Bit of trivia for you; Big Sky was Tyler Mane, who went on to play Sabretooth in the first X-Men movie and then Michael Myers in the Rob Zombie Halloween movies.
Brian Zane reviewed souled out 2000 the other day and talked about that superfly splash and diving headbutt off the cage, and said " what a beautiful moment between two murderers". I pissed myself laughing at that one.
Bockwinkel at 58, and mostly retired (then finally retired)? Amazing, at any age! He should be on the Mount Rushmore of professional wrestling history!
My father used to jokingly say he wanted to see Duane Gill win a match, because Duane was always squashed. The night Duane Gill won the light heavyweight title, I came out of my room, from where I had been watching Raw, and told my father, not only had Duane Gill won a match, he was now a champion, my father's response was, "I don't believe it." 😂
Yeah. I remember when he showed up wrapped in barbed wire to challenge Bam Bam Bigelow one week on Nitro, and the next week he was Raven's clean-cut country club best friend. (Or was it the other way around?) Typical 1997-1998 WCW: they'd sign whoever they could, and have no clear idea how to use them.
@@daviddalrymple2284 It was the other way around (I've been watching through WWF/WCW/ECW from the late 90s of late) - Sandman turned up initially as Raven's posh brother Jim I think but that was quietly abandoned and he turned up a few months later, now called Hak and, as you mentioned, wrapped in barbed wire. WCW being WCW there was no attempt made to explain this.
He was actually pretty solid in his time there. He seemed motivated and got his garbage brawling style over every time he went out. The booking just wasn’t great and he didn’t stay long.
8:14 Fun fact: if the name "Big Sky" doesn't ring a bell, then you may remember him from his acting roles as Sabretooth in the first X-Men movie and Michael Myers in Rob Zombie's pair of Halloween movies.
Whoa, never thought I'd hear Ilio DiPaolo's name in a Cultaholic video, he's a local legend here! Good on WCW for lending the talent for his memorial shows here in Buffalo!
Heh, Terry Funk name-dropped the WWF twice while introducing Tito Santana _and seemingly did not catch heat_ because of that. Then again, a WCW Magazine on early 2000 did put over Mick Foley's first book.
Manabu Nakanishi (aka Kurosawa), one of the strongest and clumsiest wrestlers ever from Japan, was given an opportunity to wrestle in WCW as a part of the NJPW-WCW partnership. It was also a big plan for NJPW to make Nakanishi as popular as Keiji Mutoh. But Kurosawa injured his opponent right away and nobody wanted to take on him. WCW did not fire him because of the deal with NJPW though. Kurosawa enjoyed his sightseeing in the US and quietly went back to Japan. Masahiro Chono recalled, "When WCW wrestlers came to me and complained about Nakanishi, I was re-assured he was indeed talentless."
Didn't Adam "Edge" Copeland have a one off match with WCW too. I specifically remembered this because it was on one of the many VHS tapes I had recorded & my uncle also remembers it too, but, it's nowhere to be found in mentioning or video anywhere... 🤔
Billy Gunn had two matches in WCW in early 1989 as Kip Montana. He faced the Road Warriors and the next week, he faced Lex Luger in squashes. Wasn't seen again, resurfacing in 1993 WWF
Some other WCW one-timers: Akira Nogami (wrestled in the first round of the NWA tag team tournament in 1992 but got injured and replaced by Shinya Hashimoto at GAB'92, Hashimoto himself only had 2 matches in WCW) The Grappler Len Denton (jobbed to Goldberg on a Nitro in 1998) Thunderbolt Patterson (wrestled at Slamboree '93).
Lanny Poffo and Mikey Whipwreck had only one match in WCW, but that was because creative didn’t know what to do with them. Nice work if you can get it.
6:04 I remember loving Duke Drosse and hearing around that time he was going to be in the NWO. Would’ve worked. He was a big guy like Bryan Clark and Bryan Adams.
