these videos, in my opinion, are better than any tv documentary that I have ever seen, ever!  If awards were unbiased, this NEVER EVER series would award winning. NO DOUBT! Salute

The emperor will reign supreme! <br>All hail the benevolence of the lemon!

The emperor will reign supreme!
All hail the benevolence of the lemon!

this man taught me how to tie a noose<br>it's practical for every use!

this man taught me how to tie a noose
it's practical for every use!

wtf was the content ID that got the first one pulled? dang copyright nonsense

Rusty, what do you think off the embarrassing Big Chungus and Eric Andre memes in the episode?

Anyone else saw Rusty's comic in the vid?

Can’t wait for Requiem of the Crazies, papa Cage!

I am so glad he got the "Downward Spiral" in there. I'll forgive  our Emperor for not playing the sample). It's nice that it's still there though.

Rusty Cage My favorite Dying Fetus album


Am i the only one that really loved when Sting took off his mask in the ring just to reveal his face paint that looked exactly like his mask? That was G O L D

The best part is that <b>he's still doing it.</b>

The best part is that *he's still doing it.*

@Travis Tucker I remember him pulling that off in TNA as well. not as good as what happened in Nitro though.

what if the real sting was actually the guy from the police

Im too late yo be born his perfotmance inside the ring in his prime but just in time to knew his legacy, dude was the spitting image of The Crow

Just wanted to inform that he did it a week ago at AEW :D

Yes! He was fake sting, then it turned out he was the real sting pretending to be a fake sting! So perfect!

For awhile Sting would sit in the rafters or high up in closed off seats of the arenas, sometimes even in the stands with fans hidden. It’s actually insane how these guys are talented and funny enough to make an entire arena go crazy with these simple stupid storylines it really is the pinnacle of performance art that we have today as funny as it sounds. Without possessing any sort of musicianship or speaking skills (relatively) these companies have made 70k people go berserk.

Sting is hilarious and great at being the quiet enforcer

Hogan jumping around on his toes in response cracks me up

And the other guy was sooooo shocked.  Comedy gold.

Just about anything Sting did was gold! He was a great role model for kids that just loved him. Wrestling was fun then.

@Travis Tucker Yeah he did it in the ring in wcw and in the crowd in tna iirc

@Travis Tucker No he was pretending to be the nWo's Fake Sting, who wore that mask, then revealed the facepaint to show it was the real Sting.

I watched the sting army clip after reading this comment and that was hysterical

It made sense if you watched the whole promo, but as a meme it's even better.

Lmao when people be like new year new me

I'll admit that I laughed at how I fell for it

Wasn't he just in the crowd pretending he was just someone cosplaying?


My absolute favorite thing, by far, about wrestling is when the commentators yell things such as:
“BY GOD, HE KILLED HIM!”
“HE’S BROKEN IN HALF!”

@Jennifer Walters AEW is what I suggest for modern wrestling fans, though JR had been having some senior moments in his time commentating there

When JR said those things he wasn't saying them for soundbytes, he legitimately believed them. We can watch those clips with the power of hindsight and know he survived, but at the time a person just fell that far, it was very much possible he could have been dead and that's what a lot of people thought.

@Faze Jev I'm not entirely sure sadly. May have needed just 1 and happened to choose King

@Roon Kolos absolutely awesome story. one question tho, why would they tell jerry lawler but not JR?

Taz on AEW Dark is a legend. some of the funniest commentary I've ever heard

Hes getting beat like a government mule!

@Roon Kolos Nice attention to detail👍 Things like this are why I love the WWE lore

He actually said "good God almighty, they killed him" but there's actually a reason for that being important

At the time, Vince and several other higher ups weren't really big on Mankind/Foley. There was a LOT of lockerroom politics going on. What makes JR's line so significant is that he didn't know Mankind was gonna go off the cell. NO one did except for Mick, Mark (The Undertaker), the referee and Jerry Lawler (the commentator beside JR)

JR honest to God, even if for just a moment, legitimately believed Vince and others wanted Mick gone so badly that he would want him killed. JR's commentary in those moments were 100% genuine, completely unscripted

Which makes the overall moment even more insane knowing how that simple phrasing has so much behind it

He actually said "good God almighty, *they* killed him" but there's actually a reason for that being important

At the time, Vince and several other higher ups weren't really big on Mankind/Foley. There was a *LOT* of lockerroom politics going on. What makes JR's line so significant is that he didn't know Mankind was gonna go off the cell. NO one did except for Mick, Mark (The Undertaker), the referee and Jerry Lawler (the commentator beside JR)

JR honest to God, even if for just a moment, legitimately believed Vince and others wanted Mick gone so badly that he would want him killed. JR's commentary in those moments were 100% genuine, completely unscripted

Which makes the overall moment even *more* insane knowing how that simple phrasing has so much behind it

@johs I never said it wasn’t! I absolutely love Jim Ross! I said that as a positive. His energy is amazing and his commentary is great, he really gets viewers into the action. I also love Jerry “ The King” Lawler screaming at the top of his voice!

@Disturbed Pyro tbf that is his job as an announcer

JR loves to over exaggerate! “OMG after a leg lock like that his ankle MUST be completely shattered! How is he even walking?! This is incredible!!!” 😂😂

@Jennifer Walters AEW is good but not everyone's a fan I suppose.

@Babanoo Wait, I thought AEW was good? isn't that who he's working for now? I am a bit out of the loop these days.

Quote the L8, GR8 Gorilla Monsoon... " he just kicked him in his external occipital protuberence!"

Lmao Joey styles be like “OW MY GAAAADDD”

That's Jim Ross "JR" and his amazing work. He still works for another wrestling company nowadays, but the show is trash and he's old so he doesn't really care anymore and he's there for a paycheck.


