these videos, in my opinion, are better than any tv documentary that I have ever seen, ever! If awards were unbiased, this NEVER EVER series would award winning. NO DOUBT! Salute
Am i the only one that really loved when Sting took off his mask in the ring just to reveal his face paint that looked exactly like his mask? That was G O L D
For awhile Sting would sit in the rafters or high up in closed off seats of the arenas, sometimes even in the stands with fans hidden. It’s actually insane how these guys are talented and funny enough to make an entire arena go crazy with these simple stupid storylines it really is the pinnacle of performance art that we have today as funny as it sounds. Without possessing any sort of musicianship or speaking skills (relatively) these companies have made 70k people go berserk.
That's Jim Ross "JR" and his amazing work. He still works for another wrestling company nowadays, but the show is trash and he's old so he doesn't really care anymore and he's there for a paycheck.
JR loves to over exaggerate! “OMG after a leg lock like that his ankle MUST be completely shattered! How is he even walking?! This is incredible!!!” 😂😂
@johs I never said it wasn’t! I absolutely love Jim Ross! I said that as a positive. His energy is amazing and his commentary is great, he really gets viewers into the action. I also love Jerry “ The King” Lawler screaming at the top of his voice!
He actually said "good God almighty, they killed him" but there's actually a reason for that being important
At the time, Vince and several other higher ups weren't really big on Mankind/Foley. There was a LOT of lockerroom politics going on. What makes JR's line so significant is that he didn't know Mankind was gonna go off the cell. NO one did except for Mick, Mark (The Undertaker), the referee and Jerry Lawler (the commentator beside JR)
JR honest to God, even if for just a moment, legitimately believed Vince and others wanted Mick gone so badly that he would want him killed. JR's commentary in those moments were 100% genuine, completely unscripted
Which makes the overall moment even more insane knowing how that simple phrasing has so much behind it
When JR said those things he wasn't saying them for soundbytes, he legitimately believed them. We can watch those clips with the power of hindsight and know he survived, but at the time a person just fell that far, it was very much possible he could have been dead and that's what a lot of people thought.
@Nick Willettit very much is true. You can stage some things, but you can't stage away the physical effect of being slammed around and thrown into the ground.
I'm not gonna bother mentioning limited creative freedom most wrestlers have, nor the work schedule they have because at this point I feel like most people know what they're getting into as far as that is concerned.
Anyway.
The steroid scandal. Montreal Screwjob. Owen Hart and deciding "the show must go on". "Independend contractors". Saving Jimmy Snuka from going to trial. Firing people during a pandemic when they could easily afford to keep them. I could go on.
@I Don't Knowlol bro there are no storylines lmao vince just books the same matches over & over. The wrestlers are his puppets & vince is the puppeteer 😒
@Sakîne Mirkan why wouldnt he do the saudi deals, every single pugilistic sport big enough does those and tv is dying so ratings aren't the best indicator for anything, they still had their most profitable year just last year and the profits are still steady, a man cant go 30 years just on luck
@sha hood Whataboutism won't make it better. Besides things like that, along with the terrible booking, hurts them in the long term. They only had their most profitable year because they're literally selling all their assets lol. Donald Trump sure as shit could and so could Vince. Wanna talk about how many Business ventures Vince already came up with that went absolutely nowhere? And again: If the competition does worse then he, he wins as well. His triumph over WCW was as much because of their failure to do the right thing as it was Vince doing something better. Vince himself said he lost touch. What more do you need?
@Sakîne Mirkan what part of you saying he is a bad businessman and me saying he had his company's most profitable year recently and that he does shows in a profitable location that everyone does is whataboutism? Who do you consider a successful businessman? Every businessman has failed ventures, they didn't sell the asset btw, they rented it out, its a 5 or 10 year deal
@sha hood "why wouldnt he do the saudi deals, every single pugilistic sport big enough does those" I replied to your comments in order of the arguments you made. That there? THAT is whataboutism. "But what about all the other sports who also do bad thing?" Get it?
There are no "successful businessman" as far as I am concerned. But the reason for that is too complicated for you to understand.
"Every businessman has failed ventures" You know what the problem is with using absolutes to prove your points in any topics that do not concern laws of nature like physics? Ya just can't prove them ;)
"they didn't sell the asset btw, they rented it out, its a 5 or 10 year deal" If nitpicking is all you got then I think my example more then makes the point.
@Sakîne Mirkan ahh so you still haven't told me WHY saudi deals are bad, just that they are . And in your opinion there are no good busiessmen, and then you nitpick my use of 'every' but get pissy when i correct your actual misrepresentation of an objective fact. From where i am sitting it seems like you just don't like vince and hate when someone praises him for his accomplishments. I hope you are in your teens because this kind of behavior would be extremely sad coming from anyone over the age of 20
@Sakîne Mirkan The man emerged on top against an entire system of dozens of territories and secured a television deal which made the WWF one of the hottest promotions. He also brought wrestling mainstream by focusing on the entertainment aspect of it and created dozens of stars like Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, Bret Hart, Stone Cold, the Rock. Plus, he took a huge gamble with Wrestlemania that could have sunk him. And he bought WWF from his father even with the fact that missing a single payment would make him lose control of the company. These things have to count for something.
@I Don't Know Oh you're right. I just don't think you're telling the whole story there and I think you're not doing so for a reason. Let's start at the beginning: Yes. He bought the company from his father. Mostly with the money he made working for his father. So more or less just his fathers money. And then he went straight against the wishes and conditions of his father to NOT buy out other territories or better yet: Their top stars. Because Vince never really "made" the people like Hogan or Macho Man or Piper etc. they were already made Wrestlers and legit Stars even though only in the territory system thus far. He just bought them up from other Promotions and with that lured their crowds to him. Oh yes the Television deals. Good thinking to go National. I'll give him that. But at the same time he also still went regional and secured deals by screwing many others over like GCW or JCP in the south. That eventually alienated a lot of people like Ole Anderson or Dusty Rhodes who later went on to form his biggest competition with WCW just out of spite. Creating your own competition isn't really a good move. And, true, some Wrestlers really became stars of their own in WWE or WWF. But the list of people they failed to pull the trigger on and turn into legit stars is just as long. Do we really have to talk about cases like Punk? Or you mentioned Hart. Yeah. Also a good example of Vince failing to do the right thing countless times like failing to put him over at Wrestlemania when Hogan came in and wanted the title. Caving to the demands of somebody who the people clearly lost interest to instead of pushing your new star is just not a good decision. And then there is the Steroid Scandals without which Vince would've probably never changed his stance on pushing other talent. People who he deems too small or not having enough muscle still have trouble succeeding in the company as of today. And if it weren't for the Steroid Scandal we would've NEVER seen people like Eddie Guerrero, Benoit, Angle etc. succeed in WWE to begin with. Most of these pushes came out of a necessity rather then anything else. Again with the luck.
True. He did take a huge gamble with Wrestlemania. Underlining just what I said. That many times he just succeeded out of mere luck. As you said: A gamble. He also took a pretty big gamble with things like the WBF or the XFL who both failed spectacularly along with many other business ventures he took.
The WWF or WWE was on the brink of collapse more then once. Be it through things like neglect that lead to the Steroid Scandal or be it through alienating other people who ended up becoming his competition and nearly breaking his neck. Never forget that WWF's success in the Monday Night Wars was much more to blame on WCW's failure then on Vince being a great businessman. If WCW would've pushed down on the backstage politics of certain Wrestlers coughHogancough and not hired idiots like Russo, while focusing on their best talent and homegrown stars like the Radicals then it would've been them buying WWE. But today the WWE is just making the exact same mistakes that WCW did back then. Banking on old stars for the sake of nostalgia instead of pushing new talents to the top, still thinking that there HAS to be one person at the top when that is clearly not the case, not listening to fans and who the cheer or boo for, not bothering to include the Wrestlers much more in the creative process etc. The list is VERY long. And the excuse of people not wanting to watch Wrestling anymore or not watching TV is just lazy as fuck. The only way the company still made as much profit as they did was by making deals like the one with the Saudis that will probably do more harm then good in the long term or by selling off their assets and releasing tons of people. People, like Wrestlers, whom the hoarded like a fucking Dragon collects gold for years now in Order to buy out the indies. A strategy that also majorly backfired along with not giving a crap about people like Cody. Now they have to release them all again because it became too expensive and now there's a company opposing them ready to take that misused talent and turn them into legit Main-Eventer. Jericho, Moxley, Russev, Malachai Black, Brody Lee and now they're even getting Danielson and CM Punk. The list is very long and WWE's failure is AEW's pleasure.
There is a lot more to be said but the fact of the matter is that, as I said, it's just not that simple.
@Revkun To be fair you did say "is" as opposed to was. I could also mention how Vince destroyed other wrestling businesses after his father promised that his company wouldn't compete with other promotions. I'd argue he was never a great businessman.
Revkun I can president of tna impact dixie carter the TNA IMPACT founder Jeff Jarrett, Eric Bischoff lest we forget he ran wcw during the Monday Night Wars and Paul Heyman we can't forget about the time Paul Heyman came up with the idea that John Cena would make him eat a bar of soap
@Joel Down before you even think about spewing such bs like neither could Goldberg or the Undertaker I've got some news for BILL GOLDBERG and Mark The Undertaker Callaway both had MMA training backgrounds prior to becoming wrestlers and also BILL GOLDBERG played in the NFL with the Atlanta Falcons
@watcher Eddie Graham, one of his father's best friends, killed himself in January, 1985; Vince took over his territory and was running shows in Tampa by August. Greatness is not a morale metric, it is a measurement of achievement. Establishing a continent wide business empire is undeniable.
@Sakîne Mirkan him being old and losing his spark doesn't erase his acumen. He took on a nationwide cartel, picked off their territories one after the other until they were all his. The entire continent was his empire. Now he's the old man who's lost his edge. No one can stay on top forever.
@Kitt Spiken I never said it would. But then again many of the "achievements" of Vince McMahon were very often just happening because of others and very much so rather in spite of him then because of him. Like hiring Stone Cold, Mick Foley or pushing The Rock. So many of the most important people who carried his company and his ass for years were only there because of other people pushing Vince to take them. Like Bret Hart or Jim Ross. And so many others.
I give the WWE that much that they were extremely busy over the decades to craft the fairytale of Vince being this great guy who does it all and all by himself but that's just noooot true. Even if you forget about the fact that without the workers a boss is nothing at all.
@Sakîne Mirkan "Charlemagne had a court so he was a do nothing king." It's obvious Vince was the driving vision behind everything, good and bad. He couldn't have done it alone, but who can? That's not how leadership works. He was driving force behind the branding, storylines, recruiting, networking for cross promotion, and overall strategy that usurped the previous cartel monopoly for his own in less than a decade. Come on.
@Kitt Spiken Don't you think using Charlemagne for your analogy is a bit underselling the importance of one glorious Vince McMahon? (That was sarcasm btw)
But nice Strawman. Not my point tho. The point is, again, that Vince was successful IN SPITE of himself because he had people around him working actively against him and persuading him from making decisions he himself never wanted to make. Like the ones mentioned. So if it was Vince alone without any influence from others, keeping him from making the shittiest decisions ever, the WWF/E would've failed probably waaaay before his time. Just like absolutely every other venture McMahon ever did where nobody persuaded him otherwise. Wanna talk about the glorious WBF? Or maybe the XFL? How's that doing?
@Robert Hansen Whataboutism is a logical fallacy in which somebody will point out something bad like saying "The USA also committed war crimes" in order to make the point that Russias War Crimes are not that bad. As a matter of fact whataboutism is often traced back to Soviet Propaganda. You just don't know the first thing about rhetorical figures and logical fallacies. Might want to look it up, might learn something.
And what you're doing there very much IS whataboutism. Because your point is "Dealing with Saudi-Arabia isn't bad because everybody does it". You know why Whataboutism doesn't work? Because you can justify ANYTHING terrible with something more terrible or something equally terrible. Problem is that this justifies absolutely nothing at all. If that were the case the only thing every murderer on the planet would ever need to say is "But I'm not as bad as the Nazis" and then they would get a free out of jail card wouldn't they? But they don't. Because that's a logical fallacy. Just because somebody elses crimes are equally bad or worse then yours, doesn't automatically make yours better.
@Sakîne Mirkan I disagree with most of this. In the early days Vince was a fantastic businessman. He turned a local item into a global empire worth billions. That is brilliant no doubt about it. But the past few decades of near total monopoly has definitely made Vince and the WWE loose their better judgement.
Wwe went downhill because of Vince himself. While Vince had created a amazing legacy he also destroyed it especially with the recent shit. I wish Shane would have taken over. We could have gotten some nostalgia and maybe wwe would have went back to its roots. Wwe now is too pg and is trying to sell to everyone while not offending anyone. It loses its touch once the whole "wokeness" controls WWE. Wwe was the complete opposite. Also remember than Vince keeps shoving roman reigns as if we all enjoy him guy gets more boos from crowd reaction.
This honestly might be one of the greatest video essays I've ever seen. The story arc, The charecter building, The explanations and metaphors. Just beautiful, emp.
Cena wasn’t apart of the golden days of Raw. Cena was a completely different generation of Raw. He definitely became a huge name on his own, but he was the only huge name from his time on Raw. Cena represents WWE, the true Raw was from the WWF.
@All Invite Ohm How dare you call yourself "The Grammar Nazi" without even correcting B's clear and obvious misuse of "apart" in place of the phrase "a part" in saying that Cena was absent from the glory days of Raw.
@Brandi Smith bias but somewhat true, Cena isn't even Raw, he's a smackdown star and on top of that I think he only ever went there in 2005 to do the championship swap storyline where the world heavyweight championship belt and WWE belt switched brands
@Fan Growls we've had NJPW for decades, its just wwe fans stuck in a bubble that are just now discovering it. In fact at their height, Nakamura had the IWGP IC belt seen as more important than the World title.
Austin's wresting was one thing.... But his ability to catch a beer from someone in the nosebleed section and then down it 2 seconds flat was pure talent.
There was another meta-layer to all this, which was the fact that the show was on Monday nights. It ties in perfectly with the theme of the show; as the 90s ushered in an era of boring, sterile 9-5 jobs at soulless corporations, Mondays became a symbol of the boredom and tedium yet to come. It was likely around this time that the sentiment of “I hate Mondays” was at its peak.
But then, you had Monday Night Raw, which was the exact antithesis to that. Whereas Monday mornings and afternoons were spent transitioning from the freedom of the weekend to the soul-crushing corporate world at work, MNR was the exact opposite of that, being bombastic, edgy and fun.
Monday Night Raw’s timeslot worked so well because Monday Night Raw is the opposite of what Mondays are.
They were called arena fighters, or later on, gladiators as would become know during Rome. It too was theater counter to the bloodsport Hollywood would have you believe it was.
@Daniel Adeyemi that's not really the same kind of arena combat, there was no weapons and it wasn't held in the same kind of "arena". It was basically the same as amateur wrestling today but naked and on a hard floor lol
@Oldies channel By wrestling I'm talking about Pankration which is an interesting mix of boxing, wrestling etc. It's combat as much as modern MMA is and likely more brutal since there were less rules. I don't know what wrestling you're talking about that's done on a hard floor though
@Daniel Adeyemi also I'm talking about Ancient Greek wrestling on a hard floor. They wrestled on stone floors as far as I know, not mats. They may have wrestled on sand (which would actually bring it a bit close to arena combat as "arena" simply meant "sand" in ancient Latin)
@Oldies channel I see, to my knowledge they wrestled on sand at least for the Olympics i.e. with spectators. Whilst this does differ from gladiatorial combat as it's unarmed, it's still arena combat since a) takes place in arena as you said, and b) is combat.
@Daniel Adeyemi it depends how you look at it, I personally wouldn't call the setup for an Olympic wrestling match an "arena" at least in the modern sense (through it did have sand) although it did have audiences in tiered seats it didn't have the right shape, nor was it enclosed, but maybe this is semantics.
Reminds me of the time that in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table
14:37 can I just say how much I love this? He takes off his mask only to reveal that he still has face painting on that looks exactly the same as the mask he just wore. Brilliant.
You guys are missing the context to this. Lol~ it's awesome too. During this era the NWO had been mocking the fact Sting (the mysterious WCW Enforcer and the only one Hogan feared) was entirely missing. For almost two months, they'd show up week after week with this clown version of Sting and just totally roast him. Yet during one fateful night of attempted humiliation, Sting removes his fake mask to reveal it's actually him. He was BACK.
I’ve been a wrestling fan for years, not only are his wrestling videos pure gold but the nascar videos are pure gold too, and I never imagined I’d ever be interested in Nascar. It turns out that it happens to just be more than “cars just spinning in circles” .
The bit at 23 minutes sold me. He takes off his glasses and stares down a fan holding a DIE ROCKY sign and it got me interested in what happens next. Fan interaction is the future imo, and we're JUST starting to see it now with streamers. Wrestling was ahead of it's time in a way.
and also not, because a lot of what happened in theater was based off of the crowd's reaction, or specifically written to get a certain response from the crowd. But yeah Vince is a genius, always has been, and WWE just had the best revenue year of all time last year. A $1 billion deal with Peacock doesnt hurt either lol
There was a very long period of time where WWE just ignored what the fans wanted, the commentators would even say the crowd was cheering someone when they were quite clearly booing them. The lack of competition made it so the WWE thought they could ignore the fans, after all they had nowhere else to go (other than stop watching completely... which a lot did)
And not just the pain. The athleticism required is insane. It's like parkour times 20. Anyone who thinks they can do this stuff themselves and go to get trained thinking it's a joke and is going to be easy will be wishing they were dead by the end of two sessions.
The dispute is something like when you see CM Punk being on top of the pro wrestling consciousness...and then see him lose shoot fights against guys who are below the lower end of any sort of fighter rankings. The dispute is when you think back to Bobby Lashley vs Braun Strowman Last Man Standing, but then think further back to him having never lost a shoot fight out of the 5 he's had in shoot fighting organization Bellator.
ECW style was dangerous as hell, my respect for all wrestlers but the ECW guys were nuts man, it was cool but like they must have felt in hell the next day
@alfa01spotivo Like WWF (at the time) and WCW were all edgy and brutal as hell, but ECW was like fucking mental.
They even replaced ropes with barbed wires at one time, chair shots and being bashed in the head with anything were as common as someone wearing a shirt, being slammed to tables on a weekly basis, being kicked in the balls looked like it was stiff, even the women weren't safe from the headbashing
Hey Emp. I doubt you will ever see this, but I just wanted to say thank you. This video was my introduction to professional wrestling, and I have since become a huge fan. I started watching WWE programming every week and have been watching since Wrestlemania 35. I've come to love wrestling so much and now I'm actually getting in on the industry. I'm about to start work at a small promotion near where I work and I'm excited to see where it will all go. And I wouldn't have gotten to this point had you not produced this video. So once again, thank you Emp!
I know I’m late to this, but I am rather shocked that you didn’t really emphasize on the Montreal screw job. A moment which put a stain on the WWE, but created a silver lining in most likely inspiring Vince to not creating the Mr. McMahon character, but the attitude era as a whole.
In my personal opinion, that moment right there is where the attitude era began.
Hey man, I just wanted to let you know that I come back to this series all the time. One of the best reflective pieces on YouTube and I mean every episode is top. Keep it up emp
It's crazy how much can change in almost three years. when this was made, WWE was still pretty good. AEW had literally just been formed 3 days before this video was released and everyone expected it to be another TNA.
Now three years later, RAW is quite bad and AEW and WWE are consistently talked about in the same conversations. Pretty nuts to think about
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Anthony Strangio2022-03-14 01:28:06 (edited 2022-03-14 01:28:23 )
Still good 3yrs ago? Wwe hasn't been good since the Ruthless Aggression era of the mid 2000s, although Punks time was good while he was there. This is just my opinion of course...but I watch all wrestling. WWE, AEW, Impact, ROH, MLW, NWA, NJPW, Noah and GCW.
Y'all can trash WWE all ya want but no wrestling company will over take them. Think about it, y'all get hyped if a company just doesn't go under competing with WWE. That's how dominant WWE is. Companies get respect just for not going under when going against them lmao. Aew will never be a bigger draw than WWE. Screenshot do whatever with this comment. The only WWE dies is if they make a conscious effort to let it die
"and everyone expected it to be another TNA" Uh, no they didn't?
"when this was made, WWE was still pretty good" No... It wasn't.
"Now three years later, RAW is quite bad" Raw is better now than it was 3 years ago, due to the competition from AEW. That doesn't mean it's good, just better.
@Slappy_White87 dude they didn’t say AEW was going to “overtake” WWE. They just said AEW went from being the new wrestling company on the block to being talked about by wrestling fans just as much as WWE. Also if your judgment on the value of a company is based off of presentation alone then by that logic the only movies of value are made by Disney. WWE is big but that doesn’t mean that it’s wrestling is best by proxy
This video got me into wrestling, I went to my first show because of it, I joined that promotion because of it, learned to be a referee, and 2 weeks ago missed a foot on the ropes during a pin and counted 3 during my first time on payperview. Thank you Emp, very cool.
I’m so mesmerized by how well this documentary was put up… I can’t count how many times I’ve had goosebumps watching this video, I have learned a lot and have been entertained at the same time. I love it a lot!
Supereyepatchwolf also made some incredible videos about how wrestling is great as an example of long term story telling. You should check those out if you haven’t. He also goes into the absolutely insane world of Japanese pro wrestling which is even crazier imo
Right. That’s why anytime people try to copy wrestling moves who aren’t trained wrestlers themselves someone always gets seriously injured or killed. Because there’s no skill involved in staging a fight with crazy spectacle and ridiculous stunts that take extreme athleticism and careful coordination. What a bunch of absolutely talentless hacks, amiright?
@big boss bob ross >greentexting on youtube MMA, BJJ, muay thai, kickboxing, etc. takes skill, WWE is a show. Practice the same exact thing 200 times in a row and you can master it. That can't be said about PvP when the player style always changes and you have to adapt.
@casperd2100 wow so your saying u can do 680 splash then also protect who your fighting and also a 5 star frog splash from the top if a hell in a cell as well as create a good a great story
Edit your also saying that you can survive a liontamer can also survive getting your ear pulled off or falling of a hiac also you can survive a piledriver from on top of a hell in a cell or getting speared to a flaming table or getting ya know a go to sleep if you can't do that it takes fuking skills
@alfa01spotivo right... you're so sure that people don't fight over their favorite wrestler like it's a real sports team. Imagine pretending that there isn't already a pre-made winner set to win. The only reason people act like this is because WWE portrays the show as organic and not staged to people and people are dumb enough to buy into it.
@casperd2100 99% of wrestling fans know its fake, its just entertainment, kind of like magicians. I used to think like you too, but wrestling can be pretty cool
I was 12 when they started to show Raw and Smackdown in free TV here in Finland. Raw had The Reign of Terror going on, Katie Vick etc., so it was quite bad period of wrestling but I got invested in it. Smackdown was awesome after the brand split, and in 2008 I heard about TNA. It revolutionized my view of wrestling, to think that there are way better wrestlers than WWE had, and now they have even more competition. It's the best time to be a wrestling fan, you can watch whatever style you want!
@casperd2100 lol the whole point of it is entertainment. Not everyone simply wants to watch a sport, but everyone wants to be entertained. Most of us are suckers for a good dreams fueled story. Especially if it's one we can relate to. But I respect your opinion. At one point I thought it was pretty dumb. The attitude era was the greatest. But now I kind of think it's lame again... Most of the talent that made it so great is long gone now, or moved on to better things.
I have recently become a HUGE wrestling fan after years, well, decades, of discounting it and making fun of it. Mostly due to content creators like yourself.
You know, a lot of businessmen these days could learn a few things from how vince ran RAW. The man quite literally got down onto the dirt and let his own employees beat the ever loving shit out of him, all for the sake of his company. Some people wouldn’t even want their shoes scuffed, and that man was out there letting a large wrestler bodyslam him off the top rope. Now that’s dedication.
Dude, I gotta say, out of the all the wrestling docs I’ve seen on YouTube, yours is the the best by far! This is pure gold! I love the flow of it. I love your “in order to be loved..” intros to all the wrestlers and the events that happened. We need more wrestling docs like this man! Thanks for letting me relive my childhood! Pls make more!
This was the video that made me watch wrestling for the first time. I'd like to thank you, because I get to watch wrestling every Monday and Friday with my parents! You could say that it's one if my fixations now! Thank you for opening my eyes!
I still remember renting that VHS from Blockbuster as a kid and watching the Hell in a Cell with Mankind and Undertaker. Still one of the greatest matches of all time.
It feels impossible to imagine an era of WWF without Raw. I can't imagine myself being a fan without some type of weekly show to keep me interested in story lines.
Oh man, just mentioning the Austin-McMahon feud brings back memories and hysterical moments of those crazy 3 years in the then-WWF. Assault in the ring, beer showers, eating a man's dinner, assault in the hospital, several wrestling matches........
I was 15-20 between 1996-2001. Everybody I knew loved wrestling, it really was a cultural phenomenon. So many people have tried to recapture the magic of that era, but they can't. One big reason why is that they'd be canceled. I can't wait until we get past this age of social credit points off victimhood.
I've watched this video many times and I still enjoy it as much as I did the first time. Very well done! I feel like the most comparable story to Mick Foley's win for today's WWE is Daniel Bryan's win at Wrestlemania 30. Would love to see you make a video about that one.
Great video! So much nostalgia and I still to this day get goosebumps watching that pop for stone cold (I watched it when it originally aired way back in the 90s). I’ve tried to explain to people how wrestling had an influence on pop culture and this video puts into words what I wanted to convey!
Thanks for helping your average person learn why Wrestling is something special! It's a task I've been trying to do for years and I'm happy it's becoming more accepted.
Wrestling has actually fallen from grace since then. I'm not American but there was a time me and my friends would talk about nothing but wrestling during school hours.
As a kid in the late 90s I remember how huge WWF was. I had no choice but to get into it even if just a bit. I had Smackdown vs Raw on PS2 I think. Watched some episodes, had a t-shirt, saw events with friends, etc. But I grew out of it fast. For years I thought of it as childish but I've grown to understand it and this video helped.
But I can't help but mention the very grown men who were obsessed with this like men obsessed with NFL, NBA or anything else. They took it so serious. I understand appreciating it as entertainment or even being someone who understands stunts and such, but to be so serious like we did as kids... I don't know. It's like taking call of duty so serious where you break shit and ruin your relationship. Those same type of people. Lol
I'm hung over and in a weird spot while typing this, but I legit teared up at multiple points during this video. It really brought me back man, it's impossible to explain how amazing this shit was at the time.
@Archie Rosie million dollar man ted dibiase was a wrestler from the 80s. his gimmick basically was of a rich corporate overlord who loved poking fun at the "less fortunate". which is exactly why he worked so damn well as a heel. everyone hated his guts.
You perfectly summed up that legendary cage match, I watched it live with a friend and as they put him on the stretcher I said to my buddy "as short as that was, it was still one of the coolest matches I've ever seen" and I was totally content. THEN mankind made his way back, got choke slammed thru the roof of the cage, fought a full match which culminated in another choke slam onto a bed of tacks. Late 90's attitude Era wrestling SLAPPED!!!!!
Awesome video man, great way to tell a story to someone who wasn’t part of the WWF era during the 97 to 2002 times, these were the glory times of WWF
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MR. Bucket2020-06-29 04:45:26 (edited 2020-06-29 04:47:47 )
From what I started noticing as I watch more of the Undertaker was he seems less like a supernatural ghost op zombie wrestler thing but instead the aura he gave off was more of that of a old western legend or spirit, some mysterious bearded guy in a trench coat wearing a cowboy hat who suddenly shows up through the mist and defeats the new hotheaded gunslinger and disappears back into the desert. Kinda like Batman, hes almost like a myth until he actually shows up only for a few minutes, gets the job done, then disappears, sound familiar?
He started out as a zombie, transitioned into a weird cultist persona but at the turn of the millennium and with his American Badass persona he basically transformed into what you're saying. A near 7 foot, 300 pound vigilante in a trenchcoat who would walk (or ride on a motorcycle) down to the ring to kick some poor guy's ass. Since he debuted the American Badass character, he's been this way for literally the past 20 years. Even when he's changed back into the undead monster he's still more of a realistic, Batman-like character. Doing dives over the top rope and hitting rapid strikes in the corner rather than standing around and being slow, it's actually crazy how much he's changed over the near 30 years he had in the WWF/WWE.
exactly what i had in mind..before his biker gimmick, he was pale, and more like an unstoppable force..he was like a cult leader, or a possesed man with evil intentions..after the biker gimmick, he was like a ghost, laid back and neutral who brings balance
This might be one of my favorite youtube videos of all time. I find myself watching it every few months, like many of your videos, but this one always gets me excited. A true gem of a video.
I will forever respect this channel's ingenuity and creativity with its artstyle, research and compiling it all into some of the most amazing storytelling of our time.
Dude, I was in the military from '95 to 2000. Monday we talked about who's fighting that night. Tuesday we talked about the matches. Wednesday we started talking about the next weeks matches. We choke slammed each other, suplexed, body slammed and figure foured each other all the time. I'm pretty sure I got a concussion from getting hit by a chair by another Airman. I chipped a guys tooth doing a leg drop on him. It was chaos and we loved it.
Once or twice we got really bored in the barracks, grabbed a couple mattresses, lined up behind them in the hall, and charged each other in a tug'o'war style battle. Dumbass cavalry stuff. I loved it.
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Rick Da ruler2020-09-18 03:56:25 (edited 2020-09-18 03:57:20 )
Although I never was in the military I pictured this in my child hood bedroom with my brother. Best memories ever
The monologue on Stone Cold Steve Austin is the most bang on thing I have ever heard. It did not matter who you were and what you were about, SCSA was someone anyone could connect to on a visceral level.
I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't going to watch this video because I don't like wrestling. But I gave it a chance because every other Never Ever episode was just so well done. No regrets
I watched your most recent video on Mac Tonight about a week ago and loved it. It led to me subscribing and having the spongebob episode come up in my reccomended and I watched this one immediately following that. I had to start it asap as a pro wrestler and I didn't think another video you made could grab my interest like the spongebob one did but both are such big parts of my childhood. Thank you, you did an amazing job on all videos mentioned
Please do not let this video distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
I was so amazed and shocked all at once when I saw it for the first time. Also keep in mind that no one has really seen something liked that before in wrestling, thus makes it such an amazing and legendary match in wrestling history.
This comment doesnt do that fight justice. The absolute Madlad, Mankind, got off his stretcher, got to the top of the cage again, just to be thrown another 12 feet down to the mat, AND he kept going afterwards.
@Greedy Animal I think what really makes it crazy is that's not the end of a match. Man got back ontop of the cage and slammed through it into the ring.. And still got up to keep going.
Aron not that, use that Undertaker chokeslammed Mankind on the top of the cage, with Foley unexpectedly crashing through, landing on the ring with a chair also hitting his face in the process
@Crypt0nym0us Sec haha I know. I was just trying to think of something stupid to say. I remember watching the over the edge ppv when it happened. I wasn't there so I didn't see it, but they were showing some video vignettes during the time he fell. I never quite understood where they were trying to go with the blue blazer gimmick in the first place. Bret was my favorite wrestler of all time. I really enjoyed watching Owen too. Both of their careers ended way too soon. Really sad that Owen will never be inducted into the hall of fame. :/
Sebastian Nicholas Definitely don’t forget that Mick Foley has also taken bumps on miniature C4 charges, barbed wire ropes, and bladed/barbed blunt objects, and one match in particular where he wrestled with ALL THREE.
@Nuke Caulfield Okay, sure. But don't let it distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
@Cole Brown You sound pretty salty. Take a deep breath and remember that in 1998 the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeted 16 feet through an announcer's table.
loved your video dude, very entertaining and informative. And you really nailed it on why wrestling so special and entertaining. I do want to say that to me wrestling is unique form of entertaining and can't be compared to movies and TV. mainly because it's performed in front of an audience and is usually shown unedited on TV.
Hey Emp, I just wanted to say that I really love your video essays. Youtube knows to show me them as soon as they come out because I always view them immediately from start to finish. All of that said, did you really have to use the classical music piece the Five Nights at Freddy theme is derived from around the 5 minute mark? It really felt like you stepped out of the screen and slapped me in the face, I was utterly immersed in the villainous intent. Please continue doing what you do.
Wish you'd do something like this for Nitro. Which I found WAAAY more interesting during this Era. Also as the underdogs, I think Never Ever fit them a hell of a lot more.
Because it's actually true we will Never Ever have Nitro again.
There's only two things missing from this video. 1: footage of Stone Cold Steve Austin dressing up as a doctor so he can get into Vince's Hospital Room and beat on his broken leg before smacking him in the head with a Bedpan. And 2: footage of The Rock shoving Vince's face into another wrestler's ass in the ring to a cheering crowd.
3: The battle damage in pro-wrestling. The wrestlers aren't paid to fake a slapfight. They're paid to beat the crap out of each other to pre-determined conclusion.
@Hanskah that a very important thing a lot of people just forget. It's not fake it's scripted. Fake would be if they pretended to bounce around and get hit. Scripted is taking physical thrashes that conclude when the script's outcome is fulfilled
@Rocky Cintron which episode? i havent watched him in about 2 years. i just couldnt take something new to piss you off each week ya know. how is it these days?
Late 80s/early 90s “Rock & Wrestling”/“New Generation” era MADE me a fan of wrestling. Mid to late 90s “Attitude” era wrestling KEPT me a fan of wrestling…….even to this day. I was a kid and teenager during those times. Into adulthood I’ve maintained an oscillating relationship with wrestling in hopes that it will one day again reach the height of entertainment value it had in those eras. It hasn’t. It’s come close in moments but nothing sustained.
This is the most perfect video to describe wrestling. Except , the exclusion of Vince Russo. It was not Vince McMahon waking up one day realizing how to change his company. It was in fact a middle class writer from their magazine who set up and wrote the story that you so perfectly described. To this day Russo does not get the recognition he deserves for what he did for WWE and for Raw because of his stint in WCW later, but we mustn't erase facts that McMahon was brought up to Speed culturally by Russo, and that Mick Foley, HHH, DX, Stone Cold and the "evil" McMahon were all able to thrive because of Russos writing and setting up stories. Now I'm not going to call him Shakespeare but the basis of your video was on a writer, a play writer, and the moment you capture at the end of this video was derived from the writer Vince Russo. Exceptional Job otherwise man, loved it.
Once upon rewatching this, I got more impressed by how You explained The believeness that everything on TV, does'nt matter if it is real or not, can be both just as Entertaining and Exciting, This really got Me thinking about The Joy factor of TV and Entertainment in-general.
Because there are lots of times were I constently get bored of the same type of content, and sometimes it can be diffecult to get into more Categories. But suddenly I had a special interrest in getting more invested and learn about stuff that i never ever (no pun intented) thought i whould get so into and kind of build an big interrest towards it, and one of those interrests were and still are Wrestling, and it was thanks to My friends and You that i got bigger into Wrestling :).
Plus I think You're Never Ever series is fantastic and I whould love to see one on Stores or something like that in the possible future.
I could watch these all day, find myself pausing you’re videos about every 30 seconds because there’s so much interesting and rewatchable moments in each of your vids
That show was the most incredible thing to visit. Raw turned your local arena into a temporary insane asylum populated by maniacs, psychopaths, and literal evil itself. The idea that these guys lived ordinary lives, showed up to work, sat together in the locker room putting their pads and costumes on while sharing comradery would have been like finding out we were living in the goddamn Matrix movie. (Another thought fresh in our child minds in 1999). To me the arena almost felt like a place where you were in a certain amount of danger. Somewhere in the building The Undertaker had perhaps convened his Ministry of Darkness. What foul magic could they be working in the dark corners of my Ice Palace? DX would be there, planning their mayhem for the night and reliving the experinces they'd had sampling Tampa's underbelly and would share with us in story later. Perhaps Stone Cold would be brooding in some lonely spot with his six pack, waiting for his match or someone to disturb him, whichever came first. It didn't matter. He knew the outcome. The Texas Rattlesnake would be ready to savor whatever prey he could catch later that night. Vince would be there too. Perhaps having a discussion with the Briscoe Bros. about why they he thought Tampa was just about the worst town on the face of the Earth and that he couldn't understand why they continued to run their body shop and wrestling gym there. In fact, later that night he came out and told us just that! He said something like "Tampa is really an awful town and this arena sucks. That's why we almost never come here. You should all thank us for coming to this god awful place because we felt sorry for you. Enjoy the show because it'll be a long time before we'll be back, losers." All the while sirens are going off, glass is being shattered and they're shooting off all kinds of fireworks right next to you. The lights keep going out. The brawling spills into the crowd. Wrestlers are getting maimed by cruel attacks from merciless villains that sometime wield otherworldly powers. You find yourself eye to eye, feet away from crazy, dangerous men and women who seem bent on doing whatever it takes to win, even if that meant taking a life or losing their own. TLDR? They didn't call it the War Zone for nothin', kids. Today's show don't come close. The WWF sold you a ticket to an adventure.
I moved to Clearwater from Philly 2 years ago. Went to the Raw reunion show 2 months ago. Let me tell ya.... Tampa Fans have NOTHING on Philly fans. I mean nothing. Two different worlds, man
I remember growing up thinking the exact same. I thought thats how they live. They are insane people. It was an adventure. The rock really only talked in third person. Triple hhh always had a water bottle in his hand and hes always angry. Stone cold always mad at beats people. Seeing them live normal lives took away that thing from this great entertainment. I was scared as hell of paul bearer and as a very young kid would close my eyes seeing him
People often forget that Shakespeare's works was for the peasant class. It costed a single shilling to stand at the floor of the show and watch what was considered the greatest theater ever made.
Fantastic video! There are moments in wrestling where no other movie, book, video game or TV show has made me feel any sort of emotions like wrestling does. There are some moments in the WWF/WWE that really make me shed tears of pure nostalgia, Rock v Hogan, Mankind v Undertaker, HBK v Austin with Mike Tyson as Enforcer, Undertaker v HBK, Sasha Banks v Bailey on NXT (to really kick start the women's revolution in Wrestling), HHH return to MSG in 2002 after his injury, to name a few. It's the months of story arcs and character building, if not years, and tuning in and making it a tradition every monday (tuesday morning for me, thanks EU!). It's so special, we will never see it again, but I tune in every Monday and Friday because I still love it. No matter how trashy and repetitive it gets nowadays. I've been watching back from the Montreal Screwjob at SS 1997, and watching every episode of Raw and eventually smackdown in 1999, and every PPV, and it still holds up.
Ive watched this video about a thousand times, and its just now occuring to me that this video should’ve been called “There Will Never Ever be a wrestling era like the Attitude Era”
As someone who grew up not watching wrestling at all, I think Vince making himself the the most unhinged villain in his own product is absolutely hilarious
as a kid in the deep south I lived for stone cold Steve Austin, dale Earnhardt, and grave digger. watching all of your videos has brought back so many good memories
@LimeX Don't mention WCW around Titan Towers. Hopefully, AEW can make WCW fans like myself fulfill our hearts with joy with bringing the WWT to its knees and go for the head.
Exactly, I posted JBLS 9/11 tribute and it was pulled and argued my point in the leave a reason section and it was unblocked, Fight them its a fucking video
This is, was and will always be the greatest event to ever happen on Monday night raw. The Rock, Stone Cold, Mick Foley, Vince, the New Age outlaws, Triple H. This was special. I cried when he won. Stone Cold had his back, when DX had his back. And the Rock was not to proud to give the fans exactly what we wanted.
As someone tht just returned to watching WWE after taking roughly 15 years off, there's just something inside that brings out the child everytime I hear the bell.
So glad I finally watched this video. Much like your NASCAR stuff I didn't really know anything about WWE but now I can say I understand the hype and love for it. Great video!
Am I the one who loves the ending to this video? It give me chills listening to the audio from that match. Everything from Jerry Lawler yelling in disgust at Mick winning, to Michael Cole cheering out how Mankind has achieved his dream. Literal nostalgia 🥺
I find it so crazy that in the late 90’s and early 2000’s that wrestling and nascar dominated tv’s across America every week and now nearly 20 years later they are recovering from almost dying off and are slowly becoming more popular again. Ps would like to add that I hate people who say that nascar isn’t a sport or wrestling isn’t real because they are both real in a way. NASCAR is a sport because of the diet and good physical shape required to drive a stock car because if you aren’t in good shape or have a good diet you won’t be able to finish a race let alone drive the car for hours upon hours without collapsing from exhaustion or dehydration. Wrestling is also real because the performers who take the bumps can die from landing incorrectly on a top rope jump or by taking a move like a pile driver incorrectly and breaking your neck like in Stone Cold’s case.
I'm only halfway through this video. But it's incredible. The editing, timing and information is top tier. Thank you for all I've learned about my favorite Shakespearian play with oily dudes "fake" fighting.
I think that was around the middle of the greatest ever period of wrestling. The characters and stories were great, every match was entertaining. It was Mick, The Rock and Austin's show. Whenever you heard that smashing glass, you would feel an intense rush of excitement because you knew something brilliant was about to happen.
Wrestling has definitely changed and I would say that has contributed more to the diminishing of its popularity than how the world has changed around it.
The only thing I really took any issue with was referring to Ric Flair as "older and more established talent" from WWF.. But I know what you meant. This was fantastic
I grew up watching between 2005-2014 and even though I missed the attitude era and early 2000s I’m still so happy to have grown up watching guys like Cena, edge, Batista, Mysterio and others
This was the best argument I've heard for why you shouldnt judge pro wrestling just cause it isn't real. I'd never liked pro wrestling cause it didn't feel genuine, but he makes a fucking amazing point.
@jhon viel ehhhh, that's hard to say there is a lot of different genres in modern anime, which i stopped watching, but it's not really compareable to the wwe, when modern wwe just gives you one shit storyline, pushing overrated characters who are trash the usual, john cena, daniel bryan, roman reign, brock lesnar and weird newcomers.
@Bhargav Chavda I never said anyones work ethic is bad particularly, but yeah their characters are shit as well as the storylines and the overall pg era.
@Van Dagylon Not necessarily, anything modern anime has, has a fucking better storyline and is less pg than wwe, wwe is so pathetic, you might as well be watching kids wrestling.
@Miguel Juarez The vice versa thing applies. Anime is more popular in America than it is in Japan, it IS popular is in Japan except most asians [in Japan] see anime as childish.
@z #37549 it does but at least they hav stories and promos that dont relate to that, if wwe was an anime steve austin would be constantly talking about how he must protect his friends and would have colorful emo hair
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@l Z I You do know you're just talking about Shonen(battle oriented shows aimed at 13 year old boys)? I'm sorry if I come off as a bit pretentious here but I think more people should realize that anime are just Japanese *cartoons*. Not a genre in it of itself
Also I didn't really mention anything about anime. I was just saying that RAW was pretty gay since the way you phrased your comment made it seem like it was the opposite
@MAHKEL HARRIS Don't blame them, the very few animes I have seen were written like how a 14 year old would write something, very edgy but without the point.
@Richard Beau Dangles dude hahahaha you are commenting on a post I made 10 months ago lol the context of what I was arguing doesn't matter and I do not care about modern wrestling, wrestling went from two dudes beating the ever loving shit out of each other with a nice story to some of the safest pg cuddling with horrible characters and bad writing, nothing redeemeble except when they have to bring back the oldschool legends for nostalgia.
@ANDON HOWARD My comment was like a year or so ago, Yeah I figured but most of the pushed wrestlers are bad and wwe ratings are at an all time low, wwe like most things that used to be great arent so great anymore. And im not gonna change my opinion that daniel bryan was pushed too hard, never liked the authority storyline, that pushed cm punk over all for triple H to play this big bad guy, a lot of stuff from 2014 to 2020 just gets worse.
@ZootedBeaver i agree with you, 2020 is one of the best year that wwe have after 2016. In this year we got edge returning, drew winning the royal rumble, an amazing babyface championship run, roman reigns vs jey uso, boneyard match, we got amazing pay per view like the royal rumble, wrestlemania 36, backlash, money in the bank, summerslam 2020, clash of champion, hell in a cell, we also got one of the best women match in the year that is sasha vs bayley at HIAC, the hurt business, randy orton legend killer run, randy vs edge and lastly alexa bliss and the fiend stuff is entertaining. Sure we've got some bad moments like extreme rules 2020, ricochet squashed by brock, Goldberg winning the championship, braun title reign is horrible, john Morrison getting wasted and etc. But in my opinion this year is miles better than the 2018-2019 garbage
I watch this video when you posted it. It aged poorly in less than one year and I'm actually glad it did. AEW made this real. Thank you Tony. Screw you Vince.
I remember watching Rey Mysterio as a kid and wanting to be like him. The 619, the intro everything, as well someone like me was up there. Sure John cena and the rock were also my favorites but they just didn’t have the same appeal to me.
18:08 This is my first time watching this, but I will be very disappointed if you do not give credit to good ole JR for his incredible commentary. His and Jerry Lawler's commentary in this era is largely responsible for the love the fans developed for these guys. Many storyboard points were driven through JR's commentary.
I never watched wrestling, but I think I get it now. Great video. Also worth mentioning how they changed to WWE because the World Wildlife Fund sued them.
im sure not everyone has gone to see pro wrestling live but i have to say, just like many other things in life, the experience seeing it in person is wildly better than on tv. i HIGHLY recommend trying it out at least once. even if it ends up being a mediocre event, im sure youll still enjoy it
this is epic. never expected you to bring up how in 1998, the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeted 16 feet through an announcers’ table
In early 2000's as a kid I used to loove wrestling, especially Smackdown. Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit were my absolute favorites.. we'll we know how that ended. Atleast Rey Mysterio didn't die while I was fanboying wwe, it was crazy times
Countless HD livestreams of Family Guy episodes, completely unchanged, inarguably copyright infringement: A-OK.
100% fair use, educational, passionate video which took weeks of research and editing, also doubles as free advertising for TV, a dying medium of entertainment: unforgivable.
TBF those livestreams are constantly being taken down or are edited to a point the show is barely watchable. They're just constantly making new channels to continue it
Mr. McMahon: "This is a wholesome tv show for all of your family" continues to get beaten by Stone Cold in order to get fans hyped to fantasy about beating their bosses xD
In his defense I think he said that in 85...and it was more wholesome then. Even Vince couldn't refer to the attitude era as wholesome. Thats what made it even more fun.
That’s the problem with YouTube’s copyright claim mechanism. It’s left up to an algorithm that clearly doesn’t understand the law. Stuff like this is only promoting WWE, not taking away any potential revenue.
Who would've thought that on one random day, just scrolling through youtube comments, I would see Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler in the same section. Wow. Just wow.
I remember having front row seats to multiple Raw is War events, due to my mother being really amazing and always supporting my interests. In the Attitude era, I mean every stadium was completely sold out and the crowds were absolutely wild! I mean, ever single grown adult and child screaming at the top of their lungs and would have no voice the next day. Damn, was that the most amazing times of my life!
Rock was always my favorite growing up even though he was a bad guy I always rooted for him. He was just to good in the ring and on the mic. Turning heel was best decision if his career. Then when he left came back as a Hollywood hill it was brilliant.
i remember leaving art class every tiesday to call a tollfree number from the payphone to find out who won in the ratings to report it back to classmates. Wrestling was huge!
As a kid around 2000 on Monday nights we would all be playing outside and then the dads would yell "Its wrestling time!" and all of the kids would go to their homes and literally watch wcw until wwf came on. It was like clock work. I miss being a kid around then and living on base. It was an incredible time to be alive.
Ngl: I compare Wrestling to Anime/Shows all the time. Hey, if you find enjoyment out of TOWIE and Made in Chelsea. I can watch near naked apes fight over a gold belt!
As a kid I loved WWE. Friday night smackdown was my show though. Couldn't convince the parents to let me stay up that late on a school night lmao 🤣 Still though, even though me and my friends knew it was fake, we loved it so much. The stories had us hooked, we had our favourites and our enemies. And I still remember watching Jeff Hardy lose to CM punk and have to "retire" in back in '09 and the emotions of losing my favourite character. Great video reminding me why I loved wrestling so much 👌
I got to go see WCW Monday Nitro back in 94 or 95. Back when it was the most popular wrestling organization. Me and my friends got front row seats and got to slap hands with Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage! It was pretty memorable, and I've never really been a fan of wrestling. I never watched it on TV, but being there live at the matches is pretty damn fun.
i was 14-18 during that time watching with my friends, Diesel was my favourite until he left WWF, then Mankind and Stone Cold were my heroes, and i'm from south america, so the party was not only enjoyed in the US
For those that don’t know, there is now competition for WWE once again. It’s called AEW, and it’s on TNT, soon switching to TBS. It’s much more geared toward an older audience, and has some incredibly engaging characters like MJF and CM Punk. I definitely recommend it if you want to try watching pro wrestling, but think WWE is too bland or too polished.
As a massive wrestling fan, I can safely say that there are many shows and events other wrestling promotions that emulate (or at least try to) the late 90s/early 2000s car-crash TV style of RAW during the Attitude Era. WCW tried to during the same time... and failed. TNA/IMPACT Wrestling tried to during the early 2010s which sunk the company into its darkest timeline and currently, MLW has almost replicated the style successfully albeit on a much lower scale.
I grew up during this time period and it was what made me a fan in the first place. It was the wrestling boom that we will never see again. Wrestling will never be as popular as it was during the mid-late 90s/early 2000s. Kids "wrestling" each other in school, doing DX crotch chops, employees flipping their bosses off ala Stone Cold and everybody spitting water like they were Triple H..... good times, good times....
I have a theory that it’s ecw’s death that caused the creative stagnation that has plagued pro wrestling ever since. They were the perfect in between an indy company and the huge juggernauts that were wwf and wcw, allowing them to push the envelope and develop real feeling characters that fans could get behind. Mick Foley, Jericho, and Stone Cold all cultivated their characters and ability to get over in ecw. The Game character is a discount watered down Franchise Shane Douglas from ECW. There hasn’t been a true successor to ecw since they went under. I think MLW is getting close and i really respect them, but they aren’t as contemporary to the current culture as ecw was in the 90’s.
The slideshows here are actually even better than watching the original footage in some strange way - at least, if you've already watched the original footage to death like so many of us fans have.
33:19 This is the only part that you got wrong, b/c even the majority of wrestling fans old & young will tell you that the quality of WWE programming has greatly declined over the years. Just like how WCW declined during the era when wrestling was at its most popular.
@RobD8870 Officially, the PG era supposedly ended in 2014. Though the product is still family-friendly during the Reality & New eras, but then so was the very popular 80s Golden Era.
@JODonYT this was the second time this was uploaded, the first time was put down by copyright but Emp brought it back. I made the same exact comment on the first version and it got 200 likes untill it went down.
@Neptune-Blue Trochymchuk Game Theory and EmpLemon both make fantastic use of critical thinking and researching topics, but one thing I find that separates the two is that YouTube is not Emp's job, so he can post whenever he wants and post somewhat whatever he wants to any audience he chooses. Game Theory, as I perceive it, wants to function as a genuine channel and a business, but if GT wants to make an income, they'll need to appeal to a large and accessible audience. I don't necessarily see GT as patronizing, they pull off a decent and fitting character of "we know we can be seen as just another corporate money man haha but we make sensible use of funds and here's our patreon." The joking manner of GT's patreon slips, from my point of view, leaves a gray feeling about their genuineness, as they could just take full advantage of their influetial 4th wall poking and make bank off of the the trust they established. Emp plays with other means but he can reach the same end, but less influentially and less profitably. I'd like to hear other opinions on this.
@JODonYT that's kind of odd. i have a notification system that tells me exactly when someone uploads and i posted the comment like 30 seconds after this was uploaded? and i frequently checked my comment (being the sad person i am) and i was the third most liked comment so idk maybe the site did some weird goof or you're just a liar.
@JODonYT eh, alright ill give you the benefit of the doubt as that first point's true. i only edited though because there was a spelling error, but tbh it's a pretty easy thing to come up with considering the video.
Just an unpopular opinion here and maybe I'm crazy, but... For me EmpLemon and Graenolf (channel that make videos about Skyrim and Fallout series) both have the same voice, despite having nothing to do with other.
There's actually someone similar to him, in these sort of videos tho, it's called SLB productions, he kinda focuses more about other YouTube channels like Emp does on some videos
WWE is still pretty good, and thisnis coming from someone who loved WCW and WWF/WWE back in the late 90s/00s. Unlike Simpsons, WWE is different but still pretty dope right now.
EmpLemon has some kind of mystical storytelling ability that can take something which I have absolutely no interest in, and turn it into something amazing that can completely captivate me for half an hour.
If you liked this video, check out Super Eyepatch Wolf's video "Why You Should Watch Professional Wresting". SEW has a mystical storytelling ability as well and takes wrestling and transforms it into something wonderful
As a pro-wrestling fan, thanks for admitting that. Foley winning the title is one of the greatest stories ever. The thing about wrestling, is that when its good its fucking amazing. but when it's bad, you question why you've been a fan all along.
to anyone reading this, i encourage looking up any video with The Rock and Mick Foley in it. all those segments are pure gold. they can be allies, enemies, love/hate relationship. doesnt matter. Foley using the rocks catch phrase against him was one of my personal favorites
Love the video!!! I do have to argue with Mick Foley statement. He is regarded as one of if not the (outside of Bret Hart) most technical wrestlers to date. My Top 2 on my list... Undertaker clear #1 for me
I was extremely impressed with the organization, editing, and quality of this video. Watched the whole video basically on the edge of my seat. You have a new subscriber.
When mick foley won the belt on RAW against the Rock in 99 it proves something, no matter how much the others get to you don't let it stick in your mind, defy odds and and let the ones who witness it take it in and grab it whole heartedly, it symbolises the classic set up of powerhouse smartass vs underdog and twists it on its head when Stone Cold comes in and the crowd becomes unglued as he's sticking it to the rock like how we would all want to stick it to the corporate smart asses of the world.
That's the reason I love wrestling, it takes people you don't expect can survive and it shows how they can hang with the greatest of all time, i inspire to be buff like the rock, but i inspire mentally to be like Mick Foley. Love him or hate him Vince McMahon has inspired Generations
The problem is that up until about 20 years ago pro wrestling pretended to be real and as kids we couldn't tell the difference. Even in to my early 20s I still had doubts 😂
My dad and I didn't bond over too much when I was growing up. But growing up in the attitude era WWF might have made up for ALL OF IT in one fell swoop, into one gargantuan thing that we both absolutely adored. We never missed an episode, even the pay per views. My dad took me when RAW came to town in 1998 when I was 11 years old. My favorite was SCSA, as he was for most people back then. I'll never EVER forget being in attendance when that glass broke, and an arena worth of people absolutely EXPLODED. It gives me chills, to this day. People can talk shit about wrestling all they want. It doesn't diminish it one bit, imo. EDIT: Emp, thank you so fucking much for this. It means alot
He really was, at the time my wrestling-loving pal kept bragging about him and when I did my research he was one of the most recognised WWE wrestlers at the time.
Will CM Punk had the title, he only main evented like 4 PPV's, yes 4/14 PPV's out of entire year and a half worth. He wasn't the face the company, John Cena still was during that time. TLC 2011 Main Event: Punk vs Del Rio Royal Rumble 2012 Main Event: Royal Rumble Match Elimination Chamber 2012 Main Event: John Cena vs Kane Wrestlemania 28 Main Event: John Cena vs The Rock Extreme Rules 2012 Main Event: John Cena vs Brock Lesnar Over the Limit 2012 Main Event: John Cena vs John Laurinitis Now Way out 2012 Main Event: John Cena vs The Big Show Money in the Bank 2012 Main Event: Money in the Bank Ladder match Summerslam 2012 Main Event: Brock Lesnar vs Triple H Night of Champions 2012 Main Event: John Cena vs CM Punk Hell in a Cell 2012 Main Event: CM Punk vs Ryback Survivor Series 2012 Main Event John Cena vs CM Punk vs Ryback TLC 2012 Main Event: John Cena vs Dolph Ziggler Royal Rumble 2013 Main Event: CM Punk vs The Rock
CM Punk lost to the Rock, a part timer at Royal Rumble which was stupid cause we should have got a John Cena vs CM Punk MITB 2.0 at Wrestlemania 29, not John Cena and the Rock again.
@TheBlackPhantomHD Yeah, that Cena vs Johnny "PeOpLEs PoWeR" Laurrinitis was a real slap in the face. Along with 196th time Big Snore has turned from face to heel.
What is the huge hype train behind cm punk for? I've been a wrestling fan since 1990 and I have never understood what the big deal was about him? He was a skinny fat guy who dropped "pipe bombs" and was nothing spectacular as far as wrestling ability. I'm not trying to be a smart ass, I'm genuinely curious as to his appeal.
Chris Michael everyone is different. I’m pretty sure for some people back in 1999-2003, the rock was such a annoying cocky dude who was nothing special. But most of the people were rooting for him. There’s hadn’t been no face of the company since John cena. The only faces in history are Hogan , Austin the rock and cena. There’s no punk or Romana reings
Common misconception about Mr. Socko: People think that it's suffocation, but it is actually pinching the muscle under the tongue, and above the chin, which is incredibly painful, and is a very effective way to knock somebody out.
Also the decline of the 90s was from Vince owning most of the teritories. You had no choice other then WWF or WCW. Both shows were NOT what wrestling had been for the 80 years prior in the teritory days. It was cartoonish, and slow, and silly, and NOT what people were used to. Sure the steroid scandal hurt the image, but the popularity if wrestling decling was ALL on Vinces shoulders as he owned just about all of wrestling at that point, and his vision was entertainment, NOT wrestling.
I watched Raw when I was a kid up until the merger with WCW. I feel so dumb for spending all that money on ppv but I feel dumb about a lot of my childhood.
Bro I fucking love this video. I’ve been trying to convince my lady to watch wwe with me and we will watch a lot of it together but it’s hard trying to break down the whole shibang to her while watching. You’ve put this video together so good bro i know it’ll be easier for her to understand when I show her later! Thank you 🙏🏽
Nice Children's Story mention at 5:06. It truly is one of the best, if not the best examples of great storytelling out there. Amazing video by the way.
PLS WE NEED SUBTITLES IM FRENCH AND I CANT SHOW THIS TO MY NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING FRIENDS AND THATS TOO DRAMATIC FOR ME seriously, this masterclass should be shown to everyone to understand how storytelling can affect a story
This really exemplifies how WWE used to take guys and make them true stars through compelling stories. There will never be a time in wrestling like the late 90s/early 2000s ever again and I'm so glad to have lived through it. Great piece.
I was born 89 and some of my finest memories are when I spoke about it at school the day after and staying up late in the UK for pay per view events, taking school off the next day to watch it with my brother and cousin
While it’s not as popular for sure, it’s still very live and energetic and crowds are still insanely passionate. If you ever get a chance to go see a show, tickets are cheaper than one would thing and even “bad seats” are good at these events and it’s an experience like no other
I was there that night when Foley first won the belt. Worcester, MA. Considered the loudest pop in WWF/E history when the glass broke and Austin came out. Place went nuts
I saw it on tv when it happened and i thought he was dead too. I still flinch watching it. That and if you look at the broken cage roof after the 2nd fall, that while panel is about 3 fert over Foleys head.
Hahaha omg. I use to watch monday night raw, and the show they aired on Friday (i forget the name) when it became the WWE, and i absolutely loved it. I'd beg my parents to let me watch raw, as it always aired on a school night. Or I'd be bouncing back and forth trying to watch raw and nitro. God, i loved wrestling during that time
Really great video. I faded out of pro wrestling a couple of years ago but watching this reminded me of how much I always enjoyed it. I went to a couple of live shows, including Wrestlemania one year, and you describing the crowd reactions and the raw emotions really brought back those fond memories of being a wrestling fan. Thanks for making this, my guy.
I wouldn't really reccomend returning Now. The company isn't at its greatest right Now. RAW had the lowest rating in November or December. Not sure now.
Also, this is basically a bio of my childhood hahahha. Was glued to WWF back then..it truly was rock and roll Elvis status then.
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Jimmy Danger2022-04-01 17:10:52 (edited 2022-04-01 17:11:01 )
I think JR and Lawler's commentary should also get a special mention as well, time and time again they gave me goosebumps and made me think it was so real and raw as a kid
I was 16 in 1996. Watching this unfold live was even better than you think. Raw vs. Nitro every Monday. Constant stream of new ECW VHS tapes. Watching Cactus Jack and Terry Funk beat each other with barbed wire baseball bats. UFC with no rules or weight classes. What a time to be alive!
That era between 97-00, which was my High School years, was the best Era in Wrestling History. So many Iconic characters and moments. I stopped watching Wresting alltogether in 2001, when I joined the Work Force. And honestly im surprised that Wrestling is even relevant nowadays. But watching those old clips from the late 90s ill admit put a Smile on my face. And yea I remember my favorite Wrestler of all time in Mick Foley beating The Rock for the Workd Title. And how happy I was for him
I've never really bothered to pay attention to anything related to the WWE, like most outsiders I saw it as just some sweaty guys hugging on to each other in the ring. Though as you described this unfolding narrative between all these fighters, I found myself gripped. I may not watch wrestling, or even like it that much, but thank you for allowing me to come to appreciate it.
Nora This sentiment, as I and many others had/have, is the epitome of why outsiders to a product should never have control or influence over said product.
There's the already mentioned "Wrestling Isn't About Wrestling" by Max Landis and "Why Professional Wrestling is Fascinating" by Super Eyepatch Wolf if you're interested in this kind of breakdown.
Shame its a shadow of its former self, not suspect why he barely showed any clips from the last 10 years? Because its fucking garbage, if you want to appreciate wrestling, make sure to watch anything during or before 2001, its fucken awful now
I think the reason the WWE has fallen off is because they have been unable to attach themselves to a changing America. The world is so different today than it was 20 years ago that of course they need to change up the characters and add new ones with far more modern themes. After all it is a play, and the most valuable piece of one is its ability to tell a story we can relate to.
No wrestler has ever had as much heart as Mick Foley. To put this much dedication and pain into simply giving fans a memorable experience. He’s a legend for a reason.
Another thing about The Undertaker throwing Mankind off the cell was that it wasn't scripted. Mankind and The Undertaker agreed to do that without telling anyone else. That's why J.R says "They killed him" instead of "He killed him" J.R thought Vince allowed that to happened but it was actually Mankind that wanted it to.
Watched the full thirty plus minutes stop free, several times. One of the best, most interesting, thorough and well done YouTube videos I've ever watched in my life. I've always known Emp was a genius, but he won over every synapse in my brain with this one. Top notch, and then some.
4:47 I'm glad he cited his source, otherwise I would have doubted the claim that Luke Skywalker isn't real. I'd have loved to see something about the lightsaber though
Bravo. Great video. The attitude era was the peak of wrestling. So good it used up all the potential greatness wrestling had stored obviously because everything after just sucks. Today it's a joke. And it might be fake but the punishment they take is very real.
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Pat Greene2020-12-13 10:11:56 (edited 2020-12-13 10:12:26 )
I’m a little late to comment but I just wanted to leave a comment here. I went to a private school and in English when we learned about Shakespeare, the teachers made us act it out as we read along. It involved the class and was engaging and fun. I still remember in freshman English my best friend and I were assigned to be Romeo and Mercutio. So your thoughts about theatre are ringing true. Great video Emp, still can’t believe I watched you in 2012 and you’re still improving. Keep it up!
I especially loved how Dell was playing his guitar in the background, since Stone Cold's basically a more chaotic version of the same texan energy Dell has.
RIP Snooty!! He didn't "accidentally" swim into the off-limits area! Someone left it open when it was supposed to closed, it was a set up! I'll miss him
I'm glad this video is back, it's a really fucking good video and more people need to see it. I hope that too much didn't get modified to beat the copyright claim.
Looking back I did used watch a lot of wrestling as a kid and I can say it did make me feel how when I watched dbz ended on a cliff hanger. However I used to watch the poor man's wrestling, wwf smack down then became WWE smack down
I'm curious how you would compare this, vs the impact Antonio Inoki vs Big Van Vader had? Just given what an icon Antonio was in Japan, that the fight ended up in riots.
As a massive wrestling fan from Ireland, I highly approve and adore this commentary video. This video hits hard when you look at professional wrestling now. I stopped watching wrestling over a year ago. I still look this video now and again. High praise cannot be understated. Well done EmperorLemon.
I got back into it 4 years ago, it really is growing now. I think finally they are utilizing all the means they have like they did back in the day with celebrities to legitimate fighters to bring the prestige back to wrestling. Their storytelling has vastly improved since AEW started.
@Prajwal Acharya To me, WWE has been dull for like two decades now. I did get into TNA for a while... then lost interest... but got back into it just around the time the Matt Hardy "DELETE" thing was starting. I'm so glad I got back into it then. I even got into WCPW, and went to my only ever live wrestling show, a WCPW event featuring Matt Hardy vs Bully Ray, and the main event cage match in which Drew Galloway won the title. Since then, I've lost interest in wrestling again. I don't like it when wrestling takes itself too seriously. I like outlandish characters and costumes, and a good sense of humour. Which is probably why back in the day, my favourite wrestlers in WWF were Too Cool. I did intend to check AEW out when it launched, but have still never gotten round to it... just bored of wrestling I guess.
I never really got into WWE. For the longest time I had no interest in pro wrestling at all. As someone who spent most of my childhood in youth technical wrestling (I will never be caught dead calling it amateur), I saw it as a sad mockery of traditional wrestling. It wasn't until a few years ago around 2016/2017, I actually gave it a chance. I was not at all a fan it. It wasn't that it was pre-scripted, I never cared about that matter, it wasn't that it was poorly performed from an action/stunt standpoint, there was obviously a lot of good skill. What stood in my way of enjoyment was not being able to find charwcters that I could get invested in. Sure, I liked Rusev Day, I was amused by the Miz, and grimaced when Nakamura low-blowed Styles, but none of the characters stuck for me. Eventually we had a chance to go to a live event (War Games 2019), and I went, if only to enjoy a weekend out of town. Even with the massive crowd (though maybe because I couldn't see the ring from our seats), I fsiled to be immersed. For the next year, I stopped trying to get into Pro Wrestling. Now, of course, a few month's prior, a certain Khan family decided to finamce a new company to rival WWE. I did not pay attention to it for most of its run so far. If this established organization can't get my interest why should I bother with this new untested company? I continued to ignore them until late November of this padt year. I had caught a scene hear or there, but I was about to see my first full segment from them. Here I am on my phone, flippimg through a certain meme app, when I pook.up to see a change of scenery from your rypical sweaty and bloody wrestling ring to a nicer setting. The camera pans down to two individuals. Two individuals who would go on to be my absolute favorites. I see a young man in shorter hair and a tiny beard, my mom is already getting ready to open her lexicon of Yiddish cusses. Across from him us sat an obviously comparatively older fellow with long hair. They each order a 20 oz porterhouse steak, each constantly trying one up the other in rareness. Once the waitress leaves, they talk business for a bit before the closest thing I have ever obseved to magic happens. These two men break out into song and dance and I am hooked. This rendition of My Shadow and Me is forever etched into my mind and MJF and Jericho stand as my favorites (Yes, I love both the Pinnacle and Inner Circle, and I am anxiously awaiting the moment when MJF and Jerich are given a chamce to promo off of one another one on one).
You guys forgot to mention that a huge part of what got 'Taker over was his absolutely legendary manager, Paul Bearer. Seriously Paul's performances were what made 'Taker into fucking gold in promos.
Well played with you casually kicking ass with those two fantastic, while unintentional double entendres coming with such blindsided precision right in all our collective faces, or recently inattentive earholes!
I loved Monday night raw late 90s and early 2000s I go back and watch old raws am 32 now I remember me and my dad loved raw we watched every Monday I still watch new raw sometimes but 90s to early 2000s was ba I remember watching ecw too I still love wrestling I know it’s staged and stuff but still love it
you sir... have picked the loudest pop of all time. congratulations! multiple chillbumps watching this tonight that take me back to the multiple chillbumps through the late 90s early 2000s.d
I think the best metric to use for the importance of wrestling in pop culture is to look at an episode of Raw from 98-01 where there was a SEA of signs all of them praising/insulting their favorite/most hated wrestler. Then compare that to today where WWE pays fans to hold up signs made at the stadium, and AEW fans hold up signs about video games Also: lol that Rugrats has 4 places in that top 15
Awesome video! But watch what you say about Hamilton! That play is an absolute masterpiece that brought popularity to classic theater! I’ve seen it 5 times and enjoyed it equally each time!😂
Was never a huge wrestling fan, but I did watch it. Granted I watched more WCW than WWF, since that was what my dad watched in the mid to late 80s. That being said, this was pretty interesting, and what Vince did was pretty amazing, letting his own employees do all that for him for his company shows passion for what he puts out. An explains why the WCW ended up folding.
As someone who lived through each moment of that in real time, from starting in 1987 through today in 2019, you did an excellent job recounting and explaining why these moments were so important to both wrestling as an industry and society as a whole.
Thanks for the video! Interesting watch.... you forgot to mention that WWE RAW is ONE LONG STORY ARC from the first episode (and before) until today .... is that the longest continuing weekly story on TV?
@fid matic because emp didn't explain the full history between the two. Vince had no choice but to move in with his father and work for him because of his situation. He didn't do it because he wanted to take over the family business when his father is gone. But rather the opposite. He bought out the company from his father, and against his wishes; Vince competed with the territories, who all held an agreement that they wouldn't crossover nor compete with each other out of respect.
I remember that Hell in a Cell match. Mick Foley may not like it, but I saw the underdog get back up. Falling off then through the cell and coming back was a superhero moment.
Brian Berryhill2019-02-09 16:53:30 (edited 2019-02-09 16:53:59 )
why is it that the vast majority of this comment section have some kind of reference to copyright claims , I say this because the video isn't copyright claimed at all. (the point is that this whole thing just came out of nowhere).
@Soup - Ah. That makes sense. I don't do a whole lot of twittering any more. Everything became so politically extreme around the 2016 presidential race, I finally just stopped going for the most part. Anyway, thanks. That's the first I've heard of it.
When I did Shakespearean high school my teacher literally said back when Shakespeare was actually presenting originally it was like going to a modern-day football event
There won’t be , that’s why I’m so damn sad I was born in 98 and had to miss all of it ): Thank god I got RA era cause that was miles better than anything they have done since and I still got to experience a lot of the greats from the Attitude era
Wwe didnt die because the world changed...the wwe died because it changed and became something no one wanted. They started treating their talent like chumps, they push Roman reigns down the fans throats for 10 years when they didnt want it. They repeated headline matches year after year. They lost what they used to be.
after seeing this for the 3rd time. I can't shake that AEW is todays WCW in its prime and history seems to repeat itself. I wonder how it will work out this time.
A strange time when wrestling dominated. You'd see wrestlers on non-wrestling magazine covers -- TVGuide comes to mind; you'd see them on non-wrestling shows; you'd see them in non-wrestling commercials. Every week, record-breaking numbers of people would tune in to see what was going to happen -- AND the interest wasn't merely what the headliners like Stone Cold or The Undertaker would do, but even the midcarders had something interesting happening. It was a perfect storm coming together for those few years in the late-90s to 2001, or so, that will never be recreated -- especially not without a company giving proper competition ala WCW.
Proper competition from wcw and a proper alternative and veritable breeding ground for groundbreaking new characters and talent in the form of ecw. Those two companies pushed wwf to deliver the very best content they could, and with two of their biggest stars utilizing personas and ideas developed in ecw (Mick and Austin)
@alfa01spotivo it’s just not possible. Not saying you were or weren’t, but if you weren’t there for it you will never understand the phenomenon that was late 90s pro wrestling. It took over the entire pop culture scene. They beat Monday night football in ratings. It was new and edgy and intense. That lightning will never be caught in a bottle again. The business is changed forever, it’s too exposed and it will never reach those heights ever again
iLLBiLLsRoastBeats it is POSSIBLE it’s just tremendously unlikely. It would take a very specific set of circumstances including but not limited to several generational talents all being given artistic freedom in order to make organic connections with the fans.
alfa01spotivo i know you weren’t asking me, but i’ll take a crack at answering. Cable subscriptions are way down, so people don’t watch wrestling shows live and thus don’t tend to see the whole program. Which makes it hard to get them to watch anything they aren’t actively looking for. Meaning they won’t be seeing anything new and exciting unless they hear about it elsewhere first, making it hard to get a brand new talent over like in that time period. Additionally, that era had two SUPER competitive major league wrestling companies and a national alternative in what would be considered AAA if it was baseball (the highest of the minor leagues, only a small step below the majors) add to that the fact that the company with the most exposure and in the best position to showcase new and rising talent CONSTANTLY fucks up with god awful scripts and intentional sabotage and burials if someone dares get themself over. Without the wrestlers having any artistic freedom nor ability to cut organic promos that enable them to connect with the audience in a real way, until that happens wwe wrestlers will never be able to become true superstars, because Vince doesn’t want Stars, he wants the brand to be more important than the sum of it’s parts. The problem is that this is impossible and he knows it. We all know he hasn’t forgotten the monday night wars, considering he harps on it on our screens. He almost lost due to lack of stars. He built new big time stars and they won. Now he won’t allow anyone to become a breakout star because he doesn’t want to build a star and then have then go elsewhere to potentially compete against him. The only other national name in pro wrestling is aew, and their writing and storylines are mostly sophomoric and relies far too much on bad (as in not even remotely funny) humor. MLW is great but not enough exposure and too small time. Impact decided a publicity stunt was more important than their heavyweight titles credibility (and thus their entire roster’s credibility which means their entire company’s credibility ) and NWA is on the internet. So while there could be a star that breaks through and saves wrestling, they’ll have to do it in an entirely new way. All it takes is one big star to raise the profile of the industry again and then all the best talents will raise their own game accordingly. It would be beautiful to see. I could see Galloway making a run at doing it, but he needs to leave wwe or be given more freedom before he could accomplish the monumental task.
I know exactly what Ric Flair, Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant look like but I couldn't name a single character in Spongebob. Not saying Spongebob is a bad show, I've just never seen a single episode.
It was The Rock's Charisma this dude had so much Charisma people had no choice but to love him. He could such good promos he would come out and sing these funny ass songs that had people rolling and he was supposed to be the bad guy but people were just laughing because it was so funny he was so good on the mic she got to be who he really was and that's why people loved him
I met Mick Foley when I was barista at a Starbucks, it was a couple years after thr hell in a cell.. nicest dude in the world, I didn't charge him for his coffee or ask for an autograph, I just said "Hi Mick, love you work!" And he seems happy and relieved I didn't pest him for an autograph
Actually, the battle damage in pro-wrestling (at least WWF/WWE) is real. So, technically, pro-wrestling is real. There will also never be another show like: Malcolm In The Middle, Seinfeld, Misfits, Mongrels, or Broadchurch. Max Landis? Oof, now there's a name that hasn't aged well.
Good to see someone who appreciates the classic WWE! My Dad loves this stuff, watched it all the time as a kid. I think it's really cool too, and kinda weird. But the storytelling aspect is great! Today's stuff just isn't the same, you feel?
I have been a Pro Wrestling fan since my childhood in a south Aerican country where Wrestling has neve, ever been popular. I get the feeling. When you think about wrestling in very in a very objective way, man it is the most absurd thing ever, It is like those thing that you say: "THis has no right to be this good"!.
Man kind vs the undertaker was legendary. I remember watching, and rewatching it on my dads bootleg VHS copy of it a ton when i was a kid... And i hated wrestling.
Great video, but I wouldn't say Mick Foley isn't talented enough, he's one of best promos of all time, and had some of the best phycology just wasn't AJ Styles or Daniel Bryan in the ring. If every wrestler was technically gifted like that wreslting would be boring.
I'm stone cold brought I'm the new era. He was a very technical wrestler unfortunately Owen heart's mistake almost ended his career. He had to change his whole wrestling set to become more of a brawler. Rock took advantage of Steve's neck injury and blew up. Both stars were at the top of the wrestling world and both deserve respect. But if you were around during to attitude era would know Steve cemented his character in his feud and loss to bret hard as he was traped in the sharp shooter blood streaming down his face he refused to tap and passed out from the pain. This happened way before his fights with Vince
Fun Fact: Foley wasn’t supposed to go through the cell roof from the choke slam, given how the ring wasn’t matted for such a fall (and how he got a chunk of the injuries he did). Also didn’t help that the chair he was slammed on fell with him, meaning he also landed on a steel chair from the fall. How he wasn’t supposed to go through the cell from being slammed on it as a giant dude, I’ll never know. Cause even early before the toss off, part of the roof already gave way.
modern pro wrestling has gotten alot better for the casual viewer than it was back in the 80s/90s. It's definitely gotten away from the absolute absurdity of the attitude era, but especially outside of WWE the storyline have been amazing in alot of promotions. Every company from WWE, to the random ass company in the highschool gym on Tuesdays has good wrestling.