National Wrestling Alliance/Mid-Atlantic/Mid-South/Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling are all the same generational speaking I’ve been blessed to see all from 1980-Now so many of these wrestlers have wrestled more than once
@@attiepollard7847 Lanny Poffo is probably the most famous one, i think there were 2-3 other guys I heard about, but there are probably not 10 in total. Probably 5 or less at most, if you don't count Power Plant guys.
I think I'm thinking the same thing but I think I'm getting those confused with his other independent wrestling matches that almost looks like a WCW match
What about George the Animal Steele (don't tell me that he wrestled more than one match for WCW)? Because I look back & I don't see him wrestling for WCW in it's prime or during it's demise until the year 2000. When he faced off against Jeff Jarrett. Only having one WCW match as he was a WWF guy & past wrestler who made a brief comeback as one of the human oddities (before disbanding & being released in 1998). As he showed up for one WCW match in 2000.
In a very roundabout way. Actually come to think of it, didn't Vince buy GCW and cause Black Tuesday? Then WTBS brought in JCP because fans were outraged and Vince ended up selling the timeslot to JCP? So technically GCW never merged into what became WCW but became a footnote in WWF's run on the territories.
Don Muraco Wrestled in the Old Georgia Championship Wrestling which Evolved into NWA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING, So it was kind of a Long Term Return with a Different Company but same group technically!! Same was true with Tito Santana!!
0:52 they flash the three logos in a row and they edited the WWF old-school logo on challenge and superstars, but they kept the old school logo on raw? Why not either keep them all or remove them all?
Probably based on when the footage was put on the WWE Network, The World Wildlife Fund lawsuit originally banned the WWF logo and name from being used in archival footage, but they later made a new agreement that allowed the WWF logo and name to be used in archival footage.
Great video, though the jab at Jim Brunzell was not accurate. He was a perennial power in the AWA and very successful in the wwf even if he didn’t win a title. When Ric Flair went there in 1991, he specifically requested to work with Jim Brunzell because he knew how good he was in the ring.
Only WCW could look at multiple 6'9"+, 300+ pound guys, and think "Naw, nope, nothing we can do with any of these guys. There's no spot for a giant muscly guy here. We'll pass." Amazing that they never once thought "Why don't we just book this guy as a big giant dude who just destroys all of his opponents?"
Too bad Glenn Jacobs didn't comeback to WCW from USWA to be the Christmas Creature (that would have been worse than the Yeti, but maybe Vince Russo or Ed Ferrarra could have made the Christmas Creature the WCW World Heavyweight Champion with those wacky & stupid ass storylines that helped ruin WCW further into oblivion)?
Why does every bash Duke the Dumpster? It's not like he was bad in the ring🤷♂️. He went from number 500 in pw illustrated to being on national TV. It just comes across as bitterness going after him
SUPER DRAGON! *clap**clap* *clap**clap**clap* SUPER DRAGON! *clap**clap* *clap**clap**clap* SUPER DRAGON! *clap**clap* *clap**clap**clap* SUPER DRAGON! *clap**clap* *clap**clap**clap* SUPER DRAGON! *clap**clap* *clap**clap**clap*
While ECW was the land of misfits, WCW was the land of misses. Want to watch pro wrestling with no angles ever coming to fruition? Turn on WCW. Though it was still badass during those 83 weeks Eric Bischoff refuses to let the world forget about
Bit of trivia for you; Big Sky was Tyler Mane, who went on to play Sabretooth in the first X-Men movie and then Michael Myers in the Rob Zombie Halloween movies.
RIP
@@sstrykert He's not dead.
@@TheThird1977Michael Myers is..
@@radioVHS149 Is he though; like reaaaaaaaaaly dead? Like DEAD dead?
He'll be back.
And Ruffas Firefly in The Devils Rejects.
“The Big Simply Red Machine” is a stone cold banger of a joke. Beautiful.
My main takeaway is that Gillberg is undefeated in WCW.
Does that make Goldberg the ripoff?
A win is a win.
Soooooooo....Gillberg should've been the one to say "Who's next?!"?