Vince was a great businessman. I can’t think of anyone else who is willing to get the shit beat out of them just to keep his company alive

Wwe went downhill because of Vince himself. While Vince had created a amazing legacy he also destroyed it especially with the recent shit. I wish Shane would have taken over. We could have gotten some nostalgia and maybe wwe would have went back to its roots. Wwe now is too pg and is trying to sell to everyone while not offending anyone. It loses its touch once the whole "wokeness" controls WWE. Wwe was the complete opposite. Also remember than Vince keeps shoving roman reigns as if we all enjoy him guy gets more boos from crowd reaction.

@Sakîne Mirkan I disagree with most of this. In the early days Vince was a fantastic businessman. He turned a local item into a global empire worth billions. That is brilliant no doubt about it. But the past few decades of near total monopoly has definitely made Vince and the WWE loose their better judgement.

Not to mention he actually pissed himself inthe ring (scripted). What a legend

@Robert Hansen Whataboutism is a logical fallacy in which somebody will point out something bad like saying "The USA also committed war crimes" in order to make the point that Russias War Crimes are not that bad.
As a matter of fact whataboutism is often traced back to Soviet Propaganda.
You just don't know the first thing about rhetorical figures and logical fallacies. Might want to look it up, might learn something.

And what you're doing there very much IS whataboutism. Because your point is "Dealing with Saudi-Arabia isn't bad because everybody does it". You know why Whataboutism doesn't work? Because you can justify ANYTHING terrible with something more terrible or something equally terrible. Problem is that this justifies absolutely nothing at all. If that were the case the only thing every murderer on the planet would ever need to say is "But I'm not as bad as the Nazis" and then they would get a free out of jail card wouldn't they? But they don't. Because that's a logical fallacy. Just because somebody elses crimes are equally bad or worse then yours, doesn't automatically make yours better.

 You seriously need to educate yourself kiddo.

@Sakîne Mirkan whataboutism isn't real lmaooooo

Dealing in Saudi Arabia is the default, it doesn't mean anything. Actively declining such deals would mean something.

@Kitt Spiken Don't you think using Charlemagne for your analogy is a bit underselling the importance of one glorious Vince McMahon? (That was sarcasm btw)

But nice Strawman. Not my point tho. The point is, again, that Vince was successful IN SPITE of himself because he had people around him working actively against him and persuading him from making decisions he himself never wanted to make. Like the ones mentioned.
So if it was Vince alone without any influence from others, keeping him from making the shittiest decisions ever, the WWF/E would've failed probably waaaay before his time.
Just like absolutely every other venture McMahon ever did where nobody persuaded him otherwise. Wanna talk about the glorious WBF? Or maybe the XFL? How's that doing?

@Sakîne Mirkan "Charlemagne had a court so he was a do nothing king."
It's obvious Vince was the driving vision behind everything, good and bad.
He couldn't have done it alone, but who can? That's not how leadership works.
He was driving force behind the branding, storylines, recruiting, networking for cross promotion, and overall strategy that usurped the previous cartel monopoly for his own in less than a decade.
Come on.

@Kitt Spiken I never said it would. But then again many of the "achievements" of Vince McMahon were very often just happening because of others and very much so rather in spite of him then because of him.
Like hiring Stone Cold, Mick Foley or pushing The Rock. So many of the most important people who carried his company and his ass for years were only there because of other people pushing Vince to take them. Like Bret Hart or Jim Ross. And so many others.

I give the WWE that much that they were extremely busy over the decades to craft the fairytale of Vince being this great guy who does it all and all by himself but that's just noooot true. Even if you forget about the fact that without the workers a boss is nothing at all.

@Sakîne Mirkan him being old and losing his spark doesn't erase his acumen.
He took on a nationwide cartel, picked off their territories one after the other until they were all his. The entire continent was his empire.
Now he's the old man who's lost his edge.
No one can stay on top forever.

@watcher Eddie Graham, one of his father's best friends, killed himself in January, 1985; Vince took over his territory and was running shows in Tampa by August.<br>Greatness is not a morale metric, it is a measurement of achievement. Establishing a continent wide business empire is undeniable.

@watcher Eddie Graham, one of his father's best friends, killed himself in January, 1985; Vince took over his territory and was running shows in Tampa by August.
Greatness is not a morale metric, it is a measurement of achievement. Establishing a continent wide business empire is undeniable.

@Joel Down before you even think about spewing such bs like neither could Goldberg or the Undertaker I've got some news for BILL GOLDBERG and Mark The Undertaker Callaway both had MMA training backgrounds prior to becoming wrestlers and also BILL GOLDBERG played in the NFL with the Atlanta Falcons

@Joel Down Logan Paul? Couldn't hack it in UFC if He tried so what makes him so special

Revkun I can president of tna impact dixie carter the TNA IMPACT founder Jeff Jarrett, Eric Bischoff lest we forget he ran wcw during the Monday Night Wars and Paul Heyman we can't forget about the time Paul Heyman came up with the idea that John Cena would make him eat a bar of soap

Vince Actually Got Chokeslammed By Undertaker In 1998 LOL I Died When That Happened You Shouldn't Have Provoked Undertaker

mad props to Vince for being so much more than a suit in a comfy leather seat

@Revkun To be fair you did say "is" as opposed to was. I could also mention how Vince destroyed other wrestling businesses after his father promised that his company wouldn't compete with other promotions. I'd argue he was <b>never</b> a great businessman.

@Revkun To be fair you did say "is" as opposed to was. I could also mention how Vince destroyed other wrestling businesses after his father promised that his company wouldn't compete with other promotions. I'd argue he was *never* a great businessman.

