. Fuji using his Manager Powers (TM) to make that match count, which really didn't help matters anymore for me.

  • @faioladrums
    @faioladrums 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The Steiner Brothers vs The Headshrinkers is a hidden gem

  • @brianboese9884
    @brianboese9884 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I actually like this WrestleMania and don't think it's the worst. But that's mainly due to the nostalgia I have associated with it as well as the Roman Empire aesthetic. I think they nailed that part.
    I owned this on VHS back in the day and watched it several times. Along with WrestleMania 6 it was one of the first ppv's I had seen. It just brings back good memories. But with all of that being said, I can still take an objective look and see why this is considered the worst.

    • @DrSpoculus
      @DrSpoculus 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The show was good. Kids loved it. The adults loved it.
      People let backstage politics stories affect their view of the show.

    • @tinotica
      @tinotica 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It’s overhated. Not really that bad

    • @woobgamer5210
      @woobgamer5210 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@DrSpoculus except non-finishes kill matches
      and the undercard were mostly just, bleh.
      so you cant blame people who hate Hulk Hogan due to 'gimme the wwe belt brother' as... the rest of this show was just, very meh

    • @brianboese9884
      @brianboese9884 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think the first two wrestlemanias were worse. So is the one with Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler.

    • @DrSpoculus
      @DrSpoculus 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @woobgamer5210 in the time it was done, the show was awesome.
      It obviously doesn't hold weight compared to current ppvs, but for the time it was on par with everything else of the time.
      As a kid it was amazing. And that's who their audience was at the time. The audience loved it.
      You can go back and pick apart anything from 30 years ago. It's not hard.

  • @davidlandry3487
    @davidlandry3487 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Props to Frasier and Cultaholic for another great installment of the Worst Shows Ever series. For this edition, hindsight is 20/20. I remember watching this show as a teenager, live on Pay-Per-View, unfiltered from internet comment sections. While WrestleMania 9 may have lacked in modern wrestling storytelling, it made up for in aesthetics and memorable moments (for better or for worse). The Fed knew they were on the decline, and so they decided to think outside the box for WM9. Yes, there were some questionable endings and perhaps crazy Uncle Terry was being a crazy uncle throughout the whole Toga party, but if we look at the show from the context of being 1993 in a time when wrestling was at a downturn instead of from the perspective of looking back 30 years during a time when we have quality wrestling from half a dozen decent promotions, we can conclude that this WrestleMania, though not great, was unique and decent and did an adequate job of masking the troubles the Fed and the wrestling industry were facing at the time.

  • @simonpatonbass
    @simonpatonbass 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I hope I'm not the only one that wants them to do another event here with that backdrop
    Togas and all!

    • @HoV326
      @HoV326 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Closest we got was Royal Rumble 2006

  • @NeonSewer
    @NeonSewer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    "Orange Flaccidy" - bravo!

  • @christopherwiessner555
    @christopherwiessner555 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I loved your Christian and lionhearte joke. Just thought I’d let you know 😂 it was perfect pun work

  • @xIncisions
    @xIncisions 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    CAESAR'S PARKING LOT!
    An amazing insight into this one - I'll never tire of hearing how god-awful this Mania was. Nice one, fella ❤

  • @rockchalk966
    @rockchalk966 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    That doink mirror scene was iconic

  • @nickmoore5105
    @nickmoore5105 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This was the first wrestlemania I saw in live on tv. Would’ve been about 13 years old. I loved it!

    • @taltagteamchamps
      @taltagteamchamps 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not my first but I was also 13

    • @davidlandry3487
      @davidlandry3487 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This is cool. We're the same age, and this was also the first WrestleMania I saw live from home via PPV (I went to a friend's house to watch WM8 with him). I also loved it! I loved the Steiner Brothers, and I thought the Doink clone was the most fascinating thing ever.

    • @speedygonzaleslv5488
      @speedygonzaleslv5488 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was there that day I was 13 I got a free ticket from my uncle.

  • @colbypupgaming1962
    @colbypupgaming1962 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    "Orange Flaccidy" LMAO

  • @mikenahmias7102
    @mikenahmias7102 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've gone back and watched it on pure nostalgia. The early to mid nineties were nice times and this PPV brings me back.

