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.

And also because I just don't really want to lol

@Rare Item That was the one of the worst thing to happen in the WWE.

They literally put Zombies on a ppv, so I guess they're not pretending to be real

@MAJIN I'm saying with normal movies like star wars, they basically tell you that the movie is fake... lol

What movie tell u it's fake. Which movies are u watching man

@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.

@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 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.

@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

Also to add to the movie thing, they are literally called acters, as in people that act things out...

@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.

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?


Which is a good thing. WWE was total cringe


Emp ily so much, you're so great at getting us into your headspace


Thirty years later, and I still hate Vince


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've never watched wrestling but I love watching videos about wrestling because the people who make them are so invested in it


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


Am i wrong to cry while watching this? I was taken back to this glorious era. Great job!!


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.


One can never look down on the storywriting of pro wrestling once they've seen the Golden Lovers in Japan


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


this is such a good video and the respect/word you gave for shakesphere and theatre was a nice touch. props to you


I 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.


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.


I 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


i can say i was a kid during these years and loved them so much, WWF was awesome


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.


Thinking about growing up with raw and smackdown makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.


I must have watched this video about ten times and I'm not getting bored of it. One of the best videos on YT imo


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


The whole video is like some streched 3rd act in old Western. I love it!


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.


It's things like this that just make you go God damm I love wrestling


Watching this while aew dynamite is rocketing up in ratings and still getting massive pops even in quarantine


Attitude Era... what a glorious childhood I had.


Wrestling is channeling the same energy as those OC tournaments on Deviantart back in the day.


The amount of ECW excluded from this video hurts


I 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


Do you guys know who is also so good at telling stories to the point you think the characters are real? ERIC CARTMAN!


Why 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.


I was born in '89 and not allowed to watch wrestling. Interesting story!


"Most of you can probably picture a vague figure in your heads..." Nope, I have aphantasia and that's physically impossible for me!


Those Monday Night Wars were so huge, it ran the NFL off to ESPN on Monday Nights.


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.


this video is a nice gate way into wrestling thank you


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


Wrestling isn't wrestling is one of my favorites


"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.

You may want to check some of your facts man


The undertaker won the match, but Mick Foley saved wrestling


Mankind vs Undertaker was such a classic


The Undertaker is the greatest ex machina in all of Shonen!


It’s funny how the security guards turned to look at Austin hit rock with the chair


Yoooooo, that's the Donkey Kong theme 🤣😂🤣🤣 brought back memories 4real!


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.


The current Wednesday Night War HAS NOTHING on the Monday Night Wars.


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.

Goldust was at the time, shocking, and if you haven't read his book I recommend it

Today, 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.


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.


Not even Monday Night Raw is like Monday Night Raw anymore


I liked as soon as you said Mick Foley was the protagonist.


Everything else you got right except 1

The 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.


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!


Ha I watched that hell in a cell match when I was a kid and it was insane.


There will never be another fued like the SCSA/Vince McMahon storyline.


To be brutally honest, before I watched this video I thought Hulk Hogan was a famous motorcycle rider ngl


19:30 Nick 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

19:30 *Nick 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


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


HE’S GOT A DAYUM FAMILY<br>BY GOD HE’S BEEN BROKEN IN DAYUM HALF

HE’S GOT A DAYUM FAMILY
BY GOD HE’S BEEN BROKEN IN DAYUM HALF


No one:

Wednesday Night Dynamite:

"...hold my beer"


This is the story about Destiny becoming the WWF Heavyweight Champion


It’s a soap opera with stuntmen. Great fun


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.


This video aged poorly. I am not sports entertained by WWE Raw (or smackdown). I got two words for ya, AEW Dynamite.


This dude got Respect Your Elders beat over the rock Lmao. Nice


I can’t believe content like this is free


I was so pumped to see how Mankind would take the win but you didn't even go into it.


And they say Kingdom Hearts's story is contrived.


You 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.