@I Don't Know Oh you're right. I just don't think you're telling the whole story there and I think you're not doing so for a reason. Let's start at the beginning: Yes. He bought the company from his father. Mostly with the money he made working for his father. So more or less just his fathers money. And then he went straight against the wishes and conditions of his father to NOT buy out other territories or better yet: Their top stars. Because Vince never really "made" the people like Hogan or Macho Man or Piper etc. they were already made Wrestlers and legit Stars even though only in the territory system thus far. He just bought them up from other Promotions and with that lured their crowds to him.
Oh yes the Television deals. Good thinking to go National. I'll give him that. But at the same time he also still went regional and secured deals by screwing many others over like GCW or JCP in the south. That eventually alienated a lot of people like Ole Anderson or Dusty Rhodes who later went on to form his biggest competition with WCW just out of spite. Creating your own competition isn't really a good move.
And, true, some Wrestlers really became stars of their own in WWE or WWF. But the list of people they failed to pull the trigger on and turn into legit stars is just as long. Do we really have to talk about cases like Punk? Or you mentioned Hart. Yeah. Also a good example of Vince failing to do the right thing countless times like failing to put him over at Wrestlemania when Hogan came in and wanted the title. Caving to the demands of somebody who the people clearly lost interest to instead of pushing your new star is just not a good decision.
And then there is the Steroid Scandals without which Vince would've probably never changed his stance on pushing other talent. People who he deems too small or not having enough muscle still have trouble succeeding in the company as of today. And if it weren't for the Steroid Scandal we would've NEVER seen people like Eddie Guerrero, Benoit, Angle etc. succeed in WWE to begin with. Most of these pushes came out of a necessity rather then anything else. Again with the luck.

True. He did take a huge gamble with Wrestlemania. Underlining just what I said. That many times he just succeeded out of mere luck. As you said: A gamble. He also took a pretty big gamble with things like the WBF or the XFL who both failed spectacularly along with many other business ventures he took.

The WWF or WWE was on the brink of collapse more then once. Be it through things like neglect that lead to the Steroid Scandal or be it through alienating other people who ended up becoming his competition and nearly breaking his neck. Never forget that WWF's success in the Monday Night Wars was much more to blame on WCW's failure then on Vince being a great businessman. If WCW would've pushed down on the backstage politics of certain Wrestlers coughHogancough and not hired idiots like Russo, while focusing on their best talent and homegrown stars like the Radicals then it would've been them buying WWE. But today the WWE is just making the exact same mistakes that WCW did back then. Banking on old stars for the sake of nostalgia instead of pushing new talents to the top, still thinking that there HAS to be one person at the top when that is clearly not the case, not listening to fans and who the cheer or boo for, not bothering to include the Wrestlers much more in the creative process etc.
The list is VERY long. And the excuse of people not wanting to watch Wrestling anymore or not watching TV is just lazy as fuck. The only way the company still made as much profit as they did was by making deals like the one with the Saudis that will probably do more harm then good in the long term or by selling off their assets and releasing tons of people.
People, like Wrestlers, whom the hoarded like a fucking Dragon collects gold for years now in Order to buy out the indies. A strategy that also majorly backfired along with not giving a crap about people like Cody. Now they have to release them all again because it became too expensive and now there's a company opposing them ready to take that misused talent and turn them into legit Main-Eventer. Jericho, Moxley, Russev, Malachai Black, Brody Lee and now they're even getting Danielson and CM Punk. The list is very long and WWE's failure is AEW's pleasure.

There is a lot more to be said but the fact of the matter is that, as I said, it's just not that simple.

@I Don't Know Oh you're right. I just don't think you're telling the whole story there and I think you're not doing so for a reason. Let's start at the beginning: Yes. He bought the company from his father. Mostly with the money he made working for his father. So more or less just his fathers money. And then he went straight against the wishes and conditions of his father to NOT buy out other territories or better yet: Their top stars. Because Vince never really "made" the people like Hogan or Macho Man or Piper etc. they were already made Wrestlers and legit Stars even though only in the territory system thus far. He just bought them up from other Promotions and with that lured their crowds to him.
Oh yes the Television deals. Good thinking to go National. I'll give him that. But at the same time he also still went regional and secured deals by screwing many others over like GCW or JCP in the south. That eventually alienated a lot of people like Ole Anderson or Dusty Rhodes who later went on to form his biggest competition with WCW just out of spite. Creating your own competition isn't really a good move.
And, true, some Wrestlers really became stars of their own in WWE or WWF. But the list of people they failed to pull the trigger on and turn into legit stars is just as long. Do we really have to talk about cases like Punk? Or you mentioned Hart. Yeah. Also a good example of Vince failing to do the right thing countless times like failing to put him over at Wrestlemania when Hogan came in and wanted the title. Caving to the demands of somebody who the people clearly lost interest to instead of pushing your new star is just not a good decision.
And then there is the Steroid Scandals without which Vince would've probably never changed his stance on pushing other talent. People who he deems too small or not having enough muscle still have trouble succeeding in the company as of today. And if it weren't for the Steroid Scandal we would've NEVER seen people like Eddie Guerrero, Benoit, Angle etc. succeed in WWE to begin with. Most of these pushes came out of a necessity rather then anything else. Again with the luck.

True. He did take a huge gamble with Wrestlemania. Underlining just what I said. That many times he just succeeded out of mere luck. As you said: A gamble. He also took a pretty big gamble with things like the WBF or the XFL who both failed spectacularly along with many other business ventures he took.

The WWF or WWE was on the brink of collapse more then once. Be it through things like neglect that lead to the Steroid Scandal or be it through alienating other people who ended up becoming his competition and nearly breaking his neck. Never forget that WWF's success in the Monday Night Wars was much more to blame on WCW's failure then on Vince being a great businessman. If WCW would've pushed down on the backstage politics of certain Wrestlers *coughHogancough* and not hired idiots like Russo, while focusing on their best talent and homegrown stars like the Radicals then it would've been them buying WWE. But today the WWE is just making the exact same mistakes that WCW did back then. Banking on old stars for the sake of nostalgia instead of pushing new talents to the top, still thinking that there HAS to be one person at the top when that is clearly not the case, not listening to fans and who the cheer or boo for, not bothering to include the Wrestlers much more in the creative process etc.
The list is VERY long. And the excuse of people not wanting to watch Wrestling anymore or not watching TV is just lazy as fuck. The only way the company still made as much profit as they did was by making deals like the one with the Saudis that will probably do more harm then good in the long term or by selling off their assets and releasing tons of people.
People, like Wrestlers, whom the hoarded like a fucking Dragon collects gold for years now in Order to buy out the indies. A strategy that also majorly backfired along with not giving a crap about people like Cody. Now they have to release them all again because it became too expensive and now there's a company opposing them ready to take that misused talent and turn them into legit Main-Eventer. Jericho, Moxley, Russev, Malachai Black, Brody Lee and now they're even getting Danielson and CM Punk. The list is very long and WWE's failure is AEW's pleasure.

