WCW Great American Bash 1997 - The "Reliving The War" PPV Review
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WCW The Great American Bash 1997 took place in Moline, Illinois on June 15th 1997. Fans attended the show to see a Diamond Dallas Page vs Macho Man Randy Savage falls count anywhere match, and fans were also treated to another nWo vs WCW battle when The Outsiders took on Ric Flair and Roddy Piper in a tag team match.
Randy Savage had snapped on Nitro when he attacked J.J. Dillon, the president of the WCW Executive Committee. Rather than suspend Savage and give him a way out of the Page match, Dillon decided to issue a fine while also adding some new stipulations to the Great American Bash main event; Randy Savage vs DDP would be a falls count anywhere contest, unsanctioned by WCW. This would turn out to be the 2nd of 3 DDP vs Savage matches that took place in 1997.
Scott Hall and Kevin Nash once stated that the nWo had a mission, to destroy the tradition of WCW seeing as that very tradition was the reason why new generation superstars had been held back. Roddy Piper and Ric Flair became the nWo's targets, and when those targets were able to defeat Hall, Nash and Syxx at Slamboree, the Outsiders decided that this war was no longer about tradition, it was about ending the careers of Ric Flair and Roddy Piper. To entice Flair and Piper to step back into the ring at The Great American Bash, The Outsiders decided to put up their tag team titles on pay per view.
Other matches at Great American Bash '97 include Steve McMichael vs Kevin Greene, Ultimo Dragon vs Psychosis, and The Steiner Brothers vs Harlem Heat.
00:00 - Intro
01:08 - Ultimo Dragon vs Psychosis
04:54 - Steiners vs Harlem Heat
07:34 - Konnan vs Hugh Morrus
09:12 - Glacier vs Wrath
12:44 - Madusa vs Akira Hokuto
15:21 - Meng vs Chris Benoit
18:50 - Kevin Greene vs Steve McMichael
22:15 - The Outsiders vs Ric Flair & Roddy Piper
26:12 - Diamond Dallas Page vs Randy Savage
30:37 - Final Thoughts / Credits
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The burying of Glacier is priceless 😁😆😅🤣😂
Been waiting for this for so long! Moline is my hometown. I was there, way up in the nosebleeds, My pop got me tickets for my birthday! Savage vs DDP was amazing!
I was there as well..lived right down the street from "The Mark" in Moline at the time.
Awesome man, I'm from rock island quad cities baby
East moline ? ?
Davenport here
From Davenport! I wad there too. Went with my best friend and his dad. His dad died a few years ago and this PPV is one of my favorite memories of him. This was great!
Glaciers the type of guy that doesn't thank the bus driver when he's getting off.
Glacier is the type of guy that don't flush!
@@TheElisaDay No tells you the ending, then says the book was better. You don't know glacier do you?
What’s the story behind this beef lol
@@rocthaice24 New to this channel? Long story short little G is the wrestling equivalent of a wet fart!
@@rocthaice24 we'll tell you soon...
as a kid you had Saturday morning cartoons, as an adult we have wrestling bios. Thank you!
@@blacksabbath4252 im aware its sunday. its meant as a comparison. You look forward to saturday morning cartoons as a kid, you look forward to wrestling bios as an adult. Days dont matter.
@@InfectedElite more like Saturday morning wrestling for the older heads
I absolutely LOVE how both Psychosis and Ultimo Dragon dressed in the colours of the PPV. Just another awesome touch to a great match.
Psychosis was one of my faves along with Blitzkrieg and La Parka
The cruiserweight division was the backbone of WCW.
Most definitely
Damn right it was
and the company didnt seem to give it any respect
@@Venemofthe888 they does but too late
@@kevinpayton2664
TV title matches were good well
15:04 Mean Gene reminding Madusa she's now forced into retirement straight after a loss is the equivalent to Jim Bowen showing the losers on Bullseye what they could have won.
Missing out on a speedboat
Nice video. One underappreciated thing about WCW at their height was how great their crowds were. I think one thing that hurt WCW in its dying days was that they lost that great crowd. It was not just the audio, but also the video. You will notice that WCW production worked really hard to avoid showing empty seats. I get it, but it really took away alot of angles from the in ring action.