I cant tell you free I feel now that I started identifying as a woman.


Just found your channel great stuff! But Bruh, Vince definitely didn’t “start from nothing” like cmon

@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

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.


Your right those things you listed aren’t real but guess what they look real while pro wrestling never does


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


I feel like these videos are just emp lemon justifying his strange tastes.


Triple H is the real savage. Wifes up the owners daughter, takes control and literally becomes the game


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!


Not to split hairs, but people in wrestling will tell you, there is no Vince Senior, and the dad’s middle initial is not K.

It’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!?


WWE is good af until they ruined CM Punk


10:22 wtf was that weak ass roll by Max Moon 😂


Emplemon makes a video about wrestling. Huh, that'll put butts in seats.


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


There will never ever be a beast like Brock Lesnar


Man at this period WWF was more popular than NASCAR WINSTON CUP Race😲😲😲😲

Димитър Дойчинов


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.


Vince is a far greater business man than trump


"a literal tank" bro you put the picture up, you can clearly see thats a jeep LOL


mick foley has 4 wrestling personas becaue he wrestles as mick foley too


Did anyone else notice the Dirty Harry: Magnum Force theme


I mean Smackdown has been a thing for 20 years now but ok


3:31 holy shit did you just acknowledged The Game: Game from newgrounda lmfao wtf


"People go giddy for the undertakers icon dong"


Epic Tony Hawk Pro Skater character select music at 24:55


You lost me at everybody likes Spongebob.


Good video but you get side tracked too much which makes it hard to follow


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.


33:30 Daniel Bryan vs Batista vs Randy Orton got close.


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.


Smash bros character aren’t real?

Then explain my ROB the robot collecting dust in the attic since the mid 80’s.

Smash bros character aren’t *real?*

Then explain my ROB the robot collecting dust in the attic since the mid 80’s.


Bill Shakespeare made me subscribe 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂


17:59 missed the potential shittymorph plug


How about that one time they fought god?


There needs to be a video like this for smack down

Yeah I’m sad to see raw being less entertaining same with smack down

I agree.

Honestly during the brand split,  Smackdown always feels like the better show or at least at times not as bad as RAW.


Monday Night Raw
Monday Nightraw
Monday Nitraw
Monday Nitro

I see it now.


As a manate myself I'm very offended hahaha just kidding of course


And now that no crowds are allowed. Final bullet in wrestlings back.


I've watched this video multiple times and I'm always impressed with the narrators storytelling and editing.


I'm so glad EmpLemon is a Calvin and Hobbs fan.


The only thing that's for sure about Emplemon... is that nothings for sure.


Oof, not sure anyone would become a fan of wrestling after watching RAW of the past two years.

@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.....

@CM Derp<br>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.

@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 Poppa Pump
MuH aTtiTUdE eRA

NJPW beats all of the garbagé on a daily basis. Cry more.

Y2 Jericho There’s other wrestling outside WWE ya know

There’s always ROH (and AEW when it launches)

@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.


Ur a melee fan? U won my sub with the chillin instrumental


I have vivid memories of watching this in Kindergarten and 1st grade.


There will never ever be another Steve Irwin

@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?<br>I swear some people's logic is goofy as hell

@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

@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.

@Sean Costello what's your problem man? Do you just need some attention rn? I got you

@Cool Guy "there is no way i read about someone im misinformed about because i cant accept the fact that i'm wrong"


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

goddamn, I even forgot that he hold that title once


With all this TF2 music I’m expecting There will never ever be a game like Team Fortress 2


14:04 Did...did he just fucking threaten Steve Austin with gun violence?
God 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.<br>I need it. Please i need it.

What are the orchestral or classical songs in this video.
I need it. Please i need it.


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:


12:44 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.


14:30 behold under my mask lies another mask


WHEN BROCK SLAMMED BIG SHOW & BROKE THE RING...I CRIED😄


To 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


Can you do 'there will never ever be another movie like Shrek'?


im damned sure that justin y will end up on youtube georgraphic


To become loved,

Throw every piece into a fire.

