WCW Spring Stampede 2000 Review - Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff, Back in Charge!

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On April 10, 2000, the landscape in WCW was forever altered when Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff joined forces to shake up creative. Their first step? ... VACATE ALL THE TITLES!
00:00 Intro - Russo & Bischoff get together - The New Blood & The Millionaires Club
08:24 Spring Stampede begins
09:55 Tag Team Championship Tournament: The Mamelukes vs. Ric Flair & Lex Luger
11:42 Mike Awesome starts something with Bam Bam Bigelow
12:02 Jimmy Hart vs. Mancow
14:10 United States Championship Tournament: Scott Steiner vs. The Wall
15:15 The Cat gets jumped by Bigelow
16:10 United States Championship Tournament: Mike Awesome vs. Bam Bam Bigelow/The Cat
17:18 Tag Team Championship Tournament: Buff Bagwell & Shane Douglas vs. Harlem Heat 2000
18:39 United States Championship Tournament: Booker vs. Sting
20:07 Kidman isn't sweating Hulk Hogan
20:20 United States Championship Tournament: Billy Kidman vs. Vampiro
21:43 Hulk Hogan is arrested
22:20 Hardcore Championship Match: Terry Funk vs. Norman Smiley
24:10 United States Championship Tournament: Mike Awesome vs. Scott Steiner
24:56 United States Championship Tournament: Sting vs. Vampiro
26:02 DDP can't wait to fight Jeff Jarrett
26:17 Cruiserweight Championship Match: The Artist vs. Lash Leroux vs. Chris Candido vs. Juventud Guerrera vs. Crowbar vs. Shannon Moore
28:18 Jeff Jarrett runs down Gene Okerlund
28:32 Tag Team Championship Tournament Finals: Ric Flair & Lex Luger vs. Buff Bagwell & Shane Douglas
29:39 United States Championship Tournament Finals: Scott Steiner vs. Sting
31:03 WCW Championship: Jeff Jarrett vs. Diamond Dallas Page
33:19 Final Thoughts
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@hellspawn22001 Год назад

In my mind the biggest problem with Russo is he always had the “the audience will buy anything we sell them” mindset. I think it’s something he learned from McMahon that he never grew out of.

@HarbingerOfBattle Год назад

Russo had a lot of interesting ideas, but unfortunately he never seemed to think them through to the end or wasn’t open to constructive criticism. Many of them in WCW looked as though they needed more time in the metaphorical oven. At WWF McMahon and his people seemed to smooth out the rough edges more often than not. Although that’s just me.

@Cogjammer Год назад

Russo thought the audience was dumber than he was. They weren't.

@zlinedavid Год назад

@@HarbingerOfBattle That’s because his ideas in WWF had several filters. At various times: Vince, Patterson, JR, Bruce, Cornette and for the top tier guys, probably the talent themselves. Early 1999WWF, company is financially thriving, ratings are great….VinnyRu isnt going to have final say over what The Rock says.

@DevilSurvivor69 Год назад

@@HarbingerOfBattle That's my thoughts too, Vince and Co were able to distill the gold from the dirt Russo came up with.

@joelsilvey9046 Год назад

I will say this for this time, I could really believe Billy Kidman could beat hulk Hogan

@Obscusion2 Год назад

You'd think that Zane would be close to finally finishing up WCW in 2000 with this PPV, but in reality he's only just now reached the halfway point! He still has Souled Out (January), Great American Bash (June), Fall Brawl (September), & the trio of Millennium Final, Mayhem, & Starrcade (November & December). Truly, we've only just begun to see the totality of madness that is WCW in 2000.

@SuperNitroZ64 Год назад

I don't know if he'll be able to do Millennium Final, 'cause that particular show is very hard to find.

@zlinedavid Год назад

@@SuperNitroZ64 I was a huge fan back around this time and I’ve never heard of Millenium Final.

@mrterp04 Год назад

@@zlinedavid it was a Germany-only PPV

@stevecinneide8183 Год назад

Most of them aren't nearly as bad as people think. Aside from Mayhem and the second half of Bash at the Beach none of them are unwatchable in my opinion...

