👍 Give the vid a thumbs up ya divvy knacker! 👍 WELL HELLOOOOOOO! Your favourite Irish boys are back with 💯 minutes of WCW bollix! Part 1 of our WCW Warrior Story Arc (check out the trailer here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5dbjnoT0Luc.html ) Featuring Ultimate Warrior, Hollywood Hogan, Bret Hart, Goldberg, Virgil and all the carnies you can handle! 🍻 Don't buy us a pint, please donate $10 to OSW composer Ryan's wife for cranial surgery! www.gofundme.com/f/lifesaving-surgery-for-teacher-rae 💚 *SPECIAL THANKS:* ⬇⬇ *EDITORS, ARTISTS & ANIMATORS:* Jay Hunter: Main Audio & Video Editor twitter.com/OSWreview Chris Vaughn of ReloadLastSave: Primary Video Editing (Nitro) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0FtGBxwz6tQ.html V1: Splicey www.twitch.tv/oswreview Ryan Castle: Video Editing (Warrior Retrospective) twitter.com/Cali_Castle Jeff Surberus: Video Editing (Vince AOL Chat) twitter.com/Surberus Adam Animay: Batman TAS Warrior Arc Animation ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-csK7cxTaQ2M.html Donald Kirby: Comic Book Artwork & Nitro Logo instagram.com/DKirbyJ Ruben: Warrior Comic Book Animation frumpycloud.com Wes B: Warrior Masks instagram.com/wesliola/ Werner Mueck: Warrior cartoon pics instagram.com/quiblybrakwrestling/ DrJoeyMagnum: 2K19 Ed Leslie Rumble twitter.com/DrJoeyMagnum Dan MacRae: OSW Intro splicey twitter.com/danmacrae Fraser Davidson: A Winner Is You Animated End Card ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zlkuFYXLH84.html *MUSIC THANKS:* Ryan Probert: Batman TAS Warrior Theme Song www.gofundme.com/f/lifesaving-surgery-for-teacher-rae J.D. Spears: Who's Next? (Goldberg) jdspears.bandcamp.com/album/pro-wrestling-covers-legacy-tracks-remastered Retcon Raider | Carl Barker: Maybe Cover ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TWNirP0LAoM.html Thanks for reading til the end, ya beaut ya! 💚
Guys am watching the show power raising Kanan , the opening song by 50 cent has lyrics in it If I ain't the dope Maine (man lol) or the coke Maine . I can't help but hear in my head , or the razor Maine or the Bret Maine 🤣🤣🤣has me in Stitches recounting all the times u guys took the piss . check out the song u bunch of dirty knackers , Belfast in the house.
@@OSW okay I want to claim to in my WCW stable Scott Norton and Steve Mongo McMichaels Chavo Guerrero and Norman smiley and also I know I bug you guys already about it I hope you guys checked it out and found it the Warriors RU-vid reality TV show
Sting was pretty overrated. He was better than Warrior but thats about it....Nobody cared about Sting until he stole the crow gimmick and his most "famous" run he didn't speak for 9 months and only had to pop up for a minute every now and again.
@@lutherheggs451 well that's just wrong on many levels. Sting had been main eventing against Flair (edit: along with his feuds with Big Van Vader, The Great Muta, and Rick Rude) for years and could cut a pretty damn good white meat baby face promo. One of the few who could do the pure baby face gimmick at all. Everyone loved surfer Sting. If they didn't Crow Sting wouldn't have worked.
@@lutherheggs451 "Nobody cared about Sting until he stole the crow gimmick." Yeah, WCW only built everything around him in 1990. Sting didn't "steal" anything. Hall suggested the gimmick based on The Crow.
@@lutherheggs451 Sting was the most popular guy in WCW for years until he became the Crow Sting. The gimmick change was made because wrestling was changing in general and it was necessity at the time as white meat baby faces were out and edgier characters were in.
Fun fact about High Voltage! (a sentence never uttered before.) In the Hardy Boys' book 'Exist 2 Inspire' Matt writes about how he and Jeff sent tapes to WCW early on in their career. Of course, it didn't lead to anything, but not long after, the High Voltage tag-team showed up. As of writing (and probably to this day) Matt believed that WCW stole the name from him after watching their tapes and gave it to their tag-team. Thus was the confidence of the future V1 (the original that is,) that he believed that WCW, frustrated with lack of tag-team names, turned to a child's video for inspiration.