To become loved,

_Throw 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 😂


I’m a high school wrestler and yes, we exist


That homer vs lisa voice.. Is that the same guy that did star wars master of tera kasi?


WWE may never be able to replicate a moment of this spectacle.

Kofi Kingston: Hold My Pancakes

WWE may never be able to replicate a moment of this spectacle.

Kofi Kingston: *Hold My Pancakes*

Turtleneckless and I totally respect how you feel my man.

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.

Kofi never even got close to recreating that moment.


It's back. The downward spiral will Never Ever be ogre.


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.

its a shame what happened, i even talked to him a few times over discord. i hope hes in a better place now.

@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.

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.


There will never ever be a video like this that got taken down for no reason.


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.


This 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.


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!
<br>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.

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.


actually my mii fighter character is real

he's barack obama


@No Lümpen you obviously cant understand 9 year olds. very cool

It doesn't take to be an intellectual to not laugh at constant screaming and "lol random xd" things like "gibe de pusi boss".

Tr0LoLxD Pewdiepie tries to copy him and his humour but its a failure.

@Better than Justin Y As if the Spongebob video wasn't agreeable

Tr0LoLxD that's too predictable/agreeable this vid was meant to teach people like you that wrestling is an art form to be respected


...And now Emp can't wait to start watching AEW this fall, Wednesdays on TNT.

@Porter BlazeHey man, I get it. It's not for everyone.

@Grant Watson

The 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 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.

@Grant Watson after I stopped watching WWE I tried AEW

Even 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 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.

@Grant Watson no, unfortunately, ECW was one of a kind

MLW 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 I don't think we ever will see the magic of the Original ECW ever again.

@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

Which 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

@Giga Chad
Considering 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

Don't get me wrong, it's so much better than WWE is currently

But 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


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.


This is the first CEO that I actually love. Absolute legend.

I hope to one day become a CEO that people love.


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.

Actually, I think the physical wrestling has gotten better. The stories are what's suffering.


Your storytelling ability is at part with RAW is WAR era


Kane! The mayor of Knox County Tennessee


Taking a page from super eye patch wolf. I like!


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<br>He worked during the territory days but like a couple months ago he talked about how wrestling came to be

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


you forgot to mention the Impact ECW had on Vince and WWE but other than that fantastic video


<b>Glass Breaks</b> STONE COLD walks out......

*Glass Breaks* STONE COLD walks out......


Attitude era is goat of WWF.  Crazy stories and sexy woman doing bra n panty matches.


Monday night RAW and saturday morning cartoons were the best part of being a kid in the 90s

Back in the 90s it was pretty metal too...


What is the song in the background also?
8:03


Emp, you should do one of these for a band, like Queen or Smash Mouth.


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.


19:50 Oh my god the use of Ultra Necrozma's theme here is just... *Chef's Kiss of Perfection*

19:50 Oh my god the use of Ultra Necrozma's theme here is just... **Chef's Kiss of Perfection**

Yeah holy shit. The hype is just at a peak there


Sugar is sweet and so is honey but the beat goes on


Dislike, the man said mick foley wasnt talented... Look up the i gave you cactus jack promo and try saying this man isn't talented.


There will never ever be a channel like filthy frank

@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.

pixel parrot ben how original (eye roll)


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.


One of the greatest videos made on youtube. Period, excellent explanation. I love how this dude goes from ytps to wwe history.<br>Pure gold

One of the greatest videos made on youtube. Period, excellent explanation. I love how this dude goes from ytps to wwe history.
Pure gold


Got tears in my eyes toward the end. Thank you for making such an awesome video about the show that raised me


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!


Thank you for making a video that explains why wrestling is beloved by millions...and the millions...of fans across the world


This 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. 🤙🏽


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.