There is a lot more to be said but the fact of the matter is that, as I said, it's just not that simple.

@Sakîne Mirkan The man emerged on top against an entire system of dozens of territories and secured a television deal which made the WWF one of the hottest promotions. He also brought wrestling mainstream by focusing on the entertainment aspect of it and created dozens of stars like Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, Bret Hart, Stone Cold, the Rock. Plus, he took a huge gamble with Wrestlemania that could have sunk him. And he bought WWF from his father even with the fact that missing a single payment would make him lose control of the company. These things have to count for something.

@sha hood Since the outcome of this kind of questioning cannot possibly be anything else then an ad hom I'm very simply not gonna indulge.

@Sakîne Mirkan ahh so you still haven't told me WHY saudi deals are bad, just that they are . And in your opinion there are no good busiessmen, and then you nitpick my use of 'every' but get pissy when i correct your actual misrepresentation of an objective fact. From where i am sitting it seems like you just don't like vince and hate when someone praises him for his accomplishments. I hope you are in your teens because this kind of behavior would be extremely sad coming from anyone over the age of 20

@sha hood "why wouldnt he do the saudi deals, every single pugilistic sport big enough does those"
I replied to your comments in order of the arguments you made. That there? THAT is whataboutism. "But what about all the other sports who also do bad thing?"
Get it?

There are no "successful businessman" as far as  I am concerned. But the reason for that is too complicated for you to understand.

"Every businessman has failed ventures"
You know what the problem is with using absolutes to prove your points in any topics that do not concern laws of nature like physics? Ya just can't prove them ;)

"they didn't sell the asset btw, they rented it out, its a 5 or 10 year deal"
If nitpicking is all you got then I think my example more then makes the point.

@Sakîne Mirkan what part of you saying he is a bad businessman and me saying he had his company's most profitable year recently and that he does shows in a profitable location that everyone does is whataboutism?  Who do you consider a successful businessman? Every businessman has failed ventures, they didn't sell the asset btw, they rented it out, its a 5 or 10 year deal

@sha hood Whataboutism won't make it better. Besides things like that, along with the terrible booking, hurts them in the long term.
They only had their most profitable year because they're literally selling all their assets lol.
Donald Trump sure as shit could and so could Vince. Wanna talk about how many Business ventures Vince already came up with that went absolutely nowhere?
And again: If the competition does worse then he, he wins as well. His triumph over WCW was as much because of their failure to do the right thing as it was Vince doing something better.
Vince himself said he lost touch. What more do you need?

@Sakîne Mirkan why wouldnt he do the saudi deals, every single pugilistic sport big enough does those and tv is dying so ratings aren't the best indicator for anything, they still had their most profitable year just last year and the profits are still steady, a man cant go 30 years just on luck

@Majin Vegeta I reiterate my previous question again. What leads you to think that when you haven’t watched the product in a decade?

@I Don't Knowlol bro there are no storylines lmao vince just books the same matches over & over. The wrestlers are his puppets & vince is the puppeteer 😒

@Majin Vegeta Well how can you say that if you stopped watching for years? You don’t have an idea of what storylines are actually happening.

I'm not gonna bother mentioning limited creative freedom most wrestlers have, nor the work schedule they have because at this point I feel like most people know what they're getting into as far as that is concerned.

Anyway.

The steroid scandal. Montreal Screwjob. Owen Hart and deciding "the show must go on". "Independend contractors". Saving Jimmy Snuka from going to trial. Firing people during a pandemic when they could easily afford to keep them. I could go on.

His business practices are far from great.

@FerDaus nah, he still is... no matter the ups and downs

@FerDaus nah, he still is... no matter the ups and downs

@Majin Vegeta well you missed a lot then

@Majin Vegeta well you missed a lot then

@Bhavika Bachwani sh*ttttt bro i stopped watching that trash 10 years ago 😞

@Bhavika Bachwani sh*ttttt bro i stopped watching that trash 10 years ago 😞

@Nick Willett Even if fake, it's still cool to see him go on stage personally and "get the shit kicked out of him".

@Nick Willettit very much is true. You can stage some things, but you can't stage away the physical effect of being slammed around and thrown into the ground.

I kinda stopped watching wrestling 2 years ago but u can’t deny the fact that it’s a spectacle and Vince has made something special


This honestly might be one of the greatest video essays I've ever seen.
The story arc,
The charecter building,
The explanations and metaphors.
Just beautiful, emp.

Every video essay Emp makes is a masterpiece lmao


Only emp lemon has the balls to Go through an entire WWE history video without mentioning John cena once

@Nerdism "John Semen" I think that'll be my name when I enter the adult industry 😂

I remember the phrase iambic pentameter but cannot remember wtf it means. And idk how to use google. Help me.

@Fan Growls we've had NJPW for decades, its just wwe fans stuck in a bubble that are just now discovering it. In fact at their height, Nakamura had the IWGP IC belt seen as more important than the World title.

@Brandi Smith bias but somewhat true, Cena isn't even Raw, he's a smackdown star and on top of that I think he only ever went there in 2005 to do the championship swap storyline where the world heavyweight championship belt and WWE belt switched brands

At least for me, by the time John Cena came around, I was long gone. That prank call is so fucking funny tho

Because he hasn’t done anything worthy of mentioning in the grand scheme of wrestling.  He’s a sport entertainer and a sycophant

Well to be fair- the topic and timeframe was before john cenas time- although not mentioning him once for 30 minutes- is still pretty impressive

That's cz Cena will never be as iconic as hulk or savage or steve Austin or the undertaker or any of the other icons......lol he blows

like he said in his nascar video things got worse when things got safer

what about krispin wah the guy who can melt steel beams LmAo

How can you review a man who you can't see?

now we have aew and njpw things have changed quite a bit

cena was part of the next generation and he carried wwe fpr 2 decades now that he's part time and barely shows up wwe is declining faster than ever

@All Invite Ohm How dare you call yourself "The Grammar Nazi" without even correcting B's clear and obvious misuse of "apart" in place of the phrase "a part" in saying that Cena was absent from the glory days of Raw.

