My 12 year old has heard me watch reliving the war each week and asked me to watch with him. He’s hooked. This era spoke to everyone and now it’s speaking to a new generation!
This channel has a series called the "Best of..." designed specifically to help newer fans find matches featuring legends of the past. If interested, I'd recommend it.
With the mount Rushmore of reliving the war, we got Alex Wright, Steve Blackmon, Smokey the cat, and Michael the Jabroni. All first ballot hall of famers.
I remember there was speculation that it was Steve Blackman. That Blackman was going to join the Corporate Ministry and helping Vince and Shane win the ladder match against Austin was his admission ticket.
The absolute contrast here between main events is astounding. One side is David Flair vs Big Sexy Nash. The other side is two of the biggest stars ever in Stone Cold vs Undertaker. Yeah thats a lobsided main event ticket.
Regal would've been the funniest heavyweight champion for WCW but, would've also brought some class back to that championship. Very underrated performer in my opinion.
I was at Raw that night. My boss at the golf course i was working at in Greenville, SC radioed us all to be at the maintenance building by 3. Had us all clock out at 3:16 pm, then surprised us all with tickets to Raw in Cherlotte that night. It was made even more awesome by Austin winning the title that night. What an awesome time, man. Ed, if you’re a Reliving the War guy and you see this, thank you, brother. Best boss ever
@@sherrix6881 imagine the misery it takes to seek out people you’ve never met to try and undermine their life experiences. I sincerely hope you find the happiness you are missing in your life.
The best match between Austin and Taker in WWE"s RAW and Attitude Era History that, not only became a Do or Die situation, but this match alone, the *"Legend of Charlotte",* eventually brought RAW back on track against Nitro.
Love the continued story of Steve Blackman, if for no other reason than we know he is legit one of the toughest men in wrestling history and you could feasibly see both companies going to all these extra lengths to stop the final boss known as the 'mufuggin one'.
Its actually kind of amazing that WCW had Randy Savage Sid vicious DDP bam bam Bigelow ric flair Roddy piper sting and Kevin Nash and STILL couldn't book a semi decent main event with that level of talent. The level of incompetence is actually remarkable
The main thing we should take away from this series is that Austin vs Undertaker was just not a very interesting match up despite the numerous matches they had.
Take this with a grain of salt as my only real source is TV Tropes, but originally, Malia Hosaka was supposed to be a Rocky Balboa type character where she was going to climb up the rankings of the women's division and then challenge Ivory for the belt, however it got scrapped because "too many fans recognized her.".
If you watch the Nitro segment with Flair, Macho, etc making the deal, there’s a moment where Sid shakes Arn’s hand that I always heard was them kinda moving past the whole scissor incident from years prior. Not sure if that’s true or if it’s just cause they’re “allies” on TV, but it’s a cool thing to notice.
I LOVE your new schtick of doing "research" in your videos (not just RTW, but in general), you just skim it, then just "Whatever...." and quickly switch back to the video. Subscriber of over 5 years (February 2019), and You just keep getting better and better Ryan. WCW For Life.
I recently came across a match on RU-vid from 1988. The Islanders and "High Chief" Afi vs. Outback Jack, another jobber, and a young Steve Blackman. Haku and Blackman only faced off directly for a few seconds, almost as though they realized if they actually fought the entire universe may explode. I never knew that match existed though, and thought it was a cool random matchup to find.
I remember when I saw this initially I popped huge for Boss Man coming out with the hard time theme lol. I was a kid again briefly, and was swerved by the immediate heel realignment.
I just got my mom into Reliving the War. LOL she's never been into wrestling in her entire life but this series has her hooked. She wants Norman Smiley back. Lmao well done as always Ryan
I remember this episode vividly after 25 years. I was jumping up and down when Austin beat Taker. I never expected a real match between Austin and Taker, much less a title change.
@@WoodrosWorld Considering how often Raw was ending in 3 minute matches that turned to brawls, they needed the occasional big match. Raw at this time was still heavy on matches that were really just angles. The idea of proper matches on free TV didn't take hold in WWE till 2000-01
Fully Loaded is my favorite PPV of 99 and probably easily one of my favorite of the entire Attitude Era. Some great matches and I love how the storyline intersected with each other.
Fun fact this is the last time the Undertaker holds this version of the title and only holds the WWF/E Title one more time. Also Hardcore Hak looks like David Flair if he was wasted
One of my favorite Raws because it was the night Stone Cold regained the WWE Championship. Two years in Row Austin Regained the WWE Championship the night after the King of the Ring. Only that year King of the Ring he was not the Champion. Still it made me happy to see being Champion again.
Flair, Piper, Savage, and Sid could've actually been a pretty nice faction, maybe a revamped Horsemen, had WCW invested their time in such an idea. Sure would've beat some of the other goofiness in that company
"The wrestling is real, people are fake elbow." I swear DDP used that phrase on some of his merch at some point. No idea if anyone likes my suggestion but I popped myself ateast. If you don't choose mine I'll tell Steve Mufuggin Blackman that you're currently producing a "best of" country music album with bonus, never heard before, country cover of the Mufug music. Both themes. I mean it, by God. I'll do it. I'm crazy.
Now onto Austin's last title reign during the war. The next time he wins the title will be at Wrestlemania X7 which takes place six days after the war ends. Billy Gunn's push and the beginning of his feud with the Rock which will send him crashing back to tag team wrestling. They were really trying to make Billy Gunn happen here. If memory serves me right, I believe we are close to the end of Flair being the kayfabe WCW president. I can't remember if that happens before or after the next PPV.
I still recall watching that music video with my dad and little brother and how much we all laughed at those lyrics. It was hilariously entertaining and we were quoting it for weeks.
8:15 I’m guessing WCW didn’t fully commit to Lodi and Lane as an actual romantic couple. If WCW had, this likely wouldn’t be the first time I’m learning about this storyline. Instead of us wrestling fans reminiscing about the Billy and Chuck storyline (and how badly that ended, lol), we would instead be doing so about Lodi and Lane. (1999-me had stopped watching WCW a few weeks ago, so this and other WCW storylines from this time are mostly new to me.) I guess I’ll see what happens as Reliving the War progresses. Although this is late-stage WCW, so it’s possible there is zero payoff to this, lol.
Also as a basketball fan, its really funny to me Michael Jordan had a statue outside the Chicago Bulls arena in 99 and would then come back as a player for the Washington Wizards in 2001.
I just started the podcasts of these! They are amazing!! Love listening to the stories and breakdown of each show while I’m at work! Keep it up. Any way you could make a playlist for the ppvs on Apple podcast tho? If not I’m fine with checking on RU-vid. Thanks for all your work