Unlike that jobber Goldberg
@@jordangoldenstateenglisha win is a win but it is not a winning streak.
Brian Zane reviewed souled out 2000 the other day and talked about that superfly splash and diving headbutt off the cage, and said " what a beautiful moment between two murderers". I pissed myself laughing at that one.
Me to buddy funny as fk
I was actually going to say that too, and Tito Santana being in that Nitro Gauntlet.
It was the best part of the video 😂
He also said it was the diving headbutt that concussed Double J, NOT the Superfly Splash.
❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉😅😊😂
@1:30 that's a Trivia if you know one. Hugh Morris was the only opponent of the future Gillberg in WCW and the first opponent of the future Goldberg.
Bockwinkel at 58, and mostly retired (then finally retired)? Amazing, at any age! He should be on the Mount Rushmore of professional wrestling history!
My father used to jokingly say he wanted to see Duane Gill win a match, because Duane was always squashed. The night Duane Gill won the light heavyweight title, I came out of my room, from where I had been watching Raw, and told my father, not only had Duane Gill won a match, he was now a champion, my father's response was, "I don't believe it." 😂
That’s hysterical
😂😂😂
It still blows my mind to remember that The Sandman had a run in WCW for a while.
Yeah. I remember when he showed up wrapped in barbed wire to challenge Bam Bam Bigelow one week on Nitro, and the next week he was Raven's clean-cut country club best friend. (Or was it the other way around?)
Typical 1997-1998 WCW: they'd sign whoever they could, and have no clear idea how to use them.
@@daviddalrymple2284 It was the other way around (I've been watching through WWF/WCW/ECW from the late 90s of late) - Sandman turned up initially as Raven's posh brother Jim I think but that was quietly abandoned and he turned up a few months later, now called Hak and, as you mentioned, wrapped in barbed wire. WCW being WCW there was no attempt made to explain this.
I think the bigger shocker was he got a WCW action figure in.
He was actually pretty solid in his time there. He seemed motivated and got his garbage brawling style over every time he went out. The booking just wasn’t great and he didn’t stay long.
Owned the Hardcore Hack figure,think it might be in a box in the closet,who knows.
The narrator joked about a wrestler going by the name of "Dick Hertz", but ECW actually had one under that name back in the day.
8:14 Fun fact: if the name "Big Sky" doesn't ring a bell, then you may remember him from his acting roles as Sabretooth in the first X-Men movie and Michael Myers in Rob Zombie's pair of Halloween movies.
3 days in a row with lists? Just churning them out now!
Whoa, never thought I'd hear Ilio DiPaolo's name in a Cultaholic video, he's a local legend here! Good on WCW for lending the talent for his memorial shows here in Buffalo!
I remember when he was killed. If I recall, struck by a car
buffalo is a shithole
Heh, Terry Funk name-dropped the WWF twice while introducing Tito Santana _and seemingly did not catch heat_ because of that.
Then again, a WCW Magazine on early 2000 did put over Mick Foley's first book.
Funk could pretty much do anything . 🐐
Are you gonna tell a guy who would take a kick from a horse, threaten to kick its ass, and keep working what to say?
Best thing about wcw?
Nobody pooping on people.
Manabu Nakanishi (aka Kurosawa), one of the strongest and clumsiest wrestlers ever from Japan, was given an opportunity to wrestle in WCW as a part of the NJPW-WCW partnership. It was also a big plan for NJPW to make Nakanishi as popular as Keiji Mutoh. But Kurosawa injured his opponent right away and nobody wanted to take on him. WCW did not fire him because of the deal with NJPW though. Kurosawa enjoyed his sightseeing in the US and quietly went back to Japan. Masahiro Chono recalled, "When WCW wrestlers came to me and complained about Nakanishi, I was re-assured he was indeed talentless."
Nailz had a one off too as The Prisoner. They even said he was from Milwaukee the place where he attacked Vince Mcmahon
Hadn’t he been there in 89-90 under his actual name
Green Bay is where Kevin Kelly Walcholz ( Nailz ) had the dust up with Vince.