I never thought I'd see the day that some dude born in 1999ish would let me about 90s wrestling. You're lucky you make great content, otherwise I'd have to lay the smackdown your candy ass! <3
there never be another tv show like it he says at the end, skip to 2020 and cm punk debuts on aew and i gotta say that is probably the closest to have a massive pop, so much emotion that night and we saw a fan cry
Okay that segue from Shakespeare to Homer to Homer Simpson to The Simpsons wrestling game is such a genius way to return to the topic of your video while going off on a very still relevant to the subject but completely different tangent is a stroke of Genius dude major props to that that was my favorite part of the video
Sir Dook ChikN2020-05-13 01:45:51 (edited 2020-05-13 01:46:06 )
And corporate Rock was equally as good as the corporate champion. The versace shirts, the designer sunglasses and shiny loafers lmfao, the attitude era was great. Only time in my life I followed pro wrestling.
@Es_Three He did that in 2001; it's called the Invasion Angle, where Vince leading the WWF takes on Shane and Stephanie, who in storyline owned WCW and ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling, which was the last member of the "Big Three" wrestling companies of the era). The angle culminated in an Winner Takes All Elimation Tag Match, where the winning side would take control of the losing side's company/companies, with WWF winning and thus putting the boot into both of their competitors for good, in storyline. In real life, Vince had bought up both companies earlier in the year. It's the last dying breaths of the Attitude Era, or alternatively the brief zombification of it if you subscribe to the idea of the Attitude Era ending at Wrestlemania X-7, which was the Wrestlemania event during 2001 in April.
Same here, not because I was alive but because I used to watch it with my dad on the dvr
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Ryan Ianaro2022-03-18 04:53:58 (edited 2022-03-18 05:34:33 )
I grew up watching raw. I remember turning the TV down to 1 so my mom and dad wouldn't hear me watching when I was supposed to be in bed....... SUCK IT!
And now, just under 24 hours ago the WWE Pay-per-view; Hell In A Cell 2019 ended with fans booing, chanting for a refund and calling for AEW - The first real challenger to WWE's monopoly in a decade.
@Promis Nwekenta when that "monopoly" thinks sending 3 part-timers to have 5 minute squash matches against all their new talent practically consecutively, I'd say it's not much of a challenge to put out better-quality entertainment than that.
@TheGrayMysterious now youre saying different things! Putting out better quality product than WWE and dethroning a monopoly is kinda different things. So you dont seem to believe it will happen.
@Promis Nwekenta uhh... you kinda NEED to have a better product than WWE to dethrone the monopoly. Y'know, like how RAW used to be a better product than Nitro, so everyone started watching RAW instead of Nitro and WCW went belly-up? That's kind of how competition works.
@TheGrayMysterious you say it like it's a fact, it isnt, its not that all there is to competition and i wouldn't say its the most important thing....sadly. So yeah, even with the suicidal booking of WWE, its still hard to beat a monopoly. Weird arguing you have here, its hard to beat a monopoly, end of discussion.
@Samantha Sadhmadhi First of all, you need to Know that the Fiend is like a slasher villain. You throw what you can at him, and he just sits up. His match vs Seth Rollins was meant to be his coronation... And he lost. And it's not just because of his loss, but the way he lost. He was brutalized with a toolbox, chairs, ladders, and a giant mallet from the Fiend's Firefly Funhouse. However, when Seth pulled out a smaller sledgehammer, the match was stopped by the referee... In a no-disqualification type of match like Hell in a Cell. Two years in a row of a bullshit finish to the Satanic Structure.
@Corey Lineberry last time I watched WWE was in 2016 and only because of NXT because Nakamura debuted from Japan. Turned off the second they got rid of Balor's demon gimmick in the main roster. Never again. Came from NJPW because of Styles and Nakamura, waited for a bit, got back to NJPW with deep sadness seeing my idol becoming one of Vince's puppets...breaks my heart each time thinking back...
@Johnny Eyeball Does AEW have a better product? Hell yes. Are they even close to becoming a WCW-like rival to WWE? hell no. Sometimes it's hard for us wrestling fans to realize that most people watching are casuals. Even a shitty match of part-timer vs part-timer will draw more people than a great AEW match, because people want to see familiar faces (at least the casual wrestling fan), which is a big reason why WCW was so big back in the day (the best part of WCW was the cruiserweight division, but the thing that actually made them big were the ex-WWF stars + Goldberg). AEW needs time to become a "thing" casual wrestling fans watch, right now it's mostly just hardcore fans watching. When they become more familiar to the casual fan, they'll have a real shot at taking WWE down.
@Johnny Eyeball legitimate competition, while bringing in less than a million veiwers, and struggling to beat WWE's developmental show, yeah right, legit
@Wacky Name What do you mean struggling? They've been beating them every week. Lol and don't you dare pull that "they had a higher viewership though" bull. AEW consistently getting ranked #5 in cable while NXT getting ranked in the 30's is hardly " getting beat by their C show".
@Mojo JoJo 🦍 How long did it take TNA to get close to a million viewers? AEW has been close for many many weeks and they haven't been on TV for even a year
@George Floyd It must be hard for you to accept something other than WWE as successful. Lol AEW will be around at least for another 3 years due to their TNT contract extension. And typically, you don't get extensions if you're bad. Hope you understand that. Haha
@George Floyd Not in the immediate future, no. It's silly to think a show that hasn't been on for a year can match a company that's been around since the early 60's. It takes time. I'm just glad wrestling finally has better alternatives again
@Existomalus only you can hate and also be right And there is no hate What there is a profound annoyance of fans like you who just cant accept critiscim and just call every thing as hate
artaud well, the big names brought in the eyeballs, but the cruiserweights won them over, when the Radicalz and Jericho jumped (the Radicalz being the final straw) the fans they won over on Nitro moved to wwf to watch them.
@ANDON HOWARD the NWA was complicated, it was a alliance made up of hundreds of promotions in the territorial days, it really wasn't a "monopoly" people just left the alliance and the NWA when the regional owner thought they weren't profitable to continue with the NWA, after that, it started a snowball effect after one of the biggest promotions, the WWWF (WWE today) as well as georgia championship wrestling (which was previously Jim Crockett promotions, which then became World championship Wrestling, yeah, this shit is pretty complicated) them the NWA basically fell off almost completely with it's biggest players out of the picture as well as smaller promoters choosing to join the bigger boys.
@MODXN Struggling? They're up by around 200,000 every week unless NXT is running a free ppv. On top of that, most casual people won't watch without a crowd.
@Artwr Archer has two losses in his AEW career. And those two losses have only built to his character now, that is if you watch dark. You don't have too, but it's worth noting it exists.
Okay as someone who totally didnt get the whole deal of wrestling or how to watch it as a youngster, good god it would have been cool to know it was available in this form. but the ads did not mention, at all, how this "raw" was different from the other wrestling stuff I wasnt able to join in on.
2:30 I like wrestling as entertainment but lets be real, no one ever thought that Star Wars, Goku, The Avengers, or Homer Simpson was ever real. Wrestling at one point was billed as real, the rise of Hulk Hogan was the turning point of turning wrestling from a sport into sports entertainment. The days of Bob Backlund and Antonio Inoki doing catch wrestling with predetermined results were gone.
Kayfabe all but died by the time The Kliq did the "curtain call" and now wrestling was deemed fake on top of the fact with all the steroid allegations surrounding wrestling. It wasn't until the attitude era embraced the fakeness with over the top drama that it regained back some fame.
Most of my friends that do not watch wrestling will still know the big stars atleast from back then (maybe not Roman Reigns or Drew Mcintyre) but they all know Stone Cold, nWo, Hogan, Rock, Flair, Macho Man even like the Hardy boys or like more recent like John Cena. I think they may know CM Punk (maybe) but then theres a void. I have more friends that know X-Pac than Daniel Bryan. Some will even come over for a wrestlemania party the most memorable was when Taker lost to Lesnar that dead ass made 30 mid 20 year olds go dead silent. I just remember getting mad drunk and having king of the hill battle royal in my front yard at like 11pm at night to my neighbors thinking I am crazy
Vince: We took care of that strange looking creature good. Video comes back up King: What??? How did it came back???? Vince just took care of that pesky video! JR: IT'S EMPLEMON! EMPLEMON! AND HE'S READY TO OPEN UP A CAN OF DOWNWARD SPIRAL!
if I had a penny for every time a nice documentary channel made me mildly interested in wrestling id have two pennies, which isnt much, but its still weird it happened twice.
It always weirds me out that people point out that whole "wrestling isn't real" thing. Cause bumps and alot of spots are definitely real and dangerous lmao if they meant pre determined then they'd make more sense i guess. Rehearsed, i don't think works either given the beautiful material Botchamania provides.
If you look at the South Park season 13(I believe) episode "W.T.F" it actually gives a pretty damn good example of how Prefessional Wrestling should be viewed vs Athletic Wrestling and Real Fighting.
It is all one big stage act, but I still respect their athleticism, especially the high flyers like Rey Mysterio..You gotta watch out for Mysterio..He straight killed a guy with his 619 lol
@Grodd of War It was worse than that. The guy that got killed was merely setting up for the 619 with a drop toehold onto the second rope (Bret's rope, the most dangerous rope) when he fell wrong and caught his neck on the rope, snapping it forward and giving him such massive whiplash that he hemorrhaged his brain and died on the spot (from what I recall). Dude was a ten year veteran for the promotion with twenty years of work under his belt, and he dies from such a basic maneuver, relative to the other maneuvers these guys pull off daily. It's the reason I quit training to be a pro wrestler myself.
It grinds my gears how people each time mistaken WWF/WWE as "Pro-Wrestling", yet never heard about the biggest, actual Pro-Wrestler and companies out there. RoH? Lucha Libre? NJPW? No one knows.....makes me sad...
I don’t know if you’re a sports fan. But we need another video about “why there will never be a championship like super bowl 52” like go over the patriots dynasty, the Carson wentz injury, the true comeback story of Nick foles, the back and forth game. And the underdog mentality of the never before champs the Philadelphia eagles.
The Attitude Era of WWE was the most ridiculous thing on TV by a country mile. I mean that in the best way possible. I'd love to watch another doc just about this era
Yeah no I don't watch Raw anymore because most of everything you said in the video is not on screen anymore. I watch AEW more now because of Wrestlers like Stone Cold Mankind The Rock has hung up their boots and went quite as they grow older by the years.
I’d love to see you do a video on the rise of AEW.
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Brian Banegas2021-01-06 00:02:29 (edited 2021-01-06 00:04:32 )
my favorite promotion is NJPW . AEW is cool, ROH is trying to go back to its roots, Impact is learning from their mistakes and WWE has its moments but NJPW is still the best promotion in my opinion
By the time I got to college, I came to the conclusion that when our teacher's subjected us to reading Shakespeare scripts in high school, it was actually a sneaky way to get us all to despise Shakespeare.
I mean, what if decades from now, required reading in the English classes of the future consist of the scripts of video games?
If you play video games, you know intrinsically that the medium is the message, and you cannot separate one from the other without losing something vital. Forcing children to consume Shakespeare in literature form should be a crime. Shakespeare plays are genuinely great and I cannot help but think that the way the vast majority of children are introduced to his works is deliberate.
It's one of the loudest there only two that rival it and that's the we're Goldberg won over Hulk Hogan for the title and Nitro but this one still louder and then there was a return back in 2018 where Vince McMahon says "nobody helped me I did it all by myself" and stone cold comes out. I have searched and searched and searched but I do believe in my humble opinion in this is the loudest pop in wrestling history
I kinda disagree, what's in the ring has also been part of the reason why wwe sucks today. nowadays I wait till the main event or 1 specific match to watch raw, so for me I pretty just tune in to watch bobby lashley and as soon as he's gone I go on and do something else, the same thing with smackdown, I pretty much watch it for roman reigns. the problem today is that a lot of todays wrestlers have no personality and mic skills. back then you had guys like the rock and stone cold who could cut a promo in their sleep and weren't dependent on script writers, but now barely anybody can talk their way out of paper bag. The rock and stone cold were able to grab a lot of peoples attention, not just wrestling fans, people who could care less about wrestling also knew these guys because of what they were saying in and out of the ring. theres nobody like that now, if you know who Seth Rollins and Kevin owens are then you're likely a wrestling fan.
You can tell this video was made with a lot of passion for something emp really loves. It really shows. I don't even watch wrestling but I was glued to my phone watching this. love this content.
The reason why Raw was so popular at first, was because it LOOKED like old wrestling that people liked. Vince let go of the guys who were over, and let them work on there gimmick, do there own promos, and just give them a finish and let them call it in the ring. Just like how it had ALWAYS been done. Then he moved from commentary to the back were he started to try to dictate matches. Along Russo trying to get involved, matches became more like plays, and people stopped watching again. Now wrestlers have agents, and those agents have to go tell Vince EVERYTHING that the boys are going to do during the match or promo. THIS, on top of guys not knowing how to work to begin with, is why wretling today looks "fake". Its also because we are condtioned to just assume that a single punch wont even stagger a guy. In "real life" we know that a single punch could kill someone". Go watch Lawler in Memphis. One punch knocks a guy down and out. It looks alot more "real". Raw in the early days also worked because werent handed scripts. You can tell when a match has been "choreographed" vs, callin it in the ring. It looks like an actual struggle. Flair and Steamboat, or Austin and Hart if your too young. Why do those look like actual struggles? Be because they were!! They werent a play where everything is scripted. Its 2 guys fighting for the next move, or spot. They know the finish, but how they get there is an ACTUAL fight or struggle or contest. Go watch some San Fransico battle royales, or Sputnick Monroe, or Lawler vs Funk. Or Dynamite Kid in Canadaian Stampede. Do some research of your own, not just copying and pasting what others have to say or type
14:12 dude just straight pulls out a glock, points it at the dude behind him, chambers a round even though its an auto loader... all while having his finger ON THE TRIGGER.
The rock is a great actor!!! His role in Be cool is seriously slept on for whatever reason. His role as Eliot, Vince Vaughn’s gay, body guard/ cowboy/ singer/inspiring actor is absolute gold. When he does an entire scene from Bring it on, done in two person dialog while auditioning for a role, That’s acting at its finest. I’ll die on this hill everyday btw.
Pretty impressive you were able to make a 30 minute wrestling video that a person who's never even seen an episode of RAW before could watch all the way through.
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Sean Campbell2021-04-19 04:53:31 (edited 2021-04-19 05:20:33 )
So, to put it simply,
Pro wrestling is live action drama television, disguised as a sport
God I was so stupid how did I not see this until this video
Professional wrestling is the only business where a CEO can put their employees in the hospital on purpose and not have OSHA violations, Despite thousands of witnesses!
This video is what got me back into watching wrestling. I used to watch it when I was a kid but stopped when I was a teenager. I don't know why I ever stopped, wrestling is fucking awesome.
I would have given this video an 11/10 had you mentioned hulk hogan body slamming Yokozuma and Kain and the Undertakers weird off again on again thing. Didn't Sgt Slaughter set hulk hogan on fire or someone else?
PS One of my friends from highschool was a rube in the WWF. He went by Steve Saint.
I was in high school during the attitude era and me and about 7 of my friends were hardcore fans and so were my mom and dad and brother so we would order every ppv and all watch and get drunk as hell and it was honestly one of the best things I can remember during that time of my life. I wish wrestling never lost that magic for me
Foley is insanely talented lol. He didn't get to the WWF by being a stuntman. If that was the case, backyard wrestlers would have been a much bigger thing.
Modernly, Mick Foley is down in the panhandle of Florida in the US, Such as nearby Panama Beach and other areas, hell my step-dad who was a really big fan of WWE when he was younger has even met him a few times by just bumping into him. He’s a really cool guy.
Do you know Sting's character and used the term "Iconic" on purpose? Because if not you should know you probably just made the greatest wrestling pun of all time
At the end when mick Foley won the title I beat a super hard level of candy crush I was stuck on. It was exhilarating to be cheered on by Jerry lawler.
Shakespeare['s plays] in his day had more in common with pro wrestling today than with modern productions of his work. It was blue-collar entertainment, complete with fart jokes.
The the mid to late 90s is the golden era of wrestling. Those characters that they crafted were so much more then dudes goofing around as you demonstrated with this video. Something about watching it, you knew it was dumb especially at face value but you didn't care because it was so absurd it demanded your attention.
Also, I used to be a wrestling fan myself. I don't follow it the way I used to, but I still have fond memories of relaxing on a summer day, going to the DVR, and watching the entire 3 hours of that wonderful Monday Night Raw or decent Friday/Thursday/Friday Again Smackdown. It was my thing from like 2013 to 2017.
0:00 Professional Wrestling 1:28 Monday Night Raw 2:00 It’s Not Real, It’s Fake! 2:28 Neither is Star Wars or Smash Bros, they are works of fiction 3:47 Shakespearean Plays, Suspension of Disbelief 6:30 Vince McMahon 27:10 8:01 The WWF 9:00 Monday Night Raw Debuts 1/11/93 10:31 WCW, 9/4/95 Monday Nitro Debuts 12:24 The Monday Night Wars 13:20 1990’s Counterculture 14:17 War 14:54 Mick Foley - The Unlikely Hero 16:20 The Undertaker - Deadman 19:53 The Championship 21:32 The Rock - Corporate Diamond 23:57 Triple H - Business Acumin 24:39 Degeneration-X 25:49 Stone Cold Steve Austin 28:50 Corporate America vs The Disgruntled Employee 30:40 OHHHH OHHH OHHHH 31:38 WWF’s Rise to Glory
@Yuri Lopes I'm just echoing what KolonaRulez said. I mean that, both NASCAR and professional wrestling are two entire worlds that I feel like I never knew existed, that I've just discovered thanks to Emp.
I love this video but Emp’s point about the manatees always makes me sad because his name was fucking Snooty and he had friends and shit, really fucking sad.
There will never be another era of Wrestling like the Attitude Era. Which thankfully is where I really started getting into watching it. I remember RAW and I remember how The Rock created Smackdown.
At first: "Okay, so we know wrestling isn't real." A few minutes later: "So here's Mick Foley getting thrown off the top of the cage, falling 2 stories, landing on a table, then climbing back up to the top, and then he gets choke slammed onto a thousand thumbtacks, and one of his teeth breaks off and ends up in his nose." When does the not real part happen??????????
The only thing i dont like about pro wrestling is that it overshadows the wrestling sport. Of course, this isnt pro wrestlings fault, its the people who dont research into what pro wrestling is that is the problem.
There's two very important things you left out in all of this. 1. The impact that ECW made on wrestling. 2. The realness (some think it's a work) of the Montreal screwjob against Brett Hart and how it created Corporate Vince.
Also the title should be more about WWF winning the Monday night wars, because you just stop once Vince bought WCW out. That show has been going on for 18 years ever since. There's a lot to be said about the post Monday night wars you know? Much of the beginning could have been omitted or shortened if you was dealing with time.
Great job with the narrating and editing, just a little lacking on the actual show Raw. There's a lot of positive and negative post Monday night wars about Raw.
EmpLemon does show the aftermath of the screwjob, as well as screenshots of the “Bret screwed Bret” segments Vince did after SS 1997. But you’re right he didn’t bring up ECW. Raw (and eventually SmackDown!) play a pivotal role in storylines of the WWF/WWE. (As well as selling the PPVs on regular basis.) This is mostly a WWE focused video, but ECW did play a part in the Monday Night War.
GREAT video. I was a teenager when all this was happening and it was just the best time to be alive. Actually looking forward to school on Tuesdays to talk about everything that happened was amazing. I still watch wrasslin, and probably always will, but I don't expect it to ever be this good again. Maybe AEW will do something and actually directly compete with WWE but I just don't know.
Luke Rose The ratings are shit yes in part because the writing sucks but other factors play a large part too, such as cord-cutting cable, more channels than ever before to choose from, and the internet taking overall eyeballs off the TV sets
@Bleed Green it doesn't matter how many channels there are, it's what's on them. Plus, ratings are a percentage of cable users watching Raw at the time. If we were talking about viewers dropping, that wouldn't matter because of what you said, competition from streaming platforms.
There are many people who became so popular that they became larger than the organization. Many people worship some of the legends of the sport without even realizing it
Love the video, Emp. As someone who has been watching you for years now, this is one of your best works yet. So glad you beat the copyright game. I guess it is possible to overcome seemingly impossible odds. Eventually.
Eric Bischoff has said one of his greatest mistakes when running WCW was NOT allowing DX into the live show. DX went to the show yelling over their megaphones about Scott Hall and Kevin Nash (real life close friends with HHH and the greatest and most decorated wrestler of all time Mr. Wrestlemania, the main event, the Heart Break Kid . . . SHAWN MICHAELS!!!) HHH was saying Hall and Nash were being held against there wills and unfairly restrained by their contracts.
Difference in the audience? Yes absolutely BUT to say it's not because of the in-ring action being different is flat wrong. Some of that blame goes to the current talent just being sub par (Seth Rollins) at the same time though wrestlers with huge talent or newer guy with potential are restrained in their promo styles and held back with what they are allowed to do in the ring.
Not for nothing, I remember watching RAW when it first began, I remember the 1st episode and it was so much more entertaining when it was 1hr. Even when it went jumped to 2hrs it was still tolerable. NOW!? It sucks ass
The 4 current well known wrestlers are the rock, bork laser, john cena and the only one who’s known purely because of wrestling, the guy with the mask Rey Mysterio
“3000 years ago people didn’t have much entertainment to compete with listening to one dude talk”
I mean they also had sports competition, theatre, comedians, gladiatorial shows where they could watch the equivalent of wrestling except not fake and actually had people being killed for their entertainment, ancient rap battle equivalents which were basically two poets trying to top each other with improvised baudy poetry and yo mama jokes, musical concerts, etc.
People don’t give the ancient world credit. Shit was wayyyyy more crazy than you think. Just cause there aren’t movies and video games doesn’t mean everyone just say with their thumbs up their ass lol. If anything the modern world has homogenized its ideas of entertainment to the point that if a screen or digital interface isn’t there then it isn’t considered entertainment. Shits depressing honestly.
Even 3 years ago there were other wrestling companies, just not as big. And now there's a few. WWE, AEW & IMPACT. Lucha Underground was banging and it was around for a few
Makes me think of reading plays back in high school n not really understanding why anyone would've care for them but then I went to a camp for the arts called blue lake to watch a performance of Tempest n that 👏 shit 👏was👏 amazing 👏
I was never into wrestling as a kid because it was so cheesy... Then in middle school I saw a guy in a dress shirt and tights get kicked in the face off screen, fall off a roof of a concretr bungalo, smack a table, next to another table. with a guy next to it. it was Mick Foley, and he automsticslly was my favorite wrestler.
This was taken place at the Worcester Centrum (now DCU Center) in Worcester, Massachusetts and I live only live in Shrewsbury when I was one year and 8 months old. This episode is my all time favorite because it's not just close to home, it the time where Mick Foley won his WWF title for first time and before the Rock's twist from getting fired from the corporation and became a fan favorite.
Emp Ive always loved the wrestling references in your vids and have always secretly wanted You to make an in depth vid about it, great vid dude
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Gandalf the Grey2022-02-19 12:35:19 (edited 2022-02-19 13:07:02 )
This video makes me legit sad I want my car crash tv back
9:43 "usually while high on cocain" Yeah.... but lets be real... what would Randy Savage be without some coke fueled promos? That vibe just transpired through the TV and captavated you.
15:03 Mick Foley is one of the most loveable and badass people this world has ever seen. JR aint lying when he called "BAW GOD ALMIGHTY, BAW GOD ALMIGHTY, THAT KILLED HIM. AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, HE IS BROKEN IN HALF"
How is it not real if people are actually getting really hurt?? Like I get that the “winner” is set already and stuff but they are actually beating the crap out of each other and throwing themselves off 2 story high fences, sooo
I was lucky to be growing up as a child I'm the attitude era, wrestling back then was crazy good WCW WWF ECW man it was one amazing time, I haven't watched wrestling since like 2009 it's so lame bad and watered down its fucking awful.
4:52 I was actually shaken to my core when I heard the background music and realized it's the melody the "Don't pee on the floor, use the commodore" fish sings
Vince Jr. didn't inherit the WWWF...he BOUGHT it from his father. How much of a difference that makes will vary from person to person, but it's an important distinction.
Now there’s AEW and ROH . But u can never duplicate The Rock, Stone cold , DX, Mankind and The brothers of destruction scratch tht the whole Additude era was amazing
Id still watch if the shows atmosphere was like the attitude era. Can't get into it at all with its current status, which has nothing to do with "how the world is now days".
I always found it weird when Vince McMahon announced that God would be entering the ring with Shawn Michaels, it was just a spotlight and not Mick Foley.
I think when RAW and Smackdown were fighting for the title of the better wrestling show within WWE, it was really at its prime, even if ECW and AEW joined the feud and we're pretty much as uneventful in the way of narratives as WCW. The times when there were Batista, The Undertaker, Kane, John Cena, Triple H. All these behemoths with titles that had other fighters fear them much more than other fighters; and they were fighting in big events and showing their recognition until the last few fighters, you really never knew which way it would go, even if most rooted for The Undertaker, just because kids found his actions just but relentless, and he had a big history of stunts that put him in a lot of danger, so he was like foley but instead of laughing at the foolish guy, people always asked themselves "is this the last we see of the undertaker"? to be quickly corrected by his surprise returns with that chilling theme. simply classic.
Basically wrestlers are gladiators but with slightly less extravagant sets? (I remember reading there were mock naval battles sometimes in gladiatorial games)
EmpLemon: When i say names like Ric Flair, Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, and Andre The Giant most of you can probably picture a vague figure in your heads but you cant specifically tell who im talking about.
Me a life long wrestling fan who knew exactly who he was talking about: Oh so this video isnt meant for me.
This video is absolutely fantastic. I love it so much. Same with the last Never Ever. You are doing a wonderful job with these videos. As both a wrestling fan and a SpongeBob fan, these 2 Never Ever videos are some of my favorite videos. Keep up the amazing work, and oh my god if I ever hear Michael Cole say Boss Time ever again, I think I might just end it all.
Shawn Michaels is the best wrestler ever, Bret is second. We all know wrestling isn’t real, but it’s so good. Vince McMahon is the greatest promoter ever!
I didn't understand how people could watch fake wrestling until... I forget the name. WWE 2k16 I think? Their little Stone Cold story told like an E! documentary actually got me really hyped over it. Now that I can think about it it's pretty impressive how they manage to make it feel real in front of a live audience. Honestly, that's pretty impressive.
90s kids may now be suffering from economic stagnation just as their professional careers were supposed to kick off, but my god did we have the best wrestling there will ever be.
33:25 sorry to brake it to you but it did happen and funny enough it was a return as well Becuse on August 20 2021 CM Punk return in AEW of all places is now considered or if not rivals a huge crowd reaction and to add insult to injury it was in much bigger crowd inside a stadium, it was rumored beforehand but it didn't effect to the crowd reaction it was a very magical moment
I'll admit it right now, I never thought I'd see wrestling as anything but sweaty dudes groping each other on the ground. But At the end of the day, we all like something stupid. Even if we can't fathom that it's stupid to everyone else. I never liked Marvel or DC but as I grow older, I begin to appreciate things using a different view.
Wrestling is also sweaty chicks groping each other on the ground. Any form of entertainment can be stupid, but that does not mean it always is. Just because there is Justin Bieber does not mean that there was no Beatles. Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin existed, but so did Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. While the WWE has featured many dumb ideas that even fans would shake their heads to, it has also provided many exciting moments that amazes people to this day such as the Mick Foley Hell in a Cell match in the video.
@Majin Vegeta Arguable. Especially since Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, Randy Savage, Roddy Piper, etc... broke into mainstream media. Meaning that many people around the world who didn't watch wrestling knew who they were.
@ThrottleVinnieModo i don't know about that number but agree a ton of adults loved wrestling from the beginning. Vince got more kids into it if anything starting in the 80s. The 80s through the early 2000s were the golden years of wrestling. It was so much fun.
@Rustler V6 Golden & Attitude eras are cemented in pop culture. New Generation & Ruthless Aggression eras are also beloved by fans, but less iconic in general b/c ratings declined in both.
To be strictly fair to Vince, which is not something I make a habit of doing, he didn't inherit the company at all. He bought it from his father. And he somehow embodies the "I would never ask you to do something I wouldn't do myself" mantra. As he has...unfortunately proven. Many times.
Out of spite for the real life Vince McMahons in the world Immuna watch it again. Also cause I'm bored and wanna watch it again cause I might ACTUALLY watch wrestling now because of this.
Dude, WWE is dying and fading away and nobody cares about Raw anymore. WCW should have won and WWE should have died and fallen. Russo helped the WWE over WCW and he tried to put WCW back in competition. WWE will not be around in 10 years and WCW had better talent. Enjoy the epic demise of WWE. WCW is still technically alive with needing the WWE to die to raise from the grave. I will use The Crow reference, the Crow itself will be the connection between the moral world to the metaphysical world. The finger poke of doom and WCW gave the results that turned the tide of war.
@Qui-Gon Jinn It had worked in the past for them and it backfired. They knew for about one good week and I agree and the finger poke of doom would have been the beginning of the end for the WWF. Russo was a genius for developing that but Bishoff just had to open his mouth to tell Tony to leak the results during the break. If they would have done the top of the show then it would have been less effective to their demise. Then WCW had better owners that actually cared then they would have recovered from that. WWE will fall under its own weight. They shot themselves in the foot at the right time about 6 days after the War was over. They need to survive one more week then the tides of war would have changed again with Austin shaking hands with Satan himself.
I always said that Professional Wrestling is theatrical dancing. Its a cooperational sport (despite portraying the opposite) that includes acting and following a (more or less defined) cheoreography.
I piss off everyone with that. Both Pro Wrestling fans and people still not understanding that we know its a work. The first are pissed of because "Theater" and "Dancing" are dIsReSpEcTfUl terms towards PW. And the others are pissed because i dared to 1. disagree that fake = bad and 2. say its a real sport (by saying its dancing// nobody can deny that dancing is a sport), just not a competitive one.
Even though it’s not real and there not hitting each other,it is still a contact sport and they do get hurt when taking bumps like top rope spots or table and ladder spots
Wrestling in the 80s and 90s even at the turn of the century it was entertaining but alas like so many things I am no longer entertained I guess I'm just tired.
Why did you not show the final count and crowd reaction for the Mankind vs The Rock match? You literally stopped it at the two count.. I'm frustrated by all the little things like that that plague the video.
Wrong again. He didnt "overhaul", he LITTERLY DESTROYED the teritories that didnt sell to him. He blocked there tv access, and bought the buildings they ran in. Thats not "overhaul" that is playing dirty and destroying the foundation of 100 years of wrestling!
The two men who were involved in the finger-poke-of-doom, Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash were once one of Vince McMahon's "Boyz", and Kevin Nash during this time (I think) was a booker 👀💀 that's all I'm saying, but you can read between the lines.
I'm only 30 seconds in and I really want to comment about how I only know "Macho Man" Randy Savage because of a certain gamer who likes a rocket weapon too much...
(That being Cosolix, who is most seen playing Brawlhalla as Macho Man)
"Not brought on from what was in the ring" I disagree hard here lol, WWE has dropped tremendously in quality, things like AEW and NJPW will overtake WWE i popularity im sure
AEW and NJPW overtake WWE in terms of quality, but not popularity. The WWE is a monopoly, that people would pursue a career in the land of the Giants. The ones who would head to NJPW or AEW are either Natives of Japan or try to escape the harsh conditions of WWE. Those two promotions are only known for the hardcore fans
What IS real is the punishing schedule that pro wrestlers keep. Also, what is real are the injuries these people accumulate. That alone deserves respect. Trump was born rich...
New WWE just doesnt hit the same as old school WWF. They still did fucked up shit in WWE like Kane killing paul bearer or randy ortan going on a murderous rampage but when triple H went to randy ortans house and threw him through a window, it was unmatched
you said that every character in smash is fake, which is in fact not true as one of the characters, R.O.B., is a real life accessory for the nes. i get your point still and having that mistake corrected in the video would take away from what you were saying, but still.
LOL “oldest ever manatee in captivity died by accidentally swimming into an off limits drainage area”
Manatees really are just the most goofy, mr magoo animals on the face of the planet
EDIT: the fact that you have to break down suspension of disbelief when it comes to wrestling in the 21st century is fucking shocking to me, man. Anyone who tacitly claims intellectual superiority for “knowing that wrestling is fake” is the butt of a hilariously ironic joke.
He's more or less talking about the 80s, attitude era and ruthless aggression era. WWE in it's current state has been garbage and the only noteworthy things to happen in the last decade are The Summer of Punk (CM Punk 2011) and Daniel Bryans yes movement. other than that, absolute garbage scripts, watered down matches, and it literally feels like a show for kids to watch to make them fall asleep easier.
I love the background music in the intro, donkey Kong is my favorite game and I forgot what game that music is from but I remember spending hours of my day on my 3DS playing that game
Dope video. I feel that those born after 2000 just don't "get" hope popular WWF was and how it was truly a cultural phenomenon and a representative of the zeitgeist of the time - especially the 90's counter-culture and "attitude" of the time. I think it's something that just could never occur after the introduction of the internet and social media and the "fall" of cable TV.
It's not just that they replaced it with something new and arguably better, but they got rid of the iconic Coca Cola script logo and I swear that had to have made a huge difference in how people reacted. That logo is so iconic, it would be like McDonald's getting rid of the Golden Arches "M" logo. I can't even think of a logo that's on the same level as that, but having that kind of brand recognition is really important and they almost threw it away.
Been a wrestling fan since I was 5 years old when people find out they exactly say that and that's when I turn around and tellthem but you love The avengers and not really either 😂
I stopped watching after CM punk and cena feud. It was the best match and punk won in Chicago and then he left and so did I. Now there are no names like the old and also no stories that I can care enough.
Both got their companies from their fathers. Vince bought WWE from Vince Sr after working for him and Fred Trump gave the Trump Organization to Donald. Both changed the names of the companies after getting the companies from their dads.
It’s really interesting to view professional wrestling as theater. Completely changes my mindset about ha ha wrestling fake entertainment not real wrestling ha ha
I hate Vince McMahon as an actual human and think wrestling is trash but I can't deny that my friends and I had a lot of fun in the mid to late 90's watching Nitro and Raw
His rich dad never raised him. Matter fact, Vince had to come to him for work because his life of poverty was getting to him. The two were not close at all.
The reason why they teach Shakespeare during high school is because they know alot of people aren't gonna learn anymore about anything after that. They at least give us a chance. Not EVERYONE hates school......I loved learning.
Where can I watch old wrestling shows all the way through? I feel like quarentine is a great time to get shitfaced with the boys on discord and go through an entire year of wrestling, in order
"Literal Tank" - is actually just a car with a fake cannon glued on it -
The Video is pretty good for people completely new to Wrestling but there are some things that bother me a bit. Like: Stunning Steve an AVERAGE Wrestler? Wow. Talk about forgetting all about the Hollywood Blondes, eh? Austin always was a freakishly good Wrestler. Both in terms of Promos as well as in work rate. He was just given rubbish material to work with more then once. But when he got the right thing (see Hollywood Blondes) he absolutely nailed it. No mention at all of the Montreal Screwjob? That was the very event that outed McMahon as the de facto owner of the company and the moment when he took up an on-screen heel role as that. With a large reason why people hating him was because he screwed over Bret Hart. It's a decline not from what's happening in the Ring? Sorry but that could not be further from the truth. If that was the case then AEW sure as hell wouldn't exist and starting to match the WWE Main-Shows in ratings. WWE had MULTIPLE chances to replicate Stone-Cold-Moments from the Attitude Era even once they turned PC. By now the list of Talent they alienated with their terrible decisions who could've been on the top is a lot longer then actually successful projects. And people like CM Punk or Daniel Bryan are just the tip of the iceberg there. Just look how much time they wasted on trying to get Roman over as the generic Face. Look how the butchered Broken-Matt. How they wasted so many promising NXT-Talents because Vince at some point looses interest in them like they are some kind of toys and like crowd reaction just ain't a thing. Look how they constantly bring back old, often washed out, Wrestlers to walk over new Talent. How they waste genius Tag-Teams and Staples because Vince doesn't like Tag-Team Wrestling or wants Cena to walk all over the Nexus, killing their momentum in the process. And do we REALLY have to talk about poor Bray Wyatt? When they started with the Fun-House and The Fiend I though "Well shit. This is gonna be the next Undertaker". Yeah... nope. In every other company creative people like Bray would already be at the top of the Main Card. I wonder how many Wrestle-Mania Main-Events he got under his belt. Oh look. It's the same as CM Punk. None. Not putting Punk into the Main even with Rock and Cena AT THE VERY LEAST was as much of a mistake as ousting people like Cody Rhodes with their terrible creative choices. And look what that particular thing got them? I get that you made this before the AEW announcement but you did already saw All In happening. That must've been a indicator.
But finally: I am VERY happy, that there will never be another show like Attitude-Era Raw. Don't get me wrong there are a lot of things I really wish they would lean into again. But on a whole we always tend to forget the absolute worst about that time through the filter of nostalgia. Like the fact that there was just no Womens Wrestling for years and even then we barely got beyond shit like "Bra and Panties Matches" for a long time. Or the ever so slightly present Racism and Homophobia. Or Incest angles. Or countless disappointing Match-Finishes (I swear half the RAW matches ended in DQ's). If you go back to it on the Network (well or Peacock now I guess) and rewatch those Episodes, you'll notice that a lot of it just becomes extremely unwatchable. I often see that many fans think going back to how or what the attitude era was will fix something. Like blaming it all on PG that WWE got so stale. I promise you it has nothing to do with that.
WWE only called the jeep a tank because they took "The Monday Night Wars" name too literally and convinced themselves that 2 wrestling companies competing to be the better one was an actual, literal war.
@aceman0000099 SiivaGunner is the actual name of Silva's [latest (at the time of this comment)] channel, because his last channel (which was SilvaGunner) got terminated
Doubt many. It was like a magic show more than reality.mqe KNEW something was up, but not exactly what. We know someone couldn't take certain beatings and come right back, BUT they ARE jacked up and in a lot better shape. But chairs and such too? Ok...now we KNOW it's notright, but we see them hit, he fell, he got angry or hurt....ok..real enjfh for me to enjoy this. Shit as kids we did the same and we knew just how much to joke back to make it entertaining and yet bot kill each other. For me, the only thing I didn't know was that the moves were communicated. I thiught they just acted and reacted on the spot. That's how we did it as kids. And whomever was too tired to go on, lost. Tapped or pinned. I didn't know they planned who won. I mean, for us, we planned sometimes. On our own pay per view or big matches for the story progression, but the story reacted to whomever was on top, based on real.."real" bouts. Whomever won by more stamina and toughness to get to top. Then there were only a few planned hits for rivals. Letting someone win just to fight the other guy. Or lose to drop down in ranks just to have a rematch with someone else. Other than that, real fights lol. Bo one got really dazed but you didn't know what move you were going to be put in till they tried and THEN you go along with it to make it look good. So...wrestling was..REAL ENOUGH. Drop kicks DID hit. Punches hit, but just enough. Chairs, however, touched just enough for noise, bit with slow aimed hits that the other person can react to for the show. So SEEING hits commect and.not in a soft.pussy way..more like Asian actors who do real contexts to look as real as possible, made it more believable No, itwasnt real, wemknew it...but it had enough in there to believe the magic
Saying triple H got his rise from Stephanie is trash. He worked his ass off for 15 years before he married her. Triple H is on my personal Rushmore with Austin, The Rock, and the Undertaker. The attitude era will always reighn supreme. Shawn, Bret, Terry, Dusty, and sting are up their also. The attitude era will never be beaten.
A jeep with a 30mm and a tank are 2 totally different things lol
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AEW has the Cobra Kai effect on the WWE..... AEW would beat WWE Smackdown or Raw by April 2022 if AEW's ratings start to improve and increase depends how low rated the brand is, most likely to Raw. by 2037 to 2039, if AEW is still alive, would be really boring and crap and another wrestling organization would be formed by disgruntled, mistreated AEW wrestlers.
Jan 4th 1999, Austin helped Mankind (Triple H, Xpac, Chyna, and Billy Gunn) which his entry was the loudest, defeated the rock and Corporate team (with Kane, Ken Shamrock )
Monday Night Raw has influenced a whole gen to the point i can't even read the phrase "NEVER EVER" without hearing the only & only "Chris Jericho Y2J" Say it. EPIC
& Now AEW exists & they're helping build back up existing US companies like Impact (once TNA) NWA, soon probably ROH, and advancing NJPW 's status in the the US as well as reminding/introducing these companies to audiences around the world.
I swear to god, Emp said something about Vince and Shane McMahon vs Randy Orton and Jesus Christ but I can't find anything about it anywhere? Can someone please fact check this
Got a kind of Jon Bois vibe from this. Especially in the editing and music. If you haven’t watched Fighting in the Age of Loneliness, you have to. Achieves the same feat as this video, being that it’s watchable even if you don’t like the sport
I'm so gutted I JUST MISSED the best era of WWF. I was getting into it in 2000, when Heat was shown on Channel 4 in the UK. We did get satellite TV not long after, and always watched Raw and Smackdown until I went to uni in 2003 and no longer had any TV, but it was all downhill. The peak was clearly 1998-2000. I have enjoyed watching TNA for a couple of periods more recently, love AJ Styles, and WCPW was good (now Defiant which I should check out but haven't much yet). Luckily I came back to TNA just as the Broken Matt Hardy thing was taking off, found it hilarious, showed my brother some clips, and then the two of us ended up going to our first live wrestling show when WCPW did a show in town featuring Matt Hardy vs Bully Ray (I think the event was even called "Delete"). I really appreciate pro wrestling but I always end up getting bored after a few months. Currently in an off-period. I'll probably get back into it again at some point.
The second fall foley took wasn’t going to be that bad. Cheap ass wwf used zip ties and they all broke. Foley said the first one didn’t hurt at all compared to that fall. He could of died that day.
I know I'm a couple of years late just seeing this, but good grief this is like the worst of USA Today - a somewhat inaccurate summarization of what happened. At least this one seems to have good intentions, but just ends up misleading the people watching it. Take my nothing criticism for what it's worth - that 1.5+m view count seems to indicate Imma be in the minority on this one.
Open solution is much worse than a cubicle, at least with a cubicle you get a semblance of privacy, with open solution the job is the same but worse because you coworkers and boss are breathing down your neck and vice versa
@24:46 lol well played! But BUT! Shawn is and always will be the true leader and founder of DX. Jussayin. (not the Shawn of today, but tha Shawn of yesteryear)
Soap Operas for guys. Easiest way to explain pro wresting. As real as boxing/MMA is, GOOD GRIEF does it try to emulate Pro Wrestling in every way before a match happens to hype it up.
monday night raw nowadays gathers a TV rating of 0.43 maybe try another show like AEW Dynamite or Rampage. You picked the wrong wrestling show. Maybe make reference that WWE not WWF is not doing as good as they did 20 years ago. just wanted to point that out to your audience so they arent confused. EDIT: ok i apologize. i missed the whole point of this video after watching. Well done my dude!!!!!!
@EmpLemon I went to a 2008 Friday Night Smackdown, when Undertaker came into with that gong and I felt chilled & awesome. And I heard about his career and I was ecstatic to see him
trump actually wasnt a founder of the USFL but rather a team-owner of the New Jersey Generals (same team that drafted Hershel Walker) and was a huge supporter for the USFL to challenge the NFL to try to merge with them, resulting in a lawsuit that the USFL actually won however; the lawsuit did not get them the merger they wanted or a large amount of settlement money like trump thought it would, ending with the USFL getting a check for around $3. all because trump wanted to compete against the NFL in hopes of a merger, the USFL actually had a good thing going since its seasons originally took place during the spring and summer leaving the fall for the already established NFL (also kind of working as a makeshift developmental league for the NFL in the process).
This was so well put together. Loved it. I would be flipping back and forth watching both shows on Monday nights .. Hope when fans return they can be more exited to be there.
I’m still not too interested in live action stuff, but this was really interesting and entertaining. I can see now why my friend, her sister, and so many people love WWE
These memes are really spicey, especially if you get them. Great video, you actually made me go back and watch some late '90's RAW. I'd just like to point out that you should've mentioned ECW, since it was an embodiment of 90s counter-culture in wrestling - dirty, brutal, DIY, essential.
@10:35 Today WWE is, and has been for the past more than a decade now, trash. Thank god for AEW, since TNA, now Impact, also became trash not long after WWE did.
Pedants digression : In ancient Greece they didn't recite the works if homer, they played the role of homer. As in the aurator walked out and recited these tales from memory. It was an Oral tradition.
The only reason why I stopped watching wrestling was due to it changing in the 2010s. I still watch the older shows but the newer shows just don't feel the same
Professional wrestling is fake to a extend. Meaning when you see this guy's being thrown.... They are actually being thrown. Most people forget wrestlers end up having a short lifespan in the ring majority of the time just imagine being thrown to sell a move. Also people forget those kick moves to the head are dangerous. Half the time wrestlers end up getting accidentally kicked in the head and have to continue. Also bro no one talks about the pay per view with Kurt angle vs Shane McMahon. That was fucking brutal especially back in the day. It questioned people whether it was fake or actually real.
@33:12 Too bad it's nothing but a sad joke of what it used to be. @33:14 And in quality, so makes sense, until AEW came to save Pro wrestling. @33:20 I disagree, that's exactly the reason. @33:31 Again I disagree, AEW did it, has done it, does it. But I too thought it wasn't possible before AEW proved me it was, I had lost hope on true great Pro wrestling ever coming back because I thought "they really just can't deliver that anymore", since TNA that once used to be great too now delivers (and again, too has for more than a decade now) the same cringy garbage quality of a show WWE does, well, clearly WWE and TNA completely lost the formula, they just really don't know how to do it anymore. Again, thank god for AEW.
Actually I met someone who didn't like SpongeBob. I put it on at work for the customers kids one time and the women had A FIT! Screaming to turn it off because it's "inappropriate" for children!
If they wanna fix raw now, they should make stone cold gm of raw, and anytime someone pisses him off, he stuns them. Undertaker should be the overseer/grim reaper of SmackDown, and anytime someone pisses him off, the lights cut off, he appears, chokeslam/tombstone to opp, then vanishes. Same for Kane but for raw. And make the rock gm for SmackDown.
You'd watch AEW. WWE is the worst place to start right now. AEW is the one that's gaining people's attention and drawing bigger numbers than WWE at many points, and they've only existed for a year!
@That one time Drake was on SNL Are you sure? Because while raw might me overproduced, there matches are much slower paced, accommodating for much more in ring storytelling, whilst aew's matches are mostly spotfests.
AnonymousNebula WWE is slow paced because Vince barely allows the “superstars” to do anything. Calling AEW a spotfest is such a common false insult used by WWE shills all the time. AEW brings action in the ring that keeps you entertained, along with storytelling that uses weekly continuity and builds to a grand culmination, such as with Darby Allin winning the TNT Title from Cody and Kenny Omega becoming the cleaner, destroying everyone, and winning the AEW World Title. WWE uses storytelling that doesn’t lead anywhere with tons of continuity errors. WWE limits those grand stories to only the top of the card or old legends that return magically whenever ratings are down. Also, AEW uses their already established stars to push their younger talent and make them into stars themselves, such as with Darby winning the TNT Title, Jake Roberts managering Lance Archer, Taz building up all of Team Taz, Cody putting over MJF, Sting pairing with Darby, and Brodie Lee winning the TNT Title. WWE does almost nothing to build new stars and have been relying on the same faces for the past 5 years or so. Examples include Goldberg squashing The Fiend and Kevin Owens for the Universal Title for no reason, Triple H going over Booker T at WM 19 in some racist storyline, Drew Gulak going from nearly winning the IC Title to not being used at all, and John Cena burying Wade Barrett in 2010 instead of giving him the WWE title.
@That one time Drake was on SNL I do agree with most of your points, but aew is a young promotion, and pretty soon they're gonna be relying on the same faces for years, with many new prospects lingering in the mid card. Also, you have only been highlighting wwe bad spots, you have not mentioned any of the great storylines that wwe have pumped out in the past year, and I understand that some people like the more fast pace style, but if it goes on, then many fans will leave, because the majority of fans like the slower pace, which explains the dying viewership for wrestling.
No I can vary vary visualize those folks and you ain't got to explain nothing to me iam 47 and been hooked from somewhere around 5 years old my dad was a high school wrestling coach for like 50 + any way because of that he hated tv wrestling and pro wrestling is real the out comes are pre determined sometimes sometimes its called on the fly either way the athleticism the bumps the dangers all real nit to mention the world series has been proven to be riged before shows in boxing have been allegedly riged for a century pretty sure just cause it ain't proven don't mean shit but pretty sure the super bowel and football has had everything from bribed reefs to possibly whole freaking teams so that being said whats so fake about wrestling any way you got you're opinions and I respect that and so far this is entertaining but no need to explain why you like wrestling
true wrestling fans know that the attitude era of wwe, was the worst time of proffesional wrestling. lots of people watched the show, but they did it for gimmick matches, stupid storylines and violence television. and the crowd ? 'a bunch of drunk perverts. just a soft version of ECW-the ultimate garbage bingo hall "wrestling" nitro was beating wwf because people didnt want to watch garbage wrestling. they wanted to see the stars of the NWA like ric flair on live television fight a badass faction- NWO. on wwf mankind was crying...
I honestly believe they had a second shot at one of those moments in time but they ran CM Punk out of the business. I think he was the last vestige of that kind of performer. Dude never should have gone into MMA. He was a brilliant entertainer.
Christian Williamson well the managed to do it once more afterwards with daniel brayans wrestlemania win but cm punk definitely couldve pulled that off
Man, really hurt bad hearing that Colt Cabana podcast... really can’t blame him losing his heart for something, whether it was as one-sided as Punk said or not... Pour one out for the guy
@Ghostface01 Two wrongs don't make a right. It isn't ok to hurt someone. Do you think it shows toughness to assault people? Punk realized that accidents happen he's not some roid rage meathead. Did Steve Austin attack Owen Hart after he broke his neck? No because Steve realized that accidents happen and pro wrestling is dangerous. Did The Rock attack Mick Foley after he beat his face in with a chair? No because once again he understood it happens in pro wrestling and it's ok to be mad about it but don't assault someone because you're afraid of not being some tough guy
@Ghostface01 Well here's what Punk said "There's no way you didn't do that on purpose. You either say you did it on purpose or say you're dumb as fuck" and ryback said "I'm dumb as fuck I'm sorry" So he didn't really say it was on purpose he just talked about questioning Ryback about it. Either way it still isn't good to really punch someone especially if you have broken ribs I'm sure it would be hard to throw a proper punch if you can barely even stand so what's the point it wouldn't be full force anyway
People shit on WCW too much, they had some pretty good stuff going for them. I hope AEW (or ROH and NJPW) shoots up in popularity enough to be considered possible competition to the WWE so we can finally have competition again.
Ehh kinda. The guy was able to wrestle, especially how he resembled Benoit in terms of the ring. Bryan was successful in the indipendent circuit. He was written to be an underdog. Foley was the underdog because he was only used to get beat up and that's it.
Especially in the late 90's and early 2000's. Rivalries like Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt elevated the sport to a whole new level and with the arrival of guys like Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR was on a whole new level of popularity and excitement back then. I still watch it today but man do I wish we could go back to those times. Definitely will never be another sport like it.
28:08 is there a reason this still of credits just appears randomly in the middle of the video? I haven’t finished all of it but if I get to the end and there IS a reason it’s there I’m still gonna leave this comment. BECAUSE I’M laz
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the internet killed Tv shows...because when i used to watch Raw no one would ever know what's coming next week....with anticipation i would wait for Monday night raw not knowing what was gonna happen
Actually, one could argue Team Fortress 2 is a response to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. It's essentially the same idea, but it traded open source with source engine.
I'll be honest I'll never understand why people liked Team Fortress 2.TF2 is the reason I almost refused to play Overwatch at all. It took over a year of coaxing and in my OPINION, Overwatch is a far superior game or was before they fiddled with it until it collapsed just like they did with what little fun there was in TF2 for me.
@Smokestack I guess I can kinda see where you're coming from. Everyone has they're own tastes after all!
If you're really interested in why people like the game so much there are tons of analysis videos of it on the internet. Though I strongly suggest Lazy Purple's "TF2 is a timeless masterpiece" and FUNKe's "TF2's diverse complexities" but those more talk about the gameplay side of things and why it holds up so well.
@z #37549 Its just a matter of having never played a single good game of it. Granted I was a lot younger despite the insinuations of Doll Doctor (Aka probably that guy that sexually molests baby dolls with syringes). No matter what I tried personally including relegating myself to medic and mvping (For my team anyway) most games for weeks on end. Nothing could get me a game that wasn't a steamroll one direction or and any time a close match showed up for some reason that'd be the moment the team balance would be on the server and would turn it into a landslide for one side. I didnt like the playstyle of any of the characters, save the scout and medic both of which are horribly underpowered without the help of a competent team. I've always thought rocket jumping was a fucking stupid concept since Quake and shit. I really don't like explosive weapons as I tend to think they take lot less skill. A myriad of reasons I didn't like the game.
@Smokestack That makes sense. Getting put into really bad matches while starting out can make people quit easily, especially with the games incredibly steep learning curve. I remember also having pretty bad matches at the beginning. My team isn't doing anything and I'm just getting destroyed by every player on the enemy team, only getting kills from idle players. Yet unlike you I persisted, even to this day I don't know why since I wasn't really getting that much enjoyment from it. I guess the personality and uniqueness of the game kept pulling me back to a few more rounds. The fact that a regular match could turn into a 24 people conga line in a split second was hilarious to me and eventually I got good and the game has been a blast all the way through after that.
While it is true with the medic, I don't think the scout suffers from a bad team. He's a really strong class in the right hands being able to dish out a huge amount of damage up close while still being really fast. It's just not really inviting to newer players with his high skill ceiling but most new players still gravitate to him for his fun concept (kind of like the spy)
Also I'd just like to say rocket jumping is a genius movement system. It's a simple risk reward system of wasting ammo and health for movement. It seems like a bad deal until you realize that soldier is the second slowest class in the game. The soldier is easily the simplest class in the game but rocket jumping adds so much layers to the class with all the intricacies of the mechanic
@z #37549 I persisted as well because of tenacious irl friends who were convinced it was the best game ever. I played it for a good 3-4 years my steam only says 75 hours, but that was about 3 computers ago and the time reset on a lot of my games. I almost certainly have over 300 hours in a game I eventually figured out that I could just barely tolerate for the sake of my friends, to the point of most of my hours playing being on my own, thinking that if I could just get better at the game it would be fun. It never was, and what little fun there was, was drained by valve over the course of the game's lifespan. I have almost all the vintage items for all the classes. I did enjoy fucking over both teams as spy just for the fun I could get out of trolling.
Rocket jumping is quite simply the dumbest fucking shit I ever heard of period. Shooting your own feet to propel you is not ingenius its downright moronic to even think about even in the power armor future of quake and unreal tournament. Just because that accident created a gameplay mechanic doesn't mean that the mechanic couldn't have been implement ina manner that took as much skill but was, iunno more sensical. Keep in mind I am the guy that refuses to use the rocket launcher in the first place because I think of it as a scrub weapon. Also keep in mind I main Pharah just to shit on people's parades in Overwatch because creaming entire teams while my group wanks in a corner is the only thing that gives me pleasure in that game now. Its not that I am not good with rockets as at least a dozen couch coop buds learned not to say. The idea of conserving ammo in a rocket launcher is stupid. Use it to destroy vehicles. If there are no vehicles, pick it up so no scrub can and dump its ammo if you find a real gun. I mean what kind of fucking maniac shoots a rocket launch at a man sized target anyway. What a waste of ordinance. Just put three rounds in him.
WHAT????? There wasnt ppv bavk in the 80s and 50s🤦. Promos were to hype up guys for the next match, but it was to sell tickets to go SEE the match or watch it on TV for FREE!!!!!!🤦🤦🤦. Please go watch some Mid South or one of the other big teritories so you can see how it REALLY was and not just how a couple goofs on the internet typed that it was. Including me!! Go see for yourself!!!! Please!!!!
My mom could convince me easy that santa isn't real. Like sure whatever, ofc Santa ain't real.
But if you tell me WWE isn't real. Now that shit is heresy. Hulk Hogan is a champ and he tells me I can do anything, so hell yeah brother, that champ title is real to me
I remember begging my dad to buy the pay per view events. I remember getting into arguments with my mom that didn't want me to watch this and subsequently sneaking around to watch episodes of raw when she was asleep. I remember getting into arguments in elementary school over who was cooler, Brett Hart or The Heartbreak Kid. You zoomers missed out... Kind of.
I love DX as much as the next guy, but they never drove a "literal tank" to WCW Nitro: It was a Jeep. A jeep! A jeep with a drainage pipe painted green for it's main gun barrel
Mick Foley: “We don’t get to talk like we used to. So I’d like to take the opportunity now to tell you how much I really admire your sweaty, heaving voluptuous breasts. And I know you heard I’m a good kisser but in addition to that talent, I’ve compromised a list of about 17 other things I’d really like to do to those bad boys. So if you’d like to go over that list I’ll be in my dressing room.”
Wrestling is like anime for older men. You watch it for the main stars and for the plot. And yeah there's fanservice involving ladies (dat's a fact)
General wrestling fans know it's not real (it's scripted but the moves hurt like hell), but wrestling can storytell a betrayal plot better than Hollywood or live-action anime adaptations at times tbh.
@34:04 Not counting, it's not like that anymore, stopped counting in around mid-2008. @34:15 I do not appreciate their current bad quality cringe inducing garbage product, and I don't get the people that does. I'm not saying they haven't produced anything good at all since, but mostly.
The only reason I don't watch stuff like wrestling is that they try to trick you into thinking it's real when it's not, and the fact that they are lying to you makes me not want to watch it. With stuff like movies, they basically tell you it's fake.
What? It literally never tries to trick you that its real. Lol it never talks about it sure but they definitely don't trick u into thinking its real at all idk where you even got that from. Example of that is like he said star wars dudes running around with lightsabers and shit don't act line its fake or say it is so why is it at all different in this thing tat wrestlers also even in interviews literally say its not real so what is even your point? Wnat movie in the middle of its mst suspenseful moments tell you its fake ever?
@Scizor Bullet Wrestling is just a bunch of dudes fighting, which could be completely real. If you have ever actually seen a movie before, you would know that they do indeed tell you that it's fake... Ever heard of a director before... Ever heard of a behind-the-scenes video... Maybe even the credits? With wrestling, any random person could watch it and then be like, "Oh wow 2 dudes just actually fought each other in a real fight to win the championships.", but if that same random dude were to watch a movie about a laser sword-wielding man that can make objects float at will that fights another laser sword-wielding man that can also make objects float, and one of them gets electrocuted and thrown down a massive hole on a moon-sized space station, he would probably be like "Wow that was a cool movie, that was directed and edited and not actually real because it literally says so in the credits, plus almost every theatrical movie/tv show was directed and edited and are fake." With wrestling, they don't really ever tell you it's fake unless you were to go out of your way to search it up. With movies, it's literally written all over them, and it's basically common knowledge that movies are fake, even movies based off of true stories are still fake, they aren't actually that real story, it's just based off it... Ever heard of boxing? Basically the "real" version of wrestling someone could think "well boxing is "real" so wrestling is probably real too" Wresting and boxing are basically the same, just with different "fighting styles" and of course the difference that boxing is way more real than wrestling.
@RealLugia97 GeN wrestling does have behind the scenes stuff as well wtf are you talking about? They also make documentaries that completely break everyone's character and you have guys like kane a guy who is literal demon talking about fans and thing. Undertaker has an entire mpvie about him where he talks about how his career happened when he's playing a undead guy who doesn't talk. Wwe also always say "don't try this at home" they also on their website list their writers and people who hire and fire so yes they do tell you its fake lol
@RealLugia97 GeN ok? Wrestlers are credites for "swllung" hits which is when you act like a move hit really hard which is a good part of wrestling. You really just don't know what you're talking about honestly everything your listing that movies do wrestling also does in their own way if you want to breai the element of what yiur watching in the ring and wanna see behind the svenes thing. Literally having arch enemies thar say they wanns kil each other every week hugging after a gteat match on their YouTube so wbat exactly do you mean by the don't tell u its fake? In evrty way possible they do similar to movies even having interviews with news stations completely breaking character to promote their wrestling company lol. Why do you need them to go out of their way to tell you its fake which they actually already do with promotions during shows of shit that expose it being fake so really just seems like your ignorant here.
@Scizor Bullet LMAO, you say all this stuff, but let me just say this again. With wrestling, any random person could watch it and then be like, "Oh wow 2 dudes just actually fought each other in a real fight to win the championships." Also this "With wrestling, they don't really ever tell you it's fake 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲 to search it up." With movies, it's literally impossible to not know they're fake. Any casual viewer like I said before wouldn't be able to immediately know if wrestling is fake or real, but any casual viewer would be able to basically instantly know that movies are fake, like the people that play the roles are literally called actors, lol... There aren't really and clues to tell you that wrestling is fake unless you actually go out of your way to look for them, you say stuff about "oh this dude acts like a zombie and blah blah" but how would I know that if I'm just a casual viewer. You are really pugnacious, like all I said was that I don't watch wrestling because I just don't really care about wrestling and that it comes off as being real even though it's actually fake. Then you being a wrestling stan that can't possibly let someone not like what you like, make a 10-page essay about why I'm wrong and your right. Like it's my opinion, I really don't care about what you think, I'm not going to just start watching wrestling just bc some random kid on the internet said that wrestling says its fake, as I said in my original comment I don't watch it because I just don't like wrestling, it's not just purely because they make it seem like it's real.
Also, I remember a long time ago when I was younger, there was an argument going on at the school I went to, on whether or not wrestling was real or fake and there were people who genuinely thought wrestling was real with all their hearts, so it's obviously not as obvious to the casual viewer as you think.
@RealLugia97 GeN the only people who think wrestling is real is little kids lol any adult with a brain knows its fake beforehand. Thats just common sense so again no it doesn't promotd itself as real at all.
what a great video! awesome work man! attitude era was my childhood and i so damn loved it. i still watch some old episodes or matches every now and then. but i stopped watching wwe like 14 years ago. in this 14 years i always had a hope that they would change their program back to what it was like during the great attitude era. but this hope died. nowadays wwe is nothing more than boring kids television. i can't understand that some fans from the attitude era still watch this crap like it is today.
I just found this video at 4am And it is by far one of THE BEST wrestling video essays I've ever seen Loved every second of it (even though I already knew everything) Thanks for such a high quality video
This was such a nostalgic trip, I remember that night man kind won the belt. I was like 6 or 7 at the time and I was HOOKED on that show until I realized it was all fake when I was 12. But still, I picture my younger self body slamming my stuffys with a John Cena poster on my wall.
something people have to understand is watching wrestling is different from highlighting the best moments watching wrestling can be really boring especially when the plotlines are shit there's rarely a good one but when it's good it's great
I'm extremely proud to be a wrestling fan. Even though I wasn't born in the 90s, I loved the Attitude Era. I love wrestling nowadays too. Wrestling is one of the things which make me extremely happy or sad, and it is truly the best thing.
Mick Foley is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. The Hell in The Cell match will forever go down as one of the greatest moments in the history of mankind.
I stopped watching wrestling after Wrestlemania 33 because it was getting stale, but i can't help myself to come back and watch old promos and matches sometimes, then i watch the new stuff and stop watching wrestling all together. It's a bizzare cycle and it's a part of my life now.
My Dude AEW got me back into wrestling I was a fan all the way through to the ruthless aggression era of wrestling. Went through the Monday night wars and all that jazz. Once WWE was the only one left and went pg I stopped caring and that was up till AEW came into the game now I actually like watching wrestling again.
I always just describe pro wrestling as a male soap opera cause it is a form of storytelling and is basically a modern day version of live theater performances
I was that perfect age in the 90's to have seen all of this play out every week, month and year. At least those early teenage years. I also had access to ECW weekly TV and PPVs starting in about '97. If there was a Golden Age for pro wrestling at some point, this was the Platinum Age. It's fucking insane to look back at what television was like and just how gigantic pro wrestling was then and all the very un-PC shit they got away with every week. A different time, I suppose.
If they ever brought back that crazy ruthless aggression/attitude/Raw era energy, I'd be watching wrestling again in a heartbeat. However, that's impossible. Wrestling is pussified. I always used to say wrestlers were either the toughest guys you'd ever imagine, or absolute fucking rockstars.
They uh....yeah. Are not. Any more. They don't go through any real hardship, they don't do the same route of hazing and hell that makes ridiculously durable people, there just isn't the same veteran grit in the locker room any more. Instead, they're perfectly managed and catered to athletes and typically aimed at little children.
Still, nice to look back at how epic it was. Nice memories.
Professional wrestling is like a real acting competition that takes place live, involving stunts, comedy, romance, and drama with a little bit of the more taboo stuff like ladders thumbtacks and chairs. The people that perform there act best are judged by the fans reactions and reworded by getting to play the part of the winner, or the loser if you specialize in being so toxic that can make fans cheer for someone else in the hopes they beat you.
2:03 I was always a bit annoyed by this argument, and I'm not even a wrestling fan. I mean, it's not like at this point anyone is even pretending wrestling is "real", whatever that means. It's like saying that theatre isn't real. And besides, just because it's all scripted, doesn't mean people don't get hurt for real.
It's because so many movies have fake fighting scenes where actors dont even throw real punches because everything is green screen that they think somehow real life is the same way
One thing which should be pointed out. Because I like you thought "well, his dad owned the WWWF. He MUST have just been given it/inherited the business". Not the case. Vince Sr did almost everything he could to deter him. In the end Vince Jr bought the company from his father. His father went on to say to paraphrase "from what I know now. I would never have sold the business to Vince". This makes him in many ways 1000% more interesting. Almost Shakespearean, stabbing his own father in the front to take over his father's business.
Don't know if anyone's mentioned this before but what's funny about this story is that something like this could end up happening again. TNT started a new wrestling promotion, AEW, just last year. They're not competing 1-on-1 with RAW now, but they're airing their weekly show, Dynamite, on Wednesday nights, on the same time slot as NXT, WWE's third brand. To add on, WWE has started to lose some of their talents to AEW. For example, they now have Chris Jericho, Dean Ambrose (now Jon Moxley), Matt Hardy, and Rusev (now Miro), and it's left WWE only with so much. If they lose more superstars, I think we could be seeing another big pro wrestling war in the coming years honestly.
It really wasn’t raw that changed the way weekly programming was done, it was honestly Nitro. Raw had to up their game when Nitro started putting on competitive matches every week. And it wasn’t supported by Ted, it was OWNED by Ted Turner, and it was he who wanted to directly compete with Vince. Because he didn’t like Vince. And was Hulk bleached blonde or did he have to dye his beard dark? I know the answer, and i like the video, but he’s all over the place with his facts. And you’re out of your mind saying Mick wasn’t “talented enough” on his own. Promos are a huge part of the product, and he is one of the very best promos ever, watch his Cactus Jack promos from ecw and say he has no talent. Oh, also, a jeep is not a tank. And Stone Cold’s persona was cultivated in ECW with Paul Heyman.
"Usually the Championship changes hands once, maybe twice a year," except during the period you're talking about where it was more like once or twice a month. Foley lost the title a few weeks later. Also, fans got behind him because he changed his gimmick after SummerSlam 98 to be more of a sympathetic comedy character rather than a tortured soul, but conventional wrestling history (i.e. the WWE) acts like it was all because of his Hell in a Cell bump. It wasn't.
I will never forget the ministry of darkness and the corporation storyline. I haven’t watched recent wwe. Probably the last year I watched was early late mid 2016 and then I just lost interest.
Stone Cold still holds the 1st place in wwf history. No one was or is capable to dethrone him. He puts hogan, ric, triple h, Shawn michels and the rock to shame with his pop.
Ty Goldie2020-11-12 17:00:07 (edited 2020-11-12 17:36:45 )
Attitude era Raw only existed because of ECW and that’s a fact proven by writers and head people in the late 90s saying so. Also- mick foley was popular due to coming in from ECW and being hardcore. A out of shape wrestler who got extreme and was comedic. When WWF went into attitude era was shortly after ECW exploded with Ppv and internet popularity and Vince knew if he didn’t go edgier than wcw they would lose their fame cause the Outsider/NWO angle is what broke WcW into #1. The correlation of ratings tanking and stealing ideas straight from ECW and a bit of NWO leading to the rise of their popularity as Raw is War and beating competition is no mistake. Which is why they brought in Dudley Boys and Raven also eventually. This is a good video but WWF wouldn’t have changed their branding and content the way they did if it weren’t for ECWs hardcore wrestling and sexual moments being inspiration/foundation for a generation of wrestling. Yes WcW was winning but didn’t have that deep of mature content to inspire anyone. But I’m not holding it against you cause you’d have to be an ECW fan or look into that part of history to see the evidence and admittance of writers and creative saying they took ideas and inspirations. Good video again I just wanted to provide the deepest lore for people :D
"Vince could see the tide of American culture turning"
Not really though, Vince McMahon had no clue about the culture change because he always lived inside the wrestling bubble and barely watched any movies or TV shows, so he didn't know, that's why it took so long for him to adapt, other people were able to get to his head and see that what he had been putting on TV wasn't working.
what do you mean no emotion from a crowed? football has plenty of drama and suspence of disbelief that is actually real that croweds react to way louder... and dude pro wrestling used to be good, now it's all just cheesy boring and bland.. Vince is out of touch, AEW in the other hand is actually pretty good and in my opinion has a better shot at competing with wwe then tna ever did.
Bruh, you should have mentioned how when Bret Hart left helped create a character for Vince that promoted his company and put some respect on Mankind's name. He only entertained audiences by putting his life at risk and he did have charisma. That's something that not only a wrestlers should have, but entertainers as well. As for Undertaker's popularity, it isn't difficult to describe. You mentioned how people were jumping ship between the two wrestling promotions. He stood at WWE and was a locker room leader for years. He gained the respect of his peers and later fans when they figured out. I think the decline for popularity in wrestling can be attributed to what happens in the ring and out of it. Anyone remember the Muslim gimmick they had? Or the suicidal alcoholic/drug addict angles? How about the more racially insensitive ones? Do you think Golddust can pass today? Do they still portray women like how they used to? Can they be edgy like they used to? The world has changed and wrestling has tried to change with it. Many fans cry for the old days, but it is clear to see that they aren't coming back and who knows if that will actually change things. The truth is it isn't unfiltered anymore or RAW.
It's sort of cliche to say, but it's true that you couldn't possibly understand how white-hot Raw was in the late nineties. WWF and Southpark were cultural phenomena.
Holy shit! , holy shit! What a great video! Its only flaw was ...Evil Mr. McMahon was born the day he screwed Brett 'Hitman' Hart, and im not just saying that because i'm a bitter canadian. But yes, stone cold gave us the well deserved revenge we wanted in the end!
19:30Nick Foley pushed 20 ft off the cage onto the tables Nick Foley pushed 16 ft off the cage onto the ring, has tooth coming out of nostril Nick Foley beaten like an egg by a combo of Undertakers ham fists and chairs Nick Foley choke-slammed onto a god damn BED OF TACKS
---> "The Undertaker won this match, but Nick Foley won the hearts..." No shit he lost the match, he shoulda lost his whole ass life haha.
Acting and stage performances aside, that was freakin hardcore man
Also, I'd argue that WWE did replicate what they did with Mick Foley at WrestleMania 30 with Daniel Bryan. And I am not sure the culture changing is the reason wrestling is unpopular now.. the product is just really bad. I finally gave up in 2014 after watching since 1992 when I was 4 years old.
he did though, his dad walked out on his alcoholic mom and he had an abusive stepfather. watch the Adam’s pipe bomb video on how he took away the WWWF from Vince Sr.
@Kyle Major He got a job at his dads company and eventually took it over. Having a non ideal childhood doesnt mean you came from nothing. If he would've become successful in anything that literally wasn't something his own father gave him (maybe Vince was savvy enough to take his fathers company, but he wouldnt be in that position if Vince Sr didn't bring him for no other reason than mainly nepotism) would be arguable but no. Vince Didn't come from nothing and got his daddies company. Yes Vince changed Wrestling into something no one else probably could, but he didn't come from nothing
yo DX shawn Michaels was the leader first but after hbk had to retire due to his back injury triple h then became the leader why you overlooked that idk
Holy fucking shit. This is the best documentarie for non-wrestling fans I've ever seen. As a 14 year old fan, I fond it hard for my friends to respect something that they consider "stupid and dumb" just because it's fake. But this explains non-fans the cultural impact of Pro-Wrestling. Amazing job man. Keep it up!
How could Nash and Hogan seriously think the finger poke of doom was a good idea comparing to Foley winning the Title the same night over on Raw. Double Agents sent by Vince!? Or just Karma coming back to bight WCW on the ass? But even if it was the 2nd 1 I still don't get how Nash and especially Hogan would think that angle/idea would be a good way to have a much anticipated match. I can't get my head around that. Or maybe the amount of money they was on at the time, with their guaranteed contracts they just didn't give a shit any more. Who really knows!?
bro i swear mick folley had to be on fucking something, idk if it was steroids or what but i just find that kind of pain resistance to be like impossible
Holy shit, I had no idea that that the fucking Fingerpoke of Doom happened on the same night as Foley winning the title. I thought the FPOD happened MONTHS after but holy shit, in hindsight that is the funniest shit I have ever fucking hear of
18:48 now this part, was not fake, it wasn't scripted either, the move was scripted, but the falling through the cell was not scripted. Wrestling is real, it's just scripted, if you get body slammed from a ladder onto a chair then that would hurt pretty bad, they aren't props, even if they were props then it would still hurt like hell.
Those eras are better than Wednesday night dork war that can't even gain a million views on TV. 5 millions ratings on both WCW and WWE was huge and part of pop culture phenomenal. Today Wrestling is full of MIDGETS while back then they suspended believablity of casual viewers by pushing big guys.
never got it and still don't, and as someone in my mid-30s, I was the prime audience at the time... i think I am just too jaded. appreciate the video, but I still don't understand. It's all so over-the-top.
@CM Derp Not everything has to be about politics dude. I dislike the leftist garbagé as much as the next guy but wrestling will never be as popular as it was. That doesn't mean we can't appreciate the great wrestling going on out there in the world.
@Big Boy Dan Cannon appreciate the wrestling!? LOL......ROFL!!!!!! Oh, you mean two guys scheduled for a match, have a 30 min. match with flippy , high spot fest extravaganza, and shake hands at the end..!? ROFL!!!! There's a little thing missing when these indirific company's do matches like this........ STORY!!!!! They have zero to no story line !!! Why watch when you're not emotionally invested in it through some drama!? You mean to tell me your endorphins fire watching a fake wrestling match as someone who is watching a mma match or football game!? Sorry bud, but hell no! Wrestling isn't real, you gotta have some theater to draw people in. You are a hardcore/smark fan. You're a minority. You'd watch wrestler #1 vs wrestler #2 (with no mic work, no story, no build up, no characters) just for the moves and then you'd immediately go see if Dave Meltzer gave it 5 stars or 4.5 so that then you could figure out how you would feel about said boring match.... Wrestling is dead, smarks killed wrestling.....
@Sean Costello why do you think Steve was selfish? He did so much for educating the populous about nature and incredible acts in animal conservation on top of being a loved father and devout husband.
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The EngNeer2020-11-02 19:31:22 (edited 2020-11-02 19:32:08 )
@Sean Costello Steve Irwins children are left with a legacy 99.9 percent of children will never get, so shut up and quit being so negative. Child trafficking exists, but here you are griping about Steve Irwin? I swear some people's logic is goofy as hell
there's also a moment, where Kofi Kingston has been waiting for 11 years to get a shot at the WWE Championship. and when he does, after a short amount of months, he is immediately buried and has his title stolen by this part-timing piece of shit named brock lesnar
Cartoon Network was half the reason I was fluent in English by the time I started going to school. WCW Monday Nitro was the other half. For some reason I remember it playing only on fridays after 10 pm on TNT, which was basically just Cartoon Network after 10 pm. Those were the days. :sip:
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I'm a troll2020-08-26 18:36:43 (edited 2020-08-26 18:36:54 )
Wrestling is not fake, it's scripted. How can you fake a chair shot to the face or crashing through a table? It's real but scripted. Well the old wrestling at least, idk what's going on with the new stuff 😂
Promis Nwekenta Well no shit Sherlock they’re two different situations lmao. You can NEVER compare what Kofi had accomplished as a POC compared to Mick winning the title for the first time on Raw and helping raw get an advantage in the ratings war.
