I always loved Mark Curtis's bounce he did when two big guys would hit the mat for a high impact move. He'd make the move appear more devastating by selling the ring movement. Not many refs can make the wrestler's moves look better. He was one of the best.
Man Alex Wright has some of the shittiest luck when it comes to opponents. The guy he's feuding with doesn't want to do the job on the PPV and the guy replacing him decides to be an unprofessional dickhead. I like ole hacksaw but come on dude, that wasn't necessary.
I love how Hacksaw brought up the fact that he doesn't "get used because he doesn't put the young guys over" and it's like, Oooooh, I wonder why you don't get used?
How fitting. At Fall Brawl 1998, Chris Jericho defended his title against a Fake Goldberg. In 1999, the Cruiserweight Title was defended by a Fake Chris Jericho.
You can't argue that fake Goldberg was more popular than fake Jericho. And real Jericho was as popular, if not more than real Goldberg at this time Even if it's just because he switched sides
Absolutely insane how Benoit was sick of the old guys stinking up all the TV time and wanted things to change, so WCW responded by having the entire Revolution faction lose to said old guys on this entire PPV.
If I was involved in wrastlin’ I would’ve done the same. Hell I would’ve wanted the pyro to be only my ashes and for it to be splashed, STRAIGHT INTO THE FANS FACES!
The WCW PPV where Sting turned heel and the fans still cheered for him LOL. I can't believe WCW thought the audience would have booed Sting despite being a fan favorite for years. Another reason why the turn didn't work was because Hogan spent 3 years controlling WCW with the NWO, and now he was a good guy all of a sudden. In the end, it was a fail.
WWE did the same thing with Stone Cold Steve Austin with the same results, they turned him heel but the Fans cheered him anyways. Austin was so over the Fans loved him no matter what the WWE storylines portrayed him as.
@@mikebryant614Austin's heel turn, for me, is considered the worst one out of the history of wrestling, while Hulk Hogan's heel turn is one of the greatest. A real ying/yang situation.
It's a good thing the crowd was happy with the bait and switch for the Berlyn match. It went from being a PPV worthy match to something that should have been an opener for Thunder.
I will never understand guys refusing to put other guys over. Especially a midcard guy who fans barely care about anymore. It’s a shame. Bag well lost all the time and Duggan was lucky to still have a place to do what he calls wrestling.
This PPV took place the very day I was born, so that’s neat. Though I’ll never get to experience what it was like watching all this happen in real time, this series has been a cool way to see how the Monday Night Wars, Attitude Era and decline of WCW unfolded.
The best line I ever read, and still use, about WCW PPV was from one of the old Monday Night Recap from I believe "Slobberknocker Central, back during the Monday Night Wars. "WCW PPV's are like Dr Pepper. You see it advertised and you think, that looks good, I think I'll get one. So you get one and you realize that it's poison. Then a month later you see it advertised, and you think, that looks good, I think I'll get one..."
@@indianastones6032 He was actually a more than decent wrestler. But he was only 5'6'' and could only have gone over 150 lbs with a backpack full of bricks on his shoulders. When he started wrestling in the mid-to-late '80s, after having been a manager since 1984, there was no realistic chance to have a successful career as a pro wrestler with those stats. It's such a shame he had to pass away as young as he did. F%&k cancer!
I think I heard Cornette say that Hildebrand was a wrestler at some point. But, I can't be sure. It's also depressing that we lost referee Randy Anderson. And son of Gorilla Monsoon, Joey Morella in a car accident. And Tim White, too.
I was there live for this and yes, fans did not think Sting was a heel just that Hogan got what he deserved! lol All of us were cheering for Sting to hit him with the bat!
@@DariusFrench6273Because he didn't have a f****** clue what he was doing and anyone in creative was just collecting a paycheck they probably seen the writing on the wall
@@brianshields7485 Hogan knew damn well he had a shelf life and yet he, and Bischoff, refused to acknowledge or look past that. Also, creative control in the contract? Recipe for disaster. Just the beginning of the inmates running the asylum.
"WCW don't use me much because I don't like putting over younger guys" What an absolute carny. Remembering when he squashed Steve Austin for the US title while thinking of this quote is top tier comedy.
Makes you wonder if "Berlin" had some legitimate heat with the guys in the locker room. Having one guy refuse to job and another refuse to sell seems odd.