THE GRAMMAR NAZI HAS BEEN STRUCK!

The story told centered around events during and preceding the Attitude Era. Cena came into the company at the start of the Ruthless Aggression Era.

Cena wasn’t apart of the golden days of Raw. Cena was a completely different generation of Raw. He definitely became a huge name on his own, but he was the only huge name from his time on Raw. Cena represents WWE, the true Raw was from the WWF.

And yes, this a 100% bias opinion.

20:31 Yeah, that is technically just a picture, but I still found it funny.


Austin's wresting was one thing.... But his ability to catch a beer from someone in the nosebleed section and then down it 2 seconds flat was pure talent.


There was another meta-layer to all this, which was the fact that the show was on Monday nights. It ties in perfectly with the theme of the show; as the 90s ushered in an era of boring, sterile 9-5 jobs at soulless corporations, Mondays became a symbol of the boredom and tedium yet to come. It was likely around this time that the sentiment of “I hate Mondays” was at its peak.

But then, you had Monday Night Raw, which was the exact antithesis to that. Whereas Monday mornings and afternoons were spent transitioning from the freedom of the weekend to the soul-crushing corporate world at work, MNR was the exact opposite of that, being bombastic, edgy and fun.

Monday Night Raw’s timeslot worked so well because Monday Night Raw is the opposite of what Mondays are.

That’s why RAW is still on Monday nights, and why nothing else competes on Monday nights.


Imagine going back in time and introducing WWE to ancient Greeks.

@mattster h yup that's how it was in those days lol fun fact: Gymnasium is ancient Greek for "naked place"

Considering they created the Olympics, they kinda were into something, if their cilization hadn't collapsed I think they eventually would get there.

WWE comes from wrestling, greco-roman style to be more precise, so...

@Farles Barkley "All the Greeks love the Big Valbowski!"

@Oldies channel  True, personally my bar is a lot lower but I get your point

@Daniel Adeyemi it depends how you look at it, I personally wouldn't call the setup for an Olympic wrestling match an "arena" at least in the modern sense (through it did have sand) although it did have audiences in tiered seats it didn't have the right shape, nor was it enclosed, but maybe this is semantics.

@Oldies channel  I see, to my knowledge they wrestled on sand at least for the Olympics i.e. with spectators. Whilst this does differ from gladiatorial combat as it's unarmed, it's still arena combat since a) takes place in arena as you said, and b) is combat.

@Daniel Adeyemi also I'm talking about Ancient Greek wrestling on a hard floor. They wrestled on stone floors as far as I know, not mats. They may have wrestled on sand (which would actually bring it a bit close to arena combat as "arena" simply meant "sand" in ancient Latin)

@Daniel Adeyemi yeah Pankration was different from wrestling, more like MMA as you said. Its still far away from Gladiatorial combat though

@Oldies channel  By wrestling I'm talking about Pankration which is an interesting mix of boxing, wrestling etc. It's combat as much as modern MMA is and likely more brutal since there were less rules. I don't know what wrestling you're talking about that's done on a hard floor though

@Daniel Adeyemi that's not really the same kind of arena combat, there was no weapons and it wasn't held in the same kind of "arena". It was basically the same as amateur wrestling today but naked and on a hard floor lol

@Oldies channel  Nah, the Olympics involved wrestling ergo arena combat, it was just changed when Rome came along

There were probably stage combat scenes in Greek plays.

That should be a movie. Like Martin Lawrence movie "blue streak". 😆🤣

@Marshall Drews Ancient Greece didn't have any arena combat before being occupied by Rome

They were called arena fighters, or later on, gladiators as would become know during Rome. It too was theater counter to the bloodsport Hollywood would have you believe it was.

If there’s any modern media that the ancient Greeks would fucking love, it’s WWE. They’d dig it

@ohhellyeah 287 By it, you mean val venis


The Mick Foley cage scene made me cry, but not like in pity. Just moved by his motivation.

Reminds me of the time that in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table


Mate, he's 6'10". Pretty sure it's iconic.


14:37 can I just say how much I love this? He takes off his mask only to reveal that he still has face painting on that looks exactly the same as the mask he just wore. Brilliant.

You guys are missing the context to this. Lol~ it's awesome too.
During this era the NWO had been mocking the fact Sting (the mysterious WCW Enforcer and the only one Hogan feared) was entirely missing.
For almost two months, they'd show up week after week with this clown version of Sting and just totally roast him.
Yet during one fateful night of attempted humiliation, Sting removes his fake mask to reveal it's actually him. He was BACK.

the real hilarious part is that that wasn't the only time that character did that exact thing


Please make more of this series. "There will never". I've gained so much respect for Nascar and Wrestling after watching your videos.

I’ve been a wrestling fan for years, not only are his wrestling videos pure gold but the nascar videos are pure gold too, and I never imagined I’d ever be interested in Nascar. It turns out that it happens to just be more than “cars just spinning in circles” .


The bit at 23 minutes sold me. He takes off his glasses and stares down a fan holding a DIE ROCKY sign and it got me interested in what happens next. Fan interaction is the future imo, and we're JUST starting to see it now with streamers. Wrestling was ahead of it's time in a way.