Emp are you going to do a video regarding Pie's passing? I really hope you do, he was an amazing YTPer and a great dude who died from a needless suicide. Thoughts and prayers to him and his family.
I don't think he's even acknowledged his death. Being one of the loudest voices in the community, you'd think we'd here at least something coming from him.
it still baffles me that schools make ADHD ridden, zit covered, underachievers read something so mind twistingly confusing and is specifically designed to be watched/acted. i mean seriously some of these kids are just developing object permanence and your gonna try and make them read romeo and Juliet for the third time.
shout out to the teachers that actually play a movie instead of trying to make the kids rome the minefield that is reading shakespeare.
You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Samoa Joe and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another wrestler, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat me. Then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See the 3 way at Sacrifice, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because Kurt Angle KNOWS he can't beat me and he's not even gonna try!
So Samoa Joe, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got 141 2/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. See Joe, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice.
@Porter Blaze Understandable. I love hardcore wrestling, but I'm not the biggest fan of it. So I can stand AEW. But I honestly can't stand most of mainstream wrestling.
6:43 Wrestling host's a good job mate. It's challengin' work, work indoors. I guarantee you won't go hungry - 'Cause at the end of the day, as long as there's two people left on the planet, someone is gonna want entertainment.
Like I tell people, the Attitude Era was not better because of the wrestling. It was better, because of the story and the overall product that was presented. Wrestling, for the most part, has been the same for years. The biggest difference is the actual stories have gotten worst and the promos have gotten worst as well.
I never understood the specific stigma around professional wrestling. Like movies and tv is obviously fake but we don't question those. Even in it's barest form a wrestling show is just that, a tv show. It's weird when you think about it.
Cuz before, at the start, it was made by legit guys who decided to work stuff to get more money, it was also waaay grettier, I recommend you listem to jim cornettes podcasts, he always talk about that and how in the very early days of carnival wrestling folks could kick everyone's asses He worked during the territory days but like a couple months ago he talked about how wrestling came to be
Somewhere in this comment section is a timestamp shittymorphing someone. Y'know, some big, long comment that weaves a grandiose story before ending with some segway into something absurd? I can't even count the number of times I've fallen for those posts. I lost count at nineteen ninety-eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.
@EditRepublic That's a description an average guy would say. Filthy Frank got a lot more around it, he created a kind of weird universe that reinforced his referential comedy, using drama and shock value for entertainment, kinda like those challenge channels but by x1000 and with a story.
I mean he was not a genius, its not even great comedy; but man it was fun and interesting in a messed up way.
I got back into wrestling in 1999 (after having loved it as a kid in the 80s). I started watching it again when I started college in 99. It was so exciting at that time. Lot of nostalgia here...miss the the late 90s early 2000s and the Attitude Era.
I know this video is a bit old, but I just felt the need to say your ability to keep people interested in your videos, especially on topics they didn’t think they’d care about, like I didn’t for this one, is absolutely amazing. Your editing and the way you tell the story keep me hooked. Keep it up!
How do people not like wrestling? Its like a constantly evolving action show where the script is only half-written and the characters and actors fill in the rest of it as they go
thats literally the perfect form of entertainment, because it CANT go stale. There is always room for a new competitor, a new face, a new story. It is a perfect show.
I was there for that Hell in a a Cell match in my hometown of Pittsburgh. To this day that was the most surreal event of my life. You know it's a show. But in that moment, right after he fell, it was dead silent. Moments like that doelnt happen a lot. It was scary, and for a split second it was real.
Watching this made me super nostalgic because my dad would put on RAW for us to watch (I was about 4 at the time) and remember seeing the ambulance stunt and the thumbtack stunt. He would also buy us wwe figures that we took everywhere with us
I'm on watch 6 or 7, now. I always come back to this video. Goddamn masterpiece. Edit- still haunting this spot, but now I mostly come back for 14:05-14:15
I had the chance to work a wwe show recently. during lunch break the wwe crew let the local hands in on their buffet spread and Vince McMahon himself was right behind me in line. he recommended i try the short rib and damnnnnnnn that was probably the best meal ive had on the job.
That attitutude era with the raw and nitro going toe to toe was some of the best tv ever. There was NO Tivo then....you had to watch one or the other . That competition made it
I know that it isn't big in the USA, or anywhere outside of the UK really, but there are so many parallels between Pro Wrestling and Pantomime. Both are forms of live theatre where the audience has a part to play, and you have to be in on the joke to know that part. It's why it seems to odd, and often lame, to people outside of the fold but once you're in it you are no longer an observer but you are a part of the show.
Shame that there's no mention of HBK in the DX part or ECW in SCSA's part or even The Montreal Screwjob in Vince McMahon's part. Those are necessary mentions for the newcomers, IMO.
it's crazy nobody mentions mick coming back out for the main event after the hell in the cell, or that undertakers ankle was broken. Awesome video though dude, absolutely loved it!
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jack ashworth2020-07-29 21:34:36 (edited 2020-07-29 21:35:10 )
This is easily the best video on why attitude era wwf was a thing of utter beauty. I was lucky enough to hav been a prepubescent boy at this point in time n I thought it was the best thing id ever seen. I didnt want to be an astronaut or rock star. i wanted to be a mother fuckin wrestler for the wwf. The wrestlemania n smackdown video games wer a thing of glory too, christ i loved their design a wrestler/story modes.
Yeah, glad for your explanation, you make good points, and glad you like the story telling...but it is hard for me to experience suspension of disbelief with Pro Wrestling. Real drama is much more compelling, and it is hard to get invested in something I know is pre-determined, when I could watch actual competition with unknown outcome in other sports...or movies/TV where there is a higher chance for me to experience suspension of disbelief.
Wwe wrestlers are like comic book superheros in so many ways. They have their gimmics, outfits, certain powers/moves, there is villains and heros, they fight like a mofos, and storylines are quite simple with tropes like people coming back from the dead, some people are siblings or discover that they are related and so many more similarities. It's draw in live form is just the crazy ass stunts.
The Mankind/Undertaker Hell in a Cell at King of the Ring was the first WWF pay per view event I ever watched, and I had only started watching Raw about 2 months earlier. Needless to say after that King of the Ring pay per view event I was hooked! The Hell in a Cell match wasn't even the main event. It was the match before the main event, which was a blood match between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Kane. Great time to be a middle schooler watching wrestling!
Also should have mentioned that this was an excellent video. Really well put together too. It gave me chills a couple of times remembering the excitement of some of those matches. The WWF did a really good job of building up to exciting moments like that. Thanks for making this video
I know I'm late to the party, but how would you rank this moment (Mankind wins it), Daniel Bryan winning at Wrestlemania 30, and Eddie Guerrero beating Brock?
The moment they shifted the story from being good and then turned to just a almost naked girl nonstop on screen it was gone to crap honestly I loved it when stone cold was running around stunning everyone
If anyone was wondering about 19:49 the person who is speaking in job is eliphaz job's friend. He's speaking about the Fate a wicked person Job 15:20-23 The wicked Writhe in pain throughout their lives years of trouble are stored up for the ruthless the sound of Terror rings in their ears and ever on good days they fear the attack of the Destroyer they dare not go out into the darkness for fear they will be murdered they wander around saying where can I find bread
Its so weird to hear you refer to the attitude era as happening so long ago and as if most your audience doesn't know about it, am I that old? I was in high school during the attitude era.
You lost me at, "When I say names like Ric Flair, Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant; most of you can probably picture a vague figure in your heads, but you can't specifically tell who I'm talking about."
There's nothing vague about it. I can tell EXACTLY who you're talking about.
Behind my eyes Arrogance and strength I seek my courage And try to maintain Everything in the room Is barking at me Freedom in a cage I want to break free Too much dark And not enough sky Why am I the thorn in your eye Too much dark And not enough sky I have lost again But I gotta maintain Too much dark And not enough sky Why am I the thorn in your eye You just know the surface You don't care whats inside I show you my colors You just see black and gray You're making fun of me As you walk by I reach out my hand You smile and watch me cry Too much dark And not enough sky Why am I the thorn in your eye Too much dark And not enough sky I have lost again But I gotta maintain Too much dark And not enough sky Why am I the thorn in your eye It's my life in the box in front of me Taking junk in my arms is the soul of me You walk by, eyes can see me laying face down Come on, free your mind, buy your alibi full time I am walking on stones and glass When I reach out my hand I know you can't stand Me for what I am But once I had it all All your holy things Angels without wings Too much dark And not enough sky Why am I the thorn in your eye Too much dark And not enough sky I have lost again But I gotta maintain Too much dark And not enough sky Why am I the thorn in your eye
My ps4 YT app is on the fritz but after I watched this video and your spongebob video, I had to comment on my phone and tell you these vids are absolute gold. Keep it up.
im not even lying, when i finished the video i looked to my right, saw light coming through the window, looked at the clock and went "When the fuck did it turn 5am?"
Exactly. Now you just have people running around, doing circus tricks, doing front flips, back flips and diving off the top rope every two seconds. And superkick and other moves being reduced to meaningless; not able to get the win for any wrestler much anymore. Why can't you make it exciting by having special occassions leading up to those exciting moves rather than having them every match?
Just here to crap on WWE for taking down the original video. Screw them, and screw the 'straight outta "Office Space"' soulless corporate zombie that took down the video originally. Otherwise, another great video from the citron emperor.
And now with the decline of RAW, AEW slowly takes the spot it once filled. It's no coincidence that Jericho, Dean Ambrosse, Jake Hager, Luke Harper, Pac, Goldust, Cody, Matt Hardy, Billy Gunn, and The Young Bucks, all left and are now on AEW. Even JR abandoned ship and now commentates on AEW (he needs to hang his hat up though). As good as WWE is/was, AEW is taking its place and some of their fan favorite's/superstars.
what about TNA Impact, WCW Nitro, WCW Thunder, AEW Dynamite, even in their own company, Smackdown and NXT. and probably some other ones that are like Raw but with their own twist
@laila I was never a big fan of what WCW had to give, maybe it's because I didn't experience when it happened; and Smackdown was great, but the highs of RAW is WAR can't be matched.
I stopped watching when he said u cant get a clear picture of hulk Hogan when u say his name maybe he was going to explain this latr but I didn't feel like watching the rest
Man, now I kinda feel bad for WWE (or WWF) fans. I’m in the same boat. At 6:31 under the best ratings is nascar, the sport that I watch today. NASCAR is declining, kinda like WWE, just a little bit later. I doubt WWE will be popular again, but who knows maybe I’ll be wrong in a few years. The same thing could happen to nascar and is happening right now. It is becoming less and less popular as the time goes on. NASCAR teams are having sponsorship issues all the time. Just recently, a driver in the Xfinity series (AKA the level below the main one), had one of the best up in comers. His name is Ross Chastain. He was going to run a full season next season, but the company that was sponsoring them got raided by the FBI. Also just 2 years ago, Furniture Row Racing won the championship in the cup series (the main one). Now they aren’t racing this year after finishing runner up in 2018. The reason? One sponsor dropped out, leaving them bankrupt. So yea nascar is declining rapidly like WWE, but could be saved, so I want everyone who reads this to support nascar so that they can survive. But as they always say, you don’t have to if you don’t want to.
Later it was revealed that Vince screwed over The Rock and sided with Steve Austin. The Rock even said that the reason he lost at Wrestlemania 15 was because the Corporation was involved. The one Wrestlemania where Vince Mcmahon didn't interfere, Wrestlemania 19, The Rock defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin.
IF YOU SMELLALALALALOW!!! WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKIN'...
@Indigo ive played both (though ive played TF2 for more than 1000 hours, and OW at best maybe 30 hours so im biased and havent 'truly experienced' OW) and honestly OW is nothing like TF2 other than shared game modes which hundreds of games share (again from my own experience). TF2 offers more customizability with various loadouts for , granted only 9 characters, but the different combinations of loadouts, while also being able to switch between up to 4 different loadouts during the game (in the respawn room) for all 9 characters, making it more like 36 similar characters. Changing a loadout changes gameplay and can also throw a wrench in players plans. Ex. An engie nest is set up with a pyro and medic guarding everything, what do? Spy with ambassador can headshot pyro and a single body shot to kill, disguise, sap, backstab, and boom engie nest gone. How to counter, at least one engie have the wrangler and rescue ranger to manually target the spy with the sentry. How to counter, spy uses cloaking to get behind them and have team cause a distraction telling them to target primarily the pyro allowing you to disguise and sap the sentries before your team is completely dead. Etc etc OW only way to counter is to change to a new hero with a completely different way of doing things. Also in TF2 you can change the loadout setup in game making it have even more variations of primary, secondary, and tertiary slot combinations for each character.
Tl;dr i think TF2 is better than OW and that OW is nothing like TF2 save some gamemodes and being a team based fps.
@Literaturenjoyerman4229 or the irritation of having a whole team of snipers on 2fort. Or the joy of being a spy seeing the entire enemy team are snipers on 2fort.
In TF2, you beat guys. Beating guys is gay. But in Overwatch, you can also beat girls. Beating girls is fucking epic, it's punk rock. Rock N Roll McDonalds!
@Indigo Overwatch is nothing like TF2. You're obviously uneducated on what exactly TF2 and Overwatch are. The only similarities I can think of is the fact that they're both team based shooters, everything else is a far cry from similar.
@No Lümpen i bet you just googled it and watched two videos of generic youtubers and decided it was bad just because you dont like fps games. either that or you played it for around 1 hour on training mode
I know a lot of people are saying Overwatch but there's tons of subtle mechanical and community differences that make TF2 a much better game. For contrast compare Mercy and The Medic. Both have the same role but one is loved while the other hated. There's tons of stuff like mechanics harmful to teamwork and blizzard trying to stomp out skill based mechanics but I think a full video is clearly needed.
@Indigo in my own opinion, TF2 just's has a lot more meme and YTP Substance than OW can honestly ever hope to obtain, thare are thousands of gmod and FSM videos of TF2 . TF2 came out in 2007, 11 years ago and only in the last year and a half are people calling it dead/dying, OW been aroud like only 2 years and you have people saying its dying. Also i can say with confidence that at least 2 - 3 of the songs in this vary video are from TF2.
Imagine thinking Donald Trump gained his wealth due to his business acumen lmfao Vince is the realest of the deals and Self-made. Donald Trump was born wealthy, not rich, but with already established WEALTH.
Wean you talk about the Monday night wars between wcw and Monday night raw that is happening now with the Wednesday night wars between wwe new/notnew show called nxt and a new/notnew show called Aew
Really seems like a lot of well-known Youtubers turn out to be total scumbags and/or lolcows. What's with the entertainment industry attracting the worst of the worst?
You talk about the undertaker's "DONG" , then you IMMEDIATELY introduce a guy with the last name "WANG"...............................................................................::::::::::::::::::::CRICKETS::::::::::::::::::::............................. MISSED OPPORTUNITY!!! Lol. Great video wrestling will back into its former glory and new golden age at the flip of a proverbial "squared Circle" CoiN.............or as some say......soon!!!
what the fuck are you saying all the wrestling characters are portrayed as fiction cant you understand the word sport entertainment its literary in every pro wrestling show i do not remember the WWF/WWE saying that mark calaway is a resurrected deadman that have magical powers they say that about the undertaker the fictional character that mark calaway is portraying
At the start, u say it say the name Hulk Hogan most people have a vague picture in their head, whatever about the other 3 u named, everybody and their dog knows who Hulk Hogan,and have done since the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and even now the 20s. Anyone disagree? But still enjoyed your segment and the time you put into it 👍👍👍 but Hulk Hogan, cmon now !!!! . .. ... .... .....
The style and tact you go about using to explain a single moment is so, perfectly satisfying. Your word usage, flow, and sourcing is just... incredible.
You should really consider doing that for a series, be it “Epic Moment in History” or “Epic Moment on the Internet.
Stuff like Mundane Matt‘a Boulder stream and all that lead to it, or the morning of 9/11 or even D-Day Or stuff like the Boston Tea Party or the death of Joan of Arc. All sorts of potential
I like this video, it made me appreciate wwe a little more but, however, this is not the only show who has been able to do something like this, American wrestling is not the only one in the world, and there are other nations with their own circuits, not only that, but with their own tradition and culture surrounding wrestling, in this case, I'm referring to Mexico. A place where wrestlers are not only celebrities, but even considered superheroes and villains of real life, where having a character means way more than what it could ever mean in the American circuit, where the wrestling can really, feel real. I respect wwe now, but right now, I think there is another wrestling event, another TV show, who can outmatch anything raw has achieved, I would like to do a video about it.
This is one the best damn videos on YouTube. I sincerely mean that. I've never seen your channel before and just happened on this one but omg you are talented af. Guess that's why you have over half a million subscribers because you work hard one these videos and it shows. Thank you for making this. You"ve absolutely done wrestling a solid here. EmpLemon 3:16 says: I just Kicked YouTube's ass!
Good job on the presentation, I haven't been able to watch even my favorite uploaders for 3 weeks, but this video encapsulated me in curiosity and entertainment.
15:45 The ropes were not drawn extra taut. What happened was that that wrestling promotion didn't use actual ropes, they used cables that were covered in rubber or something.
Also, the difference in the ring has definitely affected the drop in the ratings.
I mean if you want more truly awesome pro wrestling that really hits to the heart of the genre as a whole, go watch Lucha Underground. It's WWE meets Mortal Kombat. And it's the best shit ever if you just want to hang with a few friends and watch the actual best high-flying choreography on television.
My older brother had been trying to get me to watch wrestling for years, but I was never interested. I still remember him losing his shit when the Montreal Screwjob happened and he insisted I start watching it with him. 'The Pillman's got a gun' thing was one of the first things I ever saw in wrestling though that was more just catching it in the background while playing with legos. XD
So I finally started watching WWF, I could never get into WCW though. I knew of Hogan, Flair, ect. in the sense of them being in the cultural zeitgeist, but I had no attachment to them. WWF were pushing new people, creating new stars, WCW was banking off of the legacy of their stars. A legacy that didn't really mean anything to me.
Anyway... now I just watch NJPW since modern WWE is atrocious. >__>
1:07 Fosters emotional storytelling 9:12 January 11th, 1993 12:47 Sanitized Mask —> Attitude Era 15:33 Mick Foley, 1 man, 3 personalities 16:20 The Undertaker 17:59 Off The Cell 18:40 “Are you kiddin me? He wants to go back up!” 19:21 Undertaker won the match. Mick Foley won the fans admiration 20:41 Fighting for a Championship
21:41The Rock + Rocky Maivia got booed - Turned heel 23:19 Rocky —> The Rock 23:50 Triple H 24:50 Degeneration-X 26:00 Stone Cold Steve Austin 27:28 The Rock & McMahon? The Corporation 28:24 Vince McMahon, Corporate USA 30:00 Austin vs McMahon
30:40 GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT 31:48 Changed the channel WCW OUT OF BUSINESS
33:10 Monday Night Raw in the late 90’s was something epic, Raw emotion
Sadly, the good wrestling died after around 2016. I used to love watching it every Monday and Friday. I still remember as a 8 year old, when I watched Edge in his prime.
I’d argue and say 2013. WWE really went downhill after 2008 but it was still enjoyable for a few more years, and then in 2013 is when the authority and all that crap blew up and it went way downhill
Overall a good watch but this episode of the never ever season was kind of all over the place. Like it was cool to hear the company feuds and learn about the wrestlers's stories, but the second half of the episode lacked direction, or at the very least I couldn't follow the direction as someone who never watched WWE
Stone Cold Steve Austin or Mankind. Honestly still can't decide who was my favorite to this day. When they were tag team partners is a moment I'll always remember.
I'm so happy I found your channel. I effing love this. Dale Earnhardt was amazing too. I'd really like to see an in depth on the undertaker. You'd be amazed how well his story tells.
Mick Foley is by all accounts a GOOD wrestler for the record. His IN YOUR HOUSE Match with Michaels proves that! He got over because of his incredible promo work in addition to his rough and tumble style. In ECW he was able to get MASSIVE heel heat with just promos and headlocks. 10/10 video though, just wanted to clear the air about Mick. He's on my wrestling Rushmore
fun fact: mick foley and kevin james aka paul blart were on the same high school wrestling team kevin was the star of the team while mick was the second in command. one day, kevin got sick and let mick go first, and a legend was born.
Stumbled across this video, I'm a lapsed WWE fan. I stopped watching After the WCW takeover when I was 16, (35 now), but the emotion of those days and the feeling that I was witnessing a golden era, coupled with the rise of the internet and social media, ensures that I kept up with the men and women of those days. The video ends with the immoral words... "here is your winner......AND NEWWWWWWWWW WWF champion...." R.I.P. Howard Finkel. Thanks for the video :)
I came back a day later after I watched the video to comment, great video I subbed after, the way you related it to Shakespeare was very insightful tbh and it expanded my mind and made me see the business side of wrestling definitely had to leave a comment and sub.
Who told you Mick Foley didn't have the TALENT to achieve anything in wrestling without taking his crazy bumps? For a long time he was the absolute best promo in the business, and he's always had incredible psychology. Also, Steve Austin was not "forgettable" in WCW. He won the TV title in his first match in the company, then quickly joined the Dangerous Alliance which was the hottest angle they'd done in years at that point. He lost a bit of steam when Hogan arrived, but literally everyone in the business knew he was a potential superstar. He'd been called "the next Ric Flair" since 1991. They were right in that he became the best in the business. They just didn't realise quite HOW big he would get, nor that he would eventually be bigger than Hogan too.
I mean, look at it like this.. sure it’s scripted, these people are still going out there 2-3 times a week, (over 200 days a year) these guys are in good shape, and destroy their body’s, do things other athletes can’t, nothing but respect!
Finally watching this video now, should’ve watched it a long time ago! Not sure if you can see this but I have a question. What do you think about AEW?
25:15 I enjoyed Waluigi getting a mention, the crotch chop in Mario Strikers may have been the turning point in the character going from mostly hated to mostly loved.
This guy doesn't do a lot of research, Rocky wasn't always hated before he became the Rock. He got over with the crowd several times. Dwayne even has a good story about one of his friends helping him get over at that time.
Im doing a research paper for English and my topic is Holden Caulfield from Catcher In the Rye does not fit in with society because he is instead apart of 90's counterculture (culturally ahead of society) and this video gave me so many ideas but I wish I knew your 90's statistics sources. Either way I still love this video.
Shout out to squidbillies, its what he showed when he said south when referring to the WCW. Love your attention to detail citrus royalty, its only rivaled never surpassed.
how did you know you could get me to play this video by playing dkc music in it to start????....and then keep me watching more by making good use to dkc'3 soundtrack.....
Ancient greek theater is one of the most elite and complicated forms of theater existed it started at 600 bc and by the time it was in epidaurus it included teams of dancers, singers and actors , there used make up ,masks and costumes and machines creating illusions and even make some actors appear like flying . Of course all the main genres of theatre were invented there and then including comedy and drama. If you study about it you will see like in most things from ancient greece till now that there is sadly almost zero progress in the next 2500 years in addition to how you made it look like. Dont pass on the misinformation you should do your homework first instead.
Apparently Mick wasn't supposed to have a second fall, they were supposed to swing down from the top of the cage, but they built it out of shitty materials and he ended up falling through by accident. You can actually kind of see an "oh fuck" face on Taker when it happens.
Because WWE/WCW/ECW more or less killed pro-wrestling. They did not take care of the business. It had a solid 10 year blow-out (roughly 1997-2007), and by then only WWE remained at any significant level, and it buried all credibility and agonizingly ran the business into the ground. Writers took over, bookers went out, talent washed up, actors were hired instead of workers, a focus on media instead of matches, etc. etc. Corporations basically killed pro-wrestling.
wait you are gonna make a Video about Monday Night raw without mentioning Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara that were writing the shows between 97-99 and during the most important years of WCW/WWF war.
totally erasing the actual writers of the show from the history-
you're so wrong about mickey foley not having kill, he could technical wrestle with the best, he sacrificed his body fro push the limits and move the sport into new ground. he and sabu are always given the title as bad wrestlers who make up for it with crazy shit. its false
This fucking rules and also really reminds me of Jon Bois and Felix Biderman's MMA youtube doc Fighting in the Age of Loneliness. Curious if you've seen it?
As soon as he described mick foley i turned off. He didnt get why people liked and like mick and didnt get its the same reason why people didnt want to see him hurt.
randy t2020-04-17 14:55:37 (edited 2020-04-17 14:57:39 )
Iambic pentameter... Seriously? I'm watching a you tube video about Monday Night Raw, and I have to stop and look up Iambic pentameter? Brilliant. Excellent work. Thank you. Do more. Please.
WWE is shit now. Even thought the times have changed, that's not the main reason why people don't watch it, it's because WWE hasn't changed with the times, they want to try and live off their former glory, instead of adapting......Poor booking is rampant in WWE.
@Wacky Name the only one i can think of lately is having jericho going on commentary. but WWE has been doing nothing but making their babyfaces into clowns (including ric flair) and firing off the actual good talent. so wwe is nothing BUT a joke
@Wacky Name at least AEW cares about actually performing. i rather watch a comedy show with talented performers than a soap opera with overselling, botches, gimmick stealing, and champions who rarely defend their belts.
Nah Trump's dad was a gigantic name in NY and had a shit ton of money. Donald was just lucky as well as Vince whos dad just gave him the company and the opportunity. They really didnt work harder than any normal working person, they just got lucky.
Everyone thinks wrestling was the best, or at least better when they were kids. The kids watching this crao now will say the same. I stopped watching around 5th grade before it went to wwe. I think the attitude era was the best, naturally
"there will Never Ever be another show like Monday Night Raw". Except Monday Nitro. . . which was "another show" that the WWF copied in almost every important way.
@Kevin Sousa the whole reason the Attitude era was popular was because it was more reality based than wrestling based
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@Luke Rose if u like storytelling over wrestling thats 100% fine and they"re are plenty of companies that do that and better than wwe. However, not caring about 'fake wrestling' is the epitome of liking the sizzle over the steak. As the wrestling is the biggest part of the story.
12:46 Vince: "You don't see guns" Has flashbacks to the Pillman has a gun promo Vince "You don't see rapes" Katie Vick Mmmm the early 90s is very different to the late 90s
Please don't watch raw. It's not at a very good spot right now. No creativity, bad pushes, and reuse of aging legends makes it horrible. Plus the Indians ruined the youtube channel.
now that is actually a ptsd flashback lol. I will fix this using an upward spiral, the true counter and counterpart to the downward spiral. * UpWardSpirull * It's something something wait I can't hear it, but it's effective!
It’s a performance, these guy’s aren’t actually wrestling (you know the actually sport). But this form of wrestling called pro wrestling has always been more entertaining to watch and has always been a better draw then actually real wrestling. Even today it’s still a draw, just to a lesser degree maybe.
@Javari.954 Idk I mean its obviously not real wrestling, thats why I don't really understand why people get so hyper abour champions and stuff like that
@GJB Sarmeri Fair enough wrestling isn’t for everybody. Pro wrestling is kinda like a movie. We know it’s not real but we still watch it for the story and how entertaining it can get.
@Griff if you watch the video, AEW doesn't have any Storyline that the guy said. No wonder they can't attract more casual a.k.a new viewers. Storyline, plot twist, character development is what matters to get Ratings and that's what emplemon says.
@Good Taste Chad That's not how it works anymore. They're in the top 5 of ratings on Wednesday nearly every week. They're TNT's biggest draw outside of basketball.
I dunno if in these 5.4k comments if it was mentioned but donald trump didn't start a football league... he bought his way in and was the reason for its downfall
I stopped watching when you shit on Mick Foley. People loved him because of his personality. He was an underdog, an every man. He could pull any emotion he wanted from his audience with his words alone. Putting his body through hell was certainaly a part of who he was, but don't discount his ability to connect with people. Amazing charisma and speaking ability.
As a person that grew up watching the Attitude Era as well as the Monday Night Wars as a kid, I have to say that this was one of the best put together videos summarizing what happened during that time. Yep, the Fingerpoke of Doom was the nail in the coffin for WCW. David Arquette winning the WCW Championship is a close 2nd. Great video
I legit already knew most of these facts by heart,I love wrestling so much and even though I didn't get to experience the different Eras,I still get nostalgic feelings fromWWWF to WWF to WWE😊
Nothing beats watching a theatrical production because it's just so cool to see these stories play out in real time, except maybe performing, that's the one thing better than watching theatre.
you failed to mention that the cage roof breaking was not supposed to happen, nor that when Mick climbed the cage a second time he did so with an injured shoulder. and that he wrestled those last 10 minutes with a concussion.
Jesus Christ this video is so damn good. This entire series is just fantastic. Kept me interested all the way through. The pacing is better than most Hollywood movies
I remember turning the channel and seeing Mankind in the ring with the title. Revealing the finish didnt seem like a bad idea but yea it really did backfire.
Funny enough this is what Werner Herzog actually meant when he said (in thicc german accent) "We must not avert our eyes from wrestlemania". There are longer interviews from 2015 where he elaborated on Greek theater and tragedies and their connection to wrestling shows and that this is what our collective subconsciousness longing for in media.
Recently in the Royal Rumble(2020), something very interesting happened. Edge, the rated R superstar, returned after 9 years. Granted, this was something everyone didn't think would happen. Triple neck surgeries? Dream match ups with some of the current superstars? Randy Orion and Edge teaming up for the night? Edge being one of the last 4 people in the ring? One of my childhood favorites returned with GRIT. He was going to end his career on his own terms. Everyone was excited. His theme song would play once the countdown for the next wrestler to arrive, and it was so chilling. "You Think You Know Me" line, followed by the heavy instruments playing, was one of those moments where I thought, "Is this why I continue to watch this? No matter what people say about it being real or fake?"
This video reminded me of why I continued to watch Monday Night Raw(3 hours now of content). It's a piece of my childhood I can never let go. Even if I wasn't around when Mankind winning the champion happened, there are many moments like these that I witnessed, especially moments with The Undertaker, Triple H, DX, etc. Occasionally, some Hall Of Fame wrestlers return to please the fans and be like "Oh hi, how is everyone? Time to either beat up someone or get beaten up." Sometimes, Shane McMahon fucks around and jumps from high places often and there's always the 50/50 he'll either miss or get his target.
Anyway my point is, this video made me really happy and I was recommended to watch this after I had a conversation about WWE and how Snoop Dogg was in the Hall Of Fame.
There's nothing else like professional wrestling. And there's no one else who can do what a professional wrestler does. To have an entire arena full of people so deep in the palm of your hand that they're screaming and jumping up out of their seats for a fight they know isn't "real." It's incredible, and anyone who still asks that tired old question, "Why would you watch something that's fAkE???" needs to see this video.
I can’t even put into words what this video means to me. That is the most embarrassing thing a 30 year old mother has ever written in a YouTube comment section, but God it’s so real. My 4th grade spring pictures from school had me holding a small bouquet of flowers while wearing a WWF t shirt that had The Undertaker, Mick Foley/Mankind, Kane, The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Chyna and Triple H. Monday Night Raw was my everything. I remember I was allowed to order the pay per view event every other month, and wrestle mania every year.
I think my biggest memory from the Raw story line was when Stone Cold was engaged to Stephanie McMahon but Triple H drugged her and took her to a drive thru wedding chapel and married her. Then she went on to be his supportive wife. It was wild, and I loved it.
I’m from the south so Stone Cold was always our guy. He represented the blue collar, beer drinking, no good sons of bitches that we knew and loved. Anytime we’d hear that glass break and during the middle of a match we’d all go wild. I was so dedicated to the WWF that I refused to watch WCW. Vince McMahon is a marketing genius.
This episode is leagues better than the Spongebob one, and I think the viewer count is lower because many people (like me) never liked wrestling and skipped this as a result. Truly, their loss. I actually in real life held my breath a few times. I think I finally get the appeal. Excellent work.
Fucking ay this video was beautiful! I was lucky I grew up watching wrestling during the attitude era. Greatest time ever! I miss the late 90’s early 2000’s. Fucking memories.
There’ll never be another time like the late 90s Monday night raws
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Grodd of War2019-12-23 19:45:11 (edited 2019-12-23 19:53:33 )
"Watch out, watch out, watch out!!!"...I find it funny that Trump and Vince are such good friends. They are both ridiculously skilled at marketing themselves and their brand..It is like they fully understand all of the work done by Edward Bernays..
Prior to WM, there wasn't much of a PPV market. The WWF was a pioneer of PPV. Yeah it existed, but the WWF spearheaded it even more so than Boxing did.
@L Train45 The first Starrcade was in 1983. The first four of them (83-86) were not available on PPV. The first on PPV was Chi-Town Heat in November of '87. At that point the WWF was gearing up for WM IV.
Our teacher taught us Shakespeare’s plays by showing them to us. We watched plays, saw drawings, and most importantly we took our time to play it while reading the text.
You forgot about wrestling games, i love wrestling games but have never watched the show. I know all the wrestlers, and can spend hours making characters in wrestling game
I can picture those four wrestlers perfectly and I'm not a very visual person haha. Four Icons of wrestling Nature boy, Macho Man, Hulkamania, and The legendary big man all big men look up to Andre haha.
Main reason I stopped watching pro-wrestling as a kid. Most of the personalities were either flat out to the sun boring, or me wishing I could punch them through the TV in the face.
Dude...fucking what? I GUARANTEE that when you say Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and Andre the Giant (and these days probably Ric Flair too to an extent), everyone knows EXACTLY who you're talking about. Same with The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and (at least in Canada) Bret Hart.
Bill Shakespeare used dudes for his WWE Divas. Think about a Stone Cold Damsel or a Kane Lady MacBeth. I'm totally down for it. Bill knew what's up before his time.
I swear when The Undertaker "killed" his "The American Badass" persona and went back to his zombie self was the hypest I saw my dad as a child. OFC excluding all NASCAR races. It was a good time.
Actually what happened: WCW Nitro was due to air from Atlanta, home town of Ted Turner. The Atlanta show was usually a big event for this reason. So McMahon, instead of airing Raw live, recorded it a few days earlier. Then he leaked the result that Mankind would win the championship. We knew before Raw aired and before Nitro said anything that the championship was going to change hands. This hyped up and drew ratings away from what WCW hoped would be their night to shine.
So this is why WWE has lost it's touch now, there is no relatable thing in WWE to present how people nowadays feel. the last great storyline was when Kofi Kingston winning the WWE title. all we have on the storyline that relatable to our society is Rusev thing. sad....
I can't roll my eyes hard enough. But yes this was a product of its time. There won't be another Foley, and the environment that created the 90s attitude era may never manifest again.
I was intrigued until this fool said mick Foley had no wresting talent and had to hurt himself to be entertaining. That one comment voids the entire credibility of whatever else he said after this
emplemon i have bad news i watched one of your vids and in that vid you said something about the strange part of youtube so i thought can i still get to the strange part of youtube i have about 30 mins into this. i am still not there there is this slowly creeping feeling that it was deleted
@Joshua Lontoc Review Evidence~ https://youtu.be/85l5VbJbTtM https://youtu.be/RlkVMjyJERM Two videos explaining exactly how Justin does this. You don't have to watch both but I would recommend the Primink one cause I like his content. And if you go on Justin Y's about in his channel there should be two links to Reddit. One of them is a post by Justin himself discrediting 3 popular theories. I would recommend that you check it out as the evidence adds up.
@Trey Williams the Khans got deeper pockets than Vince, though AEW has good chances of poaching talent as they seem to offer better contracts than WWE when it comes to benefits and schedule.
AEW has to step their game to a level of pro-wrestling from many years ago, whilst staying modern with storylines and storytelling. This is gonna be reeeeeeally hard I tell ya. But if they do it...boy is Vince gonna cringe. XD There are so many people DESPERATELY lurking and craving for this epic experience they once had.
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AEW doesn't want to go against WWE because they're trying to avoid any competition. I'm not calling them cowards(despite the fact that I think some of the signings are cowards because of how I don't like them) but because it just came, already having competition when you just started sounds bad in my view. But in WWE's eyes, it is competition. A bunch of promotions are signing people left and right because of AEW and WWE so everyone wants the best of the best, The Elite and Kenny Omega are in AEW when WWE wanted them back in 2012, and the part they already have some of their former employees and Kahn supporting them is major bad news for WWE, especially when everyone is talking about AEW as it's the hottest new thing. So of course WWE is going to try something. Also, I think WWE is going to win this one. Look at TNA, ECW and WCW. All have tried and failed. And when it comes to competition, WWE is NO laughing matter.
@Brandon Michaels That may be true but he was talking about the Roman empire not Roman Reigns. I know it was probably the worst time to say that on a video about wrestling. But yeah. If you don't know then look it up or pay attention in school because everyone learns about the Roman empire.
“There will never ever be another crowd reaction to this scale” Me: thinks back to when I watched avengers endgame and saw the final battle take place as everyone in the theater had the greatest and loudest, hyped up scream as we all watched our childhood heroes fight the forces of evil one last time yea, like that’ll ever happen again
I don't know how many people were in that theater, but imagine an entire arena, maybe 10.000 in attendance, losing their collective minds while Austin goes down the aisle. Go back and listen to it, there's really no comparison.
Honestly, it's awesome The classic mode for miis should've been "meeting new faces" where you fight newer IPs (those that are newer than the Mii character), ending with a Mii team (amount of miis increases with difficulty) and the hand.
@Code so you're a WWE mark. LMFAO!!! Hell WWE doesn't sell out a PPV in 30 minutes. It'll happen. Deal with it. Your kid oriented wrestling is put on notice.
+Eric Geisinger as much as I love the guys of AEW, they won't be able to match what WWE has built to, simply because they rain two different sectors of pro wrestling. Surtsey could easily topple ROH in a couple years and lead the indie scene, but they won't be the next WCW because they prioritize star quality matches, not the general audience. The closest thing to being like a WWE competitor was the old TNA because again they were fighting in the same sector of the industry. Best of luck to the BTE guys, but WWE won't need to worry about them.
Eric Geisinger nah, I just think AEW are making promises they won’t be able to keep. If I’m wrong then I’m wrong though. I’ll certainly be watching it when it starts though... also, no need to get all offended when I have a different opinion.
@Pork Mashups I'm just being an ass. Ignore me. Hope it succeeds. In the meantime pissing off all the naysayers.
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What do the fuck is Vince talking about they don't show guns . What about the Stone Cold Steve Austin / The Ticking Time Bomb Brian Pillman angle were Steve Austin broke into Brian Pillman house
Trump didn't start the USFL. Trump wasn't even involved in the USFL during it's first year--he bought the New Jersey Generals after the first season was over.
Wanna hear the most f*cked up joke ever? We would always make a joke about Chris Benoit, cross face crippling his fam..Then there was the joke about Rey Mysterio, killing you with a 619..lol..Both messed up, I know, but we were a$$*ole kids..lol
I've been watching wrestling since I was about two, I'm 21 now. WWF/WWE, WCW, NJPW, TNA, Indies, all that. Wrestling was a big part of my life and it still is . I watched it every week, had the action figures, fake belts, you name it. Even though it's scripted, it can still fill you with multiple different emotions at any second. If I was stuck on an island with just one thing to watch for the rest of my life, I'd definitely choose wrestling without hesitation
The attitude era was just cool, everything about it was cool and it had a more mature approach to story lines, it almost felt like even though your were a 8 year old kid it was still appealing to kids who were like double your age.
I agree with your Shakespearean bit, I read midsummer night's dream and thought it was a boring story with stupid puns. I then watched it in movies, comics, and plays and found out it was actually magical.
At its height...during the WCW vs WWF days...20% of people watching TV...were watching wrestling while it aired. That's insane. If Raw or Nitro was on...1/5th of TVs were showing it.
idc what anybody says pro wrestling is for sure a "Physical sport" they take real hits and lands. andre and brodie were one of the hardest to wrestle with because if they didnt like you, you were getting hurt lol it was an athletic sport because the workouts alone are harder than football,basketball,wrestling (Highschool) and i did all 3 and watching pro wrestlers work out is beyond all of them 2-a-days dont match to watching cena bench 250 lbs 10 reps 3 times then watch his cardio.. I'd compare it to training camp easily
I would like to add that Vince didn’t inherit his fathers company, he bought his shares after his death. Vince Sr. was estranged from his son and they only reunited as a business move from Vince Jr.
It's funny how, despite how a play like Hamilton rose to popularity right now because of its unique feel, wwe, the most unique form of theater, a form of play so out there that isn't seen by most as a play, is on the decline.
Holy shit...this may be the best defence of my love of pro wrestling. One can also add that, although ECW was scripted, a lot of the shots were fuck-ups or actually hurt. Like when Tommy Dreamer knocked that guy off the scaffolding and fell through 10 tables. He was legit knocked out.
Good story telling, excellent series. It's just too bad you really don't know much about wrestling, and obviously got a lot of your (incorrect) info from sketchy resources.
wow were you right. i mean, theres no way aew will ever be like wwe. wwe does its best to put everyone else out of business and aew does its best to put out a decent show that people want to watch. wow, youre smart :D
I can imagine Vince just sitting Steve down and talking about his character like "Hey Steve, let me ask you something, can you beat the shit out of me in front of millions? Thanks"
32:10 I was a huge WCW mark. I can't believe those matches were on the same night. This was back in the day where there were forums online so you could read about the matches, but you'd have to wait until the next week to see highlights. I fucked up.
Dragon Ball is just pro wrestling in anime form, we’re the stories are about just fighting (the English dub changed goku to a hero instead just a pride fighter that fights for fun) and the stories are told through fighting not through a journey or a plot (resurrection f is frezza is revived and trains and then fights goku and vegeta)
Triple h as leader of dx was the weak point of dx and wasn't that funny either the best time for dx is when Shaun was the leader with hhh Rick rude and chyna
ill say this knowing what i know about pro wrestlers and meeting them if this kid said what he's saying in this video to their face hed absolutely get hit hard lol he'd be the heel in that situation.. tell this to vader see how he acts (Youtube vader punches interviewer or undertaker goes off on interviewer)
Disappointed you didn't explain how Mr McMahon the evil boss was created by the very real screwing of Bret hart out of the championship after that he couldn't really go back to commentating I doubt he could've walked out without being booed after the screwjob
when I was a kid some how we heard about the giant going to wwf and boom he comes out the ring as paul white I was like 14 maybe younger by a yr or two but yes 90s
You didnt do your homework on Austin very well. Check Dale Earnhardt Jr's Podcast with Austin ( Yea that happened) Where he talks about the Birth of Stone Cold.
Your take on theatre is entertaining but basically wrong. For sure the performance plays into the factor but Shakespeare's writing is so rich and so fun to talk about and analyse.
Yes, but I wasn't able to gain mainstream success like the other two promotions had at the time. It ended up going bankrupt because no one wanted to air it.
ECW was responsible for the edgy content that inspired the attitude era. But the WWE brought it over to millions on the couch.
Real wrestling fans will "Never Ever" get tired of seeing the "It's Still Real To Me Dammit!" clip!!! Like what I did there with the wordplay? Yea, I'm the shit!! Or am I the shits?? Hmmmmm........
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@heathmcrigsby I’ve watched a lot of the 90s stuff on the network. The 00s (ruthless aggression era) is the peak of wrestling imo. It had the edge of the attitude era but the wrestling was even better. Lesnar, Cena, Edge, Orton, Batista, Eddie, Angle, Benoit, Jericho, HBK, etc. It was gold.
nope. he was nor. what he was, wasn't an outstanding sport for that "sport". he was dangerous and we loved that. he was brave and we loved that. He showed blood and we loved that. he. was NOT a good wrestler. he earned our respect for doing what he did. But his skills were not good. it's not the wrestling you remember from him. you remember how crazy his characters were and how they stood out...the other wrestler being wary...and the attitude of that era. go back to watch his matches...I rewatxh old matches almost every weekend. Foley was great spirit to what we saw but he was not a great wrestler...unless that's how you're judging him. then...you're right. it if you mean by his movement and skill? nope he wasnt
@devilishgoku1 🤣how is it beinf edgy that I'm not celebrating people attempt to like him because the whole idea of liking him is edgy? the reason I fell in love with the guy's 4 personas was because it was edgy. get it? you're using the word wrong. you mean contrarian. A person who always goes against others. then there's hipster. not so much edgy as just closer to being contrarian but thinking they're cooler for it. then there's edgy. a person who likes ANYTHING for the sake of it being "dark", gritty. bloody. violent.
it's not edgy to say he's not thw best because his defining existence in wwf->wwe is him.just being very destructive. i consider you trying to be edgy for saying is AMAZING when, again, is defining existence is him just being destructive. Not skills. not techniques.
Thus doesn't take away his respect. he definitely deserves respect for braving what he did. getting respect for braving self destruction isn't the same as saying he was such an amazing wrestler
What are you talking about? Both of them were handed the opportunity to make a fortune. Trumps dad gave him a million to start his company and Vince's dad sold the company to him for far less than it was worth. And Trump didn't start the USFL, he just owned stakes in 1 team. Do a little research my mans. If I know that, it shows how easily available the information is
33:21 Yea try telling that to the Fans tuning out, it has everything to with the change to PG, I wonder if you ever watched wrestling or your just trying to Cherry pick demographics, Your Dale Video lazy aswell......
SkippingRhyme It's nothing to do with pg. the 80s golden era was pg, it's due to the fact that WWE now has barely any interesting characters or stories, is repetitive and bland and safe as hell. It's not fun anymore
7:30, you tried to describe trump and Vince as rags to riches stories, but then immediately go on to talk about how both inherited what ultimately makes them? bootstraps.png
BACK AGAIN. The Emperor reigns supreme
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Congrats on 420k EmpLemon!
11 likesRusty Cage My favorite Dying Fetus album
5 likesI am so glad he got the "Downward Spiral" in there. I'll forgive our Emperor for not playing the sample). It's nice that it's still there though.
4 likesCan’t wait for Requiem of the Crazies, papa Cage!
2 likesAnyone else saw Rusty's comic in the vid?
4 likesRusty, what do you think off the embarrassing Big Chungus and Eric Andre memes in the episode?
2 likeswtf was the content ID that got the first one pulled? dang copyright nonsense
2 likesthis man taught me how to tie a noose
3 likesit's practical for every use!
Yes
0 likesNo
0 likesThe emperor will reign supreme!
0 likesAll hail the benevolence of the lemon!
these videos, in my opinion, are better than any tv documentary that I have ever seen, ever! If awards were unbiased, this NEVER EVER series would award winning. NO DOUBT! Salute
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0 likesAm i the only one that really loved when Sting took off his mask in the ring just to reveal his face paint that looked exactly like his mask? That was G O L D
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Shit yea
51 likesWasn't he just in the crowd pretending he was just someone cosplaying?
195 likesThe first wrestling troll I remember
57 likesI'll admit that I laughed at how I fell for it
50 likesToo fucking funny.
17 likesLmao when people be like new year new me
62 likesIt made sense if you watched the whole promo, but as a meme it's even better.
46 likesPure gold lol
5 likesGolden meme potential too
9 likes@Kevin Lopez 💀💀💀
2 likes100%
2 likesI watched the sting army clip after reading this comment and that was hysterical
3 likesyeah that was AMAZING
2 likes@Travis Tucker No he was pretending to be the nWo's Fake Sting, who wore that mask, then revealed the facepaint to show it was the real Sting.
13 likesWhere can I watch it please?
0 likes@Yousef AlSharif wwe network
0 likes@Travis Tucker Yeah he did it in the ring in wcw and in the crowd in tna iirc
2 likesI thought I was the only one!
1 likeAbsolute gold
1 likeJust about anything Sting did was gold! He was a great role model for kids that just loved him. Wrestling was fun then.
2 likesYou know you arent. Clout lover.
0 likesAnd the other guy was sooooo shocked. Comedy gold.
0 likesLegend moment
0 likesI’m
0 likesYes
0 likesHogan jumping around on his toes in response cracks me up
0 likes“Behind this mask… is another mask!”
0 likesSting is hilarious and great at being the quiet enforcer
0 likesCant find it. Please sauce
0 likesFor awhile Sting would sit in the rafters or high up in closed off seats of the arenas, sometimes even in the stands with fans hidden. It’s actually insane how these guys are talented and funny enough to make an entire arena go crazy with these simple stupid storylines it really is the pinnacle of performance art that we have today as funny as it sounds. Without possessing any sort of musicianship or speaking skills (relatively) these companies have made 70k people go berserk.
0 likesYes! He was fake sting, then it turned out he was the real sting pretending to be a fake sting! So perfect!
0 likesBoring
0 likesJust wanted to inform that he did it a week ago at AEW :D
1 like@Sebastian Meringer WHAAAAAAT
0 likesIm too late yo be born his perfotmance inside the ring in his prime but just in time to knew his legacy, dude was the spitting image of The Crow
0 likesThat stung
0 likeswhat if the real sting was actually the guy from the police
0 likes@Travis Tucker I remember him pulling that off in TNA as well. not as good as what happened in Nitro though.
0 likesThe best part is that he's still doing it.
0 likesMy absolute favorite thing, by far, about wrestling is when the commentators yell things such as:
2041 likes“BY GOD, HE KILLED HIM!”
“HE’S BROKEN IN HALF!”
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That's Jr for ya
103 likesThat's Jim Ross "JR" and his amazing work. He still works for another wrestling company nowadays, but the show is trash and he's old so he doesn't really care anymore and he's there for a paycheck.
78 likesPOGGERS
2 likesLmao Joey styles be like “OW MY GAAAADDD”
18 likesQuote the L8, GR8 Gorilla Monsoon... " he just kicked him in his external occipital protuberence!"
8 likesHe just exploded through the table!
1 like@Babanoo Wait, I thought AEW was good? isn't that who he's working for now? I am a bit out of the loop these days.
8 likes@Jennifer Walters AEW is good but not everyone's a fan I suppose.
9 likesOl J R
0 likesJR loves to over exaggerate! “OMG after a leg lock like that his ankle MUST be completely shattered! How is he even walking?! This is incredible!!!” 😂😂
4 likes@Disturbed Pyro tbf that is his job as an announcer
3 likesGood Ol JR
1 like@johs I never said it wasn’t! I absolutely love Jim Ross! I said that as a positive. His energy is amazing and his commentary is great, he really gets viewers into the action. I also love Jerry “ The King” Lawler screaming at the top of his voice!
1 likeHe actually said "good God almighty, they killed him" but there's actually a reason for that being important
2 likesAt the time, Vince and several other higher ups weren't really big on Mankind/Foley. There was a LOT of lockerroom politics going on. What makes JR's line so significant is that he didn't know Mankind was gonna go off the cell. NO one did except for Mick, Mark (The Undertaker), the referee and Jerry Lawler (the commentator beside JR)
JR honest to God, even if for just a moment, legitimately believed Vince and others wanted Mick gone so badly that he would want him killed. JR's commentary in those moments were 100% genuine, completely unscripted
Which makes the overall moment even more insane knowing how that simple phrasing has so much behind it
@Roon Kolos Nice attention to detail👍 Things like this are why I love the WWE lore
1 likeHes getting beat like a government mule!
0 likesWhat a maneuver...
0 likesTaz on AEW Dark is a legend. some of the funniest commentary I've ever heard
1 like@Roon Kolos absolutely awesome story. one question tho, why would they tell jerry lawler but not JR?
1 like@Faze Jev I'm not entirely sure sadly. May have needed just 1 and happened to choose King
0 likesJim ross lol
0 likes@Babanoo aew is not trash
4 likes@Babanoo Another WWE fanboy
2 likesWhen JR said those things he wasn't saying them for soundbytes, he legitimately believed them. We can watch those clips with the power of hindsight and know he survived, but at the time a person just fell that far, it was very much possible he could have been dead and that's what a lot of people thought.
0 likes"SOMEBODY STOP THE DAMN FIGHT!!!"
0 likes@Jennifer Walters AEW is what I suggest for modern wrestling fans, though JR had been having some senior moments in his time commentating there
0 likesVince was a great businessman. I can’t think of anyone else who is willing to get the shit beat out of them just to keep his company alive
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Forreal
70 likesGod bless the enclave
I mean.. he didnt really...
9 likesI kinda stopped watching wrestling 2 years ago but u can’t deny the fact that it’s a spectacle and Vince has made something special
130 likes*was
3 likesLogan Paul?
3 likes@Nick Willettit very much is true. You can stage some things, but you can't stage away the physical effect of being slammed around and thrown into the ground.
94 likes@Nick Willett Even if fake, it's still cool to see him go on stage personally and "get the shit kicked out of him".
38 likes@Bhavika Bachwani sh*ttttt bro i stopped watching that trash 10 years ago 😞
3 likes@Majin Vegeta well you missed a lot then
4 likes@FerDaus nah, he still is... no matter the ups and downs
0 likesI'm not gonna bother mentioning limited creative freedom most wrestlers have, nor the work schedule they have because at this point I feel like most people know what they're getting into as far as that is concerned.
10 likesAnyway.
The steroid scandal. Montreal Screwjob. Owen Hart and deciding "the show must go on". "Independend contractors". Saving Jimmy Snuka from going to trial. Firing people during a pandemic when they could easily afford to keep them. I could go on.
His business practices are far from great.
@Majin Vegeta Well how can you say that if you stopped watching for years? You don’t have an idea of what storylines are actually happening.
3 likes@I Don't Knowlol bro there are no storylines lmao vince just books the same matches over & over. The wrestlers are his puppets & vince is the puppeteer 😒
1 like@Majin Vegeta I reiterate my previous question again. What leads you to think that when you haven’t watched the product in a decade?
3 likes@Sakîne Mirkan why wouldnt he do the saudi deals, every single pugilistic sport big enough does those and tv is dying so ratings aren't the best indicator for anything, they still had their most profitable year just last year and the profits are still steady, a man cant go 30 years just on luck
3 likes@sha hood Whataboutism won't make it better. Besides things like that, along with the terrible booking, hurts them in the long term.
0 likesThey only had their most profitable year because they're literally selling all their assets lol.
Donald Trump sure as shit could and so could Vince. Wanna talk about how many Business ventures Vince already came up with that went absolutely nowhere?
And again: If the competition does worse then he, he wins as well. His triumph over WCW was as much because of their failure to do the right thing as it was Vince doing something better.
Vince himself said he lost touch. What more do you need?
@Sakîne Mirkan what part of you saying he is a bad businessman and me saying he had his company's most profitable year recently and that he does shows in a profitable location that everyone does is whataboutism? Who do you consider a successful businessman? Every businessman has failed ventures, they didn't sell the asset btw, they rented it out, its a 5 or 10 year deal
0 likes@sha hood "why wouldnt he do the saudi deals, every single pugilistic sport big enough does those"
0 likesI replied to your comments in order of the arguments you made. That there? THAT is whataboutism. "But what about all the other sports who also do bad thing?"
Get it?
There are no "successful businessman" as far as I am concerned. But the reason for that is too complicated for you to understand.
"Every businessman has failed ventures"
You know what the problem is with using absolutes to prove your points in any topics that do not concern laws of nature like physics? Ya just can't prove them ;)
"they didn't sell the asset btw, they rented it out, its a 5 or 10 year deal"
If nitpicking is all you got then I think my example more then makes the point.
@Sakîne Mirkan ahh so you still haven't told me WHY saudi deals are bad, just that they are . And in your opinion there are no good busiessmen, and then you nitpick my use of 'every' but get pissy when i correct your actual misrepresentation of an objective fact. From where i am sitting it seems like you just don't like vince and hate when someone praises him for his accomplishments. I hope you are in your teens because this kind of behavior would be extremely sad coming from anyone over the age of 20
1 like@Sakîne Mirkan you're a woman?
1 like@sha hood Since the outcome of this kind of questioning cannot possibly be anything else then an ad hom I'm very simply not gonna indulge.
0 likes@Sakîne Mirkan The man emerged on top against an entire system of dozens of territories and secured a television deal which made the WWF one of the hottest promotions. He also brought wrestling mainstream by focusing on the entertainment aspect of it and created dozens of stars like Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, Bret Hart, Stone Cold, the Rock. Plus, he took a huge gamble with Wrestlemania that could have sunk him. And he bought WWF from his father even with the fact that missing a single payment would make him lose control of the company. These things have to count for something.
1 like@I Don't Know Oh you're right. I just don't think you're telling the whole story there and I think you're not doing so for a reason. Let's start at the beginning: Yes. He bought the company from his father. Mostly with the money he made working for his father. So more or less just his fathers money. And then he went straight against the wishes and conditions of his father to NOT buy out other territories or better yet: Their top stars. Because Vince never really "made" the people like Hogan or Macho Man or Piper etc. they were already made Wrestlers and legit Stars even though only in the territory system thus far. He just bought them up from other Promotions and with that lured their crowds to him.
0 likesOh yes the Television deals. Good thinking to go National. I'll give him that. But at the same time he also still went regional and secured deals by screwing many others over like GCW or JCP in the south. That eventually alienated a lot of people like Ole Anderson or Dusty Rhodes who later went on to form his biggest competition with WCW just out of spite. Creating your own competition isn't really a good move.
And, true, some Wrestlers really became stars of their own in WWE or WWF. But the list of people they failed to pull the trigger on and turn into legit stars is just as long. Do we really have to talk about cases like Punk? Or you mentioned Hart. Yeah. Also a good example of Vince failing to do the right thing countless times like failing to put him over at Wrestlemania when Hogan came in and wanted the title. Caving to the demands of somebody who the people clearly lost interest to instead of pushing your new star is just not a good decision.
And then there is the Steroid Scandals without which Vince would've probably never changed his stance on pushing other talent. People who he deems too small or not having enough muscle still have trouble succeeding in the company as of today. And if it weren't for the Steroid Scandal we would've NEVER seen people like Eddie Guerrero, Benoit, Angle etc. succeed in WWE to begin with. Most of these pushes came out of a necessity rather then anything else. Again with the luck.
True. He did take a huge gamble with Wrestlemania. Underlining just what I said. That many times he just succeeded out of mere luck. As you said: A gamble. He also took a pretty big gamble with things like the WBF or the XFL who both failed spectacularly along with many other business ventures he took.
The WWF or WWE was on the brink of collapse more then once. Be it through things like neglect that lead to the Steroid Scandal or be it through alienating other people who ended up becoming his competition and nearly breaking his neck. Never forget that WWF's success in the Monday Night Wars was much more to blame on WCW's failure then on Vince being a great businessman. If WCW would've pushed down on the backstage politics of certain Wrestlers coughHogancough and not hired idiots like Russo, while focusing on their best talent and homegrown stars like the Radicals then it would've been them buying WWE. But today the WWE is just making the exact same mistakes that WCW did back then. Banking on old stars for the sake of nostalgia instead of pushing new talents to the top, still thinking that there HAS to be one person at the top when that is clearly not the case, not listening to fans and who the cheer or boo for, not bothering to include the Wrestlers much more in the creative process etc.
The list is VERY long. And the excuse of people not wanting to watch Wrestling anymore or not watching TV is just lazy as fuck. The only way the company still made as much profit as they did was by making deals like the one with the Saudis that will probably do more harm then good in the long term or by selling off their assets and releasing tons of people.
People, like Wrestlers, whom the hoarded like a fucking Dragon collects gold for years now in Order to buy out the indies. A strategy that also majorly backfired along with not giving a crap about people like Cody. Now they have to release them all again because it became too expensive and now there's a company opposing them ready to take that misused talent and turn them into legit Main-Eventer. Jericho, Moxley, Russev, Malachai Black, Brody Lee and now they're even getting Danielson and CM Punk. The list is very long and WWE's failure is AEW's pleasure.
There is a lot more to be said but the fact of the matter is that, as I said, it's just not that simple.
@Revkun To be fair you did say "is" as opposed to was. I could also mention how Vince destroyed other wrestling businesses after his father promised that his company wouldn't compete with other promotions. I'd argue he was never a great businessman.
1 likePog
1 likemad props to Vince for being so much more than a suit in a comfy leather seat
2 likesVince is a terrible human being
1 likeVince Actually Got Chokeslammed By Undertaker In 1998 LOL I Died When That Happened You Shouldn't Have Provoked Undertaker
0 likesRevkun I can president of tna impact dixie carter the TNA IMPACT founder Jeff Jarrett, Eric Bischoff lest we forget he ran wcw during the Monday Night Wars and Paul Heyman we can't forget about the time Paul Heyman came up with the idea that John Cena would make him eat a bar of soap
0 likes@Joel Down Logan Paul? Couldn't hack it in UFC if He tried so what makes him so special
0 likes@Joel Down before you even think about spewing such bs like neither could Goldberg or the Undertaker I've got some news for BILL GOLDBERG and Mark The Undertaker Callaway both had MMA training backgrounds prior to becoming wrestlers and also BILL GOLDBERG played in the NFL with the Atlanta Falcons
0 likes@Nick Goetsch so you agree with me?
0 likes@watcher Eddie Graham, one of his father's best friends, killed himself in January, 1985; Vince took over his territory and was running shows in Tampa by August.
1 likeGreatness is not a morale metric, it is a measurement of achievement. Establishing a continent wide business empire is undeniable.
@Sakîne Mirkan him being old and losing his spark doesn't erase his acumen.
1 likeHe took on a nationwide cartel, picked off their territories one after the other until they were all his. The entire continent was his empire.
Now he's the old man who's lost his edge.
No one can stay on top forever.
@Kitt Spiken I never said it would. But then again many of the "achievements" of Vince McMahon were very often just happening because of others and very much so rather in spite of him then because of him.
0 likesLike hiring Stone Cold, Mick Foley or pushing The Rock. So many of the most important people who carried his company and his ass for years were only there because of other people pushing Vince to take them. Like Bret Hart or Jim Ross. And so many others.
I give the WWE that much that they were extremely busy over the decades to craft the fairytale of Vince being this great guy who does it all and all by himself but that's just noooot true. Even if you forget about the fact that without the workers a boss is nothing at all.
@Sakîne Mirkan "Charlemagne had a court so he was a do nothing king."
1 likeIt's obvious Vince was the driving vision behind everything, good and bad.
He couldn't have done it alone, but who can? That's not how leadership works.
He was driving force behind the branding, storylines, recruiting, networking for cross promotion, and overall strategy that usurped the previous cartel monopoly for his own in less than a decade.
Come on.
@Kitt Spiken Don't you think using Charlemagne for your analogy is a bit underselling the importance of one glorious Vince McMahon? (That was sarcasm btw)
0 likesBut nice Strawman. Not my point tho. The point is, again, that Vince was successful IN SPITE of himself because he had people around him working actively against him and persuading him from making decisions he himself never wanted to make. Like the ones mentioned.
So if it was Vince alone without any influence from others, keeping him from making the shittiest decisions ever, the WWF/E would've failed probably waaaay before his time.
Just like absolutely every other venture McMahon ever did where nobody persuaded him otherwise. Wanna talk about the glorious WBF? Or maybe the XFL? How's that doing?
How little you know
0 likes@Sakîne Mirkan whataboutism isn't real lmaooooo
0 likesDealing in Saudi Arabia is the default, it doesn't mean anything. Actively declining such deals would mean something.
@Robert Hansen Whataboutism is a logical fallacy in which somebody will point out something bad like saying "The USA also committed war crimes" in order to make the point that Russias War Crimes are not that bad.
0 likesAs a matter of fact whataboutism is often traced back to Soviet Propaganda.
You just don't know the first thing about rhetorical figures and logical fallacies. Might want to look it up, might learn something.
And what you're doing there very much IS whataboutism. Because your point is "Dealing with Saudi-Arabia isn't bad because everybody does it". You know why Whataboutism doesn't work? Because you can justify ANYTHING terrible with something more terrible or something equally terrible. Problem is that this justifies absolutely nothing at all. If that were the case the only thing every murderer on the planet would ever need to say is "But I'm not as bad as the Nazis" and then they would get a free out of jail card wouldn't they? But they don't. Because that's a logical fallacy. Just because somebody elses crimes are equally bad or worse then yours, doesn't automatically make yours better.
You seriously need to educate yourself kiddo.
Not to mention he actually pissed himself inthe ring (scripted). What a legend
0 likes@Sakîne Mirkan I disagree with most of this. In the early days Vince was a fantastic businessman. He turned a local item into a global empire worth billions. That is brilliant no doubt about it. But the past few decades of near total monopoly has definitely made Vince and the WWE loose their better judgement.
0 likesWwe went downhill because of Vince himself. While Vince had created a amazing legacy he also destroyed it especially with the recent shit. I wish Shane would have taken over. We could have gotten some nostalgia and maybe wwe would have went back to its roots. Wwe now is too pg and is trying to sell to everyone while not offending anyone. It loses its touch once the whole "wokeness" controls WWE. Wwe was the complete opposite. Also remember than Vince keeps shoving roman reigns as if we all enjoy him guy gets more boos from crowd reaction.
0 likesThis honestly might be one of the greatest video essays I've ever seen.
775 likesThe story arc,
The charecter building,
The explanations and metaphors.
Just beautiful, emp.
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Along with the Hungrybox episode
10 likesEvery video essay Emp makes is a masterpiece lmao
0 likesOnly emp lemon has the balls to Go through an entire WWE history video without mentioning John cena once
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20:31 Yeah, that is technically just a picture, but I still found it funny.
128 likesCena wasn’t apart of the golden days of Raw. Cena was a completely different generation of Raw. He definitely became a huge name on his own, but he was the only huge name from his time on Raw. Cena represents WWE, the true Raw was from the WWF.
388 likesAnd yes, this a 100% bias opinion.
The story told centered around events during and preceding the Attitude Era. Cena came into the company at the start of the Ruthless Aggression Era.
70 likesHe is there you just can't see him
128 likes@All Invite Ohm How dare you call yourself "The Grammar Nazi" without even correcting B's clear and obvious misuse of "apart" in place of the phrase "a part" in saying that Cena was absent from the glory days of Raw.
36 likesTHE GRAMMAR NAZI HAS BEEN STRUCK!
he couldn't see him, that's why
8 likescena was part of the next generation and he carried wwe fpr 2 decades now that he's part time and barely shows up wwe is declining faster than ever
7 likesYou cant see him so you cant fact him
2 likesnow we have aew and njpw things have changed quite a bit
2 likesu just couldn't see him
3 likes"JOHN CENA's semen!"
0 likesHow can you review a man who you can't see?
2 likeswhat about krispin wah the guy who can melt steel beams LmAo
1 likeMick Foley would annihilate Cena bruh
0 likesHe wasn’t a part of this era
3 likesWho? I've never seen this guy before
0 likesAllow me to introduce myself lol
2 likeslike he said in his nascar video things got worse when things got safer
1 likeThat's cz Cena will never be as iconic as hulk or savage or steve Austin or the undertaker or any of the other icons......lol he blows
0 likesWell to be fair- the topic and timeframe was before john cenas time- although not mentioning him once for 30 minutes- is still pretty impressive
0 likesYou can’t see em
0 likesFinally
0 likesBecause he hasn’t done anything worthy of mentioning in the grand scheme of wrestling. He’s a sport entertainer and a sycophant
0 likesAt least for me, by the time John Cena came around, I was long gone. That prank call is so fucking funny tho
0 likes@Brandi Smith bias but somewhat true, Cena isn't even Raw, he's a smackdown star and on top of that I think he only ever went there in 2005 to do the championship swap storyline where the world heavyweight championship belt and WWE belt switched brands
0 likes@Fan Growls we've had NJPW for decades, its just wwe fans stuck in a bubble that are just now discovering it. In fact at their height, Nakamura had the IWGP IC belt seen as more important than the World title.
0 likesI remember the phrase iambic pentameter but cannot remember wtf it means. And idk how to use google. Help me.
0 likes@Nerdism "John Semen" I think that'll be my name when I enter the adult industry 😂
0 likesAustin's wresting was one thing.... But his ability to catch a beer from someone in the nosebleed section and then down it 2 seconds flat was pure talent.
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and he did it ALL THE TIME
5 likesThere was another meta-layer to all this, which was the fact that the show was on Monday nights. It ties in perfectly with the theme of the show; as the 90s ushered in an era of boring, sterile 9-5 jobs at soulless corporations, Mondays became a symbol of the boredom and tedium yet to come. It was likely around this time that the sentiment of “I hate Mondays” was at its peak.
150 likesBut then, you had Monday Night Raw, which was the exact antithesis to that. Whereas Monday mornings and afternoons were spent transitioning from the freedom of the weekend to the soul-crushing corporate world at work, MNR was the exact opposite of that, being bombastic, edgy and fun.
Monday Night Raw’s timeslot worked so well because Monday Night Raw is the opposite of what Mondays are.
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That’s why RAW is still on Monday nights, and why nothing else competes on Monday nights.
2 likesThat's a great point
0 likesImagine going back in time and introducing WWE to ancient Greeks.
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They would probably dig it.
174 likes@ohhellyeah 287 By it, you mean val venis
36 likesI think they'd love it
19 likesIf there’s any modern media that the ancient Greeks would fucking love, it’s WWE. They’d dig it
86 likesThey were called arena fighters, or later on, gladiators as would become know during Rome. It too was theater counter to the bloodsport Hollywood would have you believe it was.
34 likes@Marshall Drews Ancient Greece didn't have any arena combat before being occupied by Rome
10 likesThat should be a movie. Like Martin Lawrence movie "blue streak". 😆🤣
6 likesThere were probably stage combat scenes in Greek plays.
3 likes@Oldies channel Nah, the Olympics involved wrestling ergo arena combat, it was just changed when Rome came along
5 likes@Daniel Adeyemi that's not really the same kind of arena combat, there was no weapons and it wasn't held in the same kind of "arena". It was basically the same as amateur wrestling today but naked and on a hard floor lol
1 like@Oldies channel By wrestling I'm talking about Pankration which is an interesting mix of boxing, wrestling etc. It's combat as much as modern MMA is and likely more brutal since there were less rules. I don't know what wrestling you're talking about that's done on a hard floor though
2 likes@Daniel Adeyemi yeah Pankration was different from wrestling, more like MMA as you said. Its still far away from Gladiatorial combat though
0 likes@Daniel Adeyemi also I'm talking about Ancient Greek wrestling on a hard floor. They wrestled on stone floors as far as I know, not mats. They may have wrestled on sand (which would actually bring it a bit close to arena combat as "arena" simply meant "sand" in ancient Latin)
0 likes@Oldies channel I see, to my knowledge they wrestled on sand at least for the Olympics i.e. with spectators. Whilst this does differ from gladiatorial combat as it's unarmed, it's still arena combat since a) takes place in arena as you said, and b) is combat.
0 likes@Daniel Adeyemi it depends how you look at it, I personally wouldn't call the setup for an Olympic wrestling match an "arena" at least in the modern sense (through it did have sand) although it did have audiences in tiered seats it didn't have the right shape, nor was it enclosed, but maybe this is semantics.
0 likes@Oldies channel True, personally my bar is a lot lower but I get your point
0 likes@Farles Barkley "All the Greeks love the Big Valbowski!"
0 likesConsidering they created the Olympics, they kinda were into something, if their cilization hadn't collapsed I think they eventually would get there.
0 likesWWE comes from wrestling, greco-roman style to be more precise, so...
@mattster h yup that's how it was in those days lol fun fact: Gymnasium is ancient Greek for "naked place"
0 likesThe Mick Foley cage scene made me cry, but not like in pity. Just moved by his motivation.
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Reminds me of the time that in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table
3 likes"the undertaker's iconic dong"
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Lmfao bruh reallyyy
19 likes🤣🤣🤣🤣
1 likeMate, he's 6'10". Pretty sure it's iconic.
44 likesI was like pause
0 likesHey, phrasing
0 likesOh..
0 likesIt's a meme
0 likes14:37 can I just say how much I love this? He takes off his mask only to reveal that he still has face painting on that looks exactly the same as the mask he just wore. Brilliant.
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It makes more sense in context lol
26 likesthe real hilarious part is that that wasn't the only time that character did that exact thing
9 likesLol Sting was weird guy man
5 likesSting is an icon
2 likesYou guys are missing the context to this. Lol~ it's awesome too.
8 likesDuring this era the NWO had been mocking the fact Sting (the mysterious WCW Enforcer and the only one Hogan feared) was entirely missing.
For almost two months, they'd show up week after week with this clown version of Sting and just totally roast him.
Yet during one fateful night of attempted humiliation, Sting removes his fake mask to reveal it's actually him. He was BACK.
Golden lol 😆
0 likesPlease make more of this series. "There will never". I've gained so much respect for Nascar and Wrestling after watching your videos.
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I’ve been a wrestling fan for years, not only are his wrestling videos pure gold but the nascar videos are pure gold too, and I never imagined I’d ever be interested in Nascar. It turns out that it happens to just be more than “cars just spinning in circles” .
1 likeThe bit at 23 minutes sold me. He takes off his glasses and stares down a fan holding a DIE ROCKY sign and it got me interested in what happens next. Fan interaction is the future imo, and we're JUST starting to see it now with streamers. Wrestling was ahead of it's time in a way.
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and also not, because a lot of what happened in theater was based off of the crowd's reaction, or specifically written to get a certain response from the crowd. But yeah Vince is a genius, always has been, and WWE just had the best revenue year of all time last year. A $1 billion deal with Peacock doesnt hurt either lol
3 likesThere was a very long period of time where WWE just ignored what the fans wanted, the commentators would even say the crowd was cheering someone when they were quite clearly booing them. The lack of competition made it so the WWE thought they could ignore the fans, after all they had nowhere else to go (other than stop watching completely... which a lot did)
3 likes"Just because the matches have a pre-determined outcome, doesn't mean the pain isn't real." - Bill Goldberg
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Wut? @ThatEraSound
94 likes@ThatEraSound Okay then, go and start training. If there's not pain it iwll be a piece of cake and easy money.
147 likesAnd not just the pain. The athleticism required is insane. It's like parkour times 20. Anyone who thinks they can do this stuff themselves and go to get trained thinking it's a joke and is going to be easy will be wishing they were dead by the end of two sessions.
105 likesHe would know... He gave Bret Hart a concussion!!!
23 likesNo one is disputing the pain. Like, at all.
19 likesThe dispute is something like when you see CM Punk being on top of the pro wrestling consciousness...and then see him lose shoot fights against guys who are below the lower end of any sort of fighter rankings.
The dispute is when you think back to Bobby Lashley vs Braun Strowman Last Man Standing, but then think further back to him having never lost a shoot fight out of the 5 he's had in shoot fighting organization Bellator.
ECW style was dangerous as hell, my respect for all wrestlers but the ECW guys were nuts man, it was cool but like they must have felt in hell the next day
17 likes“Exactly” - Brett Hart
5 likesDey knight please stop LMAO
3 likes@Graeme Williams whats wrong with that?
1 likeDey knight Bill Goldberg seriously injured Bret hart when he kicked him.
1 likeIronic that comes from Goldberg who literally ended Bret Hart’s career
1 like@TrolledBy1337 like the time he bothchef a jackhammer and almost killed the undertaker.
1 likeThats a pretty ironic quote coming from a wrestler that had 2 moves, never sold a move, and never took a major bump in his whole career
2 likesHe would know, he retired Bret Hart with a stiff ass kick.
2 likes@alfa01spotivo Like WWF (at the time) and WCW were all edgy and brutal as hell, but ECW was like fucking mental.
1 likeThey even replaced ropes with barbed wires at one time, chair shots and being bashed in the head with anything were as common as someone wearing a shirt, being slammed to tables on a weekly basis, being kicked in the balls looked like it was stiff, even the women weren't safe from the headbashing
Not all the pain is real. Most of those matches would be over in seconds if they were really punching each other
1 likeI’m gay
0 likes@Slappy_White87 facts
0 likesHey Emp. I doubt you will ever see this, but I just wanted to say thank you. This video was my introduction to professional wrestling, and I have since become a huge fan. I started watching WWE programming every week and have been watching since Wrestlemania 35. I've come to love wrestling so much and now I'm actually getting in on the industry. I'm about to start work at a small promotion near where I work and I'm excited to see where it will all go. And I wouldn't have gotten to this point had you not produced this video. So once again, thank you Emp!
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That's amazing
5 likesHoly shit this is amazing. You're achieving every huge wrestling fan's dream, working for the show they love.
1 likeI've watched Emp for many years, and this is prime evidence that his impact on people like me and you is growing more and more every day.
Keep hustling, kind lad!