Won’t lie this video has got me mildly interested in wrestling and looking into how it is done from a storytelling perspective


Extraordinarily well done video!<br>I never really saw WWE in this way before.

Extraordinarily well done video!
I 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


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.


Why 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?


I 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.


These days were so f'n awesome. Outta control!<br>Everyone from the attitude era is a G.O.A.T!

These days were so f'n awesome. Outta control!
Everyone from the attitude era is a G.O.A.T!


i honestly couldn’t think of anything better to watch live while drinking


This is an excellent video, very well put together. Got yourself a subscriber buddy!


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 think the return of Edge at the royal rumble might have rivaled that pop from Austin, for totally different reasons hehe.  Great video btw :)


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!


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.


there's a reason wwe has entertainment in it's name


"WWE is currently the only major wrestling company in North America"

AEW: "watch this shit"


Great video. I knew all this stuff anyway, but that Stone Cold entrance should be in every youtube video IMO.


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.


This is fantastic!<br>I shall now be binging Raw 98

This is fantastic!
I 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!

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


Vince McMahon is the greatest heel of all time.


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?


I think there will Never Ever be another show like 90's-00's Raw. Late 2010s Raw has been pretty bad all over tbh


the Booker T flub will forever be hilarious lmao


RAW will never ever be so good as it was 20 Years ago


in order to be loved, leave your territory.
In 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.


I 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


The DDT is still the best finisher in wrestling and you can't tell me otherwise.


"But even the most Jaded ones will get giddy when they hear the sound of his iconic DONG."

Wouldn'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


The Attitude Era of WWF wouldn’t exist without ECW. That’s what this video should be about.


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


stone cold steve austin is and will always be the best wrestler in my opinion


Cactus Jack is probably the best wrestler name ive ever heard.


When you forget that ECW existed as a threat to WWF and also forget that AEW existed in 2019 as a threat to WWE.


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


Actually, Pro-Wrestling is REAL. It's just WWF/WWE is NOT Pro-Wrestling


My favorite promos for stone cold was his ecw promo


Mike Foley for Raw was what Roy Nelson was to UFC, right?


Only EMP thinks about googling if Luke Skywalker is real for us dum-dums <3


This is the best video about wrestling on this whole god forsaken website


WWE is the modern day Shakespeare<br>Change My Mind

WWE is the modern day Shakespeare
Change 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


There will never be another show like Mondan Night Raw. And Monday Night Raw today is nothing like it.


I was sadder when i found out wrestling wasn't real than when i found out Santa wasn't


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.


Monday Night Raw will never be like Monday Night Raw again the way things are going...


why did I just now realize that "nitro" is equivalent "Night Raw"


Imagine losing naming rights to panda lawyers lol


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.

@KingMoe People who don't even watch wrestling at least knows some of them

to a hardcore fan, sure, to a casual fan, no.


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.


If professional wrestling is fake then why can I place bets on its outcome?


Monday Night Raw will Never EEEEEEEEEEVER Be The Same...... AGAIN!!!!!


26:47
i never hear a statement more true than this
LMAO


25:18 not a tank

the 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?"


Eh Idk the characters they have on WWE now are pretty lame.

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?

Wrestling will forever be shit. The bar was set too high in the 90’s.


Vince McMahon kinda killed kayfabe and then the monday night wars did the rest of the job


my man rly just used an assist to win a set


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.


Nobody:

Vince: Fine, I'll do it myself*

Nobody:

Vince: Fine, I'll do it myself*


20:31 How is that belt floating in the air?


that guy with the mask covering his face painted to look like the mask destroyed me


I hit 'like' because of the Donkey Kong Countey 3 music. I see you, Emp.


Why did he put a floating belt in front of a blank wall at 20:32?


This man really dissin theatre tho. Otherwise, top tier content.


Basically it was a Soap Opera on steroids.


But now there is one again. Its called AEW Dynamite


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.


2:28 when you tell someone their waifu isn't real


Professional wrestlers are like gladiators... but not...slaves?..um..