Maybe a permeating stigma because years prior he was a Ric Flair project? Ik the reason Paul Roma immediately got fired for the stunt he pulled with Alex was because Flair was absolutely livid about it.
Wellll, Duggan never sold much. He, Hogan, Austin(I've recently heard),Cena and a few others think it's 100% real and wouldn't put anyone over if it hurt their character in their eyes. Marks, I think they're called.
The Berlyn situation is wild. All that effort and TV time promoting Alex Wright’s new character and two mid card vets just scuttle the whole thing? And it doesn’t seem like there were big consequences? If it were WWE, Bagwell would have been completely buried as unprofessional and a quitter on air and Duggan would have been fired. Edit: To be fair, yeah the lack of Bischoff at that particular moment was probably a factor here for why Buff thought he could get away with it.
@@fangjokerLS Hey You, writing comments in the thread, always watching what you said, if Roger Waters watched any WCW Nitro in late 1999, he would be Comfortably Numb
@@roccojamison89gooker51 if Vince Russo goes skating on the thin ice of pro wrestling, we'd all best run like hell, otherwise we're waiting for the worms and we don't want to stick around for the trial.
Sting with the most well received "heel turn" in history. I know I enjoyed watching him lay out Hogan, in what was otherwise a forgettable match, and ppv...
The final PPV Eric Bischoff put together. Next Nitro begins the post-Bischoff era of WCW. Maybe Bill Busch can convince a certain writer from the WWF to jump ship. What am I saying that might be a terrible idea come to think of it, as WCW in 2000 was worse than WCW in 1999.
So... Who the hell thought turning Sting *and* Diamond Dallas Page heel in 1999 was a good move? Fans LOVED both guys. Those ideas never should've left the draft stage.
Some say they needed heels.. Some say they wanted to try something new. I say Hogan wanted to main event as a babyface, so they had to get their best babyfaces (Sting, DDP) to turn heel. They had so much star power for fresh main events with Sting, DDP, Goldberg, Bret Hart.
@@DBecks09 I didn't wanna blame Hogan bc it's a meme at this point. But seeing him in the red and yellow with the Big Gold Belt in 1999 is the kinda lameness only he would advocate for. The same garbage that didn't would in 1995 WCW was gonna save it while crushing 2 out of the 3 top babyfaces?
But that's exactly what they are & should be. But it is fake wrestling so Benoit should be able to beat super heavyweights like Brock & Kurt Angle......sarcasm alert.
Great episode as always. Can someone find, "The greatest wrestling promo ever." Where the wrestler and manager both say, "He gives em one of these, and he gives em one of those!" I must know where it came from!
When the ref searches DDP and finds the chain, then the roll of quarters come out of his sleeve, for some reason i thought of "The Naked Gun" when Frank is the umpire and searches the pitcher
This is just another example of why I never liked Buff or Hacksaw. WCW was trying to push another superstar while the good old boys refused to do the job. WWE should have signed Alex and made him a star.
I was a pretty big Alex Wright fan back in the day. I really liked his look and personality and never understood why they decided to strip him of all of that. How was this ever supposed to get over? They dropped the ball. I wish Alex could have got a run in WWE. He probably would have got lost in the shuffle at first but I think Vince or someone in the back would have realized his untapped potential eventually and would have had a pretty good run.
How come no one talks about the Salam screwjob where Sid Vicious clearly submitted by tapping the mat yet still won the title? Edit: Sting didn't turn heel. He just won by the best means available and gave Hollywood Hogan exactly what he deserved. Its always nice to see faces decide breaking the rules to bring down the heel is acceptable.. And since Hogan was a heel from Bash at the Beach 96 until WCW closed he is clearly still the heel in this match.
@@TheKillingJoker1980idk, i very clearly remember Shamrock making Rock tap several times during 98. Mightve just been a wcw thing tho where it was rarer.
The valley of amazing vs. atrocious content Wrestling Bios guy is about to go through on a weekly basis is going to be epic and I'll be keeping him in my thoughts
Ok im I the only one who noticed the lack of wcw merch in the crowd, I didn't really notice any t shirts, not even nwo, one or two guys with belts but that was it, also no wrestlers wearing there own t shirts.
Especially because the point of promos is generally to sell an audience on seeing the big PPV match, which means it’s too late when you’re already on the show. You’d think the 3 hours of Nitro every week would be a good time for them, but apparently not!
The only promos I’ll find acceptable are the ones back stage. I always enjoyed seeing the rock or ausitn get questioned on their match later that night.