There was a very long period of time where WWE just ignored what the fans wanted, the commentators would even say the crowd was cheering someone when they were quite clearly booing them. The lack of competition made it so the WWE thought they could ignore the fans, after all they had nowhere else to go (other than stop watching completely... which a lot did)

and also not, because a lot of what happened in theater was based off of the crowd's reaction, or specifically written to get a certain response from the crowd. But yeah Vince is a genius, always has been, and WWE just had the best revenue year of all time last year. A $1 billion deal with Peacock doesnt hurt either lol


"Just because the matches have a pre-determined outcome, doesn't mean the pain isn't real." - Bill Goldberg

Not all the pain is real. Most of those matches would be over in seconds if they were really punching each other

@alfa01spotivo Like WWF (at the time) and WCW were all edgy and brutal as hell, but ECW was like fucking mental.

They even replaced ropes with barbed wires at one time, chair shots and being bashed in the head with anything were as common as someone wearing a shirt, being slammed to tables on a weekly basis, being kicked in the balls looked like it was stiff, even the women weren't safe from the headbashing

He would know, he retired Bret Hart with a stiff ass kick.

Thats a pretty ironic quote coming from a wrestler that had 2 moves, never sold a move, and never took a major bump in his whole career

@TrolledBy1337 like the time he bothchef a jackhammer and almost killed the undertaker.

Ironic that comes from Goldberg who literally ended Bret Hart’s career

Dey knight Bill Goldberg seriously injured Bret hart when he kicked him.

ECW style was dangerous as hell, my respect for all wrestlers but the ECW guys were nuts man, it was cool but like they must have felt in hell the next day

No one is disputing the pain. Like, at all.

The dispute is something like when you see CM Punk being on top of the pro wrestling consciousness...and then see him lose shoot fights against guys who are below the lower end of any sort of fighter rankings.
The dispute is when you think back to Bobby Lashley vs Braun Strowman Last Man Standing, but then think further back to him having never lost a shoot fight out of the 5 he's had in shoot fighting organization Bellator.

He would know... He gave Bret Hart a concussion!!!

And not just the pain. The athleticism required is insane. It's like parkour times 20. Anyone who thinks they can do this stuff themselves and go to get trained thinking it's a joke and is going to be easy will be wishing they were dead by the end of two sessions.

@ThatEraSound Okay then, go and start training. If there's not pain it iwll be a piece of cake and easy money.


Hey Emp. I doubt you will ever see this, but I just wanted to say thank you. This video was my introduction to professional wrestling, and I have since become a huge fan. I started watching WWE programming every week and have been watching since Wrestlemania 35. I've come to love wrestling so much and now I'm actually getting in on the industry. I'm about to start work at a small promotion near where I work and I'm excited to see where it will all go. And I wouldn't have gotten to this point had you not produced this video. So once again, thank you Emp!

Holy shit this is amazing. You're achieving every huge wrestling fan's dream, working for the show they love.

I've watched Emp for many years, and this is prime evidence that his impact on people like me and you is growing more and more every day.

Keep hustling, kind lad!


I know I’m late to this, but I am rather shocked that you didn’t really emphasize on the Montreal screw job. A moment which put a stain on the WWE, but created a silver lining in most likely inspiring Vince to not creating the Mr. McMahon character, but the attitude era as a whole.

In my personal opinion, that moment right there is where the attitude era began.

You are 100% correct.  Every fan at that moment fucking hated Vince, and he was smart enough to actually embrace it.


Hey man, I just wanted to let you know that I come back to this series all the time. One of the best reflective pieces on YouTube and I mean every episode is top. Keep it up emp


It's crazy how much can change in almost three years. when this was made, WWE was still pretty good. AEW had literally just been formed 3 days before this video was released and everyone expected it to be another TNA.

Now three years later, RAW is quite bad and AEW and WWE are consistently talked about in the same conversations. Pretty nuts to think about

@Slappy_White87 dude they didn’t say AEW was going to “overtake” WWE. They just said AEW went from being the new wrestling company on the block to being talked about by wrestling fans just as much as WWE. Also if your judgment on the value of a company is based off of presentation alone then by that logic the only movies of value are made by Disney. WWE is big but that doesn’t mean that it’s wrestling is best by proxy

"and everyone expected it to be another TNA"
Uh, no they didn't?

"when this was made, WWE was still pretty good"
No... It wasn't.

"Now three years later, RAW is quite bad"
Raw is better now than it was 3 years ago, due to the competition from AEW. That doesn't mean it's good, just better.

You're messed up.

Y'all can trash WWE all ya want but no wrestling company will over take them. Think about it, y'all get hyped if a company just doesn't go under competing with WWE. That's how dominant WWE is. Companies get respect just for not going under when going against them lmao. Aew will never be a bigger draw than WWE. Screenshot do whatever with this comment. The only WWE dies is if they make a conscious effort to let it die

Dude aew is still not on the same level. I mean presentation alone aew can't compete.

Still good 3yrs ago? Wwe hasn't been good since the Ruthless Aggression era of the mid 2000s, although Punks time was good while he was there. This is just my opinion of course...but I watch all wrestling. WWE, AEW,  Impact, ROH, MLW, NWA,  NJPW, Noah and GCW.


This video got me into wrestling, I went to my first show because of it,  I joined that promotion because of it, learned to be a referee, and 2 weeks ago missed a foot on the ropes during a pin and counted 3 during my first time on payperview. Thank you Emp, very cool.

This isn’t regular sarcasm, this is advanced sarcasm 😄😂

Can't believe this video changed your life


Your analogy for how difficult it was to explain why you like wrestling was pure gold.


I’m so mesmerized by how well this documentary was put up… I can’t count how many times I’ve had goosebumps watching this video, I have learned a lot and have been entertained at the same time. I love it a lot!


Words can't explain how much this awakens a really happy period of my childhood.  Thanks emp :)


Only EmpLemon can, in just 30 minutes, make me genuinely invested in a wrestling competition that I wasn't even born during.

I'm sorry for your loss.  WWF in the late 90s was truly lightning in a bottle

@casperd2100 lol the whole point of it is entertainment. Not everyone simply wants to watch a sport, but everyone wants to be entertained. Most of us are suckers for a good dreams fueled story. Especially if it's one we can relate to. But I respect your opinion. At one point I thought it was pretty dumb. The attitude era was the greatest. But now I kind of think it's lame again... Most of the talent that made it so great is long gone now, or moved on to better things.