It's always a great day when you are reliving the war
The whole RTW project is amazing and I love that you include all the PPVs. You should consider doing a yearly award show with stuff like best match, mvp, best tag match, best PPV, best storyline. I know you’re the busiest man on TH-cam but I’m sure it would be great.
Macho's "Madness" gear during this era is probably my favorite ring attire ever.
Mine too
It really is great. Awesome how the gear removes all the bright colors, but still gets his vibe over with the patterns with hard black and white contrast.
Savage and ddp was so good. You could honestly tell that randy genuinely likes Dallas and wanted to do business to get him over.
I TIMED IT RIGHT THIS WEEK. Horseman business opens back up tomorrow.
Couldn't AGREE with you more.....these opening matches are fantastic!!!!
WCW undercard was ALWAYS the best.
_Glacier shows up late to appointments._ 9:36 Boy, that's SURE an UNDERSTATEMENT. It took the guy FIVE MONTHS to FINALLY make his debut in WCW...😆👍
Blame WCW for that. Apparently he was gonna debut earlier but WCW decided to delay it because the nwo was getting popular.
I now want him to job to the Bootyman.
"He pauses the game to look at the special moves" lol love it
I knew the crowd was going to be lit when they said it was coming from Moline, Illinois
Imagine Ming giving the Bulldog a chain lock after laying out Glacier.
Is the difference in ppv’s a difference in mentality do you think. WWF’s ppv felt like the culmination of storylines, a king was crowned, Austin and Shawn found their hate for the hart’s overshadowed any differences they had and the nation was defeated. The following raw felt like a new chapter as storylines began with a build to the next ppv while the wcw ppv felt very much like a continuation of a story in order to sell the next nitro. Benoit continues his feud, the horsemen continue to undermine each other, the outsiders won via controversy which would no doubt be address the next night, savage won due to outsider interference which guaranteed the war with DDP would continue, if you wanted to get any sort of closure you had to watch the next nitro. Both are good story telling, but they definitely see different outcomes at the end.
Really well said. Love that Japan based promotions like NJPW, TJPW, etc and non-WWE American promotions deliver on storyline payoffs while still having excellent match quality.
Once again wrestling bios has blown our minds with another awesome intro followed by an extremely entertaining video. Hope things are well down under and prayers for all Tongans.
@@mikehunt4986 he is from Northern Ireland
The Glaciers Part Had Me FUCKIN DEAD 💀😂😂😂😂😂😂
The mortal kombat music during the Morris/glacier stuff makes me laugh every time
The roast of glacier absolutely killed me, I'm dyin...😆😆😆 hilarious stuff!
The year DDP became a big star.
One of the reasons I take Sunday off is to watch Wrestling Bios.. I'm hooked man
When wrestlers describe backstage fights in wrestling shoots: "So I threw him out of my dressing room, and punched him like a hundred million times, and Hulk Hogan and Macho Man and like 12 Green Berets tried to pull me off, and they had to send Robocop to stop me, but I gave Robocop some sweet knife-edge chops and he left with his tail between his legs, and it was all because the whole locker room was jealous that I drew so much money at the Omni!"
Dragon is more over than 1980s Hulk Hogan in Illinois. Excellent opening intro BTW
Ultimo Dragon’s gear was always so well made. Great design, materials, and seaming.
“Hulk Hogan jobs more than Glacier for fucks sake” 😂😂😂
I noticed you have some WCW vs NWO N64 game music in the backround and it reminded me. Anyone who loved those games there is a game called wrestling empire. It is exactly like those games but with a randomly generated career mode. People can become paralyzed and die off. The customization with your wrestlers look and moves is unreal. It is the best wrestling game on the market by a long shot. Its on PC and nintendo switch, even a dated PC can probably run it. Anyone who reads this just go check out some videos on it or get it yourself.
It sucks but fair enough
How much were you paid to push that game? LOL just kidding I'll check it out.
@@rhulcy what sucks about it. Im curious.
@@roberttrester4030 I dont think they are a big enough company to pay me anything lol. I have just always been a huge fan of the N64 wrestling games and wrestling empire is pretty much every single one of them from that era combined.