@gatchywatchyentertainmentb2090 Год назад

But why would he want to give himself wrastle grade depression?

@davearthur514 Год назад

The planets align, Terry Taylor, Terry Funk and Terry Bollea in the same place at the same time. Awesome.

@erikstorm8935 Год назад

Piper: "Terry..." Hogan: "Don't Terry me, brother!"

@zlinedavid Год назад

They were only missing Terry Gordy and Terri Runnels. Terry Garvin would have made it, but he died 2 years before this.

@leeriddick7 Год назад

Yeah, Mike was there as well

@Vesperitis Год назад

Missed a chance to form a stable called "PLANETERRY".

@bodenlosedosenhose1590 Год назад

@@VesperitisThat joke is, dare I say it, terry-fic. 😅

@senzubean31 Год назад

I love Brian saying “ if you had the internet...” Ahh, the early 2000s, when not everyone even had a computer yet. Simpler times.

@geoffreyfranklin5890 Год назад

For a period of time, a personal home computer was considered a luxury item due to the fact that were pretty expensive when they were first made available to the general public.

@senzubean31 Год назад

@@geoffreyfranklin5890 I know. I was alive then too.

@tafua_a 11 месяцев назад

I had the Internet, but never used it. I would only start in 2009

@HuwhyteMan 10 месяцев назад

We had a PC in my parent's house since 96ish (had a C64 before that but no internet access) I was 11 at the time and one of the few in my friend group with a PC and internet. Definitely a very different time.

@Urineil 9 месяцев назад

@HuwhyteMan same. Nothing too crazy. The internet was brand new and email was just being marketed as the future. How silly that concept turned out to be

@tweetert.9978 Год назад

That DDP impression is very good. "Shoulders back, chest out, diamond cutter" just makes me smile every time I hear it.

@TheFlock83 Год назад

Looking back on things DDP was betrayed by people he trusted almost as much as Sting. Only difference is Page didn’t have RoboCop in his corner

@makaveli4205 Год назад

Jake the snake and buff Bagwell are alive still because of him.

@stevenmcd4741 Год назад

Is that single shot the only time we had Terry Funk, Terry Taylor and Terry Bollea all appear together in the same segment?

@toptenguy1 Год назад

if only Terri Runnels wasn't on the opposing company.. lol

@ArizonaColt407 Год назад

I remember being so excited for the roster reset.. "Vince will fix WCW!" What a mark...

@kyokugenryudisciple9349 Год назад

Raven: What a Mark! 😏

@ColeVecsion Год назад

He didn't fix it the first time. The hell made you think he'd fix it the 2nd time? Raven was right!

@makaveli4205 Год назад

The real beginning of the downfall of wcw. Was the finger poke of doom. Was that Russos idea? Or was he still at wwf

@Dr-Alexander-The-Great Год назад

@@makaveli4205no that was bishoff, Russo was still in the WWF

@mcbaby Год назад

William Man-Man is how I will always refer to Billy Kidman now.

@enigmaskull3495 Год назад

The Reboot episode of WCW Nitro aka one of Vacant’s greatest accomplishments in wrestling.

@declangaming24 Год назад

Having every championship in one company vacant won every championship in every company at least once

@greenkoopa Год назад

This is what we call the "Dreamcast Era" of WCW.

@kokotheclown2588 Год назад

Well when u think about it u are kinda right Sega also died a similar dead Backstage Politics and bitterness and in the same year man 01 was truly a awful year for a ton of companies

@AllUntold Год назад

I like that. Haha

@SpanishFly120 Год назад

Hey now, don't do the Dreamcast dirty like that, lol.

@greenkoopa Год назад

@@SpanishFly120 don't start that with me I bought, owned, and played the hell out of my Dreamcast from 2000-PS2.

@tiredhippo82 Год назад

More like Atari jaguar era…

@orllyfools14X8 Год назад

Idk why but Norman Smiley was always one of my favorite wrestlers. That hardcore gimmick is a classic.