  • @TinieFox123
    @TinieFox123 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I could binge-watch these and “weirdest shows” all day!

  • @RetroProg
    @RetroProg 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    If we all ignore Meltzer, will he go away? Should we care about the opinion of one hack mark so much?

  • @MartialArtsFilmFreak
    @MartialArtsFilmFreak 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    “Flat enough for Flip Gordon” is a great joke.

  • @_Pauper_
    @_Pauper_ 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    “feeding Christian to the Lionheart” bless ya Fraser (& writer)

    • @CONCERNEDcitizenforever
      @CONCERNEDcitizenforever 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi can you explain this reference please? Im assuming its a chris jericho pun?

  • @outlier2555
    @outlier2555 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Damn Frazier can sing! The Susan Boyle AGT reaction was perfect haha

  • @mspacely6521
    @mspacely6521 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Loving this series. Also love jacks weirdest shows videos when he isnt at the zoo.

  • @cr5cc
    @cr5cc 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    My first WrestleMania and in Las Vegas... Young me had the time of my life

    • @taltagteamchamps
      @taltagteamchamps 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is cool. The arena had a cool look to it

    • @primusvsunicron1
      @primusvsunicron1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      was there a ticket guy named Nick Khan?

  • @optimus2008
    @optimus2008 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Honestly, I feel Mania 2 is even worse than this show, but since I'm not a sadist, I don't want Fraser to meet his end by discussing a three venue waste of an event.

  • @markmccallum475
    @markmccallum475 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I have fond memories of watching this after school.

  • @PlatinumRoseLady
    @PlatinumRoseLady 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You have a very nice singing voice, Fraser! "Memory" is not an easy song to sing.
    Oh by the way, this show was sooooo lame.
    You do have to wonder how many wrestling fans developed coulrophobia thanks to Doink. At least I do.

  • @mycahjofficial
    @mycahjofficial 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    *Even though it’s no secret that Hulk Hogan has always been known for being an egotistical POS but having him swooping in and hogging up the spotlight from Bret at this very show was just absolutely inexcusable and just downright stupid. Hogan’s popularity at the time was slowly fading, and people were catering to Bret Hart at the time. It makes it even worse than it didn’t really had a good payoff afterwards because Hogan didn’t even defended the WWE title for the next few months only to lose it back to Yokozuna and then automatically just leaving the company later that year. This was such a waste of time.*

    • @primusvsunicron1
      @primusvsunicron1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      they literally cheered when Hogan beat Yoko

    • @DaveAndBeth1978
      @DaveAndBeth1978 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@primusvsunicron1 well, some did..... But compared to all four of his title wins prior to this, the response was fairly muted

  • @mjdf122
    @mjdf122 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Wrestlemania I-IX Hulkamania Is Running Wild

  • @coleconner13
    @coleconner13 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Literally thought about this yesterday, “wonder when Wrestlemania 9 is gonna come up on Cultaholic” good shit lads.

  • @majtechtings
    @majtechtings 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I'll never understand how mania 9 is on the top of folks worst lists like there isn't a whole ass mania 2 and mania 4 that aren't far greater dumpster fires.

    • @partypoppers1988
      @partypoppers1988 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@wwedestroysaew866If only...

    • @maxpower2511
      @maxpower2511 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      For me it was the ending and a lot of the matches seemed forced and had zero heat. You had whatever was left vs new blood coming in

    • @majtechtings
      @majtechtings 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@wwedestroysaew866 was it?

    • @majtechtings
      @majtechtings 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@maxpower2511 fair. I feel like the main thing that soured folks on 9 so hard was it was the beginning of bret getting screwed repeatedly by the company while jobbing out their top heel in the process.

    • @kevinlee9929
      @kevinlee9929 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't forget WM 11

  • @tcswag801
    @tcswag801 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    They blew it with the orginal Doink the clown . Could've been much bigger and utilized much better

    • @BiggieTrismegistus
      @BiggieTrismegistus 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Matt Bourne blew it by getting fired. He had drug problems and was generally a pretty unpleasant guy. I agree that the character was absolutely great though. I was 12 and thought a wrestling clown was going to be horrible but Bourne's twist on the evil clown _really_ worked well. I also remember being shocked at how good he was in the ring. I thought he was going to be a normal WWF lump (even at 12 I could tell that a lot of guys couldn't really wrestle) but he wasn't at all. It's sad it didn't work out because what Bourne did with the character in ECW (basically being driven insane because playing a wrestling clown had ruined his life) after he left the WWF would have fit right in with the way Raw started changing in 96 and 97.

