Facts. I think Grave Digger needs to do different bodies from throughout the years for their 40th Anniversary. One Legend, One Original red Willys, One Grandma Digger, etc.
3:59 that almost made me cry, cause Dennis Anderson to monster jam is what dale earnhardt was to nascar. Edit: if anderson is earnhardt then createn is certain mark martin racing wise
As of 2018, Tom Meents has been to the finals eight times and won six of those times. A Grave Digger truck (not counting The Legend or Son-Uva Digger) has made it to finals nine times (including WFXIX when two Diggers made it to the finals) and won five times. Bounty Hunter made it to finals five times and never won racing once.
Now, Tom Meents has won the 2022 Skills Challenge and Freestyle to became the 14x Time World Champion. Brandon Vinson won the 9th World Finals title in racing for the Grave Digger team in the most insane races ever in history.
I’m on blue thunder nation too even though I like Goldberg/team Meents/max-d better I still like blue thunder though I remember back in 2014 when I went to my 1st monster jam show in Baltimore and I was 4 and I loved it so much and I loved blue thunder the most didn’t give a heck about any of the other trucks
Racing was always(still is) my favorite part of the world finals everyone loves freestyle but racing was the main event for me! freestyle was the bonus in my opinion
Isn't it crazy how of all 19 of the World Finals (as of 2018), only 7 of the Championship Races featured neither Anderson or Meents (2003, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
as of 2019 12 of the world championship victories were on the right lane, and 8 were on the left lane (7 if your not counting 2019 since it's not sam boyd stadium) and 5 of them had bounty hunter losing.
Anybody else notice an interesting pattern here? WF5 Grave Digger wins racing by beating a 1941 Willy’s named Blacksmith WF6 Grave Digger loses in the championship race WF7 Grave Digger wins the championship back by beating Bounty Hunter WF10 Max D wins racing by beating a 1941 Willy’s named Captain’s Curse WF11 Max D loses in the championship race WF12 Max D wins the championship back by beating Bounty Hunter
@@Thunder103093 also can’t help but feel bad for Bounty Hunter, he’s one of my favorite trucks. I was overjoyed when he won in 2019, but it still sucks that he won by a technicality with Bari red-lighting
Top 5 world finals championship races we never got that would have been cool 1.) WF2 or WF3 Goldberg (or Team Meents) vs Blacksmith Goldberg (or Team Meents) wins 2. WF6 Gunslinger vs Grave Digger Either one wins 3. WF9 Batman vs Maximum Destruction Maximum Destruction wins 4. WF12 Bounty Hunter vs Lucas Oil Crusader Bounty Hunter Wins 5. WF15 Grave Digger the Legend vs Iron Man Either one wins
@@Thunder103093 yeah, but if you noticed Brian hesitated in round 2 when he beat Predator, and Pablo was lightning fast when he beat Blue Thunder in the same round. If Blacksmith didn’t crash into the dumpster, he would have had lane choice against Brian in the semi finals, and he would probably take the left lane and win. So the final round would most likely have been Goldberg vs Blacksmith if Pablo didn’t crash in round 2
I didn’t notice that but the bigger reason why brian didn’t make it to the finals was the water pipe breaking causing racing to become u-turn, tom & pablo would be awesome too
Hey, At least Maximum Destruction and Batman meet in the finals at Minneapolis in 2009. If the gremlins didn't hit Tom at the wrong time he would've won his 8th world title in 2008 and gotten a rematch. So consider *THAT* that championship race that could've been. But as for Iron Man, Lee'o Donnell wanted a redo because the RII hit Max-D when Meents kissed the jersey barrier on Thunder Alley.
its to sad that it is true so it cant be argued with 2013 was the last year along with parts of 2014 that seemed ok but you could sense/notice it was changing but not for the best
+ThundertheDragon well think about it cause i wanted to do something pokemon related for a month but haven't found anyone yet. also we could do something RoR related to
I love the fact when maxd crashed in the racing finals in 2014 "im glad that happened, i couldnt take that bullshit" XD it made me wheeze XD that was a good compliment but hes just fast and gets lucky i guess
Congratulations to Dennis Anderson, 5 time world finals racing champion in grave digger. In 2004 at world finals 5, he defeated Pablo Huffaker in blacksmith, 2005 at world finals 6, he defeated the former 2 time world finals champion madusa, in 2006, at world finals 7 he defeated Jimmy Creten in bounty hunter, in 2007 at world finals 8 he defeated John Seasock in batman (celebrating 25 years of grave digger) and in 2010, at world finals 11 he defeated his arch rival Tom Meents in maximum destruction.