15:48 I thought Mick lost his ear to Vader in their match? Did he lost both his ears? Lol hes a legend

@Juan Sanchez but how did he lose his ear twice?


WWF TO WWE? Seems like a small step backwards


Pretty sure in the UK they were shown at 8pm WWF
9pm 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


I 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


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.

@ThatOneGuyMatt Naw I would kinda say WCW and Smackdown, but it was only a short period of time and was ruined by Vince himself.


Random, love this Slick Rick lyrics reference 🙌🏾


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


why does ted turner look literally exactly like what a ted turner should look like


wrestling fans love the word visceral haha.


The America all of our parents grew up in ended on 9/11. Culturally and in someways, emotionally.


The Virgin WWE Monday Night Raw vs. THE CHAD WWF MONDAY NIGHT RAW

ECW is chad, that's where real men had hardcore fights

Hey man Ruthless Agression MNR was pretty CHAD

The CHAD 1970s World Wide Wrestling Federation

Whut Lol I loved 2000s era Smackdown as well.

Ahem early 2000s smackdown was the chad I mean imagine going "One on One wit da undatayka"


Daniel Bryan is like Foley's Spiritual Sucecessor.


9:27 That song will always take me back to Gran Turismo 4 on the PS2. Good job Emp


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.


The second stone cold whipped out that glock and said the exact caliber was the second I knew he was a true American

Ah yes, quite incredible that Steve Austin got his hair back.


26:55 "When a man lose his hair, he has nothing else to lose."

B O L D


10:40
Well...
This video didn't age very well did it...
#AEW

Wwe is still the biggest wrestling promotion


I remember this video as if it were yesterday.


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'...

The Rock vs SCSA feud deserve a video on its own


I blame CinemaSins for ruining my suspension of disbelief


There will never ever be another game like TF2

@Indigo OW needs teamwork<br>TF2 can be solo

@Indigo OW needs teamwork
TF2 can be solo

@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.

@No Lümpen then you experienced inferior TF2, with no comp, no MVM, and a lot less community modes/maps with a smaller weapon pool

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.

@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

@Indigo  "It's Better" -Brok, God of War

@Indigo  "It's Better" -Brok, God of War

@The Dudemeister im a lvl 84 boss so you might be right

@Indigo play overwatch its like tf2 but costs more money and is dumbed down for noobies

@Indigo tf2 is better tf2 has hot waifus like the medic but ow got nothing

@Indigo No thanks, OW is Just LoL with a FPS skin, TF2 is just fun.

@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.

That would make an interesting video, I've always wondered what emps take on games are.

@Indigo saying this in 2018...<br>My how some things never change

@Indigo saying this in 2018...
My how some things never change

Your comment brought me immense sadness, because i know it's true.

@Indigo i wouldn't say being less funny and less fun to play

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 As someone who has sank 2500 hours into TF2 and like, a good 500 into OW... yeah no I had more fun with TF2.

Indigo RRRRRRRRRREEEEEEE GET OUT NORMIE!!!!!!!!!1!1!1!!1!

@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.

@Literaturenjoyerman4229 This comment speaks to me deeply

@Literaturenjoyerman4229 honestly, beyond the salt, this comment speaks to my soul on so many levels

everybody knows mafia city is the superior title

@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.

Just play Overwatch, it’s like TF2, but better


Ultra Necrozma's theme starts playing

Heart: Hey, I'm gonna give you a heart attack.

*Ultra Necrozma's theme starts playing*

Heart: Hey, I'm gonna give you a heart attack.