  • @PhantomofDB
    @PhantomofDB 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You weren't even born when this show happened so you don't know what you're talking about. Hogan winning the title went over like crazy. Anything else is revisionist history

  • @scottaznavourian3720
    @scottaznavourian3720 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Shawn was counted out. Finkel annouces it...

  • @YaboiiB1gJ1uice
    @YaboiiB1gJ1uice 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Love this series. Love you Fraser.

  • @HEY_Angry
    @HEY_Angry 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ahh Caesars Palace in the ‘90s crazy. I remember Holyfield vs Bowe was stopped mid fight cause of a paraglider crashed on the ring apron.

  • @srmills6139
    @srmills6139 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've tried to find footage of the WrestleMania ix press conference but I can't find it anywhere.

  • @ENigma-um8zw
    @ENigma-um8zw 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was my favorite one to rent as a kid growing up in the early 90s (before the attitude era) I didn’t know about any of the politics going on, but this era reminds me of the Royal Rumble sega game and that game got me into wrestling proper. This will always have a special place in my heart - Thankfully I got to see a few Nitros and Raws in the mid to late 90s and one PPV (SummerSlam 99) so Im grateful I got to see a lot of legends. Thanks for covering this one!

  • @jack0slack
    @jack0slack 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Legit, I'm glad you pointed out how visually appealing this show was. Like for all its faults, the theming was top notch and I kind of wish WWE were more willing to do some silly theming for their shows.

  • @CodyFlood123
    @CodyFlood123 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    WrestleMania 2 is pretty bad, but it's uniquely bad for its production decisions. IX is definitely the most notorious for the Hogan booking interference.

    • @bigbillywillysgrandadventu7737
      @bigbillywillysgrandadventu7737 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Too goddamn gimmicky. That "Boxing" match between Piper and Mr. T made me want to blow my brains out.

  • @blkmamba31
    @blkmamba31 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hey hold up a second BROTHER! Hulk didn’t ruin WM9 with his 5 star match with Yokozuna! All the Hulkster did that night at WM9, was come save Bret from Yokozuna, finish the job Bret couldn’t, and took the belt back. Leaving thousands of Hulkamaniacs screaming and going home happy that night. You’d think Bret would be grateful. But no! Instead, years later… The Hulkster goes out, gives it his best effort, puts on the squash match of the century beating sting, clean in the middle of the ring 1, 2, 3 at Starcade 97. Then in slides Good ole “it’s still real to me” Bret Hart to get his “revenge” against Hogan for WM 9, and help Sting cheat Hulk out of his title. Bret’s one sick individual

  • @dhenderson1810
    @dhenderson1810 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The arena looked brilliant though.

  • @corneliussmiff2773
    @corneliussmiff2773 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    To 9 year old me, this was the coolest thing ever. I was into wrestling big time, but getting any sort of wrestling was difficult. I remember my neighbours cousin had Sky and bought the VHS recording around for us to watch. It was sooo awesome!

  • @TheHenro87
    @TheHenro87 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You can really sing bro!!! Nice

  • @Nick-1990
    @Nick-1990 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Honestly WM9 is one of my all time favorites and the first one I saw on ppv

  • @CameronOfDune
    @CameronOfDune 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wrestlemania 9 is the first Wrestlemania that I ever watched, and I still enjoy it to this day.