In the previous round his RII somehow triggered in Thunder Alley and Lee O'Donnel won the round. The officials made the call to re-run the race because it "wasn't Tom's fault" and Max-D narrowly won. Lee was absolutely pissed in the interview and correctly pointed out that they never would have re-run the race if Iron Man had shut down instead.
Back when Dalton Hastings used to upload the full dvd coverage of the Monster Jam World Finals until they're gone from existence P.S. If anyone saved backups for them, send me a Google drive link or maybe upload them on Internet Archive...
i dont know how tom cheated when on the website of monster jam they posted that an official shut him off for no reason, guess people just dont want tom pushing his wins further even tho he can win 3 straight world finals and it be okay. TEAM MAX D ALWAYS
+MrGRAVEDIGGER24 that contradicts what the officials told the fans after Tom's 1st race with Lee O'Donnell, they told the fans that they would shut the trucks down if they hit the wall in thunder alley. Now they didn't tell ANY of the fans about that rule until Tom was shutdown which caused alot of confusion & multiple driver hit the walls thought racing & non of them were shutdown & Tom hit the wall in the Finals which sent him into the semi-trailer which sent him flying into the dirt hills. Not telling the fans about the new rule & only doing it 1 time when others did it with no problem is going to give us the optics that they were trying to help Tom win & we can't have rigging in Monster Jam. & to your other point, i don't give a fuck if Tom wins alot of the times, i really don't. The only problem is when the appearance of trying to helping Tom win by the officials was just unacceptable to us & thats why they booed him in the Finals
They did in Europe, probably because 2 people died at monster jam events in January 2009 & i guess they thought showing it would harm them financially, acourse they are wrong to censor it & when they showed it in Europe, they explained why they have the lower seats covered up for that reason, thats what they should’ve had done here
@@Thunder103093 i know i had seen some offical footage of it by speed/feld instead of that one famous fan shot but i could never trace down to were it was from, i didnt know if it was a deleted/behind the scenes like wf1,2,3 had a b side and a side camera on each side right in the front row that mad the fresstyle and racing seem more realistic like you were there in person and weirdly enough had amazing audio were the trucks actually sounded good and like they do in person and didnt have any of the commentry other than the in stadium one from scott douglas and the track announcer
he didn't do anything. there was a "rule" for WF15 that if anyone hit the wall in Thunder Alley, they would shut you down. Now Tom was the only driver they did that to & they were other drivers that hit the wall that night that weren't shut down. So it came across to everyone that they were trying to bias Racing for him
Tim Horn oh I didn't know they didnt shut any other trucks down for hitting the wall I knew they shut Tom down that one time for hitting the wall racing against Lee
first of all monster jam was the one to do it not the max d team so dont blame max d or any other truck just for something that was not its fault (we dont know if its toms fault or the shitty officials)
I like how even when Dennis Lost he still did donuts to entertain his fans
that wasnt to entertain the fans lol... that was to celebrate becuase we really knew he won if it wasnt for that little 5 sec penalty
I miss it when was different monster trucks instead of clones.
The clones weren't bad when they were different colors.
Ya like fire and ice
Facts. I think Grave Digger needs to do different bodies from throughout the years for their 40th Anniversary. One Legend, One Original red Willys, One Grandma Digger, etc.
same
11:08 damn, that turn by Max D might be the best one in the history of this race.
Poor Bounty Hunter he had to wait so long for another World Series Championship
OMG yes
He the G O A T
@@themaskedmagic1783 world finals*
Either that or the one made by Dennis a year prior 10:23
3:59 that almost made me cry, cause Dennis Anderson to monster jam is what dale earnhardt was to nascar.
Edit: if anderson is earnhardt then createn is certain mark martin racing wise
So good, lots of memories that make me happy. I loved World Finals in Las Vegas !!!
As of 2018, Tom Meents has been to the finals eight times and won six of those times.
A Grave Digger truck (not counting The Legend or Son-Uva Digger) has made it to finals nine times (including WFXIX when two Diggers made it to the finals) and won five times.
Bounty Hunter made it to finals five times and never won racing once.
Just recently, Jim Creten finally won the World Racing Finals this year.
Thank God he won a championship it feels so long becuz he just hasn’t done well in recent World Series
Now, Tom Meents has won the 2022 Skills Challenge and Freestyle to became the 14x Time World Champion.