@@FRANK45CASTLE LOL well you sold me I'm going to check it out.
You are an amazing content creator! Thank you for your hard work!
Honestly being a fly on the wall while piper and hall were arguing and fighting in the back would have been amazing
i think i know who someone is now lol
Nash and piper, no?
@@JoeyMartz you right. I got too excited it happens lol.
When you look at it WCW ppvs presentation had
a real combat sports vibe, similar NJPW events.
Even in the company's dying days the feeling still seemed there to me.
Love the old school Chris Benoit song in the intro. Chefs kiss
The Glacier rant is just prime stuff. I actually laughed out loud at that. This is why I'm subscribed. Great stuff as always.
WB bringing the Sunday Jam!
I love that you used Chris Benoit's old WCW theme. Not sure why, but this music has always stuck with me, and it was perfect here!
I don't even wait to see the video anymore it's automatic thumbs up because I know I'm in for a treat
Guarantee you at that point Medusa regretted leaving the WWF lol
That’s debatable. She got paid pretty well to come to WCW.
@@milk_bath yeah but you know she wanted to compete
In defense of Mongo, perhaps his foot massage/ankle lock was due to Kevin Green being a pro ball player. I mean, any other wrestler could pull off an ankle lock no problem, but they likely saw Mongo’s name on the roster and were like, “Hold on… how much insurance do we have?”
It's very rare in WWf for heels to win main event but happened so often in wcw
That glacier riff was perfection 🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏
You always come through for me when I need it bro, thanks for the uploads!
28:16 one could even say.... The madness came out.
I'll see myself out 🚪🚶
thank you for another great upload. I remember very well recording all wcw nitros from 23.06.1997 in my opinion june97-jan 98 best time of WCW.
You have once again outdone yourself and I haven't even watched the video yet! The one thing I hated about WCW is that the commentators would spend 95% of every match going on and on about the nwo instead of calling the match in the ring. It always took so much away from the matches they were supposed to be calling. Did anybody else feel this way?
oh for sure its like if they dont care about the match then why should we and it honestly took away from everyone working so hard like not even acknowledging their work. It was just a shame the nWo dominated everything all the time and i can see why a lot of people got sick of it by 2000
@@Venemofthe888 That was one of WCW's biggest problems. Nothing else existed in the orb except the nwo and it was to the detriment so many Nitros and ppvs
It’s one of the reasons why guys on the undercard couldn’t get over. It’s the undercard guys that were the most exciting to watch, along with the cruiserweights. Them not getting properly over was a huge reason guys like Jericho, Benoit, Saturn and Malenko jumped to WWF in 2000 and Sean Waltman ended up back in WWF post Wrestlemania 14.
The commentators made the guys on the undercard seem unimportant. Therefore fans had less reason to get behind them. They couldn’t get over. Although they were having great matches. They were having the same matches against mainly the same opponents all through the war. Where as on top for the main part the NWO was doing the same thing week in, week out. With Hogan on top. Which was very stale.
I needed my fix!! Thanks wrestling bios !!
It is a shame that Medusa went to WCW for basically nothing since the womens division was non existent aside from like a month or two. Medusa was way ahead of her time in America and no wonder she was in Japan for a long time before.
In the 90's women's wrestling in America was about as popular as women's lacrosse. It had no fanbase. That's no disrespect, it's just how it was.
@@butchvito
WWF brought it back in 98
Facts Medusa was in the wrong era she was so talented
I need that giant CRT TV for playing retro games
I keep a CRT tv around for that very reason.
@@Richterdgf Same.
Been stuck in hospital for 3 days so this video was good timing lol thanks!
It's time to have a bio about Meng/King Haku
Great episode like always.. love the glacier heat.. keep up the great work
Thank you for continuing to bring excellent content from your amazing channel. I think it brightens a lot of peoples week/day. Awesome!
By far my favourite wrestling you tube channel, quality content every week.
Keep up the good work
WCW Great American Jam
Glacier is the type of guy to steal your ladder on a job site.