  • @theunknownstuntman4010
    @theunknownstuntman4010 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Go on then, destroy my childhood lol

  • @jeffsnyder979
    @jeffsnyder979 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My first PPV as a 10 yo was Royal Rumble 94, followed by Wrestlemania X. Probably that same year I was given a copy of Wrestlemania IX on Coliseum Video and I absolutely loved it! My 10 year old self loved all the over the top gimmicks and matches, things that people hate about it. I could equate it to video games. At the time I had an NES or maybe a Genesis. Some friends and relatives still had Atari and I could appreciate it knowing that its legacy led games to where they were at the time, even though the games were more primitive and not as fun to me. Wrestlemania IX was sort of like that. It was nice to see wrestlers who were no longer in the WWF, such as Giant Gonzales, Mr. Perfect and Brutus Beefcake. It was also cool to see some of the former gimmicks of “the narcissist” Lex Luger, “evil” Doink and “Kona” Crush. Like Atari 2600, I can appreciate WM IX’s place in history.

  • @dannygonzales3331
    @dannygonzales3331 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I hate myself for laughing at “they could’ve thrown Christian to the Lion(heart)” 😂😂😂

  • @OomaGooma
    @OomaGooma 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    RIP Sherri Martel and Luna Vachon.

  • @jondiblasi700
    @jondiblasi700 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    1,2 & 4 were worse. The first 2 matches were good at this WM

  • @brendansings
    @brendansings 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was 10 years old and it was perfect for someone my age. There was a freakishly tall guy who made the Undertaker look tiny, Hogan returned and gave the crowd "real" money from The Million Dollar Man's briefcase, Yokozuna was a legit monster heel and you had Jim Ross AND Bobby Heenan on commentary.
    All this to say that for 10 year old me, Wrestlemania 9 was great, I will die on this hill.

  • @coultergaske1999
    @coultergaske1999 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Please TNA Victory Road 2009 for this series

  • @HellhammerSS
    @HellhammerSS 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Ill take 9 over that no audience mania

  • @Sumiii__san
    @Sumiii__san 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hogan was an egoistic wrestler who just want title on his waist , he didn't cared for anyone's career....

  • @geeshep4836
    @geeshep4836 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hogan Playing His Creative Control Card As Always.

  • @Bats-7
    @Bats-7 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I’m so glad I was 7 years old & didn’t know any better , I thought WM9 & Hogan winning the belt was amazing at the time 😂👊

    • @RetroTube1982
      @RetroTube1982 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah I was a kid and wasn't really sold on Bret. To see Hogan as the champion again, I loved it!

    • @taltagteamchamps
      @taltagteamchamps 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was the opposite. I was so happy when yokozuna won the title. Then so pissed Hogan then won it . At 13 I was a fan of yokozuna

    • @johnepants
      @johnepants 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was 8 and felt the same. I was happy at the end, but the overall show still left a bad taste in my mouth with all the crap finishes. Things got worse as hogan never even properly showed up as champion only to drop the title at King of the Ring

    • @BiggieTrismegistus
      @BiggieTrismegistus 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was 12 and was also happy because I didn't know much about Bret Hart at the time. A few years later I became a Bret Hart guy and it really started to annoy me. Decades later it _really_ annoys me and that Hogan never put Bret over makes it even worse.

  • @k1productions87
    @k1productions87 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I still judge WM XI as worse than IX

  • @bernhardwall6876
    @bernhardwall6876 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The four showgirls accompanying Luger to the ring was the highlight of the event.

  • @PedroBenolielBonito
    @PedroBenolielBonito 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    8:12
    DOINK, BRAH!
    MAKIN' KIDS CRY, BRAH!

    • @LukeyDoesLife
      @LukeyDoesLife 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Our little nod to our fav Irish lads 😉

  • @KizzMyAbs
    @KizzMyAbs 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    1 & 2 were WAAAYYY WORSE

  • @andrewstrom8157
    @andrewstrom8157 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think Mania 27 is my least favorite... but 9 is a close second. Easily the worst of the first couple decades of the show.

  • @PlayDHDGaming
    @PlayDHDGaming 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I'm gonna honestly disagree with everyones opinion, take away the ending and the Taker/Giant match, its honestly one of my favourite Manias and i've been watching the product since 1989. Theres something awfully good about it with it being one of the last Manias with the cartoon type stuff, go watch it with a positive mindset and you'll see it really aint that bad. Its all BS laid out by anyone who wants an easy target. Theres actually alot of Manias from recent decades much worse than this but hey, just my opinion.

