Sorta was sad when bam bam was limping after the match... u can see how beat up the beast from the east was, he was so good for being 300+lbs!! Much love to his family and RIP bam bam!!
I love how Norman Smiley's Big Wiggle was meant to be a heel character change, yet he didn't get booed and just got him more over as a face. (Bar that tease in their match).
Not all heels are hated...and not all faces are liked. It's like most fans and the business itself has missed this We like anti heros as much as we like heros....you can be a heel and liked.
I think Wrestling Bios made me even more of a Norman "Big Wiggle" Smiley fan than I already was. Thank you man! Wish we could've gotten a Wiggle Wiggle and Everybody here comes 2 Cold Scorpio mashup if they could've shared a ring together
It only took wrestling bios to stop the disco inferno and Alex wright intro...I think no one would like them more if wrestling bios didn't do that music before
As soon as the first match ended and there was a pregnant-pause of dead air, I knew, I _just_ knew I would hear the mellifluous tones of "Wiggle, Wiggle". You can just _feel_ when Norman Smiley is about to grace us with his presence.
@HARAMBEAKAGEORGEFLOYD Considering Elvis was supposed to be the first act there, yeah, it's dated, I know. Huntington within city limits has less than 50,000 residents & it isn't getting better.
Bill seemed to perform that zap with the cattle prod more as a formality. Goldberg refusing to use weapons 90% of the time is one of those traits you notice looking back. When he beat Triple H in WWE he had a chance to use the sledgehammer but chucked it to the side in favor of the spear and jackhammer finish. Course, it bit him when he decided to apply that personal principle to car windows.
Just a random thought, but seeing Norman bust out submission moves and mixing them with comedy makes me wish, we would have gotten a match against Kurt Angle. Would have been awesome and funny at the same time.
@CurlyFromTheSwirly Norman wasn't a Huge Star but He actually Could Wrestle.... He was Trained By The Malenko Family and he's still in Wwe as a Trainer
If they were going to put David Flair in such a big spot, they probably should have Arn Anderson playing manager and telling David what to do, so the other guys could focus on the match instead of focusing on covering for David.
@RobJaskula I can see it being easier for an 11 year old just because of the lack of pressure. David was an adult and able to fully understand the context that his father is one of the best to ever do it. That thought probably never entered Reid's mind at 11. I know 11 year old me would probably perform better than 19 year old me in that situation.
Are you crazy? The best thing about this show is the appearence of the wrestling god Norman Smiley. He was the undoubted highlight of every show he ever graced with his presence. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded, no question.
I can't believe how watch RtW has changed my impression of Norman Smiley. The guy was an underrated treasure back then. I enjoyed his work in the hardcore division (eventually) cause it was funny but he really has some moves (pun intended). I also don't get how WCW put on a PPV without any big titles on the line (WTF?), so weird. Keep up the awesome work WB!
If I was Saturn I would have destroyed that ref after the match !!!!! Perry Saturn was awesome . I hated how WWF did silly stuff with him too . The Mike Bell incident I'm sure didn't help his cause either though .
Love how the main event was all about Goldberg getting revenge on hall, yet at the end scott tases Goldberg again and stands tall. WCW was really falling apart here.
@@schizzo8959That it's happened several times over the past number of months. It literally just happened on the 4th of January Nitro. Goldberg barely gets his revenge later on - and he doesn't even get the world title back. That's the big issue with WCW around this time compared to WWF. None of their stories ever had a satisfying conclusion, and on the very rare occasion that they did-they'd either be retconned or quickly forgotten about the following week, or the champion would be dethroned within the next few days or weeks.
Dude, you're amazing! Thank you so much for all these great hours of entertainment. Don't really like modern pro wrestling but these days were gold. I could listen to you talk about these old shows for ever... And I do. Thanks again and amazing work🤌🙏👍
This is the only wrestling ppv to take place in West Virginia. WWE hasn't even ran a televised event here. (AEW has ran 2 dynamites here) I wanted to go to this as a kid, but we were pretty poor around this time.
@MikeG82 that's crazy. I think they missed out by not going there for shows. Heck, I've driven to Pittsburgh just for wwe ppv and concerts. You all get a lot of good shows/concerts.