@SchofieldAJ Год назад

Yep now the dude for over 22 Years has been Training the New Crop of Stars that have came into the WWE and left them since 2001 were all Trained by Screamin Norman Smiley as he is 1 of WWE's Head Trainers/Coaches still after all these years! Also side not he has been shown on WWE NXT on USA a few times in pull aparts!

@declangaming24 Год назад

@@SchofieldAJ best WCW hardcore champion

@victoryusmc Год назад

"Hit my terrible network dub", love what came after lol.

@victoryusmc Год назад

Wish I knew that song lol

@rajamicitrenti1374 Год назад

The New Blood/Millionaires Club thing wasn't a bad concept, but yeah, it's not organic. If they'd have had something where the Natural Born Thrillers start airing these grievances and escalate a bit, then have Flair and Lugar retaliate big time, and then let the New Blood crystallize around that, it would have made sense and you could have created a story where it makes sense for guys like Hogan and Sting to set aside differences and form the Millionaires Club as a sort of self-preservation act and have them be the heels. Wouldn't have taken more than a 2 months to make this all play out, but they didn't want to wait that long, I guess.

@wheelzwheelzington Год назад

If you think about it, the “right” version of the Millionaire’s Club was the Main Event Mafia in TNA.

@quentinkaasa47 Год назад

Why would the Millionaires Club (all the guys the fans were paying money to see) be the heels? It makes no sense. The Natural Born Thrillers were a bunch of unproven rookies who hadn't even been in WCW for a cup of coffee at that point. So again, why would the audience ever side with them? Their grievances weren't valid.

@rajamicitrenti1374 Год назад

@@quentinkaasa47 The Millionaires' Club would be the heels for a few reasons: 1) The point of such an angle is to elevate your stars of the future, and so you want the fans cheering them. 2) It's a lot harder to do believable heel-to-face turns than the other way around. 3) It's actually harder to be a good heel longer-term, so let the experienced guys do it. 4) It's a lot easier to get behind underdogs, and how can you really look at the Millionaires' Club as underdogs? I went back and checked timelines, and most of the Thrillers, you are correct about. Many of them were around for at least a year before that, but rarely on air (and even then usually only on WCW Saturday Night). The Filthy Animals would have been a better choice, with Eddie, Mysterio, Juventud, Kidman, and Konnan.

@Marveryn Год назад

that was one issue with the millionaire club. Rich guys holding younger talent down if you didn't know the wrestlers you think the be the heel faction. They redo the club in tna but name it the main event mafia which work better. The other issue is that hulk was right visual i don't see him losing to kidman in a match. Particular since it means hulk would have to sell for him and hulk hogan never sells for someone a good foot shorter than him. See brett hart vs hogan (never happen). hulk vs shawn micheals, so on when he call to wrestle someone smaller than him he always tries to avoid being the one being pin. They should had kept the wall as the main focus of the fued with kidman helping him. Having wall work the bodyguard stuff for kidman. as zane explain the new blood was also way to big of a faction and let face it of both your bosses hated your guts they would fire you. Russo and Birch should had been opposet side where they have equal say so they protect their wrestlers a proper faction war.

@tafua_a 9 месяцев назад

@@wheelzwheelzington the brilliant thing about the MEM is that they were a perfect blend of the nWo (outsiders taking over the company) and the Millionaire's Club (old-head former world champions). But Russo gotta Russo and that thing slumped with no end game in sight.

@NorthStarBlue1 Год назад

What really gets me is that the whole New Blood vs. Millionaire's Club angle wasn't a bad idea at all and fit in perfectly with the times. A lot of professional sports in the late '90s were undergoing this big generational shift that we hadn't seen before or since, so the young guns vs established veterans dynamic would have been a great way to start over, had they actually handled it properly instead of going "hey let's stick it to those marks on the internet, HEH".

@JunAoi Год назад

Hot take about Mike Awesome. Any ECW Mark who is mad at him over him leaving because of Paul Heyman not paying him, or any ECW talent who feels he 'betrayed' them because of this.. and yes, this means Tommy Dreamer, Joey Styles, and any other sycophant who got robbed of paychecks, can eat a dewgong without the 'ewg'. If you're not getting paid, you walk. End of story. Anyone who 'toughs it out' for the company is a damn stooge. I wish he coulda kept the ECW Belt until he was paid. Fuck any boss not paying their employees what they're owed.