I know I’m late to this, but I am rather shocked that you didn’t really emphasize on the Montreal screw job. A moment which put a stain on the WWE, but created a silver lining in most likely inspiring Vince to not creating the Mr. McMahon character, but the attitude era as a whole.
13 likesIn my personal opinion, that moment right there is where the attitude era began.
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You are 100% correct. Every fan at that moment fucking hated Vince, and he was smart enough to actually embrace it.
1 likeHey man, I just wanted to let you know that I come back to this series all the time. One of the best reflective pieces on YouTube and I mean every episode is top. Keep it up emp
45 likesIt's crazy how much can change in almost three years. when this was made, WWE was still pretty good. AEW had literally just been formed 3 days before this video was released and everyone expected it to be another TNA.
151 likesNow three years later, RAW is quite bad and AEW and WWE are consistently talked about in the same conversations. Pretty nuts to think about
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Oh how the mighty have fallen...
3 likesStill good 3yrs ago? Wwe hasn't been good since the Ruthless Aggression era of the mid 2000s, although Punks time was good while he was there. This is just my opinion of course...but I watch all wrestling. WWE, AEW, Impact, ROH, MLW, NWA, NJPW, Noah and GCW.
10 likesDude aew is still not on the same level. I mean presentation alone aew can't compete.
2 likesY'all can trash WWE all ya want but no wrestling company will over take them. Think about it, y'all get hyped if a company just doesn't go under competing with WWE. That's how dominant WWE is. Companies get respect just for not going under when going against them lmao. Aew will never be a bigger draw than WWE. Screenshot do whatever with this comment. The only WWE dies is if they make a conscious effort to let it die
0 likes"and everyone expected it to be another TNA"
0 likesUh, no they didn't?
"when this was made, WWE was still pretty good"
No... It wasn't.
"Now three years later, RAW is quite bad"
Raw is better now than it was 3 years ago, due to the competition from AEW. That doesn't mean it's good, just better.
You're messed up.
@Slappy_White87 dude they didn’t say AEW was going to “overtake” WWE. They just said AEW went from being the new wrestling company on the block to being talked about by wrestling fans just as much as WWE. Also if your judgment on the value of a company is based off of presentation alone then by that logic the only movies of value are made by Disney. WWE is big but that doesn’t mean that it’s wrestling is best by proxy
4 likeshold on, you still watch wrasslin?
0 likesThis video got me into wrestling, I went to my first show because of it, I joined that promotion because of it, learned to be a referee, and 2 weeks ago missed a foot on the ropes during a pin and counted 3 during my first time on payperview. Thank you Emp, very cool.
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Damn bro that's so awesome
0 likesCan't believe this video changed your life
0 likesThis isn’t regular sarcasm, this is advanced sarcasm 😄😂
0 likesWhat promotion did you join? Any vids?
0 likesYour analogy for how difficult it was to explain why you like wrestling was pure gold.
41 likesI’m so mesmerized by how well this documentary was put up… I can’t count how many times I’ve had goosebumps watching this video, I have learned a lot and have been entertained at the same time. I love it a lot!
7 likesWords can't explain how much this awakens a really happy period of my childhood. Thanks emp :)
19 likesOnly EmpLemon can, in just 30 minutes, make me genuinely invested in a wrestling competition that I wasn't even born during.
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I was just four when it happened. Literally one day after my 4th birthday mankind wins
27 likesIts amazing watching Emplemon's evolution as a created.
6 likesSupereyepatchwolf also made some incredible videos about how wrestling is great as an example of long term story telling. You should check those out if you haven’t. He also goes into the absolutely insane world of Japanese pro wrestling which is even crazier imo
13 likes@casperd2100
27 likes>wrestling doesn’t take skill
Right. That’s why anytime people try to copy wrestling moves who aren’t trained wrestlers themselves someone always gets seriously injured or killed. Because there’s no skill involved in staging a fight with crazy spectacle and ridiculous stunts that take extreme athleticism and careful coordination. What a bunch of absolutely talentless hacks, amiright?
@big boss bob ross >greentexting on youtube
1 likeMMA, BJJ, muay thai, kickboxing, etc. takes skill, WWE is a show. Practice the same exact thing 200 times in a row and you can master it. That can't be said about PvP when the player style always changes and you have to adapt.
@casperd2100 lmao you’re so salty. It still takes “skill”.
10 likesMe too I'm a ruthless agression kid
0 likes@casperd2100 wow so your saying u can do 680 splash then also protect who your fighting and also a 5 star frog splash from the top if a hell in a cell as well as create a good a great story
7 likesEdit your also saying that you can survive a liontamer can also survive getting your ear pulled off or falling of a hiac also you can survive a piledriver from on top of a hell in a cell or getting speared to a flaming table or getting ya know a go to sleep if you can't do that it takes fuking skills
@casperd2100 lol wow. Just ignore all the many injuries, the insane schedule and amount of moves needed in each match. You are such a kid
6 likes@casperd2100 are you actually 12 years old?
6 likes@alfa01spotivo Says the one enjoying live action figures pretending to fight each other. Cope harder.
0 likes@casperd2100 you mean like every single tv show ever made
6 likes@alfa01spotivo except they dont pretend to be real
0 likes@casperd2100 yes they do lol
7 likes@alfa01spotivo if you're talking about reality tv shows, then those are stupid as well. Shows like game of thrones are made in fantasy.
1 like@casperd2100 and so is wrestling
5 likes@alfa01spotivo right... you're so sure that people don't fight over their favorite wrestler like it's a real sports team. Imagine pretending that there isn't already a pre-made winner set to win. The only reason people act like this is because WWE portrays the show as organic and not staged to people and people are dumb enough to buy into it.
0 likes@casperd2100 99% of wrestling fans know its fake, its just entertainment, kind of like magicians. I used to think like you too, but wrestling can be pretty cool
6 likes@Danny Caracciolo I believe I was barely 2 months old lol, November 27 1997. Thanksgiving day
1 likeMid to late 90's wrestling was so fun to watch. We knew it was fake, but it was done so well. The competition between companies made it good to watch
1 likeIt's fine.
1 likeNeither was he.
I was 12 when they started to show Raw and Smackdown in free TV here in Finland. Raw had The Reign of Terror going on, Katie Vick etc., so it was quite bad period of wrestling but I got invested in it. Smackdown was awesome after the brand split, and in 2008 I heard about TNA. It revolutionized my view of wrestling, to think that there are way better wrestlers than WWE had, and now they have even more competition. It's the best time to be a wrestling fan, you can watch whatever style you want!
0 likesCHILD!!!!
0 likes@casperd2100 is that why the MMA fighters and boxers always give them props for what they do and say they'd never be able to do it?
0 likesMay I recommend a Welsh Academic running a 3 hour long stream on his Vince shouldered out the old cartel to build his empire?
0 likesLol, such a golden era
0 likes@casperd2100 lol the whole point of it is entertainment. Not everyone simply wants to watch a sport, but everyone wants to be entertained. Most of us are suckers for a good dreams fueled story. Especially if it's one we can relate to. But I respect your opinion. At one point I thought it was pretty dumb. The attitude era was the greatest. But now I kind of think it's lame again... Most of the talent that made it so great is long gone now, or moved on to better things.
0 likesI'm sorry for your loss. WWF in the late 90s was truly lightning in a bottle
0 likesI have recently become a HUGE wrestling fan after years, well, decades, of discounting it and making fun of it. Mostly due to content creators like yourself.
12 likesYou know, a lot of businessmen these days could learn a few things from how vince ran RAW.
17 likesThe man quite literally got down onto the dirt and let his own employees beat the ever loving shit out of him, all for the sake of his company.
Some people wouldn’t even want their shoes scuffed, and that man was out there letting a large wrestler bodyslam him off the top rope. Now that’s dedication.
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Dana white did 🤙🏻
0 likesDude, I gotta say, out of the all the wrestling docs I’ve seen on YouTube, yours is the the best by far! This is pure gold! I love the flow of it. I love your “in order to be loved..” intros to all the wrestlers and the events that happened. We need more wrestling docs like this man! Thanks for letting me relive my childhood! Pls make more!
6 likesThis was the video that made me watch wrestling for the first time. I'd like to thank you, because I get to watch wrestling every Monday and Friday with my parents! You could say that it's one if my fixations now! Thank you for opening my eyes!
6 likesI still remember renting that VHS from Blockbuster as a kid and watching the Hell in a Cell with Mankind and Undertaker. Still one of the greatest matches of all time.
11 likesThe music, the editing, the nostalgia. This video has been a superb Saturday morning watch.
4 likeswrestling is one of my favorite things ever. it might not reach the popularity it once had 20-30 years ago, but it’s still dear in my heart.
7 likesIt feels impossible to imagine an era of WWF without Raw. I can't imagine myself being a fan without some type of weekly show to keep me interested in story lines.
4 likesOh man, just mentioning the Austin-McMahon feud brings back memories and hysterical moments of those crazy 3 years in the then-WWF. Assault in the ring, beer showers, eating a man's dinner, assault in the hospital, several wrestling matches........
6 likesAaah, good times.
I was 15-20 between 1996-2001. Everybody I knew loved wrestling, it really was a cultural phenomenon. So many people have tried to recapture the magic of that era, but they can't. One big reason why is that they'd be canceled. I can't wait until we get past this age of social credit points off victimhood.
7 likesI've watched this video many times and I still enjoy it as much as I did the first time. Very well done! I feel like the most comparable story to Mick Foley's win for today's WWE is Daniel Bryan's win at Wrestlemania 30. Would love to see you make a video about that one.
5 likesGreat video! So much nostalgia and I still to this day get goosebumps watching that pop for stone cold (I watched it when it originally aired way back in the 90s). I’ve tried to explain to people how wrestling had an influence on pop culture and this video puts into words what I wanted to convey!
1 likeThanks for helping your average person learn why Wrestling is something special! It's a task I've been trying to do for years and I'm happy it's becoming more accepted.
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It's you! The guy that does Pokemon challenges! I can't believe you haven't been noticed sooner!
9 likes@Mai Nyigguh What does the fact that I upload gaming videos have to do with how I've gotten tons of people into wrestling over the last decade?
17 likes@Mai Nyigguh You are aware of an existence beyond the intrawebs right?
8 likesWrestling has actually fallen from grace since then. I'm not American but there was a time me and my friends would talk about nothing but wrestling during school hours.
6 likesMDB in the House!!!!!
1 likeNow a days wrestling isn't that great, wouldn't recommend current wrestling
4 likesShow them Foley going off the Cell, at least you'll get a reaction
1 likeBut what fossil did you choose?
1 likeNot at all surprised to see that MDB commented on this.
2 likes@Ben Richards Yeah, attitude Era was pretty good
2 likespee?
0 likes@Shervsy hell nah bro that sh*t has been trash for like the last 10-15 years 😞
2 likesAs a kid in the late 90s I remember how huge WWF was. I had no choice but to get into it even if just a bit. I had Smackdown vs Raw on PS2 I think. Watched some episodes, had a t-shirt, saw events with friends, etc. But I grew out of it fast. For years I thought of it as childish but I've grown to understand it and this video helped.
4 likesBut I can't help but mention the very grown men who were obsessed with this like men obsessed with NFL, NBA or anything else. They took it so serious. I understand appreciating it as entertainment or even being someone who understands stunts and such, but to be so serious like we did as kids... I don't know. It's like taking call of duty so serious where you break shit and ruin your relationship. Those same type of people. Lol
I'm hung over and in a weird spot while typing this, but I legit teared up at multiple points during this video. It really brought me back man, it's impossible to explain how amazing this shit was at the time.
6 likesI’m not even a wrestling fan but “Monday Night Raw” still elicits nostalgia in me.
8 likesI've been a huge wrestling fan my whole life and I'm just so glad that someone is actually willing to analyze it and this is a GREAT video. 🤘🔥
3 likesThe copyright claim must have been the work of none other than The Milluon Dollar Man, Ted DiBiase
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Damnit ted
108 likesMilluon
86 likesFourth reply!!!!!
6 likesHoly shit, the fact that you collaborated almost made me cream my jorts.
22 likesTo be honest I’m more convinced it was Nintendo there were so many Nintendo songs in this video
7 likesBut what about poor Virgil?
8 likesIs that what happened? I was wondering why this video showed up twice in my notifications...
2 likesJustin, you mean Billionare Ted?
5 likesI love you Justin, but your description of why The Undertaker works was pretty poor.
6 likesWhang! What are you doing here?
1 likegave me the chills for some reason lol
0 likesIT WAS ME, LEMON IT WAS ME, ALL ALONG LEMON
2 likesReally? I thought it might've been Irwin R. Scheisster.
0 likes@Mr Catastr0phe bruh I forgot all about the IRS man. Those early 90s gimmicks were so funny 😁
4 likesi would never have thought you two would collaborate
0 likesDamn it Whang!. Why you gotta come round here with that magnificent mustache and rub it in my face???
2 likesEverybody's gotta price, even YouTube.
1 likeIt was a nice surprise to see you in this video
0 likesAh my two favorite internet historians together.
0 likesOr of an enemy stand.
0 likesIT WAS ME! IT WAS ME ALL ALONG WHANG!
0 likesMONEY
7 likesMONEY
MONEY
MONEY
MONEYEYEYEYEEY
everybody’s gotta price
emplemons gonna pay
because the million dollar man
Always gets his way!
Whang you're everywhere my dude, love it
0 likesHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
3 likesYo
0 likes@Ethanal Spencer nice jojo reference...
1 likeWhat a heel move
1 like;)
0 likeswhat copyright claim?
0 likesEterno Del Sur no one really know why the Undertaker works. He just does.
0 likesa literal tank
0 likesHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY
0 likesI didn’t get the reference, but whang, you get a like
0 likesHey, the kid from the goonies
0 likesDamn... I didn't know there was a hidden Whang! episode within this video :P
0 likesWhang is hands down one of the most under rated youtubers out there.
I.R.S
0 likesI.R.S says pay up you bunch of tax cheats!
1 likeYes. A place outside of a wrestling channel where I can mark out top kek
0 likesHAHAHAHAHAHAHA money money money money moneeeeeeeey
0 likesThe boss "TED DI-BI-ASE"! (in "Hollywood" Hogan voice)
0 likesMoney,Money,Money,MONEHEHE
0 likes@Meta Knight I put a 20 seconds tetris web play while listening to a fire emblem song before even posting it i got a claim...
0 likesEmp m
0 likesEither him or I.R.S. found out that EmpLemon didn't pay his taxes
0 likesHAHAHA EVERYBODY'S GOT A PRICE!
0 likes@Dickens Tham It really is.
0 likesMy money is on Jake the Snake or Gold Dust.
0 likes@Archie Rosie million dollar man ted dibiase was a wrestler from the 80s.
0 likeshis gimmick basically was of a rich corporate overlord who loved poking fun at the "less fortunate". which is exactly why he worked so damn well as a heel. everyone hated his guts.
AH HAHAHAHAHA
0 likesEveryone's got a price
0 likesWhats up whang? Im a huge fan bro!!! Gimme a reply bro
0 likesI think YouTube unsubscribed me to your channel
0 likesEveryone's got a price
0 likesIs that why he says wwf
0 likesI was never a fan of "professional wrestling," but I now have a whole new level of respect for it after this vid. Big ups.
2 likesYou perfectly summed up that legendary cage match, I watched it live with a friend and as they put him on the stretcher I said to my buddy "as short as that was, it was still one of the coolest matches I've ever seen" and I was totally content. THEN mankind made his way back, got choke slammed thru the roof of the cage, fought a full match which culminated in another choke slam onto a bed of tacks. Late 90's attitude Era wrestling SLAPPED!!!!!
1 likeThis was really good man. It made me respect wrestling more. I never even thought of it as theater.
4 likesAwesome video man, great way to tell a story to someone who wasn’t part of the WWF era during the 97 to 2002 times, these were the glory times of WWF
2 likesFrom what I started noticing as I watch more of the Undertaker was he seems less like a supernatural ghost op zombie wrestler thing but instead the aura he gave off was more of that of a old western legend or spirit, some mysterious bearded guy in a trench coat wearing a cowboy hat who suddenly shows up through the mist and defeats the new hotheaded gunslinger and disappears back into the desert. Kinda like Batman, hes almost like a myth until he actually shows up only for a few minutes, gets the job done, then disappears, sound familiar?
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Solid assessment!
43 likesOne of his nicknames was even "The Gunslinger" towards the end. I loved his Phenom character. Fuckin goosebumps every time that man is in the ring.
99 likesHe started out as a zombie, transitioned into a weird cultist persona but at the turn of the millennium and with his American Badass persona he basically transformed into what you're saying. A near 7 foot, 300 pound vigilante in a trenchcoat who would walk (or ride on a motorcycle) down to the ring to kick some poor guy's ass. Since he debuted the American Badass character, he's been this way for literally the past 20 years. Even when he's changed back into the undead monster he's still more of a realistic, Batman-like character. Doing dives over the top rope and hitting rapid strikes in the corner rather than standing around and being slow, it's actually crazy how much he's changed over the near 30 years he had in the WWF/WWE.
128 likes@DekuSlate Late 1998-1999 undertaker was one fucking scary man
36 likeshis main nickname in 2011 was " the last outlaw "
15 likesexactly what i had in mind..before his biker gimmick, he was pale, and more like an unstoppable force..he was like a cult leader, or a possesed man with evil intentions..after the biker gimmick, he was like a ghost, laid back and neutral who brings balance
10 likes@J L his outfit was straight out of a horror movie..looked like he belongs in a hellraiser movie
6 likesYou are on point with it. The gimmick was indeed inspired from the old westerns of past, as he mentions in his JRE .
10 likespretty sure it was originally supposed to be a wild west character instead of a dead man
0 likessounds very familiar, like my dad.
1 likeVery cool interpretation.
0 likesAs kids in Finland, we were confused and thought he was just some random Satanist! 😂
When i first started renting the smack down vs raw games each year as they came out I totally though Eugene and undertaker were the same person
0 likesYeah, he's like an Old Cowboy an undead one at that but yeah spot on
1 likeThis is perfect!
0 likesAs a wrestling fan, this was amazing
9 likesThis might be one of my favorite youtube videos of all time. I find myself watching it every few months, like many of your videos, but this one always gets me excited. A true gem of a video.
2 likesI know just about everything in this documentary, I just love wrestling, especially the history of it!
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I love the 90s attitude era history forsure 👌
1 likeI will forever respect this channel's ingenuity and creativity with its artstyle, research and compiling it all into some of the most amazing storytelling of our time.
0 likesDude, I was in the military from '95 to 2000. Monday we talked about who's fighting that night. Tuesday we talked about the matches. Wednesday we started talking about the next weeks matches. We choke slammed each other, suplexed, body slammed and figure foured each other all the time. I'm pretty sure I got a concussion from getting hit by a chair by another Airman. I chipped a guys tooth doing a leg drop on him. It was chaos and we loved it.
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Dude, u F**** Rock!🤙🏽
7 likes@Bokrug the Water Serpent beautifully phrased
15 likesTaking things to the next level noice
8 likesThis is the most American thing I've ever read.
44 likesI was in the duty room every Monday and Thursday with other Marines watching back and forth WWF and WCW.
18 likes@Alex Amaya but fun.
1 like@Alex Amaya Yeah well this time the only things that will be broken is your cervical vertebrae and the platform which we will wrestle on.
0 likes@Alex Amaya Haha
0 likes@Bokrug the Water Serpent my thoughts EXACTLY LoL, Semper Fi Chair Force, we salute yous guys
5 likes"DX crotch chop" 🙅♂️
Once or twice we got really bored in the barracks, grabbed a couple mattresses, lined up behind them in the hall, and charged each other in a tug'o'war style battle. Dumbass cavalry stuff. I loved it.
0 likesAlthough I never was in the military I pictured this in my child hood bedroom with my brother. Best memories ever
0 likesI love how much Whang (and emp) have grown since I started watching them. Both extremely high quality channels
8 likesThe monologue on Stone Cold Steve Austin is the most bang on thing I have ever heard. It did not matter who you were and what you were about, SCSA was someone anyone could connect to on a visceral level.
0 likesI'm gonna be honest, I wasn't going to watch this video because I don't like wrestling. But I gave it a chance because every other Never Ever episode was just so well done. No regrets
2 likesI watched your most recent video on Mac Tonight about a week ago and loved it. It led to me subscribing and having the spongebob episode come up in my reccomended and I watched this one immediately following that. I had to start it asap as a pro wrestler and I didn't think another video you made could grab my interest like the spongebob one did but both are such big parts of my childhood. Thank you, you did an amazing job on all videos mentioned
1 likePlease do not let this video distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
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will do ratatouille
128 likesTop 5 best matches.
36 likesIt never leaves, does it
22 likes@PepperminTea327 fake fan. His name is Remy
94 likesI was so amazed and shocked all at once when I saw it for the first time. Also keep in mind that no one has really seen something liked that before in wrestling, thus makes it such an amazing and legendary match in wrestling history.
41 likesNotch Johnson no not even close
0 likes@Sam Tinkle suppose not...
0 likesAnd it wasn’t even planned ...
5 likesAnd by God broke him in half
26 likes@Top Lobster no,the table spot was programmed,but the ceiling one wasn't,making it extremely dangerous for Mick Foley
14 likesDon't forget, they followed this up by choke slamming Mankind through the cell onto the mat. Then tombstones him on thumb tacks. Whew.
21 likesHappened on my birthday
2 likesIs that Kane, wearing a suit?
5 likesThen Mankind (the crazy bastard) carried on the fight
4 likesThis comment doesnt do that fight justice. The absolute Madlad, Mankind, got off his stretcher, got to the top of the cage again, just to be thrown another 12 feet down to the mat, AND he kept going afterwards.
15 likes@WeabooScourgeKiller 2368 What is Kane doing in a suit!
3 likesAron and Shane McMahon jumped off a higher cell
0 likes@Greedy Animal I think what really makes it crazy is that's not the end of a match. Man got back ontop of the cage and slammed through it into the ring.. And still got up to keep going.
1 likeThe meme doesn't do the fight justice.
I like how absolutely No-one has recognised this is a quote from Nerd City
2 likeshttps://youtu.be/mp__Bx0aodw
Aron not that, use that Undertaker chokeslammed Mankind on the top of the cage, with Foley unexpectedly crashing through, landing on the ring with a chair also hitting his face in the process
1 likeShane McMahon jumped from a much higher cell. Twice.
1 likeJune 28th 1998 Pittsburgh Civic Arena(Mellon Arena)
1 likeI was 13 and was there that night.
Everyone here explaining the match, like it's not explained in detail in the video we're watching... 🤦♂️ wrasslin fans
2 likes@Chris Michael Owen Hart was the dude who fell 78 feet to his death at Over the Edge in 1999 lmao
3 likes@Crypt0nym0us Sec haha I know. I was just trying to think of something stupid to say. I remember watching the over the edge ppv when it happened. I wasn't there so I didn't see it, but they were showing some video vignettes during the time he fell. I never quite understood where they were trying to go with the blue blazer gimmick in the first place. Bret was my favorite wrestler of all time. I really enjoyed watching Owen too. Both of their careers ended way too soon. Really sad that Owen will never be inducted into the hall of fame. :/
0 likesthis guy reddits
1 likeSebastian Nicholas Definitely don’t forget that Mick Foley has also taken bumps on miniature C4 charges, barbed wire ropes, and bladed/barbed blunt objects, and one match in particular where he wrestled with ALL THREE.
0 likesinto the the spanish announcer's table too if I am correct
0 likesU/shittymorph approves
1 likecan't fake that shit lmaoooo
0 likesAnd Mankind got UP FOR THE DAMN FIGHT
0 likesand that was actually REAL
0 likes@Thine Eye DID YOU KNOW HE'S A MAYOR NOW!?
1 likeHow can it, when the moment is highlighted at 18:01 in the video
0 likesThat was epic as fuck. Mankind going through the cage and getting slammed on the tacks was insanity. Different times but fucking amazing times.
0 likesAS GOD AS MY WITNESS, HE'S BROKEN IN HALF!!!
0 likes*nineteen ninety eight.
0 likeshey, my name is also aron with 1 a
0 likesDinoaur
0 likesok boomer
0 likesThen through him threw the cage and then on to thumbtacks
0 likesShane McMahon: laughs in multiple attempted suicides during matches
0 likesThis stolen from another video can you be original?
0 likes@PepperminTea327 Ratatouille is the name of a dish and a movie not a character
1 likeok ratatouille
0 likesDon’t let this distract you from the fact in the Summer of 1992 Kevin Nash was raped
0 likes@Archangel exactlyyyy..
0 likesDid you hear Kane is running for mayor of Knox county?
0 likesHow would it distract me? The video mentions it.
0 likes@Nuke Caulfield Okay, sure. But don't let it distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
1 likeBah gawd
1 likeHe’s broken in half
@Cole Brown You sound pretty salty. Take a deep breath and remember that in 1998 the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeted 16 feet through an announcer's table.
2 likes@Cole Brown what?
0 likes@Cole Brown looks like somebody found out about cuss words and capitalized letters
1 like@Cole Brown Are you ok man?
0 likes@Flexican what's your point?
0 likes@rg was here What. Is. The. Point?
0 likes@xdude228 WHY THE HELL DO YOU CHILDREN KEEP MENTIONING SHANE?!
0 likesRuby Riding Hood replies to an old comment goofy
1 likeman, his tooth next to hsi nostril is gonna haunt me for years to come
0 likesThat shit was sick.
1 likeAnd then chucked him through the cell ceiling and a chair landed on his face
0 likesAnd he legit almost died. Twice, I took.
1 likeGuy’s tooth curved through his nose, it was gnarly.
hey ron
0 likeshey billie
that hurt
And choke slammed againts The ring, almost killed him
0 likesThen proceeds to kill him once again by slamming him through the top
1 likeRIP shittymorph
0 likesAnd everyone truelly thought the just witnessed a murder on live TV pay per view
2 likes@Top Lobster
0 likesyeah it was
Foley had to talk him into it before the match
As a wrestling fan, you dont how how much I loved this video.
5 likesloved your video dude, very entertaining and informative. And you really nailed it on why wrestling so special and entertaining. I do want to say that to me wrestling is unique form of entertaining and can't be compared to movies and TV. mainly because it's performed in front of an audience and is usually shown unedited on TV.
1 likeHey Emp, I just wanted to say that I really love your video essays. Youtube knows to show me them as soon as they come out because I always view them immediately from start to finish. All of that said, did you really have to use the classical music piece the Five Nights at Freddy theme is derived from around the 5 minute mark? It really felt like you stepped out of the screen and slapped me in the face, I was utterly immersed in the villainous intent. Please continue doing what you do.
0 likesWish you'd do something like this for Nitro. Which I found WAAAY more interesting during this Era. Also as the underdogs, I think Never Ever fit them a hell of a lot more.
4 likesBecause it's actually true we will Never Ever have Nitro again.
There's only two things missing from this video.
2786 likes1: footage of Stone Cold Steve Austin dressing up as a doctor so he can get into Vince's Hospital Room and beat on his broken leg before smacking him in the head with a Bedpan.
And 2: footage of The Rock shoving Vince's face into another wrestler's ass in the ring to a cheering crowd.
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Rikishi
69 likes2001 babyyy
7 likesSuper Eyepatch Wolf already included that in a video.
4 likes@Evan W no instead Shane got Baited into throwing himself off the hell in the cell cage and crashing into the announcer Table.
6 likesWhat about Trump shaving McMahan on the stage?
17 likesNot just any wrestler, 300 pound Rikishis ass
5 likes3: The battle damage in pro-wrestling. The wrestlers aren't paid to fake a slapfight. They're paid to beat the crap out of each other to pre-determined conclusion.
6 likes@Hanskah that a very important thing a lot of people just forget. It's not fake it's scripted. Fake would be if they pretended to bounce around and get hit. Scripted is taking physical thrashes that conclude when the script's outcome is fulfilled
12 likesSomeone saw Last Week Tonight
1 like@Rocky Cintron which episode? i havent watched him in about 2 years. i just couldnt take something new to piss you off each week ya know. how is it these days?
0 likesThat bedpan crack is my favorite bit of WWE ever.
0 likesIts also missing Hulk Hogan body slamming yokozuma and Kain and the Undertaker's fued.
0 likesi liked stone cold and when you mentioned that damn
0 likesbadass
The bedpan bop is hilarious
0 likesWhat about "this is your life" promo when Mick made Rock break character?
0 likesFoley IS God!
@Danny Caracciolo is there a video online somewhere? if so, link please? I think we all want to see this
0 likesHell yeah…🤣
0 likesMan….that was a good time for wrestling lol
1 likeMy mom was working nights at the time, and came home right as my dad and I were watching the scsa scene. It made it even better
0 likesShe was mortified
0 likesNot only that, the Stone Cold persona, actually was born in ECW.
0 likesILL TAKE IT FROME HERE NURSE!!! hahahahaha
0 likesDude that hospital scene was pure art!
0 likesLate 80s/early 90s “Rock & Wrestling”/“New Generation” era MADE me a fan of wrestling. Mid to late 90s “Attitude” era wrestling KEPT me a fan of wrestling…….even to this day. I was a kid and teenager during those times. Into adulthood I’ve maintained an oscillating relationship with wrestling in hopes that it will one day again reach the height of entertainment value it had in those eras. It hasn’t. It’s come close in moments but nothing sustained.
2 likesThis is the most perfect video to describe wrestling. Except , the exclusion of Vince Russo. It was not Vince McMahon waking up one day realizing how to change his company. It was in fact a middle class writer from their magazine who set up and wrote the story that you so perfectly described. To this day Russo does not get the recognition he deserves for what he did for WWE and for Raw because of his stint in WCW later, but we mustn't erase facts that McMahon was brought up to Speed culturally by Russo, and that Mick Foley, HHH, DX, Stone Cold and the "evil" McMahon were all able to thrive because of Russos writing and setting up stories. Now I'm not going to call him Shakespeare but the basis of your video was on a writer, a play writer, and the moment you capture at the end of this video was derived from the writer Vince Russo. Exceptional Job otherwise man, loved it.
1 likeWrestling is an art form. It has some of the most beautiful storytelling I’ve ever seen.
0 likesThis video was absolutely legendary, I’m not a wrestling fan but Emp is so good at what he does.
0 likesEmplemon has a knack for making any topic invigorating. I’ve never cared about NASCAR or Wwe, but these Never ever videos are wholly captivating
0 likesOnce upon rewatching this,
6 likesI got more impressed by how You explained The believeness that everything on TV, does'nt matter if it is real or not, can be both just as Entertaining and Exciting,
This really got Me thinking about The Joy factor of TV and Entertainment in-general.
Because there are lots of times were I constently get bored of the same type of content, and sometimes it can be diffecult to get into more Categories.
But suddenly I had a special interrest in getting more invested and learn about stuff that i never ever (no pun intented) thought i whould get so into and kind of build an big interrest towards it, and one of those interrests were and still are Wrestling, and it was thanks to My friends and You that i got bigger into Wrestling :).
Plus I think You're Never Ever series is fantastic and I whould love to see one on Stores or something like that in the possible future.
This is so well put together
13 likesI could watch these all day, find myself pausing you’re videos about every 30 seconds because there’s so much interesting and rewatchable moments in each of your vids
0 likesThat show was the most incredible thing to visit. Raw turned your local arena into a temporary insane asylum populated by maniacs, psychopaths, and literal evil itself. The idea that these guys lived ordinary lives, showed up to work, sat together in the locker room putting their pads and costumes on while sharing comradery would have been like finding out we were living in the goddamn Matrix movie. (Another thought fresh in our child minds in 1999). To me the arena almost felt like a place where you were in a certain amount of danger. Somewhere in the building The Undertaker had perhaps convened his Ministry of Darkness. What foul magic could they be working in the dark corners of my Ice Palace? DX would be there, planning their mayhem for the night and reliving the experinces they'd had sampling Tampa's underbelly and would share with us in story later. Perhaps Stone Cold would be brooding in some lonely spot with his six pack, waiting for his match or someone to disturb him, whichever came first. It didn't matter. He knew the outcome. The Texas Rattlesnake would be ready to savor whatever prey he could catch later that night. Vince would be there too. Perhaps having a discussion with the Briscoe Bros. about why they he thought Tampa was just about the worst town on the face of the Earth and that he couldn't understand why they continued to run their body shop and wrestling gym there. In fact, later that night he came out and told us just that! He said something like "Tampa is really an awful town and this arena sucks. That's why we almost never come here. You should all thank us for coming to this god awful place because we felt sorry for you. Enjoy the show because it'll be a long time before we'll be back, losers." All the while sirens are going off, glass is being shattered and they're shooting off all kinds of fireworks right next to you. The lights keep going out. The brawling spills into the crowd. Wrestlers are getting maimed by cruel attacks from merciless villains that sometime wield otherworldly powers. You find yourself eye to eye, feet away from crazy, dangerous men and women who seem bent on doing whatever it takes to win, even if that meant taking a life or losing their own. TLDR? They didn't call it the War Zone for nothin', kids. Today's show don't come close. The WWF sold you a ticket to an adventure.
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What you just said is beautiful.
54 likesTampa bay baby
1 likeW
1 likeIf you want insanity and extreme, watch CZW or ECW.
0 likesI moved to Clearwater from Philly 2 years ago. Went to the Raw reunion show 2 months ago. Let me tell ya.... Tampa Fans have NOTHING on Philly fans. I mean nothing. Two different worlds, man
1 likeBeautifully said. If you ever write a book Ill be the first to buy it. Seriously.
0 likesI remember growing up thinking the exact same. I thought thats how they live. They are insane people. It was an adventure. The rock really only talked in third person. Triple hhh always had a water bottle in his hand and hes always angry. Stone cold always mad at beats people. Seeing them live normal lives took away that thing from this great entertainment. I was scared as hell of paul bearer and as a very young kid would close my eyes seeing him
3 likesThat is beautiful, and people say Americans have no culture Professional Wrestling is like our modern day Shakespearean theatre.
3 likesPeople often forget that Shakespeare's works was for the peasant class. It costed a single shilling to stand at the floor of the show and watch what was considered the greatest theater ever made.
3 likesSounds like how the circus was for me as a kid, except for adults.
0 likesThis is the most beautiful comment I've ever read
1 likeDude, you should be a poet 😍
0 likesReading this comment gave me goosebumps. Thank you. 😎
0 likesFantastic video! There are moments in wrestling where no other movie, book, video game or TV show has made me feel any sort of emotions like wrestling does. There are some moments in the WWF/WWE that really make me shed tears of pure nostalgia, Rock v Hogan, Mankind v Undertaker, HBK v Austin with Mike Tyson as Enforcer, Undertaker v HBK, Sasha Banks v Bailey on NXT (to really kick start the women's revolution in Wrestling), HHH return to MSG in 2002 after his injury, to name a few. It's the months of story arcs and character building, if not years, and tuning in and making it a tradition every monday (tuesday morning for me, thanks EU!). It's so special, we will never see it again, but I tune in every Monday and Friday because I still love it. No matter how trashy and repetitive it gets nowadays. I've been watching back from the Montreal Screwjob at SS 1997, and watching every episode of Raw and eventually smackdown in 1999, and every PPV, and it still holds up.
0 likesIve watched this video about a thousand times, and its just now occuring to me that this video should’ve been called “There Will Never Ever be a wrestling era like the Attitude Era”
2 likesAs someone who grew up not watching wrestling at all, I think Vince making himself the the most unhinged villain in his own product is absolutely hilarious
0 likesas a kid in the deep south I lived for stone cold Steve Austin, dale Earnhardt, and grave digger. watching all of your videos has brought back so many good memories
0 likesEmp makes a video praising WWE. WWE rewards his loyal respect and admiration with a takedown notice.
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"takedown notice"
449 likestakedown
takedown
Rko outta nowhere!!!!!!!!
191 likesprob because he exposed them for being fake 🤔
59 likes@LimeX Don't mention WCW around Titan Towers. Hopefully, AEW can make WCW fans like myself fulfill our hearts with joy with bringing the WWT to its knees and go for the head.
13 likesI get the joke, but I've seen other videos where they praise WWE and they never got taken down.
12 likesThat irony hurts. It was like a fan was taken straight to the ring.
30 likes😂😂
0 likesExactly, I posted JBLS 9/11 tribute and it was pulled and argued my point in the leave a reason section and it was unblocked, Fight them its a fucking video
4 likes@Michael Bloom i hope you were sarcastic
4 likes@Other Gopher I ate my words and shit it out.
0 likes@DaveBob smackdown
0 likeswell he's praising an era the WWE want to hide becase their newer shit will never come anywhere near the attitude era
8 likes83rdox smh 🤦♂️ it’s called fair use buddy
7 likesmichael bloom everyone knew it was fake
6 likesThe old raw theme song is literally in the video. It doesn't surprise me
0 likesfriedkangaroo a
0 likesFROM THE TOP ROPE!
0 likesVince in a nutshell
0 likesPretty sure that's automated.
1 likeTypica WWE
0 likes@Michael Bloom WWE knows most of it's fans know it's fake
4 likesSounds about right
0 likesMichael Bloom expose?😂...bro everybody that’s past the age of 11 knows wrestling is fake. It’s a tv show with characters and storylines
2 likes@Michael Bloom literally every single WWE fan knows its fake
2 likesThis is, was and will always be the greatest event to ever happen on Monday night raw. The Rock, Stone Cold, Mick Foley, Vince, the New Age outlaws, Triple H. This was special. I cried when he won. Stone Cold had his back, when DX had his back. And the Rock was not to proud to give the fans exactly what we wanted.
0 likesMichael Bloom everyone knows its fake, except kids
0 likes83rdox its fair use
0 likesRaw is War
0 likesPraising = WWF
0 likesTake down =WWE
I just noticed he uploaded this video on the 20-year anniversary of the match where mankind won the title for the first time... Very clever.
82 likesAs someone tht just returned to watching WWE after taking roughly 15 years off, there's just something inside that brings out the child everytime I hear the bell.
0 likesSo glad I finally watched this video. Much like your NASCAR stuff I didn't really know anything about WWE but now I can say I understand the hype and love for it. Great video!
1 likeAm I the one who loves the ending to this video? It give me chills listening to the audio from that match. Everything from Jerry Lawler yelling in disgust at Mick winning, to Michael Cole cheering out how Mankind has achieved his dream. Literal nostalgia 🥺
0 likesOnly reason I looked forward to Monday nights growing up
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Nexpo ayyyyyyyy
18 likesOh shit, Nexpo
9 likesWhat's up man?
Glass Shatters*
22 likesHoly shit man, you’re one of my favorite YouTubers
7 likesWhat the hell are you doing here
1 likeNANI?! It's Nexpo himself!
0 likesAye. My grandfather religiously watched it. Good times
6 likesAhh me and my older brother would always watch wwe and Monday night raw! That’s how we bond.. ahh good times
3 likesEver since the attitude era died, it sucks now
14 likesNexpo,your discount Chills Lmao
2 likesSame tbh
0 likes💯
0 likesYo! NEXPO, now knowing that you were a wrestling fan has made me an even bigger fan of yours
6 likesShit literally got me thru school
2 likesFacts
0 likesYo! I just hinged some of your vids recently.
0 likesRight?
0 likesThat explain a lot I bet.
0 likesWeird. I always spend every second at school looking forward to Monday nights.
0 likeswut
0 likesI remember witnessing this as a kid watching Mankind win. It was amazing to see. Gives me goosebumps thinking about it til this day
0 likesI find it so crazy that in the late 90’s and early 2000’s that wrestling and nascar dominated tv’s across America every week and now nearly 20 years later they are recovering from almost dying off and are slowly becoming more popular again.
4 likesPs would like to add that I hate people who say that nascar isn’t a sport or wrestling isn’t real because they are both real in a way. NASCAR is a sport because of the diet and good physical shape required to drive a stock car because if you aren’t in good shape or have a good diet you won’t be able to finish a race let alone drive the car for hours upon hours without collapsing from exhaustion or dehydration. Wrestling is also real because the performers who take the bumps can die from landing incorrectly on a top rope jump or by taking a move like a pile driver incorrectly and breaking your neck like in Stone Cold’s case.
I can remember numerous sundays watching Raw with my dad as a kid. He loved Austin so much. Shame I can't find the magic in wrestling anymore
0 likesIn order to be loved...
5 likesYou need to make a great video about the WWE
You've earned my sub emp!
Mic Foley after falling of a steel cage
1792 likes"Hell yeah let me at him again"
choke slammed through cage
"Hell yeah let me at him again"
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Gets slammed into a pile of thumb taks.
82 likes@PATRINIZER "Call it a draw then"
146 likesMick Foley is the walking embodiment of the "I'll do it again" meme
105 likesCaptain America would be proud
9 likes@PATRINIZER tis but a scratch
24 likesHe probably though he was winning.
6 likes“The Boulder not conflicted. Let’s go again.”
10 likes“I’m sorry I’m sorry. I thought this was America!”
7 likesMic wast supposed to go through the cage he got knocked out for a few seconds
3 likesNot even thumbtacks could stop that absolute madman
3 likesMic foley: "I didn't hear no bell"
8 likes@alex h lol
1 likeGets slammed against a wall of legos
4 likes@AlphafroggyMC now that IS too much.
0 likes🐐
0 likesTHAT MAN HAD A FAMILY.
1 like“Hey Mr. Douchebag, why’s your ego so massive?”
1 likeyfm picture, love ya
1 likeWhere is the madlads Mick Foley episode
0 likesI'm only halfway through this video. But it's incredible. The editing, timing and information is top tier.
1 likeThank you for all I've learned about my favorite Shakespearian play with oily dudes "fake" fighting.
I think that was around the middle of the greatest ever period of wrestling. The characters and stories were great, every match was entertaining. It was Mick, The Rock and Austin's show. Whenever you heard that smashing glass, you would feel an intense rush of excitement because you knew something brilliant was about to happen.
0 likesI don't know you, but I'm proud of you. This was artfully done
0 likesI think I've seen this video like 10 times. I love it so much. There will never ever be as good a video about pro wrestling as this one
0 likesThis will go as one of the best Youtube videos of our lifetimes. Thank you!
0 likesWrestling has definitely changed and I would say that has contributed more to the diminishing of its popularity than how the world has changed around it.
1 likegreat work, I had truly forgotten what it was like to switch between raw and wcw on Mondays
0 likesThe only thing I really took any issue with was referring to Ric Flair as "older and more established talent" from WWF.. But I know what you meant. This was fantastic
0 likesGod tier vid, and I don’t even like wrestling but this made me respect it.
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Your cute
3 likesyou aight white boi
9 likesme too
1 likeI grew up watching between 2005-2014 and even though I missed the attitude era and early 2000s I’m still so happy to have grown up watching guys like Cena, edge, Batista, Mysterio and others
0 likesThis was the best argument I've heard for why you shouldnt judge pro wrestling just cause it isn't real. I'd never liked pro wrestling cause it didn't feel genuine, but he makes a fucking amazing point.
0 likesWould love to see an "Update" to this now that AEW is in the fold of the pro wrestling business.
2 likesamazing storytelling, you got a 20 year old european to care about, understand and appreciate monday night raw
0 likesdont ever stop making videos, please!!!
WWE is just the American equivalent of anime.
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Wow that’s so true
90 likesYeah but modern wwe is bad
81 likesWrong, pro wrestling is more popular in Japan then it is in America.
221 likes@Vulgrim so is most modern anime.
168 likes@jhon viel ehhhh, that's hard to say there is a lot of different genres in modern anime, which i stopped watching, but it's not really compareable to the wwe, when modern wwe just gives you one shit storyline, pushing overrated characters who are trash the usual, john cena, daniel bryan, roman reign, brock lesnar and weird newcomers.
23 likesI feel like this works better for comic book movies
5 likesOr, as it's more frequently put, it's masculine soap opera.
59 likesBut better
8 likesNo.
0 likesHarriman Fox no that’s anamation
0 likes@Vulgrim and so is modern anime
0 likes@Bhargav Chavda I never said anyones work ethic is bad particularly, but yeah their characters are shit as well as the storylines and the overall pg era.
0 likes@Van Dagylon Not necessarily, anything modern anime has, has a fucking better storyline and is less pg than wwe, wwe is so pathetic, you might as well be watching kids wrestling.
5 likes@Vulgrim lel
1 likeIt could also be considered live action comic books
1 likeNani
0 likes@Mac Kobalt no
0 likesholy shit that is knowledge i should not know
0 likesAnd now it's just garbage, sadly. Thankfully anime is still alive.
5 likesNXT
3 likesJohnny Gargano = Shonen Anime Protagonist
Bekki Rinchu best waifu.
1 like@Vulgrim Modern anime is bad so...
0 likes@DynastyKit well alot not all, just hard to find anything worthwhile
0 likes@just some guy who does what he wants Same thing goes for wrestling. There's good modern wrestling, you just have to hunt for it.
9 likes@Miguel Juarez as anime is more popular in America than japan
5 likes@Miguel Juarez The vice versa thing applies. Anime is more popular in America than it is in Japan, it IS popular is in Japan except most asians [in Japan] see anime as childish.
2 likesno it isnt, anime is full of anime hair gay people, wrestling at its best is like the literal opposite
1 likeAnime & wrestling aren't different from each other.
0 likesThe Ancient Kaiser Mythra It has its moments
0 likesKinnikuman*
0 likesI remember when Stone Cold and the Rock used to talk about food. Things got dark after Blue Blazer dies...
0 likes@z #37549 it does but at least they hav stories and promos that dont relate to that, if wwe was an anime steve austin would be constantly talking about how he must protect his friends and would have colorful emo hair
0 likes@l Z I You do know you're just talking about Shonen(battle oriented shows aimed at 13 year old boys)? I'm sorry if I come off as a bit pretentious here but I think more people should realize that anime are just Japanese *cartoons*. Not a genre in it of itself
0 likesAlso I didn't really mention anything about anime. I was just saying that RAW was pretty gay since the way you phrased your comment made it seem like it was the opposite
True
0 likes23:48 its funney becouse i was like is this anime it sounds like it.
0 likesAt least there isn't any rape
0 likes@MAHKEL HARRIS Don't blame them, the very few animes I have seen were written like how a 14 year old would write something, very edgy but without the point.
3 likes@DynastyKit nah Jojo, hero academy, attack on titan, one punch man are all pretty good and thats just a few
1 like@l Z I how? There was only like one gay couple and thats it
0 likesExcept that the characters have noses... And are real people.
0 likes@Chris Michael so do anime characters and wwe wrestlers play characters
0 likes@Miguel Juarez Lolo, and anime is more popular in America than it is in Japsn. Funny how that works...
0 likes@Vulgrim, shut up idc? Obviously you do care or you wouldn't of had such a reaction to that dude's comment.
0 likes@Miguel Juarez I suspected that for a sec ngl
0 likesThat's the line my friend used to get me into it.
0 likes@Richard Beau Dangles dude hahahaha you are commenting on a post I made 10 months ago lol the context of what I was arguing doesn't matter and I do not care about modern wrestling, wrestling went from two dudes beating the ever loving shit out of each other with a nice story to some of the safest pg cuddling with horrible characters and bad writing, nothing redeemeble except when they have to bring back the oldschool legends for nostalgia.
0 likes@douglas wahid Was there an actual law passed or something?
0 likes@Vulgrim Im gonna sound like a boomer but
3 likesThe 90's and the early 2000's where the best
Why would you say something so controversial and yet so true
0 likesAMEN
1 likeI... can’t argue with that.
0 likesMiguel Juarez but WWE isn’t, he didn’t say pro wrestling he said WWE
0 likes@alfa01spotivo Jojo isn't even modern it's a 30 plus year old series
1 likeBest comparison I've read. And I love both.. well anime still
0 likesThats dumb...
0 likesWait a second
@ANDON HOWARD My comment was like a year or so ago, Yeah I figured but most of the pushed wrestlers are bad and wwe ratings are at an all time low, wwe like most things that used to be great arent so great anymore.
0 likesAnd im not gonna change my opinion that daniel bryan was pushed too hard, never liked the authority storyline, that pushed cm punk over all for triple H to play this big bad guy, a lot of stuff from 2014 to 2020 just gets worse.
@Vulgrim WWE is actually decent these daya
0 likes@Vulgrim lol ok buddy. I like both WWE and AEW. Yes AEW is better but I'm just saying product wise WWE isn't as bad as it used to be
0 likes@ZootedBeaver i agree with you, 2020 is one of the best year that wwe have after 2016. In this year we got edge returning, drew winning the royal rumble, an amazing babyface championship run, roman reigns vs jey uso, boneyard match, we got amazing pay per view like the royal rumble, wrestlemania 36, backlash, money in the bank, summerslam 2020, clash of champion, hell in a cell, we also got one of the best women match in the year that is sasha vs bayley at HIAC, the hurt business, randy orton legend killer run, randy vs edge and lastly alexa bliss and the fiend stuff is entertaining. Sure we've got some bad moments like extreme rules 2020, ricochet squashed by brock, Goldberg winning the championship, braun title reign is horrible, john Morrison getting wasted and etc. But in my opinion this year is miles better than the 2018-2019 garbage
1 likebut better
0 likes@Vulgrim AEW is where its at now
0 likes@Vulgrim to be fair, there are a lot of different genres and companies in wrestling
0 likesWow, i applaud you. Best story telling of wrestling and build up. Love when you give cultural context. Amazing job
1 likeMonday Night Wars were really amazing. That period of WWF & WCW at it's most popular. That kind of boom period is never going to be reached again.
0 likesMasterful put together.
0 likesThank you for this run down 👍
I'm so glad I got to watch the Monday Night Wars during this timeframe as a teenager. So great
0 likesIt didn't say "Die, Rocky, Die!" It was German for: "The, Rocky, The!"
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harajaaha yes simpsonne reference
29 likesUse a pen Sideshow Bob
11 likes"And it's Sideshow Bob with the rake out of nowhere!"
39 likesNo-one who speaks German could be evil fans.
23 likesi was saying boo-urns
8 likesWell, no one that speaks German could be bad.
4 likesNo way
0 likes🤣🤣🤣🤣what???
1 like@Aaron Ethan mario yamasaki be like:
0 likesIn Germany "the" is gendered, "die" is the female version jussayin
1 likeHaha I get that reference
0 likesI watch this video when you posted it. It aged poorly in less than one year and I'm actually glad it did. AEW made this real. Thank you Tony. Screw you Vince.
5 likesI remember watching Rey Mysterio as a kid and wanting to be like him. The 619, the intro everything, as well someone like me was up there. Sure John cena and the rock were also my favorites but they just didn’t have the same appeal to me.
0 likes18:08 This is my first time watching this, but I will be very disappointed if you do not give credit to good ole JR for his incredible commentary. His and Jerry Lawler's commentary in this era is largely responsible for the love the fans developed for these guys. Many storyboard points were driven through JR's commentary.
1 likeI never watched wrestling, but I think I get it now. Great video.
0 likesAlso worth mentioning how they changed to WWE because the World Wildlife Fund sued them.
>when a man has lost his hair, he has nothing left to lose
3210 likesTruth.
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Was totally expecting a "Keeps" ad transition there. Missed opportunity to be sure.
63 likes@Dante's Inferno my hair is gone and i havent even lost my regular virginity
21 likesHave you lost your hair?
2 likes@Kimg Komg sadly yes
3 likes@Evan W so what? Shave it and keep it movin partner
8 likesThat explains Tim Pool perfectly
4 likesHeisenburg
3 likes@DanTheMan Lost one it’s okay man
2 likesAnd I took that personally.
2 likes'Michael Jordan
@JVNXIIE lelelelel
2 likesthanks johnny sins, my local doctor
1 likeAs a bald man, can confirm
2 likestell me about it
0 likes@Evan W stay strong bro. I’m sure you got a Johnny Sins thing going on!
0 likes@Evan W what in the hell is regular virginity
0 likes@Kid Cotter Ask your parents
0 likes@Kid Cotter Who asked?
0 likesYou're an amazing storyteller!!
0 likesEven now when you hear Austin's glass shattering, it still rings out. It's amazing.
1 likeim sure not everyone has gone to see pro wrestling live but i have to say, just like many other things in life, the experience seeing it in person is wildly better than on tv.
0 likesi HIGHLY recommend trying it out at least once. even if it ends up being a mediocre event, im sure youll still enjoy it
As a wrestling fan this makes me emotional and I don't know why
0 likesthis is epic. never expected you to bring up how in 1998, the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeted 16 feet through an announcers’ table
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OH MY GOD!
1 likeShittyMorph?
12 likes@Fran B 😉
1 like@Fran B it was EmpLemon all along!
0 likesGlenn Jacobs, is that Kane? Why's he wearing a suit?
0 likesIn early 2000's as a kid I used to loove wrestling, especially Smackdown. Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit were my absolute favorites.. we'll we know how that ended. Atleast Rey Mysterio didn't die while I was fanboying wwe, it was crazy times
1 likeThis isn't my first time watching this, but for some reason hearing about the declining ratings this time really made me quite sad.
0 likesFor the past 5 years I've been rewatching 90s wrestling. It's so entertaining to me. So many fun and charismatic people
1 likeGreat video! The nostalgia is unreal.
1 likeCountless HD livestreams of Family Guy episodes, completely unchanged, inarguably copyright infringement: A-OK.
514 likes100% fair use, educational, passionate video which took weeks of research and editing, also doubles as free advertising for TV, a dying medium of entertainment: unforgivable.
I mean, obviously, right?
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Isn't YouTube great?
26 likesIt's okay if they're green
17 likesUosdwis R. Dewoh
3 likesYouTube wants TV to die confirmed.
And then, they will aim for the beer.
NO TV and NO BEER
TBF those livestreams are constantly being taken down or are edited to a point the show is barely watchable. They're just constantly making new channels to continue it
1 likeThis was fucking awesome, thank you for this video. I relived this moment
0 likesMr. McMahon: "This is a wholesome tv show for all of your family"
41 likescontinues to get beaten by Stone Cold in order to get fans hyped to fantasy about beating their bosses xD
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In his defense I think he said that in 85...and it was more wholesome then. Even Vince couldn't refer to the attitude era as wholesome. Thats what made it even more fun.
5 likesJust come back to this after seeing it when it was first aired(?), amazing now as it was then. Easily one of your best vids Emp
0 likesThere may never be another moment that captures this level of excitement...
0 likesAnd then CM Punk returns to wrestling via AEW. Tell me that wasn't the hottest crowd ever
Man the backflips you did in this video to avoid copyright claims is the real show here
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And he still got claimed
98 likesThat’s the problem with YouTube’s copyright claim mechanism. It’s left up to an algorithm that clearly doesn’t understand the law. Stuff like this is only promoting WWE, not taking away any potential revenue.
51 likesWho would've thought that on one random day, just scrolling through youtube comments, I would see Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler in the same section. Wow. Just wow.
25 likes@Soviet Re4per thank daddy trump
1 like@Sa bt Thank you daddy trump
8 likesthank you daddy Trump
3 likes@Soviet Re4per thank you daddy trump
2 likesEven the YouTube algorithm doesn’t like a spotfest. Damn. At least we can still see the video
1 likeI remember having front row seats to multiple Raw is War events, due to my mother being really amazing and always supporting my interests. In the Attitude era, I mean every stadium was completely sold out and the crowds were absolutely wild! I mean, ever single grown adult and child screaming at the top of their lungs and would have no voice the next day. Damn, was that the most amazing times of my life!
0 likesRock was always my favorite growing up even though he was a bad guy I always rooted for him. He was just to good in the ring and on the mic. Turning heel was best decision if his career. Then when he left came back as a Hollywood hill it was brilliant.
0 likesi remember leaving art class every tiesday to call a tollfree number from the payphone to find out who won in the ratings to report it back to classmates. Wrestling was huge!
1 likeAs a kid around 2000 on Monday nights we would all be playing outside and then the dads would yell "Its wrestling time!" and all of the kids would go to their homes and literally watch wcw until wwf came on. It was like clock work. I miss being a kid around then and living on base. It was an incredible time to be alive.
0 likesHonestly, pro wrestling is probably the best anime of this decade.
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Not this decade.
72 likesOk then jojo fan 🤢🤢🤢
29 likesI’ve always thought wrestling and anime were two sides of the same coin. Think about it, even in Anime they cut promos before/during the battles 😂
70 likesLol Doppio Pfp
2 likes90s was the best
13 likesNo it's one of the best 90s anime, the WWF vs WCW arc was epic.
26 likes@Rock Golem 🤣🤣🤣🤣
1 likeThat’s doesn’t even makes sense
2 likesAEW is the better anime.
0 likeslotta angry little boys in these replies
7 likes@Jake Foley its a whole Lotta "I hate anime cause I can't read subtitles"
6 likes@GreatUserGames dubs are a thing
3 likes@Jake Foley yeah but why would you watch dubs they aren't that great
0 likes@GreatUserGames It's not the 90's anymore, some dubs are better than subs. It kinda depends on the anime.
8 likes@emiliano zamora I am a JoJo fan and I like wrestling I consume media and I can appreciate the works of tradition...
11 likesNgl: I compare Wrestling to Anime/Shows all the time. Hey, if you find enjoyment out of TOWIE and Made in Chelsea. I can watch near naked apes fight over a gold belt!
2 likes@emiliano zamora you should write promos for modern day wrestlers
2 likesSike
@MJL 11 haha! So funny! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
0 likes@emiliano zamora I knew you'd like it
5 likesYour killing me with this type of humor
1 like@Jake Foley sounds like the weeb is projecting
1 like@Kenneth White fr
0 likesJesus this reply section is toxic. OP made a joke and he gets shit for having a JoJo pfp
5 likesnah bleach is
0 likes@emiliano zamora okay bully 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
0 likesNever thought about it that way. Wrestling as an Anime... but not the best. Dragonball
2 likesThis is my favorite comment thread lmao
0 likesAll time*
0 likes@emiliano zamora what are five years old
0 likes@RosettaStoned attitude era & dbz will always reign supreme😤
0 likessuper & the pg era is trash 👎
If my kids ever ask me to explain wrestling to them in the future, I’ll show them this
0 likesIt's crazy how it is actually necessary for you to explain a simple concept like theater.
3 likes"He started with nothing"
8 likes"By 1984 hos father had died and Vince was left with a booming wrestling league"
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Trump was also given millions by his father at a young age and inherited everything, so it still works.
1 likeStone Cold returning was wrestling's equivalent of the "On your left" moment in Endgame.
1 likeYeah, but what about that time when John Cena saved the Scooby Doo gang by stopping a 2 ton boulder with his bare hands?
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It would’ve been better if it was The Rock who did it.
91 likes@JoJo Reztorc03 John Cena stopping the Rock from tumbling down a hill and crushing the Scooby Doo gang.
190 likes@ManlyChicken you're a people person
40 likesManlyChicken I have that film
8 likesWhat about when The Undertaker hit a Last Ride followed by a Tombstone Piledriver on Scooby Doo
20 likesIt's awesome how with WWE you can't even be sure if that actually happened or not.
10 likesI thought that boulder stopped on its own.
7 likesChris Redfield vs John Cena in a boulder on a pole match
10 likes@JoJo Reztorc03 he WAS the boulder
3 likes@Salt Service i litterally just said that. You unfortunately didnt understand
0 likes@Salt Service funny how you think i go off the internet
0 likes@Shoot Right Here No, the Rock is the people person...some even call him their champion...
1 likeDolph Ziggler: THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 likeThat's the only time he'll ever win against the rock.
2 likes@Alan Kusparmakov It did, there was a movie crossover between Scooby Doo and John Cena. B-mask did a video on it I think.
1 likeNo one saw him do it unfortunately
1 likeWhat do you mean the boulder stopped there was no John cena
1 likeWhat about the time Scooby and The Undertaker joined Wacky Races: Fury Road?
0 likesI think it’s really cool how he released this video exactly 20 years after the Monday Night Raw episode he is analyzing hit TV. Pretty clever EmpLemon
0 likesso, essentially: in 400~ years, Vince McMahon and Hideo Kojima will be history's next Shakespeares.
2 likesAs a kid I loved WWE. Friday night smackdown was my show though. Couldn't convince the parents to let me stay up that late on a school night lmao 🤣 Still though, even though me and my friends knew it was fake, we loved it so much. The stories had us hooked, we had our favourites and our enemies. And I still remember watching Jeff Hardy lose to CM punk and have to "retire" in back in '09 and the emotions of losing my favourite character. Great video reminding me why I loved wrestling so much 👌
0 likesI got to go see WCW Monday Nitro back in 94 or 95. Back when it was the most popular wrestling organization. Me and my friends got front row seats and got to slap hands with Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage! It was pretty memorable, and I've never really been a fan of wrestling. I never watched it on TV, but being there live at the matches is pretty damn fun.
0 likesDid EmpLemon low-key compare William Shakespeare to Vince McMahon?
1763 likesThat's real talent
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not really Shakespeare wrote blockbuster plays and Vince writes very similar things
32 likesWilliam Shakespeare never took a Stone Cold stunner...
146 likesShakespeare never booked a kennel from hell match, and yes, I am referring to another Vince
10 likesShakespeare didn't make Wally Yamaguchi castrate Val Venis
8 likeswhat a disgusting thing to think and say.
0 likesShakespeare never booked himself going over on god.
7 likesSilverdarlin
4 likesThe Virgin Shakespeare vs the Chad McMahon
Did Vince ever go to the Queen of England and tell her that her country was fucked??
0 likesWell...he did talk shit to our current president and went toe to toe with him, which is kinda close.
What makes a great vid is I can’t notice how long it is. These 34 minutes were amazing and I wish there was more.
0 likes26:49
2 likes"When a man has lost his hair, he has nothing left to lose"
This has aboslutely no business being so god damn funny.
i was 14-18 during that time watching with my friends, Diesel was my favourite until he left WWF, then Mankind and Stone Cold were my heroes, and i'm from south america, so the party was not only enjoyed in the US
1 likeFor those that don’t know, there is now competition for WWE once again. It’s called AEW, and it’s on TNT, soon switching to TBS. It’s much more geared toward an older audience, and has some incredibly engaging characters like MJF and CM Punk. I definitely recommend it if you want to try watching pro wrestling, but think WWE is too bland or too polished.
0 likesAs a massive wrestling fan, I can safely say that there are many shows and events other wrestling promotions that emulate (or at least try to) the late 90s/early 2000s car-crash TV style of RAW during the Attitude Era. WCW tried to during the same time... and failed. TNA/IMPACT Wrestling tried to during the early 2010s which sunk the company into its darkest timeline and currently, MLW has almost replicated the style successfully albeit on a much lower scale.
421 likesI grew up during this time period and it was what made me a fan in the first place. It was the wrestling boom that we will never see again. Wrestling will never be as popular as it was during the mid-late 90s/early 2000s. Kids "wrestling" each other in school, doing DX crotch chops, employees flipping their bosses off ala Stone Cold and everybody spitting water like they were Triple H..... good times, good times....
Great video by the way. Keep up the awesome work.
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I have a theory that it’s ecw’s death that caused the creative stagnation that has plagued pro wrestling ever since. They were the perfect in between an indy company and the huge juggernauts that were wwf and wcw, allowing them to push the envelope and develop real feeling characters that fans could get behind. Mick Foley, Jericho, and Stone Cold all cultivated their characters and ability to get over in ecw. The Game character is a discount watered down Franchise Shane Douglas from ECW. There hasn’t been a true successor to ecw since they went under. I think MLW is getting close and i really respect them, but they aren’t as contemporary to the current culture as ecw was in the 90’s.
10 likesMLW fucking rules, but nothing will ever recapture WWF and the original ECW
4 likesI can’t hear crash tv without thinking of the horrendous Vince Russo
1 likeAEW is doing more crash tv and it’s great
5 likesSo many crotch chops.....
0 likes@iLLBiLLsRoastBeats bro
0 likes100% got in trouble for doing crotch chops as a third grader in elementary school
0 likesMonday Nitro dominated Raw for 2 years and got higher ratings than Raw has EVER seen. But ok....
0 likesThe slideshows here are actually even better than watching the original footage in some strange way - at least, if you've already watched the original footage to death like so many of us fans have.
1 likeThis man could make anyone interested in anything
1 like33:19 This is the only part that you got wrong, b/c even the majority of wrestling fans old & young will tell you that the quality of WWE programming has greatly declined over the years. Just like how WCW declined during the era when wrestling was at its most popular.
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Yes. The PG era sucks.
1 like@RobD8870 Officially, the PG era supposedly ended in 2014. Though the product is still family-friendly during the Reality & New eras, but then so was the very popular 80s Golden Era.
5 likesWhat an amazing video. Made me remember why I loved this so much
0 likesThere will never be another channel like EmpLemon’s
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You thief, imagine being the poor guy who made the original comment
60 likesFAX
4 likestoche
2 likes*there IS none
2 likesNever ever*
4 likes@Cynical it was me :(
26 likes@csquar3d2 :(
5 likestrue dat
0 likesLove ya
0 likesEmpLime
2 likes@csquar3d2 F ;(
1 likeCynical I made it originally my dude
0 likes@JODonYT sure, only in this version of the video tough
1 likenever ever*
0 likesI disagree sir.
0 likes@JODonYT this was the second time this was uploaded, the first time was put down by copyright but Emp brought it back. I made the same exact comment on the first version and it got 200 likes untill it went down.
5 likesWhat about game theory
0 likes@Neptune-Blue Trochymchuk Game Theory and EmpLemon both make fantastic use of critical thinking and researching topics, but one thing I find that separates the two is that YouTube is not Emp's job, so he can post whenever he wants and post somewhat whatever he wants to any audience he chooses. Game Theory, as I perceive it, wants to function as a genuine channel and a business, but if GT wants to make an income, they'll need to appeal to a large and accessible audience. I don't necessarily see GT as patronizing, they pull off a decent and fitting character of "we know we can be seen as just another corporate money man haha but we make sensible use of funds and here's our patreon." The joking manner of GT's patreon slips, from my point of view, leaves a gray feeling about their genuineness, as they could just take full advantage of their influetial 4th wall poking and make bank off of the the trust they established. Emp plays with other means but he can reach the same end, but less influentially and less profitably. I'd like to hear other opinions on this.
2 likesMumkey Jo- oh wait
0 likesNever ever*
0 likesYeah, cuz YouTube will ban them..
0 likesCalaz and I got 600 likes and I posted the comment 8 minutes before yours
0 likes@JODonYT that's kind of odd. i have a notification system that tells me exactly when someone uploads and i posted the comment like 30 seconds after this was uploaded? and i frequently checked my comment (being the sad person i am) and i was the third most liked comment so idk maybe the site did some weird goof or you're just a liar.
2 likesCalaz when a video drops it doesn’t show all the comments. Plus your said it was edited after
1 like@JODonYT eh, alright ill give you the benefit of the doubt as that first point's true. i only edited though because there was a spelling error, but tbh it's a pretty easy thing to come up with considering the video.
1 likeCalaz we probably just came up with it at the same time tbh
1 likefacts
0 likesThere will never be more ytps which is the reason i subbed in the first place :(
0 likesTrue!
0 likesoh yeah yeah
0 likesJust an unpopular opinion here and maybe I'm crazy, but... For me EmpLemon and Graenolf (channel that make videos about Skyrim and Fallout series) both have the same voice, despite having nothing to do with other.
0 likesInternet Historian send his "regards".
1 likethere are so many channels like this one, are you fuckin kidding?
0 likesWhat about ahoy?
0 likesThere's actually someone similar to him, in these sort of videos tho, it's called SLB productions, he kinda focuses more about other YouTube channels like Emp does on some videos
0 likesBro these videos are almost exactly like Jon Bois vids
0 likes@csquar3d2 f
0 likesRest in peace snooty. You will always be loved.
1 likeIt’s interesting seeing what other people grew up with. Hope ya keep makin these.
0 likesits so weird to hear the 90's described like a distant memory
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I keep thinking its only been a couple years when its actually been 20 😳
0 likes@Majin Vegeta yeah I still think of the 90s as the decade just passed
0 likes@H G im guessing you grew up during the attitude era?
0 likes@Majin Vegeta yeah, although I played smackdown. Simpler times 😀
0 likes@H G lucky you man! I grew up in the ruthless agression era 👍 which was still pretty cool compared to the trash of today.
0 likes@Majin Vegeta hell yeah i miss staying up all night playing smackdown here comes the pain and watching wwe on tv
0 likes@logo809 my first wwe game was SvR06 & i used to play all night w my cousins... good times forsure
0 likesWWE is still pretty good, and thisnis coming from someone who loved WCW and WWF/WWE back in the late 90s/00s. Unlike Simpsons, WWE is different but still pretty dope right now.
0 likesEmpLemon has some kind of mystical storytelling ability that can take something which I have absolutely no interest in, and turn it into something amazing that can completely captivate me for half an hour.
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thats lord montizon for ya
1 likeTry summoning salt
3 likesIf you liked this video, check out Super Eyepatch Wolf's video "Why You Should Watch Professional Wresting". SEW has a mystical storytelling ability as well and takes wrestling and transforms it into something wonderful
2 likesno
1 likeAs a pro-wrestling fan, thanks for admitting that. Foley winning the title is one of the greatest stories ever. The thing about wrestling, is that when its good its fucking amazing. but when it's bad, you question why you've been a fan all along.
8 likesto anyone reading this, i encourage looking up any video with The Rock and Mick Foley in it. all those segments are pure gold. they can be allies, enemies, love/hate relationship. doesnt matter. Foley using the rocks catch phrase against him was one of my personal favorites
I think emplemon would be good on the mic if he was in wwe because of his voice and storytelling ability
0 likesHorhay the Dragon I completely agree 😂
0 likesThis and the NASCAR videos are some of the best content on YouTube. Please give us more!
1 likei never got into wrestling, but vince is an actual genius
0 likesThe history of pro wrestling
1 likeLove the video!!! I do have to argue with Mick Foley statement. He is regarded as one of if not the (outside of Bret Hart) most technical wrestlers to date. My Top 2 on my list... Undertaker clear #1 for me
0 likesI was extremely impressed with the organization, editing, and quality of this video. Watched the whole video basically on the edge of my seat. You have a new subscriber.
262 likesThat that boss was willing to do anything for his company really does tell you about his love for the sport. I don’t see that often
0 likesGoddammit! You're a storyteller. I love these videos. Your SpongeBob video is a national treasure. It should be in the library of congress.
0 likesWhen mick foley won the belt on RAW against the Rock in 99 it proves something, no matter how much the others get to you don't let it stick in your mind, defy odds and and let the ones who witness it take it in and grab it whole heartedly, it symbolises the classic set up of powerhouse smartass vs underdog and twists it on its head when Stone Cold comes in and the crowd becomes unglued as he's sticking it to the rock like how we would all want to stick it to the corporate smart asses of the world.
0 likesThat's the reason I love wrestling, it takes people you don't expect can survive and it shows how they can hang with the greatest of all time, i inspire to be buff like the rock, but i inspire mentally to be like Mick Foley.
Love him or hate him Vince McMahon has inspired Generations
I. Will. NEVER. Forget this episode of Raw. The following Tuesday at school was wild🔥
0 likesIn Monday Night Raw, you can see the Trash Man defeating every wrestler on the ring and he wins.
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Friendship are you the new Justin Y?
1 likeWould be weird if the Trash Man defeated every wrestler and didn't win.
1 like@Friendship dude, i LOVE your avatar
2 likesSounds alot like Vinewrestle!
1 likeBROTHER
1 likeI think Brendaniel said it best: "I could watch guys beat each other up in the UFC....but there are wizards in wrestling"
3 likesOne of the best documentaries ive watched in years 👌
0 likesThe problem is that up until about 20 years ago pro wrestling pretended to be real and as kids we couldn't tell the difference. Even in to my early 20s I still had doubts 😂
0 likesMy dad and I didn't bond over too much when I was growing up. But growing up in the attitude era WWF might have made up for ALL OF IT in one fell swoop, into one gargantuan thing that we both absolutely adored. We never missed an episode, even the pay per views. My dad took me when RAW came to town in 1998 when I was 11 years old. My favorite was SCSA, as he was for most people back then. I'll never EVER forget being in attendance when that glass broke, and an arena worth of people absolutely EXPLODED. It gives me chills, to this day. People can talk shit about wrestling all they want. It doesn't diminish it one bit, imo. EDIT: Emp, thank you so fucking much for this. It means alot
0 likes“When you become the WWF Champion, you become the face of the company.”
883 likesCM Punk: Rolls Eyes.
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He did tho
23 likesHe was actually.
6 likesHe really was, at the time my wrestling-loving pal kept bragging about him and when I did my research he was one of the most recognised WWE wrestlers at the time.
10 likesEven when he wasn't the champion, he was still over and proved he was the face even when he wasn't.
19 likes@ThatEraSound rolled on?
1 likeBret the hitman hart similarly got screwed over like Punk, as well as many others.
2 likesAJ Styles rolls eyes (his second wwe title run)
2 likesTo everyone who said cm punk was the face of the company back when he was champion look at how many times he main events a PPV compared to John Cena
8 likesWill CM Punk had the title, he only main evented like 4 PPV's, yes 4/14 PPV's out of entire year and a half worth. He wasn't the face the company, John Cena still was during that time.
12 likesTLC 2011 Main Event: Punk vs Del Rio
Royal Rumble 2012 Main Event: Royal Rumble Match
Elimination Chamber 2012 Main Event: John Cena vs Kane
Wrestlemania 28 Main Event: John Cena vs The Rock
Extreme Rules 2012 Main Event: John Cena vs Brock Lesnar
Over the Limit 2012 Main Event: John Cena vs John Laurinitis
Now Way out 2012 Main Event: John Cena vs The Big Show
Money in the Bank 2012 Main Event: Money in the Bank Ladder match
Summerslam 2012 Main Event: Brock Lesnar vs Triple H
Night of Champions 2012 Main Event: John Cena vs CM Punk
Hell in a Cell 2012 Main Event: CM Punk vs Ryback
Survivor Series 2012 Main Event John Cena vs CM Punk vs Ryback
TLC 2012 Main Event: John Cena vs Dolph Ziggler
Royal Rumble 2013 Main Event: CM Punk vs The Rock
CM Punk lost to the Rock, a part timer at Royal Rumble which was stupid cause we should have got a John Cena vs CM Punk MITB 2.0 at Wrestlemania 29, not John Cena and the Rock again.
@TheBlackPhantomHD Yeah, that Cena vs Johnny "PeOpLEs PoWeR" Laurrinitis was a real slap in the face. Along with 196th time Big Snore has turned from face to heel.
3 likesWhat is the huge hype train behind cm punk for? I've been a wrestling fan since 1990 and I have never understood what the big deal was about him? He was a skinny fat guy who dropped "pipe bombs" and was nothing spectacular as far as wrestling ability. I'm not trying to be a smart ass, I'm genuinely curious as to his appeal.
2 likesChris Michael everyone is different. I’m pretty sure for some people back in 1999-2003, the rock was such a annoying cocky dude who was nothing special. But most of the people were rooting for him. There’s hadn’t been no face of the company since John cena. The only faces in history are Hogan , Austin the rock and cena. There’s no punk or Romana reings
3 likesRey Mysterio rolls his eyes would have been painfully more accurate
2 likesEvery time somebody brings up cm punk all that comes to mind is that ufc spiral kick hilarious as all hell
0 likesCommon misconception about Mr. Socko: People think that it's suffocation, but it is actually pinching the muscle under the tongue, and above the chin, which is incredibly painful, and is a very effective way to knock somebody out.
0 likesAlso the decline of the 90s was from Vince owning most of the teritories. You had no choice other then WWF or WCW. Both shows were NOT what wrestling had been for the 80 years prior in the teritory days. It was cartoonish, and slow, and silly, and NOT what people were used to. Sure the steroid scandal hurt the image, but the popularity if wrestling decling was ALL on Vinces shoulders as he owned just about all of wrestling at that point, and his vision was entertainment, NOT wrestling.
0 likesI watched Raw when I was a kid up until the merger with WCW. I feel so dumb for spending all that money on ppv but I feel dumb about a lot of my childhood.
0 likes"When a man has lost his hair, He got nothing to lose". Well said there.
0 likesOne step on the steel Cage
1709 likesOne giant leap for mankind
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Newby Ton nice
10 likesNewby Ton
3 likesOff*
Double nice.
2 likeswow clever
0 likesThat's my new favorite phrase thank you
0 likesI see what you did there
0 likesAh yes but this time it was in a fake sport
0 likesLol
0 likesBro I fucking love this video. I’ve been trying to convince my lady to watch wwe with me and we will watch a lot of it together but it’s hard trying to break down the whole shibang to her while watching. You’ve put this video together so good bro i know it’ll be easier for her to understand when I show her later! Thank you 🙏🏽
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well..older is better. I csnt watch this new shit either. even my kids can't really get into it
0 likesNice Children's Story mention at 5:06. It truly is one of the best, if not the best examples of great storytelling out there. Amazing video by the way.