@danburnette7674 Oh snap you're correct, I don't why I kept thinking Milwaukee. Same state few miles off there.
So Gillberg was undefeated in WCW? Doesn't that mean Goldberg is the copycat?
A single victory does not make a winning streak...
Looking up a couple of these matches, it lead me to the interesting fact that Gene Okerlund had two matches in WCW, and only one in WWE.
How about wrestlers who competed in only *ONE* Wrestlemania match? That'll be an interesting video.
Ultimo Dragon
Michael Cole?
@hohnjogan Unbeaten too, damn.
Monty Brown
Owen Hart also wrestled once for WCW. He teamed with Brian Pillman against Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes at a house show on March 16, 1991.
There is a few wcw/nwa Saturday night matches that Owen hart had
And Jim Brunzell was there, too! Great line!
Jim Brunzell is massively underrated. His dropkick was the best in the business.
Little known fact. WCW signed Lanny Poffo when they signed Randy savage, but they never used him.
Quite a known fact really.
Definitely need a video covering those who WCW dropped the ball on and became stars...
Didn't Adam "Edge" Copeland have a one off match with WCW too. I specifically remembered this because it was on one of the many VHS tapes I had recorded & my uncle also remembers it too, but, it's nowhere to be found in mentioning or video anywhere... 🤔
So you're telling me that Goldberg and Gillberg defeated the same guy in their WCW debuts? 😂😂
Goldbergs debut was against Sergeant Buddy Lee Parker.
Billy Gunn had two matches in WCW in early 1989 as Kip Montana. He faced the Road Warriors and the next week, he faced Lex Luger in squashes. Wasn't seen again, resurfacing in 1993 WWF
"A jacked up Mick Hucknall". So right on the money - made my day 🤣🤣
Fun fact Big Sky is also known as Tyler Mane, the actor who played Michael Myers in Rob Zombies Halloween movies.
Sabretooth in 2000's X-Men. Tyler Mane was also in a low budget movie with Booker T and DDP called Penance Lane.
Didn't mention Adam Copeland aka Edge who wrestled one match in WCW as Damon Striker losing to Meng
He wrestled Kevin Sullivan there too. He had two matches.
Edge was Sexton Hardcastle in WCW for a cup of coffee
Blitzkrieg was awesome... I only recognize 1 Rock in wrasslin, Ole Anderson...
Some other WCW one-timers:
Akira Nogami (wrestled in the first round of the NWA tag team tournament in 1992 but got injured and replaced by Shinya Hashimoto at GAB'92, Hashimoto himself only had 2 matches in WCW)
The Grappler Len Denton (jobbed to Goldberg on a Nitro in 1998)
Thunderbolt Patterson (wrestled at Slamboree '93).
Always wanted to know where the Bruiser Mastino name was from because I remember both Glen Jacobs and Mike "Mantaur" Halec used the name.
Tito Santana is underrated and blitzkrieg was awesome
Blitzkrieg was! Wish I taped more of his matches.
Lanny Poffo and Mikey Whipwreck had only one match in WCW, but that was because creative didn’t know what to do with them. Nice work if you can get it.
I didn't realize Lanny Poffo had any WCW matches. I thought Mach said sign my brother and they went okay and let him sit for a year.
One thing you can say about Bruiser Mastino, he's HUGE, whoever he is!
Probably WWE Kane!
6:04 I remember loving Duke Drosse and hearing around that time he was going to be in the NWO. Would’ve worked. He was a big guy like Bryan Clark and Bryan Adams.
I never knew Chico Santana wrestled for WCW!
That's Tito Jess
@@jonsmith1462- is he one of those Texicans?
@@jonsmith1462 “that’s what I said,Chico!”
@@charlesgreen8703some idiotas don't get it. Lol 😂
So technically gillberg has the more impressive undefeated streak guy never lost
They should have had Vincent Young and Steven Casey in here!!!!😂❤😊
National Wrestling Alliance/Mid-Atlantic/Mid-South/Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling are all the same generational speaking I’ve been blessed to see all from 1980-Now so many of these wrestlers have wrestled more than once
11:30 You accept being called "Bruiser" when money's too tight to mention.