<b>i love you emp</b> and I love stone cold Steve Austin

*i love you emp* and I love stone cold Steve Austin


Thank 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)

KtaLegend they’re gonna drop the storyline, just you watch


I lost it when sting took of his mask to reveal another mask


The way the Jojo's "to be continued" theme is changed in EmpL's videos makes me feel uncomfortable yet it makes me laugh 😂

Just so you know it wasn’t created by Jojo it was a meme before that and a song called roundabout before that


Their is so much you get wrong here it’s unreal

☆𝔍𝔬𝔥𝔫 ℜ𝔲𝔡𝔡𝔶☭


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.


this is what i need when to show my friends when they ask why I enjoy this stuff cause it's "just faaaaaake"


"The Undertaker's Iconic DONG"

DONG

lmao

"The Undertaker's Iconic DONG"

*DONG*

lmao


17:51 for a fuller explication of the epicness of the undertaker, i recommend the video by "super eyepatch wolf"


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


Nice musical cameo from donkey king country 3!


........Goku is not real? Yeah right Bro next your going to be telling me the Easter bunny is Fake

@Po The Black Black Market Leader  That's not how you use that...

@BlayKay - 47 this comment section became a warzone from the last time i checked

@Po The Black Black Market Leader r/woooshes

You missed the easter egg.

@Po The Black Black Market Leader wooosh is old please stop

Goku is real, I mean have you not seen the cinematic masterpiece that is Dragon Ball Evolution?

Yeah and SpongeBob doesn't exist what about Santa huh


people need to understand the difference between fake and scripted


"But this video by Max Landis..."

OH GOD THAT HAS NO AGED WELL.

@Solomona Leiato he's been missing from social media for a while

@Zorro9129 <br>Money, vanity and fame almost always does that to people.

@Zorro9129
Money, vanity and fame almost always does that to people.

@AtrocityEquine <br>Thanks for letting me know.

@AtrocityEquine
Thanks for letting me know.

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?

Whoa, it seems I've been living under a Dwayne Johnson. What happened with Max?


@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

@Acoolrocket uh yes he does... play smash


There will Never Ever be another wildlife communicator like Steve Irwin.

As an Aussie, people say "crikey" and everyone immediately knows who they're talking about


NEW ARTS NU ARTニューアーツニューアート


in order to be loved,

have a gay in order to be loved transition every 3 minutes


NO WONDER SO MANY OF MY THEATER MAJOR FRIENDS WATCH WWE!!!!


Recently John Oliver came out with a WWE video. It would be interesting from EmpLemon to do something on it.


This is a great video but if you ever question Mick Foley talent again, oh man, that would be bad.

Youre confusing talent with pain tolarence


Will cm punk ever come back to wwe find out on the next episode of dragon ball wwe


I actually live near the WWE headquarters which is nice.


this video needs an update ... because AEW !

when they do something substantial then the video will come


0:53
gachiBASS
7:45
Andre doesn't look that big.
*remembers Vince is 6'1" and built like a brick shithouse
Oh, nevermind.


14:13
This is the moment I decided to subscribe.


Thanks For Being A Good Influence on my YTP's


You talk about the undertaker's "DONG" , then you IMMEDIATELY introduce a guy with the last name "WANG"...............................................................................::::::::::::::::::::CRICKETS::::::::::::::::::::.............................<br>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!!!

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!!!


You know shit's gonna go down when the Dirty Harry soundtrack starts up...… 7:20

Dirty Harry soundtrack goes so well with Vince McMahon and his empire


27:35 I wish Vince cares about his product right now.


But neither Star Wars, The Avengers, Goku, or the Simpsons PORTRAY themselves as real. That's the difference, no?

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 <br>mark calaway is a resurrected deadman that have magical powers they say that about the undertaker the fictional character that mark calaway is portraying

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


My favorite Wrestling moment ever was when Donald Trump clotheslined CNN.


19:50 ultra nacrozma theam ultra sun and moon no dout


There will never be a man like my Jonny, the one they called Jonny Guitar.


"trump made his money through ruthless business"
trump slowly shuffles away with daddys money

"trump made his money through ruthless business"
*trump slowly shuffles away with daddys money*


19:59 to is that the Necrosma theme from ultra sun/ moon


Missed the entire episode.  Pro wrestling seemed to me to be some sort of porn.


