How WCW Ruined Mike Awesome 

Would Brian Cage be the spiritual successor?

@@stickershock66 Pretty close! I don't think anyone has the natural athleticism and guts (craziness) that Mike did thou. Ever see one of his 'flipping reverse Awesome bombs' off the top rope before? I've never seen even a Luchadore pull that off

The only thing that's missing is that he isn't dressed in garish mismatching attire based on whatever caught the person making the CAW's eye at that moment.

Deadass lol

And acting talent that makes Tommy Wiseau's performances look like it's Oscar worthy.

Kelso had a van

I truly miss him he was so agile for a big guy and that top rope back elbow truly awesome

That would require actually putting some thought into this shit gimmick

"When Mike Awesome became that 70th guy" I preferred that 69th guy.

@@Cursed_Mark that would have been nice

That's Russo-era WCW for ya

Russo's booking in a nutshell

That's fucked up

That’s too damn much, what an asshole.

@The God of Spades [8] You don’t think saying that is abit....out of nowhere? Like, damn. I get getting into character but that edge, lol.

It also isn’t fair. Awesome has perfectly legit reasons for leaving ECW and the cult of Heyman has demonized him to an absurd degree over the years.

@@michaelsinger4638 Wow, they really did that, huh? Jeez.

@@MrCreepyKitty cool? Again?

@@jamespaul6315 you put mike awesome with Pillman Jr and garrison in AEW? Solid gold. Mullets are cool

Retro Vintage - Fat Chick Thrilla

THE BUS....... HAS BEEN WASHED!

Worst part was that he grabbed his ankle to try and keep him from falling in the moment I guess, but only turned his body so the guy went head first to the concrete instead of sideways.

If anything, it got dirtier after Shaggy 2 Dope touched it.

Too sooWEEET!

12:38 This killed me 🤣

He moved Gary like he's a broken table lol

I was just about to say the same thing!

I missed that. That was funny AF~~

I love how nonchalant the ref is about dragging him he's like Nothing weird here just another day in WCW

He should've at least won the U.S. title or the I.C. Championship in WCW and the WWF respectively.

You think the top stars in wcw and wwf are gonna bump for mike ? Dude was mad careless with dudes in ecw

​@@ScumBagInFLit was just the fmw/ecw style. He was actually trained by Skinner who at one point was the wwf in house trainer. He could work safe.

Please Vice! If you make another season for Dark Side of the Ring please do an episode about Mike Awesome!

Awesome Indeed!

Damn right

Thank you 🙏

I PRAY SEASON 4!!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

I was in denial of this for the longest time ,because I thought nothing beats this tragic era of WCW, but the bar is being lowered to the point where ,comparing today's WWE to WCW back then is becoming increasingly appropriate...

Facts,all you have to do is look at his match at ECW One Stand, and see both company's wasted a HUGE oppurtunity.

I expected big things after he debuted and attacked Kevin Nash, but just like a lot of things in WCW at that time…they did nothing with it. R.I.P Mike Awesome

But unfortunately that's litterally the only thing that killed wcw other than of course their issues with time Warner, is they had such a massive roster and these guys had ridiculously high paying contracts for the time that it couldn't be profitable. I mean at the end they still sold ppv and they had just as much viewership on tv as the garbage wwe has today.

@@spyderco329 But WCW didn't have any sort of media rights deals to be had. WWE's only keeping above water, because of that multi-billion dollar deal that is to be renegotiated on soon. Think Endeavor is going to get a return on their investment when they can't get anywhere close to the value of the media rights that they currently have?

Agreed. The world needs to know how much of a total shithead Rob Black is.

@@Henshingod Hopefully he also discusses this gem of a case en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Extreme_Associates,_Inc.

It's been done 🤔

@@danbarrett5594 By Brian?

Zane is probably attached to his thumbs and would like to stay that way.

It;s just a shame a wrestler of his talent and abilities couldnt have both a stellar career with the shots he deserved as well as favorable paydays.

Exactly..these marks kill me when they act like wrestling ain’t a business..Mike put his family first..wish he knew how much he truly was respected for his in ring talent..RIP brother..forever awesome 💪🙏

as obnoxious as Russo can be...Cornette is absolutely unhinged. He needs to move on lol

@@skippythealien9627 but that's Corny's biggest draw. Imagine if The Undertaker stopped being a deadman and started riding chopper... oh wait.

@@skippythealien9627 no he doesn't. Fuck Russo

As far as I am aware Cornette didn't care for Mike Awesome since Awesome was an ECW style guy a style which Cornette hates

Cornette and Russo are two sides of the same coin.

Mike was definitely Awesome

He belongs as an action star in a film XD

Legendary mullet

But it was most popular in the 80s and even Coleman called it an 80s show.

The show was on from 1978-1986, it was mostly 80s. Still interesting to see Gary.

Gary Coleman became famous in the 70s on other TV shows.

Should have brought in Todd Bridges future runner up of Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling

The joke was that they wanted to make mike awesome look like a dumbass- big move to make a star, but they did the same with guys like guerero jericho benoit mero oder alex wright by giving themthis extremely long opening matches- so that those guys might f... up after 20 minutes and failing stamina. wcw sabotaged many careeers, thats not a wwe exclusive :)

12:38

@@enigmaskull3495 perfect delivery lol

How do you go from "Get out of the ring and live or stay in the ring and die" to "I'mma getem"?

How many Inferno matches has Kane actually won? Edit: ONE out of FOUR.