You left out Tully Blanchard. Technically his only WCW match was against Terry Funk at _Slamboree '94..._
I would just like to point out that Goldberg isn't undefeated in WCW but Gillberg is.
Now do 10 wrestlers who had WCW contracts and never wrestled once.
Very interesting can you name a few of those?
@JaxPillow-qf3vm what year was he in WCW?
@@attiepollard7847 Lanny Poffo is probably the most famous one, i think there were 2-3 other guys I heard about, but there are probably not 10 in total. Probably 5 or less at most, if you don't count Power Plant guys.
Wish I Watched WCW During The 1990's It'd be better than watching TNA during the 2000's and I loved TNA on Spike TV
Early 90's WCW was incredible back in the day. Really enjoyed the shows back then
Superdragon can be made in WWE RAW 2 and the first few SMACKDOWN VS RAW 2k games. Duke did the gimmick royal rumble though
The extremist looking for work in march 2001 line is craaazy
Whenever I remember Tito Santana, I always hear Vince McMahon screaming ‘TITO SANTANA’!
Never knew of any of these matches... Good research
Who else could make one time wrestling outings sound so entertaining?
I thought Tito Santana worked more than one match with WCW as I could have sworn he was in a 6 man tag match at some point in the mid 90's
I think I'm thinking the same thing but I think I'm getting those confused with his other independent wrestling matches that almost looks like a WCW match
He was in AAA When Worlds Collide which WCW had a hand in promoting but it wasn't an actual WCW event.
What about Nailz? ? he was at WCW slamboree against Sting.
The convict lol. I remember that
Ted Turner's takeover of Jim Crockett Promotions was the best thing that ever happened to WWE
*PLOT TWIST* ..... Goldberg was the GILLBERG Knock off!!!
What about George the Animal Steele (don't tell me that he wrestled more than one match for WCW)? Because I look back & I don't see him wrestling for WCW in it's prime or during it's demise until the year 2000. When he faced off against Jeff Jarrett. Only having one WCW match as he was a WWF guy & past wrestler who made a brief comeback as one of the human oddities (before disbanding & being released in 1998). As he showed up for one WCW match in 2000.
This isn’t necessarily true about Muraco. Don Muraco was a star on GCW. Which everyone knows is what WCW becomes
In a very roundabout way. Actually come to think of it, didn't Vince buy GCW and cause Black Tuesday? Then WTBS brought in JCP because fans were outraged and Vince ended up selling the timeslot to JCP? So technically GCW never merged into what became WCW but became a footnote in WWF's run on the territories.
duane gill
nick bockwinkel
don muraco
super dragon
duke droese
tito santana
taz
kash
joe malenko
bruiser mastino (kane)
I loved Tito Santana
good video
Don Muraco Wrestled in the Old Georgia Championship Wrestling which Evolved into NWA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING, So it was kind of a Long Term Return with a Different Company but same group technically!! Same was true with Tito Santana!!
Remember Owen Hart also had a couple of matches in WCW sometime during 1990!
Did they referenced him as Bret's brother?
@@radioVHS149 I don't think they ever mentioned it if I recall
0:52 they flash the three logos in a row and they edited the WWF old-school logo on challenge and superstars, but they kept the old school logo on raw? Why not either keep them all or remove them all?
Probably based on when the footage was put on the WWE Network, The World Wildlife Fund lawsuit originally banned the WWF logo and name from being used in archival footage, but they later made a new agreement that allowed the WWF logo and name to be used in archival footage.
World Wrestling Federation was not censored back then but the initials were.
Great video, though the jab at Jim Brunzell was not accurate. He was a perennial power in the AWA and very successful in the wwf even if he didn’t win a title. When Ric Flair went there in 1991, he specifically requested to work with Jim Brunzell because he knew how good he was in the ring.