0 likesPLS WE NEED SUBTITLES
1 likeIM FRENCH AND I CANT SHOW THIS TO MY NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING FRIENDS AND THATS TOO DRAMATIC FOR ME
seriously, this masterclass should be shown to everyone to understand how storytelling can affect a story
Damn this took me down memory lane. holy shit, I forgot how much I loved WWE
0 likesThis really exemplifies how WWE used to take guys and make them true stars through compelling stories. There will never be a time in wrestling like the late 90s/early 2000s ever again and I'm so glad to have lived through it. Great piece.
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I was born 89 and some of my finest memories are when I spoke about it at school the day after and staying up late in the UK for pay per view events, taking school off the next day to watch it with my brother and cousin
1 likeWhy does he call it WWF IM HIGH AND ITS SCARING ME
0 likesYou’re right and it breaks my heart that there will never be anything like it again 😞😖😭
0 likes2013 and back was the best times for WWE. (In my opinion.)
1 likeWhile it’s not as popular for sure, it’s still very live and energetic and crowds are still insanely passionate. If you ever get a chance to go see a show, tickets are cheaper than one would thing and even “bad seats” are good at these events and it’s an experience like no other
1 likeI was there that night when Foley first won the belt. Worcester, MA. Considered the loudest pop in WWF/E history when the glass broke and Austin came out. Place went nuts
1 likeJerry Lawler legitimately thought Mick Foley was dead during the hell in a cell match at King of the Ring.
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I know, I watched it when I was 3 on DVD
24 likesBY GAWD it is so nostalgic
And I didn’t expect to find you here
3 likesOH MY GOD
0 likesI saw it on tv when it happened and i thought he was dead too. I still flinch watching it. That and if you look at the broken cage roof after the 2nd fall, that while panel is about 3 fert over Foleys head.
0 likesAhhh man, brings back soo many memories.
0 likesJust that glass shatter and Vince's face is enough.
Good fucking times.
I hope every cast get's what's due to them though in the end.
If you like Monday Night Raw, you should have been around when ECW Hardcore TV was a thing. The mid-1990s were amazing.
1 likeHahaha omg. I use to watch monday night raw, and the show they aired on Friday (i forget the name) when it became the WWE, and i absolutely loved it. I'd beg my parents to let me watch raw, as it always aired on a school night. Or I'd be bouncing back and forth trying to watch raw and nitro. God, i loved wrestling during that time
0 likesI'll never make fun of pro wrestling again. Thank you.
1 likeVince sounds like the best boss in the world, lmao, up there in the frontlines with his platoon, mad respect for the man.
1 likeRemember when your Monday Night Raw shows had main event quality matches week in week out.
2 likesWe're one step closer toward that lightsaber and now this video is one step closer to not aging well. It's a tiny step, but a step nonetheless.
0 likesI have never, and likely never will, watch professional wrestling but this is video made me feel genuinely excited.
0 likesReally great video. I faded out of pro wrestling a couple of years ago but watching this reminded me of how much I always enjoyed it. I went to a couple of live shows, including Wrestlemania one year, and you describing the crowd reactions and the raw emotions really brought back those fond memories of being a wrestling fan. Thanks for making this, my guy.
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Watch njpw.
4 likesI wouldn't really reccomend returning Now. The company isn't at its greatest right Now. RAW had the lowest rating in November or December. Not sure now.
1 likeWatch NXT
5 likes@teargazed nx3
0 likes@Luke Rose no u
0 likes@teargazed damn it
0 likesAlso, this is basically a bio of my childhood hahahha. Was glued to WWF back then..it truly was rock and roll Elvis status then.
1 likeI think JR and Lawler's commentary should also get a special mention as well, time and time again they gave me goosebumps and made me think it was so real and raw as a kid
0 likesI was 16 in 1996. Watching this unfold live was even better than you think. Raw vs. Nitro every Monday. Constant stream of new ECW VHS tapes. Watching Cactus Jack and Terry Funk beat each other with barbed wire baseball bats. UFC with no rules or weight classes. What a time to be alive!
0 likesThat era between 97-00, which was my High School years, was the best Era in Wrestling History. So many Iconic characters and moments. I stopped watching Wresting alltogether in 2001, when I joined the Work Force. And honestly im surprised that Wrestling is even relevant nowadays. But watching those old clips from the late 90s ill admit put a Smile on my face. And yea I remember my favorite Wrestler of all time in Mick Foley beating The Rock for the Workd Title. And how happy I was for him
0 likesI've never really bothered to pay attention to anything related to the WWE, like most outsiders I saw it as just some sweaty guys hugging on to each other in the ring. Though as you described this unfolding narrative between all these fighters, I found myself gripped. I may not watch wrestling, or even like it that much, but thank you for allowing me to come to appreciate it.
136 likesQuality content as always!
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Nora
13 likesThis sentiment, as I and many others had/have, is the epitome of why outsiders to a product should never have control or influence over said product.
There's the already mentioned "Wrestling Isn't About Wrestling" by Max Landis and "Why Professional Wrestling is Fascinating" by Super Eyepatch Wolf if you're interested in this kind of breakdown.
7 likesNew Japan Pro Wrestling is something you might like. The matches are so well done. Its some ballet shit.
0 likesi completely feel the same
0 likesShame its a shadow of its former self, not suspect why he barely showed any clips from the last 10 years? Because its fucking garbage, if you want to appreciate wrestling, make sure to watch anything during or before 2001, its fucken awful now
1 likeY2 Jericho nah NXT has consistently been pretty great for the last 5 years or so
1 likeThe best times were from 1998 to 2008.
1 likeEvery time someone says to me "wrestling is fake" I say "so is ballet, what is your point?"
2 likesThe part where that guy cocked a gun as a threat to Stone Cold @ 14:05 had me crying in laughter.
0 likesI think the reason the WWE has fallen off is because they have been unable to attach themselves to a changing America. The world is so different today than it was 20 years ago that of course they need to change up the characters and add new ones with far more modern themes. After all it is a play, and the most valuable piece of one is its ability to tell a story we can relate to.
1 likeGoddamn goosebumps when Mick Foley was introduced and Frankenstein started playing.
1 likethere will never be another corporation like WWE
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Yoshimaniac was it UMG that called the strike or WWE?
4 likesGeorge Baynard WWE
31 likesYou are alive
0 likesNexpo Alright just making sure
0 likesThere will never be another downward spiral
2 likesWell something exists called Flex Tape
0 likes@Nexpo Welcome to the spiral
3 likesWWE fell apart when they dropped the F.
7 likesAEW has joined the chat
17 likesAEW, NJPW.
2 likes@The_Goon Nope. wwe
0 likesAEW and NJPW are better content than WWE.
7 likes@The_Goon AEW hasnt had one episode yet tf
5 likesAnd they're already doing much better than WWE.
5 likes@The_Goon If you say so lmao
1 like@JakefromStatefarm 1 They had a rally that was more entertaining than Raw has been and actually had pyro and don't forget Chris Jericho
2 likesNever say never
0 likesAew babbyyyy drink it in man
1 likeyoshimaniac and nexpo in the comments of an emplemon vid
0 likestruly the greatest crossover of all time
Is no one going to say anything about TNA or ROH?
0 likes@Jaime That's only because they got purchased by Sinclair, one of the largest mass media companies in America.
0 likesWWE's twitter getting hacked was hilarious, though.
0 likes@Nexpo wait
0 likesNo wrestler has ever had as much heart as Mick Foley. To put this much dedication and pain into simply giving fans a memorable experience. He’s a legend for a reason.
0 likesThis stunning documentary that no one else unfortunately saw. Such beautiful photography, it's worth it for the opening scene
0 likesAnother thing about The Undertaker throwing Mankind off the cell was that it wasn't scripted. Mankind and The Undertaker agreed to do that without telling anyone else. That's why J.R says "They killed him" instead of "He killed him" J.R thought Vince allowed that to happened but it was actually Mankind that wanted it to.
1 likeI'm so grateful to have lived through this
0 likesWatched the full thirty plus minutes stop free, several times. One of the best, most interesting, thorough and well done YouTube videos I've ever watched in my life. I've always known Emp was a genius, but he won over every synapse in my brain with this one. Top notch, and then some.
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I honestly agree, he makes these videos seem really interesting and new.
3 likes@Actic Hard to find YouTubers that actually put effort in anymore. Only couple I can think of are Emp, Mustard and maybe Bright Sun.
1 like@StefanSreto
0 likesThe nature of the world.
agreed. consider me a fan. subscribed
0 likes4:47 I'm glad he cited his source, otherwise I would have doubted the claim that Luke Skywalker isn't real. I'd have loved to see something about the lightsaber though
8 likesBravo. Great video. The attitude era was the peak of wrestling. So good it used up all the potential greatness wrestling had stored obviously because everything after just sucks. Today it's a joke. And it might be fake but the punishment they take is very real.
0 likesI’m a little late to comment but I just wanted to leave a comment here. I went to a private school and in English when we learned about Shakespeare, the teachers made us act it out as we read along. It involved the class and was engaging and fun. I still remember in freshman English my best friend and I were assigned to be Romeo and Mercutio. So your thoughts about theatre are ringing true. Great video Emp, still can’t believe I watched you in 2012 and you’re still improving. Keep it up!
0 likesI am incapable of heading the name Ric Flair without giving a hearty "WOOOOOO!"
0 likes"In order to be loved,
511 likesBeat the shit out of your boss."
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-Sokrates
7 likes- Erich von Manstein 1944 probably
1 likeSo, Erich Von Manstein kicking a room door down and chokeslamming Hitler?
3 likesI'd watch that.
—Jack Bauer, probably
2 likes@The wish he did that, then the war would end a few years earlier than it did
3 likes...And that's the bottom line, 'cause STONE COLD SAID SO.
1 likeWhat? ;)
1 like-Austin 3:16
1 likeI especially loved how Dell was playing his guitar in the background, since Stone Cold's basically a more chaotic version of the same texan energy Dell has.
1 likeMan once that donkey Kong theme started I was “this is where I need to be right now” perfection
1 likeAustin was the cultural zeitgeist man!!!! One of the best television characters of all time.
0 likesRIP Snooty!! He didn't "accidentally" swim into the off-limits area! Someone left it open when it was supposed to closed, it was a set up! I'll miss him
0 likes''I did it for da rock''
4 likesMy favorite The Rock moment probably.
I'm glad this video is back, it's a really fucking good video and more people need to see it. I hope that too much didn't get modified to beat the copyright claim.
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I think it's just the weird cut stopmotion parts
3 likesLooking back I did used watch a lot of wrestling as a kid and I can say it did make me feel how when I watched dbz ended on a cliff hanger. However I used to watch the poor man's wrestling, wwf smack down then became WWE smack down
1 likeI'm curious how you would compare this, vs the impact Antonio Inoki vs Big Van Vader had? Just given what an icon Antonio was in Japan, that the fight ended up in riots.
0 likesI was a Nitro fan during the NWO days. WCW was the best back then.
2 likesThis statement is so true that not even Monday Night Raw, is like Monday Night Raw anymore. And chances are, it never will be again.
0 likesAs a massive wrestling fan from Ireland, I highly approve and adore this commentary video. This video hits hard when you look at professional wrestling now. I stopped watching wrestling over a year ago. I still look this video now and again. High praise cannot be understated. Well done EmperorLemon.
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I got back into it 4 years ago, it really is growing now. I think finally they are utilizing all the means they have like they did back in the day with celebrities to legitimate fighters to bring the prestige back to wrestling. Their storytelling has vastly improved since AEW started.
4 likes@Prajwal Acharya To me, WWE has been dull for like two decades now. I did get into TNA for a while... then lost interest... but got back into it just around the time the Matt Hardy "DELETE" thing was starting. I'm so glad I got back into it then. I even got into WCPW, and went to my only ever live wrestling show, a WCPW event featuring Matt Hardy vs Bully Ray, and the main event cage match in which Drew Galloway won the title. Since then, I've lost interest in wrestling again. I don't like it when wrestling takes itself too seriously. I like outlandish characters and costumes, and a good sense of humour. Which is probably why back in the day, my favourite wrestlers in WWF were Too Cool. I did intend to check AEW out when it launched, but have still never gotten round to it... just bored of wrestling I guess.
0 likesThis really took me back, thank you!
0 likesIt's so embarrassing seeing people praise the attitude era like it was absolutely perfect. There were plenty of bad things as well.
0 likesI knew exactly who you were talking about when you mentioned Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, etc.. I feel like most people would.
0 likesThis video single handedly got me into wrestling and now I'm seeing Dynamite live in 2 months. Thanks asshole hahaha
1 likeAll these surprise wrestlers introductions were badass, awesome vid
0 likesIf WWE is still around in 5 years i will genuinely be surprised.
0 likesI never really got into WWE. For the longest time I had no interest in pro wrestling at all. As someone who spent most of my childhood in youth technical wrestling (I will never be caught dead calling it amateur), I saw it as a sad mockery of traditional wrestling. It wasn't until a few years ago around 2016/2017, I actually gave it a chance. I was not at all a fan it. It wasn't that it was pre-scripted, I never cared about that matter, it wasn't that it was poorly performed from an action/stunt standpoint, there was obviously a lot of good skill. What stood in my way of enjoyment was not being able to find charwcters that I could get invested in. Sure, I liked Rusev Day, I was amused by the Miz, and grimaced when Nakamura low-blowed Styles, but none of the characters stuck for me. Eventually we had a chance to go to a live event (War Games 2019), and I went, if only to enjoy a weekend out of town. Even with the massive crowd (though maybe because I couldn't see the ring from our seats), I fsiled to be immersed. For the next year, I stopped trying to get into Pro Wrestling. Now, of course, a few month's prior, a certain Khan family decided to finamce a new company to rival WWE. I did not pay attention to it for most of its run so far. If this established organization can't get my interest why should I bother with this new untested company? I continued to ignore them until late November of this padt year. I had caught a scene hear or there, but I was about to see my first full segment from them. Here I am on my phone, flippimg through a certain meme app, when I pook.up to see a change of scenery from your rypical sweaty and bloody wrestling ring to a nicer setting. The camera pans down to two individuals. Two individuals who would go on to be my absolute favorites. I see a young man in shorter hair and a tiny beard, my mom is already getting ready to open her lexicon of Yiddish cusses. Across from him us sat an obviously comparatively older fellow with long hair. They each order a 20 oz porterhouse steak, each constantly trying one up the other in rareness. Once the waitress leaves, they talk business for a bit before the closest thing I have ever obseved to magic happens. These two men break out into song and dance and I am hooked. This rendition of My Shadow and Me is forever etched into my mind and MJF and Jericho stand as my favorites (Yes, I love both the Pinnacle and Inner Circle, and I am anxiously awaiting the moment when MJF and Jerich are given a chamce to promo off of one another one on one).
0 likesHey EmpLemon, consider doing AEW or CM Punk's return.
2 likesI’m worried that you’re next on YouTube’s list... stay safe my dude.
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#SaveJameskii :(
6 likesI hope someone archives his videos. Does he post to something like minds?
3 likes@puffinpal I will begin archiving them now
5 likesYou guys forgot to mention that a huge part of what got 'Taker over was his absolutely legendary manager, Paul Bearer. Seriously Paul's performances were what made 'Taker into fucking gold in promos.
0 likesUndertaker's "Iconic Dong" ... "Justin Whang"
1 likeWell played with you casually kicking ass with those two fantastic, while unintentional double entendres coming with such blindsided precision right in all our collective faces, or recently inattentive earholes!
I loved Monday night raw late 90s and early 2000s I go back and watch old raws am 32 now I remember me and my dad loved raw we watched every Monday I still watch new raw sometimes but 90s to early 2000s was ba I remember watching ecw too I still love wrestling I know it’s staged and stuff but still love it
0 likesyou sir... have picked the loudest pop of all time. congratulations! multiple chillbumps watching this tonight that take me back to the multiple chillbumps through the late 90s early 2000s.d
0 likesMonday Night Raw sounds like a bad hentai
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45 likesstop commenting
32 likesNo
13 likesMundai Knight: RAW
38 likesHELL YEAH BROTHER
5 likes"The undertaker's iconic DONG"
31 likes*insanely good
1 likeIt is
0 likesThicc review
0 likes*cerebral
0 likesE
0 likeskermit the frog: Waaaiit now I'm seeing you everywhere too. 😆
2 likes*good
0 likesNooo kermit this isnt what you were taught..
1 likeWished there was Loli
2 likes*FBI unsafe
0 likes@Miss Kobe Yoshi missed out
0 likesI agree. Raw Is WAR is much better!
1 likeRAW was a legendary show.
0 likesI think the best metric to use for the importance of wrestling in pop culture is to look at an episode of Raw from 98-01 where there was a SEA of signs all of them praising/insulting their favorite/most hated wrestler. Then compare that to today where WWE pays fans to hold up signs made at the stadium, and AEW fans hold up signs about video games
0 likesAlso: lol that Rugrats has 4 places in that top 15
Thank you so much for getting me into wrestling lol
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Wwe is not not really good rn but yeah try to find wrestling you like
0 likesAwesome video! But watch what you say about Hamilton! That play is an absolute masterpiece that brought popularity to classic theater! I’ve seen it 5 times and enjoyed it equally each time!😂
0 likesAgainst all odds, EmpLemon wins against the corporations
183 likesYou know I was shocked that Mick Foley actually interfered in the next match after his hell in a cell match.
0 likesI love professional wrestling and I can't stand when someone tells me it's fake. I fucking know it's fake and I still love it
0 likesOnly emplemon can make me interested in something I didn’t even know existed
0 likesWas never a huge wrestling fan, but I did watch it. Granted I watched more WCW than WWF, since that was what my dad watched in the mid to late 80s. That being said, this was pretty interesting, and what Vince did was pretty amazing, letting his own employees do all that for him for his company shows passion for what he puts out. An explains why the WCW ended up folding.
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Yep. WCW's writing has been very questionable, that it helped kill interest for WCW.
1 likeThere is so much that contributed to it's downfall, that I cannot leave it in a single comment.
As someone who lived through each moment of that in real time, from starting in 1987 through today in 2019, you did an excellent job recounting and explaining why these moments were so important to both wrestling as an industry and society as a whole.
12 likesLoved wrestling and Shakespeare but WWF/E came first. Really good presentation. Thanks!
1 likeThe editing on this is great. Nice work dude
0 likes"Hey dad I can't see too well is that Bill Shakespeare over there?!" -Matt Foley, circa 1993 😂
8 likesEmpLemon: "When I say names like Ric Flair-"
8 likesMe: "WOOOO!!"
Vince didn't quite start from nothing... his father's relationship wasn't great, but he had a foundation to get started on
0 likesThanks for the video! Interesting watch.... you forgot to mention that WWE RAW is ONE LONG STORY ARC from the first episode (and before) until today .... is that the longest continuing weekly story on TV?
0 likesstarted from nothing
2 likesliterally seconds later
so, his father was the owner of the World Wide Wrestling Foundation
had me in tears
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He was never raised by his biological father. He had to work for his father by the time he grew up. The two wearn't close at all
0 likes@vDeadbolt I don't see how that lessens the humor behind those two antithetical statements being so close to eachother in the video at all lmao
1 like@fid matic because emp didn't explain the full history between the two. Vince had no choice but to move in with his father and work for him because of his situation. He didn't do it because he wanted to take over the family business when his father is gone. But rather the opposite. He bought out the company from his father, and against his wishes; Vince competed with the territories, who all held an agreement that they wouldn't crossover nor compete with each other out of respect.
0 likesI remember that Hell in a Cell match. Mick Foley may not like it, but I saw the underdog get back up. Falling off then through the cell and coming back was a superhero moment.
0 likesThere will never ever be another copyright claimer like Viacom
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And Viacom B, they claimed one of my videos :(.
11 likesTurner EST.
3 likesUMG
7 likesWMG, UMG, MGM, WWE, Lionsgate, Turner Entertainment...
9 likeswhy is it that the vast majority of this comment section have some kind of reference to copyright claims , I say this because the video isn't copyright claimed at all. (the point is that this whole thing just came out of nowhere).
4 likes@Brian Berryhill - Been trying to figure that out, myself. You ever find an answer?
0 likes@Asics Johnson emplemon posted a pic on his Twitter about how this video got claimed by WWE.
1 like@Soup - Ah. That makes sense. I don't do a whole lot of twittering any more. Everything became so politically extreme around the 2016 presidential race, I finally just stopped going for the most part. Anyway, thanks. That's the first I've heard of it.
1 likeWhen I did Shakespearean high school my teacher literally said back when Shakespeare was actually presenting originally it was like going to a modern-day football event
15 likesThere won’t be , that’s why I’m so damn sad I was born in 98 and had to miss all of it ): Thank god I got RA era cause that was miles better than anything they have done since and I still got to experience a lot of the greats from the Attitude era
0 likesWwe didnt die because the world changed...the wwe died because it changed and became something no one wanted. They started treating their talent like chumps, they push Roman reigns down the fans throats for 10 years when they didnt want it. They repeated headline matches year after year. They lost what they used to be.
13 likesMy fav thing in the world is seeing non wrestling fans get invested into wrestling. Good job emp.
0 likesafter seeing this for the 3rd time. I can't shake that AEW is todays WCW in its prime and history seems to repeat itself. I wonder how it will work out this time.
0 likesYou were making YTPs and now I'm watching normal video about wrestling... From you. Feels kinda surreal
1 likeEmp keeps making magnum opus after magnum opus! No plateau in sight!! Loving your videos man.
2 likesHow was Vince considered poor if he inherited a whole business from his father?
1 likeA strange time when wrestling dominated. You'd see wrestlers on non-wrestling magazine covers -- TVGuide comes to mind; you'd see them on non-wrestling shows; you'd see them in non-wrestling commercials. Every week, record-breaking numbers of people would tune in to see what was going to happen -- AND the interest wasn't merely what the headliners like Stone Cold or The Undertaker would do, but even the midcarders had something interesting happening. It was a perfect storm coming together for those few years in the late-90s to 2001, or so, that will never be recreated -- especially not without a company giving proper competition ala WCW.
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Proper competition from wcw and a proper alternative and veritable breeding ground for groundbreaking new characters and talent in the form of ecw. Those two companies pushed wwf to deliver the very best content they could, and with two of their biggest stars utilizing personas and ideas developed in ecw (Mick and Austin)
2 likesRaw would beat Monday night football in the ratings back then. Good times
6 likeshow do you know it will never happen again?
0 likes@alfa01spotivo it’s just not possible. Not saying you were or weren’t, but if you weren’t there for it you will never understand the phenomenon that was late 90s pro wrestling. It took over the entire pop culture scene. They beat Monday night football in ratings. It was new and edgy and intense. That lightning will never be caught in a bottle again. The business is changed forever, it’s too exposed and it will never reach those heights ever again
6 likesiLLBiLLsRoastBeats it is POSSIBLE it’s just tremendously unlikely. It would take a very specific set of circumstances including but not limited to several generational talents all being given artistic freedom in order to make organic connections with the fans.
4 likesalfa01spotivo i know you weren’t asking me, but i’ll take a crack at answering. Cable subscriptions are way down, so people don’t watch wrestling shows live and thus don’t tend to see the whole program. Which makes it hard to get them to watch anything they aren’t actively looking for. Meaning they won’t be seeing anything new and exciting unless they hear about it elsewhere first, making it hard to get a brand new talent over like in that time period. Additionally, that era had two SUPER competitive major league wrestling companies and a national alternative in what would be considered AAA if it was baseball (the highest of the minor leagues, only a small step below the majors) add to that the fact that the company with the most exposure and in the best position to showcase new and rising talent CONSTANTLY fucks up with god awful scripts and intentional sabotage and burials if someone dares get themself over. Without the wrestlers having any artistic freedom nor ability to cut organic promos that enable them to connect with the audience in a real way, until that happens wwe wrestlers will never be able to become true superstars, because Vince doesn’t want Stars, he wants the brand to be more important than the sum of it’s parts. The problem is that this is impossible and he knows it. We all know he hasn’t forgotten the monday night wars, considering he harps on it on our screens. He almost lost due to lack of stars. He built new big time stars and they won. Now he won’t allow anyone to become a breakout star because he doesn’t want to build a star and then have then go elsewhere to potentially compete against him. The only other national name in pro wrestling is aew, and their writing and storylines are mostly sophomoric and relies far too much on bad (as in not even remotely funny) humor. MLW is great but not enough exposure and too small time. Impact decided a publicity stunt was more important than their heavyweight titles credibility (and thus their entire roster’s credibility which means their entire company’s credibility ) and NWA is on the internet. So while there could be a star that breaks through and saves wrestling, they’ll have to do it in an entirely new way. All it takes is one big star to raise the profile of the industry again and then all the best talents will raise their own game accordingly. It would be beautiful to see. I could see Galloway making a run at doing it, but he needs to leave wwe or be given more freedom before he could accomplish the monumental task.
3 likes@MikeyXSuicide damn that was pretty informative. Thanks for the reply!
0 likesPillman “We’ll be right back” is my favorite in the genre.
1 likeVince McMahon is such a villian I swear 😂 like holy fuck his entire life is just an origin story
1 likeI’m not nearly as convinced on this one as I was with nascar. It’s just too much for me. But a good try for sure.
2 likesI know exactly what Ric Flair, Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant look like but I couldn't name a single character in Spongebob. Not saying Spongebob is a bad show, I've just never seen a single episode.
2 likesI think this is one of the best videos I've ever seen on youtube.
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Sup dude
1 likesup@Debate Bro Neolib God
1 likeSamuel Fewer
4 likesAgreed, Jon Bois is also a great content creator, on par with Emperor Lemon.
@Debate Bro Neolib God je Srbija
1 likeToo bad you'll never make a video as good as this, huh?
9 likesAgreed
0 likes@Hawke nice.
0 likesSuper Eyepatch Wolf has a damn good video on professional wrestling if you liked this.
0 likesey my boy-o how you do?
0 likesmake another vido plis? kthxbye
you haven't seen Kenny Omega then?
0 likesCheck out Leafy Was Here
0 likesToo true
0 likesAmp: None of the super smash bros characters are real
1 likeR.O.B.: Am I a joke to you?
There will probably never be another time like wrestling in the 90s and early 2000s.
0 likesIt was The Rock's Charisma this dude had so much Charisma people had no choice but to love him.
0 likesHe could such good promos he would come out and sing these funny ass songs that had people rolling and he was supposed to be the bad guy but people were just laughing because it was so funny he was so good on the mic she got to be who he really was and that's why people loved him
14:05 had my dying 😂
0 likesI met Mick Foley when I was barista at a Starbucks, it was a couple years after thr hell in a cell.. nicest dude in the world, I didn't charge him for his coffee or ask for an autograph, I just said "Hi Mick, love you work!" And he seems happy and relieved I didn't pest him for an autograph
157 likesGave me a $10 tip, really cool dude.
Actually, the battle damage in pro-wrestling (at least WWF/WWE) is real. So, technically, pro-wrestling is real. There will also never be another show like: Malcolm In The Middle, Seinfeld, Misfits, Mongrels, or Broadchurch. Max Landis? Oof, now there's a name that hasn't aged well.
0 likesWhen he took off his mask and revealed the mask underneath the mask
0 likesI felt that
Wow my man Emp really just quoted the Bible to explain wrestling. Bravo.
0 likesWWE is the only major promotion right now
2 likesAEW: am I a joke to you?
At 36 I can now look back at these times and really say...these were crazy times. So much fun man
0 likesGood to see someone who appreciates the classic WWE! My Dad loves this stuff, watched it all the time as a kid. I think it's really cool too, and kinda weird. But the storytelling aspect is great! Today's stuff just isn't the same, you feel?
0 likesI have been a Pro Wrestling fan since my childhood in a south Aerican country where Wrestling has neve, ever been popular. I get the feeling. When you think about wrestling in very in a very objective way, man it is the most absurd thing ever, It is like those thing that you say: "THis has no right to be this good"!.
0 likes"He would stand in the middle of the ring and smile like a goober"
1 likeGonna assume Mick Foley is immortal.
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endurance level 10
41 likesFoley is God.
37 likesThe man lost an ear damnit
22 likesMick will never die ever he will live forever
6 likes@Grayson Byass-Rascoe the dude is broken. Watch his wifeswap on YouTube, he can't even tie his own shoes and that was 10+ years ago
3 likesThe back of his first biography (Have A Nice Day) is a picture of him with arrows pointing to his various injuries
5 likesBut he is!
0 likesMan kind vs the undertaker was legendary. I remember watching, and rewatching it on my dads bootleg VHS copy of it a ton when i was a kid... And i hated wrestling.
0 likesThis exposé is overwhelmingly satisfying. Bravo!
0 likesGreat video, but I wouldn't say Mick Foley isn't talented enough, he's one of best promos of all time, and had some of the best phycology just wasn't AJ Styles or Daniel Bryan in the ring. If every wrestler was technically gifted like that wreslting would be boring.
0 likesTo think that professional wrestling as Theater explains why a lot of the wrestlers can act themselves in movies and, yes, on stage too.
0 likesI just realized that this video was uploaded 20 years after Mankind won the WWF Championship
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This whole video, is just a roundabout way of explaining why Mick Foley is GOD
71 likesDidnt Mankind win the championship on January 4th?
5 likesXcept Foley was a talented wrestler
3 likes@gee dee Yeah Foley was ok but Dude Love or Cactus Jack would kick his ass in a heartbeat, wonder why that never happened.............
16 likes@Ratel.H Badger In the words of Mick Foley himself. "Foley is not God, but he's pretty damn good"
3 likesThat'll put some butts in the seat
1 likeI'm stone cold brought I'm the new era. He was a very technical wrestler unfortunately Owen heart's mistake almost ended his career. He had to change his whole wrestling set to become more of a brawler. Rock took advantage of Steve's neck injury and blew up. Both stars were at the top of the wrestling world and both deserve respect. But if you were around during to attitude era would know Steve cemented his character in his feud and loss to bret hard as he was traped in the sharp shooter blood streaming down his face he refused to tap and passed out from the pain. This happened way before his fights with Vince
0 likesFun Fact: Foley wasn’t supposed to go through the cell roof from the choke slam, given how the ring wasn’t matted for such a fall (and how he got a chunk of the injuries he did). Also didn’t help that the chair he was slammed on fell with him, meaning he also landed on a steel chair from the fall.
0 likesHow he wasn’t supposed to go through the cell from being slammed on it as a giant dude, I’ll never know. Cause even early before the toss off, part of the roof already gave way.
DX will never be forgotten... especially the dance😂🤌
0 likesmodern pro wrestling has gotten alot better for the casual viewer than it was back in the 80s/90s. It's definitely gotten away from the absolute absurdity of the attitude era, but
0 likesespecially outside of WWEthe storyline have been amazing in alot of promotions. Every company from WWE, to the random ass company in the highschool gym on Tuesdays has good wrestling.I never thought I'd see the day that some dude born in 1999ish would let me about 90s wrestling. You're lucky you make great content, otherwise I'd have to lay the smackdown your candy ass! <3
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.......what?
9 likesSenator Armstrong is that you?
0 likesModzvilleUSA!
0 likesHe was born in 1998
I was pretty damn close!
1 likeI love how batshit crazy this gets
1 likeBest playwrights of all time:
1 like1. William Shakespeare
2. George Bernard Shaw
3. Vincent McMahon
4. T. S. Elliot
the one time ive been to wwe was actually amazing, not the most fun ive ever had at the rec center where i live, but its up there
0 likesWhen I reference how old I am to people.
0 likesI say I'm old enough to remember when The Rock was a professional wrestler.
I will never not bust my gut laughing when Pillman pulls that gun
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I died laughing 😆
2 likes“…hated authority… oh wait!” is too good of a quote
0 likesI looked at pro wrestling like a theatre/gladiator experience. And as I studied ancient Rome gladiator games were more theatre than people think.
0 likesthere never be another tv show like it he says at the end, skip to 2020 and cm punk debuts on aew and i gotta say that is probably the closest to have a massive pop, so much emotion that night and we saw a fan cry
1 likeOkay that segue from Shakespeare to Homer to Homer Simpson to The Simpsons wrestling game is such a genius way to return to the topic of your video while going off on a very still relevant to the subject but completely different tangent is a stroke of Genius dude major props to that that was my favorite part of the video
1 likeSteve Austin is the walking embodiment of Texas
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“LETS DO THIS TEXAS STYLE”
25 likesi always thought it was george bush
1 like@Mr.TYN_2474 YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
14 likesHAAAAAAWWWWW!!!
11 likesThat deserves a hell yeah
7 likesAnd corporate Rock was equally as good as the corporate champion. The versace shirts, the designer sunglasses and shiny loafers lmfao, the attitude era was great. Only time in my life I followed pro wrestling.
15 likessteve austin vs sandy cheeks
2 likesHe is a man that has a God Given Mandate to be worthy of The Engineer's meet the Team song
0 likesHe's relatively progressive when it comes to social issues too. It's interesting
0 likesThe rocks bass line always makes me feel tight 20 years later
0 likesI love EmpLemon’s use of TF2 music
3 likesThe greatest never achievable era in wrestling history is the attitude era of Stone Cold. The era I watched growing up.
0 likes24:00 the drop is epic af. Amazing transition.
1 likeI don't believe it. It's obvious Vince McMahon travelled back in time and is in fact his own father.
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He invented the time machine and traveled back in time to fufill his legacy. Madness. Awesome, madness.
30 likesJ. Sal that’d explain him going ahead w the Beaver Cleavage character.
6 likesI can honestly see Vince trying this out as a match. Vince vs Vince. Which McMahon will take control of WWE once & for all.
5 likes@Es_Three He did that in 2001; it's called the Invasion Angle, where Vince leading the WWF takes on Shane and Stephanie, who in storyline owned WCW and ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling, which was the last member of the "Big Three" wrestling companies of the era). The angle culminated in an Winner Takes All Elimation Tag Match, where the winning side would take control of the losing side's company/companies, with WWF winning and thus putting the boot into both of their competitors for good, in storyline. In real life, Vince had bought up both companies earlier in the year. It's the last dying breaths of the Attitude Era, or alternatively the brief zombification of it if you subscribe to the idea of the Attitude Era ending at Wrestlemania X-7, which was the Wrestlemania event during 2001 in April.
2 likesSo basically, the movie 'Predestination' is based on his life 😂
0 likesThe fight between Mankind and the Undertaker will always make me remember my childhood.
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Same here, not because I was alive but because I used to watch it with my dad on the dvr
0 likesI grew up watching raw. I remember turning the TV down to 1 so my mom and dad wouldn't hear me watching when I was supposed to be in bed....... SUCK IT!
1 likeI enjoyed this E-Lem ty for the spot-on recap of an era that was rare as it was unique! Cheers fam!
0 likesI would love to see an entire video just covering the phenomenon of D-Generation X
0 likesAnd now, just under 24 hours ago the WWE Pay-per-view; Hell In A Cell 2019 ended with fans booing, chanting for a refund and calling for AEW - The first real challenger to WWE's monopoly in a decade.
656 likesI hope you're cataloguing this Emp.
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he did say in a more recent video that after wwe copyrighted this video, he cant wait to tune in to aew on tnt
109 likesAEW is not a real challenger.... dont over exaggerate.
30 likes@Promis Nwekenta You're right. To be a "real challenger", WWE has to be an actual challenge.
77 likes@TheGrayMysterious tell me dethrowing a monopoly isnt a challenge and that has stood for like 2 decades as 1.
15 likes@Promis Nwekenta when that "monopoly" thinks sending 3 part-timers to have 5 minute squash matches against all their new talent practically consecutively, I'd say it's not much of a challenge to put out better-quality entertainment than that.
14 likes@TheGrayMysterious now youre saying different things! Putting out better quality product than WWE and dethroning a monopoly is kinda different things. So you dont seem to believe it will happen.
18 likes@Promis Nwekenta uhh... you kinda NEED to have a better product than WWE to dethrone the monopoly. Y'know, like how RAW used to be a better product than Nitro, so everyone started watching RAW instead of Nitro and WCW went belly-up? That's kind of how competition works.
9 likes@TheGrayMysterious you say it like it's a fact, it isnt, its not that all there is to competition and i wouldn't say its the most important thing....sadly. So yeah, even with the suicidal booking of WWE, its still hard to beat a monopoly. Weird arguing you have here, its hard to beat a monopoly, end of discussion.
4 likes@Samantha Sadhmadhi First of all, you need to Know that the Fiend is like a slasher villain. You throw what you can at him, and he just sits up. His match vs Seth Rollins was meant to be his coronation... And he lost. And it's not just because of his loss, but the way he lost. He was brutalized with a toolbox, chairs, ladders, and a giant mallet from the Fiend's Firefly Funhouse. However, when Seth pulled out a smaller sledgehammer, the match was stopped by the referee... In a no-disqualification type of match like Hell in a Cell. Two years in a row of a bullshit finish to the Satanic Structure.
15 likes@Johnny Eyeball not yet, not yet mate.
10 likes@Corey Lineberry last time I watched WWE was in 2016 and only because of NXT because Nakamura debuted from Japan. Turned off the second they got rid of Balor's demon gimmick in the main roster. Never again. Came from NJPW because of Styles and Nakamura, waited for a bit, got back to NJPW with deep sadness seeing my idol becoming one of Vince's puppets...breaks my heart each time thinking back...
0 likes@Johnny Eyeball Does AEW have a better product? Hell yes. Are they even close to becoming a WCW-like rival to WWE? hell no. Sometimes it's hard for us wrestling fans to realize that most people watching are casuals. Even a shitty match of part-timer vs part-timer will draw more people than a great AEW match, because people want to see familiar faces (at least the casual wrestling fan), which is a big reason why WCW was so big back in the day (the best part of WCW was the cruiserweight division, but the thing that actually made them big were the ex-WWF stars + Goldberg). AEW needs time to become a "thing" casual wrestling fans watch, right now it's mostly just hardcore fans watching. When they become more familiar to the casual fan, they'll have a real shot at taking WWE down.
6 likes@Johnny Eyeball legitimate competition, while bringing in less than a million veiwers, and struggling to beat WWE's developmental show, yeah right, legit
5 likes@Wacky Name What do you mean struggling? They've been beating them every week. Lol and don't you dare pull that "they had a higher viewership though" bull. AEW consistently getting ranked #5 in cable while NXT getting ranked in the 30's is hardly " getting beat by their C show".
5 likesAew as a challenger, they can't get a million views, tna was more of a challenge
6 likes@Mojo JoJo 🦍 How long did it take TNA to get close to a million viewers? AEW has been close for many many weeks and they haven't been on TV for even a year
4 likes@Artwr Except you're wrong on practically everything. Biased hate doesn't make you right. Hope you can remember that :)
2 likes@George Floyd It must be hard for you to accept something other than WWE as successful. Lol AEW will be around at least for another 3 years due to their TNT contract extension. And typically, you don't get extensions if you're bad. Hope you understand that. Haha
5 likes@George Floyd Not in the immediate future, no. It's silly to think a show that hasn't been on for a year can match a company that's been around since the early 60's. It takes time. I'm just glad wrestling finally has better alternatives again
4 likes@George Floyd If it was dead, then it wouldn't still exist. Especially on TV. Now what IS dead is the guy with your same name.
3 likes@Existomalus only you can hate and also be right
1 likeAnd there is no hate
What there is a profound annoyance of fans like you who just cant accept critiscim and just call every thing as hate
@Artwr It's not the inability of accepting criticism. It's the point of stopping the spread of terrible misinformation. Backed it up with facts
1 likeartaud well, the big names brought in the eyeballs, but the cruiserweights won them over, when the Radicalz and Jericho jumped (the Radicalz being the final straw) the fans they won over on Nitro moved to wwf to watch them.
0 likesLmao AEW is not competition for Vince
3 likesiLLBiLLsRoastBeats give it s few years
2 likesSlerpup it won’t even last a few years
1 likeiLLBiLLsRoastBeats considering they have a contract for at least a few more years that statement is already wrong
2 likesSlerpup I don’t think you understand how businesses work
0 likesInfinity Stones ok smark wrestling genius. What promotion do you wrestle for again?
0 likesiLLBiLLsRoastBeats what promotion do You wrestle for?
3 likesYou cant use that argument if you dont wrestle yourself
iLLBiLLsRoastBeats Do you understand how businesses work then?
0 likes@ANDON HOWARD the NWA was complicated, it was a alliance made up of hundreds of promotions in the territorial days, it really wasn't a "monopoly" people just left the alliance and the NWA when the regional owner thought they weren't profitable to continue with the NWA, after that, it started a snowball effect after one of the biggest promotions, the WWWF (WWE today) as well as georgia championship wrestling (which was previously Jim Crockett promotions, which then became World championship Wrestling, yeah, this shit is pretty complicated) them the NWA basically fell off almost completely with it's biggest players out of the picture as well as smaller promoters choosing to join the bigger boys.
0 likes@MODXN Struggling? They're up by around 200,000 every week unless NXT is running a free ppv. On top of that, most casual people won't watch without a crowd.
0 likes@Artwr Archer has two losses in his AEW career. And those two losses have only built to his character now, that is if you watch dark. You don't have too, but it's worth noting it exists.
0 likes@iLLBiLLsRoastBeats Yet. The company has only been around for a year, and they don't look like they're going out of business anytime soon.
0 likesFor whatever it's worth, Vince didnt inherit his dads company. He bought it off him.
1 likeOkay as someone who totally didnt get the whole deal of wrestling or how to watch it as a youngster, good god it would have been cool to know it was available in this form. but the ads did not mention, at all, how this "raw" was different from the other wrestling stuff I wasnt able to join in on.
0 likes2:30 I like wrestling as entertainment but lets be real, no one ever thought that Star Wars, Goku, The Avengers, or Homer Simpson was ever real. Wrestling at one point was billed as real, the rise of Hulk Hogan was the turning point of turning wrestling from a sport into sports entertainment. The days of Bob Backlund and Antonio Inoki doing catch wrestling with predetermined results were gone.
0 likesKayfabe all but died by the time The Kliq did the "curtain call" and now wrestling was deemed fake on top of the fact with all the steroid allegations surrounding wrestling. It wasn't until the attitude era embraced the fakeness with over the top drama that it regained back some fame.
Most of my friends that do not watch wrestling will still know the big stars atleast from back then (maybe not Roman Reigns or Drew Mcintyre) but they all know Stone Cold, nWo, Hogan, Rock, Flair, Macho Man even like the Hardy boys or like more recent like John Cena. I think they may know CM Punk (maybe) but then theres a void. I have more friends that know X-Pac than Daniel Bryan. Some will even come over for a wrestlemania party the most memorable was when Taker lost to Lesnar that dead ass made 30 mid 20 year olds go dead silent. I just remember getting mad drunk and having king of the hill battle royal in my front yard at like 11pm at night to my neighbors thinking I am crazy
0 likesVince: We took care of that strange looking creature good.
357 likesVideo comes back up
King: What??? How did it came back???? Vince just took care of that pesky video!
JR: IT'S EMPLEMON! EMPLEMON! AND HE'S READY TO OPEN UP A CAN OF DOWNWARD SPIRAL!
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Underrated.
4 likesThis comment needs more likes damnit
5 likesThen Emp proceeds to throw King off the cage into the announcer's table and JR onto a pile of thumbtacks.
0 likes@Ethy Let's not forget to give Vince a nice headbutt on the go though! =)
1 likeif I had a penny for every time a nice documentary channel made me mildly interested in wrestling id have two pennies, which isnt much, but its still weird it happened twice.
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If you like anime then you’ll probably like wrestling
0 likesYou're an incredible writer.
0 likesIt always weirds me out that people point out that whole "wrestling isn't real" thing. Cause bumps and alot of spots are definitely real and dangerous lmao if they meant pre determined then they'd make more sense i guess. Rehearsed, i don't think works either given the beautiful material Botchamania provides.
0 likesUnder a minute in and I have a renowned appreciation for manatees. Well done sir.
0 likesIf you look at the South Park season 13(I believe) episode "W.T.F" it actually gives a pretty damn good example of how Prefessional Wrestling should be viewed vs Athletic Wrestling and Real Fighting.
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S13 E10 for anyone wondering
10 likesLevi For Waifu
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@alfa01spotivo you're the one specifying the EXACT EPISODE, you could at least not be dumb about a quote from said episode
6 likesLevi For Waifu
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It is all one big stage act, but I still respect their athleticism, especially the high flyers like Rey Mysterio..You gotta watch out for Mysterio..He straight killed a guy with his 619 lol
5 likes@Grodd of War It was worse than that. The guy that got killed was merely setting up for the 619 with a drop toehold onto the second rope (Bret's rope, the most dangerous rope) when he fell wrong and caught his neck on the rope, snapping it forward and giving him such massive whiplash that he hemorrhaged his brain and died on the spot (from what I recall). Dude was a ten year veteran for the promotion with twenty years of work under his belt, and he dies from such a basic maneuver, relative to the other maneuvers these guys pull off daily. It's the reason I quit training to be a pro wrestler myself.
5 likesDURK a DURR
0 likes“THEY TOOK MERR JOB !!!!!!
0 likesIt grinds my gears how people each time mistaken WWF/WWE as "Pro-Wrestling", yet never heard about the biggest, actual Pro-Wrestler and companies out there. RoH? Lucha Libre? NJPW? No one knows.....makes me sad...
0 likes@Justin Berry Mexican pro-wrestling sucks. It's so unsafe.
1 like@EALS Lucha is a way of life. Part of life is death. Believe in El Santo
0 likesI don’t know if you’re a sports fan. But we need another video about “why there will never be a championship like super bowl 52” like go over the patriots dynasty, the Carson wentz injury, the true comeback story of Nick foles, the back and forth game. And the underdog mentality of the never before champs the Philadelphia eagles.
0 likesThat manatee analogy was so spot on!😂😂😂
0 likesThat undertaker Vs mankind match is easily one of IF NOT THE BEST wrestling match of all time
0 likesAs a European...
0 likesThis video was simultaneously disgusting, terrifying, and grotesquely interesting.
I cannot fathom the amount of safety regulations this show would break in the EU, lol.
“Half-naked, oily buff dudes pretending to beat eachother up.” Never have finer words been spoken
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As King Ross used to sing.
7 likesVince McMahon likes big sweaty meeeeen!
Vince McMahon likes big sweaty meeeeen!
Vince McMahon likes big sweaty meeeeen!
Yeah it's always a handicap when you're trying to explain it to someone 😖
3 likes@Ratel.H Badger I miss him :(
2 likes@Toonzy The End is Nigh
1 likeRun Away!!!
Barely any wrestlers are buff anymore most of them are like 200 pounds or lighter
1 likepeople have been saying that for decades lmao
1 likeThe Attitude Era of WWE was the most ridiculous thing on TV by a country mile. I mean that in the best way possible. I'd love to watch another doc just about this era
0 likesLegends of wrestling was my childhood lmao
0 likesBro I didn’t want this video to end. You just gained a new follower ong
1 likeYeah no I don't watch Raw anymore because most of everything you said in the video is not on screen anymore. I watch AEW more now because of Wrestlers like Stone Cold Mankind The Rock has hung up their boots and went quite as they grow older by the years.
2 likesStone cold really made wwf what it was and undertaker kept it up over the years.
0 likesI’d love to see you do a video on the rise of AEW.
0 likesmy favorite promotion is NJPW . AEW is cool, ROH is trying to go back to its roots, Impact is learning from their mistakes and WWE has its moments but NJPW is still the best promotion in my opinion
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Same
0 likesFacts
0 likesDude made this video a few months off from Dynamite launching lmao bc it definitely captured the classic attitude era Raw
1 likeI'm with the "it's still real to me " guy
1 likeI love these minimentaries. Please more?
0 likesGrew up with Thursday Night Smackdown, Dad didn't like Raw. This oughta be interesting.
1 like14:37 that mask under the mask is hilarious
2 likesQuick, everyone download this video before the WWE takes it down again!
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ngl, I actually did because I can't watch rn and definitely want to see this. It's sad that's a reality but 🤷🏼♂️
3 likesIt's like they literally don't want this unabashed love letter to WWE get them any more viewers. Fucking bizarre.
14 likesYeah companies been stupid lately. Acting like theyre alergic to money.
2 likes@blinded journeyman" seems like these companies are allergic to money?" Yet they're chasing it?
1 likeBy the time I got to college, I came to the conclusion that when our teacher's subjected us to reading Shakespeare scripts in high school, it was actually a sneaky way to get us all to despise Shakespeare.
0 likesI mean, what if decades from now, required reading in the English classes of the future consist of the scripts of video games?
If you play video games, you know intrinsically that the medium is the message, and you cannot separate one from the other without losing something vital. Forcing children to consume Shakespeare in literature form should be a crime. Shakespeare plays are genuinely great and I cannot help but think that the way the vast majority of children are introduced to his works is deliberate.
Can't believe you didn't credit Vince Russo for convincing Vince McMahon that the product had to change
0 likesHunter is my favorite wrestler of all time. And DX is my favorite wrestling faction of all time.
1 likeDude some of this brought me back in such a big way
0 likesThere will never be another reuploader like EmpLemon.
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ahem pyrocynical ahem 21 21
6 likes“None of the smash bros characters are real” dogs, cats, crocodiles, doctors, monkeys, plumbers and frogs are rolling in their graves
1 likeIt's one of the loudest there only two that rival it and that's the we're Goldberg won over Hulk Hogan for the title and Nitro but this one still louder and then there was a return back in 2018 where Vince McMahon says "nobody helped me I did it all by myself" and stone cold comes out. I have searched and searched and searched but I do believe in my humble opinion in this is the loudest pop in wrestling history
0 likesThis was the exact moment I quit watching wcw 😂
0 likes30:45 the editing of that match was top notch
1 likeWWE is so ruthless with copyright. They're pathetic. But glad to see the video is back up. Even if its a re-edited upload.
64 likesI believe this is the one and only youtuber that truly, make magic
0 likesWhen you hear the glass break you know someone’s ass is getting whooped🤣
0 likesI kinda disagree, what's in the ring has also been part of the reason why wwe sucks today. nowadays I wait till the main event or 1 specific match to watch raw, so for me I pretty just tune in to watch bobby lashley and as soon as he's gone I go on and do something else, the same thing with smackdown, I pretty much watch it for roman reigns. the problem today is that a lot of todays wrestlers have no personality and mic skills. back then you had guys like the rock and stone cold who could cut a promo in their sleep and weren't dependent on script writers, but now barely anybody can talk their way out of paper bag. The rock and stone cold were able to grab a lot of peoples attention, not just wrestling fans, people who could care less about wrestling also knew these guys because of what they were saying in and out of the ring. theres nobody like that now, if you know who Seth Rollins and Kevin owens are then you're likely a wrestling fan.
0 likes25:18 "a literal tank"
7 likescontinues to show a jeep with a piece of PVC piping
You can tell this video was made with a lot of passion for something emp really loves. It really shows. I don't even watch wrestling but I was glued to my phone watching this. love this content.
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I fucking told you his content was good
0 likesA never ever on the undertaker or Eddie Guerrero would be sick
0 likeslol and just last night , Vince at 76, took another stunner from a 57 year old Stone Cold. Wrestling is awesome.
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Man, that whole Wrestlemania was full of great & hilarious moments
0 likesI can only image how apeshit I would have gone if I was in the crowd the moment I heard that glass shatter.
0 likesI must have rewatched this video over 10 times, genuinely top 5 OAT on YouTube
0 likesOld wwe is up there with spongebob and Simpsons early seasons
4 likes“Welcome everybody to MONDAY NIGHT RAW!” Vince McMahon voice
0 likesThe reason why Raw was so popular at first, was because it LOOKED like old wrestling that people liked. Vince let go of the guys who were over, and let them work on there gimmick, do there own promos, and just give them a finish and let them call it in the ring. Just like how it had ALWAYS been done. Then he moved from commentary to the back were he started to try to dictate matches. Along Russo trying to get involved, matches became more like plays, and people stopped watching again. Now wrestlers have agents, and those agents have to go tell Vince EVERYTHING that the boys are going to do during the match or promo. THIS, on top of guys not knowing how to work to begin with, is why wretling today looks "fake". Its also because we are condtioned to just assume that a single punch wont even stagger a guy. In "real life" we know that a single punch could kill someone". Go watch Lawler in Memphis. One punch knocks a guy down and out. It looks alot more "real". Raw in the early days also worked because werent handed scripts. You can tell when a match has been "choreographed" vs, callin it in the ring. It looks like an actual struggle. Flair and Steamboat, or Austin and Hart if your too young. Why do those look like actual struggles? Be because they were!! They werent a play where everything is scripted. Its 2 guys fighting for the next move, or spot. They know the finish, but how they get there is an ACTUAL fight or struggle or contest. Go watch some San Fransico battle royales, or Sputnick Monroe, or Lawler vs Funk. Or Dynamite Kid in Canadaian Stampede. Do some research of your own, not just copying and pasting what others have to say or type
0 likesWhen I heard millennium I had flash backs to when Chris Jericho first debuted
0 likesWhat if Donald Trump and Vince McMahon ran against each other in the 2016 presidential election? Shit would have been hilarious and terrifying.
2 likesWhen it comes to the WWE, your "context" needs context.
0 likes14:12 dude just straight pulls out a glock, points it at the dude behind him, chambers a round even though its an auto loader... all while having his finger ON THE TRIGGER.
1 likeThe rock is a great actor!!! His role in Be cool is seriously slept on for whatever reason. His role as Eliot, Vince Vaughn’s gay, body guard/ cowboy/ singer/inspiring actor is absolute gold. When he does an entire scene from Bring it on, done in two person dialog while auditioning for a role, That’s acting at its finest. I’ll die on this hill everyday btw.
0 likesIn order to be loved, you must beat the shit out of your boss
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ive never been interested in wrestling but this video was great
0 likesComing back to this, Foley's endurance id still astounding
0 likesI absolutely love AEW but WWF/WWE Raw was the shit don't think really any outfit will ever fully reach the level of Raw in my opinion...
0 likesPretty impressive you were able to make a 30 minute wrestling video that a person who's never even seen an episode of RAW before could watch all the way through.
7 likesSo, to put it simply,
0 likesPro wrestling is live action drama television, disguised as a sport
God I was so stupid how did I not see this until this video
Professional wrestling is the only business where a CEO can put their employees in the hospital on purpose and not have OSHA violations, Despite thousands of witnesses!
0 likesThis was phenomenal
0 likesWish there was an easy way to rewatch Monday night raw
0 likesThis video is what got me back into watching wrestling. I used to watch it when I was a kid but stopped when I was a teenager. I don't know why I ever stopped, wrestling is fucking awesome.
20 likes11:00 to 12:16 sounds like a pretty familiar storyline that's going on right now between AEW and WWE
0 likesI would have given this video an 11/10 had you mentioned hulk hogan body slamming Yokozuma and Kain and the Undertakers weird off again on again thing. Didn't Sgt Slaughter set hulk hogan on fire or someone else?
0 likesPS One of my friends from highschool was a rube in the WWF. He went by Steve Saint.
hahahaha dude this is so well done. i know i’m 2 years late but goddamn, this whips ass
0 likesSmackdown: I'm boutta end this man's whole career
1 likeI was in high school during the attitude era and me and about 7 of my friends were hardcore fans and so were my mom and dad and brother so we would order every ppv and all watch and get drunk as hell and it was honestly one of the best things I can remember during that time of my life. I wish wrestling never lost that magic for me
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@ANDON HOWARD Wrong. That is trash too.
0 likes"no one could hold the audience in the palm of his hands quite like the Rock could"
0 likesSCSA: What?
The Rock's intro clip made me lose my mind in the middle of the night. Next to the NASCAR vids this makes my night
0 likesEmp: no character in super smash bros is real
0 likesR.O.B.: am I a joke to you
Foley is insanely talented lol. He didn't get to the WWF by being a stuntman. If that was the case, backyard wrestlers would have been a much bigger thing.
0 likesIn order to be loved, you have to go on a downward spiral 🌀.
0 likesThe rock is a great actor . And walking tall, the rundown, faster , rampage , ff , hobs and shaw , scorpion king are all fantastic movies
0 likesModernly, Mick Foley is down in the panhandle of Florida in the US, Such as nearby Panama Beach and other areas, hell my step-dad who was a really big fan of WWE when he was younger has even met him a few times by just bumping into him. He’s a really cool guy.
1 likeAEW is where it’s at
3 likes14:38 he took off his mask to reveal another mask...iconic
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thats facepaint lol
23 likesPublius Ventidius Bassus
74 likesFace paint is a mask on a fundemental level.
@Aflay I mean, it's facepaint, not a physical mask, there's a bit of a difference
1 likeEither way, Sting was the man
21 likesHe was wearing 3 masks... you just can't see the third :'( haha
7 likesDo you know Sting's character and used the term "Iconic" on purpose? Because if not you should know you probably just made the greatest wrestling pun of all time
20 likeskasrkinable lmao I don’t really know him but I just looked him up and I think I know what you’re talking about
1 like@Eno Ukpong hes literally called "The Icon" lmao. In a world of bad on wcw, he constantly great.
5 likesThe entire backstory makes it so much funnier
0 likes@Porter Blaze no
0 likesGod, wrestling used to be so cool.
1 likeAt the end when mick Foley won the title I beat a super hard level of candy crush I was stuck on. It was exhilarating to be cheered on by Jerry lawler.
0 likesShakespeare['s plays] in his day had more in common with pro wrestling today than with modern productions of his work. It was blue-collar entertainment, complete with fart jokes.
0 likesThe the mid to late 90s is the golden era of wrestling. Those characters that they crafted were so much more then dudes goofing around as you demonstrated with this video. Something about watching it, you knew it was dumb especially at face value but you didn't care because it was so absurd it demanded your attention.
0 likesMy god, he defeated the evil empire! Well done.
8 likesAlso, I used to be a wrestling fan myself. I don't follow it the way I used to, but I still have fond memories of relaxing on a summer day, going to the DVR, and watching the entire 3 hours of that wonderful Monday Night Raw or decent Friday/Thursday/Friday Again Smackdown. It was my thing from like 2013 to 2017.
14:34 This might be one of the funniest things I’ve seen out of context
1 likeAlso, that's not a "literal tank." That's a jeep with a cannon on it.
0 likesShould do a never ever be a comedian like norm macdonald again!
2 likesIn order to be loved,
2 likes15:01
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0:00 Professional Wrestling
60 likes1:28 Monday Night Raw
2:00 It’s Not Real, It’s Fake! 2:28 Neither is Star Wars or Smash Bros, they are works of fiction
3:47 Shakespearean Plays, Suspension of Disbelief
6:30 Vince McMahon 27:10
8:01 The WWF
9:00 Monday Night Raw Debuts 1/11/93
10:31 WCW, 9/4/95 Monday Nitro Debuts
12:24 The Monday Night Wars
13:20 1990’s Counterculture
14:17 War
14:54 Mick Foley - The Unlikely Hero
16:20 The Undertaker - Deadman
19:53 The Championship
21:32 The Rock - Corporate Diamond
23:57 Triple H - Business Acumin
24:39 Degeneration-X
25:49 Stone Cold Steve Austin
28:50 Corporate America vs The Disgruntled Employee
30:40 OHHHH OHHH OHHHH
31:38 WWF’s Rise to Glory
33:00 Not bad for something that isn’t even real
I fucking LOVED WCW and Monday Night Nitro!
0 likesThis should have been called “There will never ever be anything like the Attitude era”
0 likesThis is so good I just watched it twice in a row.. this is after already seeing it 3 times before
0 likesMick Foley. The kung fu panda of Wrestling
0 likes"The sound of The Unertaker's iconic Dong".... your words my friend. Great work all round
0 likesSuch a great video! Great work man.
0 likeswho else did a "son of the mask" deep grin when you heard the gong of the UNDERTAKER
0 likesThat late 2000’s version of “My Time” 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
0 likesI feel like I've stumbled upon a whole new world that was always there but I just never knew it existed.
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It's the same for me but with NASCAR in addition to this.
21 likesOne of us....
21 likesOne of us...
One of us....
@Yuri Lopes I'm just echoing what KolonaRulez said. I mean that, both NASCAR and professional wrestling are two entire worlds that I feel like I never knew existed, that I've just discovered thanks to Emp.
6 likesKolonaRulez Wait I'm confused by your comment, what does it exactly means?
0 likes@Crowns 99 dk wats confusing. He found a new interest.
2 likes@Julio Ornano O
0 likes@Yuri Lopes Good one ! Thanks for the laugh!
0 likes@Yuri Lopes Thought you giving a Stone Cold What? 😀
1 like@StormCloudTheory same with me but with SpongeBob
0 likesIt´s the Emplemon magic
0 likesEh, would have been more accurate to have “Attitude Era” in the title instead of Raw.
0 likesHe did it! Did it for All mankind 😢
0 likesI would argue Raw is no longer "RAW" its over produced and diluted
0 likesI love this video but Emp’s point about the manatees always makes me sad because his name was fucking Snooty and he had friends and shit, really fucking sad.
0 likesThere will never be another era of Wrestling like the Attitude Era. Which thankfully is where I really started getting into watching it. I remember RAW and I remember how The Rock created Smackdown.
9 likesAt first: "Okay, so we know wrestling isn't real."
1 likeA few minutes later: "So here's Mick Foley getting thrown off the top of the cage, falling 2 stories, landing on a table, then climbing back up to the top, and then he gets choke slammed onto a thousand thumbtacks, and one of his teeth breaks off and ends up in his nose."
When does the not real part happen??????????
The only thing i dont like about pro wrestling is that it overshadows the wrestling sport. Of course, this isnt pro wrestlings fault, its the people who dont research into what pro wrestling is that is the problem.
0 likesSadly this show is no longer Raw. It should be changed to something to meet the soft PG demographic that they are aiming their programming at.
0 likesThere will never be anything like Monday Night Raw (pre 2010)* WWE has fallen off :’( and it’s sad to see
0 likesThere's two very important things you left out in all of this.
38 likes1. The impact that ECW made on wrestling.
2. The realness (some think it's a work) of the Montreal screwjob against Brett Hart and how it created Corporate Vince.
Also the title should be more about WWF winning the Monday night wars, because you just stop once Vince bought WCW out. That show has been going on for 18 years ever since. There's a lot to be said about the post Monday night wars you know? Much of the beginning could have been omitted or shortened if you was dealing with time.
Great job with the narrating and editing, just a little lacking on the actual show Raw. There's a lot of positive and negative post Monday night wars about Raw.
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EmpLemon does show the aftermath of the screwjob, as well as screenshots of the “Bret screwed Bret” segments Vince did after SS 1997. But you’re right he didn’t bring up ECW. Raw (and eventually SmackDown!) play a pivotal role in storylines of the WWF/WWE. (As well as selling the PPVs on regular basis.) This is mostly a WWE focused video, but ECW did play a part in the Monday Night War.
2 likesAlso EmpLemon does research on these topics. I’m surprised that he didn’t touch up on the Montreal Screwjob that much.
1 likeI seen Mick Foley fall that night live, our jaws hit the floor
0 likesthis is a great video man. Thank you.
1 likeWe need EmpLemon to make a Never Ever on The Undertaker
0 likesI didn’t think I’d sit through a 35 min video about the WWE 🤣🤣🤣 good job man I sat through this 35 min video about the WWE
0 likesGREAT video. I was a teenager when all this was happening and it was just the best time to be alive. Actually looking forward to school on Tuesdays to talk about everything that happened was amazing. I still watch wrasslin, and probably always will, but I don't expect it to ever be this good again. Maybe AEW will do something and actually directly compete with WWE but I just don't know.
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Anybody born in the 80s will abide by that statement brother. There will never again be anything quite like that.
0 likesToo many entertainment options these days, wrestling will never have a large enough following like it did in the late 90’s
5 likesLuke Rose Nope. Attitude Era didn’t have to compete with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, YouTube, etc. for viewers
0 likes@Bleed Green then tell me why the ratings are the lowest they've ever been
0 likes@Bleed Green all those streaming services never had other wrestling so your point is irrelevant
0 likes@Luke Rose who cares
1 likeLuke Rose The ratings are shit yes in part because the writing sucks but other factors play a large part too, such as cord-cutting cable, more channels than ever before to choose from, and the internet taking overall eyeballs off the TV sets
1 like@Bleed Green it doesn't matter how many channels there are, it's what's on them. Plus, ratings are a percentage of cable users watching Raw at the time. If we were talking about viewers dropping, that wouldn't matter because of what you said, competition from streaming platforms.
0 likesGod I remember watching stone cold making mankind win
0 likesThank you for making this video 👏🏼👏🏼
0 likesIf you were alive to see the Monday night wars then you saw some excellent tv
0 likesThere are many people who became so popular that they became larger than the organization. Many people worship some of the legends of the sport without even realizing it
0 likesLove the video, Emp. As someone who has been watching you for years now, this is one of your best works yet.
3 likesSo glad you beat the copyright game. I guess it is possible to overcome seemingly impossible odds. Eventually.
Never Ever: Yeah, there will never be another show like Monday Night Raw
1 likeNXT & Friday Night Smack Down: Bruh.
There will Never Ever be another channel like Emperor Lemon's channel.
0 likes28:07 subtlest Bojack reference ever.
3 likesNo mention of how ECW changed the entire wrestling industry?!?
0 likesthis is the video that got me into watching professional wrestling again, had to come back almost a year later to really give credit to it.
47 likesEric Bischoff has said one of his greatest mistakes when running WCW was NOT allowing DX into the live show. DX went to the show yelling over their megaphones about Scott Hall and Kevin Nash (real life close friends with HHH and the greatest and most decorated wrestler of all time Mr. Wrestlemania, the main event, the Heart Break Kid . . . SHAWN MICHAELS!!!) HHH was saying Hall and Nash were being held against there wills and unfairly restrained by their contracts.
0 likesDifference in the audience? Yes absolutely BUT to say it's not because of the in-ring action being different is flat wrong. Some of that blame goes to the current talent just being sub par (Seth Rollins) at the same time though wrestlers with huge talent or newer guy with potential are restrained in their promo styles and held back with what they are allowed to do in the ring.
Not for nothing, I remember watching RAW when it first began, I remember the 1st episode and it was so much more entertaining when it was 1hr. Even when it went jumped to 2hrs it was still tolerable. NOW!? It sucks ass
0 likesYou could probably do a whole video on how there will never ever be another pro wrestler like the undertaker.
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Or another team like DX
1 likeAnd also Stone Cold saved the WWF.... So?
1 likeThis is embarrassing to grown ups. Thanks for explaining Shakespeare to us
0 likesI miss the monday night wars.
0 likesmoral of the story: it's easier to become President of the United States or WWE CEO than to compete with the NFL
0 likesLuckily, now when the WWE is just a shadow of it's former self...
0 likesWe got AEW, which is by far the superior product right now.
This is one of my favorite Youtube videos of all time
0 likesUFC is all we have left. almost as good as I remember wwf, even though its real.
0 likesFoley's 1998 KotR fall was before Mr. Socko. He still used the Mandible Claw.
0 likesEdit: There's so many things wrong in this video, when it comes to representing pro-wrestling. Still, a fair few things were also done right.
The 4 current well known wrestlers are the rock, bork laser, john cena and the only one who’s known purely because of wrestling, the guy with the mask Rey Mysterio
0 likes2:17 its at this very moment I remembered that this even happened 😂😂
0 likesEmp you can’t say they literally rolled up in a tank when they were in a Jeep.
1 like“3000 years ago people didn’t have much entertainment to compete with listening to one dude talk”
0 likesI mean they also had sports competition, theatre, comedians, gladiatorial shows where they could watch the equivalent of wrestling except not fake and actually had people being killed for their entertainment, ancient rap battle equivalents which were basically two poets trying to top each other with improvised baudy poetry and yo mama jokes, musical concerts, etc.
People don’t give the ancient world credit. Shit was wayyyyy more crazy than you think. Just cause there aren’t movies and video games doesn’t mean everyone just say with their thumbs up their ass lol. If anything the modern world has homogenized its ideas of entertainment to the point that if a screen or digital interface isn’t there then it isn’t considered entertainment. Shits depressing honestly.
5:05 easily the best example you could have chosen
0 likesEven 3 years ago there were other wrestling companies, just not as big. And now there's a few. WWE, AEW & IMPACT. Lucha Underground was banging and it was around for a few
0 likesI've just discovered your channel (for some reason) and it's slowly becoming my favorite, keep killing it dude
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Why are the simpsons green?
5 likesEvery video high quality. U won't be disappointed
0 likes@Giovanni Trujillo I think for the "jaded" joke he made. Cuz jade is a green rock. Puns
0 likes14:05 you guys see why i love and miss Brian Pillman?
0 likesR.I.P. Brian
It doesn't matter if wrestling has decayed, McMahon got what he wanted before it happened: to completely crush the competition and have it all.
0 likesbro i remember not being allowed to watch raw and hearing at school mankind beat the rock i literally wasnt allowed to see it and i knew
0 likesMakes me think of reading plays back in high school n not really understanding why anyone would've care for them but then I went to a camp for the arts called blue lake to watch a performance of Tempest n that 👏 shit 👏was👏 amazing 👏
0 likesVIDEO IDEA! There will NEVER EVER be another superman like Christopher Reeve!!!
2 likes12:20 I remember hearing this song on Dookieshed's videos back in like 2013. That takes me back... does anybody know the name of the song?
2 likesOne of the best videos i have seen in a wile keep up the great work
0 likesI was never into wrestling as a kid because it was so cheesy... Then in middle school I saw a guy in a dress shirt and tights get kicked in the face off screen, fall off a roof of a concretr bungalo, smack a table, next to another table. with a guy next to it. it was Mick Foley, and he automsticslly was my favorite wrestler.
0 likesThe crowd was loud when Mankind won, but when Austin returned in 2000 at Backlash, that has to be the loudest I’ve ever heard a crowd.
4 likesMick was definitely talented, his psychology is was the best. He could wrestle his ass off!!
0 likesWell you can’t really do a lot of the stuff they did in the late 90’s it was a much different time
1 likeI already knew the Mick Filey clip was coming 😂
0 likesThis was taken place at the Worcester Centrum (now DCU Center) in Worcester, Massachusetts and I live only live in Shrewsbury when I was one year and 8 months old. This episode is my all time favorite because it's not just close to home, it the time where Mick Foley won his WWF title for first time and before the Rock's twist from getting fired from the corporation and became a fan favorite.
0 likesEmp Ive always loved the wrestling references in your vids and have always secretly wanted You to make an in depth vid about it, great vid dude
18 likesThis video makes me legit sad
0 likesI want my car crash tv back
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"usually while high on cocain"
Yeah.... but lets be real... what would Randy Savage be without some coke fueled promos?
That vibe just transpired through the TV and captavated you.
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"80 year old woman"
Thats absolutely based.
15:03
Mick Foley is one of the most loveable and badass people this world has ever seen.
JR aint lying when he called "BAW GOD ALMIGHTY, BAW GOD ALMIGHTY, THAT KILLED HIM. AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, HE IS BROKEN IN HALF"
16:00
"Just go with it"
looool
16:23
"...take a corny gimmick an do it for 30 years"
well.... kinda... :D
19:18
And not the fancy Hollywood kinda thumbtacks made of rubber.
But the real deal you buy in a normal store.
dude this is the best video ever for wrestling nerds 😂😂😂
0 likesThis guy inspires me
0 likesI got to wrestle/slam HBK for a fundraiser at my school for our wrestling team. Down-to-earth guy. Lots of fun.
0 likes“It’s still real to me dammit! “ will forever be my motto towards wrestling
17 likesHow is it not real if people are actually getting really hurt?? Like I get that the “winner” is set already and stuff but they are actually beating the crap out of each other and throwing themselves off 2 story high fences, sooo
2 likesThis man really included Slick Rick in his video
0 likes#epic
I was lucky to be growing up as a child I'm the attitude era, wrestling back then was crazy good WCW WWF ECW man it was one amazing time, I haven't watched wrestling since like 2009 it's so lame bad and watered down its fucking awful.
0 likes"Undertaker's Iconic Dong."
0 likesa thing that was said
Your research and scripting is very admirable.
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And editing
1 likeWay back in 1998
1 likeWhen the brother of Kane
Threw Mankind off of Hell In A Cell
Through the Spanish Announcer Table
This was pretty much only talking about the attitude era but I’m okay with it.
0 likesGreat video, but u forgot to talk about ECW and how it helped WWE to win WCW
0 likes4:52 I was actually shaken to my core when I heard the background music and realized it's the melody the "Don't pee on the floor, use the commodore" fish sings
0 likesCame for monday night raw, stayed for a history lesson on theatre, word up
19 likesthat homer to Simpsons wrestling Segway was brilliant
1 likejust realized this video came out 20 years exactly after Mankind won the title
0 likes14:34
2 likesMan just dumped another man, and then proceeded to remove his mask...to reveal another mask.
**Peak Drama**
Vince Jr. didn't inherit the WWWF...he BOUGHT it from his father. How much of a difference that makes will vary from person to person, but it's an important distinction.
0 likesThere will never ever be another moment like when Trump clotheslined Vince McMahon
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That was one of the Best moment ever
4 likesThe only moment Trump was doing something right - entertain people. x)
1 likeYES! remember this one good
2 likesYou forget the moment where he clotheslined the government and sent it into a downward spiral
2 likesjust some guy who does what he wants lol
0 likesJacob Hsing a true legend you are
0 likesWWE should bring back the War Zone for one night
1 likeI can tell EmpLemon didn't watch it live bc there's quite a few errors he made.
0 likesNow there’s AEW and ROH . But u can never duplicate The Rock, Stone cold , DX, Mankind and The brothers of destruction scratch tht the whole Additude era was amazing
0 likesId still watch if the shows atmosphere was like the attitude era. Can't get into it at all with its current status, which has nothing to do with "how the world is now days".
0 likesI didn't realize Mick Foley was such a goddam badass 😐
22 likeshahahahaha I remember watching that Mick Foley throw live when I was a kid, it happened to be my birthday too.
0 likesWhen a man has lost his hair, he has nothing else to lose... I cry in crowning
0 likesI remember watching the undertaker vs mankind hell in a cell match as a kid
0 likes2:18 still funny as fuck no matter how many times you see it
0 likesI always found it weird when Vince McMahon announced that God would be entering the ring with Shawn Michaels, it was just a spotlight and not Mick Foley.
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I thought Mick was gonna do a one night appearance and help Shawn out.
5 likes@That’s one smug wojak Ahem, cope.
0 likesFor real though, if they just had Mick Foley come out in a robe and his beard badly spray painted white that would’ve been pretty funny
2 likesWWE drama lives on through MMA drama
0 likesI think when RAW and Smackdown were fighting for the title of the better wrestling show within WWE, it was really at its prime, even if ECW and AEW joined the feud and we're pretty much as uneventful in the way of narratives as WCW. The times when there were Batista, The Undertaker, Kane, John Cena, Triple H. All these behemoths with titles that had other fighters fear them much more than other fighters; and they were fighting in big events and showing their recognition until the last few fighters, you really never knew which way it would go, even if most rooted for The Undertaker, just because kids found his actions just but relentless, and he had a big history of stunts that put him in a lot of danger, so he was like foley but instead of laughing at the foolish guy, people always asked themselves "is this the last we see of the undertaker"? to be quickly corrected by his surprise returns with that chilling theme. simply classic.
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Ruthless Aggression is really underrated.
0 likes"the rock acts in high profile but ultimately forgettable action flicks... And Moana"
0 likesAnd now, Monday Night Raw is on a downward spiral. Pun intended.
0 likes"The undertakers iconic DONG"
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It's what really puts the "piledriver" into his tombstone.
38 likesAlso known as the deadliest 69 in the world.
TrolledBy1337 Qi always imagined the ko’d came from his balls slamming into his opponents chin?
9 likesPhrasing! lol
1 like@Top Lobster If anyone would have balls tough enough to do that it would be The Undertaker after all
1 likeKing of dong style!
3 likesMOTHER. PHRASING.
0 likesMichelle McCool likes this. 😏
1 likeYea man his dont is loud and a big icon
0 likesYou hear the song and sing and the ding dong
So that's what he's Taking when he's down Under, eh?
1 likeJust thinking of The Undertakers DONG gives me chills!
0 likesBasically wrestlers are gladiators but with slightly less extravagant sets? (I remember reading there were mock naval battles sometimes in gladiatorial games)
0 likesYou should have specified WWF Raw not WWE Raw. Nowadays it's almost unwatchable most of the time
0 likesHoly shit the nostalgia right from the start. Donkey Kong music lol
0 likesJust like your NASCAR video, when we lost Dale Sr, NASCAR died in 2001, ironaclly, Wrestling also died in 2001 when WCW closed. Enough said!!.