I haven't thought of it that way, but you're right. Ok'ing a lifetime workers compensation insurance policy for a professional wrestler really shows a distinct lack of understanding of the profession on their part. It's not a freaking steel mill where a career-ending accident is very rare. It's almost inevitable! They really must have thought it was completely choreographed, like a play or ballet or something. Weird... and utterly brilliant of an idea for any wrestler back then to carry such insurance.
WCW paid him $25K per which we all think is too much. I did some research that’s his very low end to introduce and he’s made up to a million just doing an announcement!
Yeah, I'm not even mad at Michael Buffer. It's not his fault that he was surrounded by morons in 1997. If you realized the same thing you'd probably behave exactly as he did
Seriously, *props* to the editing of the Eddie segment. Finishing his awful promo with a line that doesn't feel genuine, thrown in, with minimal heat and characterless, then contextualizing it a few minutes later with THAT promo to Lesnar with a line with the *exact same meaning* actually gave me CHILLS.
It was a vast improvement, for sure. I did sense a slight hesitation when he says "I'm addicted to the satisifaction that I get...to tell everyone..." You could tell that he almost lost the train of thought regarding how he was gonna finish the statement. But still, much better and more passion in his words than him telling Eric that he can stick it up his you-know-what.
Eddie used to play up his American accent to draw heat from Mexican fans. Specifically playing up that he was a rich American kid and better than them.
I feel like a learn something wild about the Guerrero family every year. Like Vickie's wrestling background pre-WWE, their daughter being married to Drama King Matt, and just how low-key good all the brothers are.
I watched the Warrior premiere live. Parts were baffling, and you could tell during Warrior's ramblings that Hogan realized that it may not have been the best idea to bring him in.
the fact that the lads know low rider as the marmite commercial song rather than one of the most famous latin funk songs of all time is oddly wholesome. never change, guys.
Yup, Eddie was not that good at the personality & promo aspects of wrestling while he was in WCW, but bless him, he learned, and eventually turned himself into a complete main event guy.
I quite liked his WCW run. Came in hot, though knees got injured in '98, came back with Barry Windham and the cowboy gimmick which was entertaining, but was yo-yoed a bit as Russo came and went. I'd give his run a B plus.
Curt was special. His athleticism and size. His charisma and wrestling ability. Decent promos, especially as Mr. Perfect. Plus his lineage. He was believable as a wrestler who could beat anyone at any time. No one ever has a bad thing to say about him.
His character work was still really good, but his ring work had dropped off quite a lot. He did have one pretty decent match with Bret Hart at Uncensored 98, although it pales in comparison to their WWF matches.
@@garyblackburn3080 Worth the price, for sure! You get to learn that there are WAY MORE episodes about a "mad scientist trying to turn Selina Kyle into a LITERAL cat woman" than you remember, but they're still fun. And episodes like "Heart of Ice" and "Almost Got 'im" still hold up magnificently!
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte Wow! Impressive lol. And who could forget the accidental creation of know ultra popular character Harley Quinn. In what was supposed to be a one off
Funny thing is, Steve McMichael was a hundred times better of a football player than Goldberg. He was part of the most crushing defense in NFL history.
@@Jbourdeau1 Yeah the bears were overrated the 86 giants were better than the 85 bears objectively. But that still doesn't change the fact that mango mcmichael was a much better football player than bill goldberg ever was.
You're right, but I'll add the criticism to Mongo that it makes no sense how it's applied in kayfabe as a finisher. It hurts your knee... so if someone was using this to set up a submission hold like a figure four, sharpshooter, or some other leg-hold? It'd be a great set-up move. As a finisher, that's supposed to knock people out? WHA...?
@@renlightenment No. A real chop block as you would see on the field would be enough to entirely tear your knee apart. There wouldn't be a need to set up a submission, it would already be over which is why it works for being a finisher.
@@zerojayzero I don’t think it would really work in a wrestling sense as a finisher unless it was sold perfectly by everyone and the ref just called the match. In football the potential for injury is made worse by cleats keeping the foot in the grass and another player blocking them.