Brandon Vinson won the 9th World Finals title in racing for the Grave Digger team in the most insane races ever in history.
Its not insane, they both spun out in the race, that race was awful & deserves none of the praise people give it
@@Thunder103093 It was raining.
You can't help but feel bad for bounty hunter
Man honestly so many good runs but perpetually second
@@bryceferguson8409 but did just now
World finals 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 gives me goosebumps, just legendary moments
2001 is so heartbreaking for me.
I’m on blue thunder nation too even though I like Goldberg/team Meents/max-d better I still like blue thunder though I remember back in 2014 when I went to my 1st monster jam show in Baltimore and I was 4 and I loved it so much and I loved blue thunder the most didn’t give a heck about any of the other trucks
It would’ve been awesome if Scott Hartsock won the 2000 and Lyle Hancock won 2001
2008 and 2011 are the most heartbreaking for me. One of those two times should have been Jimmy Creten. No disrespect to John Seasock and Tom Meents
@@davsav524 meents>creten
creten>seasock
@@davsav524 I know I wish Creten won. I hate john stinky sock
I Feel Bad For Bounty Hunter Being In The Most Of These Finals And… Lost All Them Times
Racing was always(still is) my favorite part of the world finals everyone loves freestyle but racing was the main event for me! freestyle was the bonus in my opinion
Isn't it crazy how of all 19 of the World Finals (as of 2018), only 7 of the Championship Races featured neither Anderson or Meents (2003, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Interesting, i never noticed that till you pointed that out
2013 had Adam Anderson.
he was talking about Dennis specifically
And only 2 before WF14
Le ‘O’Donnell won freestyle in 2017 that front flip was insane
as of 2019
12 of the world championship victories were on the right lane, and 8 were on the left lane (7 if your not counting 2019 since it's not sam boyd stadium)
and 5 of them had bounty hunter losing.
Poor Jimmy.
Roy bgp he’s always number 2. He was one of my favorite trucks when I was a kid, before I moved to grave digger
I was so happy that I went to the World Finals in 2010 to see the greatest rivalry in motorsports battle it out for the World Racing Championship
I can see the colors and background in monster jam Las Vegas Nevada 2000, 2001, and 2002 look dark. But in 2003 it looks bright
Anybody else notice an interesting pattern here?
WF5 Grave Digger wins racing by beating a 1941 Willy’s named Blacksmith
WF6 Grave Digger loses in the championship race
WF7 Grave Digger wins the championship back by beating Bounty Hunter
WF10 Max D wins racing by beating a 1941 Willy’s named Captain’s Curse
WF11 Max D loses in the championship race
WF12 Max D wins the championship back by beating Bounty Hunter
I never noticed
@@Thunder103093 also can’t help but feel bad for Bounty Hunter, he’s one of my favorite trucks. I was overjoyed when he won in 2019, but it still sucks that he won by a technicality with Bari red-lighting
Dennis Anderson and Grave Digger is the best
Top 5 world finals championship races we never got that would have been cool
1.) WF2 or WF3 Goldberg (or Team Meents) vs Blacksmith
Goldberg (or Team Meents) wins
2. WF6 Gunslinger vs Grave Digger
Either one wins
3. WF9 Batman vs Maximum Destruction
Maximum Destruction wins
4. WF12 Bounty Hunter vs Lucas Oil Crusader
Bounty Hunter Wins
5. WF15 Grave Digger the Legend vs Iron Man
Either one wins
Tom & Brian in WF2 would be insane
@@Thunder103093 yeah, but if you noticed Brian hesitated in round 2 when he beat Predator, and Pablo was lightning fast when he beat Blue Thunder in the same round. If Blacksmith didn’t crash into the dumpster, he would have had lane choice against Brian in the semi finals, and he would probably take the left lane and win. So the final round would most likely have been Goldberg vs Blacksmith if Pablo didn’t crash in round 2
I didn’t notice that but the bigger reason why brian didn’t make it to the finals was the water pipe breaking causing racing to become u-turn, tom & pablo would be awesome too
Hey, At least Maximum Destruction and Batman meet in the finals at Minneapolis in 2009. If the gremlins didn't hit Tom at the wrong time he would've won his 8th world title in 2008 and gotten a rematch. So consider *THAT* that championship race that could've been.
But as for Iron Man, Lee'o Donnell wanted a redo because the RII hit Max-D when Meents kissed the jersey barrier on Thunder Alley.