1 likeEmpLemon: When i say names like Ric Flair, Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, and Andre The Giant most of you can probably picture a vague figure in your heads but you cant specifically tell who im talking about.
97 likesMe a life long wrestling fan who knew exactly who he was talking about: Oh so this video isnt meant for me.
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I'm 43 and I've never been a big fan of wrestling and I knew exactly who he was talking about and what they look like LOL
6 likes@JayInDS3NT same here, those guys are just burned THAT deeply into the cultural zeitgeist.
4 likesHHH was my favorite bad guy
0 likesOmfgggg your a legend for 28:30 you just made my day. Thank me later everyone
0 likesYeah, you lost me when you mention Donald Trump's and McMahon's "business acumen". Is that code for inheriting an empire from your father?
0 likesi miss the Monday night wars
0 likesonly high iq rick and morty fans can understand the true lore of wrestling
65 likesToo bad wwe going really downhill last decade. Aew showing some strong signs thats for sure. Great vid
1 likemaybe 20 years from now, need to make a newer one 👀
1 likeYou forgot that Austin went to ECW first before going to WWF/E
0 likesLoving that Venom remix from Star Fox for The Rock.
0 likesThis video is absolutely fantastic. I love it so much. Same with the last Never Ever. You are doing a wonderful job with these videos. As both a wrestling fan and a SpongeBob fan, these 2 Never Ever videos are some of my favorite videos. Keep up the amazing work, and oh my god if I ever hear Michael Cole say Boss Time ever again, I think I might just end it all.
4 likesI love the Dirty Harry music when talking about Vince McMahon.
0 likesSo, there's this show that comes out on Wednesday night...
1 likeThis is true art
0 likesI used to think wrestling was just really dumb.
1 likeI’m sorry. I was wrong and a fool
Don't let any of this distract you from the fact that in 1998 The Undertaker-
226 likesOh, I see.
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0 likes-shittymorph wuz here
0 likesMan the pop for this was insane I was home and popped hard lmao
0 likes0:46 why you gotta roast my favorite sea animal (besides seals) like that
3 likesShawn Michaels is the best wrestler ever, Bret is second. We all know wrestling isn’t real, but it’s so good. Vince McMahon is the greatest promoter ever!
0 likesI'm in my fourth watch if this video. You are a master.
2 likesI didn't understand how people could watch fake wrestling until... I forget the name. WWE 2k16 I think? Their little Stone Cold story told like an E! documentary actually got me really hyped over it. Now that I can think about it it's pretty impressive how they manage to make it feel real in front of a live audience. Honestly, that's pretty impressive.
0 likesI was born way after that era and I agree
0 likes"The Undertaker's iconic DONG"
1 likeIf you guys like classic wrestling, and are sick of modern WWE. CHECK OUT AEW. Wrestling is truly great again!
1 likeThat image of Vince screaming at Steve Austin has to be the most famous scene of WWF/E history
55 likes5:14 that sure is some great background music, I sure do hope that the lights do not turn off however.
4 likesOh great heavens! My lantern has seemed to have blown away from a sudden gust, I am at the mercy of Frederick Fitzgerald Fazbear now!
Bro its crazy how non wrestling fans are genuinely enjoying wrestling in these comments very awesome video lol
1 like25:06
1 likeI’m not entirely certain but, is that Mike Tyson
@33:25 .... WWE may not be able to replicate that moment but there is another promotion now.
1 like90s kids may now be suffering from economic stagnation just as their professional careers were supposed to kick off, but my god did we have the best wrestling there will ever be.
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There are fields of opportunity still open.
3 likes@Zorro9129 true statement!
0 likes"The Undertaker's iconic dong"
2 likesOk
33:25 sorry to brake it to you but it did happen and funny enough it was a return as well
0 likesBecuse on August 20 2021 CM Punk return in AEW of all places is now considered or if not rivals a huge crowd reaction and to add insult to injury it was in much bigger crowd inside a stadium, it was rumored beforehand but it didn't effect to the crowd reaction it was a very magical moment
In order to be lover, you gotta be the champion.
0 likesYou gotta have some water if you wanna be the champion.
In order to be loved, you gotta have some water
Imagine if Twitter was a thing the night Mick pulled that shit...
0 likesI'll admit it right now, I never thought I'd see wrestling as anything but sweaty dudes groping each other on the ground. But At the end of the day, we all like something stupid. Even if we can't fathom that it's stupid to everyone else. I never liked Marvel or DC but as I grow older, I begin to appreciate things using a different view.
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wrestling ain't stupid
10 likes@Majin Vegeta I Don't Agree With You No
0 likes@PAPITOFLOW 6969 you cant deny the fact that the product has been straight trash for like the past 10-15 years 😞 wwe has been for babies & kids only
0 likes@Majin Vegeta The 80s & 90s crowd were 99% adults.
4 likes@ThrottleVinnieModoyeah bro because it used to be edgy ass hell & always pushed the envelope..
0 likes@Majin Vegeta Hence, nothing to do w/ growing up.
1 likeWrestling is also sweaty chicks groping each other on the ground. Any form of entertainment can be stupid, but that does not mean it always is. Just because there is Justin Bieber does not mean that there was no Beatles. Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin existed, but so did Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. While the WWE has featured many dumb ideas that even fans would shake their heads to, it has also provided many exciting moments that amazes people to this day such as the Mick Foley Hell in a Cell match in the video.
8 likes@ThrottleVinnieModo lol ill give you that one bro, but the attitude era is when wwe peaked. Its all been downhill from there 😞
0 likes@Majin Vegeta There were two peaks: Golden Era & Attitude Era.
0 likes@ThrottleVinnieModomaybe broski but the attitude era was mainstream & way more popular 👍
0 likes@Majin Vegeta Arguable. Especially since Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, Randy Savage, Roddy Piper, etc... broke into mainstream media. Meaning that many people around the world who didn't watch wrestling knew who they were.
0 likes@ThrottleVinnieModo i don't know about that number but agree a ton of adults loved wrestling from the beginning. Vince got more kids into it if anything starting in the 80s. The 80s through the early 2000s were the golden years of wrestling. It was so much fun.
0 likes@ThrottleVinnieModo this wasnt exactly a peak but dont forget ruthless aggression
0 likes@logo809 Then also remember the New Generation.
0 likes@ThrottleVinnieModo Golden era developed the formula, attitude and ruthless agression eras cemented it in pop culture
0 likes@Rustler V6 Golden & Attitude eras are cemented in pop culture. New Generation & Ruthless Aggression eras are also beloved by fans, but less iconic in general b/c ratings declined in both.
0 likesI need that WWF panda t shirt now!
0 likesTo be strictly fair to Vince, which is not something I make a habit of doing, he didn't inherit the company at all. He bought it from his father. And he somehow embodies the "I would never ask you to do something I wouldn't do myself" mantra. As he has...unfortunately proven. Many times.
0 likesOnly now do I notice that NASCAR held the number 2 spot for highest viewship during the late 90's and early 00's.
0 likesthe best video on the wwe i've ever watched
0 likesAlso backlash 2000 when rock won the title from hhh was the loudest pop ever. And guess what? Stone cold was part of both!
0 likesGave the video a like for the mostly for reminding me of mr socko. A real nostalgia trip
0 likesI was too there when mankind win his first title
0 likesWait...Is EmpLemon that Redditor who keeps bringing everything back to Undertaker throwing Mankind off of Hell In A Cell?
1 likeI have defeated the corporation.
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Nice
92 likeswait what happened to the og?
90 likesWell done!
3 likesEmpLemon good on you
11 likesEmpLemon had a feeling
6 likesFor now
4 likesGood Job.
2 likesGood job
3 likesEmpLemon indeed you have
0 likesdid you re upload this?
11 likesWhat happened?
4 likesI'm having flashbacks
0 likesI was wondering about that
0 likesCongratulations you earned it
4 likesdo a Star Wars Never Ever or i will resubscribe
18 likesWhy did you reupload
2 likesThe king is back
0 likesayy
0 likesI'm proud of you
0 likesGood
0 likesFUCK YEAH EMP
0 likesI love you Emp.
2 likesGood job Emp.
0 likesAlso great vid
0 likes...until your video gets copyright striked.
8 likesYou’re pretty much the Mick Foley of YouTube
4 likesWhat did it cost?
5 likesThank you, good sir
0 likesVictory
0 likesOk. I’m ok with this!
0 likesThis episode was very well made
2 likesGood job now make frying dory
2 likesEmplemon rises the WWE Championship
0 likesEmpLemon a brilliant move by the emperor in the ever going culture war of youtube
2 likesprofessional wrestling is basically just the good bits of anime but not animated
0 likesLet's see how quick it gets claimed
0 likes(Random fish in front of the restroom)- “Congratulations.”
1 likeWhat did you change from the original?
0 likesFuck yeah dude!! Only made it halfway through the first time. Keep fighting the good fight
0 likesEmpLemon could’ve swore I watched this video a couple of hours ago
0 likesI was watching the video and mid-watch they took it down. I knew they had tried to fuck with ya. Glad it’s back up! ☺️
0 likesWait what?
0 likesIT got taken down for awhile
1 likeVince McMahon watched the video
2 likesEmpLemon downward spiral for the corporation
1 likeYes brother, the corprate man plagues our lands
0 likesRenagadeVex his video got taken down due to wwe copyright striking it
1 like@OhTerry
0 likesStill wishing for another ytp?
For now 😔
0 likesWhich one?
0 likes@MrRed Fez The World! Stop time!
1 like:clap:
0 likesJust keep re-uploading and it'll work eventually
0 likesAchievement unlocked: Through the cracks (Defeat a major corporation)
0 likesUn-fucking-stoppable
0 likesThe Boyhood Dream Has Come True
1 likeCongrats
1 likeAll hail EmpLemon!
1 likeEmpLemon good job emp another win for epic gamers
3 likesStrive , Emp. Strive.
0 likesFagrith This is a reupload, if I had to guess, the original was taken down because it was claimed, presumably by some corporate entity.
1 likeI don't know what makes this comment amazing but god damnit it is.
0 likesblue pancit canton yeah he did idk why tho
0 likeshey man, thanks for reuploading this. I've had the tab open, trying to watch it all day.
0 likesHow in the fuck did you rise up
0 likes👌
0 likesWhat the fuck does that even mean
0 likesThanks
0 likesEmpLemon is Stone Cold Steve Austin CONFIRMED, BONIFIED EVIDENCE
0 likesfuck copyright strikes
1 likeWhy would they bring your video down when your literally praising them
1 likeWWE is gone
0 likesyay
0 likesDidn't you upload this earlier today? Why was it taken down?
1 likeGood lemon
0 likesVICTORY FOR THE LEMON REICH!
0 likes@Killoor Everything.
0 likesEmpLemon YEA
0 likesfucking legand
0 likesLike and subscribe for more corporate normalization
0 likesCan you tell us why and thank you for re-uploading!
0 likesdang dude
0 likesYEEESSS. I thought I would not be able to see this until after at least a couple of days. Awesome!
0 likes@ Anyone who asks what happened: Copyright takedown by WWE.
0 likesYay
0 likes@RenagadeVex it got copyright striked
0 likesYou did it tastefully, too. Freezeframes to show action is a brilliant idea.
0 likesFUCK YEAH WE DID IT!
0 likesDammit oof thanks for reuploading
0 likesfuck yeah I was wanting to actually watch this video
1 like@Charlie McBrian wwe copystriked the video
0 likesThe Emperor Lives on!
0 likesWhat did they strike you about
0 likesGGWP My man
0 likesGood
0 likesvery nice video!!
0 likesEmpLemon Congrats in the 420K subs, dude.
0 likesWay to go man I almost had a heart attack there
0 likesNice plug for Rusty Cages book
0 likesAlso rip your add revenue
0 likesAnd ya got your OG video terminated
0 likesVICTORY SCREECH
0 likesWhy was this re-uploaded?
0 likesGottem
0 likesa black bunny lol. The corporation caught up.
0 likesI’m happy I saw it with the actual videos but nice work arounds
0 likes👏👏 Downward spiral review
0 likesDUDE, I was watching your vid when it randomly got taken down. I’m glad you were able to dispute it
1 likeOut of spite for the real life Vince McMahons in the world Immuna watch it again. Also cause I'm bored and wanna watch it again cause I might ACTUALLY watch wrestling now because of this.
0 likesCongrats on the reupload, man!
0 likesMY GOD! MY GOD!!!
0 likesYESX
0 likesHuzzah!
0 likesNoce
0 likesEmp has joined DX
0 likesNice
0 likesYou became a level 100 Boss
0 likes@Schizo Monster Lover copyright
0 likesBy making a video about a corporation
0 likesGlad you did. I loved this vid so far
0 likesI watched it before it went down, nice work 👌
0 likesAmen hallelujah
0 likesIT'S AUSTIN!
0 likesAre you an Internet Late Stage Capitalist Neo-Communist? Epic
0 likesD E F E A T
0 likesHey emplemon, so you know the jameskii situation, people need to know about this.
0 likesYes you have brother
0 likesTruly the power of our Emperor knows no limits.
0 likesIt's weird they if you a copy strike, since this video is nothing but a big endorsement for them.
0 likesThe corporation is made to be defeated.
0 likesEmplemon you now stand in the same company as man kind.
0 likesWassup
0 likesLegend
0 likesWe are losing the battle, Lord Vader won't be happy
0 likesWhole world applauds like when you win in Rollercoaster Tycoon
0 likesAnd it only took a couple of hours... Big ups
1 likeEmp lemon. You are truly our emperor
0 likesFirst video got taken down
0 likesｙｅｓ
0 likesYeeeesssss
0 likesGood job.
0 likesdude i love ur vids and i like what u do so yeet nae nae and the simsons r greeeen
0 likesEmpLemon why didn’t you cover the legendary “IT’S ME AUSTIN” storyline
0 likesVegan boi
0 likesRip ascended 5
0 likes@CRazzy Combbo u eat toes
1 like@CRazzy Combbo ur dinner last night was just
0 likesketchup
@Jettpackman its was great and u gave mayo
0 likes@CRazzy Combbo i wish i had mayo
0 likesOh yeah yeah
0 likesCan you do Beatles?
0 likesWhat do you mean?
0 likesThe battle between smackdown vs raw has been finished by one guy. I applaud you.
0 likesEmpLemon At the Super Bowl instead of people having posters that read “Die Rocky Die” most Americans will have posters that read “Die Brady Die”
1 likeAt we have UFC
0 likesHave you heard? Your dear college, Pie Pivot Montiear, has killed himself because of abuse from his parents. RIP, Pie-Pivot
0 likes@Pakistani Mario Hang on, Are you talking to me? Or Emp?
0 likes@Pakistani Mario But in what way, do you mean? LITteralliy or Figureiteny
0 likes@Pakistani Mario 0-0
0 likesCongrats
0 likes@Cawag J O H N C E N A S S E M E N
0 likesWhat's funny is that most people replying don't understand the reference.
0 likesWhat about the authority
0 likes@Neville Rose What about the alliance?
1 likeI got a good YTP idea. Air Frying Nemo.
0 likesDude, WWE is dying and fading away and nobody cares about Raw anymore. WCW should have won and WWE should have died and fallen. Russo helped the WWE over WCW and he tried to put WCW back in competition. WWE will not be around in 10 years and WCW had better talent. Enjoy the epic demise of WWE. WCW is still technically alive with needing the WWE to die to raise from the grave. I will use The Crow reference, the Crow itself will be the connection between the moral world to the metaphysical world. The finger poke of doom and WCW gave the results that turned the tide of war.
0 likes@JB Jr WCW would've won the the Monday night wars, if it wasnt for the commentators who couldn't know their role and shut their mouth.
0 likes@Qui-Gon Jinn It had worked in the past for them and it backfired. They knew for about one good week and I agree and the finger poke of doom would have been the beginning of the end for the WWF. Russo was a genius for developing that but Bishoff just had to open his mouth to tell Tony to leak the results during the break. If they would have done the top of the show then it would have been less effective to their demise. Then WCW had better owners that actually cared then they would have recovered from that. WWE will fall under its own weight. They shot themselves in the foot at the right time about 6 days after the War was over. They need to survive one more week then the tides of war would have changed again with Austin shaking hands with Satan himself.
0 likesi agree with you
0 likescool
0 likesJon Bois would be so proud!!!
0 likesEmpLemon I was familiar with a lot of these wrestlers due to the old friend, but still I learned a lot from this.
0 likesWCW Monday Nitro
0 likesMake “a there will never be another wrestler like cm punk”
0 likesWhat?
0 likesPowerful!
0 likes@OhTerry no u
0 likesI hope you did it for the Rock
0 likes@OhTerry why?
0 likesThe cream of the crop!!!
0 likesI went full circle dawg. Hating wrestling, watching anime, watching jojo REALIZING WRESTLING IS JUST JOJO
0 likeswell shit.
EmpLemon is a man of culture
0 likesYou pinned Vince?
0 likesTrump's dad bailed him out of debt 3 times. Soooooo. And Vincent's Dad had something already going on with Wrestling.
0 likesTrump also comes from a rich family.... checks your facts places.
0 likesYour new WWF champion
0 likesHe talking about how he stopped wwe from blocking this video by uploading it with differently so the copyright content bot won't detect it
1 likeSo WWF is literally has more complex lore than any other movie?!?!
0 likesWhat about smackdown or nxt
0 likesCan you defeat corona?
0 likesYou didnt pin this
0 likesYou defeat the juice?
0 likesIn terms of Mcmahons character, Bret being screwed could have been included.
0 likes*cough*cough ECW
0 likesYe
0 likesOops no money
0 likesYOU GOT NO CHANNNCEEE!
0 likesNO CHANCE IN what?
epic
0 likesFun Fact: My first words as a child was WWE. Probably says something about the type of person I am.
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a WWE tod
0 likes"A literal tank" that isnt literally a tank lol
0 likesI always said that Professional Wrestling is theatrical dancing.
0 likesIts a cooperational sport (despite portraying the opposite) that includes acting and following a (more or less defined) cheoreography.
I piss off everyone with that. Both Pro Wrestling fans and people still not understanding that we know its a work.
The first are pissed of because "Theater" and "Dancing" are dIsReSpEcTfUl terms towards PW.
And the others are pissed because i dared to 1. disagree that fake = bad and 2. say its a real sport (by saying its dancing// nobody can deny that dancing is a sport), just not a competitive one.
In all honesty, I thought The Rock was the hero not the villain.
0 likesYou're amazing EmpLemon. Just 5 minutes in thinking about how much I appreciate your way of articulating your views.
30 likesYou went too far saying Goku isn’t real. He’s real to me, dammit!
1 likeI always referred to it as male soap opera’s with all the ongoing story lines
0 likesThe Steve Austin bald line would of been great for a keeps ad.
0 likesthis is my favourite emplemon video hands down
0 likesYou’re content gives me faith in YouTube, thank you for making 30 minutes feel like 5
15 likesEven though it’s not real and there not hitting each other,it is still a contact sport and they do get hurt when taking bumps like top rope spots or table and ladder spots
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Watch a Walter match lol
0 likesYeah I’ve seen Walter he’s like German Brock lesnar
0 likesUploaded on the 20th anniversary of Mick winning the title ;)
1 likeHang on, is Hulk Hogan still awesome?
0 likesTo be real tho. Wrestling will NEVER be like this again!! They lost their edge
0 likes1999 ratings sheet" WWE, NASCAR, Rugrats" Yeah that's pretty much the 90's. lol
44 likesI love the Undertaker.
0 likesQuick correction, Vince McMahon BOUGHT his father's business. He did not "inherit" it. Big difference.
0 likesWrestling in the 80s and 90s even at the turn of the century it was entertaining but alas like so many things I am no longer entertained I guess I'm just tired.
0 likesYo this is the sickest edit I've ever seen. Subscribed!
0 likesThey call me the Shock Master!
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YEAH BABY!
15 likesThe casuals wont understand 😂
18 likesARM SHOCK FOREVER...
2 likesThat was on Nitro, but still an iconic moment nonetheless ; )
6 likesThat's Cody and Goldust's uncle if I'm not mistaken
0 likesMore like the "trip master"
1 likeThat shit still makes me laugh to this day.
1 likeJongo Phett hahahahaha
0 likesElias Ochoa I think It's a meem at this point everyone knows The Shock Master
0 likesOh yeeeaaaahhhh
0 likesA lisa reference? Neat.
2 likes@alleyeson da pp aww
0 likesGive her the shocker
0 likes@the return of gaff
0 likesARM SHOCK WILL NEVER DIE !!!!
Two in the pink, one in the stink.
0 likesThe Shocker.
Thank you and you're welcome.
🤣🤣🤣
Oh my God, Vince Sr looks so much like Jon Voight, I thought it was him until I looked it up.
0 likesAEW exist now. They'll be rivaling the WWE in the next few years
0 likes@6:48 Vince McMahon started out with nothing, except a small inheritance of a @7:58 booming wrestling empire.
0 likesAh Yes The Legend’s.
1 likeDidn’t think the second episode could live up to the first, but here we are.
28 likesWhy did the 12 year old in me get upset for 2 seconds when he said Luke Skywalker isn’t real 😂😂😂
0 likesthank you for giving me context for that one line in the 2nd "basically a tom scott video"
0 likesWrestling is all about fun!
1 likeWhy did you not show the final count and crowd reaction for the Mankind vs The Rock match? You literally stopped it at the two count.. I'm frustrated by all the little things like that that plague the video.
0 likesCommentary is to pro wrestling what scores are to movies. Sure, you can enjoy what you see without it, but with it, it just gets a whole lot better.
9 likesAustin started that attitude in ECW
0 likesExactly! The WWE championship is the top prize! NOT the universal championship
0 likesI love the editing for this video
1 likeI’m going to have to do a lot of stuff to be loved!
0 likes5:15 When the power goes out
1 likeThe Attitude Era was by far the best.
0 likesThat guy getting slammed into thumb tacks just…. screams
0 likesWrong again. He didnt "overhaul", he LITTERLY DESTROYED the teritories that didnt sell to him. He blocked there tv access, and bought the buildings they ran in. Thats not "overhaul" that is playing dirty and destroying the foundation of 100 years of wrestling!
0 likesThis video got me into watching professional wrestling
0 likesfuck man, i choked up a few times. those were the days man, wrestling was so tight n bad ass back then. nostalgia's a bitch sometimes.
0 likesWWE really is the DBZ of the west
1 likeThe two men who were involved in the finger-poke-of-doom, Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash were once one of Vince McMahon's "Boyz", and Kevin Nash during this time (I think) was a booker 👀💀 that's all I'm saying, but you can read between the lines.
0 likesyou're way to good at getting me into random shit
0 likesDaniel Bryan turning on Bray Wyatt was absolutely bonkers.
0 likesDude I remember when I used to get so fucking into this shit every monday night
0 likesHe was lowkey dissing tf outta mick foley while describing him
0 likesJust to clarify, Tony Schiavone was directed to make that "butts in the seats" line by Eric Bischoff
56 likes"Fake" and scripted are two different words, with two different definitions.
0 likesBut there was another show very much like Raw that actually was more popular than raw for a cpl of years and that was Monday Nitro
0 likesMy favorite match of all time is that mankind vs taker 98 Hell in a cell
0 likesWonderful video! Love your editing :) have an excellent day friend
0 likesThat Mumkey Jones reference made me realise how much I miss him :(
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Buuut mumkey
1 likeVery much.
0 likesHe's coming back in a week. Tune into "Mumkey's Declassified Channel Ban Survival Guide" on MumkeyJones.tv
6 likesWe should get Mumkey back. They took him from us and we need to take him back even by force.
0 likesRaw was the shit back in the day, now its Smackdown and NXT carrying WWE, Raw is a ghost of its former self
0 likesI'm only 30 seconds in and I really want to comment about how I only know "Macho Man" Randy Savage because of a certain gamer who likes a rocket weapon too much...
0 likes(That being Cosolix, who is most seen playing Brawlhalla as Macho Man)
“The Undertaker’s iconic song”
2 likesPause.
I'm out after he compared WWF to theater 😂😂
0 likes"Not brought on from what was in the ring" I disagree hard here lol, WWE has dropped tremendously in quality, things like AEW and NJPW will overtake WWE i popularity im sure
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AEW and NJPW overtake WWE in terms of quality, but not popularity. The WWE is a monopoly, that people would pursue a career in the land of the Giants. The ones who would head to NJPW or AEW are either Natives of Japan or try to escape the harsh conditions of WWE. Those two promotions are only known for the hardcore fans
0 likesWhat IS real is the punishing schedule that pro wrestlers keep. Also, what is real are the injuries these people accumulate. That alone deserves respect. Trump was born rich...
0 likesHogan in his 30s looks like my dad now in his late 50s
1 likeNew WWE just doesnt hit the same as old school WWF. They still did fucked up shit in WWE like Kane killing paul bearer or randy ortan going on a murderous rampage but when triple H went to randy ortans house and threw him through a window, it was unmatched
1 likeI'm watching this again so that papa Emp gets good algorithms.
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I'm replying to your awesome comment with amazing positive language for good algorithms. Have a nice day!
0 likesfor people who dosent even watch wrestling they only know 1 or 2 names it will be commonly john cena or the rock
0 likesclap clap that was well told good sir.
0 likesyou said that every character in smash is fake, which is in fact not true as one of the characters, R.O.B., is a real life accessory for the nes. i get your point still and having that mistake corrected in the video would take away from what you were saying, but still.
0 likeswell, everyone knows who Andre is because of The Princess Bride
1 likeNever again will EmpLemon be at 420k subscribers
144 likesThis is truly a milestone
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Well... People could unsubscribe. Just saying, haha.
1 likeLOL “oldest ever manatee in captivity died by accidentally swimming into an off limits drainage area”
0 likesManatees really are just the most goofy, mr magoo animals on the face of the planet
EDIT: the fact that you have to break down suspension of disbelief when it comes to wrestling in the 21st century is fucking shocking to me, man. Anyone who tacitly claims intellectual superiority for “knowing that wrestling is fake” is the butt of a hilariously ironic joke.
today is Jan 11 (the day this comment was written).
0 likesMonday Night Raw turned 29. And it'll turn 30 the next year.
I didnt live those moments, but, still, its impressive how McMahon rose his own empire from scratch.
Damn I always thought wrestling was like a even gayer opera. Mcfole was a legend for taking that beating, props or not that's impressive
0 likesThis should be one of the classic videos of you tube
0 likesThat bojack reference is gold
1 likefinally i can show a video about wrestling to my girlfriend!!
1 like18:40 Medical personal, cuts to a shot of Terry Funk lmao Idk why that made me laugh lol
0 likesAt 24:30. Love the Mudasir reference. Feels like an easter egg. Love it
0 likesModern RAW has none of this magic though
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He's more or less talking about the 80s, attitude era and ruthless aggression era. WWE in it's current state has been garbage and the only noteworthy things to happen in the last decade are The Summer of Punk (CM Punk 2011) and Daniel Bryans yes movement. other than that, absolute garbage scripts, watered down matches, and it literally feels like a show for kids to watch to make them fall asleep easier.
55 likesCrushedBig D Do you even watch NXT? Or any of the 2018 episodes of Smackdown?
2 likes@Ash Ketchum NXT is ran by Triple H so I consider that different
9 likes@Ash Ketchum That circus act and shit story and no consistent story
0 likesGotta watch Smackdown
0 likes@Thilzsage Vuplim Smarktown*
0 likesSo we are going to pretend that Becky Lynch doesn't exist? Alright then
5 likes@Nikolai Wrestling sucks now.
0 likesrip :'(
0 likesif you want to get anyone into wrestling just show them the scott steiner math video
0 likesI love the background music in the intro, donkey Kong is my favorite game and I forgot what game that music is from but I remember spending hours of my day on my 3DS playing that game
1 like"In order to be loved, one has to love you"
0 likes-Hitler..... maybe Phil. I think
attitude era raw was the shit!
0 likesDope video. I feel that those born after 2000 just don't "get" hope popular WWF was and how it was truly a cultural phenomenon and a representative of the zeitgeist of the time - especially the 90's counter-culture and "attitude" of the time. I think it's something that just could never occur after the introduction of the internet and social media and the "fall" of cable TV.
3 likesDamn AEW is the same as WCW but could end up being more successful
0 likesIt's not just that they replaced it with something new and arguably better, but they got rid of the iconic Coca Cola script logo and I swear that had to have made a huge difference in how people reacted. That logo is so iconic, it would be like McDonald's getting rid of the Golden Arches "M" logo. I can't even think of a logo that's on the same level as that, but having that kind of brand recognition is really important and they almost threw it away.
0 likesThat Stone Austin guy seems pretty cool
0 likesShakespeare: the CM PUNK of Theater
0 likesImagine if the video just ended at 2:24. That would be fucking hilarious
0 likesBeen a wrestling fan since I was 5 years old when people find out they exactly say that and that's when I turn around and tellthem but you love The avengers and not really either 😂
0 likesThe WWE was America's take as an anime.
0 likesWrestling companies make better live action anime on accident than Netflix makes on purpose
0 likesOnly emp can compare william shakespeare to pro wrestling
0 likesI stopped watching after CM punk and cena feud. It was the best match and punk won in Chicago and then he left and so did I. Now there are no names like the old and also no stories that I can care enough.
1 likeBoth got their companies from their fathers. Vince bought WWE from Vince Sr after working for him and Fred Trump gave the Trump Organization to Donald. Both changed the names of the companies after getting the companies from their dads.
0 likesPro Wrestling is such a quintessential American thing thats actually freaking awesome. Like fried chicken, Hip Hop and Chuck Norris.
0 likesThe Undertaker's iconic DONG
50 likesI still dc for wrestling but I luv ur content and this video so I watched anyways :)
0 likesHaha.
0 likesThe Undertaker's iconic DONG.
But hey wait a minute..... Isn't R.O.B. the robot...a REAL robot?
0 likesIt’s really interesting to view professional wrestling as theater. Completely changes my mindset about ha ha wrestling fake entertainment not real wrestling ha ha
0 likesThis is honestly the best thing I have watched on yt in a while
40 likesI bet that was some shit to know you said it's the only game in town(which it was) only to find out a few days later AEW was a thing lol
0 likesLiterally got a VISA card ad that was styled for WWE as I watch this video lmao
0 likesEmpLemon can make a video about septic tanks and make it sound philosophical
1 like"the Undertaker's iconic dong" 😆
0 likes"The undertakers iconic dong" lmfaooo
1 likeI hate Vince McMahon as an actual human and think wrestling is trash but I can't deny that my friends and I had a lot of fun in the mid to late 90's watching Nitro and Raw
0 likesThere will never be another Monday night raw... AEW says "Hi"
1 likeif ur a real one u remember when the WWE video games had a mode about the war with WCW
0 likesLoved wcw
0 likesNoooo!!! Its not "theatre"!! It IS an anthletic competition! Theatre doesnt actually hit one another!
0 likesThere will Never Ever be another movie like Star Wars
1 likesmall edit: WWE killed professional wrestling
0 likes>Drove a literal tank to the front door
730 likes>Cut to video of them riding in a jeep that has been turned into a technical truck
Classic.
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>implying you were even around when greentext began
24 likesWarnerrr
41 likes>implying
>Not buying Skooma from Shady Sam
17 likes@LordOfTheBees >replying to months old comments
5 likesKek
0 likesEveryone in this comment chain is somehow annoying.
10 likes@Spilt Ice Tea yeah why are they replying so late?
0 likes@Random man It's more their attitudes. When you put something up online you're accepting the fact that people can reply to it for as long as it's up.
1 likeSpilt Ice Tea BOOMIE ZOOMIE BOOMER ZOOMIE BOOMIE ZOOMER
0 likesGET OFF MY BOARD
RRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@うざきIvorey :3
0 likesEvery form of autism is visible in this thread
0 likes@sha hood DUUJHH DURRR DUH DUR DUHHHH
0 likesWWE famously (infamously) always refer to it as a tank. insisting
0 likesIt might've been part of the joke. :P
"He started with nothing" Yeah because his rich dad is nothing right.
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His rich dad never raised him. Matter fact, Vince had to come to him for work because his life of poverty was getting to him. The two were not close at all.
0 likesThe reason why they teach Shakespeare during high school is because they know alot of people aren't gonna learn anymore about anything after that. They at least give us a chance. Not EVERYONE hates school......I loved learning.
0 likesIt seems like you either hate or love pro wrestling
0 likesThis is awesome.
0 likesI think he means Monday Night Raw, when it was Raw Is War.
0 likesDont be a fool and please understand that if things can slide one way, they can slide the other way. NEVER EVER is a clickbait term, not a wise one...
0 likesThe Highlander reference was quite witty.
0 likesWhere can I watch old wrestling shows all the way through? I feel like quarentine is a great time to get shitfaced with the boys on discord and go through an entire year of wrestling, in order
1 likethanks!
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WWE recently moved thair library to Peacock if you want to try there. There's also the WWE Network if you're not in the United States.
1 like@Skoop Thank you!
1 like@Jesus Christ Tha O.G. no problem man. You were just in time too. Wrestlemania week is going on rn
1 like@Skoop perrffffff. you just made a random group of fellas very happy. thanks!
0 likesFantastic editing. My partner found the thesis easy to follow even as a recent wrestling fan. Extremely intelligent.
14 likesFantastic editing!
0 likesI want a time machine
0 likes"FOLEY IS GOD"
1 like"Literal Tank"
1 like- is actually just a car with a fake cannon glued on it -
The Video is pretty good for people completely new to Wrestling but there are some things that bother me a bit. Like:
Stunning Steve an AVERAGE Wrestler? Wow. Talk about forgetting all about the Hollywood Blondes, eh? Austin always was a freakishly good Wrestler. Both in terms of Promos as well as in work rate. He was just given rubbish material to work with more then once. But when he got the right thing (see Hollywood Blondes) he absolutely nailed it.
No mention at all of the Montreal Screwjob? That was the very event that outed McMahon as the de facto owner of the company and the moment when he took up an on-screen heel role as that. With a large reason why people hating him was because he screwed over Bret Hart.
It's a decline not from what's happening in the Ring? Sorry but that could not be further from the truth. If that was the case then AEW sure as hell wouldn't exist and starting to match the WWE Main-Shows in ratings.
WWE had MULTIPLE chances to replicate Stone-Cold-Moments from the Attitude Era even once they turned PC. By now the list of Talent they alienated with their terrible decisions who could've been on the top is a lot longer then actually successful projects. And people like CM Punk or Daniel Bryan are just the tip of the iceberg there. Just look how much time they wasted on trying to get Roman over as the generic Face. Look how the butchered Broken-Matt. How they wasted so many promising NXT-Talents because Vince at some point looses interest in them like they are some kind of toys and like crowd reaction just ain't a thing. Look how they constantly bring back old, often washed out, Wrestlers to walk over new Talent. How they waste genius Tag-Teams and Staples because Vince doesn't like Tag-Team Wrestling or wants Cena to walk all over the Nexus, killing their momentum in the process. And do we REALLY have to talk about poor Bray Wyatt? When they started with the Fun-House and The Fiend I though "Well shit. This is gonna be the next Undertaker". Yeah... nope. In every other company creative people like Bray would already be at the top of the Main Card. I wonder how many Wrestle-Mania Main-Events he got under his belt. Oh look. It's the same as CM Punk. None.
Not putting Punk into the Main even with Rock and Cena AT THE VERY LEAST was as much of a mistake as ousting people like Cody Rhodes with their terrible creative choices. And look what that particular thing got them? I get that you made this before the AEW announcement but you did already saw All In happening. That must've been a indicator.
But finally: I am VERY happy, that there will never be another show like Attitude-Era Raw. Don't get me wrong there are a lot of things I really wish they would lean into again. But on a whole we always tend to forget the absolute worst about that time through the filter of nostalgia. Like the fact that there was just no Womens Wrestling for years and even then we barely got beyond shit like "Bra and Panties Matches" for a long time. Or the ever so slightly present Racism and Homophobia. Or Incest angles. Or countless disappointing Match-Finishes (I swear half the RAW matches ended in DQ's). If you go back to it on the Network (well or Peacock now I guess) and rewatch those Episodes, you'll notice that a lot of it just becomes extremely unwatchable. I often see that many fans think going back to how or what the attitude era was will fix something. Like blaming it all on PG that WWE got so stale. I promise you it has nothing to do with that.
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WWE only called the jeep a tank because they took "The Monday Night Wars" name too literally and convinced themselves that 2 wrestling companies competing to be the better one was an actual, literal war.
0 likesI always thought of wrestling like a very aggressive and dangerous form of theater which was actually enjoyable
3 likesOh fuck yeah Monday Night Raw was so entertaining
0 likesPro wrestling is just anime irl, there, it's that easy
0 likesWrong also about the Tv ratings. Wrestling was ALWAYS top of ratings UNTIL the early 90s.
0 likesnow it’s AEW vs WWE
3 likes>YouTube takes down Emplemon and terminates Siivagunner
235 likesNot starting 2019 off to well, eh YouTube?
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ITS NOT Siivagunner ITS SiIvagunner!!!!
3 likesWHAT THE FRUITY HELL? It better come back.
10 likes
9 likesSHIZAASIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVAAAAAAAAAAwhat the fuck? when
12 likesdid siIva got taken down?
@aceman0000099 SiivaGunner is the actual name of Silva's [latest (at the time of this comment)] channel, because his last channel (which was SilvaGunner) got terminated
4 likes@⁓ fanimations. ⁓ you may notice I also used an uppercase i in my comment, as it should be
1 likei'm out of the loop
1 likeGODDAMNIT!
0 likesBig oof
0 likes@Pferd Schild Do you know 4chan greentexts?
0 likesWrestling is just modern-day opera.
1 like"Only major wrestling company in the us"
1 likeWHAT HOW DA-
uploaded early 2019
Aaahhhh! How the times have changed :D
"None of the characters in Super Smash Bros are real"
0 likesThis noob's never heard of ROB the Robot I guess....
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Also how do you grow up dirt poor and inherit ownership of a booming wrestling organization
0 likes@XkidXuglyX I think because his parents were divorced, his dad owned a company and was rich while his mom was poor and didn't have much.
0 likesI feel sorry for people that didn’t grow up with this
0 likesOnly somebody like you would make me appreciate WWE, jesus.
10 likesReally great video man!
6:33 sad that a NASCAR race at Rockingham was oh so close beating out the WWF.... OH WAIT, it was a just boring predictable race that day
0 likesI NEVER KNEW SOMEONE PULLED A GUN OUT FOR A PROMO
1 like14:11 LMAOO
Monday night raw is anime for people who laugh at the idea of watching anime
0 likesThis is such a good God damned video
0 likesThere will never be another man like Gaston.
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No one dance like Gaston
8 likes@James Cannon K, imma wait another 8 months to reply.
0 likesNo one spits like Gaston.
2 likesNo one replies to his own comment like Gaston
0 likesHardy boyz/team xtreme the GOAT for me
0 likesI wonder how many "Wrestling" fans believed it was real at some point?
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Doubt many. It was like a magic show more than reality.mqe KNEW something was up, but not exactly what.
0 likesWe know someone couldn't take certain beatings and come right back, BUT they ARE jacked up and in a lot better shape. But chairs and such too? Ok...now we KNOW it's notright, but we see them hit, he fell, he got angry or hurt....ok..real enjfh for me to enjoy this.
Shit as kids we did the same and we knew just how much to joke back to make it entertaining and yet bot kill each other.
For me, the only thing I didn't know was that the moves were communicated.
I thiught they just acted and reacted on the spot. That's how we did it as kids. And whomever was too tired to go on, lost. Tapped or pinned. I didn't know they planned who won.
I mean, for us, we planned sometimes. On our own pay per view or big matches for the story progression, but the story reacted to whomever was on top, based on real.."real" bouts. Whomever won by more stamina and toughness to get to top. Then there were only a few planned hits for rivals. Letting someone win just to fight the other guy. Or lose to drop down in ranks just to have a rematch with someone else. Other than that, real fights lol.
Bo one got really dazed but you didn't know what move you were going to be put in till they tried and THEN you go along with it to make it look good.
So...wrestling was..REAL ENOUGH.
Drop kicks DID hit. Punches hit, but just enough. Chairs, however, touched just enough for noise, bit with slow aimed hits that the other person can react to for the show.
So SEEING hits commect and.not in a soft.pussy way..more like Asian actors who do real contexts to look as real as possible, made it more believable
No, itwasnt real, wemknew it...but it had enough in there to believe the magic
Saying triple H got his rise from Stephanie is trash. He worked his ass off for 15 years before he married her. Triple H is on my personal Rushmore with Austin, The Rock, and the Undertaker. The attitude era will always reighn supreme. Shawn, Bret, Terry, Dusty, and sting are up their also. The attitude era will never be beaten.
0 likes2:40 The money we spend on them is. FACTS!
0 likes"In order to be loved, beat the shit out of your boss"
17 likesCouldn't have said it better myself
Oh, look who it is. I love Whang. Wait a minute...
0 likes3:31 I never realised the value of Shakespeare until I saw the Macbeth movie. And that was in my senior year of high school.
0 likesA jeep with a 30mm and a tank are 2 totally different things lol
0 likesAEW has the Cobra Kai effect on the WWE..... AEW would beat WWE Smackdown or Raw by April 2022 if AEW's ratings start to improve and increase depends how low rated the brand is, most likely to Raw. by 2037 to 2039, if AEW is still alive, would be really boring and crap and another wrestling organization would be formed by disgruntled, mistreated AEW wrestlers.
0 likesThe Mario music was my childhood
0 likesVince McMahon = Rick Astley
0 likesI don’t know TNA IMPACT every Thursday on SpikeTV was pretty legit
0 likesThere is one, it's called AEW Dynamite
0 likesMonday night would have Walker texas ranger at 8 than RAW at 9-11... Monday were lit 🤣🤣 plus MNF 🤷♂️
0 likesI for one, don’t like sponge bob and liked wrestling a lot when I was in middle school
0 likesJan 4th 1999, Austin helped Mankind (Triple H, Xpac, Chyna, and Billy Gunn) which his entry was the loudest, defeated the rock and Corporate team (with Kane, Ken Shamrock )
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This was no DQ match no holds barred
0 likesmankind finally beating their overlords with a little help from yeehaw land.
0 likesThe under taker match went 15 mins to far
0 likesthis and super eyepatch wolf's video are the reason why I respect wrestlers
2 likesPillman upping the 9mm is priceless
0 likesBut SmackDown is my favourite
1 like4:49
0 likesGuy in basement watching turns around to said stick:
"For now my precious"🥴
Emplemon can you do a video on there will never ever be another bad guy team like the NWO
0 likesSympathy for Mankind.
2 likesThe moment Nick got slammed onto the thumbtacks, i got an ad that started with “M +17, voilence and gore“ LOL
0 likeswow this video was very good. thank you lemon
0 likesMonday Night Raw has influenced a whole gen to the point i can't even read the phrase "NEVER EVER" without hearing the only & only "Chris Jericho Y2J" Say it. EPIC
2 likes& Now AEW exists & they're helping build back up existing US companies like Impact (once TNA) NWA, soon probably ROH, and advancing NJPW 's status in the the US as well as reminding/introducing these companies to audiences around the world.
0 likes12:49 quietly wispers Katie Vick
Everybody loves The Undertaker's dong ... nuff said
This is brilliant hahaha
0 likesAs someone who has never watched wrestling idk why but this whole thing is a level of ridiculous that keeps me from not smiling
25 likesEmplemon please do never ever ufc
1 likeI dunno the wrestling itself is awesome its just everything else that makes it lame.
0 likesOnly now there's AEW!$
3 likesVince screwed Brett Heart. That made him a villan, and he leaned into it.
2 likesI’m Not into wrestling at all but this is actually really interesting
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kai crenshaw you should give a show called AEW Dynamite on Wednesdays at 8pm, it’s more sports based and catered towards adults.
2 likesThis shit is too nostalgic
0 likesOutstanding documentary
0 likesWednesday’s are better 😉
3 likesBut Smackdown is kinda like Raw and that’s another show
0 likesok idk if its staged them being hurt is enough realism for me to consider it real and not theater
1 likethe shit mick foley went through for that is insane
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The wrestling is real. The story/outcome isn't. That's how I see it.
0 likesI swear to god, Emp said something about Vince and Shane McMahon vs Randy Orton and Jesus Christ but I can't find anything about it anywhere? Can someone please fact check this
0 likesMankind is my wrestling hero
0 likesAew is much better than current WWE programming, back in the day? I dunno, I'd probably watch both since they're on on different days
0 likesMick Foley is one of the most inspirational people ever imo
11 likes5:36 POV: You are the protagonist of a Kikuo song
1 like35 mins of culture
0 likesRIP snooty :(
0 likesI like your documentaries for whatever reason. I don't even care about the topics. Are you a wizard?
0 likesThose manatees deserve respect
2 likesAustin is the GOAT.
0 likesBad guy Vince is the best ever. Best music. Best swagger. So funny.
0 likesWait, is that the "Respect Your Elders" beat at 23:25? LMAO.
0 likesThe Rock: Fuck you, you pieces of crap.
The Audience: My B.
there will Never Ever be another channel like EmpLemon
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I have to agree with ya there.
4 likesI love these video essays dude
0 likes"stoic adults". I think you meant to say "closeted man babies"
0 likesDude is pretty much talking about the Attitude Era LOL.
1 likeIn the grand scheme of pro wrestling, everyone watches to see the baby face get hurt.
0 likesGot a kind of Jon Bois vibe from this. Especially in the editing and music. If you haven’t watched Fighting in the Age of Loneliness, you have to. Achieves the same feat as this video, being that it’s watchable even if you don’t like the sport
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Holy shit in not the only one who realizes this. That's how I feel his vids have been like, it's very enjoyable.
0 likesDAT ENGINEER TRACK ON AUSTIN LMAO
0 likescalls a jeep with a recoiless rifle a tank. I have lost faith.
0 likesThese days though Raw makes people fall asleep in their seats rather than jump out of them.
0 likesi cannot get the the thought that feddy fadbear music has been playing throughout an entire segment of this video
0 likesRemember when Monday Night Raw used to be awesome and worth your night?
259 likesPepperidge Farms Remembers.
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Remember when Raw Is Jericho!!!!
16 likes@Ratel.H Badger AEW IS JERICHO!
11 likesRemember when RAW IS STEVEN?
2 likesRemember when WWE stands for Walk With Elias?
5 likesIt still is when you stop hearing those rumors...
0 likesI'm so gutted I JUST MISSED the best era of WWF. I was getting into it in 2000, when Heat was shown on Channel 4 in the UK. We did get satellite TV not long after, and always watched Raw and Smackdown until I went to uni in 2003 and no longer had any TV, but it was all downhill. The peak was clearly 1998-2000. I have enjoyed watching TNA for a couple of periods more recently, love AJ Styles, and WCPW was good (now Defiant which I should check out but haven't much yet). Luckily I came back to TNA just as the Broken Matt Hardy thing was taking off, found it hilarious, showed my brother some clips, and then the two of us ended up going to our first live wrestling show when WCPW did a show in town featuring Matt Hardy vs Bully Ray (I think the event was even called "Delete"). I really appreciate pro wrestling but I always end up getting bored after a few months. Currently in an off-period. I'll probably get back into it again at some point.
2 likesRemember Nitro beats Raw's ass for an entire year. Pepperidge Farms remembers. #WCW4Life; #nWo4Life
1 likeAtitutde era RULESS
1 likeRemember when half the crowd looked like it was 3 quarters filled with signs and didnt just have 'smart phones' in their hands
1 likeWhat was the song during the explanation of mankind? Sounded like a video game I loved it!
0 likesThe second fall foley took wasn’t going to be that bad. Cheap ass wwf used zip ties and they all broke. Foley said the first one didn’t hurt at all compared to that fall. He could of died that day.
1 likeI know I'm a couple of years late just seeing this, but good grief this is like the worst of USA Today - a somewhat inaccurate summarization of what happened. At least this one seems to have good intentions, but just ends up misleading the people watching it. Take my nothing criticism for what it's worth - that 1.5+m view count seems to indicate Imma be in the minority on this one.
0 likesUhm. Sounds like pro wrestling is a good show
0 likesYou should do an Episode of either YT Geography or Never Ever of Filthy Frank, or hell just do both.
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Pandy PK FIRE
0 likesits just live action anime battles with a live audience
0 likesGreat video 🤘🏽
0 likesAEW definitely trying though
0 likesLove the Donkey Kong DK back music at the beginning
0 likesI’ve watched this and your Dale video too many times to tell now. You deserve so many more subs. I cannot wait to see what else you’re working on
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He deserves his own TV documentary show
1 likeOpen solution is much worse than a cubicle, at least with a cubicle you get a semblance of privacy, with open solution the job is the same but worse because you coworkers and boss are breathing down your neck and vice versa
1 likeAnd now there's AEW
0 likesMick Foley = 🐐
0 likesThat’s who I see in this, Chris Benoit
0 likes@24:46 lol well played! But BUT! Shawn is and always will be the true leader and founder of DX. Jussayin. (not the Shawn of today, but tha Shawn of yesteryear)
0 likesAs I recall, those chants of "Die Rocky Die" were German fans, chanting "The Rocky The"
0 likesthere will never be another Monstertruck like Big Foot/Grave Digger! When?
0 likes"'but emppppp" a lot of you are probably thinking 'professional wrestling isn't real'"
0 likesI know. I'm watching this so I understand the thing my best friend cares about so much.
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Update: became a wrestling fan.
0 likesThis is the longest mankind-undertaker meme ever
138 likesSoap Operas for guys. Easiest way to explain pro wresting.
0 likesAs real as boxing/MMA is, GOOD GRIEF does it try to emulate Pro Wrestling in every way before a match happens to hype it up.
In order to be loved repeat the same mantra until the end of the video
0 likesEmp: "there will Never Ever be another show like Monday Night Raw"
2 likesAEW Dynamite: "hold my beer"
this is ur best video and one of the best videos ever
0 likesinsert rock eyebrow raise meme
0 likesSting=WCW
1 likeWCW=Sting
Donkey Kong music in the beginning took me way back. Back to an ape riding a mine cart and fish back haha
0 likesmonday night raw nowadays gathers a TV rating of 0.43 maybe try another show like AEW Dynamite or Rampage. You picked the wrong wrestling show. Maybe make reference that WWE not WWF is not doing as good as they did 20 years ago. just wanted to point that out to your audience so they arent confused.
0 likesEDIT: ok i apologize. i missed the whole point of this video after watching. Well done my dude!!!!!!
@EmpLemon I went to a 2008 Friday Night Smackdown, when Undertaker came into with that gong and I felt chilled & awesome. And I heard about his career and I was ecstatic to see him
5 likes5:05 i just realised that the lyrics are from slick rick's children's story
0 likestrump actually wasnt a founder of the USFL but rather a team-owner of the New Jersey Generals (same team that drafted Hershel Walker) and was a huge supporter for the USFL to challenge the NFL to try to merge with them, resulting in a lawsuit that the USFL actually won however; the lawsuit did not get them the merger they wanted or a large amount of settlement money like trump thought it would, ending with the USFL getting a check for around $3. all because trump wanted to compete against the NFL in hopes of a merger, the USFL actually had a good thing going since its seasons originally took place during the spring and summer leaving the fall for the already established NFL (also kind of working as a makeshift developmental league for the NFL in the process).
0 likesIm more of a smackdown guy myself
0 likesTrade Kramer for Ross any time and Friends is the indisputable winner.
0 likesThis was so well put together. Loved it. I would be flipping back and forth watching both shows on Monday nights .. Hope when fans return they can be more exited to be there.
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My great grandmother and I did the same thing.
1 likeThat stepdad is kicking himself right now
0 likesI think Emp has a deep hatred for manatees
1 likeA Literal Tank you say?!😱🤯...shows the literal Jeep used 😒🙄
0 likesRip razor ❤️
2 likesI love professional wrestling. It’s such an odd art.
8 likesThis is so good
0 likesand that's the bottom line cuz emplemon said so!
0 likesNext do "there will never be another youtube channel like emplemon"
0 likesMade me want to go play donkey Kong
0 likesdude i love this, every single second something exciting happens then something else happens and it keeps going on and on!
3 likesAEW Dynamite has entered the conversation
0 likesAll elite wrestling is sang hold my beer
1 likethe rock started out in an episode of star trek
0 likesVince Sr.'s Real Name is Vincent James McMahon, Not Vincent Kennedy McMahon.
0 likesRIP Snooty
1 likeHe worked himself into a shoot
0 likes5:15 Fredrick fazer Fitzgerald when the candle burns it’s final flame under night fall
1 likeUndertaker’s Iconic Dong
0 likesIT'S STILL REAL TO ME, DAMMIT!
51 likesI think it was a MNR where Jacqueline and sable ripped each other’s bikini tops off.
0 likesNo stone cold IS the most popular wrestler of all time
0 likes29:11 rip les Bogdanoff
0 likes🥲
Idk who you are but I’m 8 minutes in and already you’ve told 2 lies Vince actually bought the company from his dad and it was not a booming empire
0 likesMankind vs...
77 likesThe Undertaker (cue 8-bit version of Thriller) lol That made me laugh a lot more than it probably should have.
Not a tank! But a jeep with what looks like a anti tank boozka or at cannon.
0 likesJust wait until Jon Moxley vs Darby Allin have a feud in dynamite or Andrade and Black getting some well done rivalry
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This comment actually aged super well considering now CM Punk and Danielson are probably AEW bound
0 likesDamn you didn't say one word about Smackdown lol
0 likesMichael cole is the guy who couldn’t do it
0 likesVince didn't inherit his father's business, he bought it from him.
24 likesMNR will also be added to the world Of legends Shows shelf
0 likesNo one notice the fact that the oldest captive manatee in history dying at 69?
0 likes> AEW in 2022 entered the server
1 likeHow can Vince McMahon be from a dirt poor household if he inhered the World Wrestling Federation from his father?
0 likesI’m still not too interested in live action stuff, but this was really interesting and entertaining. I can see now why my friend, her sister, and so many people love WWE
3 likesI felt the late 90s stroke my senses the minute I saw a pic of DX accompanied by the menu theme from “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater”.
0 likesPerfect pairing, bro.
Hey buddy
0 likesEver heard of wwe smackdown
Or Monday nitro
Or tna when it was on mondays
WCW was such an inferior product...LMAOOOOO
0 likesThat raw intro music hit different
0 likesDon't watch Raw. It's completely unwatchable rn.
1 likeTake my advise and watch AEW instead.
The wild world life was great! A lot of pandas
0 likesThis mans did not just say a bunch or weird people prancing around in costumes and show a picture of Hamilton. Disgraceful.
0 likesCould u make a episode about the undertaker
1 likeMe and my girlfriend have something called "Monday night raw" too.
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why did i laughed at this?
31 likesMe too we play minecraft and only eat raw meat
154 likes@DJ TLH we both know what it means
3 likesY'all should try the Monday NITRO.
10 likes@Daniel the Maniel RIP
2 likes@Daniel the Maniel RIP
2 likesI hope you didn't just assume "her" gender
0 likes1 like for raw dogging..
7 likesI also have a girlfriend but she goes to a different school that's why you guys don't know her
14 likes😂😂
0 likesNicely done, this cracked me up. That's why comments are great
0 likesAnd Friday night smackdown
0 likesPics or she doesn’t exist
0 likesI wanna watch :)
0 likes“Wrestling isn’t real” 18:08
0 likesI was a bit Smackdown! guy growing up. Didn't really have cable bro.
0 likes>goku isn't real
0 likesImmediately unsubbed, reported, blocked, ratioed, in the process of burning your house down.
Jokes aside, this video series rocks!!
These are so fucking good
0 likesmy favorite video on the website
0 likesHow is undertaker corny really
0 likesThis was good
1 likeI was born on the 10th anniversary of Monday night raw no joke
0 likesThese memes are really spicey, especially if you get them. Great video, you actually made me go back and watch some late '90's RAW. I'd just like to point out that you should've mentioned ECW, since it was an embodiment of 90s counter-culture in wrestling - dirty, brutal, DIY, essential.
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That whole Tommy Dreamer, RVD era was amazing
1 likeBut no one really watched it
1 likeI'm just gonna go ahead and say it: The Dudley Boyz are the greatest tag team of all time.
1 likeRip razor ❤️
0 likes@10:35 Today WWE is, and has been for the past more than a decade now, trash. Thank god for AEW, since TNA, now Impact, also became trash not long after WWE did.
0 likes23:17
0 likesThats clearly cut from a german house show. It actually says Thee Rocky, Thee. Very deceptive editing. 😜
Pedants digression : In ancient Greece they didn't recite the works if homer, they played the role of homer. As in the aurator walked out and recited these tales from memory. It was an Oral tradition.
0 likesThe only reason why I stopped watching wrestling was due to it changing in the 2010s. I still watch the older shows but the newer shows just don't feel the same
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I stopped watching when they stopped listening to the fans, they used to, the fans started cheering Austin so they pushed him to the moon
2 likesFans today: we hate Cena
WWE today: cool here's another ten title reigns
@Porter Blaze trueeeeeee
1 likeAww mate you didn’t actually live through it???? You missed out BIG TIME buddy
0 likes2:38
0 likesR.O.B is real
Professional wrestling is fake to a extend. Meaning when you see this guy's being thrown.... They are actually being thrown. Most people forget wrestlers end up having a short lifespan in the ring majority of the time just imagine being thrown to sell a move. Also people forget those kick moves to the head are dangerous. Half the time wrestlers end up getting accidentally kicked in the head and have to continue. Also bro no one talks about the pay per view with Kurt angle vs Shane McMahon. That was fucking brutal especially back in the day. It questioned people whether it was fake or actually real.
0 likesLots of people know Andre the Giant tbh, at least if you've watched The Princess Bride
0 likesStone Cold's feud with Vince McMahon and the rise of The Rock is the best thing that ever happened in T.V
4 likesAwesome video.
0 likesWhy would there be rape in wrestling?.......
0 likesIt’s wrestling.........
Not rape........
South Park was right all along.
1 likeWho here now watches AEW?
0 likesI don't know if I can take all this nostalgia.
6 likesIt’s closer to cirque du soleil than Shakespeare.
0 likesThe story line matters nothing compared to how well the wrestlers can work.
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Literally the exact opposite but sure.
1 like@33:12 Too bad it's nothing but a sad joke of what it used to be. @33:14 And in quality, so makes sense, until AEW came to save Pro wrestling.
0 likes@33:20 I disagree, that's exactly the reason.
@33:31 Again I disagree, AEW did it, has done it, does it. But I too thought it wasn't possible before AEW proved me it was, I had lost hope on true great Pro wrestling ever coming back because I thought "they really just can't deliver that anymore", since TNA that once used to be great too now delivers (and again, too has for more than a decade now) the same cringy garbage quality of a show WWE does, well, clearly WWE and TNA completely lost the formula, they just really don't know how to do it anymore. Again, thank god for AEW.
Thanks, now I have ADHD from all the cuts.
0 likesWrestling today feels like a cheap children's show... unlike the attitude era of wrestling which was and still is badass
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Check out GCW, or maybe AEW.
1 likeOkay, so what I’ve got from this is...
51 likesPro wrestling is just a live action shonen anime
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Yeah, pretty much. There's even A more adult oriented version of wrestling (AEW) and there was once even a hardcore version of wrestling (ECW)
13 likesYesh
0 likesThe biggest joke about the WWE is the first W
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Same with the World Series 😂
0 likesThat episode of raw/nitro happened on my 21st birthday
0 likesMonday night and watching this
0 likesActually, ROB the robot is real bud
0 likesThey drove a literal jeep to nitros location
0 likesActually I met someone who didn't like SpongeBob. I put it on at work for the customers kids one time and the women had A FIT! Screaming to turn it off because it's "inappropriate" for children!
0 likes21:14 Cues Roman Reigns theme
0 likesIf they wanna fix raw now, they should make stone cold gm of raw, and anytime someone pisses him off, he stuns them. Undertaker should be the overseer/grim reaper of SmackDown, and anytime someone pisses him off, the lights cut off, he appears, chokeslam/tombstone to opp, then vanishes. Same for Kane but for raw. And make the rock gm for SmackDown.
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Nice sarcasm
0 likesI got a weird feeling of deja vu for some reason
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🤔
1 likeLmao
0 likesIt’s Greek theater, soap opera’s, the follies of self.
0 likesWhat would I watch if I wanted to get into modern pro wrestling?
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You'd watch AEW. WWE is the worst place to start right now. AEW is the one that's gaining people's attention and drawing bigger numbers than WWE at many points, and they've only existed for a year!
1 like@That one time Drake was on SNL you can't take that as a variable though, it's all about the quality of a promotion
0 likesAnonymousNebula ...and AEW has much higher quality than WWE.
1 like@That one time Drake was on SNL Are you sure? Because while raw might me overproduced, there matches are much slower paced, accommodating for much more in ring storytelling, whilst aew's matches are mostly spotfests.
0 likesNone of them, truth be told.
0 likesAnonymousNebula WWE is slow paced because Vince barely allows the “superstars” to do anything. Calling AEW a spotfest is such a common false insult used by WWE shills all the time. AEW brings action in the ring that keeps you entertained, along with storytelling that uses weekly continuity and builds to a grand culmination, such as with Darby Allin winning the TNT Title from Cody and Kenny Omega becoming the cleaner, destroying everyone, and winning the AEW World Title. WWE uses storytelling that doesn’t lead anywhere with tons of continuity errors. WWE limits those grand stories to only the top of the card or old legends that return magically whenever ratings are down. Also, AEW uses their already established stars to push their younger talent and make them into stars themselves, such as with Darby winning the TNT Title, Jake Roberts managering Lance Archer, Taz building up all of Team Taz, Cody putting over MJF, Sting pairing with Darby, and Brodie Lee winning the TNT Title. WWE does almost nothing to build new stars and have been relying on the same faces for the past 5 years or so. Examples include Goldberg squashing The Fiend and Kevin Owens for the Universal Title for no reason, Triple H going over Booker T at WM 19 in some racist storyline, Drew Gulak going from nearly winning the IC Title to not being used at all, and John Cena burying Wade Barrett in 2010 instead of giving him the WWE title.
2 likes@That one time Drake was on SNL I do agree with most of your points, but aew is a young promotion, and pretty soon they're gonna be relying on the same faces for years, with many new prospects lingering in the mid card. Also, you have only been highlighting wwe bad spots, you have not mentioned any of the great storylines that wwe have pumped out in the past year, and I understand that some people like the more fast pace style, but if it goes on, then many fans will leave, because the majority of fans like the slower pace, which explains the dying viewership for wrestling.
0 likesAew and new japan
0 likes@Skoop I appreciate your suggestions and thanks all for the input
0 likesJust get a wwe network trial and watch some old school matches from the 90s and 00s.
0 likesOr better yet it's saying hold my whiskey
0 likesWhere my born in 94 boys at !!!!
0 likesthe undertaker's iconic dong
0 likes16:36 his iconic WHAT?!?!😳
0 likes19:49
0 likesCan someone please explain this to me. I am not very well versed.
God damn it I should have seen the copypasta coming
0 likesDo one for Kirby: Right Back At Ya. It was one of my most different animes of it's time. Better than Mario's or Sonic's.
9 likesA Jeep CJ isn’t exactly a tank
0 likesOhh man! RAW is WAR! lol
0 likesBasically pro wrestling is the real life equivalent of anime tournament arcs.
2 likesMonday Night Raw these days: Zzzzzzzzzzz
0 likes"nitro" is almost the same as "night raw" and you can't copyright "monday"
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i mean you can't trademark just "monday", also monday night raw should have sued monday nitro
1 likeNo I can vary vary visualize those folks and you ain't got to explain nothing to me iam 47 and been hooked from somewhere around 5 years old my dad was a high school wrestling coach for like 50 + any way because of that he hated tv wrestling and pro wrestling is real the out comes are pre determined sometimes sometimes its called on the fly either way the athleticism the bumps the dangers all real nit to mention the world series has been proven to be riged before shows in boxing have been allegedly riged for a century pretty sure just cause it ain't proven don't mean shit but pretty sure the super bowel and football has had everything from bribed reefs to possibly whole freaking teams so that being said whats so fake about wrestling any way you got you're opinions and I respect that and so far this is entertaining but no need to explain why you like wrestling
0 likes5:14 shit no more power
1 likemankind did it :’)
0 likesNo stone cold can hold an audience better
0 likesMy former Governor can beat up your former Governor.
0 likesSide note if you start talking to Jesse V get comfy you'll be there for a minute.
Did you just say iconic dong? 🤣
0 likesGreat doc!
0 likesWas that Gran Turismo 4 Music i'm hearing at 9:24? Gooood taste
0 likestrue wrestling fans know that the attitude era of wwe, was the worst time of proffesional wrestling.
0 likeslots of people watched the show, but they did it for gimmick matches, stupid storylines and violence television. and the crowd ? 'a bunch of drunk perverts. just a soft version of ECW-the ultimate garbage bingo hall "wrestling"
nitro was beating wwf because people didnt want to watch garbage wrestling. they wanted to see the stars of the NWA like ric flair on live television fight a badass faction- NWO. on wwf mankind was crying...
Rip snooty the manatee :(
0 likesIt was the Spanish announcers table
1 likeWhat when down in June of 96 and 97 when RAW spiked over Nitro?
0 likes25:25 “A literal tank” Actually it’s a Jeep.
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This is obviously a micro-tank, dummy.
2 likes@JoJo Enjoyer Nope, it's either a Technical or a Gun Carriage.
1 like10:50 I raise you AEW
1 likeAEW BAY BAY!!!
0 likes4:48, Five nights at Freddys fans be shivering thy timbers at this very moment.
0 likesThis video is gold
0 likesI honestly believe they had a second shot at one of those moments in time but they ran CM Punk out of the business. I think he was the last vestige of that kind of performer. Dude never should have gone into MMA. He was a brilliant entertainer.
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Christian Williamson well the managed to do it once more afterwards with daniel brayans wrestlemania win but cm punk definitely couldve pulled that off
3 likesMan, really hurt bad hearing that Colt Cabana podcast... really can’t blame him losing his heart for something, whether it was as one-sided as Punk said or not... Pour one out for the guy
4 likesPunk is too much of an egoist to return anyways...
2 likesGhostface01 - I hate CM punk and love talking shit about him any chance I get. But to say"he was never a draw" is wrong.
2 likes@Ghostface01 it's not that Ryback was just stiff he was absolute shit at everything and legitimately hurt people
1 like@Ghostface01 Two wrongs don't make a right. It isn't ok to hurt someone. Do you think it shows toughness to assault people? Punk realized that accidents happen he's not some roid rage meathead. Did Steve Austin attack Owen Hart after he broke his neck? No because Steve realized that accidents happen and pro wrestling is dangerous. Did The Rock attack Mick Foley after he beat his face in with a chair? No because once again he understood it happens in pro wrestling and it's ok to be mad about it but don't assault someone because you're afraid of not being some tough guy
2 likes@Ghostface01 Well here's what Punk said "There's no way you didn't do that on purpose. You either say you did it on purpose or say you're dumb as fuck" and ryback said "I'm dumb as fuck I'm sorry" So he didn't really say it was on purpose he just talked about questioning Ryback about it. Either way it still isn't good to really punch someone especially if you have broken ribs I'm sure it would be hard to throw a proper punch if you can barely even stand so what's the point it wouldn't be full force anyway
2 likesComparing Harry Potter to Drone Strikes on Google Trends is hilarious.
0 likesWWE is not real. As if reality TV is.
0 likesWhat’s the song at 18:05? I can’t tell which one from the pastebin link
0 likesWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
0 likesthere will Never Ever be another show like WCW
22 likesCause it's dead. R.I.P
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People shit on WCW too much, they had some pretty good stuff going for them. I hope AEW (or ROH and NJPW) shoots up in popularity enough to be considered possible competition to the WWE so we can finally have competition again.
0 likesIdk Daniel Bryan winning at Wrestlemania 30 looked like the best replication to Mick Foley winning the title
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Ehh kinda. The guy was able to wrestle, especially how he resembled Benoit in terms of the ring. Bryan was successful in the indipendent circuit. He was written to be an underdog. Foley was the underdog because he was only used to get beat up and that's it.
1 likeSanta and professional Wrestling are real, cope
0 likesFinding out that wrestling is fake is worse than finding out you're adopted
0 likesSo you're ashamed you like wrestling?
0 likesWell that saves me some time.
Shoe Shoe.
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nah wrestling is awesome
0 likesBut who took down the video before?
127 likes"IT WAS ME AUSTIN, IT WAS ME ALL ALONG AUSTIN!"
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oh son of a bitch!
24 likesBAH GAWD, BAH GAWD HE MUST BE BROKEN IN HALF!
4 likesYou son of a bitch! Why!? Tell me why!?
0 likes"AH, SON OF A BITCH!"
0 likesRight before he came out and was awarded control of the company. That's how unpredictable it used to be.
0 likescame for the wrestling vibin off the Dirty Hairy song in the background
0 likesHeel rock is the best rock.
0 likes7:00 Donald trumps networth fluctuates with his feelings bro
0 likesExcellent video
2 likes"There will Never Ever be another Sport like NASCAR..."
51 likes(Simply for the facsination of how polarized it's fanbase is...)
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Nascar is okay to watch
6 likesIt’s worth watching
5 likesI find it weird that I don't find NASCAR enjoyable to watch but id love to play a video game of it, especially if it was online multiplayer.
8 likesIndyCar is better tho
1 like@irregulargamer13 there is a game it's called Nascar heat. The third one is on ps4 xbox one and pc
1 like@irregulargamer13 there is a game it's called Nascar heat. The third one is on ps4 xbox one and pc
1 likeEspecially in the late 90's and early 2000's. Rivalries like Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt elevated the sport to a whole new level and with the arrival of guys like Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR was on a whole new level of popularity and excitement back then. I still watch it today but man do I wish we could go back to those times. Definitely will never be another sport like it.
7 likes@Mentally Will either that or Emp liked his idea
5 likes@Spoiled milk GUYS!!! IT'S A REFERENCE TO SOUTH PARK! I DON'T REALLY THINK PEOPLE WHO WATCH NASCAR ARE POOR AND STUPID!
2 likesI was hoping people would know it was a joke and reference with the emoticon. But no, people have to think everything is literal these days.
@Cassandra Pantaristi Well to be fair that reference is kind of obscure, plus the fact that sarcasm doesn't translate well over the internet.
4 likes@antwan867 nAsCar iS juST A dUmb SpOrt
1 likeCongrats he did your idea sort of
1 likeErm are you from the future?
1 likeEXPLODYZ Most people don’t even watch NASCAR. More people are into watching the NFL.
0 likesplease tell me that someone has a video of 14:36. That is just awesome.
0 likesi picture andre from the princess bride, since he is the brute squad.
0 likesThe harts are Canadian that was the reason
1 likeNever cared for SpongeBob... They should've named him fruit cake
0 likesThe night when Monday Night Raw was having its most glorious moments, WCW was having one of its infamous ones. And now, AEW and HIAC 2019 happened...
4 likes28:08 is there a reason this still of credits just appears randomly in the middle of the video? I haven’t finished all of it but if I get to the end and there IS a reason it’s there I’m still gonna leave this comment. BECAUSE I’M laz
0 likesMan, not even a few months into the Biden Residency, and I already miss Trump.
0 likesok I stopped at "one of the most innovative and unique television programs in the world"...
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Is it not?
0 likes16:37
1 like* aerodynamic (daft punk) plays *
Man, this guy really likes pro-wrestling.
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Stop Sign
3 likesSo
And?
1 likeIn order to be loved
5 likes(Insert text)
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks manatees look dumb
0 likeswhy don't you talk about the attitude era ripping off some of ECW's ideas and characters?
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Because it wasn't relevant, and Paul Heyman didn't care at all that they took his ideas because the two would work together before ECW's downfall.
0 likesGreat video
0 likes10:49 As a certified southerner, I can confirm that this is what every square mile of the south looks like.
49 likesHoly shit
0 likesMonday Night Raw
Monday Nit Ro
I wanna more facts about manatees.
2 likesFr it was “Monday night raw” vs “Monday night-ro” 😐😐
0 likesIt was a literal Jeep... 25:20
0 likes14:50 My favorite moment ever.
3 likesWrestlings greatest Underdog, Mick Foley....winning the Big Belt!
Now not even the monday night raw is not Monday night raw
0 likesBenefits of watching morbius daily:
1 likeDay 1 - You watch morbius. Instantly love it.
Day 5 - Improved motivation and productivity. You feel as a whole a stronger human being
Day 10 - you have energy whenever you want and can sleep as long or short as you need to, people start getting jealous
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You give your fellow humans one last look—they're still not watching morbius, trapped in their primitive way—but you don't judge. The path of Morbius was never meant for the ordinary men.
"Watch morbius. But if you must, use lube." Those were your parting words.
Now, released from all shackles of the mundane, and purified of all imperfections, your body ephemeralizes, as your ever-illuminated consciousness ascends into another dimension. It's morbin' time.
10:51 I know the guy who painted that lol
0 likesI love Wang.
0 likesThis is true anime 🤣🙄
0 likesWrestling is live action anime
0 likesDope😁👊🏾
0 likes"the undertak'ers iconic dong"
0 likesRest in Peace Andre, rest in peace big guy
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Rest in Peace Randy Savage.
0 likesRest In Peace Ultimate Warrior
0 likesWhat about Wednesday night smackdown
0 likesThe DK background music😂
0 likesI got 3 words for ya' "ALL ELITE WRESTLING".
3 likesgreat video
0 likesNot even a nod to Wwe’s smackdown? Sigh
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Well Smackdown wasn't a thing back then so...
0 likesCan you post the original video before all the edits for copyright reasons
0 likeswwf now plain as stale milk
1 likeR.O.B. is real
0 likesthe internet killed Tv shows...because when i used to watch Raw no one would ever know what's coming next week....with anticipation i would wait for Monday night raw not knowing what was gonna happen
3 likesThird time watching this. Wow.
1 like30:40 this is just sad. They really wouldn't let you play this clip? Is there somewhere I could find it?
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just get peacock
0 likesamazing video
1 likeThe intrajections are sigma male grindset before it was a thing.
0 likesthere will never ever be another game like team fortress 2
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Right, Overwatch is a very balanced game, if you die, it's obviously your fault👌👌👌👌
25 likesYou mean team defense fort 2?
42 likesOverwatch?
4 likesAh yes, hat simulator, my favorite
57 likes@Tourettes Tree Productions lmao
2 likesActually, one could argue Team Fortress 2 is a response to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. It's essentially the same idea, but it traded open source with source engine.
5 likesI'm betting this will be chapter 4. Emplemon is/was a huge TF2 fan.
35 likes@gerogerigegege I hope so
8 likes@Patchu That's the point of the name
0 likes@O D Overwatch doesn't even come close.
6 likes@44 Calibre I was joking
0 likes@O D Oh, okay good. Lmao. Overwatch really doesn't compare.
2 likesI'll be honest I'll never understand why people liked Team Fortress 2.TF2 is the reason I almost refused to play Overwatch at all. It took over a year of coaxing and in my OPINION, Overwatch is a far superior game or was before they fiddled with it until it collapsed just like they did with what little fun there was in TF2 for me.
1 likeSmokestack You’re probably like 11 years old if you think Overwatch is better than TF2. Go do your homework kid
19 likes@Doll Doctor
17 likes>has different opinion on the internet
>is immediately called a small child
Okay
U mean hat simulator? The first thing u get is a hat called the gibus. I have 1000 hrs in it. I still suck at it.
1 likeHalo 2 FTW. sorry
1 like@Smokestack that is completely okay and im glad you found enjoyment in overwatch, which i also enjoy
6 likesNow that's something that Emplemon has to make a fucking video about my dude.
5 likes@MetalTrombone What if it's a stupid opinion?
0 likes@JC Yeah good point, carry on.
1 like@MetalTrombone praise gaben
0 likesYes please
0 likesEthan Bean yeah, even the obvious ripoffs like overwatch pale in comparison to tf2
2 likesThat's because, for the most part, people have stopped making bad games.
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0 likesI think Lazy Purples "TF2 is a Timeless Masterpiece" is practically like the concept of this series.
7 likes@Smokestack I guess I can kinda see where you're coming from. Everyone has they're own tastes after all!
1 likeIf you're really interested in why people like the game so much there are tons of analysis videos of it on the internet. Though I strongly suggest Lazy Purple's "TF2 is a timeless masterpiece" and FUNKe's "TF2's diverse complexities" but those more talk about the gameplay side of things and why it holds up so well.