  • @brutefarce1593
    @brutefarce1593 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yep, IX is bad... really bad. ("Hogan Knows Best?" Not by a long shot... old news, but what a greedy egomaniac!) Thanks for the entertaining revue and that burst of singing... you sound great!

  • @phillsmith9255
    @phillsmith9255 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I do think it interseting when people who started watching wrestling in the 2000's pass comment on events that occurred years prior. Classing a 39 year old Hulk Hogan as a has been show a lack of understanding, clearly he wasn't as over as in 87, but the product was down in general and as stated earlier in the vid, a lot of the big stars were gone, Savage was on commentary as Vince thought he was done as a wrestler. Bret, however great a wrestler he was, had been a tag team wrestler for years and a mid to high card singles competitor, not the star he would become in a few years. Understandably Vince decided to put thd belt on the biggest name he had, yes the creative was terrible but it was accross the whole product and basically stayed the same was for the next few years. I strted watching WWF in 87 as an 8 year old, I could see by 93 that it wasn't the same wwf as a few years prior. With better creative something better could of occurred. Also without being there to watch the product, you wouldn't be able to grasp how over Hogan was the 80's, the only person to come close was the Ultimate Warrior for a couple of years and then Stone Cold Steve Austin, no one else came close.

    • @rickybobby38
      @rickybobby38 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well said, thanks for saving me time by having literally the same take on this I have.
      Was it cringe/kitschy as heck, sure yeah, guess what ... So was a lot of th WWF stuff in th golden era prior to this Mania & what eventually grew into the Attitude era after this Mania.
      I remember being bummed out that the Kamala match got scrapped, honestly that could've replaced the Razor/Backlund bout & it would've made more sense (Kamala being something of a exotic oddity, harkens back to the gladiator battles in the Colosseum very nicely)

    • @BiggieTrismegistus
      @BiggieTrismegistus 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When I was 12 I thought Hogan winning the watch was great. I hated it couple of years later when I realized how great Bret Hart was. If they wanted Hogan to win the belt at the end of the show they could have at least done him and Bret.

  • @mattpendell1369
    @mattpendell1369 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I bought this on VHS as a kid due to the novelty of an outdoor event. Then I found out it was in a car park, then I wished I was watching an actual car park for 3 hours.

  • @anointed6386
    @anointed6386 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Say what you want about WM 9, but the set design was iconic

  • @musicaladdiction4147
    @musicaladdiction4147 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Steiner brothers were so far ahead of the game and that bump might have been responsible for what se got from Scott

  • @jamessteel9016
    @jamessteel9016 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    WM 11 was worse.

    • @andycain4351
      @andycain4351 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I came to the comments to say that as well 👍

    • @taltagteamchamps
      @taltagteamchamps 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I agree but I will admit at least Bam Bam made the feud believable with Lawrence. Even if it was a bad match. I did like the team of yokozuna and Owen too

    • @SpaceGhost92
      @SpaceGhost92 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      11 at least Diesel and Hbk, that was a very good match and should have main evented

    • @jtp2007
      @jtp2007 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      no, no it was not worse. Diesel/HBK was very good and even though not the best main, Bam Bam got a lot out of LT and that match is actually not that bad considering it featured a non wrestler. The Tag matches at WM 11 were also at least decent. WM 9 only had the HBK/Tatanka and Steiners/Headshrinkers as maybe the only good matches.

    • @christianjc8973
      @christianjc8973 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I was at WM 11. It was a pretty terrible show.

  • @henrikschmidt3964
    @henrikschmidt3964 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is in no way a great Wrestlemania, I still think XI was a lot worse.

  • @Hochdorff
    @Hochdorff 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I loved Wrestlemania IX as a kid and the payoff when Bret finally defeated Yoko a year later was so good.

  • @daveskimming6379
    @daveskimming6379 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If we'd have have Jannetty vs Michaels, Hogan didn't screw everyone and Tatanka maybe got out in with Razor I reckon opinion would have been different. Undertaker match agree was dreadful

  • @TheErsu
    @TheErsu 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In 1993 I was 9 and sold on just about everything WWF. I thought The Undertaker was invincible and the Giant Gonzales' wasperfectly acceptable. I was pretty happy that Hulk Hogan beat Yokozuna because I had been too young to see the golden era.