My immediate thought was of Kane and inferno matches. I had to look it up to see if he had ever won one

Whats your point....Taker has lost more casket matches than he has won, he has lost more buried alive matches than he has won, he has also lost more Hell in a cell matches than he has won...All of those are supposed to be "signature" Undertaker matches

@@lutherheggs451 It was Undertaker and buried alive matches that sprung instantly to my mind. He lost everyone I remember( Although I may be wrong) except for the first against Mankind......where he still ended up buried alive.

@@lutherheggs451 My point was that Kane has win-loss record of 1-3 in his signature match and that, just like the point made in the video, it's pretty poor booking to create a specialty match for a wrestler only to have him lose said match. Obviously the guy with a full body outfit is going to be the one to be set on fire in an inferno match but still a very poor way to book a wrestler. MVP being the only other wrestler to have lost an inferno match because just like Kane back in the days, he wore a full body outfit that would allow him to be set on fire. I guess it's somewhat the equivalent of the "he who sets it up must take it" rule as the gimmick match was created for him but had to take the loss. I'm not sure what your point was, Taker has a 11-4 record for casket matches, 2-3 record in buried alive matches and an 8-6 record in hell in a cell matches where he only appeared in 14 of the 45 matches.

Agreed, Mike wrestling in WCW alone made me a fan since I didn't watch ECW at the time. WWE made no effort into trying to do a semblance of anything with him.

According to the Death of WCW book he hated working in WWE. He said "Being in WWE sucked. I hated it. You had to kiss everybody's ass. You had to be on your political toes all the time. You would not believe the backstage politics. I was so glad when they told me I was gone."

I forgot about that part of things. Not seen the match in full before but....I have heard about the commentary. Joey Styles had a comment in particular about wishing him dead after a suicide dive....not good.

Because it's cliche to point out how prophetic Joey Styles' commentary was.

Starfire!

He would be way to old by then. Now if you said Goldberg or Sting or one of the other big namew in WCW at that time he was there and they just let him be Mike Awesome that would have been something to watch.

No you didn't

How did you know The BigMan?

@@paulduckworth316 I used to live in Florida in Hudson and Tampa during the early 2000's/2010's and wrestlers are a common sight and guys like Mike and bam we're very approachable and cool to talk to and hangout with. I knew Mike had trouble with his marriage because his wife wanted him to go wrestle in Japan where they will book him well and pay him well because of his history there. Mike wanted a normalized life so it was tragic. Bam had a serious drug problem because of his biker lifestyle so that sucked when he passed.

@@daoust26 that's very interesting thanks for replying bro

@@paulduckworth316 no problem

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*slow clap*

Shame on you for this, sir...

As a 5th grader, Justin credible was the greatest wrestling name ever lol

no....just no...

Same, the face he pulls as he says it makes me laugh as well

Both promos in general are hilarious

@@kael2450 I wish they were both alive just so I could see them team up as "Some Sweet Karate".

I still have it on my mp3 player

Let's get it. Yaaaa

That intro is 🔥🔥🔥

A very long list 😂😂😂

@Jay Harv28 Russo objectively wrong on both counts. For starters, the bulk of WCW's top guys were up in years. It was not young talent fueling WCW. And Muta was SUPER over, there's a LOT of talk amongst both fans and folks in the business that he very well would have had a very successful face turn if they wanted to go that route, he was so over with teh fans, and many feel a title run would not have been farfetched.

Muta hated America. He was treated great and like a real threat when WCW first brought him over in 1990. I was legit scared for Sting lol. They booked him really good. But Muta don't speak English and hated the American culture. He was a face in Japan but was booked as a heel (which fit his gimmick here) in America. He didn't like it.

Missing about 8 “bro”s in that sentence

@@TheFlock83 i dont wanna say bro many times. 1 is enough 2nd you over doing it, 3 times going overboard.

Yes

The powerbomb to the table outside of the ring was brutal as well.

i thought that little mic spot there was really good. idk why brian didnt like it

@@Disneymagic24 It's how he said it. Which I admit, did sound a little off.

Very common with WCW

Ya. His career actually improved huh

The things Mike Awesome could do was phenomenal no big man should be moving around like that loved the matches with masato tanaka

He'd have been great if he had Paul Heyman as a mouthpiece.

Mike awesome could've been awesome but wasn't.. Pfft

@@stonecold6521 Paul Heyman would not have done it. He took Mike Awesome detecting to WCW personally.

Why i are you better at this than the bookers?

Wall was a damn good wrestler, he was able to show a little more of it in early TNA as "Malice". Him built up properly vs Awesome is a match I'd have loved to have seen.

Everyone craps on the last two years of WCW but there were some great talents who were on their assent, Storm, The Wall, Awesome, O’Hare, Jindrak,

@@TheWinstonSlip Too many of those guys are dead.

He didn't say "dough"

@@sheepdavis there's a cooking youtube channel called binging with babish and he always refers to bread dough as smooth and supple. Hence the bad joke lol

PrinceVegita1 Thank You. I liked his 70s Guy gimmick too. He played kool as that 70s guy, but he became AWESOME. I agree.

I think you mean WCW.

@@charlesminor6279 no, I mean WWE. They were only in WCW for a year. Not enough time to get wasted. Also WCW pushed O'Haire quite much for a rookie.

@@fillgollinsdergroarticheme8442 OH ok gotcha.

Let's get it. Yeah. 😅

It’s got nothing on the original nitro intro

Consider yourself fortunate😁

Will search for this. Thanks

Oops just realised it's not the native American Tatanka