As an auld fella, I can confirm that watching both RAW and Nitro during this period was AMAZING. Didn't channel-hop though as being a UKian, watched them when I got home from work on a Tuesday night (after recording them to VHS).
Over here in Canada we channel hopped between TSN and TBS live but you also had the midnight replay on both stations. It was early internet days but spoilers were there if you wanted them for Raw, ratings and rumours were a must check the next day online. I remember spending most nights pacing and standing the entire time watching the shows because it was just absolute pandemonium. Best era of wrestling for sure and arguably some of the best entertainment put out in the 20th Century. Thankful to have been alive to witness it 🙏 (Also everyone who knew what was up back in the day LOVED Kanyon, he was a Mr.Perfect level performer)
A bit of everything A question where in UK did you to tape them on Monday to watch Tuesday ? Cause uk mainland nitro was Friday night 9pm on bravo Raw Friday night 10pm skysports1 or 11 if they move it to sky sports two or 3
@@phillbarlow8912 I might be misremembering the days (it was 25yrs ago), but I definitely taped them both same nights as I had to fiddle with the Telewest cable box to make sure it changed channel at the right time to catch both shows.
Singing out the slight differences of WCW themes to the tracks they’ve ripped off may now be one of my favorite OSW bits. Each one had me cracking up! Also, I can’t stop being impressed at how Andre’s son did a double lift of Stevie Ray on that choke slam.
Fun fact: At the same time, Hartford CT's Minor League Ice Hockey team is known as The Hartford Wolfpack, meaning the NWO Wolfpack was extra over in CT that year
His eyes were a big giveaway when he took the sunglasses off, I pointed that out to my friends, they didn't get it and in my mind I was like "what kind of WWF fan are you?"
I'll admit the only reason I ever found out was because of this channel. it was a while a go when they did the ed leslie career retrospective with all 28 or whatever of his gimmicks. I was watching WCW 96-99 so I remember the disciple but I just thought he was another nameless goon.
I paused the video at the intro to go donate $10 and saw the fundraiser is less than $3,000 away from hitting its goal. Given that I'm typing this only 2 hours after the video went up, I think it's going to succeed. Good luck to Ryan and Rae.
Whoever brought the trumpet during warrior's promo is an all timer bit man. It was like literally hearing the wind beneath the crowd's wings get sucked out of the building. Legendary.
Rumour has it that the Papa Shango gimmick was in the works to make a come back in the attitude era but sadly went a different route with the Godfather.
The goo dribbling down the Warrior's forehead was the _exact_ moment my older knew it wasn't real. A year after he got me into wrestling, he was instantly out of it with that angle, never to return.
@@JLRules I never suddenly realised it wasn't real I kinda just gradually started to appreciate the moves and what good wrestling looked like as I got older. It wasn't a shock I just knew as I grew up watching.
@@bdot187umI think its a carryover from wwf. You can say the wwf because it would be the federation. Doesnt work with wcw because that would be the wrestling.
Man this era of WCW is really nostalgic for me despite never actually watching it as a kid, though my older brother did. Feelings of glimpsing that intriguing show where everyone acts like cartoon characters and the over-top nature of it all... Really made 5 year old me ponderous of the wondrous and weird world of adulthood. I couldn't wait to grow up and join in on the fun games adults got to play. I also remember practicing the Tongan Death Grip all the time, thinking it was a legit maneuver. XD
V1 to Jay during a break: "Yeah, I know that really caught you off guard there, Jay. So I just wanted to say sorry. .... SORRY THAT I DIDN'T DO IT EARLIER!!!"
Wow, I _did not_ know Eddie's accent was fake, maybe exaggerated, but completely fake? I had no clue. That dweeby-nerd voice coming out of him was surreal.
Yeah he did a shoot interview with RF Video after he got fired from wwf and was touring the indies and it’s jarring because he has no accent and is very soft spoken
Yeah, he definitely played up the Mexican accent for the WWF/E. He grew up the son of a promoter in Texas, so I'm guessing he had a good education and was probably pretty far from the low rider loving stereotype he presented for the cameras.
Thank you so, so much. As a long-time WCW fan, who did that flipping back and forth between Nitro and Raw, this brings back so many memories. Remember this and especially 1999 was when it felt like the promotion was fading. Really miss that period of time when there two special nights of the week to watch wrestling with friends.