2:22 It almost sounds like you’re saying AEW, not AWA there and for a moment I was offended until I rolled the video back, lol
I think he did say that but his mind maybe did not register the mistake
Video suggestions: 10 WWE Wrestlers Who Never Had a Bad Match against one another.
Only WCW could look at multiple 6'9"+, 300+ pound guys, and think "Naw, nope, nothing we can do with any of these guys. There's no spot for a giant muscly guy here. We'll pass." Amazing that they never once thought "Why don't we just book this guy as a big giant dude who just destroys all of his opponents?"
Big Sky went on to be Sabretooth among other things
Thanks 🎉
so Dwyane Gill is still undefeated in WCW 1-0.
Damn, I can't believe we missed out on Super Dragon in WCW. Would have been sweet.
Not really
I wish I still had that Rudos shirt...
How did they both screw up Kane for so long? He was an agile big man. Looked legit too. That blows my mind.
Lmao at "Jimmy Snooker"
Dory Funk Jr was only 51!!???????
This is pretty interesting.
He squared off against "Snooker"!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Too bad Glenn Jacobs didn't comeback to WCW from USWA to be the Christmas Creature (that would have been worse than the Yeti, but maybe Vince Russo or Ed Ferrarra could have made the Christmas Creature the WCW World Heavyweight Champion with those wacky & stupid ass storylines that helped ruin WCW further into oblivion)?
So Gillberg is undefeated in wcw
Reminds me of all the 'game changers' AEW signed in last 2 years
I didnt even know Kane wrestled in wcw using his real name which is Glen Jacobs
Also Tony Pena ( aka villiano IV)
Why does every bash Duke the Dumpster? It's not like he was bad in the ring🤷♂️. He went from number 500 in pw illustrated to being on national TV. It just comes across as bitterness going after him
who is the guy int he middle at 0;32?
Joe Malenko.
Simply Red reference detected
How about this one... David Samartino. Had one match on Nitro then never saw him again
They had him before that in the early 90’s briefly.
Al Snow & Val Venis had dark matches. I believe in 1999
Oh there was Missy. She was so hot 🔥
First one and this is instantly wrong, Gillberg had a match against Chris Jericho, which started the Jericho vs Goldberg rivalry
The fake Goldberg at Fall Brawl '98 was definitely not Duane Gill.
That is not true about Gillberg. He also "wrestled" a match against Chris Jericho at Fall Brawl 1998
Gillberg and Goldberg both had their first matches against DeMott.
No. Goldberg had wrestled Buddy Landell, Chad Fortune and Buddy Lee Parker before he met Morrus.
same idea for WWE could be interesting
SUPER DRAGON! *clap**clap* *clap**clap**clap* SUPER DRAGON! *clap**clap* *clap**clap**clap* SUPER DRAGON! *clap**clap* *clap**clap**clap* SUPER DRAGON! *clap**clap* *clap**clap**clap* SUPER DRAGON! *clap**clap* *clap**clap**clap*
No. Just no.
OK I shock I don't see Dragon Kid or CIMA on this list Both were trained by Ultimo Dragon
Unnecessary shot at Jim Brunzell. Big star in AWA and decent run in WWE.
You do know that WCW is just Mid-Atlantic/Crockett Promotions renamed? Bockwinkel. Santana etc. had Matches there before Turner bought it.
Yea the video isn’t who has technically worked more than once in wcw is it?
What a mark
Captain Insano reckons you're still a virgin
sad and old
00:55 1998*
The sad part to this story is that the ShockMaster has never had a match in WCW. He's only had his knock down-fall on your face promo. 😆😆😆
Don Morocco was in the predecessor of WCW or what was JCP so yes and no..
Not saying he would have been the next Hart or Hogan but I still think Droese was better than he gets credited.
While ECW was the land of misfits, WCW was the land of misses. Want to watch pro wrestling with no angles ever coming to fruition? Turn on WCW. Though it was still badass during those 83 weeks Eric Bischoff refuses to let the world forget about