WHERES THE SHOCK MASTER?!?!? HE REIGNS SUPREME AND WILL RETURN WITH A BANG!!


I'm down the Street from where that manatee died


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 !!!! . .. ... .... .....


Why is he using the los Guerrero’s sketch music lol


ULTRA NECROZMA'S THEME LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


Also, I didn't know you watched DBZ? Uh, is it good? Will I turn into a weeb if I watch it?

@incinium z I mean if your goal is to get into anime I'd recommend Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Dragon Ball Z is literally the most basic bitch anime of all time. You'll be fine.


24:29 💀💀💀💀😭😩

24:29 💀💀💀💀😭😩


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.


That Booker t promo is the epitome of someone who is absolutely and truly the character he is and should be cherished.


I've watched this multiple times and I have a new found appreciation for professional wrestling


Not only is this an insight to WWE, it also is a view into 90s America, and it's also just fuckin' crazy. Nice work.


This 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.


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!


Wrestling is predetermined. These are still athletes with amazing stamina and taking real bumps.


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.


Man i really love your videos

You'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


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. >__>

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

21:20 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

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

21:20 *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


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


I love this series of "Never Ever" videos


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.


Kind of sad how WWE has been failing these last couple of years...


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


excellent video. i do believe however the one underlying thing that all of the wrestlers share is: To be loved... you must love.


The "we'll be right back" after Booker T had me dying.


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 :)


This was legit a walkthrough my childhood ..


This video feels endless, and I love it.


The 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


The 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


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.


😍 very well done!!

love videos like this


There will never ever be a greater wrestling meme source than Scott Steiner


There will never be another Attitude era. God bless the good old days


It's worth mentioning Mankinds bump through the cell was unplanned and he was legitimately knocked out.


Ah yes, another channel for which to watch every single video in a week and wait for more


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.


My 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


God damn The Rock's entrance music still slaps.


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!


You have such a gift for storytelling dang


Good video but you should've added stuff about ECW, because they are the reason why everyone realised that wrestling can be edgy.


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?


Moral of the story, you gotta do a shit ton of stuff in order to be loved


you should do one with the rivalry with the rock and stone cold. idk, personally one of the greatest rivalries.


Give ECW credit for the Austin character. He went there before he went to the WWE.


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.


EmpLemon only proved that Luke Skywalker wasn’t real. The only logical conclusion is that lightsabers are real. Where are you hiding them Emp?


i remember my dad watching this a few years ago when i was 5 year old


No one gonna talk about how smooth that mask pull was at 14:37


This is actually one of the best videos on youtube I’ve ever seen


‘Only the winningest wrestlers get to be champion’<br>Laughs in Jinder Mahal

‘Only the winningest wrestlers get to be champion’
Laughs in Jinder Mahal


Pro Wrestling on TV is how i first got introduced to america, now that i have gotten older, it seems it was pritty close.


33:25 luckly, The comeback of edge on Royal Rumble proved otherwise :)


Holy shit Steve actually had long beautiful hair. Wow ! 😂


The best hell in a cell match, also took place on the shittiest hell in a cell ever constructed.


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.


30:05 I have so much more respect for this guy now. LMAO. this is pure are and culture xD


Please have a There will never ever be another Undertaker


I’m not even a fan of pro wrestling but that song gave the shivers


21:06 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

You 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.


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.....

it's like im literally watching starfox tv show


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.


IMO there will never be another wrestler like the undertaker


For the longest time i wondered why Diesel looked like Nash.


Vince McMahon: 'Noticed you had "Monday Night RAW" in the title of your video...

Sure would be a shame if an evil corporate overlord were to copyright claim it

Vince McMahon: 'Noticed you had "Monday Night RAW" in the title of your video...