2015 is when monster jam went to garbage, lets argue
That points series is a joke to me. I miss Scott Douglass, RVs on the track in freestyle and the world finals being in Las Vegas.
i thought 2013 was its low point for me
its to sad that it is true so it cant be argued with
2013 was the last year along with parts of 2014 that seemed ok but you could sense/notice it was changing but not for the best
2014 was the start of the bad years
I completely agree.
9:36 Thank you for editing that in xD
+ThundertheDragon Acourse, i'm not a pussy like FELD;)
Would you want to do a Pokemon Collab?
Tim Horn Don't know, probably won't have time this week
+ThundertheDragon well think about it cause i wanted to do something pokemon related for a month but haven't found anyone yet. also we could do something RoR related to
+Tim Horn i could do rigs of rods
WILLIAM HAYES good to hear
2006 was the year dennis anderson deprived jimmy cretan of the title
That "GOLDBERG" MONSTER TRUCK IS JUST AWESOME 👌
Sad that the body wasn't accurate in the toy version
I love the fact when maxd crashed in the racing finals in 2014 "im glad that happened, i couldnt take that bullshit" XD it made me wheeze XD that was a good compliment but hes just fast and gets lucky i guess
Max d in 2010 that turn was phenomenal.
Bounty Hunter has been in the finals so many times but has never won.
JC Leyba he won freestyle once
Come on jimmy can you win plz
JC Leyba Donald trump: Wrong
2013 was the last Good year of Monster jam after that it's just been going down the toilet
Congratulations to Dennis Anderson, 5 time world finals racing champion in grave digger. In 2004 at world finals 5, he defeated Pablo Huffaker in blacksmith, 2005 at world finals 6, he defeated the former 2 time world finals champion madusa, in 2006, at world finals 7 he defeated Jimmy Creten in bounty hunter, in 2007 at world finals 8 he defeated John Seasock in batman (celebrating 25 years of grave digger) and in 2010, at world finals 11 he defeated his arch rival Tom Meents in maximum destruction.
@@mauronunez8054 he only won 3 titles…..
Tom Meents 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 He Was Picking Up Them Ws 🏆
And damon did so well in 2012 and one year later got beat in round 1 because of adam anderson who deprived him of the title that is tbh
Need as updated version of this for up to world finals 20
Don’t have the footage & feld keeps taking them down
what was tom meents doing that you considered "cheating bs" lol at 13:13??
In the previous round his RII somehow triggered in Thunder Alley and Lee O'Donnel won the round. The officials made the call to re-run the race because it "wasn't Tom's fault" and Max-D narrowly won. Lee was absolutely pissed in the interview and correctly pointed out that they never would have re-run the race if Iron Man had shut down instead.
What about the last two years? Ryan Anderson and Son-uva Digger last year and his brother Adam winning in Grave Digger this year.
You can blame Feld for taking down the videos. i'd love to post them but they take them down
@@Thunder103093 That's bullcrap. You paid for the dang ticket and you can't video the action even if it will be on TV three months later.
Back when Dalton Hastings used to upload the full dvd coverage of the Monster Jam World Finals until they're gone from existence
P.S. If anyone saved backups for them, send me a Google drive link or maybe upload them on Internet Archive...
Some have uploaded them again
Tim Horn are u sure? because there pretty hard for me to find. Can you give me the links to them?
Tim Horn are u sure? because there pretty hard for me to find. Can you give me the links to them?
@@PabloComixYT don't know of links but they are around, you gotta look hard
Tim Horn Well on that case, It’s now my quest to search far and wide to find those full racing/freestyle dvd coverage!
toys pull along string walking playing green beetle car monster truck jump
I miss it where only 16 got in and you had to get to Vegas by invite
i dont know how tom cheated when on the website of monster jam they posted that an official shut him off for no reason, guess people just dont want tom pushing his wins further even tho he can win 3 straight world finals and it be okay. TEAM MAX D ALWAYS
+MrGRAVEDIGGER24 that contradicts what the officials told the fans after Tom's 1st race with Lee O'Donnell, they told the fans that they would shut the trucks down if they hit the wall in thunder alley. Now they didn't tell ANY of the fans about that rule until Tom was shutdown which caused alot of confusion & multiple driver hit the walls thought racing & non of them were shutdown & Tom hit the wall in the Finals which sent him into the semi-trailer which sent him flying into the dirt hills. Not telling the fans about the new rule & only doing it 1 time when others did it with no problem is going to give us the optics that they were trying to help Tom win & we can't have rigging in Monster Jam. & to your other point, i don't give a fuck if Tom wins alot of the times, i really don't. The only problem is when the appearance of trying to helping Tom win by the officials was just unacceptable to us & thats why they booed him in the Finals
Uh-huh, so about that rerun where Lee got his ass whipped in a straight-up race...
