Watching MTV's "True Life: I'm A Pro Wrestler" (Triple H, Chyna, Tony Atlas) 

Tony Atlas who said in Legends House. "I had an IQ test and the doctor told me if my IQ was one point lower, id be a banana". What a legend lol 😆

It's so hurtful to hear Chyna talk about where she would be in 10 years.

"Anybody got a cella phone?" My favorite line from this whole show

"I tried to get a business degree...for business." Horsemen business.

Tony Atlas comes off as such a nice dude .God bless that man

I love that you get right into it WrestlingBios, everybody else take MINUTES to get started and you just cut through the fluff.

Dude, Atlas telling his suicide attempt story over that RHP instrumental is top tier editing. "Scar tissue that I wish you saw." Sad story of how far a fall from greatness can take you.

Matt Classic looks like when you ask your mom for Disco Inferno and she tells you that you have Disco Inferno at home.

I miss old school MTV. RIP Chyna, 🙏🏾

Matt Classic is the love child of Buff Bagwell and Disco Inferno😂😂😂

Bios vs Matt Classic is the best feud I’ve seen in ages.

It’s sad seeing how happy Chyna is knowing what happens in 2 years time

People who weren't around for the attitude era can't understand how massive wrestling was then.

I think Chyna was doing an Austin Powers impression when assessing Undertaker's tongue.

I saw Rory Fox wrestle a couple weeks ago. He had a vest with the MTV logo on it and I could not understand why. It all makes sense now. Still delivering all these years later.

i lost it when you said to matt "cry, go ahead, cry"

I think its actually cool showing different levels with Triple H & Chyna being in WWE before their biggest success, Tony Atlas being a star of yesteryear and the other guy starting and trying to start the right way. I wonder how well this kind of thing would do now in the present Also Rory Fox is still going in his career and his latest match was on the 9th of February this year under the name Gil Rogers

at the end when you say "sorry for a longer video this time" i was like "it's only been 20 minutes what is he saying?" then i checked and its 1 hour and 8 minutes! it was such an easy watch and went by so quick. My favorite youtuber by far

Matt classic reminds me of when you ask your mom for Disco Inferno, but she says we have Disco Inferno at home.

Little did Chyna know that she'll leave behind a trailblazing legacy for women in wrestling. Rest In Peace Chyna! 🙏😢❤️

Matt "Classics" clueless/unfounded confidence is hilarious. 😂😂😂

Having actually worked fr Tony Atlas in his Indie promotion in Maine I can tell you this. He never stopped smoking weed. Tony would come party with Games guys on the Carnival after the show. He had the BEST weed ever.

The music in the WWF in 99 was on point

I watched this when it premiered back in 1999. Despite being part of that MTV generation I usually only watched for like Celebrity Deathmatch and stuff like that, but when pro wrestling was mentioned you can bet our ass I was in front of the TV. One thing I always take away is how happy Chyna seems to be here. Makes me sad knowing what eventually happens. The Tony Atlas stuff is tough too.

It's wild seeing Snitsky and Shark Boy back then lol. Love this video

HAHAH "HAS THE WORK ETHIC OF A DEAD MAN". ABSOLUTE BANGER FROM THE INSTRUCTER TOWARDS MATT

The True Life about HHH and Chyna was awesome back in the day. RIP Chyna 😢🕊️🌹🙏🏼.

39:13 Absolutely heartbreaking to listen to that knowing how things turned out for Chyna. I hope she has peace now.

Matt Classic v. David Flair, the Mania match of the century we will never get.

Oh mtv. "I cut my wrist" *Queue Scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers*

There is another True Life episode about wrestling. Specifically it's about backyard wrestlers and them trying to get into WWF.

To provide just the extra bit of context for the portion toward the beginning when we first meet Matt when the video cut out... He was explaining that he used to take his father's credit card to sign up for classes, and would spend thousands of dollars in one day signing up for multiple classes, fees, books, etc and then the next day would go party with his friends and skip class. He went on to state he had done this multiple times.

*checks out Tony Atlas' Twitter/X* ... *scrolls down 10 seconds* ... *regrets it* ...

I remember seeing this as a kid, but the only part I remember is the Tony Atlas segments because I remember how heartbreaking they were especially when he mentioned having to hide money from himself, or how, he was sleeping on park benches despite being a champion

I don’t care how much it paid, I doubt he did either - Paperboy was on top of the world when he walked in that locker room. I can imagine he’d always remember that night.

You're right, this WAS actually a riveting documentary, with some unexpected angles and insights.