  • @freaksh0560
    @freaksh0560 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The main event of Wrestlemania IX is like what happened at DoN 2023 with the end of Cargill’s Streak

  • @jamesbonnen
    @jamesbonnen 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:11 From1989- 1994 It was common for WWE pay per view to have 2 main events. One before the intermission and one at the end

  • @richardwmgauthier
    @richardwmgauthier 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No way! This is not the worst by far. 11 and 4 are way worse.

  • @jamesbonnen
    @jamesbonnen 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    7:08 The feud was used to sell house shows with Gonzales vs Untertaker as the main event

  • @211Serum
    @211Serum 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice, now do Wrestlemania 4. It’s got a cagematch rating of 3.92.

    • @BiggieTrismegistus
      @BiggieTrismegistus 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      4 is even worse than 9. Even as a 7 year old I thought that show SUUUUUCKED.

  • @roaming.spectre.
    @roaming.spectre. 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bret vs Randy and undertaker vs razor could have saved this… to be fair the intro with heenan on the camel was pretty funny to see, and seeing heenan getting a huge pop from the crowd was nice

  • @LeonDOro-i6r
    @LeonDOro-i6r 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hulk Hogan winning the WWF title was awesome. the crowd got a very big surprise that day. something they had no idea would happen. the crowd left WrestleMania 9 happy. also, PPV buy rates for WrestleMania 9 were down regarding previous WrestleMania PPVs but buy rates for 9 were higher than 10, 11, 12 & 13. also, most critics claiming 9 is the worst. their reasons are extremely weak. especially criticising the toga theme and gimmicks like The Narcissist. which is dumb because we probably wouldn't have seen those beautiful women again. especially the blonde with the curly hair. it's in Las Vegas. this is what most shows looked like in Las Vegas back then regarding the circus, casinos and many more. the only bad matchups at 9 are Razor Ramon Vs. Bob Backlund & Undertaker Vs. Giant Gonzalez. the rest of the show was excellent

  • @kristoferscott3677
    @kristoferscott3677 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You have to remember that most heavyweight heel champions were expected to lose at Wrestlemania in that era. It wasn't until a couple of years later that a heel could keep the heavyweight championship after Wrestlemania.

    • @romibodoni
      @romibodoni 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      BUT
      NOT
      LIKE
      THAT

  • @moopert86
    @moopert86 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I feel old. This was the first Wrestlemania I watched live on PPV. Me and my sister were over the moon at Hogan leaving with the title, though that enthusiasm has understandably faded over the years. We were 6 and 8 years old at the time, forgive us.

  • @ant4158
    @ant4158 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The main event falls victim to Hulk Hogan's "THAT'S NOT GONNA WORK FOR ME BROTHA!!!"

  • @andrewsgray
    @andrewsgray 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Too much nostalgia to hate WM9 as much as it should be as it was the first ppv i got to watch live at stupid o'clock as we'd only recently got Sky

  • @lwepicfed
    @lwepicfed 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Really really really hot take, Bret vs Yokozuna was really good, just forgotten about and disrespected because of Hulk Hogan vs Yokozuna

  • @aidanlynn
    @aidanlynn 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wrestlemania 11 is worse.

  • @mrg8581
    @mrg8581 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yokozuna pinning Bret was far worse than Hogan pinning Yokozuna.

  • @meridaanderson644
    @meridaanderson644 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This Wrestlemania was so bad and the Hogan ending pissed me off so much, I stopped ordering WWF/WWE pay per views

  • @scpjack7856
    @scpjack7856 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Every retrospective of WrestleMania 9 makes me think a different thing.
    This one made me think “Backlund vs Razor happened too early”. Cool babyface Razor VS insane ”you’re corrupting our youth” heel Backlund would have been one of the best feuds of 1994.

  • @mrmusickhimself
    @mrmusickhimself 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Even as a kid, I HATED Hulk suddenly swooping in for the victory. I was only 8 years old, and I was already sick of watching Hogan do 10 minute celebration taunt cycles as it faded to black - music still blaring.

  • @waqaskaash7319
    @waqaskaash7319 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Watched this ppv live on Sky Sports 1 in 1993 those days.