May I recommend a Welsh Academic running a 3 hour long stream on his Vince shouldered out the old cartel to build his empire?

@casperd2100 is that why the MMA fighters and boxers always give them props for what they do and say they'd never be able to do it?

I was 12 when they started to show Raw and Smackdown in free TV here in Finland. Raw had The Reign of Terror going on, Katie Vick etc., so it was quite bad period of wrestling but I got invested in it. Smackdown was awesome after the brand split, and in 2008 I heard about TNA. It revolutionized my view of wrestling, to think that there are way better wrestlers than WWE had, and now they have even more competition. It's the best time to be a wrestling fan, you can watch whatever style you want!

Mid to late 90's wrestling was so fun to watch.  We knew it was fake, but it was done so well.  The competition between companies made it good to watch

@Danny Caracciolo I believe I was barely 2 months old lol, November 27 1997. Thanksgiving day

@casperd2100 99% of wrestling fans know its fake, its just entertainment, kind of like magicians. I used to think like you too, but wrestling can be pretty cool

@alfa01spotivo right... you're so sure that people don't fight over their favorite wrestler like it's a real sports team. Imagine pretending that there isn't already a pre-made winner set to win. The only reason people act like this is because WWE portrays the show as organic and not staged to people and people are dumb enough to buy into it.

@alfa01spotivo if you're talking about reality tv shows, then those are stupid as well. Shows like game of thrones are made in fantasy.

@alfa01spotivo except they dont pretend to be real

@casperd2100 you mean like every single tv show ever made

@alfa01spotivo Says the one enjoying live action figures pretending to fight each other. Cope harder.

@casperd2100 are you actually 12 years old?

@casperd2100 lol wow. Just ignore all the many injuries, the insane schedule and amount of moves needed in each match. You are such a kid

@casperd2100 wow so your saying u can do 680 splash then also protect who your fighting and also a 5 star frog splash from the top if a hell in a cell as well as create a good a great story

Edit your also saying that you can survive a liontamer can also survive getting your ear pulled off or falling of a hiac also you can survive a piledriver from on top of a hell in a cell or getting speared to a flaming table or getting ya know a go to sleep if you can't do that it takes fuking skills

@casperd2100 lmao you’re so salty. It still takes “skill”.

@big boss bob ross >greentexting on youtube<br>MMA, BJJ, muay thai, kickboxing, etc. takes skill, WWE is a show. Practice the same exact thing 200 times in a row and you can master it. That can't be said about PvP when the player style always changes and you have to adapt.

@big boss bob ross >greentexting on youtube
MMA, BJJ, muay thai, kickboxing, etc. takes skill, WWE is a show. Practice the same exact thing 200 times in a row and you can master it. That can't be said about PvP when the player style always changes and you have to adapt.

@casperd2100
>wrestling doesn’t take skill

Right. That’s why anytime people try to copy wrestling moves who aren’t trained wrestlers themselves someone always gets seriously injured or killed. Because there’s no skill involved in staging a fight with crazy spectacle and ridiculous stunts that take extreme athleticism and careful coordination. What a bunch of absolutely talentless hacks, amiright?

Supereyepatchwolf also made some incredible videos about how wrestling is great as an example of long term story telling. You should check those out if you haven’t. He also goes into the absolutely insane world of Japanese pro wrestling which is even crazier imo

Its amazing watching Emplemon's evolution as a created.

I was just four when it happened. Literally one day after my 4th birthday mankind wins


I have recently become a HUGE wrestling fan after years, well, decades, of discounting it and making fun of it. Mostly due to content creators like yourself.


You know, a lot of businessmen these days could learn a few things from how vince ran RAW.
The man quite literally got down onto the dirt and let his own employees beat the ever loving shit out of him, all for the sake of his company.
Some people wouldn’t even want their shoes scuffed, and that man was out there letting a large wrestler bodyslam him off the top rope. Now that’s dedication.


Dude, I gotta say, out of the all the wrestling docs I’ve seen on YouTube, yours is the the best by far! This is pure gold! I love the flow of it. I love your “in order to be loved..” intros to all the wrestlers and the events that happened. We need more wrestling docs like this man! Thanks for letting me relive my childhood! Pls make more!


This was the video that made me watch wrestling for the first time. I'd like to thank you, because I get to watch wrestling every Monday and Friday with my parents! You could say that it's one if my fixations now! Thank you for opening my eyes!


I still remember renting that VHS from Blockbuster as a kid and watching the Hell in a Cell with Mankind and Undertaker. Still one of the greatest matches of all time.


The music, the editing, the nostalgia. This video has been a superb Saturday morning watch.


wrestling is one of my favorite things ever. it might not reach the popularity it once had 20-30 years ago, but it’s still dear in my heart.


It feels impossible to imagine an era of WWF without Raw.  I can't imagine myself being a fan without some type of weekly show to keep me interested in story lines.


Oh man, just mentioning the Austin-McMahon feud brings back memories and hysterical moments of those crazy 3 years in the then-WWF. Assault in the ring, beer showers, eating a man's dinner, assault in the hospital, several wrestling matches........

Aaah, good times.


I was 15-20 between 1996-2001. Everybody I knew loved wrestling, it really was a cultural phenomenon. So many people have tried to recapture the magic of that era, but they can't. One big reason why is that they'd be canceled. I can't wait until we get past this age of social credit points off victimhood.


I've watched this video many times and I still enjoy it as much as I did the first time. Very well done! I feel like the most comparable story to Mick Foley's win for today's WWE is Daniel Bryan's win at Wrestlemania 30. Would love to see you make a video about that one.


Great video! So much nostalgia and I still to this day get goosebumps watching that pop for stone cold (I watched it when it originally aired way back in the 90s). I’ve tried to explain to people how wrestling had an influence on pop culture and this video puts into words what I wanted to convey!