For the record when she said "first couple" I think she meant as in the usage of the term when people say "the first lady" when referring to the president's wife. It's a way of saying they are the preeminent couple in wrestling.

BJ is BJ Whitmer who was in ROH and Luscious Lucy is Lufisto who is still wrestling.

Chyna would probably be very happy to see how far women’s wrestling has come. I feel like women’s wrestlers are right up there with Women’s UFC fighters as the most respected in sports.

13:37 The guy stretching Triple H saying "Yesss yesss beautiful" is actually the actor who played Sub-Zero from the 1st MK movie. Francois Petit.

This takes me back to wrestling school, it isn't easy, but you just need to keep getting back up. Its a resilience check, and a show of heart. That Matt dude is just an air head

This was a great rewind down memory lane. Seeing Tony Atlas, Paul & Chyna behind the scenes was nice. Seeing the stories of everyone in this doc at different stages of their lives in this business was eye opening.

Man, the Tony Atlas parts of the video, while informative and showing us all the hardships of what happens when all the glitz and glanmer is gone, it was REALLY depressing.

The irony of wrestling bio making this when I legit rewatched this true life episode yesterday just for nostalgia is amazing

>Amanda Storm Oh hey, I remember her. She used to wrestle at some northeast indies including WEW in the 2000s. >Luscious Lucy Ah LuFisto, still around and is now a promoter.

After watching the endless amounts of wrestling shows/documentaries I have to say HHH has got to be the most dedicated wrestler ever.

Tony Atlas working with a young Gene Snitsky by the looks of things and the fact he has Snitsky on the back of his jersey lol

Matt reminds me of my friend back when I was actively training to prepare for trying to become a pro wrestler while he was just screwing around saying he was going to be a pro wrestler too.

Host: “First couple of the WWF, Triple H and China.” Randy Savage: “Excuse me, but I would like a word with ya!”

Intercutting footage of the Indy shows with footage of Fully Loaded somehow make the formers even more depressing they already are.

I know this aired in 1999, but WCW was gonna struggle the following year so those guys in the independent wrestling shows had no idea what was gonna happen.

That leg sweep/kick out drill looks insane. I trained for 2 year to be a wrestler before deciding to become a referee for 14 years and its drills like that and running internationals (Drop down/leap frogs) until you puke that made it a very easy decision to switch lol

Tony Atlas and Gene Snitsky have more in common than Wrestling odd to see them together

That local promoter is why wrestling is referred to as a carny business, let's face it they're all like that in a way. Same with Rory Fox getting talked into that gimmick, I immediately thought of the stories of Vince and Heyman where a wrestler is pissed at them for whatever reason and then the next thing you know they've been talked into doing almost exactly what the promoter wanted and they're like "How the hell did that happen?".

Rapid Delivery now wrestles as Gil Rogers for Central States Wrestling. I watched him defend his title just 3 days ago. He's in great shape and can still go.

Rapid Delivery would have made a good tag team partner for Val Venis. lol

Was that Francois Petit cracking HHH’s back? I remember a Something to Wrestle, Bruce Prichard said he was their “doctor” and that he played subzero in the first Mortal Kombat movie lol

Chyna really loved HHH 😢 You can tell she just adores him when they’re together. I wish he was more into personality than status. I honestly believe she would still be alive and he would still be the CCO.

New heel stable with Matt Classic and Dave Flair

This video was badass and wouldn’t have been anywhere near as entertaining without your commentary, ESPECIALLY when you followed up on the dream life of good old Matt classic. What a star…

I watched this dozens of times when I was younger. It is so dark considering how it ended up with Matt Classic and Chyna.

I absolutely love these VHS deep dives. Thankyou for all the hard work @Wrestling Bios

RIP CHYNA

Tony Atlas talking about he felt he was in shape but gassed in two minutes in his first match is so on point. I remember when I was training that it put my football workouts to shame and I later found out why our training was intense when I started working matches. I played (American) Football both sides (offense and defense) but I have always said that I was more exhausted working a 15 minute match than playing an entire Football game. LOL

Damn that thumbnail alone really hit me! Partly for Chyna, being young and hopeful, getting the biggest push, being a superstar and knowing the decline she was headed for. Partly for the nostalgia of simpler times, hanging out on Thursday nights with the guys waiting for Raw to come on. We got it a few days later where I'm from

This was dope af i remember when it debuted. Man watching other channels talk about wrestling was so cool back in the day

I wish there was a follow-up to the Matt Classic story. "Work ethic of a dead man." Amazing!