Jason Hook, the rerun was a near Photo-Finish
So a fair race, one where both Lee and Tom drove their asses off
MrGRAVEDIGGER24 max d rocks
Back when monster jam was good untill 2015
Yep
I'd say it was good til 2017
I feel so bad for bounty hunter.
Jimmy won in 2019
@@Thunder103093after the bad luck Jimmy Creten went through til 2019, his bad luck was finally over.
grave digger made it to the finals from 2004 to 2007 🤯
7:07 even tho im not a fan of grave digger and talked smack about him, this is prob the best world finals races finishes ive seen
Why did they not show captains curse going over the wall?
They did in Europe, probably because 2 people died at monster jam events in January 2009 & i guess they thought showing it would harm them financially, acourse they are wrong to censor it & when they showed it in Europe, they explained why they have the lower seats covered up for that reason, thats what they should’ve had done here
@@Thunder103093 i know i had seen some offical footage of it by speed/feld instead of that one famous fan shot but i could never trace down to were it was from, i didnt know if it was a deleted/behind the scenes like wf1,2,3 had a b side and a side camera on each side right in the front row that mad the fresstyle and racing seem more realistic like you were there in person and weirdly enough had amazing audio were the trucks actually sounded good and like they do in person and didnt have any of the commentry other than the in stadium one from scott douglas and the track announcer
Hi Tim Horn Can You Upload Monster Jam World Finals 12 Racing Please
Don’t have the footage
You Don't Have it
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Why is bounty hunter getting in the finals but never wins
Thats just what happens
he won this year
And when 13:12 happened I was a very sad boi
Wow I love how Tom Meents one racing and freestyle and then the gold berg truck was never herd from again xD
WCW went Bankrupt 2 days after WF2, thats why it stop appearing
Who is wolverine driver in 2003?
Brian Barthel? They say it in the video
Tom got there fair and square and I am not a fan of that just because your truck lost to him “ probably “ doesn’t mean he cheated
Monster Energy was so close
if i can give you some 2000 - 2016 footage with commentary but you need to edit hardly the videos
Monster jam 2020
Time to update this - they posted WF20 this past week
i don't have all the footage to do that.......
@@Thunder103093 No problem, just an idea.
@stevedudley567
I am a big grave digger fan
Me too
Well my favorite is 2006 and 2010
well tbh, i like almost every monster jam trucks :P
2017 is copyrighted
i know, when the copy right strike is over, i'm gonna try & dispute it again
Jimmy Creten has been in the finals 6+ times and always falls on his face, Shame
5
Tim Horn whoops lol
But yeah it sucks but atleast hes got the 2005 Freestyle title
Tim Horn Yeah, he’ll get it eventually
He finally did in wf 20
Tom does freestyle a little to early
Love it ceap it up
Damon almost beat tom meents smh
Who was in Grave Digger in 2016?
Adam
With all due respect, it was actually Morgan Kane who was in the Grave Digger with the orange flames.
He didn't specify what Grave Digger he was talking about
Sorry, my bad.
NP
I miss the simple monster jam early days now it’s all about tricks nonsensical competitions
Yep, boring af
Max d 😎😎😎😎🙂😍👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌🤘🤙🤘🤘🤙🤙🤙
13:35 what the hell is this kid talking about
What?
He said Max-D has a flat
wait who tried to cheat in wf15??
The officials reran the race when pretty much nothing was wrong with tom meents
Just curious how did Tom cheat
you talking about WF15?
Tim Horn yea
he didn't do anything. there was a "rule" for WF15 that if anyone hit the wall in Thunder Alley, they would shut you down. Now Tom was the only driver they did that to & they were other drivers that hit the wall that night that weren't shut down. So it came across to everyone that they were trying to bias Racing for him
Tim Horn oh I didn't know they didnt shut any other trucks down for hitting the wall I knew they shut Tom down that one time for hitting the wall racing against Lee
13:13 what cheating?
first of all monster jam was the one to do it not the max d team so dont blame max d or any other truck just for something that was not its fault (we dont know if its toms fault or the shitty officials)
I was blaming mj
@@Thunder103093 sorry
Max D👎 grave digger a monster jam legend🤘👍
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