@makaveli4205 Год назад

My favorite Mike Awesome match was against Masato Tanaka in ecw.

@rayburnett9361 Год назад

@@makaveli4205 I liked sabu vs rvd and of course the new jack catalogs.

@FIXTREME Год назад

Eat a seal?

@makaveli4205 Год назад

@@rayburnett9361 RVD vs Jerry Lynn

@levikeins Год назад

Not a hot take, perfectly reasonable. ECW had such a weird cult-like vibe and was so romanticized, that unfair practices like these got extremely overlooked.

@venomousnate7263 Год назад

“Referee is lightly touched and looses control of his central nervous system.” Isn’t that what happens with most referees?

@zlinedavid Год назад

Sort of. With Tim White, he needed to be lightly touched by one of the Godfather’s “ladies” and he’d lose control of his central nervous system.

@Venemofthe888 Год назад

One step closer to having WCW 2000 PPV's fully covered

@makaveli4205 Год назад

When was the finger poke of doom? That was the start of wcw downfall.

@Venemofthe888 Год назад

@@makaveli4205 December 1998 I think

@arvindshastry6434 Год назад

@@Venemofthe888January 1999, because I heard somewhere that Foley winning his first WWF championship and the Finger Poke of Doom happened on the same week and if I'm remembering it correctly, Foley won his first WWF championship on the first week of January.

@heyyoitsmebrian 11 месяцев назад

@@makaveli4205 without looking it up... i believe the Finger Poke was the day after Nash ended Goldbergs streak

@LustWing 19 дней назад

@@heyyoitsmebrian Nash ended the streak at Starrcade 98 in December. Fingerpoke was the first Nitro of Jan 99.

@unum1979 Год назад

Russo's over reliance on swerves and shock can be summed up with a quote from The Incredibles.With everyone super, no one will be.

@TheJollyMisanthrope 9 месяцев назад

He put the final nail in the WCW coffin.

@KingPK Год назад

Bischoff using an insider reference on Sid that 95% of the audience didn't get on the reboot Nitro will always be the funniest thing.

@mrterp04 Год назад

“I had no idea Hell was so close” “Yeah that’s why you should call before you dig”

@joerogers9413 Год назад

😆

@PaleHorseShabuShabu Год назад

That's only for zombies and only if Adam West is involved.

@mrterp04 Год назад

@@PaleHorseShabuShabu “let me get this straight: let’s do a Batman movie but NOT CALL ADAM WEST”

@Blackbohnstergaming Год назад

WCW went down FAST as soon as they did this whole "reset era".... I know that when I saw this in 2000, my 17 year old self just thought: "Damn, this is stupid" and I still think that to this day.

@LustWing 19 дней назад

Actually WCW went down HARD during the NWO 2000 era. By late Feb 2000, The Nwo was basically the Harris Bros, and ratings had dropped from over 3s to 2.5s, 2.1 and even a 1.8 on the first April Nitro. They picked up a little during the NB era but by June it was down again.

@tthomaselli2 Год назад

Wrestling With Wregret- I still can't get enough of what Brian Zane says around 32:33-32:38 when it comes to 'The Diamond Cutter'. That "Shoulders back, chest out." line never gets old...

@BradleyBoy Год назад

HIT MY TERRIBLE NETWORK DUB

@claymathewselevator8121 Год назад

🤣

@roccojamison89gooker51 Год назад

Especially for the redub in place of Ravishing Rick Rude's most famous World Wrestling Federation theme from '88-'90 "Simply Ravishing" What a bunch of Sweathogs! (And not the good ones from Welcome Back Kotter)

@XKTwentyFive Год назад

I wish Mike Awesome had won the United States Championship tournament. And since they wanted to retire the TV Title, I wish they had just unified it with the U.S. belt, like in the same way WWE did with the Intercontinental and European titles.