@z #37549 Its just a matter of having never played a single good game of it. Granted I was a lot younger despite the insinuations of Doll Doctor (Aka probably that guy that sexually molests baby dolls with syringes). No matter what I tried personally including relegating myself to medic and mvping (For my team anyway) most games for weeks on end. Nothing could get me a game that wasn't a steamroll one direction or and any time a close match showed up for some reason that'd be the moment the team balance would be on the server and would turn it into a landslide for one side. I didnt like the playstyle of any of the characters, save the scout and medic both of which are horribly underpowered without the help of a competent team. I've always thought rocket jumping was a fucking stupid concept since Quake and shit. I really don't like explosive weapons as I tend to think they take lot less skill. A myriad of reasons I didn't like the game.
0 likes@Smokestack That makes sense. Getting put into really bad matches while starting out can make people quit easily, especially with the games incredibly steep learning curve. I remember also having pretty bad matches at the beginning. My team isn't doing anything and I'm just getting destroyed by every player on the enemy team, only getting kills from idle players. Yet unlike you I persisted, even to this day I don't know why since I wasn't really getting that much enjoyment from it. I guess the personality and uniqueness of the game kept pulling me back to a few more rounds. The fact that a regular match could turn into a 24 people conga line in a split second was hilarious to me and eventually I got good and the game has been a blast all the way through after that.
0 likesWhile it is true with the medic, I don't think the scout suffers from a bad team. He's a really strong class in the right hands being able to dish out a huge amount of damage up close while still being really fast. It's just not really inviting to newer players with his high skill ceiling but most new players still gravitate to him for his fun concept (kind of like the spy)
Also I'd just like to say rocket jumping is a genius movement system. It's a simple risk reward system of wasting ammo and health for movement. It seems like a bad deal until you realize that soldier is the second slowest class in the game. The soldier is easily the simplest class in the game but rocket jumping adds so much layers to the class with all the intricacies of the mechanic
@z #37549 I persisted as well because of tenacious irl friends who were convinced it was the best game ever. I played it for a good 3-4 years my steam only says 75 hours, but that was about 3 computers ago and the time reset on a lot of my games. I almost certainly have over 300 hours in a game I eventually figured out that I could just barely tolerate for the sake of my friends, to the point of most of my hours playing being on my own, thinking that if I could just get better at the game it would be fun. It never was, and what little fun there was, was drained by valve over the course of the game's lifespan. I have almost all the vintage items for all the classes. I did enjoy fucking over both teams as spy just for the fun I could get out of trolling.
0 likesRocket jumping is quite simply the dumbest fucking shit I ever heard of period. Shooting your own feet to propel you is not ingenius its downright moronic to even think about even in the power armor future of quake and unreal tournament. Just because that accident created a gameplay mechanic doesn't mean that the mechanic couldn't have been implement ina manner that took as much skill but was, iunno more sensical. Keep in mind I am the guy that refuses to use the rocket launcher in the first place because I think of it as a scrub weapon. Also keep in mind I main Pharah just to shit on people's parades in Overwatch because creaming entire teams while my group wanks in a corner is the only thing that gives me pleasure in that game now. Its not that I am not good with rockets as at least a dozen couch coop buds learned not to say. The idea of conserving ammo in a rocket launcher is stupid. Use it to destroy vehicles. If there are no vehicles, pick it up so no scrub can and dump its ammo if you find a real gun. I mean what kind of fucking maniac shoots a rocket launch at a man sized target anyway. What a waste of ordinance. Just put three rounds in him.
Yes, brother. The fact is TF2 will never die.
1 likewhy do I see lotsa JC dentons???
0 likesThere will never ever be another game like quake.
0 likesY’all never heard of
0 likesF O R T N I T E ?
Lego Star Wars II has entered the chat
0 likesThere will never be another game like jet set radio future
0 likesI think Lazy Purple's got it covered.
1 likeMAKE SURE EMP SEES THIS
0 likes@Smokestack Sounds like you just want every shooter to be CoD
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0 likesthis is true even if people think that overwatch is better than it there still wont be another game like tf2
0 likesThere will never ever be another game like Unreal Tournament
0 likesThe World Wrestling Federation is so much better than the wwe
0 likes2:35 rob is real
1 likeDid this man really use the leffen disstrack instrumental
0 likes23:44
@32:41 Up until that point.
0 likesWHAT????? There wasnt ppv bavk in the 80s and 50s🤦. Promos were to hype up guys for the next match, but it was to sell tickets to go SEE the match or watch it on TV for FREE!!!!!!🤦🤦🤦. Please go watch some Mid South or one of the other big teritories so you can see how it REALLY was and not just how a couple goofs on the internet typed that it was. Including me!! Go see for yourself!!!! Please!!!!
0 likessigh
1 likehere goes nothing
5:15 WAS THAT FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?
trump - "ruthless business accumen" sure, like bernie madoff. dude's a con man.
0 likes33:40 “Palpatating Feeling” ? 🤣 ellemmayyohh 😂
0 likesYou reupload this on the 20th anniversary of Mankind winning the WWF Title
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austinmario13 iconic.
0 likesThe night WCW lost.
4 likesGreat Video
0 likesdon’t bully the manatees!
0 likes27:42 is that Sgt Slaughter in the back left? And Ben Shapiro up front? Lol
0 likesGOOD GOD!!!
0 likesWrestling is just live-action american anime
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Holy shit.
2 likesHoly noinger.
1 like100% NANI?!? But 0% blood.
1 like@Davis O'Brien Because anime and wrestling are real
1 likeHave you seen AEW?
2 likesMy mom could convince me easy that santa isn't real.
0 likesLike sure whatever, ofc Santa ain't real.
But if you tell me WWE isn't real. Now that shit is heresy.
Hulk Hogan is a champ and he tells me I can do anything, so hell yeah brother, that champ title is real to me
Hes a champ, and thats enough for me
Your merch is dope
0 likes" The Undertaker's iconic dong"....😳
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XD
0 likesI remember begging my dad to buy the pay per view events. I remember getting into arguments with my mom that didn't want me to watch this and subsequently sneaking around to watch episodes of raw when she was asleep. I remember getting into arguments in elementary school over who was cooler, Brett Hart or The Heartbreak Kid. You zoomers missed out... Kind of.
4 likesYour reduction of theater is so wrong for so many reasons.
1 likeOi That 266lbs fat guy is Kevin Owens! Ya best stay in your lane!
0 likes(Jk, loved the vid. Very well done bud 👌)
Vince and Trump = both got rich through their daddy and claim to be self made
0 likesafter all that they demonetized you i bet...shitty...but hey LOVED the video got a few sub today idk why? lol
0 likesI love DX as much as the next guy, but they never drove a "literal tank" to WCW Nitro:
41 likesIt was a Jeep.
A jeep! A jeep with a drainage pipe painted green for it's main gun barrel
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and that, my friend, is what we like to call suspension of disbelief
2 likes@ACE RHYTHM More like a mislabel. It would be considered a Technical in military verbiage.
1 likeSomehow it's even better than a tank...
1 likeMick Foley:
0 likes“We don’t get to talk like we used to. So I’d like to take the opportunity now to tell you how much I really admire your sweaty, heaving voluptuous breasts. And I know you heard I’m a good kisser but in addition to that talent, I’ve compromised a list of about 17 other things I’d really like to do to those bad boys. So if you’d like to go over that list I’ll be in my dressing room.”
Me a spanish speaker: Cervantes 👏✔👍
0 likesI have never understood the appeal of wrestling...maybe this video will help me understand. I always thought it was dumb trailer trash entertainment.
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Wrestling is like anime for older men. You watch it for the main stars and for the plot. And yeah there's fanservice involving ladies (dat's a fact)
0 likesGeneral wrestling fans know it's not real (it's scripted but the moves hurt like hell), but wrestling can storytell a betrayal plot better than Hollywood or live-action anime adaptations at times tbh.
Never ever say never
0 likesI like the donkey Kong 3 music in background at the start
0 likes@34:04 Not counting, it's not like that anymore, stopped counting in around mid-2008. @34:15 I do not appreciate their current bad quality cringe inducing garbage product, and I don't get the people that does. I'm not saying they haven't produced anything good at all since, but mostly.
0 likesAustin lost his hair and became a man
0 likes10/10 video
0 likesThere will never ever be another EmpLemon
14 likesDon’t compare Harry potter to drone strikes one is amazing and the other is Harry Potter
0 likesThe only reason I don't watch stuff like wrestling is that they try to trick you into thinking it's real when it's not, and the fact that they are lying to you makes me not want to watch it. With stuff like movies, they basically tell you it's fake.
1 likeAnd also because I just don't really want to lol
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What? It literally never tries to trick you that its real. Lol it never talks about it sure but they definitely don't trick u into thinking its real at all idk where you even got that from. Example of that is like he said star wars dudes running around with lightsabers and shit don't act line its fake or say it is so why is it at all different in this thing tat wrestlers also even in interviews literally say its not real so what is even your point? Wnat movie in the middle of its mst suspenseful moments tell you its fake ever?
1 like@Scizor Bullet Wrestling is just a bunch of dudes fighting, which could be completely real. If you have ever actually seen a movie before, you would know that they do indeed tell you that it's fake... Ever heard of a director before... Ever heard of a behind-the-scenes video... Maybe even the credits? With wrestling, any random person could watch it and then be like, "Oh wow 2 dudes just actually fought each other in a real fight to win the championships.", but if that same random dude were to watch a movie about a laser sword-wielding man that can make objects float at will that fights another laser sword-wielding man that can also make objects float, and one of them gets electrocuted and thrown down a massive hole on a moon-sized space station, he would probably be like "Wow that was a cool movie, that was directed and edited and not actually real because it literally says so in the credits, plus almost every theatrical movie/tv show was directed and edited and are fake." With wrestling, they don't really ever tell you it's fake unless you were to go out of your way to search it up. With movies, it's literally written all over them, and it's basically common knowledge that movies are fake, even movies based off of true stories are still fake, they aren't actually that real story, it's just based off it... Ever heard of boxing? Basically the "real" version of wrestling someone could think "well boxing is "real" so wrestling is probably real too" Wresting and boxing are basically the same, just with different "fighting styles" and of course the difference that boxing is way more real than wrestling.
0 likesAlso to add to the movie thing, they are literally called acters, as in people that act things out...
0 likes@RealLugia97 GeN wrestling does have behind the scenes stuff as well wtf are you talking about? They also make documentaries that completely break everyone's character and you have guys like kane a guy who is literal demon talking about fans and thing. Undertaker has an entire mpvie about him where he talks about how his career happened when he's playing a undead guy who doesn't talk. Wwe also always say "don't try this at home" they also on their website list their writers and people who hire and fire so yes they do tell you its fake lol
0 likes@RealLugia97 GeN ok? Wrestlers are credites for "swllung" hits which is when you act like a move hit really hard which is a good part of wrestling. You really just don't know what you're talking about honestly everything your listing that movies do wrestling also does in their own way if you want to breai the element of what yiur watching in the ring and wanna see behind the svenes thing. Literally having arch enemies thar say they wanns kil each other every week hugging after a gteat match on their YouTube so wbat exactly do you mean by the don't tell u its fake? In evrty way possible they do similar to movies even having interviews with news stations completely breaking character to promote their wrestling company lol. Why do you need them to go out of their way to tell you its fake which they actually already do with promotions during shows of shit that expose it being fake so really just seems like your ignorant here.
0 likes@Scizor Bullet LMAO, you say all this stuff, but let me just say this again. With wrestling, any random person could watch it and then be like, "Oh wow 2 dudes just actually fought each other in a real fight to win the championships." Also this "With wrestling, they don't really ever tell you it's fake 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲 to search it up." With movies, it's literally impossible to not know they're fake. Any casual viewer like I said before wouldn't be able to immediately know if wrestling is fake or real, but any casual viewer would be able to basically instantly know that movies are fake, like the people that play the roles are literally called actors, lol... There aren't really and clues to tell you that wrestling is fake unless you actually go out of your way to look for them, you say stuff about "oh this dude acts like a zombie and blah blah" but how would I know that if I'm just a casual viewer. You are really pugnacious, like all I said was that I don't watch wrestling because I just don't really care about wrestling and that it comes off as being real even though it's actually fake. Then you being a wrestling stan that can't possibly let someone not like what you like, make a 10-page essay about why I'm wrong and your right. Like it's my opinion, I really don't care about what you think, I'm not going to just start watching wrestling just bc some random kid on the internet said that wrestling says its fake, as I said in my original comment I don't watch it because I just don't like wrestling, it's not just purely because they make it seem like it's real.
0 likesAlso, I remember a long time ago when I was younger, there was an argument going on at the school I went to, on whether or not wrestling was real or fake and there were people who genuinely thought wrestling was real with all their hearts, so it's obviously not as obvious to the casual viewer as you think.
@RealLugia97 GeN the only people who think wrestling is real is little kids lol any adult with a brain knows its fake beforehand. Thats just common sense so again no it doesn't promotd itself as real at all.
0 likesWhat movie tell u it's fake. Which movies are u watching man
0 likes@MAJIN I'm saying with normal movies like star wars, they basically tell you that the movie is fake... lol
0 likes@RealLugia97 GeN okay
0 likesThey literally put Zombies on a ppv, so I guess they're not pretending to be real
1 like@Rare Item That was the one of the worst thing to happen in the WWE.
1 like@MAJIN agree
1 likeWhich is a good thing. WWE was total cringe
0 likesThe Carmen music in the background <3
0 likesEmp ily so much, you're so great at getting us into your headspace
4 likesThirty years later, and I still hate Vince
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im sure he's crying about that
0 likesHow dare you say goku isn't real
1 likeYou called Kevin Owens what?
0 likeswhat a great video! awesome work man! attitude era was my childhood and i so damn loved it. i still watch some old episodes or matches every now and then. but i stopped watching wwe like 14 years ago. in this 14 years i always had a hope that they would change their program back to what it was like during the great attitude era. but this hope died. nowadays wwe is nothing more than boring kids television. i can't understand that some fans from the attitude era still watch this crap like it is today.
1 likeI've never watched wrestling but I love watching videos about wrestling because the people who make them are so invested in it
1 likeI just found this video at 4am
1 likeAnd it is by far one of THE BEST wrestling video essays I've ever seen
Loved every second of it (even though I already knew everything)
Thanks for such a high quality video
Am i wrong to cry while watching this? I was taken back to this glorious era. Great job!!
0 likesThis was such a nostalgic trip, I remember that night man kind won the belt. I was like 6 or 7 at the time and I was HOOKED on that show until I realized it was all fake when I was 12. But still, I picture my younger self body slamming my stuffys with a John Cena poster on my wall.
1 likeOne can never look down on the storywriting of pro wrestling once they've seen the Golden Lovers in Japan
0 likessomething people have to understand is watching wrestling is different from highlighting the best moments
0 likeswatching wrestling can be really boring especially when the plotlines are shit
there's rarely a good one but when it's good it's great
this is such a good video and the respect/word you gave for shakesphere and theatre was a nice touch. props to you
0 likesI wish you could do this again but with a duration of 2 or 3 hours hahaha I loved it and I couldn't get enough of this video. Amazing work you did.
0 likesI'm extremely proud to be a wrestling fan. Even though I wasn't born in the 90s, I loved the Attitude Era. I love wrestling nowadays too. Wrestling is one of the things which make me extremely happy or sad, and it is truly the best thing.
0 likesI have never rewatched a video so many times. Your never ever series is one of the best things on youtube. Thank you for making this amazing content
2 likesi can say i was a kid during these years and loved them so much, WWF was awesome
0 likesMick Foley is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. The Hell in The Cell match will forever go down as one of the greatest moments in the history of mankind.
0 likesThinking about growing up with raw and smackdown makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
0 likesI must have watched this video about ten times and I'm not getting bored of it. One of the best videos on YT imo
0 likesI stopped watching wrestling after Wrestlemania 33 because it was getting stale, but i can't help myself to come back and watch old promos and matches sometimes, then i watch the new stuff and stop watching wrestling all together. It's a bizzare cycle and it's a part of my life now.
1 likeMy Dude AEW got me back into wrestling I was a fan all the way through to the ruthless aggression era of wrestling. Went through the Monday night wars and all that jazz. Once WWE was the only one left and went pg I stopped caring and that was up till AEW came into the game now I actually like watching wrestling again.
0 likesI always just describe pro wrestling as a male soap opera cause it is a form of storytelling and is basically a modern day version of live theater performances
0 likesI was that perfect age in the 90's to have seen all of this play out every week, month and year. At least those early teenage years. I also had access to ECW weekly TV and PPVs starting in about '97. If there was a Golden Age for pro wrestling at some point, this was the Platinum Age. It's fucking insane to look back at what television was like and just how gigantic pro wrestling was then and all the very un-PC shit they got away with every week. A different time, I suppose.
0 likesThis was beautiful. Thank you.
0 likesIf they ever brought back that crazy ruthless aggression/attitude/Raw era energy, I'd be watching wrestling again in a heartbeat. However, that's impossible. Wrestling is pussified. I always used to say wrestlers were either the toughest guys you'd ever imagine, or absolute fucking rockstars.
0 likesThey uh....yeah. Are not. Any more. They don't go through any real hardship, they don't do the same route of hazing and hell that makes ridiculously durable people, there just isn't the same veteran grit in the locker room any more. Instead, they're perfectly managed and catered to athletes and typically aimed at little children.
Still, nice to look back at how epic it was. Nice memories.
Professional wrestling is like a real acting competition that takes place live, involving stunts, comedy, romance, and drama with a little bit of the more taboo stuff like ladders thumbtacks and chairs. The people that perform there act best are judged by the fans reactions and reworded by getting to play the part of the winner, or the loser if you specialize in being so toxic that can make fans cheer for someone else in the hopes they beat you.
0 likes2:03 I was always a bit annoyed by this argument, and I'm not even a wrestling fan. I mean, it's not like at this point anyone is even pretending wrestling is "real", whatever that means. It's like saying that theatre isn't real. And besides, just because it's all scripted, doesn't mean people don't get hurt for real.
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It's because so many movies have fake fighting scenes where actors dont even throw real punches because everything is green screen that they think somehow real life is the same way
2 likesThe whole video is like some streched 3rd act in old Western. I love it!
8 likesOne thing which should be pointed out. Because I like you thought "well, his dad owned the WWWF. He MUST have just been given it/inherited the business".
0 likesNot the case. Vince Sr did almost everything he could to deter him. In the end Vince Jr bought the company from his father. His father went on to say to paraphrase "from what I know now. I would never have sold the business to Vince".
This makes him in many ways 1000% more interesting. Almost Shakespearean, stabbing his own father in the front to take over his father's business.
Don't know if anyone's mentioned this before but what's funny about this story is that something like this could end up happening again. TNT started a new wrestling promotion, AEW, just last year. They're not competing 1-on-1 with RAW now, but they're airing their weekly show, Dynamite, on Wednesday nights, on the same time slot as NXT, WWE's third brand. To add on, WWE has started to lose some of their talents to AEW. For example, they now have Chris Jericho, Dean Ambrose (now Jon Moxley), Matt Hardy, and Rusev (now Miro), and it's left WWE only with so much. If they lose more superstars, I think we could be seeing another big pro wrestling war in the coming years honestly.
1 likeIt really wasn’t raw that changed the way weekly programming was done, it was honestly Nitro. Raw had to up their game when Nitro started putting on competitive matches every week. And it wasn’t supported by Ted, it was OWNED by Ted Turner, and it was he who wanted to directly compete with Vince. Because he didn’t like Vince. And was Hulk bleached blonde or did he have to dye his beard dark? I know the answer, and i like the video, but he’s all over the place with his facts. And you’re out of your mind saying Mick wasn’t “talented enough” on his own. Promos are a huge part of the product, and he is one of the very best promos ever, watch his Cactus Jack promos from ecw and say he has no talent. Oh, also, a jeep is not a tank. And Stone Cold’s persona was cultivated in ECW with Paul Heyman.
1 like"Usually the Championship changes hands once, maybe twice a year," except during the period you're talking about where it was more like once or twice a month. Foley lost the title a few weeks later. Also, fans got behind him because he changed his gimmick after SummerSlam 98 to be more of a sympathetic comedy character rather than a tortured soul, but conventional wrestling history (i.e. the WWE) acts like it was all because of his Hell in a Cell bump. It wasn't.
0 likesIt's things like this that just make you go God damm I love wrestling
0 likesWatching this while aew dynamite is rocketing up in ratings and still getting massive pops even in quarantine
0 likesAttitude Era... what a glorious childhood I had.
0 likesWrestling is channeling the same energy as those OC tournaments on Deviantart back in the day.
1 likeThe amount of ECW excluded from this video hurts
1 likeI can still feel the crick in my neck from stone cold stunning to and from every other 5th grader that year lol where’s Goldberg though
4 likesDo you guys know who is also so good at telling stories to the point you think the characters are real? ERIC CARTMAN!
0 likesWhy not tho?! It's totally easy and possible to just give us ACTUAL cool, chaotic, and fun wrestling. But the rulers won't let it.
1 likeI was born in '89 and not allowed to watch wrestling. Interesting story!
0 likes"Most of you can probably picture a vague figure in your heads..." Nope, I have aphantasia and that's physically impossible for me!
0 likesThose Monday Night Wars were so huge, it ran the NFL off to ESPN on Monday Nights.
0 likesI will never forget the ministry of darkness and the corporation storyline. I haven’t watched recent wwe. Probably the last year I watched was early late mid 2016 and then I just lost interest.
0 likesGod I miss attitude Era wwf so much.
0 likesStone Cold still holds the 1st place in wwf history. No one was or is capable to dethrone him. He puts hogan, ric, triple h, Shawn michels and the rock to shame with his pop.
0 likesthis video is a nice gate way into wrestling thank you
0 likesOne of the best videos on Youtube!
0 likesAttitude era Raw only existed because of ECW and that’s a fact proven by writers and head people in the late 90s saying so.
0 likesAlso- mick foley was popular due to coming in from ECW and being hardcore. A out of shape wrestler who got extreme and was comedic. When WWF went into attitude era was shortly after ECW exploded with Ppv and internet popularity and Vince knew if he didn’t go edgier than wcw they would lose their fame cause the Outsider/NWO angle is what broke WcW into #1. The correlation of ratings tanking and stealing ideas straight from ECW and a bit of NWO leading to the rise of their popularity as Raw is War and beating competition is no mistake. Which is why they brought in Dudley Boys and Raven also eventually.
This is a good video but WWF wouldn’t have changed their branding and content the way they did if it weren’t for ECWs hardcore wrestling and sexual moments being inspiration/foundation for a generation of wrestling. Yes WcW was winning but didn’t have that deep of mature content to inspire anyone. But I’m not holding it against you cause you’d have to be an ECW fan or look into that part of history to see the evidence and admittance of writers and creative saying they took ideas and inspirations. Good video again I just wanted to provide the deepest lore for people :D
Wrestling isn't wrestling is one of my favorites
0 likes"Vince could see the tide of American culture turning"
1 likeNot really though, Vince McMahon had no clue about the culture change because he always lived inside the wrestling bubble and barely watched any movies or TV shows, so he didn't know, that's why it took so long for him to adapt, other people were able to get to his head and see that what he had been putting on TV wasn't working.
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You may want to check some of your facts man
2 likesThe undertaker won the match, but Mick Foley saved wrestling
0 likesThe Eric Andre ending on Booker T.😅
0 likesExcellent video, thank you for this
0 likesWhen Raw was on, NOTHING else mattered.
0 likesMankind vs Undertaker was such a classic
0 likesThe Undertaker is the greatest ex machina in all of Shonen!
0 likesIt’s funny how the security guards turned to look at Austin hit rock with the chair
0 likesYoooooo, that's the Donkey Kong theme 🤣😂🤣🤣 brought back memories 4real!
0 likeswhat do you mean no emotion from a crowed? football has plenty of drama and suspence of disbelief that is actually real that croweds react to way louder... and dude pro wrestling used to be good, now it's all just cheesy boring and bland.. Vince is out of touch, AEW in the other hand is actually pretty good and in my opinion has a better shot at competing with wwe then tna ever did.
0 likesThe current Wednesday Night War HAS NOTHING on the Monday Night Wars.
0 likesITS STILL REAL TO ME DAMN IT
0 likesBruh, you should have mentioned how when Bret Hart left helped create a character for Vince that promoted his company and put some respect on Mankind's name. He only entertained audiences by putting his life at risk and he did have charisma. That's something that not only a wrestlers should have, but entertainers as well. As for Undertaker's popularity, it isn't difficult to describe. You mentioned how people were jumping ship between the two wrestling promotions. He stood at WWE and was a locker room leader for years. He gained the respect of his peers and later fans when they figured out. I think the decline for popularity in wrestling can be attributed to what happens in the ring and out of it. Anyone remember the Muslim gimmick they had? Or the suicidal alcoholic/drug addict angles? How about the more racially insensitive ones? Do you think Golddust can pass today? Do they still portray women like how they used to? Can they be edgy like they used to? The world has changed and wrestling has tried to change with it. Many fans cry for the old days, but it is clear to see that they aren't coming back and who knows if that will actually change things. The truth is it isn't unfiltered anymore or RAW.
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Goldust was at the time, shocking, and if you haven't read his book I recommend it
0 likesToday, you see far more shocking imagery from a pride parade
I agree with most of what you said though
6:34 Off topic but can we talk about rugrats also dominating the ratings on that list.
0 likesIt's sort of cliche to say, but it's true that you couldn't possibly understand how white-hot Raw was in the late nineties. WWF and Southpark were cultural phenomena.
0 likesNot even Monday Night Raw is like Monday Night Raw anymore
0 likesI liked as soon as you said Mick Foley was the protagonist.
1 likeEverything else you got right except 1
0 likesThe 1 that has been driving me nuts since it happened...
Triple H and DX did NOT drive a TANK to WCW....
It was a MILITARY JEEP.
Ppl have been calling it a Tank for over 20 years.
Tanks dont have Spare Tires.
Its clearly a JEEP, With a Mounted Gun, maybe an AA Gun, Maybe a .50 Cal Idk...
Its A Jeep. Not a Tank.
It's still real to me god Dam it!
0 likesHoly shit! , holy shit! What a great video! Its only flaw was ...Evil Mr. McMahon was born the day he screwed Brett 'Hitman' Hart, and im not just saying that because i'm a bitter canadian. But yes, stone cold gave us the well deserved revenge we wanted in the end!
0 likesHa I watched that hell in a cell match when I was a kid and it was insane.
0 likesThere will never be another fued like the SCSA/Vince McMahon storyline.
0 likesTo be brutally honest, before I watched this video I thought Hulk Hogan was a famous motorcycle rider ngl
5 likes19:30 Nick Foley pushed 20 ft off the cage onto the tables
0 likesNick Foley pushed 16 ft off the cage onto the ring, has tooth coming out of nostril
Nick Foley beaten like an egg by a combo of Undertakers ham fists and chairs
Nick Foley choke-slammed onto a god damn BED OF TACKS
---> "The Undertaker won this match, but Nick Foley won the hearts..." No shit he lost the match, he shoulda lost his whole ass life haha.
Acting and stage performances aside, that was freakin hardcore man
How you gonna talk about the Monday Night War and not mention the Montreal Screwjob or ECW. Great video, but there's a lot missing
1 likeHE’S GOT A DAYUM FAMILY
0 likesBY GOD HE’S BEEN BROKEN IN DAYUM HALF
What a maneuver!
0 likesNo one:
4 likesWednesday Night Dynamite:
"...hold my beer"
DX is a whole vibe!
0 likesThis is the story about Destiny becoming the WWF Heavyweight Champion
0 likesIt’s a soap opera with stuntmen. Great fun
0 likesMore real than most things
0 likesAlso, I'd argue that WWE did replicate what they did with Mick Foley at WrestleMania 30 with Daniel Bryan. And I am not sure the culture changing is the reason wrestling is unpopular now.. the product is just really bad. I finally gave up in 2014 after watching since 1992 when I was 4 years old.
0 likesThis video aged poorly. I am not sports entertained by WWE Raw (or smackdown). I got two words for ya, AEW Dynamite.
0 likesThis dude got Respect Your Elders beat over the rock Lmao. Nice
1 likeI can’t believe content like this is free
0 likesI was so pumped to see how Mankind would take the win but you didn't even go into it.
0 likesAnd they say Kingdom Hearts's story is contrived.
5 likesYou didn’t really talk about Mankind vs the Rock... you led up to it, went on a tangent, and barely mentioned it at the close. You lost the plot, bro.
0 likesI cant tell you free I feel now that I started identifying as a woman.
1 likeJust found your channel great stuff! But Bruh, Vince definitely didn’t “start from nothing” like cmon
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he did though, his dad walked out on his alcoholic mom and he had an abusive stepfather. watch the Adam’s pipe bomb video on how he took away the WWWF from Vince Sr.
0 likes@Kyle Major He got a job at his dads company and eventually took it over. Having a non ideal childhood doesnt mean you came from nothing. If he would've become successful in anything that literally wasn't something his own father gave him (maybe Vince was savvy enough to take his fathers company, but he wouldnt be in that position if Vince Sr didn't bring him for no other reason than mainly nepotism) would be arguable but no. Vince Didn't come from nothing and got his daddies company. Yes Vince changed Wrestling into something no one else probably could, but he didn't come from nothing
0 likesYour right those things you listed aren’t real but guess what they look real while pro wrestling never does
0 likesyo DX shawn Michaels was the leader first but after hbk had to retire due to his back injury triple h then became the leader why you overlooked that idk
0 likesI feel like these videos are just emp lemon justifying his strange tastes.
0 likesThere will never ever be another ECW
0 likesTriple H is the real savage. Wifes up the owners daughter, takes control and literally becomes the game
0 likesHoly fucking shit. This is the best documentarie for non-wrestling fans I've ever seen. As a 14 year old fan, I fond it hard for my friends to respect something that they consider "stupid and dumb" just because it's fake. But this explains non-fans the cultural impact of Pro-Wrestling. Amazing job man. Keep it up!
0 likesNot to split hairs, but people in wrestling will tell you, there is no Vince Senior, and the dad’s middle initial is not K.
0 likesIt’s Vincent J and Vincent K.
How could Nash and Hogan seriously think the finger poke of doom was a good idea comparing to Foley winning the Title the same night over on Raw. Double Agents sent by Vince!? Or just Karma coming back to bight WCW on the ass? But even if it was the 2nd 1 I still don't get how Nash and especially Hogan would think that angle/idea would be a good way to have a much anticipated match. I can't get my head around that. Or maybe the amount of money they was on at the time, with their guaranteed contracts they just didn't give a shit any more. Who really knows!?
0 likesMankind is a legend
0 likesWWE is good af until they ruined CM Punk
0 likes10:22 wtf was that weak ass roll by Max Moon 😂
0 likesEmplemon makes a video about wrestling. Huh, that'll put butts in seats.
0 likesMick Foley you fucking legend
0 likesThe Undertakers iconic dong😂😂😂
0 likesbro i swear mick folley had to be on fucking something, idk if it was steroids or what but i just find that kind of pain resistance to be like impossible
0 likesThere will never ever be a beast like Brock Lesnar
0 likesMan at this period WWF was more popular than NASCAR WINSTON CUP Race😲😲😲😲
0 likesHoly shit, I had no idea that that the fucking Fingerpoke of Doom happened on the same night as Foley winning the title. I thought the FPOD happened MONTHS after but holy shit, in hindsight that is the funniest shit I have ever fucking hear of
0 likesEric bischoff saved wrestling
0 likes18:48 now this part, was not fake, it wasn't scripted either, the move was scripted, but the falling through the cell was not scripted.
1 likeWrestling is real, it's just scripted, if you get body slammed from a ladder onto a chair then that would hurt pretty bad, they aren't props, even if they were props then it would still hurt like hell.
Vince is a far greater business man than trump
1 like"a literal tank" bro you put the picture up, you can clearly see thats a jeep LOL
0 likesmick foley has 4 wrestling personas becaue he wrestles as mick foley too
1 likeDid anyone else notice the Dirty Harry: Magnum Force theme
0 likesI mean Smackdown has been a thing for 20 years now but ok
0 likesFantastic video man!!!
0 likes3:31 holy shit did you just acknowledged The Game: Game from newgrounda lmfao wtf
0 likes"People go giddy for the undertakers icon dong"
1 likeEpic Tony Hawk Pro Skater character select music at 24:55
0 likesYou lost me at everybody likes Spongebob.
0 likesGood video but you get side tracked too much which makes it hard to follow
1 likeThose eras are better than Wednesday night dork war that can't even gain a million views on TV. 5 millions ratings on both WCW and WWE was huge and part of pop culture phenomenal. Today Wrestling is full of MIDGETS while back then they suspended believablity of casual viewers by pushing big guys.
0 likesGreat video!
0 likes33:30 Daniel Bryan vs Batista vs Randy Orton got close.
0 likesnever got it and still don't, and as someone in my mid-30s, I was the prime audience at the time... i think I am just too jaded. appreciate the video, but I still don't understand. It's all so over-the-top.
0 likesSmash bros character aren’t real?
0 likesThen explain my ROB the robot collecting dust in the attic since the mid 80’s.
Bill Shakespeare made me subscribe 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
0 likes17:59 missed the potential shittymorph plug
0 likes14:12 🤣🤣🤣🤣☠️
0 likesAEW has entered the chat
0 likesHow about that one time they fought god?
0 likesThere needs to be a video like this for smack down
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I agree.
0 likesHonestly during the brand split, Smackdown always feels like the better show or at least at times not as bad as RAW.
Yeah I’m sad to see raw being less entertaining same with smack down
0 likesMonday Night Raw is War.
0 likesMonday Night Raw
1 likeMonday Nightraw
Monday Nitraw
Monday Nitro
I see it now.
As a manate myself I'm very offended hahaha just kidding of course
0 likesAnd now that no crowds are allowed. Final bullet in wrestlings back.
0 likesIt's called AEW Dynamite
0 likesI've watched this video multiple times and I'm always impressed with the narrators storytelling and editing.
3 likesI'm so glad EmpLemon is a Calvin and Hobbs fan.
25 likesThe only thing that's for sure about Emplemon... is that nothings for sure.
0 likesOof, not sure anyone would become a fan of wrestling after watching RAW of the past two years.
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There's always smackdown.
8 likes@mmm_caca And Lucha Underground. And New Japan. And CHIKARA. And TNA (which is pretty decent nowadays). And PWG. And AAA. And lots of indie shit.
6 likesThere’s always ROH (and AEW when it launches)
1 likeMAKE RAW GREAT AGAIN!
1 likeY2 Jericho There’s other wrestling outside WWE ya know
0 likes@Big Poppa Pump
3 likesMuH aTtiTUdE eRA
NJPW beats all of the garbagé on a daily basis. Cry more.
@Big Poppa Pump
2 likesCry more.
@CM Derp
0 likesNot everything has to be about politics dude. I dislike the leftist garbagé as much as the next guy but wrestling will never be as popular as it was. That doesn't mean we can't appreciate the great wrestling going on out there in the world.
@Big Boy Dan Cannon appreciate the wrestling!? LOL......ROFL!!!!!! Oh, you mean two guys scheduled for a match, have a 30 min. match with flippy , high spot fest extravaganza, and shake hands at the end..!? ROFL!!!! There's a little thing missing when these indirific company's do matches like this........ STORY!!!!! They have zero to no story line !!! Why watch when you're not emotionally invested in it through some drama!? You mean to tell me your endorphins fire watching a fake wrestling match as someone who is watching a mma match or football game!? Sorry bud, but hell no! Wrestling isn't real, you gotta have some theater to draw people in. You are a hardcore/smark fan. You're a minority. You'd watch wrestler #1 vs wrestler #2 (with no mic work, no story, no build up, no characters) just for the moves and then you'd immediately go see if Dave Meltzer gave it 5 stars or 4.5 so that then you could figure out how you would feel about said boring match.... Wrestling is dead, smarks killed wrestling.....
2 likesUr a melee fan? U won my sub with the chillin instrumental
0 likesI have vivid memories of watching this in Kindergarten and 1st grade.
18 likesmunkey jones is still a badass
0 likesThere will never ever be another Steve Irwin
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@Cool Guy "there is no way i read about someone im misinformed about because i cant accept the fact that i'm wrong"
1 like@Sean Costello ok peta
0 likes@Sean Costello what's your problem man? Do you just need some attention rn? I got you
0 likes@Sean Costello why do you think Steve was selfish? He did so much for educating the populous about nature and incredible acts in animal conservation on top of being a loved father and devout husband.
0 likes@Sean Costello Steve Irwins children are left with a legacy 99.9 percent of children will never get, so shut up and quit being so negative. Child trafficking exists, but here you are griping about Steve Irwin?
1 likeI swear some people's logic is goofy as hell
there's also a moment, where Kofi Kingston has been waiting for 11 years to get a shot at the WWE Championship. and when he does, after a short amount of months, he is immediately buried and has his title stolen by this part-timing piece of shit named brock lesnar
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goddamn, I even forgot that he hold that title once
0 likesWith all this TF2 music I’m expecting There will never ever be a game like Team Fortress 2
17 likesMc foley seems like a masochist
0 likes14:04 Did...did he just fucking threaten Steve Austin with gun violence?
3 likesGod the attitude era had some of the edgiest TV at the time, I love it.
What are the orchestral or classical songs in this video.
0 likesI need it. Please i need it.
Rip snooty
0 likesCartoon Network was half the reason I was fluent in English by the time I started going to school. WCW Monday Nitro was the other half. For some reason I remember it playing only on fridays after 10 pm on TNT, which was basically just Cartoon Network after 10 pm. Those were the days. :sip:
4 likesThe only Monday Garfield liked
1 like12:44 Emplemon may I just say I love this music. It's become a part of your identity to me. I hope you never stop using it, at least not completely.
4 likes14:30 behold under my mask lies another mask
0 likesWHEN BROCK SLAMMED BIG SHOW & BROKE THE RING...I CRIED😄
24 likesTo everyone who said pro wrestling isn't real I'd like to see them fake 2 falls from that huge cage and a choke slam on thumbtacks
14 likesCan you do 'there will never ever be another movie like Shrek'?
16 likesGreat Video.
1 likeLove the donkey Kong country music lol
0 likesim damned sure that justin y will end up on youtube georgraphic
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I Hope!
1 likeMcMahon 2024🇱🇷
0 likesI got one for you. Smackdown.
0 likesTo become loved,
68 likesThrow every piece into a fire.
Wrestling is not fake, it's scripted. How can you fake a chair shot to the face or crashing through a table? It's real but scripted. Well the old wrestling at least, idk what's going on with the new stuff 😂
0 likesI’m a high school wrestler and yes, we exist
7 likesOh that's so brutal
0 likesThat homer vs lisa voice.. Is that the same guy that did star wars master of tera kasi?
0 likesWWE may never be able to replicate a moment of this spectacle.
47 likesKofi Kingston: Hold My Pancakes
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@DejaVoodooDoll Vince failed, it's over
1 likeKofi never even got close to recreating that moment.
2 likesPromis Nwekenta Well no shit Sherlock they’re two different situations lmao. You can NEVER compare what Kofi had accomplished as a POC compared to Mick winning the title for the first time on Raw and helping raw get an advantage in the ratings war.
1 likeMai Nyigguh gotchu fam
0 likesTurtleneckless and I totally respect how you feel my man.
1 likeKofi better
0 likes@Lazy Eye I'm glad you understand
0 likesIt's back. The downward spiral will Never Ever be ogre.
5 likesEmp are you going to do a video regarding Pie's passing? I really hope you do, he was an amazing YTPer and a great dude who died from a needless suicide. Thoughts and prayers to him and his family.
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I don't think he's even acknowledged his death. Being one of the loudest voices in the community, you'd think we'd here at least something coming from him.
1 like@Private Information yeah and Pie was a well respected YTPer as well. I really hope Emp makes some kind of response about it. Adam was a great dude.
3 likesMe too.
0 likesits a shame what happened, i even talked to him a few times over discord. i hope hes in a better place now.
0 likesThere will never ever be a video like this that got taken down for no reason.
3 likesBecause its sports entertainment now
0 likesit still baffles me that schools make ADHD ridden, zit covered, underachievers read something so mind twistingly confusing and is specifically designed to be watched/acted.
79 likesi mean seriously some of these kids are just developing object permanence and your gonna try and make them read romeo and Juliet for the third time.
shout out to the teachers that actually play a movie instead of trying to make the kids rome the minefield that is reading shakespeare.
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Wow🤦♂️
0 likesThis hits to close to home
0 likesThis has nothing to do with this but I just want to say how bad the new YouTube update for phones is with the new description.
1 likeYou know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Samoa Joe and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another wrestler, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat me. Then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See the 3 way at Sacrifice, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because Kurt Angle KNOWS he can't beat me and he's not even gonna try!
10 likesSo Samoa Joe, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got 141 2/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. See Joe, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice.
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Incredible copypasta right here boys.
1 likeactually my mii fighter character is real
1 likehe's barack obama
They'll never be another FilthyFrank
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Tr0LoLxD they'll
19 likesTr0LoLxD that's too predictable/agreeable this vid was meant to teach people like you that wrestling is an art form to be respected
27 likes@Better than Justin Y As if the Spongebob video wasn't agreeable
28 likesTr0LoLxD Pewdiepie tries to copy him and his humour but its a failure.
1 likeHe's boring.
1 likeIt doesn't take to be an intellectual to not laugh at constant screaming and "lol random xd" things like "gibe de pusi boss".
2 likes@No Lümpen you obviously cant understand 9 year olds. very cool
3 likes@Chubby McButtcheeks 😪
0 likesYES
0 likes:(
0 likes...And now Emp can't wait to start watching AEW this fall, Wednesdays on TNT.
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Don't get me wrong, it's so much better than WWE is currently
0 likesBut from what I saw from Omega and Mox, they can't work the hardcore style worth a damn
Still better than WWE was last time I tried to watch it
Old School
0 likesNot yet they can’t
@Giga Chad
0 likesConsidering how much practice they've both had working Hardcore in Japan you think they would've worked it out by now
I ordered All Out and regretted doing so👎
I'll stick to MLW when they get back off Lockdown
@ANDON HOWARD CZW and Japan and limited hardcore matches in WWE, he was fine, not the best brawler I've ever seen, but he did alright
0 likesWhich is why it pissed me off so much when his unsanctioned match against omega sucked
Plastic mousetraps
No selling moves
It was shite
Mance Warner
That is a modern day hardcore legend
@ANDON HOWARD 👍
0 likes@Porter Blaze I don't think we ever will see the magic of the Original ECW ever again.
1 like@Grant Watson no, unfortunately, ECW was one of a kind
0 likesMLW has approached that greatness at times, it's the reason I watch, cannot stand what mainstream wrestling has become
I'll take MLW and AAA over WWE and AEW any day of the week
@Porter Blaze Understandable. I love hardcore wrestling, but I'm not the biggest fan of it. So I can stand AEW. But I honestly can't stand most of mainstream wrestling.
0 likes@Grant Watson after I stopped watching WWE I tried AEW
0 likesEven ordered All Out due to some of my favourites like Brodie being advertised
Never again
I enjoyed 2 matches
Like the battle royal they had, I've never seen so many guys working so hard to eliminate themselves🤣
It's not just the hardcore wrestling, although that is my favourite
Matches that mean something
Not just spamming 50 superkicks
@Porter Blaze I understand that. You chose the wrong PPV to order. Every other PPV they've had so far has been pretty great. I didn't enjoy All Out.
0 likes@Grant Watson
0 likesThe time I tried to watch before that was just one match
Omega vs Mox, the unsanctioned match
Two fantastic stars
Both usually know how to work hardcore
And they were no selling moves and using plastic mousetraps
As far as the hardcore style goes I came up watching 80s and 90s brawlers, everyone from Bruiser Brody and Terry Funk to Sabu and Bam Bam Bigelow
That is hardcore and raw emotion in the matches
There can be no emotion involved when Mox and Kenny are just hitting random moves onto bullshit weapons and getting straight back up
Between that and All Out, unfortunately I'm done with AEW
@Porter BlazeHey man, I get it. It's not for everyone.
0 likes24:32 slide whistle noise
0 likes6:43
42 likesWrestling host's a good job mate.
It's challengin' work, work indoors. I guarantee you won't go hungry - 'Cause at the end of the day, as long as there's two people left on the planet, someone is gonna want entertainment.
This is the first CEO that I actually love. Absolute legend.
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Don't worry, you'll learn to hate him
2 likes@Juan Cena | THE CHAMP IS HERE nah
0 likesI hope to one day become a CEO that people love.
0 likesLike I tell people, the Attitude Era was not better because of the wrestling. It was better, because of the story and the overall product that was presented. Wrestling, for the most part, has been the same for years. The biggest difference is the actual stories have gotten worst and the promos have gotten worst as well.
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Actually, I think the physical wrestling has gotten better. The stories are what's suffering.
0 likesEpic
0 likesYour storytelling ability is at part with RAW is WAR era
5 likesWhang has knowledge-emia
0 likesIT'S GOTTA BE KANE!!
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Kane! The mayor of Knox County Tennessee
9 likesBah gawd
4 likesKhain?
0 likes@One Shot Vince made the call not JR
0 likes@Eexpers my bad
0 likesTaking a page from super eye patch wolf. I like!
0 likesI never understood the specific stigma around professional wrestling. Like movies and tv is obviously fake but we don't question those. Even in it's barest form a wrestling show is just that, a tv show. It's weird when you think about it.
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Cuz before, at the start, it was made by legit guys who decided to work stuff to get more money, it was also waaay grettier, I recommend you listem to jim cornettes podcasts, he always talk about that and how in the very early days of carnival wrestling folks could kick everyone's asses
0 likesHe worked during the territory days but like a couple months ago he talked about how wrestling came to be
you forgot to mention the Impact ECW had on Vince and WWE but other than that fantastic video
5 likesGlass Breaks STONE COLD walks out......
0 likesAttitude era is goat of WWF. Crazy stories and sexy woman doing bra n panty matches.
0 likesMonday night RAW and saturday morning cartoons were the best part of being a kid in the 90s
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Back in the 90s it was pretty metal too...
0 likesWhat is the song in the background also?
0 likes8:03
Damn your good at making videos man.
7 likesEmp, you should do one of these for a band, like Queen or Smash Mouth.
3 likesSomewhere in this comment section is a timestamp shittymorphing someone. Y'know, some big, long comment that weaves a grandiose story before ending with some segway into something absurd? I can't even count the number of times I've fallen for those posts. I lost count at nineteen ninety-eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.
0 likesSomeone should react to this.
2 likes19:50 Oh my god the use of Ultra Necrozma's theme here is just... *Chef's Kiss of Perfection*
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Yeah holy shit. The hype is just at a peak there
0 likesSugar is sweet and so is honey but the beat goes on
0 likesDislike, the man said mick foley wasnt talented... Look up the i gave you cactus jack promo and try saying this man isn't talented.
0 likesThere will never ever be a channel like filthy frank
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pixel parrot ben how original (eye roll)
10 likes@Better than Justin Y good point
3 likes@EditRepublic That's a description an average guy would say. Filthy Frank got a lot more around it, he created a kind of weird universe that reinforced his referential comedy, using drama and shock value for entertainment, kinda like those challenge channels but by x1000 and with a story.
4 likesI mean he was not a genius, its not even great comedy; but man it was fun and interesting in a messed up way.
AEW AEW AEW
1 likeI got back into wrestling in 1999 (after having loved it as a kid in the 80s). I started watching it again when I started college in 99. It was so exciting at that time. Lot of nostalgia here...miss the the late 90s early 2000s and the Attitude Era.
1 likeOne of the greatest videos made on youtube. Period, excellent explanation. I love how this dude goes from ytps to wwe history.
0 likesPure gold
Got tears in my eyes toward the end. Thank you for making such an awesome video about the show that raised me
0 likesI know this video is a bit old, but I just felt the need to say your ability to keep people interested in your videos, especially on topics they didn’t think they’d care about, like I didn’t for this one, is absolutely amazing. Your editing and the way you tell the story keep me hooked. Keep it up!
2 likesThank you for making a video that explains why wrestling is beloved by millions...and the millions...of fans across the world
1 likeThis is one of the greatest videos I've seen on YouTube. Much love from a nostalgic fan. You literally articulated how wrestling made me feel. 🤙🏽
0 likesHow do people not like wrestling? Its like a constantly evolving action show where the script is only half-written and the characters and actors fill in the rest of it as they go
0 likesthats literally the perfect form of entertainment, because it CANT go stale. There is always room for a new competitor, a new face, a new story. It is a perfect show.
I was there for that Hell in a a Cell match in my hometown of Pittsburgh. To this day that was the most surreal event of my life. You know it's a show. But in that moment, right after he fell, it was dead silent. Moments like that doelnt happen a lot. It was scary, and for a split second it was real.
1 likeWon’t lie this video has got me mildly interested in wrestling and looking into how it is done from a storytelling perspective
0 likesExtraordinarily well done video!
0 likesI never really saw WWE in this way before.
Watching this made me super nostalgic because my dad would put on RAW for us to watch (I was about 4 at the time) and remember seeing the ambulance stunt and the thumbtack stunt. He would also buy us wwe figures that we took everywhere with us
0 likesI'm on watch 6 or 7, now. I always come back to this video. Goddamn masterpiece.
2 likesEdit- still haunting this spot, but now I mostly come back for 14:05-14:15
I had the chance to work a wwe show recently. during lunch break the wwe crew let the local hands in on their buffet spread and Vince McMahon himself was right behind me in line. he recommended i try the short rib and damnnnnnnn that was probably the best meal ive had on the job.
0 likesWhy would I not be able to specifically picture Randy Savage, Ric Flair, Andre the Giant, or Hulk Hogan, four of the most iconic wrestlers ever?
0 likesI actually like Mick Foley as a kid, I always thought he was cool. You know always gettin backup from some crazy stunt just to get put back down.
1 likeThese days were so f'n awesome. Outta control!
0 likesEveryone from the attitude era is a G.O.A.T!
i honestly couldn’t think of anything better to watch live while drinking
1 likeThis is an excellent video, very well put together. Got yourself a subscriber buddy!
0 likesThat attitutude era with the raw and nitro going toe to toe was some of the best tv ever. There was NO Tivo then....you had to watch one or the other . That competition made it
0 likesI think the return of Edge at the royal rumble might have rivaled that pop from Austin, for totally different reasons hehe. Great video btw :)
1 likeI know that it isn't big in the USA, or anywhere outside of the UK really, but there are so many parallels between Pro Wrestling and Pantomime. Both are forms of live theatre where the audience has a part to play, and you have to be in on the joke to know that part. It's why it seems to odd, and often lame, to people outside of the fold but once you're in it you are no longer an observer but you are a part of the show.
0 likesShame that there's no mention of HBK in the DX part or ECW in SCSA's part or even The Montreal Screwjob in Vince McMahon's part. Those are necessary mentions for the newcomers, IMO.
0 likesit's crazy nobody mentions mick coming back out for the main event after the hell in the cell, or that undertakers ankle was broken. Awesome video though dude, absolutely loved it!
0 likesThis is easily the best video on why attitude era wwf was a thing of utter beauty. I was lucky enough to hav been a prepubescent boy at this point in time n I thought it was the best thing id ever seen. I didnt want to be an astronaut or rock star. i wanted to be a mother fuckin wrestler for the wwf. The wrestlemania n smackdown video games wer a thing of glory too, christ i loved their design a wrestler/story modes.
0 likesYeah, glad for your explanation, you make good points, and glad you like the story telling...but it is hard for me to experience suspension of disbelief with Pro Wrestling. Real drama is much more compelling, and it is hard to get invested in something I know is pre-determined, when I could watch actual competition with unknown outcome in other sports...or movies/TV where there is a higher chance for me to experience suspension of disbelief.
0 likesthere's a reason wwe has entertainment in it's name
0 likes"WWE is currently the only major wrestling company in North America"
1 likeAEW: "watch this shit"
Great video. I knew all this stuff anyway, but that Stone Cold entrance should be in every youtube video IMO.
0 likesWwe wrestlers are like comic book superheros in so many ways. They have their gimmics, outfits, certain powers/moves, there is villains and heros, they fight like a mofos, and storylines are quite simple with tropes like people coming back from the dead, some people are siblings or discover that they are related and so many more similarities. It's draw in live form is just the crazy ass stunts.
1 likeThis is fantastic!
0 likesI shall now be binging Raw 98
The Mankind/Undertaker Hell in a Cell at King of the Ring was the first WWF pay per view event I ever watched, and I had only started watching Raw about 2 months earlier. Needless to say after that King of the Ring pay per view event I was hooked! The Hell in a Cell match wasn't even the main event. It was the match before the main event, which was a blood match between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Kane. Great time to be a middle schooler watching wrestling!
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Also should have mentioned that this was an excellent video. Really well put together too. It gave me chills a couple of times remembering the excitement of some of those matches. The WWF did a really good job of building up to exciting moments like that. Thanks for making this video
1 likeVince McMahon is the greatest heel of all time.
1 like1,000,000!!! Let's GO, EMP!
0 likesI know I'm late to the party, but how would you rank this moment (Mankind wins it), Daniel Bryan winning at Wrestlemania 30, and Eddie Guerrero beating Brock?
0 likesI think there will Never Ever be another show like 90's-00's Raw. Late 2010s Raw has been pretty bad all over tbh
0 likesthe Booker T flub will forever be hilarious lmao
0 likesRAW will never ever be so good as it was 20 Years ago
0 likesin order to be loved, leave your territory.
0 likesIn order to be hated, take other promotion's territories
In order to escape criticism, leave the NWA
"Drove a literal tank" thats a Jeep my dude.
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🤣🤣🤣
0 likesSuspension of disbelief 🙃
1 likeI remember watching the hell in a cell match when I was like 5 years old and omg was that the most epic thing over ever seen lol
0 likesThe DDT is still the best finisher in wrestling and you can't tell me otherwise.
0 likes"But even the most Jaded ones will get giddy when they hear the sound of his iconic DONG."
49 likesWouldn't that be "See the girth" instead of "Hear the sound"?
loved everything about this video, I'm adding spanish subs, everyone needs to watch this
9 likesAbsolutely loved this video.
0 likesThe Attitude Era of WWF wouldn’t exist without ECW. That’s what this video should be about.
0 likesThe moment they shifted the story from being good and then turned to just a almost naked girl nonstop on screen it was gone to crap honestly I loved it when stone cold was running around stunning everyone
1 likestone cold steve austin is and will always be the best wrestler in my opinion
0 likesCactus Jack is probably the best wrestler name ive ever heard.
0 likesWhen you forget that ECW existed as a threat to WWF and also forget that AEW existed in 2019 as a threat to WWE.
0 likesIf anyone was wondering about 19:49 the person who is speaking in job is eliphaz job's friend. He's speaking about the Fate a wicked person
2 likesJob 15:20-23
The wicked Writhe in pain throughout their lives years of trouble are stored up for the ruthless the sound of Terror rings in their ears and ever on good days they fear the attack of the Destroyer they dare not go out into the darkness for fear they will be murdered they wander around saying where can I find bread
Actually, Pro-Wrestling is REAL. It's just WWF/WWE is NOT Pro-Wrestling
0 likesMy favorite promos for stone cold was his ecw promo
0 likesMike Foley for Raw was what Roy Nelson was to UFC, right?
0 likesOnly EMP thinks about googling if Luke Skywalker is real for us dum-dums <3
0 likesThis is the best video about wrestling on this whole god forsaken website
0 likesWWE is the modern day Shakespeare
0 likesChange My Mind
The “in order to be loved” gimmick was a bit much. But everything else was a really fantastic review of the Monday Night Wars
1 likeThere will never be another show like Mondan Night Raw. And Monday Night Raw today is nothing like it.
0 likesThis video is a modern masterpiece.
0 likesI was sadder when i found out wrestling wasn't real than when i found out Santa wasn't
0 likesIts so weird to hear you refer to the attitude era as happening so long ago and as if most your audience doesn't know about it, am I that old? I was in high school during the attitude era.
0 likesMonday Night Raw will never be like Monday Night Raw again the way things are going...
0 likeswhy did I just now realize that "nitro" is equivalent "Night Raw"
0 likesImagine losing naming rights to panda lawyers lol
0 likesYou lost me at, "When I say names like Ric Flair, Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant; most of you can probably picture a vague figure in your heads, but you can't specifically tell who I'm talking about."
0 likesThere's nothing vague about it. I can tell EXACTLY who you're talking about.
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to a hardcore fan, sure, to a casual fan, no.
0 likes@KingMoe People who don't even watch wrestling at least knows some of them
0 likesBehind my eyes
0 likesArrogance and strength
I seek my courage
And try to maintain
Everything in the room
Is barking at me
Freedom in a cage
I want to break free
Too much dark
And not enough sky
Why am I the thorn in your eye
Too much dark
And not enough sky
I have lost again
But I gotta maintain
Too much dark
And not enough sky
Why am I the thorn in your eye
You just know the surface
You don't care whats inside
I show you my colors
You just see black and gray
You're making fun of me
As you walk by
I reach out my hand
You smile and watch me cry
Too much dark
And not enough sky
Why am I the thorn in your eye
Too much dark
And not enough sky
I have lost again
But I gotta maintain
Too much dark
And not enough sky
Why am I the thorn in your eye
It's my life in the box in front of me
Taking junk in my arms is the soul of me
You walk by, eyes can see me laying face down
Come on, free your mind, buy your alibi full time
I am walking on stones and glass
When I reach out my hand
I know you can't stand
Me for what I am
But once I had it all
All your holy things
Angels without wings
Too much dark
And not enough sky
Why am I the thorn in your eye
Too much dark
And not enough sky
I have lost again
But I gotta maintain
Too much dark
And not enough sky
Why am I the thorn in your eye
My ps4 YT app is on the fritz but after I watched this video and your spongebob video, I had to comment on my phone and tell you these vids are absolute gold. Keep it up.
0 likesIf professional wrestling is fake then why can I place bets on its outcome?
1 likeMonday Night Raw will Never EEEEEEEEEEVER Be The Same...... AGAIN!!!!!
0 likes26:47
3 likesi never hear a statement more true than this
LMAO
25:18 not a tank
0 likesthe military industrial complex does not approve of this misnomer
"an enclosed heavily armed and armored combat vehicle that moves on tracks"
im not even lying, when i finished the video i looked to my right, saw light coming through the window, looked at the clock and went "When the fuck did it turn 5am?"
0 likesITS STILL REAL TO ME DAMMIT
0 likesEh Idk the characters they have on WWE now are pretty lame.
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Wrestling will forever be shit. The bar was set too high in the 90’s.
3 likesExactly. Now you just have people running around, doing circus tricks, doing front flips, back flips and diving off the top rope every two seconds. And superkick and other moves being reduced to meaningless; not able to get the win for any wrestler much anymore. Why can't you make it exciting by having special occassions leading up to those exciting moves rather than having them every match?
12 likesVince McMahon kinda killed kayfabe and then the monday night wars did the rest of the job
0 likesmy man rly just used an assist to win a set
0 likesJust here to crap on WWE for taking down the original video. Screw them, and screw the 'straight outta "Office Space"' soulless corporate zombie that took down the video originally. Otherwise, another great video from the citron emperor.
0 likesYa, Vince def wasn't poor growing up
0 likesOk, this is a phenomenal video
0 likesgive me back ECW with sandman
0 likesNobody:
3 likesVince: Fine, I'll do it myself*
20:31 How is that belt floating in the air?
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Like how? there's nobody there
0 likesbruh fucking magic
0 likesthat guy with the mask covering his face painted to look like the mask destroyed me
0 likesThat was pretty good 😎
0 likesI hit 'like' because of the Donkey Kong Countey 3 music. I see you, Emp.
0 likesWhy did he put a floating belt in front of a blank wall at 20:32?
0 likesThis man really dissin theatre tho. Otherwise, top tier content.
0 likesBasically it was a Soap Opera on steroids.
0 likesBut now there is one again. Its called AEW Dynamite
0 likesVince McMahon is an American hero
0 likesAnd now with the decline of RAW, AEW slowly takes the spot it once filled.
0 likesIt's no coincidence that Jericho, Dean Ambrosse, Jake Hager, Luke Harper, Pac, Goldust, Cody, Matt Hardy, Billy Gunn, and The Young Bucks, all left and are now on AEW.
Even JR abandoned ship and now commentates on AEW (he needs to hang his hat up though).
As good as WWE is/was, AEW is taking its place and some of their fan favorite's/superstars.
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@FaZe MeMes You're mad cause I'm right
0 likes@jt reid Just you wait, it'll get there
0 likesMiss edgy 90s counter culture
0 likes2:28 when you tell someone their waifu isn't real
3 likesGreat video man .
0 likesProfessional wrestlers are like gladiators... but not...slaves?..um..
0 likes15:48 I thought Mick lost his ear to Vader in their match? Did he lost both his ears? Lol hes a legend
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@Juan Sanchez but how did he lose his ear twice?
0 likesWWF TO WWE? Seems like a small step backwards
0 likesPretty sure in the UK they were shown at 8pm WWF
0 likes9pm wcw
But on different channels. Think wcw was on a shit channel with bad reception.
aw man i wanted to see the music during the corporate america part and there is no timestamps in the pastebin
0 likes2:37
3 likesRob: Am I a joke to you?
16:04 looks like Eddie Guerrero 🤯
0 likesI have one question who was the person holding mankind at the end of the video when he won the championship because he looks a lot like John Cena
0 likesWrestling is great
0 likeslove the mumkey jones meme
0 likeswhat about TNA Impact, WCW Nitro, WCW Thunder, AEW Dynamite, even in their own company, Smackdown and NXT. and probably some other ones that are like Raw but with their own twist
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None even come close
0 likes@ThatOneGuyMatt Naw I would kinda say WCW and Smackdown, but it was only a short period of time and was ruined by Vince himself.
1 like@laila I was never a big fan of what WCW had to give, maybe it's because I didn't experience when it happened; and Smackdown was great, but the highs of RAW is WAR can't be matched.
0 likesRandom, love this Slick Rick lyrics reference 🙌🏾
0 likesI stopped watching when he said u cant get a clear picture of hulk Hogan when u say his name maybe he was going to explain this latr but I didn't feel like watching the rest
1 likewhy does ted turner look literally exactly like what a ted turner should look like
0 likeswrestling fans love the word visceral haha.
0 likesUndertaker’s Iconic...Dong
0 likesShould watch the wrestler. Great movie.
0 likesUndertakers iconic dong. 😆
0 likesThe America all of our parents grew up in ended on 9/11. Culturally and in someways, emotionally.
0 likesGreat Video Man
0 likesThe Virgin WWE Monday Night Raw vs. THE CHAD WWF MONDAY NIGHT RAW
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ECW was clearly the chad
6 likesAhem early 2000s smackdown was the chad I mean imagine going "One on One wit da undatayka"
2 likesWhut Lol I loved 2000s era Smackdown as well.
4 likesThe CHAD 1970s World Wide Wrestling Federation
2 likesHey man Ruthless Agression MNR was pretty CHAD
2 likesECW is chad, that's where real men had hardcore fights
1 likeDamn
0 likesStraight up.fuckinv facts
Daniel Bryan is like Foley's Spiritual Sucecessor.
4 likes9:27 That song will always take me back to Gran Turismo 4 on the PS2. Good job Emp
7 likes10:40
1 likeThat didn’t age well. 😏🐆😏
and then AEW happened
0 likesMan, now I kinda feel bad for WWE (or WWF) fans. I’m in the same boat. At 6:31 under the best ratings is nascar, the sport that I watch today. NASCAR is declining, kinda like WWE, just a little bit later. I doubt WWE will be popular again, but who knows maybe I’ll be wrong in a few years. The same thing could happen to nascar and is happening right now. It is becoming less and less popular as the time goes on. NASCAR teams are having sponsorship issues all the time. Just recently, a driver in the Xfinity series (AKA the level below the main one), had one of the best up in comers. His name is Ross Chastain. He was going to run a full season next season, but the company that was sponsoring them got raided by the FBI. Also just 2 years ago, Furniture Row Racing won the championship in the cup series (the main one). Now they aren’t racing this year after finishing runner up in 2018. The reason? One sponsor dropped out, leaving them bankrupt. So yea nascar is declining rapidly like WWE, but could be saved, so I want everyone who reads this to support nascar so that they can survive. But as they always say, you don’t have to if you don’t want to.
3 likesThe second stone cold whipped out that glock and said the exact caliber was the second I knew he was a true American
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Ah yes, quite incredible that Steve Austin got his hair back.
0 likes26:55 "When a man lose his hair, he has nothing else to lose."
21 likesB O L D
10:40
0 likesWell...
This video didn't age very well did it...
#AEW
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Wwe is still the biggest wrestling promotion
0 likesWWE is still big tho
0 likesI remember this video as if it were yesterday.
4 likesLater it was revealed that Vince screwed over The Rock and sided with Steve Austin. The Rock even said that the reason he lost at Wrestlemania 15 was because the Corporation was involved. The one Wrestlemania where Vince Mcmahon didn't interfere, Wrestlemania 19, The Rock defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin.
24 likesIF YOU SMELLALALALALOW!!! WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKIN'...
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The Rock vs SCSA feud deserve a video on its own
5 likesI blame CinemaSins for ruining my suspension of disbelief
0 likesThere will never ever be another game like TF2
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Just play Overwatch, it’s like TF2, but better
10 likes@Indigo ive played both (though ive played TF2 for more than 1000 hours, and OW at best maybe 30 hours so im biased and havent 'truly experienced' OW) and honestly OW is nothing like TF2 other than shared game modes which hundreds of games share (again from my own experience). TF2 offers more customizability with various loadouts for , granted only 9 characters, but the different combinations of loadouts, while also being able to switch between up to 4 different loadouts during the game (in the respawn room) for all 9 characters, making it more like 36 similar characters. Changing a loadout changes gameplay and can also throw a wrench in players plans. Ex. An engie nest is set up with a pyro and medic guarding everything, what do? Spy with ambassador can headshot pyro and a single body shot to kill, disguise, sap, backstab, and boom engie nest gone. How to counter, at least one engie have the wrangler and rescue ranger to manually target the spy with the sentry. How to counter, spy uses cloaking to get behind them and have team cause a distraction telling them to target primarily the pyro allowing you to disguise and sap the sentries before your team is completely dead. Etc etc OW only way to counter is to change to a new hero with a completely different way of doing things. Also in TF2 you can change the loadout setup in game making it have even more variations of primary, secondary, and tertiary slot combinations for each character.
104 likesTl;dr i think TF2 is better than OW and that OW is nothing like TF2 save some gamemodes and being a team based fps.
kage3587 I new someone would bite...
19 likes@Indigo 😉
6 likes@Indigo Obv bait but TF2 is better lol
52 likeseverybody knows mafia city is the superior title
47 likes@Literaturenjoyerman4229 honestly, beyond the salt, this comment speaks to my soul on so many levels
25 likes@Literaturenjoyerman4229 This comment speaks to me deeply
3 likes@Literaturenjoyerman4229 or the irritation of having a whole team of snipers on 2fort. Or the joy of being a spy seeing the entire enemy team are snipers on 2fort.
7 likesWhat about minecraft?
0 likesIndigo RRRRRRRRRREEEEEEE GET OUT NORMIE!!!!!!!!!1!1!1!!1!
0 likes@Indigo As someone who has sank 2500 hours into TF2 and like, a good 500 into OW... yeah no I had more fun with TF2.
4 likesdat Jake No
4 likesahem Overwatch
0 likesMason Climax ahem no
6 likesIn TF2, you beat guys. Beating guys is gay. But in Overwatch, you can also beat girls. Beating girls is fucking epic, it's punk rock. Rock N Roll McDonalds!
7 likes@Indigo i wouldn't say being less funny and less fun to play
0 likesYour comment brought me immense sadness, because i know it's true.
0 likes@Indigo It's honestly not as fun
0 likesWeinerGlory other way around
2 likesBoring ass FPS.
1 like@Indigo saying this in 2018...
0 likesMy how some things never change
o b er watch
0 likesOverwatch
0 likesThat would make an interesting video, I've always wondered what emps take on games are.
0 likesIndigo s
0 likessad reacts only
0 likes@Indigo Overwatch is nothing like TF2. You're obviously uneducated on what exactly TF2 and Overwatch are. The only similarities I can think of is the fact that they're both team based shooters, everything else is a far cry from similar.
0 likes@Indigo No thanks, OW is Just LoL with a FPS skin, TF2 is just fun.
0 likes@Indigo tf2 is better tf2 has hot waifus like the medic but ow got nothing
0 likes@Indigo play overwatch its like tf2 but costs more money and is dumbed down for noobies
0 likes@The Dudemeister im a lvl 84 boss so you might be right
0 likes@Indigo "It's Better" -Brok, God of War
0 likes@No Lümpen i bet you just googled it and watched two videos of generic youtubers and decided it was bad just because you dont like fps games. either that or you played it for around 1 hour on training mode
0 likesAlex LazyPurple has kinda done this
0 likesI know a lot of people are saying Overwatch but there's tons of subtle mechanical and community differences that make TF2 a much better game.
0 likesFor contrast compare Mercy and The Medic. Both have the same role but one is loved while the other hated.
There's tons of stuff like mechanics harmful to teamwork and blizzard trying to stomp out skill based mechanics but I think a full video is clearly needed.
@No Lümpen then you experienced inferior TF2, with no comp, no MVM, and a lot less community modes/maps with a smaller weapon pool
1 like@Indigo in my own opinion, TF2 just's has a lot more meme and YTP Substance than OW can honestly ever hope to obtain, thare are thousands of gmod and FSM videos of TF2 . TF2 came out in 2007, 11 years ago and only in the last year and a half are people calling it dead/dying, OW been aroud like only 2 years and you have people saying its dying. Also i can say with confidence that at least 2 - 3 of the songs in this vary video are from TF2.
0 likes@Indigo OW needs teamwork
0 likesTF2 can be solo
wcw was always better
0 likesUltra Necrozma's theme starts playing
4 likesHeart: Hey, I'm gonna give you a heart attack.
i love you emp and I love stone cold Steve Austin
17 likesThank God, i was wanting to watch this but I couldn't since they copyrighted. But, this was probably scripted like WWE. (Dont hate me, I'm a fan)
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KtaLegend they’re gonna drop the storyline, just you watch
0 likesI lost it when sting took of his mask to reveal another mask
4 likesLove the donkey kong country music lol.
0 likesThe way the Jojo's "to be continued" theme is changed in EmpL's videos makes me feel uncomfortable yet it makes me laugh 😂
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Just so you know it wasn’t created by Jojo it was a meme before that and a song called roundabout before that
2 likesTheir is so much you get wrong here it’s unreal
0 likes26:48 Amen brother.😠
0 likesImagine thinking Donald Trump gained his wealth due to his business acumen lmfao Vince is the realest of the deals and Self-made. Donald Trump was born wealthy, not rich, but with already established WEALTH.
0 likesthis is what i need when to show my friends when they ask why I enjoy this stuff cause it's "just faaaaaake"
3 likes"The Undertaker's Iconic DONG"
24 likesDONG
lmao
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ENTIRE CHANNEL GETS DEMONETIZED
1 likeGood vid man.
0 likes"the undertakers Iconic dong" 16
2 likes:35
17:51 for a fuller explication of the epicness of the undertaker, i recommend the video by "super eyepatch wolf"
4 likes20:24 "winningest"
0 likesWean you talk about the Monday night wars between wcw and Monday night raw that is happening now with the Wednesday night wars between wwe new/notnew show called nxt and a new/notnew show called Aew
1 likeNice musical cameo from donkey king country 3!
0 likesso friday night smackdown is...
0 likes........Goku is not real? Yeah right Bro next your going to be telling me the Easter bunny is Fake
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Yeah and SpongeBob doesn't exist what about Santa huh
6 likesJerry Bourque GOKU IS REAL!
2 likesGoku is real, I mean have you not seen the cinematic masterpiece that is Dragon Ball Evolution?
2 likesthe Easter bunny is Fake
1 like@BlayKay - 47 r/wooosh
0 likes@Po The Black Black Market Leader wooosh is old please stop
1 like@Consultative Mind I wonder who?
0 likes@FH4Player6397 How old?
0 likes@Po The Black Black Market Leader r/woooshes
2 likesYou missed the easter egg.
@BlayKay - 47 this comment section became a warzone from the last time i checked
0 likes@Consultative Mind Rawzone is Warzone
0 likes@Po The Black Black Market Leader That's not how you use that...
0 likes2:36 I mean, what about R.O.B?
0 likespeople need to understand the difference between fake and scripted
0 likes"But this video by Max Landis..."
56 likesOH GOD THAT HAS NO AGED WELL.
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Whoa, it seems I've been living under a Dwayne Johnson. What happened with Max?
31 likesReally seems like a lot of well-known Youtubers turn out to be total scumbags and/or lolcows. What's with the entertainment industry attracting the worst of the worst?
9 likes@AtrocityEquine
1 likeThanks for letting me know.
@Zorro9129
13 likesMoney, vanity and fame almost always does that to people.
He's back!
0 likes@JayInDS3NT
0 likesHow so?
@Solomona Leiato he's been missing from social media for a while
2 likeshe still made a good video
0 likes**looks at smackdown**
0 likesActually ROB is real from Smash Bros.
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true dat
0 likesDoesn't shoot lasers though.
1 like@Acoolrocket uh yes he does... play smash
0 likesRyan Levin swing and a miss
1 likeRob's still fiction tho he's a toy lol
0 likes@Hunter Everett Hes not a toy, he was a video game function DESGUISED as a toy so stores like Target can put it on shelves
0 likesThere will Never Ever be another wildlife communicator like Steve Irwin.
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As an Aussie, people say "crikey" and everyone immediately knows who they're talking about
1 likeno mention of the steiner brothers??
0 likes5:05 Slick Rick - Children's story
0 likes"THE UNDERTAKER'S ICONIC DONG"
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I laughed
0 likesDonkey Kong Country win!!
1 likein order to be loved,
0 likeshave a gay in order to be loved transition every 3 minutes
Thanks you for this, fr
0 likesNO WONDER SO MANY OF MY THEATER MAJOR FRIENDS WATCH WWE!!!!
3 likesRecently John Oliver came out with a WWE video. It would be interesting from EmpLemon to do something on it.
3 likesPut the 'F' back in
0 likesThis is a great video but if you ever question Mick Foley talent again, oh man, that would be bad.
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Youre confusing talent with pain tolarence
2 likesmankind isn't talented enough? oof
0 likesWill cm punk ever come back to wwe find out on the next episode of dragon ball wwe
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WWZ
0 likesRandom Jay accurate
0 likesFINE YOUTUBE ILL WATCH IT
0 likesI actually live near the WWE headquarters which is nice.
0 likesthis video needs an update ... because AEW !
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when they do something substantial then the video will come
0 likes0:53
8 likesgachiBASS
7:45
Andre doesn't look that big.
*remembers Vince is 6'1" and built like a brick shithouse
Oh, nevermind.
Yee C W Thanks you for your patronage
0 likes14:13
4 likesThis is the moment I decided to subscribe.
Thanks For Being A Good Influence on my YTP's
4 likesYou talk about the undertaker's "DONG" , then you IMMEDIATELY introduce a guy with the last name "WANG"...............................................................................::::::::::::::::::::CRICKETS::::::::::::::::::::.............................
0 likesMISSED OPPORTUNITY!!! Lol. Great video wrestling will back into its former glory and new golden age at the flip of a proverbial "squared Circle" CoiN.............or as some say......soon!!!
You know shit's gonna go down when the Dirty Harry soundtrack starts up...… 7:20
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Dirty Harry soundtrack goes so well with Vince McMahon and his empire
0 likesAtomic Dong! Lol
0 likes27:35 I wish Vince cares about his product right now.
3 likesBut neither Star Wars, The Avengers, Goku, or the Simpsons PORTRAY themselves as real. That's the difference, no?
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what the fuck are you saying all the wrestling characters are portrayed as fiction cant you understand the word sport entertainment its literary in every pro wrestling show i do not remember the WWF/WWE saying that
4 likesmark calaway is a resurrected deadman that have magical powers they say that about the undertaker the fictional character that mark calaway is portraying
Dynamite enters the chat
0 likesMy favorite Wrestling moment ever was when Donald Trump clotheslined CNN.
2 likes19:50 ultra nacrozma theam ultra sun and moon no dout
0 likesThere will never be a man like my Jonny, the one they called Jonny Guitar.