Sure would be a shame if an evil corporate overlord were to *copyright claim it*


Loving the Donkey Kong Country theme at the start


After foley won the belt WCW never surpassed WWF in ratings for the rest of their existence


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-


When TNT announces another wrestling promotion


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


They really where the modern day gladiators.


29:31 ok EmpLemon I see you sneaking Insuricare from the Incredibles in there lol


Άγγελος Καρανάσιος


I appreciate the Cornaria remix during the Rock part


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?


HE TALKED ABOUT THE 1992 CAGE MATCH WHERE THE UNDERTAKER THREW MANKIND INTO THE SPANISH ANNOUNCERS TABLE.

did you hear Kane is running for mayor of Knox county?


scripted fights are fun, i guess we all love  jackie chan too


Crazy how Tony Shiavone is your nice again working for WWE’s rival, this time being AEW


You're my boi but why you gotta throw shots at my favorite animal the manatee? They just be chillin🤣🤣🤣


I don't know how many times I lost the red line...


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.


Hate to be that guy but.... “there will never be another show like Monday night raw” it’s called smackdown


That'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".

The 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".


12:14 Glen Jacobs ( Kane ) imposter Diesel 😂


"or ANY character in Super Smash Bros."

R.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.


At 10:00 you hit me with the most nostalgic sound ever with the gran Turismo menu music. I love you


Anyone remember the rock and sock connection


We found comedy in it too. His name is Orange Cassidy.


I bet mick is secretly a masochist and this is his dream come true


Is it just me or does his voice remind anyone else of Funke?


16:12 mmm thats wrong right there... mr.socko didnt debut til october 1998, before that mankind will use a 2 finger leather glove.


You mentioned smash bros. In this Video once more - worlds collided.


am i the only person to notice him use the same beat from chillin's "respect your elders?"


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 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.

@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


Emplemon: there will never be another show like Monday night Raw

Me:

Smackdown


Only an American will call William Shakespeare; Bill Shakespeare


30:40 that was a brilliant piece of editing to cut back like that!

A great edit, 30:57 especially was just so satisfying


Damn it I'm officially too old for Youtube.... I had one of those Motorola pagers @6:15


Controvesial Opinion:

Profesional-Wrestling is more real than Martial Arts.


The WWF was as the best time for wrestling, modern wrestling is garbage.


do Americans call William Shakespeare "Bill"? oh no


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.


“so let’s talk about mick foley”<br>me (a huge foley fan):   :)

“so let’s talk about mick foley”
me (a huge foley fan):   :)


when I realized this was ultra necrozma theme is in this


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


4:01

Ahh! 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.<br>BOOM! Next episode. Make it. Great vid dude.

There will NEVER EVER be a wrestling icon like the Underaker.
BOOM! Next episode. Make it. Great vid dude.


Dang that gran turismo song is hitting hard


God damn just gonna roast kevin owens like that


In order to be loved,<br>Make a great video.

In order to be loved,
Make a great video.


Pro wrestling was cool.... Up until they move away from the attitude era to the corny shit it is now.

Announcer Line: AHAH! HES IS HAVING FUN MAGGLE!

Face 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!


if cm punk returned tho...that'll be a loud crowd pop

He got his ass massively kicked twice by a nobody and a half something, so, he can stay retired


That's not a tank at all that's a jeep with a recoilless rifle you goof


same. Not just with this... Also with dreams and other shits like this


Oh, "respect your elders"?, lol<br>Do one for melee!

Oh, "respect your elders"?, lol
Do one for melee!


Who else pictured exactly those wrestlerz???? Wtf


In my opinion like 1998-2009 is when wrestling was the best now it’s literal garbage

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.


3:17 Man is so weird watching my real name in a video 0_o


WW(F/E) ain't no sport, but a spectacle.

Also what's with RAW's side version SMACKDOWN? Any fans?

A lot of the time the difference between Smackdown and RAW was that Smackdown was a little less drama, a little more action.

Rock and Undertaker were both primarily on smackdown when they made the show


"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.