@makaveli4205 Год назад

Ya he got stuck with some shitty gimmicks in WCW. He was bad ass in ECW wrestling RIP.

@EssexAggiegrad2011 Год назад

They shouldn't have retired the TV title

@coywarrior71 Год назад

@@EssexAggiegrad2011they shouldn’t have done a lot of things!

@LouSassoleSledgecock Год назад

All these wishes, so little time

@SWWonders Год назад

@@makaveli4205 amazing how Russo fucked that up and more than likely contributed to his death unfortunately

@scottwalpole3806 Год назад

The deadpan "it isn't." at 10:13 had me rolling lol

@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 Год назад

Mancow is so beloved in Chicago he's left a trail of destruction in his wake with the various radio stations he's been on, so the CM Punk comparison is pretty spot on.

@KillFriskey Год назад

That a capella version of The Cat's theme you did had me snorting. Good work.

@TheMadisonJay Год назад

I’ve rewinded that part like 5x’s already 😭😭😭😭😭

@tafua_a 11 месяцев назад

When it started I legit thought I was somehow on a Discord call and someone just logged in

@kael2450 Год назад

22:00 that still shot of Hogan and the cops is amazing.

@mrterp04 Год назад

The show could’ve gotten REALLY dark

@guillermosierracuellar9812 Год назад

Vacant: thanks russo for the championships

@logd27 Год назад

One comment per thread

@FaysalIsGoated Год назад

This video is ironic that it’s from WCW 2000 because Dark Side of the Ring is coming back with an episode about WCW Bash at The Beach 2000😂

@lukelee7967 Год назад

Also Marty Jannety, so we'll get at least 44 minutes of "WTF, no guy!"

@FaysalIsGoated Год назад

@@lukelee7967 I’m excited for that and also Candido and Tammy as well. I can’t wait to hear what stories people have on Tammy specifically😂

@lukelee7967 Год назад

@@FaysalIsGoated I actually think those stories are going to make me very sad

@FaysalIsGoated Год назад

@@lukelee7967 yeah the story of Marty Janetty is messed up. But don’t feel too bad about Tammy. A lot of wrestlers said she wasn’t really the “best” person to deal with behind the scenes.

@kyokugenryudisciple9349 Год назад

For real?!!!!

@InsomniacRocker Год назад

This is the second or third time I’ve heard Brian call someone a “jam up guy”. Wrestling Bios has made this a new wrestling lingo 😂

@Takeabottledrinkitdown Год назад

Much love to wrestling bios the best wrestling RU-vid channel

@andrewphillips6241 Год назад

It's been wrestling lingo

@maddogsportzjh Год назад

The “suplexes” and “clotheslines” bit had me rolling. Scott Steiner definitely talks like that.

@JeremyBearimy913 Год назад

The WCW PPV reviews are always the best

@Tbowles54 Год назад

When I was younger, I had a VHS tape of this. I’ve been watching wrestling all my life. But I would for some reason, keep coming back to this Spring Stampede 2000. I loved this show, even though looking back I can see why people didn’t and because of who was booking and running the show.

@connorscoarsefishingjourne7680 Год назад

I love me some vampiro. Doesn’t get enough love as a great worker. Had a totally unique look and entrance was cool

@Hardworlder Год назад

That last year and half or so of WCW is truly some of the most fascinating television we will ever see. What an amazing train wreck.

@NoName-bb2pu Год назад

WWE/WWF was bad since day 1 and is a burning pile of shit today. One match of WCW was better than all of WWE with HHH winning with a sledgehammer, McMahon impregnating his daughter, boring Kane and Undertaker with their 50 hour matches and super slow speed etc etc

@ausbrai Год назад

Johnny the bull setting up and turning around on the turnbuckle is some straight up Mayhem mechanics

@victoryusmc Год назад

I hope you keep the impressions coming. Very skilled indeed!

@victoryusmc Год назад

Appreciate the love Z Man! Been having a tough year.