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Play it again....
0 likesTHANK YOU for the DK country 1 music
0 likes"trump made his money through ruthless business"
1 liketrump slowly shuffles away with daddys money
Sir that is a Jeep not a tank
1 likearena of adults... oof that's a stretch
1 like19:59 to is that the Necrosma theme from ultra sun/ moon
0 likesMissed the entire episode. Pro wrestling seemed to me to be some sort of porn.
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it was. no misconceptions.
1 likeWHERES THE SHOCK MASTER?!?!? HE REIGNS SUPREME AND WILL RETURN WITH A BANG!!
6 likesI'm down the Street from where that manatee died
0 likesAt the start, u say it say the name Hulk Hogan most people have a vague picture in their head, whatever about the other 3 u named, everybody and their dog knows who Hulk Hogan,and have done since the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and even now the 20s. Anyone disagree? But still enjoyed your segment and the time you put into it 👍👍👍 but Hulk Hogan, cmon now !!!! . .. ... .... .....
0 likesWhy is he using the los Guerrero’s sketch music lol
0 likesULTRA NECROZMA'S THEME LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
0 likesWow this channel is awesome
6 likes23:21 Chillin diss track beat lol
0 likesNever ever again
0 likesAlso, I didn't know you watched DBZ? Uh, is it good? Will I turn into a weeb if I watch it?
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Dragon Ball Z is literally the most basic bitch anime of all time. You'll be fine.
1 like@Skoop Ok, I'll pass then
0 likes@incinium z I mean if your goal is to get into anime I'd recommend Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
1 likeRob from smash is real
0 likesRaw is war
0 likes24:29 💀💀💀💀😭😩
0 likesThe style and tact you go about using to explain a single moment is so, perfectly satisfying. Your word usage, flow, and sourcing is just... incredible.
0 likesYou should really consider doing that for a series, be it “Epic Moment in History” or “Epic Moment on the Internet.
Stuff like Mundane Matt‘a Boulder stream and all that lead to it, or the morning of 9/11 or even D-Day
Or stuff like the Boston Tea Party or the death of Joan of Arc. All sorts of potential
I like this video, it made me appreciate wwe a little more but, however, this is not the only show who has been able to do something like this, American wrestling is not the only one in the world, and there are other nations with their own circuits, not only that, but with their own tradition and culture surrounding wrestling, in this case, I'm referring to Mexico. A place where wrestlers are not only celebrities, but even considered superheroes and villains of real life, where having a character means way more than what it could ever mean in the American circuit, where the wrestling can really, feel real. I respect wwe now, but right now, I think there is another wrestling event, another TV show, who can outmatch anything raw has achieved, I would like to do a video about it.
0 likesThat Booker t promo is the epitome of someone who is absolutely and truly the character he is and should be cherished.
1 likeI've watched this multiple times and I have a new found appreciation for professional wrestling
0 likesNot only is this an insight to WWE, it also is a view into 90s America, and it's also just fuckin' crazy. Nice work.
1 likeThis was a great time in wrestling. I stopped watching not too many years after that and have tried to tune in over the years but it is not the same.
0 likesThis is one the best damn videos on YouTube. I sincerely mean that. I've never seen your channel before and just happened on this one but omg you are talented af. Guess that's why you have over half a million subscribers because you work hard one these videos and it shows. Thank you for making this. You"ve absolutely done wrestling a solid here.
0 likesEmpLemon 3:16 says: I just Kicked YouTube's ass!
Wrestling is predetermined. These are still athletes with amazing stamina and taking real bumps.
0 likesGood job on the presentation, I haven't been able to watch even my favorite uploaders for 3 weeks, but this video encapsulated me in curiosity and entertainment.
0 likes15:45 The ropes were not drawn extra taut. What happened was that that wrestling promotion didn't use actual ropes, they used cables that were covered in rubber or something.
0 likesAlso, the difference in the ring has definitely affected the drop in the ratings.
Man i really love your videos
0 likesYou're one of my favorite youtube content creators
Salute my dude keep up your work ♥️
binge watching wrestling history videos from all over yt currently. this is a really good one
1 likeI mean if you want more truly awesome pro wrestling that really hits to the heart of the genre as a whole, go watch Lucha Underground. It's WWE meets Mortal Kombat. And it's the best shit ever if you just want to hang with a few friends and watch the actual best high-flying choreography on television.
0 likesMy older brother had been trying to get me to watch wrestling for years, but I was never interested. I still remember him losing his shit when the Montreal Screwjob happened and he insisted I start watching it with him. 'The Pillman's got a gun' thing was one of the first things I ever saw in wrestling though that was more just catching it in the background while playing with legos. XD
1 likeSo I finally started watching WWF, I could never get into WCW though. I knew of Hogan, Flair, ect. in the sense of them being in the cultural zeitgeist, but I had no attachment to them. WWF were pushing new people, creating new stars, WCW was banking off of the legacy of their stars. A legacy that didn't really mean anything to me.
Anyway... now I just watch NJPW since modern WWE is atrocious. >__>
1:07 Fosters emotional storytelling
0 likes9:12 January 11th, 1993
12:47 Sanitized Mask —> Attitude Era
15:33 Mick Foley, 1 man, 3 personalities
16:20 The Undertaker
17:59 Off The Cell
18:40 “Are you kiddin me? He wants to go back up!”
19:21 Undertaker won the match. Mick Foley won the fans admiration
20:41 Fighting for a Championship
21:20 January 4th, 1999
21:41 The Rock
+ Rocky Maivia got booed
- Turned heel
23:19 Rocky —> The Rock
23:50 Triple H
24:50 Degeneration-X
26:00 Stone Cold Steve Austin
27:28 The Rock & McMahon?
The Corporation
28:24 Vince McMahon, Corporate USA
30:00 Austin vs McMahon
30:40 GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT
31:48 Changed the channel
WCW OUT OF BUSINESS
33:10 Monday Night Raw in the late 90’s was something epic, Raw emotion
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Epic timestamps
0 likesSadly, the good wrestling died after around 2016. I used to love watching it every Monday and Friday. I still remember as a 8 year old, when I watched Edge in his prime.
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I’d argue and say 2013. WWE really went downhill after 2008 but it was still enjoyable for a few more years, and then in 2013 is when the authority and all that crap blew up and it went way downhill
0 likesI love this series of "Never Ever" videos
1 likeOverall a good watch but this episode of the never ever season was kind of all over the place. Like it was cool to hear the company feuds and learn about the wrestlers's stories, but the second half of the episode lacked direction, or at the very least I couldn't follow the direction as someone who never watched WWE
0 likesStone Cold Steve Austin or Mankind. Honestly still can't decide who was my favorite to this day. When they were tag team partners is a moment I'll always remember.
0 likesKind of sad how WWE has been failing these last couple of years...
0 likesI'm so happy I found your channel. I effing love this. Dale Earnhardt was amazing too. I'd really like to see an in depth on the undertaker. You'd be amazed how well his story tells.
0 likesMick Foley is by all accounts a GOOD wrestler for the record. His IN YOUR HOUSE Match with Michaels proves that! He got over because of his incredible promo work in addition to his rough and tumble style. In ECW he was able to get MASSIVE heel heat with just promos and headlocks. 10/10 video though, just wanted to clear the air about Mick. He's on my wrestling Rushmore
0 likesexcellent video. i do believe however the one underlying thing that all of the wrestlers share is: To be loved... you must love.
0 likesThe "we'll be right back" after Booker T had me dying.
2 likesfun fact: mick foley and kevin james aka paul blart were on the same high school wrestling team
0 likeskevin was the star of the team while mick was the second in command.
one day, kevin got sick and let mick go first, and a legend was born.
Stumbled across this video, I'm a lapsed WWE fan. I stopped watching After the WCW takeover when I was 16, (35 now), but the emotion of those days and the feeling that I was witnessing a golden era, coupled with the rise of the internet and social media, ensures that I kept up with the men and women of those days. The video ends with the immoral words... "here is your winner......AND NEWWWWWWWWW WWF champion...." R.I.P. Howard Finkel. Thanks for the video :)
0 likesThis was legit a walkthrough my childhood ..
1 likeThis video feels endless, and I love it.
1 likeThe fact that I've never been a wrestling fan, as a kid ridiculed it and that I'm watching this again a year later.... CoronaTime
0 likesThe 90's was the last great decade we had I'm 36 and I'm so happy to have been able to experience some of the 80's and all of the 90's
1 likeI came back a day later after I watched the video to comment, great video I subbed after, the way you related it to Shakespeare was very insightful tbh and it expanded my mind and made me see the business side of wrestling definitely had to leave a comment and sub.
0 likes😍 very well done!!
0 likeslove videos like this
There will never ever be a greater wrestling meme source than Scott Steiner
0 likescriminally underrated series
0 likesThere will never be another Attitude era. God bless the good old days
1 likeIt's worth mentioning Mankinds bump through the cell was unplanned and he was legitimately knocked out.
0 likesAh yes, another channel for which to watch every single video in a week and wait for more
0 likesWho told you Mick Foley didn't have the TALENT to achieve anything in wrestling without taking his crazy bumps? For a long time he was the absolute best promo in the business, and he's always had incredible psychology. Also, Steve Austin was not "forgettable" in WCW. He won the TV title in his first match in the company, then quickly joined the Dangerous Alliance which was the hottest angle they'd done in years at that point. He lost a bit of steam when Hogan arrived, but literally everyone in the business knew he was a potential superstar. He'd been called "the next Ric Flair" since 1991. They were right in that he became the best in the business. They just didn't realise quite HOW big he would get, nor that he would eventually be bigger than Hogan too.
0 likesThis really got me back into wwe lmao
0 likesMy dad is a big fan of pro wrestling, when me and my family were in Florida. My mom went to a movie theater and met Hulk himself. My dad was pissed
0 likesGod damn The Rock's entrance music still slaps.
0 likesI mean, look at it like this.. sure it’s scripted, these people are still going out there 2-3 times a week, (over 200 days a year) these guys are in good shape, and destroy their body’s, do things other athletes can’t, nothing but respect!
0 likesYou have such a gift for storytelling dang
0 likesGood video but you should've added stuff about ECW, because they are the reason why everyone realised that wrestling can be edgy.
0 likesFinally watching this video now, should’ve watched it a long time ago! Not sure if you can see this but I have a question. What do you think about AEW?
0 likesMoral of the story, you gotta do a shit ton of stuff in order to be loved
0 likesyou should do one with the rivalry with the rock and stone cold. idk, personally one of the greatest rivalries.
0 likesGive ECW credit for the Austin character. He went there before he went to the WWE.
0 likesman you did a great job on this video
0 likes25:15 I enjoyed Waluigi getting a mention, the crotch chop in Mario Strikers may have been the turning point in the character going from mostly hated to mostly loved.
1 likeThis guy doesn't do a lot of research, Rocky wasn't always hated before he became the Rock. He got over with the crowd several times. Dwayne even has a good story about one of his friends helping him get over at that time.
0 likesEmpLemon only proved that Luke Skywalker wasn’t real. The only logical conclusion is that lightsabers are real. Where are you hiding them Emp?
1 likei remember my dad watching this a few years ago when i was 5 year old
0 likesNo one gonna talk about how smooth that mask pull was at 14:37
0 likesThis is actually one of the best videos on youtube I’ve ever seen
0 likes‘Only the winningest wrestlers get to be champion’
0 likesLaughs in Jinder Mahal
23:27 so badass. what the hell.
2 likesI started watching WWE because of this
0 likesPro Wrestling on TV is how i first got introduced to america, now that i have gotten older, it seems it was pritty close.
0 likes33:25 luckly, The comeback of edge on Royal Rumble proved otherwise :)
0 likesHoly shit Steve actually had long beautiful hair. Wow ! 😂
0 likesThe best hell in a cell match, also took place on the shittiest hell in a cell ever constructed.
0 likesIm doing a research paper for English and my topic is Holden Caulfield from Catcher In the Rye does not fit in with society because he is instead apart of 90's counterculture (culturally ahead of society) and this video gave me so many ideas but I wish I knew your 90's statistics sources. Either way I still love this video.
0 likes30:05 I have so much more respect for this guy now. LMAO. this is pure are and culture xD
1 likePlease have a There will never ever be another Undertaker
1 likeI’m not even a fan of pro wrestling but that song gave the shivers
0 likes21:06 that's the universal championship and when you showed all the title belts you only put the inter, United states, and raw tag team belts
0 likesYou are missing the universal championship and the smackdown tag championships
Shout out to squidbillies, its what he showed when he said south when referring to the WCW. Love your attention to detail citrus royalty, its only rivaled never surpassed.
0 likeshow did you know you could get me to play this video by playing dkc music in it to start????....and then keep me watching more by making good use to dkc'3 soundtrack.....
0 likesit's like im literally watching starfox tv show
This was brilliant
0 likesAncient greek theater is one of the most elite and complicated forms of theater existed it started at 600 bc and by the time it was in epidaurus it included teams of dancers, singers and actors , there used make up ,masks and costumes and machines creating illusions and even make some actors appear like flying . Of course all the main genres of theatre were invented there and then including comedy and drama. If you study about it you will see like in most things from ancient greece till now that there is sadly almost zero progress in the next 2500 years in addition to how you made it look like. Dont pass on the misinformation you should do your homework first instead.
0 likesIMO there will never be another wrestler like the undertaker
0 likesFor the longest time i wondered why Diesel looked like Nash.
0 likesVince McMahon: 'Noticed you had "Monday Night RAW" in the title of your video...
3 likesSure would be a shame if an evil corporate overlord were to copyright claim it
Loving the Donkey Kong Country theme at the start
0 likesAfter foley won the belt WCW never surpassed WWF in ratings for the rest of their existence
0 likesApparently Mick wasn't supposed to have a second fall, they were supposed to swing down from the top of the cage, but they built it out of shitty materials and he ended up falling through by accident. You can actually kind of see an "oh fuck" face on Taker when it happens.
0 likesBecause WWE/WCW/ECW more or less killed pro-wrestling. They did not take care of the business. It had a solid 10 year blow-out (roughly 1997-2007), and by then only WWE remained at any significant level, and it buried all credibility and agonizingly ran the business into the ground. Writers took over, bookers went out, talent washed up, actors were hired instead of workers, a focus on media instead of matches, etc. etc. Corporations basically killed pro-wrestling.
0 likesThis is such an underrated video
0 likeswait you are gonna make a Video about Monday Night raw without mentioning Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara that were writing the shows between 97-99 and during the most important years of WCW/WWF war.
0 likestotally erasing the actual writers of the show from the history-
When TNT announces another wrestling promotion
0 likesyou're so wrong about mickey foley not having kill, he could technical wrestle with the best, he sacrificed his body fro push the limits and move the sport into new ground. he and sabu are always given the title as bad wrestlers who make up for it with crazy shit. its false
0 likesThey really where the modern day gladiators.
0 likes29:31 ok EmpLemon I see you sneaking Insuricare from the Incredibles in there lol
6 likesLoved the bojack reference
0 likesI appreciate the Cornaria remix during the Rock part
0 likesThis fucking rules and also really reminds me of Jon Bois and Felix Biderman's MMA youtube doc Fighting in the Age of Loneliness. Curious if you've seen it?
0 likesHE TALKED ABOUT THE 1992 CAGE MATCH WHERE THE UNDERTAKER THREW MANKIND INTO THE SPANISH ANNOUNCERS TABLE.
1 likedid you hear Kane is running for mayor of Knox county?
scripted fights are fun, i guess we all love jackie chan too
0 likesCrazy how Tony Shiavone is your nice again working for WWE’s rival, this time being AEW
0 likesvery interesting, Good work! Thank u!
0 likesYou're my boi but why you gotta throw shots at my favorite animal the manatee? They just be chillin🤣🤣🤣
0 likesI don't know how many times I lost the red line...
0 likesAmazing Video!!! Subbed :]
0 likesMaybe if Russo writes raw again
0 likesAs soon as he described mick foley i turned off. He didnt get why people liked and like mick and didnt get its the same reason why people didnt want to see him hurt.
0 likesIn order to be loved, you must be hated
1 likeHate to be that guy but.... “there will never be another show like Monday night raw” it’s called smackdown
0 likesThat's not a tank at all, that's a fucking jeep with a recoilless rifle on top... And you have the gall to say "they drove a literal tank".
0 likesThe thing didn't even have tracks or armor, thing doesn't even have a canon
It's always funny hearing people suggest a son or daughter of a millionaire/billionaires started out with "nothing".
0 likes12:14 Glen Jacobs ( Kane ) imposter Diesel 😂
2 likes"or ANY character in Super Smash Bros."
0 likesR.O.B.:...
Iambic pentameter... Seriously? I'm watching a you tube video about Monday Night Raw, and I have to stop and look up Iambic pentameter? Brilliant. Excellent work. Thank you. Do more. Please.
0 likesAt 10:00 you hit me with the most nostalgic sound ever with the gran Turismo menu music. I love you
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2 likes@egg welcome home
1 likeAnyone remember the rock and sock connection
1 likeWe found comedy in it too. His name is Orange Cassidy.
1 likeI bet mick is secretly a masochist and this is his dream come true
0 likesIs it just me or does his voice remind anyone else of Funke?
0 likes16:12 mmm thats wrong right there... mr.socko didnt debut til october 1998, before that mankind will use a 2 finger leather glove.
0 likesRob in smash is real
1 likeYou mentioned smash bros. In this Video once more - worlds collided.
0 likesam i the only person to notice him use the same beat from chillin's "respect your elders?"
0 likesWWE is shit now. Even thought the times have changed, that's not the main reason why people don't watch it, it's because WWE hasn't changed with the times, they want to try and live off their former glory, instead of adapting......Poor booking is rampant in WWE.
0 likesAEW: "am i a joke to you?"
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@Wacky Name the only one i can think of lately is having jericho going on commentary. but WWE has been doing nothing but making their babyfaces into clowns (including ric flair) and firing off the actual good talent. so wwe is nothing BUT a joke
0 likes@Wacky Name at least AEW cares about actually performing. i rather watch a comedy show with talented performers than a soap opera with overselling, botches, gimmick stealing, and champions who rarely defend their belts.
0 likesEmplemon: there will never be another show like Monday night Raw
2 likesMe:
Smackdown
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Smackdown>Raw
0 likesOnly an American will call William Shakespeare; Bill Shakespeare
0 likes30:40 that was a brilliant piece of editing to cut back like that!
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A great edit, 30:57 especially was just so satisfying
0 likesDamn it I'm officially too old for Youtube.... I had one of those Motorola pagers @6:15
0 likesso what you're saying is... Vince2024?!
0 likesControvesial Opinion:
1 likeProfesional-Wrestling is more real than Martial Arts.
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Honestly
1 likeI agree
Rob in smash is real
0 likesBAH GAWD ALMIGHTY HES BROKEN IN HALF
0 likestexas man literally too angry to lose
0 likesThe WWF was as the best time for wrestling, modern wrestling is garbage.
0 likesThe battles of millionaires
0 likesdo Americans call William Shakespeare "Bill"? oh no
0 likesNah Trump's dad was a gigantic name in NY and had a shit ton of money. Donald was just lucky as well as Vince whos dad just gave him the company and the opportunity. They really didnt work harder than any normal working person, they just got lucky.
0 likes10:00 that gran turismo 4 music
0 likes“so let’s talk about mick foley”
0 likesme (a huge foley fan): :)
when I realized this was ultra necrozma theme is in this
0 likesEveryone thinks wrestling was the best, or at least better when they were kids. The kids watching this crao now will say the same. I stopped watching around 5th grade before it went to wwe. I think the attitude era was the best, naturally
0 likes4:01
3 likesAhh! Thanks for the key! I see that - means women, whereas - means man.
Thank you.
There will NEVER EVER be a wrestling icon like the Underaker.
5 likesBOOM! Next episode. Make it. Great vid dude.
Dang that gran turismo song is hitting hard
0 likesGod damn just gonna roast kevin owens like that
10 likesIn order to be loved,
0 likesMake a great video.
Pro wrestling was cool.... Up until they move away from the attitude era to the corny shit it is now.
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Announcer Line: AHAH! HES IS HAVING FUN MAGGLE!
0 likesFace Line: Im am happy to be here & im athlete
Heel Line: Im am here to bring about chaaaange
Your video has been targeted by THE UNDERTAKER!
26 likes14:06 one to 1000 real quick
0 likesif cm punk returned tho...that'll be a loud crowd pop
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He got his ass massively kicked twice by a nobody and a half something, so, he can stay retired
1 likeI C O N I C D O N G
0 likesThat's not a tank at all that's a jeep with a recoilless rifle you goof
0 likesMy Déjà Vu tingles badly
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same. Not just with this... Also with dreams and other shits like this
0 likesSmackdown: Crys In The Corner
0 likesOh, "respect your elders"?, lol
3 likesDo one for melee!
Who else pictured exactly those wrestlerz???? Wtf
0 likesIn my opinion like 1998-2009 is when wrestling was the best now it’s literal garbage
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Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 2015 Raw and smackdown isn’t even close to the attitude era with all the younger wrestlers like king Corbin and Roman reigns.
0 likes3:17 Man is so weird watching my real name in a video 0_o
0 likesWW(F/E) ain't no sport, but a spectacle.
4 likesAlso what's with RAW's side version SMACKDOWN? Any fans?
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A lot of the time the difference between Smackdown and RAW was that Smackdown was a little less drama, a little more action.
0 likesRock and Undertaker were both primarily on smackdown when they made the show
You forgot about the NWA.
0 likes"there will Never Ever be another show like Monday Night Raw". Except Monday Nitro. . . which was "another show" that the WWF copied in almost every important way.
5 likesYaaay!! It's back up! SCREW YOU WWE!!!
3 likesI hope AEW will give the WWE anrun for there money. I only watch WWE causes there is not another choice. WWE is a monopoly. WCW forever
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There are other choices
0 likes@Kevin Sousa but they are shit because they are more wrestling based
0 likes@Kevin Sousa maybe to you, because you're part of the niche fanbase. Most people don't care about fake wrestling, they want storylines and characters.
0 likes@Kevin Sousa the whole reason the Attitude era was popular was because it was more reality based than wrestling based
0 likes@Luke Rose if u like storytelling over wrestling thats 100% fine and they"re are plenty of companies that do that and better than wwe. However, not caring about 'fake wrestling' is the epitome of liking the sizzle over the steak. As the wrestling is the biggest part of the story.
0 likes@Kevin Sousa I enjoy wrestling, but casual fans don't
0 likes@Kevin Sousa are they on national television and easy to find
0 likes@wisc cheese several are. And if by easy to find u mean a quick scroll through youtube. Yeah pretty easy to find
0 likes@Kevin Sousa nah I'm just waiting till aew vs wwe rivarly
0 likes@wisc cheese thats fine too. I am a big supporter of aew. However, i wouldnt expect them to try and create a big rivalry
0 likes12:46
5 likesVince: "You don't see guns" Has flashbacks to the Pillman has a gun promo
Vince "You don't see rapes" Katie Vick
Mmmm the early 90s is very different to the late 90s
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Katie Vick was in 2002.
0 likes10:00
0 likesWhat is this music from?
foley was actually a good wrestle and not just a stuntman*
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0 likesWas he though?
17:00 COPYRIGHT TIME.
2 likescontent cop by Whang!
26:15 Hey look buddy, I’m Stone Cold Steve Austin.
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When some mean lookin mother hubber is trying to rip me a structurally suprephrolous behind, use beer. if that doesnt work, use more beer.
1 likeTEXAS WRESTLER WITH TEXAS ENGINEER MUSIC
0 likesStone Cold Steve Austin is one of the few and the proud to be deserving to have that music.
0 likesreal OG has seen the original version of the video
3 likesPillmans got a gun was GREAT tv
0 likesLove the Donkey Kong Country music in the backround
8 likes4:11
15 likesActor here. Yup, that's theatre.
But Emp, why are the simpsons green?
117 likesREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Yellow is a stupid color. That's why.
16 likes1. Copyright
29 likes2. It’s never ogre.
I have jaundice... It sucks. I'd rather be green I think.
1 likeCause theyre... Jaded
0 likesYou stop that , Goku is real 😭😭😭
4 likesdud your crazy, I like you, on same lvl as Vsauce
0 likes9:20 ayyyy, I hear that Gran Turismo 4 soundtrack.
5 likesI want a collab with you and super eyepatch wolf
14 likesPlease don't watch raw. It's not at a very good spot right now. No creativity, bad pushes, and reuse of aging legends makes it horrible. Plus the Indians ruined the youtube channel.
7 likesJust like when you complete the True Pacifist Ending after completing a Genocide Route earlier.
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Insert demonic laugh of terror
0 likesIn the WWE, it's Kill or Be Killed!
0 likes- Hulk Hogan (probably)
bruh moment
0 likesgamr moment
1 likeWWE raw>undertale
7 likes24:02 i lost The Game
11 likesShould've used Jack Gallaghers Indie theme instead of the song at 3:46 tbh
3 likesNobody noticed the background music in this video around 10min is the menu music from gran turismo 4?
0 likes14:07 lmao
0 likesGreat video, now make frying dory
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now that is actually a ptsd flashback lol. I will fix this using an upward spiral, the true counter and counterpart to the downward spiral. * UpWardSpirull *
0 likesIt's something something wait I can't hear it, but it's effective!
Fine I will make frying dory for you ungrateful people
0 likesNo but I'm actually gonna make a frying dory
0 likesThere will never be another Youtube channel Like Filthy Frank. Actually that one could be a video.
4 likesnever have i ever
0 likesGood job on 420 thousand subscribers
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Also this really makes want to watch some wrestling and I don't even like it
0 likesWell, AEW is here now.
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Indeed. Casuals dont know tho.
0 likesI dare you to call Kevin Steen fat
0 likes4:56 gave me a anyrism
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It is very impressive that they made a stop motion film with literal atoms
0 likesSaw it before the reupload squad
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Right fokin here
3 likesHere
1 likeYote
1 likeNever miss an emp upload ✊
0 likesI was close but by the time I got to it it was taken
2 likesPull up
0 likesHere
0 likesPresent.
0 likesAyyy
0 likesYeah boi
0 likesSTEVE IS A DEAD MAN WALKING
0 likesSo basically it literally has nothing to do with being a wrestler, it just basically a popularity contest
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It’s a performance, these guy’s aren’t actually wrestling (you know the actually sport). But this form of wrestling called pro wrestling has always been more entertaining to watch and has always been a better draw then actually real wrestling. Even today it’s still a draw, just to a lesser degree maybe.
0 likes@Javari.954 Idk I mean its obviously not real wrestling, thats why I don't really understand why people get so hyper abour champions and stuff like that
0 likes@GJB Sarmeri Fair enough wrestling isn’t for everybody. Pro wrestling is kinda like a movie. We know it’s not real but we still watch it for the story and how entertaining it can get.
0 likes"ITS ME AUSTIN!!"
5 likesRaw is shite today. Now AEW on the other hand looks to bring back the feels..
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I agree AEW is yet to hit its true TRUE stride but I have a feeling mid 2021 AEW is gonna be a wave for professional wrestling.
1 like@Griff have you seen AEW Ratings every week? They're garbage. Less than a million views compared to Raw in 1997-2002
0 likes@Griff if you watch the video, AEW doesn't have any Storyline that the guy said. No wonder they can't attract more casual a.k.a new viewers. Storyline, plot twist, character development is what matters to get Ratings and that's what emplemon says.
0 likes@Good Taste Chad why are you so caught up in ratings? Just pay attention to the quality of the show
1 like@Griff It was well on its way till the pandemic happened.
0 likesGotta admit they're doing Miro dirty though
0 likes@Skoop yep
0 likes@Skoop u mean Miro is coz it's his idea.
0 likes@Good Taste Chad That's not how it works anymore. They're in the top 5 of ratings on Wednesday nearly every week. They're TNT's biggest draw outside of basketball.
0 likes16:35 the undertaker’s dong lol
1 likeIn order to be loved,
0 likesMake humorous video essays on youtube.
I dunno if in these 5.4k comments if it was mentioned but donald trump didn't start a football league... he bought his way in and was the reason for its downfall
0 likesi cant find that video by max landis that you are talking about NEXT TIME PLEASE BE MORE SPECIFIC Ive searched high and low and cant find it!
0 likesI feel like I’ve seen this video before hmmmmm....
10 likes14:11 MEETS PILMAN NINE MILLIMETER GLOCK
0 likesgood shock tv was a sad joke and you fanboys look at it though rose-tinted glasses
0 likesWhat's the song at 24:04? It doesn't sound like The Game.
0 likesI heard ultra necrozma.
1 likeit's been driving me crazy what's he music at 19:55?
0 likesI stopped watching when you shit on Mick Foley. People loved him because of his personality. He was an underdog, an every man. He could pull any emotion he wanted from his audience with his words alone. Putting his body through hell was certainaly a part of who he was, but don't discount his ability to connect with people. Amazing charisma and speaking ability.
1 likeThat was donkey kong music for the snes in the beginning
0 likesRaw is war
0 likesThere will never ever be another game like Team Fortress 2. I hope that's next.
3 likesWhat about Smackdown
0 likesAs a person that grew up watching the Attitude Era as well as the Monday Night Wars as a kid, I have to say that this was one of the best put together videos summarizing what happened during that time. Yep, the Fingerpoke of Doom was the nail in the coffin for WCW. David Arquette winning the WCW Championship is a close 2nd. Great video
1 likeI legit already knew most of these facts by heart,I love wrestling so much and even though I didn't get to experience the different Eras,I still get nostalgic feelings fromWWWF to WWF to WWE😊
2 likesNothing beats watching a theatrical production because it's just so cool to see these stories play out in real time, except maybe performing, that's the one thing better than watching theatre.
0 likesI remember watching the Undertaker being beaten by Brock Lesnar. One of the most memorable moments in entertainment history imo
1 likeyou failed to mention that the cage roof breaking was not supposed to happen, nor that when Mick climbed the cage a second time he did so with an injured shoulder. and that he wrestled those last 10 minutes with a concussion.
1 likeJesus Christ this video is so damn good. This entire series is just fantastic. Kept me interested all the way through. The pacing is better than most Hollywood movies
0 likesI remember turning the channel and seeing Mankind in the ring with the title. Revealing the finish didnt seem like a bad idea but yea it really did backfire.
0 likesFunny enough this is what Werner Herzog actually meant when he said (in thicc german accent) "We must not avert our eyes from wrestlemania". There are longer interviews from 2015 where he elaborated on Greek theater and tragedies and their connection to wrestling shows and that this is what our collective subconsciousness longing for in media.
0 likesI haven't watched Monday night raw in a long time but this video just reminds me how dope it was
0 likesIf you call it WWE then you never knew the greatness of the WWF
0 likesIt’s real in terms of some of the drama back stage and the risks and injuries they take. Other than that, scripted is the proper word.
0 likesRecently in the Royal Rumble(2020), something very interesting happened. Edge, the rated R superstar, returned after 9 years.
0 likesGranted, this was something everyone didn't think would happen. Triple neck surgeries? Dream match ups with some of the current superstars? Randy Orion and Edge teaming up for the night? Edge being one of the last 4 people in the ring?
One of my childhood favorites returned with GRIT. He was going to end his career on his own terms.
Everyone was excited. His theme song would play once the countdown for the next wrestler to arrive, and it was so chilling. "You Think You Know Me" line, followed by the heavy instruments playing, was one of those moments where I thought, "Is this why I continue to watch this? No matter what people say about it being real or fake?"
This video reminded me of why I continued to watch Monday Night Raw(3 hours now of content). It's a piece of my childhood I can never let go. Even if I wasn't around when Mankind winning the champion happened, there are many moments like these that I witnessed, especially moments with The Undertaker, Triple H, DX, etc. Occasionally, some Hall Of Fame wrestlers return to please the fans and be like "Oh hi, how is everyone? Time to either beat up someone or get beaten up." Sometimes, Shane McMahon fucks around and jumps from high places often and there's always the 50/50 he'll either miss or get his target.
Anyway my point is, this video made me really happy and I was recommended to watch this after I had a conversation about WWE and how Snoop Dogg was in the Hall Of Fame.
There's nothing else like professional wrestling. And there's no one else who can do what a professional wrestler does. To have an entire arena full of people so deep in the palm of your hand that they're screaming and jumping up out of their seats for a fight they know isn't "real." It's incredible, and anyone who still asks that tired old question, "Why would you watch something that's fAkE???" needs to see this video.
0 likesSo many ways to be loved... This is pure poetical philosophy.
1 likeYou had the unbelievable opportunity to say "The reason wrestling fans watched Mick Foley was to see him Mick Fall" but no, all you do is destroy.
0 likesRemember, Pro Wrestlers are entertainers first, and fighters second.
0 likesI can’t even put into words what this video means to me. That is the most embarrassing thing a 30 year old mother has ever written in a YouTube comment section, but God it’s so real. My 4th grade spring pictures from school had me holding a small bouquet of flowers while wearing a WWF t shirt that had The Undertaker, Mick Foley/Mankind, Kane, The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Chyna and Triple H. Monday Night Raw was my everything.
2 likesI remember I was allowed to order the pay per view event every other month, and wrestle mania every year.
I think my biggest memory from the Raw story line was when Stone Cold was engaged to Stephanie McMahon but Triple H drugged her and took her to a drive thru wedding chapel and married her. Then she went on to be his supportive wife. It was wild, and I loved it.
I’m from the south so Stone Cold was always our guy. He represented the blue collar, beer drinking, no good sons of bitches that we knew and loved. Anytime we’d hear that glass break and during the middle of a match we’d all go wild. I was so dedicated to the WWF that I refused to watch WCW. Vince McMahon is a marketing genius.
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This comment is so great
0 likesThis episode is leagues better than the Spongebob one, and I think the viewer count is lower because many people (like me) never liked wrestling and skipped this as a result. Truly, their loss. I actually in real life held my breath a few times. I think I finally get the appeal. Excellent work.
0 likesWWE hits this with a takedown notice. AEW gets newfound respect
1 likeBy technology to time and era, the N64 is the best gaming console ever
2 likesTbh I think the pop at backlash 2000 when stone cold came to help the rock was the loudest crowd reaction ever tbh
0 likesFucking ay this video was beautiful! I was lucky I grew up watching wrestling during the attitude era. Greatest time ever! I miss the late 90’s early 2000’s. Fucking memories.
0 likesThere will never ever be another iconic character like The Undertaker
0 likesThat Booker T bit cracks me up everytime.
0 likesFoley’s stunt reminded me of Owen Hart’s death.
1 likeI love your usage of music in these videos, good stuff
0 likesThere’ll never be another time like the late 90s Monday night raws
0 likes"Watch out, watch out, watch out!!!"...I find it funny that Trump and Vince are such good friends. They are both ridiculously skilled at marketing themselves and their brand..It is like they fully understand all of the work done by Edward Bernays..
0 likesWhen i was kid, everyone watched WWE.
0 likesLeast I'm not the only one who secretly watches old wrestling clips on youtube.....
0 likes8:22
1 like"brought into the American PPV market"
Prior to WM, there wasn't much of a PPV market. The WWF was a pioneer of PPV.
Yeah it existed, but the WWF spearheaded it even more so than Boxing did.
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@L Train45 The first Starrcade was in 1983. The first four of them (83-86) were not available on PPV. The first on PPV was Chi-Town Heat in November of '87. At that point the WWF was gearing up for WM IV.
0 likesProblem is current Monday Night Raw is not same show as it was during the times you're describing
0 likes16:09 Socko didnt come along until long after the "mandible claw". Socko - Mankind was 100% different than Mandible Claw - Mankind.
0 likesMick Foley is the Kumagawa of wrestling
0 likesOur teacher taught us Shakespeare’s plays by showing them to us. We watched plays, saw drawings, and most importantly we took our time to play it while reading the text.
0 likesI remember growing up hearing that it's all fake, and not caring one bit.
0 likesYou forgot about wrestling games, i love wrestling games but have never watched the show. I know all the wrestlers, and can spend hours making characters in wrestling game
0 likesthe way you transition is outstanding lmao that "Rock Heel star fox Corneria theme" Combo tho lmao
0 likes14:12
1 likeHOLY FUCKING SHIT!
I DID NOT EXPECT THAT!
I can picture those four wrestlers perfectly and I'm not a very visual person haha. Four Icons of wrestling Nature boy, Macho Man, Hulkamania, and The legendary big man all big men look up to Andre haha.
0 likesMain reason I stopped watching pro-wrestling as a kid. Most of the personalities were either flat out to the sun boring, or me wishing I could punch them through the TV in the face.
0 likesLol I never thought I'd see the day that wrestling was compared to Shakespeare. Kudos. Brava
0 likesHow loud was Edge's return pop at the Rumble?
0 likesProfessional wrestling is basically live action shonen battle anime
0 likesthere may Never Ever be another man like Mick Foley...
0 likes18:07 jr reaction man holy shit
0 likes2:37
2 likesActually.... R.O.B. is based on the real life Robot toy Nintendo made in the 90's. So technically he is real
Austin make this company to the top🖤🖤🖤
0 likesLMAO, that Booker T WCW promo is gold
0 likesor even Monday Nitro, hell the Monday Night Wars can never be replicated.
0 likesYou just called Mick Foley untalented. Wow.
0 likesMonday Night Raw's first debut day is the same as my birthday, Jan 11th. Neat.
0 likesThe fights might not be real but the stories are great
0 likesIts still real to me damn it! Hahahaha
0 likesTerry Funk told me all about the Cell in person. Craaaaazy story
0 likes1:39
1 like"Twenty thousand fans with one singular collective attitude!"
Bro ... I thought this era of wrestling was supposed to be anti-establishment.
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Pillmans got a Gun
0 likesOn live tv
Anti establishment enough for ya?
Dude...fucking what? I GUARANTEE that when you say Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and Andre the Giant (and these days probably Ric Flair too to an extent), everyone knows EXACTLY who you're talking about. Same with The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and (at least in Canada) Bret Hart.
1 likeDid I just become a wrestling fan?
0 likesThe XFL is back BABY!!!
1 likeThere will never be a wrestler like Jeff Hardy
0 likesNow we have the Wednesday Night Wars brother
0 likesBill Shakespeare used dudes for his WWE Divas. Think about a Stone Cold Damsel or a Kane Lady MacBeth. I'm totally down for it. Bill knew what's up before his time.
0 likesRaw wasn't a show it was life. I was at the raw in Phoenix when fuckin kane broke through the stage during litas marriage. That was the business
0 likes21:40
0 likesThe best promo and character of The Rock. Attitude Era Rock did Rock.
*Vince McMahon Jr bought the company from his father. It was not an inheritance.
1 likeI swear when The Undertaker "killed" his "The American Badass" persona and went back to his zombie self was the hypest I saw my dad as a child. OFC excluding all NASCAR races. It was a good time.
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That was in 2004. I was a junior in highschool.
0 likesActually what happened:
0 likesWCW Nitro was due to air from Atlanta, home town of Ted Turner. The Atlanta show was usually a big event for this reason. So McMahon, instead of airing Raw live, recorded it a few days earlier. Then he leaked the result that Mankind would win the championship. We knew before Raw aired and before Nitro said anything that the championship was going to change hands. This hyped up and drew ratings away from what WCW hoped would be their night to shine.
“I’m not lawful make these pussies stop talking” -Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
0 likes19:26 "The Undertaker won this match." 🤣
1 likeMick Foley is STILL ALIVE.
0 likesDid you just imply Children's Story doesn't really happen every time I put on my Slick Rick records?
0 likesRip Spanish announce table, unsung hero of wrasslin
0 likesIdk man Foley is a monster the guy is huge in real life
0 likesgod i love mick foley so much
0 likesSure its technically "still on the air today", but its mostly spoken about in the past tense. It's hardly even the same thing anymore.
1 likeAlright I see your point but....... AEW
0 likesThere will never be another monster truck driver like Dennis Anderson
0 likesI'm just commenting saying that Vince brought back the XFL , will update if/when it's dead again.
0 likesThis video is so awesome
1 likeSo this is why WWE has lost it's touch now, there is no relatable thing in WWE to present how people nowadays feel. the last great storyline was when Kofi Kingston winning the WWE title. all we have on the storyline that relatable to our society is Rusev thing. sad....
0 likesHow is wrestling not real if I’m watching it.. am I not real? .. wait.. what?
0 likes23:17 did he really use the Leffen Dis track Corneria remix?
0 likesSick
'...The Undertaker's Iconic Dong.' Wait what?
0 likescant hate for making wwe successful after the switch
0 likesWill I be the only one who recognized Necrozma's theme in this?
2 likesi have watched this 5 times in the past year first of 2020
0 likesIn order to be loved,
0 likesyou must send pointless YouTube comments into the downward spiral
There will never ever be another entertainer like Michael Jackson
0 likesGreat video man.
0 likesDo "there will never be another Channel like G4"
0 likesThe use of Tf2 ost is amazing
1 likePeople on Staten Island love wrestling I don’t really know why
0 likesWell, Manatee's have no natural predator...that's a good reason
0 likesCan you please, post all the "in order to be loved" sentences...
2 likesI can't roll my eyes hard enough. But yes this was a product of its time. There won't be another Foley, and the environment that created the 90s attitude era may never manifest again.
0 likesMankind didn't suffocate people lol that wasn't what the Mandible Claw was at all. They could breathe out of their nose.
0 likeswhoa whoa.... is that Wilson by phish i hear playing while you're talking about Foley?
0 likesi sometimes call it stundmanteather
0 likesLaughs in AEW
1 likeHow you gonna skip over Stone Colds stint in ECW?
0 likesRode a literal tank.... pictures the obvious green Jeep with a green pvc pipe stretched to it hahaha
1 likeEver had a girl give you a smack down in college 🤔
0 likesAnd that's the bottom line, CAUSE STONE COLD SAID SO
0 likeslol Pokemon music and wrestling go well together!!
0 likesWhy did you have to remind me that Snooty died? =(
0 likesPre pg raw ... never ever
0 likes24:03 I LOST THE GAME
0 likesI was intrigued until this fool said mick Foley had no wresting talent and had to hurt himself to be entertaining. That one comment voids the entire credibility of whatever else he said after this
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The only other redeeming quality Foley has is the ability to speak on the mic.
0 likesBut Foley is considered "one in a million" for a reason. His notable matches mostly consist of him getting hurt a lot.
vDeadbolt he has an incredible talent to provoke emotion. Hurting himself became his niche unfortunately
0 likesThe Eric Andre shows cut music broke me
0 likesAEW: ...aww
0 likesEh hem. AEW exists you know
0 likesthe use of gran turismo 4 ost in these is so good
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truly underrated choice of bg music
0 likesYou said his name wrong. It is VINCAHNT KENIDDY MAHCHMAHN!
0 likesI love this video
0 likesLol I love the representation of the south is a background scene from the squidbillies
0 likesThere will never ever be a show like south park when?
0 likesDOWNWARD SPIRAL
0 likesAew: Hold my beer
1 likeemplemon i have bad news i watched one of your vids and in that vid you said something about the strange part of youtube so i thought can i still get to the strange part of youtube i have about 30 mins into this. i am still not there there is this slowly creeping feeling that it was deleted
0 likesholy fuck you did a lot of research for this video
0 likesWWE is Anime
0 likesCAN YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING?
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Am I... Am I first at a Justin Y comment?
9 likesHey. What part Jojo are you at?
Edit: Dangit 8 seconds too late.
Also Justin Y is not a bot or a shared account the proof is out there.
Ye
0 likesIs that a first upload reference?
0 likesWow, I got to see a recent Justin Y. comment. I feel special...
2 likesNice job proving that you are subscribed to EmpLemon by writing the exact same comment as you did on this video before it got taken down.
14 likesAside from Little Pip there’s no other barbaric 6 year olds attacking Justin Y yet. I’m early af.
4 likesNoice.
no
2 likesYou are like Bactria
1 likeITS STEVE AUSTIN
3 likesBoulders for his wife's son.
3 likesReported
7 likes@Kal _ What proof? (X) Doubt, It's impossible that he can think up of comments that quick for so many popular(ish) videos
0 likes@Joshua Lontoc hold on let me get some sources
0 likesA G D
0 likesr/woooosh
@Joshua Lontoc Review Evidence~
1 likehttps://youtu.be/85l5VbJbTtM
https://youtu.be/RlkVMjyJERM
Two videos explaining exactly how Justin does this. You don't have to watch both but I would recommend the Primink one cause I like his content. And if you go on Justin Y's about in his channel there should be two links to Reddit. One of them is a post by Justin himself discrediting 3 popular theories. I would recommend that you check it out as the evidence adds up.
Case solved.
Justin Y. How original
4 likesHE BACK
0 likesWow...I've never had to see you REUPLOAD a comment....that's fucking scary
0 likescrack
0 likesTHERE'S ME BOUIII JOOSTEN UII
0 likesMeth.
0 likesKnow your roll
1 likeJustin Y. Emplemon should make a youtube geographic on you.
1 likeNo I can't
0 likes@Kal _ its a guy with way too much time on his hand.
1 like441 likes, must botting them likes again.
0 likesWe must destroy this evil that's infesting these foul streets.
0 likes@Gonçalo holy fuck, you're a god among mere mortals!
0 likes@Hami Did you bother to watch the videos?
0 likesYes
0 likes@Kal _ whose videos?
0 likeswell duh
0 likeseveryone can
Asutin 3:16
0 likesNOPE, NO ONE CAN, AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE BECAUSE STONE COLD SAID SO
0 likesOBJECTION!
4 likes2:39 , R.O.B its actually real.
redo the video or riot
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Sure ande John Cena is real too but Rob cannot do anything it is shown to do in the game
1 likelmaoo is that the respect your elders beat 23:25
0 likesThere will never ever be another show like The Filthy Frank Show
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Preach my man
2 likesR.I.P Papa Franku
@nobodys_winds NYEEEEEEEE
1 like"can I hav de pusi bos"
0 likes*AEW has joined the chat
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It's not going to be a competitor to wwe for a long time
31 likes@Trey Williams plus their goal isn't to put Vince out of business so they'll never be a direct competitor.
18 likesNo u
1 like@Trey Williams the Khans got deeper pockets than Vince, though AEW has good chances of poaching talent as they seem to offer better contracts than WWE when it comes to benefits and schedule.
0 likes+S L A Y E R they may have money, but d o they have the production, outreach, marketing, sustainable model of business as WWE? I'm not so sure.
6 likes+Shavinder1999 to see where money can go wrong, just look at impact and five star wrestling
0 likesAEW has to step their game to a level of pro-wrestling from many years ago, whilst staying modern with storylines and storytelling. This is gonna be reeeeeeally hard I tell ya. But if they do it...boy is Vince gonna cringe. XD There are so many people DESPERATELY lurking and craving for this epic experience they once had.
7 likes*T-Shirt company has joined the chat
0 likesWell maybe if they actually give WWE a proper competitor, they'll start to up their game again
2 likesHi AEW, say hello to TNA and WCW on the way down.
2 likesAEW doesn't want to go against WWE because they're trying to avoid any competition. I'm not calling them cowards(despite the fact that I think some of the signings are cowards because of how I don't like them) but because it just came, already having competition when you just started sounds bad in my view. But in WWE's eyes, it is competition. A bunch of promotions are signing people left and right because of AEW and WWE so everyone wants the best of the best, The Elite and Kenny Omega are in AEW when WWE wanted them back in 2012, and the part they already have some of their former employees and Kahn supporting them is major bad news for WWE, especially when everyone is talking about AEW as it's the hottest new thing. So of course WWE is going to try something. Also, I think WWE is going to win this one. Look at TNA, ECW and WCW. All have tried and failed. And when it comes to competition, WWE is NO laughing matter.
0 likesThere will never be an empire like the Roman Empire
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British Empire :)
0 likes@Brandon Michaels That may be true but he was talking about the Roman empire not Roman Reigns. I know it was probably the worst time to say that on a video about wrestling. But yeah. If you don't know then look it up or pay attention in school because everyone learns about the Roman empire.
0 likes@Soviet Re4per whoooosh
4 likesOoooaaaahhhh
0 likesbruh you have tf2 music on at one point as i'm playing tf2
5 likesAmazing Video
0 likes“There will never ever be another crowd reaction to this scale”
0 likesMe: thinks back to when I watched avengers endgame and saw the final battle take place as everyone in the theater had the greatest and loudest, hyped up scream as we all watched our childhood heroes fight the forces of evil one last time yea, like that’ll ever happen again
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I don't know how many people were in that theater, but imagine an entire arena, maybe 10.000 in attendance, losing their collective minds while Austin goes down the aisle. Go back and listen to it, there's really no comparison.
4 likesWELL ACTUALLY ALMPLEMONE. THE MII GUNNER CAN BE ME AND I'M REAL
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Honestly, it's awesome
0 likesThe classic mode for miis should've been "meeting new faces" where you fight newer IPs (those that are newer than the Mii character), ending with a Mii team (amount of miis increases with difficulty) and the hand.
There will never be another game like minecraft
20 likesthis is good but you kinda bite jon bois' style a lot my guy
0 likesWhen viacom sees your video
3 likesVid got sniped by corprate for a while hot damn
6 likesAm i having a deja vu?
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your not the only one in the comments who said that. Does that happen often man?
0 likes@NewginsLab yes, yes it does....
0 likesMANDELA EFFECT IS REAL REEEEE
Wait Goku isn't real?
0 likesMake a video about boxing. Guarantee it’ll be Muhammad Ali.
0 likes" there will never ever be another show like monday night raw "
4 likesAEW: hold my beer.
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Hitori no
2 likesI think that aew is too overhyped
1 like23:15 I'm not lawful.
1 likeinb4 this gets taken down again
30 likesI see that Susan w had demonitized another video
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Can we just replace her with emplemon already?
0 likes@The very Last korok Yes.
0 likesROB IS REAL
0 likesHere before its gone
10 likesThere will never ever be another wretling game to the same quality of wrestling mpire remix career edition by mdicke again
0 likesAlso are President shaved Vince McHan
3 likesAll elite wrestling could make another war
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Lmfaooooooo good one man
7 likes@Code so you're a WWE mark. LMFAO!!! Hell WWE doesn't sell out a PPV in 30 minutes. It'll happen. Deal with it. Your kid oriented wrestling is put on notice.
2 likes+Eric Geisinger as much as I love the guys of AEW, they won't be able to match what WWE has built to, simply because they rain two different sectors of pro wrestling. Surtsey could easily topple ROH in a couple years and lead the indie scene, but they won't be the next WCW because they prioritize star quality matches, not the general audience. The closest thing to being like a WWE competitor was the old TNA because again they were fighting in the same sector of the industry. Best of luck to the BTE guys, but WWE won't need to worry about them.
3 likesBONESAW IS READIEEEE! COME ON MY FACE BROTHER!
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Uncultured Swine Entertainment Nice costume, did your husband sew it for you?
1 likeROB is real...
0 likesCan I get an F for the original upload... F
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F
1 likeF
1 likeF
1 likeYou can get a wwf
3 likes#XFL2020
0 likes23:20 yo is that the instrumental version for respect your elders - leffen diss track by chillindude ????
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😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
1 likeNever thought it would fit sub well in this video lmao
0 likesITS BACK!
3 likes2:03 MUMKEY JONES WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!
0 likesGreat vid bruh
0 likesWhy do all the wrestler's names sound like pornstar names?
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Because MONDAY NIGHT RAWWWWWWWWW
11 likesBecause wrestling is softcore porn
7 likeswhich one's specifically?
0 likesMrMummy
1 likeUmmm no, they really don't.
AEW will start the new and better version of Monday night raw ;)
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Nope
6 likes@Burger Man yep
2 likesThey'll start the new and better version of monday nitro
2 likes@Brisco prove it
2 likes@Luke Rose it won't be hard. Anything is better than the garbage they produce now. First episode will be better.
1 likeIn fives years time we’ll be saying “wtf is an AEW?” I bet.
2 likes@Pork Mashups says the 12yo WWE fanboy. Oh you'll be 17 then.
0 likesEric Geisinger nah, I just think AEW are making promises they won’t be able to keep. If I’m wrong then I’m wrong though. I’ll certainly be watching it when it starts though... also, no need to get all offended when I have a different opinion.
0 likes@Pork Mashups I'm just being an ass. Ignore me. Hope it succeeds. In the meantime pissing off all the naysayers.
0 likesWhat do the fuck is Vince talking about they don't show guns . What about the Stone Cold Steve Austin / The Ticking Time Bomb Brian Pillman angle were Steve Austin broke into Brian Pillman house
1 likeIn order to be loved,
3 likesYou should stop saying the same quotes over and over again try something a new quote for once!
16:19
0 likesWhat's that music? It sounds like Castlevania, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
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Thriller by Michael Jackson
0 likesTrump didn't start the USFL. Trump wasn't even involved in the USFL during it's first year--he bought the New Jersey Generals after the first season was over.
0 likesis this a reupload
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Yes
1 likebad timing, all elite wrestling just had their first press conference, they signed adrian neville and chris jericho
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Makes no difference there will never be anything as big as raw ever again
6 likesI hope it will cause some competition tho too elevate both products
1 likeThe on my way for aew to be competition to Wwe is to be entertainment based
0 likesWho cares
0 likesWanna hear the most f*cked up joke ever? We would always make a joke about Chris Benoit, cross face crippling his fam..Then there was the joke about Rey Mysterio, killing you with a 619..lol..Both messed up, I know, but we were a$$*ole kids..lol
0 likesWhy the reupload
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The last one was tookin down due to copyright
13 likesWhat if I don’t like spungbub
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spoonchbab
1 likeSpongbib
0 likesSkipperino Trumperino oh no how dare u
1 likeso Mike Foley was Deku from BNHA? nice
0 likesYa got featured on pewdiepie's new video
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What video?
0 likesWhang looks like fucking Shinsuke not The Undertaker.
1 likeThere will never ever be another commentator like Jim Ross
3 likesWhen you think of you heard the date January 4 1999, what comes to your mind?
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IDKA
0 likes9:21 isn't that song from Gran Turismo 4?
0 likes35 views
4 likes358 likes, 6 dislikes
261 comments
makes sense
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I thought these died in 2017.
1 likeF0_0LY Please don’t, it died for a reason.
0 likesWhat a video holy shit
0 likesdefinitely
5 likesHey Emplemon will you talk about pie pivt o
4 likesDownward spiral?
0 likesShawn Michaels isn’t mentioned once
5 likeswhat the frick
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neither is Bret Hart and the Montreal screw job.
4 likesa vital part of Vince's Past
Jarl Lokhald the III he literally did nothing during the attitude era
5 likesWat?! Homar Sempsin isntt real?!
0 likesRe:Upload
3 likesoh yeah yeah
4 likes255th. Last comment or else we go over the integer limit
4 likes18:30 I hear adult swim music
0 likesFOLEY NOOOOOO!
0 likes4:53 listen to the music
0 likes[In randys voice] Heeeeey, Emplemon's back.
3 likesFuturama fans will get this.
Emp: There will never ever be another show like Monday Night Raw
1 likeCena: Hold my ruthless aggression…
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wasnt john cena on raw though
0 likesWilliam Shakespeare* not Bill.
0 likesRob is real
0 likesOr will there? cough dynamite
0 likesBeat up by his *contractors
0 likeswwe is no longer the only major wrestling company is america
0 likesIntro music: Donkey Kong Country SNES :)
0 likeshe never talked about JOhn CeNa REEEEEEEEE
1 likeThe Rock: has WWF title
1 likeMankind: Hippity hoppity give me my property
But... why are the Simpsons green?
1 likeSTONE COLD, STONE COLD! BAH GAWD!!!!!
0 likesTrump “ruthless businessman acumen”. He inherited his wealth and would be richer today if he did nothing with it 😂.
0 likesI'm not a fan of rasslin' at all, I just find it cringey. But if you EVER diss The Undertaker and my nostalgia - I'll fucking bury you
0 likesemp: "there'll never ever be another tv show like the WWE"
1 like* AEW has entered the chat *
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cm punks debut had a massive pop
0 likesThis was amazingly well-done. You should seriously be getting paid good money for this sort of editing and storytelling expertise. Great job!
2 likesI've been watching wrestling since I was about two, I'm 21 now. WWF/WWE, WCW, NJPW, TNA, Indies, all that. Wrestling was a big part of my life and it still is . I watched it every week, had the action figures, fake belts, you name it. Even though it's scripted, it can still fill you with multiple different emotions at any second. If I was stuck on an island with just one thing to watch for the rest of my life, I'd definitely choose wrestling without hesitation
0 likesI just watched a 30 minute video about wrestling, and I never ever cared about it, in fact I might have hated it. You sir, are a legend
0 likesAustin Mcmahon feud still cracks me up and one of the best rivalries of all time!
0 likesVince was a terrible wrestler but knows full well how to stir the audience into a mad frenzy
Professional Wrestling was insanely popular at the turn of the century, it truly cannot be underestimated. This an excellent perspective piece.
0 likesWhat a great video. Really great at capturing the time and why its loved even if its "not real".
0 likesThe attitude era was just cool, everything about it was cool and it had a more mature approach to story lines, it almost felt like even though your were a 8 year old kid it was still appealing to kids who were like double your age.
0 likesI agree with your Shakespearean bit, I read midsummer night's dream and thought it was a boring story with stupid puns.
0 likesI then watched it in movies, comics, and plays and found out it was actually magical.
You done a fantastic job with this video, keep up the great work!
0 likesAt its height...during the WCW vs WWF days...20% of people watching TV...were watching wrestling while it aired.
0 likesThat's insane.
If Raw or Nitro was on...1/5th of TVs were showing it.
idc what anybody says pro wrestling is for sure a "Physical sport" they take real hits and lands. andre and brodie were one of the hardest to wrestle with because if they didnt like you, you were getting hurt lol it was an athletic sport because the workouts alone are harder than football,basketball,wrestling (Highschool) and i did all 3 and watching pro wrestlers work out is beyond all of them 2-a-days dont match to watching cena bench 250 lbs 10 reps 3 times then watch his cardio.. I'd compare it to training camp easily
0 likesi actually stopped watching/liking wrestling for all of middle school because i thought i had a whale brain for realizing it was fake
2 likesI would like to add that Vince didn’t inherit his fathers company, he bought his shares after his death. Vince Sr. was estranged from his son and they only reunited as a business move from Vince Jr.
0 likesthis video actually got me into wrestling. thanks :)
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lomlanson
0 likesThat's awesome to hear!
lomlanson not for long wait until you see emp's new video
0 likesIt's funny how, despite how a play like Hamilton rose to popularity right now because of its unique feel, wwe, the most unique form of theater, a form of play so out there that isn't seen by most as a play, is on the decline.
0 likesHoly shit...this may be the best defence of my love of pro wrestling. One can also add that, although ECW was scripted, a lot of the shots were fuck-ups or actually hurt. Like when Tommy Dreamer knocked that guy off the scaffolding and fell through 10 tables. He was legit knocked out.
0 likesThis is the video that got me back into wrestling
0 likesDo a full on crossover with Whang. You both do great work.
0 likesMick Foley being my all time favorite, this video is great
1 likeGood story telling, excellent series. It's just too bad you really don't know much about wrestling, and obviously got a lot of your (incorrect) info from sketchy resources.
0 likesGod I miss the Attitude Era of Monday Night Raw.
0 likesI really want wwe to make a comeback
0 likesI remember watching this every Monday with my dad and brother.
0 likesWWF and WCW had me and my bro hooked for years
0 likesalso nice Whang cameo, love that channel
Kofi winning the WWE championship was another great "OMG he finally did it!!" Moment for me :)
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Too bad the way he lost it was disappointing.
0 likes27:55 I still love this, getting in his face doing the head shake, fucking throws me off into a howling of laughter
0 likeswow were you right. i mean, theres no way aew will ever be like wwe. wwe does its best to put everyone else out of business and aew does its best to put out a decent show that people want to watch. wow, youre smart :D
0 likesCan we all acknowledge Mick Folley as one of the toughest fuckers to walk the planet
1 likeI guess we're just gonna forget the time Stone Cold went to ECW after WCW and learned to cut genius promos... but that's none of my business
0 likesI can imagine Vince just sitting Steve down and talking about his character like "Hey Steve, let me ask you something, can you beat the shit out of me in front of millions? Thanks"
0 likesGoddamn this series is amazing
0 likesHow you gonna act like Monday Night Raw wasnt 1 of the hottest things around in the 90s, everyone loved it.
0 likesGreat stuff EmpLemon! Editing master piece bro
0 likesDamn Rugrats was killing in the ratings too! I miss being a kid in the 90s 😔
1 like27:58 Yikes, that was a real, clean headbutt.
0 likessteve austin, eddie guerrero, jeff hardy, randy orton, shawn michaels are my favorites, wwe for life !!
0 likes32:10 I was a huge WCW mark. I can't believe those matches were on the same night. This was back in the day where there were forums online so you could read about the matches, but you'd have to wait until the next week to see highlights. I fucked up.
0 likesOnly wrestler having a bigger charisma than The Rock was Eddie Guerrero 💙
0 likesWhy can’t I stop watching this video? I’ve never seen an episode of Professional Wrestling before, yet I keep watching this video over and over.
0 likesI wanna know the story of the guy holding the "die rocky die" sign at 23:00. He's been at so many ppvs i wonder how he did it
0 likesRAW is still on the air today and sucks ass! I never knew that'd I'd ever say that because I used to love it. It was the way of life for us 90s kids.
1 likeI though Vince bought wwf from his dad with an agreement that stated, if he missed any payments Vince Sr could nullify the agreement.
0 likesyou outdid yourself with this awesome video
0 likesI never ever coment on anything, but i feel like I have to tell this guy just how much I Like his videos...
0 likes90's RAW best RAW.
0 likes90's RAW best RAW.
0 likesThank you for reminding me why WWE Rating dropped
0 likesFun fact:
1 likeWrestling is real
This video was dope editing was crazy !
0 likesnot gonna lie friends would have been epic with kramer in it
1 likeThere’s a video about the child abuse in WWF on the Jamie Dlux channel called ‘The Cream Team’. It’s shocking.
0 likesWhen The Game plays you... RIP The 9th Wonder of The World, Chyna.
0 likesWWE is better than pretty much every tv show & movie that's out and will ever be made
1 likeDragon Ball is just pro wrestling in anime form, we’re the stories are about just fighting (the English dub changed goku to a hero instead just a pride fighter that fights for fun) and the stories are told through fighting not through a journey or a plot (resurrection f is frezza is revived and trains and then fights goku and vegeta)
0 likesWhere you slow down at the end you can see McMahon reaction to the crowed
0 likesWrestling and Spongebob, shit we had the same childhood
0 likesLove the 'another brick in the wall pt. 2' video reference
0 likesHow can anyone not know who Hulk Hogan is?
1 likeHe lost me when he said goku was not real. He could not listen to anymore of these lies.
0 likesYo whats that music/beat that kicks in when the counter-culture WCW images pop up? That part was dope...
2 likesBest 30 minutes ive had on watchign wrestling videos.
0 likesVery good video
Stone Cold went to ECW to get inspiration for his character first, also don’t forget his time as the Ring Master.
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That's true and that's the bottom line cause Stone cold said so!!
0 likesGive me a hell yeah
0 likes-Austin 3:16
6:35 I love how in the television rankings that nascar is number 2 right below WWE. Awesome
2 likesFunny how I came to this right after I got back into watching old clips
0 likesTriple h as leader of dx was the weak point of dx and wasn't that funny either the best time for dx is when Shaun was the leader with hhh Rick rude and chyna
0 likesI thought Ron Jeremy was the only one with an iconic Dong
1 likeI still wanna know what GTV was supposed to be..
0 likesi love that even in his documentaries, homer is still green
0 likesi miss the monster trucks. Steve Austin driving over the Rock's Lincoln and then driving ontop of the hearse at his own funeral!? you can't beat that
0 likesliked and subbed, good job dude
0 likesI don’t know about you but Sting was and still is lit.... But fuck yeah Monday Nite Raw !!!
0 likes"I just have one thing to say to my wife: Yo Adrian, I did it!"
1 likeJust saying though, that 9:20 Gran Turismo nostalgia
0 likesill say this knowing what i know about pro wrestlers and meeting them if this kid said what he's saying in this video to their face hed absolutely get hit hard lol he'd be the heel in that situation.. tell this to vader see how he acts (Youtube vader punches interviewer or undertaker goes off on interviewer)
0 likesRaw....
0 likesRAW was WAR
Pro Wrestling is Theater Anime.
1 likeDisappointed you didn't explain how Mr McMahon the evil boss was created by the very real screwing of Bret hart out of the championship after that he couldn't really go back to commentating I doubt he could've walked out without being booed after the screwjob
0 likesThis video was funny 😂👍
1 likewhen I was a kid some how we heard about the giant going to wwf and boom he comes out the ring as paul white I was like 14 maybe younger by a yr or two but yes 90s
0 likes>a literal tank
1 like>Not a tank.
Love the video,that just irked me lol
great work, mate
0 likesI used to be the biggest fan of wwe
0 likesAEW has entered the chat
2 likes10:38 The WWE is the only major wrestling fereration in the US
1 likeAEW: Are you sure about that ??
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After all out?
0 likesYes
Quite sure
Yes.
0 likesMick Foley lives in my city, hope to see him one day
0 likesNo love for big show :[
0 likesYou didnt do your homework on Austin very well. Check Dale Earnhardt Jr's Podcast with Austin ( Yea that happened) Where he talks about the Birth of Stone Cold.
0 likesUndertakers iconic dong 🤣🤣🤣
1 likeYour take on theatre is entertaining but basically wrong. For sure the performance plays into the factor but Shakespeare's writing is so rich and so fun to talk about and analyse.
0 likesAt 20:01 the Ultra necrozma theme have me vietnam flashbacks
1 likeisnt smackdown a show like raw?
0 likes10:46 You said this in January, 6 months later theres another massive US promotion on TNT a lot can happen in such a short period of time
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A Comedian Who Died In New York no it isn’t, AEW is the second biggest wrestling promotion in the world AND IS debatably bigger than NJPW
0 likesthe editing of this video is peak
0 likesThis video is magnificent.
0 likesNow and forever sees Mark Hamil holding a blue stick.
0 likesMick Foley = tough as nails s.o.b.
0 likes6:30 In case people are wondering, the Winston Cup race was at Rockingham.
1 likeStone Cold was an ass kicker
0 likesDon’t disrespect mick foley like that
0 likesDoes anyone know that song that starts around 24:42?
0 likesMaoui was based off of Rocky Maivia change my mind
1 likeThe elite, the the elite
1 likeThere will never be another show like Monday Night Raw!
1 likeMonday Nitro: Hold my beer.
What about ECW? It played a even bigger role in some minds.
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Yes, but I wasn't able to gain mainstream success like the other two promotions had at the time. It ended up going bankrupt because no one wanted to air it.
0 likesECW was responsible for the edgy content that inspired the attitude era. But the WWE brought it over to millions on the couch.
400+ people did not like that you called Kevin Owens fat
0 likesAwesome!
0 likesthat dookieshed intro song brings me back
0 likes13:19 wtf hogan😂
0 likesThere Will Never Be Another Series Like Pokémon Ranger.
0 likesOld spongebob is great, new spongebob is meh.
1 likeComing after Emplemon's recent video
0 likesYou realise it still goes today, the same show
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Its not the same now
0 likesThe show will never reach the ratings it has once received during the attitude era.
0 likesWWE has changed for worse. Hopefully, AEW will prove your point.
1:02 That picture I think is from the Pontiac Silver Dome in Michigan.
0 likesReal wrestling fans will "Never Ever" get tired of seeing the "It's Still Real To Me Dammit!" clip!!! Like what I did there with the wordplay? Yea, I'm the shit!! Or am I the shits?? Hmmmmm........
0 likesOven: burns
0 likesMy Sim: 14:41
HOLD UP...Trumpnomacon had nothing to do with the USFL's founding, only it's demise.
0 likes16:43
0 likesThe Undertakers iconic dong
The only reason why the undertaker didnt win was because he was too hurt too finish the match
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He did get hurt, but Brock beating the streak was all planned.
1 likeTaker wanted the streak to end a long time ago. Orton, Angle, Punk, HBK all rejected the offer.
Remember, Taker wrestled in the elimination chamber after suffering from 3rd-degree burns after a botched entrance.
Not true. I don't care for The Undertaker, you liar!
0 likeshey emp you listen the mountains goats' album "beat the champ"? i think you could possibly love it
0 likesBruh remember when Matt poked the rock and he fell down and passed out
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What
0 likes---
Oh it's a joke about Wii sports
Great video
0 likesSeriously tho, how TF do manatees even exist?
0 likesAnyone else notice rusty cages comic 5:05
0 likesthis kids got it wrong a little bit.. not much but some... still love this video
0 likes5:05 you like slick Rick don't you?
0 likesSurprised this hasn't been pulled down
0 likesyou had me until u said comics werent real say sike right now
0 likesAwesome
0 likesMy favourite was when trump dunked on cnn
0 likesSo we're just gonna sit here and not talk about CM Punk.
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He has nothing to do with this.
0 likesLove the Gran Turismo music
0 likesI know I'm late, but...
0 likesUFC is my new 90s RAW.
You Can Do It!!!
0 likesGreat vid
0 likesShakespeare, best writer well he stole most of his stuff and made up a lot of words so no
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Nobody cares
0 likesThank you
0 likesHeh heh heh, you said: " Iconic DONG.."
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He he he he he heheheh
0 likesWatching 10 pm half naked men fight. Best.
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Virgin Slayer
0 likesAnd it's still awesome
We just got a long and elaborate ShittyMorph copypasta. Unbelievable. :D
0 likes"WWE is the only major wrestling promotion in America." AEW Dynamite has entered the chat
2 likesAll the music used in order :
0 likesDonkey Kong Country World Map Music
We're All Together Now (Raw is War Theme)
Spanish Flea (8 Bit Version)
Georges Bizet - Carmen Habanera Instrumental
Georges Bizet - Carmen Overture
The Simpsons Hit & Run Soundtrack - Office Spaced
Magnum Force Theme
iamMANOLIS - My Future Girlfriend
Gran Turismo 4 Menu Soundtrack - GT Mode #2
Donkey Kong Country 3 - Nuts and Bolts
OC ReMix #1702: Mega Man 2 'Nuclear Flash' [Flash Man] by Juan Medrano & zircon
Abelard - SEINWAVE 2000
Jan Chmelar - Urban Poetry 2
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group (Luigi Scibelli Cover)
Michael Jackson - Thriller (8 Bit Cover)
Dust Devil- D-Code (The Adult Swim Theme)
Team Fortress 2 Soundtrack - A Little Heart to Heart
Pokemon UltraSun & UltraMoon - Ultra Necrozma Battle Music
Do You Smell It? (The Rock Theme 1998-1999)
Mr. Resetti - Animal Crossing (GCN)
Sadgasm - Politically Incorrect (Instrumental)
Respect Your Elders (Leffen Diss Track) Instrumental
My Time (Triple H Theme 1999-2000) Instrumental
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Main Menu Music
Team Fortress 2 Soundtrack - More Gun (Version 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agNyalihdyg
Thorn in your eye Instrumental (Adam Massacre Cover)
Professional wrestling essentially died after Wrestlemania 17.
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Nah, the early to mid 00s were some of the best times to be a wrestling fan.
1 like@AdmiralAutismo Sorry you missed the late 90s bud!
0 likes@heathmcrigsby I’ve watched a lot of the 90s stuff on the network. The 00s (ruthless aggression era) is the peak of wrestling imo. It had the edge of the attitude era but the wrestling was even better. Lesnar, Cena, Edge, Orton, Batista, Eddie, Angle, Benoit, Jericho, HBK, etc. It was gold.
0 likes@AdmiralAutismo Again, sorry you missed the 90s bro. Watching it on the network doesn't even give you the slightest idea of how it was.
0 likesWrestling is fixed, not fake...
0 likesIs that a mumkey jones reference?
0 likesTotally Expected u/shittymorph
0 likesGoku is real to me
1 like10:32 Nuts n Bolts from Donkey Kong Country 3
0 likesAttitude era>Everything else
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Ruthless aggression era was the best for me
0 likes20:32 what is the songs name?
0 likesJim Ross, baby
0 likesI'm here FOURTH TIME. Love this video
0 likesthe first video of 2019 the first video of the reunited era
2 likesDonkey Kong song in the background .
0 likes<3
0 likesRob from smash bros. Is real though
0 likes4:19 let's all just pretend we know what that means
0 likes"Iconic dong"
0 likesIt hurts
0 likes7:02
0 likesThat's actually fucking horrifying.
It is called wee now not wwf
0 likesThe donkey Kong song in DK 1 I think
0 likesA E DUB - A E DUB
1 likeOpening music at the beginning?
0 likesI don't like SpongeBob. Think it's the most overrated kids show there is.
1 likerequiem of the crazies spotted!
0 likesgood video
0 likes1:40 Episode 20,000
0 likesBro mick folly was an amazing wrestler wtf are you talking about
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nope. he was nor.
2 likeswhat he was, wasn't an outstanding sport for that "sport".
he was dangerous and we loved that. he was brave and we loved that. He showed blood and we loved that.
he. was NOT a good wrestler. he earned our respect for doing what he did. But his skills were not good.
it's not the wrestling you remember from him. you remember how crazy his characters were and how they stood out...the other wrestler being wary...and the attitude of that era.
go back to watch his matches...I rewatxh old matches almost every weekend.
Foley was great spirit to what we saw but he was not a great wrestler...unless that's how you're judging him. then...you're right. it if you mean by his movement and skill? nope he wasnt
@Agon Leed Naw ur just trying to be edgy folly was great at it all especially wrestling
0 likes@devilishgoku1 🤣how is it beinf edgy that I'm not celebrating people attempt to like him because the whole idea of liking him is edgy?
0 likesthe reason I fell in love with the guy's 4 personas was because it was edgy.
get it?
you're using the word wrong.
you mean contrarian. A person who always goes against others.
then there's hipster. not so much edgy as just closer to being contrarian but thinking they're cooler for it.
then there's edgy.
a person who likes ANYTHING for the sake of it being "dark", gritty. bloody. violent.
it's not edgy to say he's not thw best because his defining existence in wwf->wwe is him.just being very destructive.
i consider you trying to be edgy for saying is AMAZING when, again, is defining existence is him just being destructive. Not skills. not techniques.
Thus doesn't take away his respect. he definitely deserves respect for braving what he did. getting respect for braving self destruction isn't the same as saying he was such an amazing wrestler
Donkey Kong Country theme?
0 likesWWE lore
0 likes👍👍👍
0 likesTheater is still around...
0 likesmcmann is a REAL billionare >>llol
1 like16:30 iconic dong you say?
0 likesWelcome to the second base mobile 😜
0 likesEmplemon:there will never be a show like Monday night raw
0 likesSmackdown and nxt: ok then...
Don't compare him to Trump, Vince Rose and Trump fell.
0 likesah bloodmoney wrestling
0 likes13:30 Instrumental please
0 likes16:36 "iconic dong"
0 likesMerci bronol
0 likesHalf naked?? More like amost naked
1 likemike foley not talented enough? u have lost ur damn mind
0 likesLast remaining works of theatre? You kidding me? Have you seen CNN? Or the security theatre in the past year
0 likesWhat are you talking about? Both of them were handed the opportunity to make a fortune. Trumps dad gave him a million to start his company and Vince's dad sold the company to him for far less than it was worth. And Trump didn't start the USFL, he just owned stakes in 1 team. Do a little research my mans. If I know that, it shows how easily available the information is
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He literally said and implys from 7:28-7:46 that they were handed the opportunities they now are rich off of.
0 likesWho’s Hull Cogan?
0 likesTHREE FACES OF FOLEY!
0 likes4th video in a row.. channell goodsss
0 likesBorn 10 months&10 days apart lol
0 likesSong used at 17:50?
0 likesTrish Stratus😍😍😍
0 likesAnd now theres aew
0 likesAnd his name is John cena
0 likes4:17 huh, thicc.
0 likesGreat video!
0 likesBut why are the Simpson’s green................
33:21 Yea try telling that to the Fans tuning out, it has everything to with the change to PG, I wonder if you ever watched wrestling or your just trying to Cherry pick demographics, Your Dale Video lazy aswell......
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SkippingRhyme
0 likesIt's nothing to do with pg. the 80s golden era was pg, it's due to the fact that WWE now has barely any interesting characters or stories, is repetitive and bland and safe as hell. It's not fun anymore
16:35 phrasing
0 likes7:30, you tried to describe trump and Vince as rags to riches stories, but then immediately go on to talk about how both inherited what ultimately makes them?
1 likebootstraps.png
love me sum wraslin
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