I think it's that when viewed from a nostalgia point of view, it was a great Warrior Promo. When viewed from the Attitude Era point of view, where much of the audience never saw classic warrior personally and just knew him from the cultural zeitgeist, it was an atrocious promo. Hence the audience reaction.
Also, years later fans would become accustomed to HHH and Randy Orton boring them to tears with 20 min promos every week on RAW, but back in the AE it was car crash TV. Promos were usually 5 mins tops.
exactly. the Wolfpac segment on this show is a good example of what fans *were* going crazy about. and, on top of that, I assume it's also about expectations. just like if a promotion had brought in Jake Roberts and he would have done a shouty promo all of a sudden, there were likely certain expectations regarding the Warrior on-screen personality as well. (that's btw why I feel the nonsensical, but energetic promos work for him. it completely fits his persona. I mean, he's literally a dude that is known for RUNNING to the ring)
@@Bubba__Sawyer I to this day, baffle at the idea that anyone ever thinks HHH was ever good. Mid card squash match guy to get the babyface over is best he'll ever be.
@@LordSathar I mean, I liked him when I was young and he was leading DX and a decent anti-hero babyface. It's just HHH before and after that was not great...
The opening is my new favourite! I am a huge Batman the Animated Series mark and I loved everything about the opening! Great episode as always….Jay you have never let me down with all of the work you and the the guys put in! Love from Winnipeg 🇨🇦
OH LAWWWWD! I watched this live in '98. That Warrior promo was coherent, all of us watching could understand the words, but HOLY SHIT, it was Ramble-Tastic. I remember my attention span fading out halfway through. Good times switching between WWF and THE WcW back then. The "This is your barber" line was pretty damn good though.
Although Hogan as a heel was a nice change of pace, after awhile he became just as cartoonish as a heel as he was as a face, so it wore on me after awhile.
@@MsCholmondley-Warner facts, I would be times when Hollywood Hogan promos would go on for so long his voice would start to give out, which made it even funnier.
Eric Bischoff said his reactions were genuine because Warrior was only scheduled for ten minutes. Biscoff the executive was pulling his hair out (In his words). It was a terrible promo for the time and he was not allowed the extra eight minutes, he just did it.
I binged episodes 1 to 100 in the space of about 4 weeks just over a month ago, it feels like I've waited an eternity for this ep. Happy days are here again indeed.
@@somekindofbrady you’re basically like how I felt when I binged the Berserk manga for the first time during quarantine last year. Here’s hoping the lads here have decades more of genius content.
bookers turned Bret heel so that he wouldn't be lined up to have any matches with Hollywood Hogan. But 2 matches each against DDP, Lex Luger and Booker T, with three tag matches teaming with Hollywood Hogan, and the whole Sting feud, Bret actually a lot of screen time with WCW, more than enough to fill up a 3-hour DVD if we include the tag team match with Sting as his partner, the US Title match against Roddy Piper, plus filler matches like Disco Inferno, Brian Adams and Dean Malenko (Bret's real hamstring injury). Halloween Havoc would have be the only time to really line up Hart vs Hogan for a true main event match. (Hart was injured in late 1998 with only 12 months of regular appearances as the primary part of WCW career and sporadically only in the second half of 99)
Finally! My boy Kanyon getting some props! 👍 Criminally underrated worker, entertaining shtick, and a good look. Held back by a speech impediment and that fact that he was regarded by WWE higher ups as an idiot.
Pretty sure when Bret says, “The only reason Luger isn’t dead somewhere” in relation to Sting was due to the weird WCW storyline where Bret insisted he and Sting were friends. So Luger would’ve been taken out by the “Hitman” for good but was shown compassion on account of Sting being a great lad.
I freaking loved the Batman intro! Has to be a favorite for Intro of the Year come January! OFFICIALLY back in WCW. OH ME MOW! Can't ignore how many signs are the audience and the viewers (5 million). WCW was a hot brand still in 1998. No way a wrestling show could ever catch 5 millions viewers again in the digital age. Also.....I miss Eddie. Don't think Big Show ever did a moonsault, but he did a few top rope dropkicks.
Another cracking show. can't wait for the rest. Your shows are so rewatchable and what i think most people love is how you make each other laugh. We enjoy it because you enjoy it.