@jamesbreglia8692 Год назад

That big t "grunt" is an absolute treasure. I have a fantastic/nostalgic time with your ppv reviews. Your production is super warm. Thank you kindly good sir. Cant wait for more

@SomeDumbKid1 Год назад

"Referee is lightly touched and temporarily loses control of his central nervous system" is the most pro wrestling sentence

@lucasmackey2808 Год назад

1:00 Are BACK! And working TOGETHER!

@mongomongo7664 Год назад

Great Scott Steiner impression lol

@keithhamilton736 Год назад

“The referee is lightly touched and loses control of his central nervous system”. Lol I think that’s a genetic condition that all referees have.

@MatthewSaliba Год назад

"The referee is basically there to count to three." Kinda like AEW refs.

@SchofieldAJ Год назад

Or the OG ECW where every match was more so Extreme rulz til they went to TNN IN LATE 1999-EARLY 2001 as then there was Dq's n Count Outs but before that in ECW there were more so No Rulz!

@lukeharbolt7681 Год назад

Suplexes and clothes lines. Is probably one of my top 10 favorite bites from this entire channel Zane. I sat it at least once a day.

@echosidefiend Год назад

I was always a WWF guy. I worked 2nd shift at the time so I would record Raw and watch the last hour or so of Nitro, then watch Raw later that night. I remember seeing the last hour and a half of the Great Reset episode and thinking, "What the hell are they doing??". I still don't understand what they were thinking. 🤷‍♂️

@atenchifan Год назад

I love these old WWE, WCW, and ECW PPV reviews!

@makaveli4205 Год назад

1996 when nwo started to like 2002 were the most popular years in wrestling history

@catchcan221 Год назад

WWF!

@random__itch Год назад

“And Turd.” “The Bischoffice” 😂

@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 Год назад

2000 and he's already the leader of the gray crew.

@buhbuhjaychampagne1706 Год назад

@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 MarkyD123 shoutout!!!!🤘

@Cobralalalala Год назад

"Ron or Don" It was Vito. 😂 Great video as always, but that cracked me up. 🙂

@Mr.BeastFacts Год назад

“Spring Stampede… in the gorge… *Saba Simba’s down there!”*

@radalexander7160 Год назад

The idea of stripping the titles never made sense to me. All of the titles besides the world title belonged to the New Blood. So during that segment, Russo and Bischoff stripped all of their own guys...then later gave title shots to the Millionaires Club guys...who they hated. Moreover, the idea was that the old, washed up guys were holding on to their spots instead of giving way for the New Blood, but they were the babyfaces and the New Blood were the heels. Yet the crowd loved the Millionaires Club as all of the stars were in that group.

@MarcoCaifan87 Год назад

Hey Brian, keep them 2000 videos coming! Brings back great memories of middle school!

@primetimeericprime4033 Год назад

I have to say I love Brian's rendition of the awful WWE network dubbed theme for Ernest Miller. It’s terrific.

@marcohavokkhaos Год назад

Booker vs Sting never disappoint. Props to them, for holding this show together.

@TheseBitchesWantNikes Год назад

Literally 2 of the only NOT embarrassing things about this Shitshow.

@renababe1 Год назад

This PPV is one of my guilty pleasure shows

@johnpittsii7524 Год назад

Thanks for the review Brian ❤

@tthomaselli2 Год назад

I had to laugh around 16:30-16:38 when you hear somebody making up their own music in the background as Brian Zane's talking about Ernest "The Cat" Miller's brief appearance at this event. Funny stuff...

@Bananahammock681 Год назад

Instant thumbs up for NOR-MEN SMI-LAY! opening the show.

@glitchsister Год назад

That WCW Y2K logo was too good for this world, they even gave it chrome horns for this one, the mad mans!

@freakfoxvevo7915 Год назад

Sorry, dude. I understand your nostalgia but the WCW Y2K logo sucks.

@glitchsister 5 месяцев назад

@@freakfoxvevo7915 i know you are sorry, for being wrong

@MrRyan-wu4jx 15 дней назад

It looked fine in general, but it suffered from feeling like a knockoff of WWF changing from box letters to the scratch logo and came out almost simultaneously with the company going to crap so is synonymous with their failure.