Great video! The ladder match has been a little forgotten, I think. Goldberg did a nice job of selling his leg; short buts of activity with visible hobbling afterwards, and as you point out, that "catch this" sequence at the end was fun. Seeing Scott Hall being taken out by the same types of dirty trick he would conceivably use was a nice bit of storytelling.
Gah, WCW’s booking was so atrocious. All of that wasted star power sitting on the sidelines while they have matches that don’t mean anything that nobody cared about. It was nWo or bust for them.
Lots of bandwagon Norman Smiley fans in here because of the new meme intro, but back in the day we were wondering wtf they were thinking giving this character so much air time considering all the other talent they had.
For fillers, why not have Benoit, a Horseman, challenge an nWo member since that seems to be the feud with Bischoff and Flair. Would've made more sense. Even if it was Adams or Horace.
Most of the nwo were deep into the booze and the party powder at this point. I think we are a few weeks away from the Tampa nitro where it’s basically a three hour nwo kegger. Benoit and Blake Beverly were probably some of the only guys that could work at this point.
Scott Hall was fantastic in any role. That being said, I wish they would have allowed him play the role of more than just a clown to the degree that he did. Hall was a big dude, no reason why he couldn't slam Goldberg and be a little more physically imposing.
It's tricky because on one hand Scott Hall should be big enough to slam Goldberg but on the other hand Goldberg was built up to this point to basically be superhuman. This is honestly the most competitive match Goldberg had up to that point and they really had to try to make sure not to piss away everything they built Goldberg up to be and just make him another dude.
@@tux789, This is somewhat true. No matter how big other guys were (except for a few: Giant, Nash, Bigalow, etc), all other wrestlers were just something for Goldberg to squash. Having the kayfabe of a wounded knee allowed Hall to get a pretty good match out of Goldy. But I wouldn't say it was as competitive as Halloween Havoc against DDP.
I hope you mean real football and not that bs American football? Why do they even call if football? That stupid egg hardly gets kicked at all, throw/run ball is way more appropriate. W*nkball is much,much more fitting tho
If David Flair works hard and trains and gets some mat work maybe someday he can be a professional like Barry Windham and wrestle in jeans and a denim vest.
Having never seen this PPV I was like “damn, Hall is good, but he’s not a miracle worker” Well, as highly as I hold Scott Hall, he gets even more props for getting a good ladder match out of Goldberg. The man could work miracles.
The more I think about it, the more I'm confused on why Bam Bam didn't cost Goldberg the streak. They were teasing a feud between the two and just dropped it.
It's just how WCW was. Same as why did the nWo lose the tag match before only to interfere after? My opinion is Hall won this match by what the standard for a ladder match is: get the object to win. I'm wondering if they thought Bam interfering would be too strong and Hall would have to win. I don't think they wanted to have Goldberg lose another match so soon after the last time. They probably should have had him face Bigalow here, and Flair vs Hogan for the world for the main event. The next month could have had Hall against Goldberg in a ladder match without the lame stipulation.
While watching Reliving the War, I am absolutely baffled how horrible the Four Horseman were booked during this time in WCW. I know in the early years of the faction they were an incredible group. But with the NWO and how dumb the Legion of Doom were, the Horseman was an after thought.
@@CurlyFromTheSwirly it was a fun main event WCW was still watchable in early 99 godspeed to wrestlingbios when we get to the Russo death march in mid 99
Something that shouldn’t be undervalued is how this show had relatively good PPV buys. Unlike today where you get PPV access at the push of a button back in 1999 there was a lot that went into getting something on PPV. Also you can be critical of David Flair being greener then grass in this match but at least David can say he has a pinfall victory over John Cena when he was in OVW. 🤣
This would be the last WCW ppv my family would ever buy. The in-ring action and main even booking was just starting to grow stale. I started turning all my attention towards WWF, so every WCW show you cover from here on out will be fresh to me 😊
The very first PPV I ever watched, renting the video...and it's aged sourly. Doing great as always, WB. That ending music is an earworm, btw. Where's this one from?