To hear the n64 wcw/nwo revenge menu music in the back is so f…cool ❤️
Vincent is gonna charge wrestling bios for using his likeness/video footage
An episode of reliving the war on a Sunday afternoon, sweet! This series has been amazing, plain and simple. “The big f*ck off tv” 🤣 😂.
Love it thanks again wrestling bios u make the weekend
I heard Glacier looks at the other screens when playing Goldeneye on multiplayer.
Will Jeff Jarrett and Mongo make peace? Find out on the next episode of As The Haliburton Turns!
Excellent upload, as always. I LOVE the sarcasm so much! The Glacier stuff is hilarious!!! Love this.
Good stuff man, sounds like you're having fun with this one.
Another awesome upload from the greatest wrestling channel on the planet!
@Stephen Greenhorn yeah it is. His detail is fantastic. His work is very much appreciated and everything he does, is very professional. 3 videos a week, he must be making videos non stop.
I love these so much. Especially the WCW stuff because I was mainly a WWF kid so it gives me a chance to see some of the stuff I missed. Love the humor too 😂 👍
I think you gave yourself another video with the best of wcw opening ppv matches
Ahh another great way to spend my lunch break! Thanks Wrestling Bios!
Glacier is that the kind of guy that doesn't flash the toilet after a few logs when he comes over to your house for a visit.
Glacier deserved a run for the title after this ppv
I’ve never understood Glaciers run in WCW. They hyped him up for months. With videos on Nitro. Then when he did finally debut they done very little with him. Until the blood runs cold angle. Then he disappeared. Seemed like a lot of work to go to for little outcome.
Yessss I've been so excited for this!!
Fondly remember Madusa in that gear!
I love your ppv reviews definitely remember watching these live as a kid but there was a lot I didn’t remember love the glacier stuff 🤣
This is the best wrestling channel on the planet. Thank u for the consistent awesome content
"Hogan does more jobs than Glacier" 😂😂. Great stuff as always mate.
I'll be starting a new job soon and at that point, I'm absolutely going to start supporting your channel with donations. I love what you're doing here, and I tell people all the time that Wrestling Bios has the best wrestling content on TH-cam. You're the champ! 🥇🏆💯
Thank you for the upload
Another great PPV without Hogan, why was he the champ... Ridiculous
As he’s got creative control and Bischoff still believes that he’s the biggest draw and star in WCW.
I do believe Hogan on top as a heel got very stale, very quickly.
@@martynodonnell8467 And sting beating him without a belt would have meant a whole hell of a lot less.
Kimberly Page has the jam... 😍😍
Your intros get better every video. I loved Benoit's wcw theme.
That Glacier botch looks like he hit the C button instead of the A button
I always liked the DDP vs Macho man fights, they seemed like they were willing to do anything to get the fans going, and were willing to do what it took to help the others career. I felt Macho Man, despite what he was like to Elizabeth, was the nicer of the two wrestlers, because Macho man was willing to job more for other wrestlers, plus Macho man was awesome for that Slim Jim commercial where Ric Flair appears with 2 women in his arms and says "Sign me up big daddy" and Macho mans reaction was perfect
Such a good PPV review, great work!
I love the Suttle wcw vs nwo video game theme playing on low volume while you are talking about the matches
I love how you always use the No Mercy music lol
DDP vs Savage is one of my favourite fueds..I always recommend it..
Sunday ppv shows reviewed by Wrestling Bios hits differently when it's on a Sunday
I wouldnt be surprised to see a video soon of great wcw opening matches.
That Glacier rant was fkin brilliant hahaha
Lol, that Glacier description 😂😂
Another excellent upload
OMG I LOL when the Glacier disses were rolling!
Omg, loving the merch! Going to get all 3. Fav is Bret's Jam... Horsemen business should be in bigger print... Lols
I recorded great American bash 1998 on vhs back when dubya cee dubya was on fire awesome videos great info.
Exactly what I needed today!
Right before the playoff football games starts
Vincent payed for it dearly
What a fantastic video. Thank you sir.
Great Videos! You were meant to do These types of Reviews ..Humor is Key! 😎😎
Thanks!
I lost it when you said glacier pause the game to look at the special moves 😂😂