@michaelpalma6346 Год назад

I dipped on WCW after 1999 so thank you for making these videos 🙏🏼 btw hearing you the diamond cutter will never get old lol.

@gking2709 11 месяцев назад

Same

@wes773105333 Год назад

I was 10 years old when this happened. I remember the reset and New Blood storyline feeling really jarring to me. I was aware of wrestling being scripted because of a show that revealed wrestling secrets had aired and all of this made me wonder why these decisions were made. It felt like a reboot of the NWO storyline except there was no buildup and the rosters for both factions were massive from the beginning. It made no sense to me that all of a sudden the wrestlers I liked would be split into two factions for no reason. My favorite wrestler was Sting. I liked DDP, Buff Bagwell, Booker T, and many of the cruiserweights. There were also heels I loved to hate like Scott steiner. I think the problem is that many of these wrestlers didn't really fit in with the factions and really had no reason to be a part of them. Trying to include everyone and everything into a storyline that felt so forced left a bad taste in my mouth. It was a huge mess that really felt like they were throwing everything at the wall and hoping something would stick. We watched WCW all the way to the end, but it go to the point where I really just watched it for the matches my favorite wrestlers were in and I ignored the story.

@RealAlphaDrum Год назад

That Smiley/Funk matches were hilarious.

@harshckuk 3 месяца назад

WCW 2000 is just a gift Brian keeps on giving to us

@dbone3356 Год назад

Why do I not remember Candito and Tammy in WCW?! I was watching every week!

@patjames387 Год назад

This happens to me with lots of people in wcw, ecw and wwe

@mrnaughtycat Год назад

I used to watch this on VHS all the time

@themastersword1621 Год назад

Brian getting increasingly more fed up as the show goes on.

@chaseisraw Год назад

That sid turn on hogan. I was in the crowd at that nitro. It was in Gainesville FL at UF campus. I remember this episode and watch it on the wwe network well now peacock. But to see my young self again in your clip on youtube is crazy.

@GaunterODimm2 Год назад

Nowhere to go but down. How fitting....

@thedukeofswellington1827 Год назад

Havent seen a W3 video in my feed for a while. Its good to be back. This is the only way i can enjoy wrestling...not into the new stuff

@gunder01 Год назад

William Man-man...the Bischoffice...the classic Hogan impression. Lmao.

@coder4060 Год назад

Love the WCW reviews, and always pop for your call of EVERYONE's favourite move on the planet.. Shoulders back, chest out!

@roccojamison89gooker51 Год назад

WCW Spring Stampede 2000 really should of had a Hulk Hogan/Sid Vicious match and use the story of unfinished business from 1992 in the World Wrestling Federation. 16:47 Bigelow is a Jam Up Guy, 19:22 Booker T Chinlock

@markant9534 Год назад

their wm match was a flop

@markant9534 Год назад

wcw fans might not have seen wm8

@quentinkaasa47 Год назад

Sid shouldn't have suddenly turned heel again in the first place. He was actually over with the fans and made for a good replacement for Goldberg while Bill was still out of action.

@makaveli4205 Год назад

Psycho Sid was awesome. He was a heel that was really popular. Kind of like stone cold.

@thewikstrand Год назад

A flying something? Excellent!

@Eric-wu7bp Год назад

Congrats Brian on covering all the WCW Spring Stampede PPV’S

@Roboheart1119 Год назад

“The old dive to the barricade cutoff. A guaranteed miss everytime” I can’t with your commentary on some of these Brian 😂😂😂

@welcometothemovies9157 Год назад

Oh God lol. I was there

@claymathewselevator8121 Год назад

NB man Nick Bockwinkel must’ve been really confused why his initials were being spray painted on wrestlers 🤣

@logd27 Год назад

Man how many comments do you need?

@jenkinju607 Год назад

The Cat music scared the shit out of me, I thought somebody was being weird in my break room at work

@therealDJG Год назад

Funny seeing Booker and Dustin together knowing they’re gonna be funny as shit as a tag team in WWE about two or three years later.