Tony's opponent at 08:29 looks like a young Snitsky. That wasn't his fault.

Roddy Piper said it best, wrestling has a fantastic entry game into wrestling but there's no end game.

I saw most of these specials when they originally aired, and have most of them on VHS tape somewhere, so I always love when you do these videos. A bit of useless trivia, but I've worked on several shows with Tony Atlas over the years, and was fortunate enough to be his tag partner for a match a couple of years ago. Wrestling is crazy. Anybody who's been in it for 5 minutes or more will have a similar story; that's what makes it so great even at the smaller level. People often talk about the independents with a focus on the noteworthy lack of glamor compared to the WWE, but what gets lost in all that is the many opportunities to do cool stuff you only dreamed of doing as a kid. "I had dinner with Kevin Nash, I got to team with Tony Atlas", and so on. Tony is also a very, very funny guy. He has a very dry delivery and that really puts it over. He's one of those guys where everybody jokes about his "interests" but they all love having him around.

I remember watching this when it first aired and I feel in love with Chyna. She made me feel better about myself. Being a girl who was in shape and had muscles due to my years of sport and being made fun for not having the typically female body and seeing her and her body just gave me more confidence in myself as a preteen/ teenage girl. RIP to the 9th Wonder of the World

8:32 woah! That’s Gene Snitsky!

Oof, Poor Chyna getting used by The Game 😬

I remember watching this when I was a kid. But the thought of how WWF & WCW had everything locked down so tightly never occurred even though they were saying it every other scene. And honestly I am glad that today we have so many promotions that can give guys who can’t make it to the “big shows” a chance to showcase their passion so to speak.

I was surprised by how good this MTV piece was. It's sort of a depressing watch but highly intriguing overall, pulling back the curtain a bit more for casual viewers/fans. I do wonder how much things have changed, especially on the indie scene.

2:40 that was a ROUGH close line... Rock Almost Landed On His Head

I love how this documentary shows all aspects from the wrestling business from the highs and lows, to training and the independent circuit. Great documentary, ive seen this pop up many times on here and never got around to watching it.

Hats off to Tony for being able to press Snitsky even at age he was here. With ease too.

"I wanted to be rich and famous ever since I was little and I didn't care how it happened," title of your sextape! (Brooklyn 99)

Matt Classic vs. David Flair book it booker man!

MTV True Life was amazing back in the day ❤

Hour long video ? We eating good today, great vid already .

1:00:16 Poor kid is so nervous, he misses the high five.

I just learned more about Tony Atlas accidentally. I can't take it back sadly.

It just hurts to watch Tony in front of only like 20 people.

I had fun watching this upload. And I liked the longer video . If you have more, put them up.

I miss when MTV use to show WWF stuff...those were the days

That show “True Life”, was great. I thought it was so interesting to see all these different dives into worlds. I remember being so excited for this to air! The curtain still wasn’t peeled all the way back when this aired. Still a bit of an air of mystery about how it all played out “backstage”. These guys and gals lives were so much more of a mystery to we fans. So something like this and the OG “Wrestling with Shadows”, was utterly fascinating to us.

This was great. I don’t know if you have already, but it’d be cool if you could do other wrestling documentaries the same way you did this. There’s Slammed, Card Subject to Change, The Backyard and Beyond the Mat ect.

A couple of the people in this have passed... The Young Italian guy and Chyna. RIP

When the WWF started expanding in the early 1980s one of the reasons Vince got the company so big so fast can be seen by the promoter in this video - they thought of themselves as little lords of their own fiefdom and didn't want anybody else getting a foot in their domain and they weren't willing to work with or bend to help another out.

These Tony Atlas clips are sad to see. Could there be a Tony Atlas deep dive in future?

True life back in the day was my favorite show... I've seen this episode many times..rip chyna..💙💙

So excited about this upload!! Seen this several times back in the day but haven't seen any of it except the HHH/Chyna part in years. Thank you again WrestlingBios for another great video!!

Thanks for your continued uploads. You're a machine!

Its really sad seeing a WWF/WWE legend/ Hall of Famer having to dip into an emergency stash to pay for a wrestling event!! Dude should be be a millionaire but Google/Wikipedia says his networth is only 300k

Love that the trainer streching HHH is Sub Zero

Chyna had such a gentle soul. RIP.

The Chyna part in the plane hits in such a weird way now.

Chyna was a true beauty and tony atlas seems like a really nice guy. I wish i could of met either one of them