I want to hear Michael Buffer say "So, throw down your toys and get out of the sandbox, play time's over because tonight, somebody's gonna get their assss-whipped tonight in here."
OhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhYEA! Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! YEAH!! Ab bobobobobobobo!!! (GLITTERY FOAM STORMTROOPER HEADS FALL OUT THE BROKEN WALL AND INTO THE ROOM).... Cut to The boys reaction to the SHOCK MASTER'S DEBUT....
It's impossible to convey just how amazing Goldberg was during the streak, all the way up until Nash chumped him out. And he got over organically, just crushing jobbers and getting noticed and building and building. I hate what he's become but in 1998, the man was a god.
Agreed! I wanted to hate him being a WWF and Hogan mark but every week he won me over with that epic intro,unmatched intensity and absolute squashings. SPEAR!!JACKHAMMER! 1,2,3. It got to the point where I was just excited to see how long he was going to hold the Jackhammer for because you knew the win was guaranteed. Just a wild wave we all got to ride...
It's crazy in hindsight he only was world champion that one time and only for under 6 months. He still hadn't wrestled Scott Steiner, Bret Hart, Savage, Booker T, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit. They killed the golden goose and their backup plan flopped. I hate politics.
This is the first time I went back for a refresh before you boys covered the material. I’m a member of the Steve Warrior Nation here… I thought this was a more modern & realistic approach to the Warrior. His promo did run long but it all made sense. His choice of words, the lighting, the bat signal, the smoke…it just made it such a grandiose, superhero like portrayal of the character. Had he reeled in it and kept it under 10 minutes, we could’ve avoided the mirror angle and all the other bollix. But this segment thoroughly impressed me! Hellwig wasn’t an idiot, he had a vision, and WCW had the money to execute it…at least for one night! Thoroughly disappointed we didn’t get a reaction from you guys though of Hogan trying to take the piss out of the moment with, “I thought you were dead!” 😂
I actually miss the bell ringing when they were trying to get back control, made it seem more real. Like the officials are trying to remind them that only contact within a match is allowed.
So a lot of people use that "feels more real" line, but in this case can anyone actually point to a real fight/event where a bell ringer has kept smashing the bell when two guys were illegally brawling?
I actually agree with v1 and ooc. I remember listening to his entire promo on 83 weeks a few months back and being shocked at how it was actually good. I even thought the crowd was into it. Imagine being Eric Bischoff and trying to signal Warrior to go home during his ranting tho 😂😂 It's good to have ye back lads. Cannot wait for the next installment!!
Super excited that you're returning to WCW. Your Dungeon of Doom Story Arc is one of my favourite series; this is going to be glorious. Also love the Batman: TAS opener! Marked out for that one lads. Take a bo(w)!
So glad this arc was chosen. I was all in on WCW until the bitter end watching every Monday and every PPV. So was there for all the bollocks. I kept hoping for WCW to return to form until the day rumors started that McMahon bought it. But you know what? Despite the utter shit of the final couple years, there was some great stuff and characters I totally loved. Hell, Kronik is my boy stable tag team.
I will not take any Teddy Long slander on this channel, I will gladly adopt Teddy as my boy. Also for NXT WarGames I’m pretty sure only the first WarGames match was a Triple Threat match.
I keep coming back for that Midway bit. Makes me laugh every time. "You mean the company that went out of business?" "That's the one" Fucking great lol
Bret's "the WCW" is the same as when people say "the WWE". "The WWF" makes sense: the World Wrestling Federation. "The WWE" makes no sense: the World Wrestling Entertainment? It would be like if people called Marvel "the Marvel". That's just as bad as when people call it WWE (or "the WWE") regardless of the time period/era they're talking about.
Yeah I think Bret's was probably out of being used to saying "The WWF" and I guess I say "The WWE" because I spent over 10 years or so of my fandom saying "The WWF"
Literally. I kept describing it as “bland or boring” when it wasn’t so much the actual action but the overall look and presentation. You’re absolutely right it just seems strikingly grey and colorless.
It so much better than the overdone and horrendously oversaturated Raw and Smackdown sets of today. There's just waaay too much red and blue everywhere.
Fun fact during the Wolf Pac segment: the name of the hockey team that plays at the arena in Hartford is called the Hartford Wolf Pack! No relation, but as a hockey fan I thought that was pretty cool lol.