@stingrey1571 Год назад

@30:10 EVERYONE AROUND ME JUST ASK WHAT WAS SO FUNNY. "SUPLEXES AND CLOSELINES!!!"

@savage751 Год назад

It's the Harris twins! "Blech" lol

@Aevilbeast Год назад

Is it just me, or was that "Frank-screamer" by Daphne was f'n awesome! Seriously, it looked absolutely amazing and was perfectly timed. I don't know how to describe it, but most of the time people usually turn to the side (like a head scissors take-down instead of an actual hurricanara or Frankensteiner) and when it lands it doesn't really have that impact like it did here. Also the way she was able to complete the move before her upper body touched the ground really gave made the move look that more impressive and gave it that much more impact. The way she did it almost looked like it was something out of a wrestling video game in a kind of surreal way.

@J.austinbrown Год назад

The diamond cutter call was my fav. Bravo 👏

@LawrenceW78 Год назад

You have to do a review/retrospective of the Russo/Bischoff era in WCW 2000! If anything deserves a hard look its that point in wrestling history!

@TheCj126 Год назад

Shoulders back, chest out!

@InspectorSpacetime333 Год назад

Terry Funk walked by when Terry Taylor and Hulk Hogan (Terry Bolea) were in a situation because he thought some sort of Terry contest was going on.

@charleszulas4021 Год назад

All I could think about when watching this. "So this is where Tony got all of his ideas from."

@jasonlane1528 Год назад

When Hulk Hogan got arrested, Terry Taylor and Terry funk watched Terry bollea get taken away. If only Terri Runnels was there.

@zlinedavid Год назад

And Terry Gordy.

@jasonlane1528 Год назад

@@zlinedavid dammit!! Lol

@danmount9462 Год назад

@@zlinedavid and Terri Gold

@kevinclark5802 Год назад

I had high hopes for wcw at this time but think it would have been so much better if the Millionaires Club would have been heels and The New Blood would have been the faces, they should have had Vince Russo saying the New Blood deserves the opportunity and Eric Bischoff leading the Millionaires Club saying These established veterans are the only ones that make money. Tna did something similar with the Main Event Mafia and that worked out fine.

@princeofstrongstyle6683 Год назад

21:54 Pundertaker worthy pun there Mr Zane "Hogan finally kicks down the door to the Bischoff-ice." Brilliant.

@Spacewizzard090 Год назад

Vacant putting in a hell of a performance in WCW 2000, guaranteed Hall of Fame inductee for 2024?

@gatorsfan4ever Год назад

Unlike cody you actually finished the story (Solo Sikoa lurks from behind…)

@Mr_Subtle Год назад

Still can't see him as a face. Cody has a face you just want to slap the smarm off

@RolfeSenpai Год назад

@@stfi7566 That would be an unbelievably lame way of “finishing the story”. He doesn’t want a world title, he wants the WWE Championship, the title his father never could get. Giving him a new random lesser title just because they fucked up the Mania finish is the definition of consolation prize.

@cocomonkeh Год назад

Love to see an appearance for Turd

@brettrossi034 5 месяцев назад

"Spring Stampede, bro? Nah bro that's just too old fashioned for me bro! We're gonna call this one Spring Swervepede, bro!" -Vinny Ru and Ed Ferrara

@jeffjauntsson 7 месяцев назад

I love that so many of these start with "Exasperated Tony Schiavone Commentary."

@jliller Год назад

I think it would have been better to have Russo supporting the New Blood while Bischoff (who was real life friends with several of them) supported The Millionaire's Club, basically still playing his sycophant role from the nWo. While the idea of the New Blood and Millionaire's Club factions to start off was fine, there needed to be people who weren't part of either. Such as the guys you mentioned (Funk and Knobbs). Probably also Sting. Of all the people to feud with Hogan, Kidman was one of the lesser options. Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett, or Booker T would have been much better. Also, and I'm far from the first person to say it, making The New Blood the heels in the feud was counterproductive.

@charleskress1922 Год назад

It was a good ideal. Problem was they tried to include everyone who was on the roster. Should of started with a portion of the roster and began having wrestlers choose sides each week.