Thanks for helping your average person learn why Wrestling is something special!  It's a task I've been trying to do for years and I'm happy it's becoming more accepted.

@Shervsy hell nah bro that sh*t has been trash for like the last 10-15 years 😞

@Ben Richards  Yeah, attitude Era was pretty good

Not at all surprised to see that MDB commented on this.

Show them Foley going off the Cell, at least you'll get a reaction

Now a days wrestling isn't that great, wouldn't recommend current wrestling

Wrestling has actually fallen from grace since then. I'm not American but there was a time me and my friends would talk about nothing but wrestling during school hours.

@Mai Nyigguh You are aware of an existence beyond the intrawebs right?

@Mai Nyigguh What does the fact that I upload gaming videos have to do with how I've gotten tons of people into wrestling over the last decade?

It's you! The guy that does Pokemon challenges! I can't believe you haven't been noticed sooner!

the raid was boring so now i have to do it myself


As a kid in the late 90s I remember how huge WWF was. I had no choice but to get into it even if just a bit. I had Smackdown vs Raw on PS2 I think. Watched some episodes, had a t-shirt, saw events with friends, etc. But I grew out of it fast. For years I thought of it as childish but I've grown to understand it and this video helped.

But I can't help but mention the very grown men who were obsessed with this like men obsessed with NFL, NBA or anything else. They took it so serious. I understand appreciating it as entertainment or even being someone who understands stunts and such, but to be so serious like we did as kids... I don't know. It's like taking call of duty so serious where you break shit and ruin your relationship. Those same type of people. Lol


I'm hung over and in a weird spot while typing this, but I legit teared up at multiple points during this video. It really brought me back man, it's impossible to explain how amazing this shit was at the time.


I’m not even a wrestling fan but “Monday Night Raw” still elicits nostalgia in me.


I've been a huge wrestling fan my whole life and I'm just so glad that someone is actually willing to analyze it and this is a GREAT video. 🤘🔥


The copyright claim must have been the work of none other than The Milluon Dollar Man, Ted DiBiase

I think YouTube unsubscribed me to your channel

Whats up whang? Im a huge fan bro!!! Gimme a reply bro

@Archie Rosie million dollar man ted dibiase was a wrestler from the 80s.<br>his gimmick basically was of a rich corporate overlord who loved poking fun at the "less fortunate". which is exactly why he worked so damn well as a heel. everyone hated his guts.

@Archie Rosie million dollar man ted dibiase was a wrestler from the 80s.
his gimmick basically was of a rich corporate overlord who loved poking fun at the "less fortunate". which is exactly why he worked so damn well as a heel. everyone hated his guts.

My money is on Jake the Snake or Gold Dust.

Either him or I.R.S. found out that EmpLemon didn't pay his taxes

@Meta Knight I put a 20 seconds tetris web play while listening to a fire emblem song before even posting it i got a claim...

The boss "TED DI-BI-ASE"! (in "Hollywood" Hogan voice)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA <b>money money money money moneeeeeeeey</b>

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA *money money money money moneeeeeeeey*

Yes. A place outside of a wrestling channel where I can mark out top kek

I.R.S says pay up you bunch of tax cheats!

Damn... I didn't know there was a hidden Whang! episode within this video :P <br>Whang is hands down one of the most under rated youtubers out there.

Damn... I didn't know there was a hidden Whang! episode within this video :P
Whang is hands down one of the most under rated youtubers out there.

I didn’t get the reference, but whang, you get a like

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY

Eterno Del Sur no one really know why the Undertaker works.  He just does.

Whang you're everywhere my dude, love it

MONEY
MONEY
MONEY
MONEY
MONEYEYEYEYEEY

everybody’s gotta price
emplemons gonna pay
because the million dollar man
Always gets his way!

Ah my two favorite internet historians together.

It was a nice surprise to see you in this video

Damn it Whang!. Why you gotta come round here with that magnificent mustache and rub it in my face???

i would never have thought you two would collaborate

@Mr Catastr0phe bruh I forgot all about the IRS man.  Those early 90s gimmicks were so funny 😁

Really? I thought it might've been Irwin R. Scheisster.

IT WAS ME, LEMON IT WAS ME, ALL ALONG LEMON

I love you Justin, but your description of why The Undertaker works was pretty poor.

Is that what happened? I was wondering why this video showed up twice in my notifications...

To be honest I’m more convinced it was Nintendo there were so many Nintendo songs in this video

Holy shit, the fact that you collaborated almost made me cream my jorts.


I was never a fan of "professional wrestling," but I now have a whole new level of respect for it after this vid. Big ups.


You perfectly summed up that legendary cage match, I watched it live with a friend and as they put him on the stretcher I said to my buddy "as short as that was, it was still one of the coolest matches I've ever seen" and I was totally content. THEN mankind made his way back, got choke slammed thru the roof of the cage, fought a full match which culminated in another choke slam onto a bed of tacks. Late 90's attitude Era wrestling SLAPPED!!!!!


This was really good man. It made me respect wrestling more. I never even thought of it as theater.


Awesome video man, great way to tell a story to someone who wasn’t part of the WWF era during the 97 to 2002 times, these were the glory times of WWF


From what I started noticing as I watch more of the Undertaker was he seems less like a supernatural ghost op zombie wrestler thing but instead the aura he gave off was more of that of a old western legend or spirit, some mysterious bearded guy in a trench coat wearing a cowboy hat who suddenly shows up through the mist and defeats the new hotheaded gunslinger and disappears back into the desert. Kinda like Batman, hes almost like a myth until he actually shows up only for a few minutes, gets the job done, then disappears, sound familiar?

Yeah, he's like an Old Cowboy an undead one at that but yeah spot on

When i first started renting the smack down vs raw games each year as they came out I totally though Eugene and undertaker were the same person

Very cool interpretation. <br>As kids in Finland, we were confused and thought he was just some random Satanist! 😂

Very cool interpretation.
As kids in Finland, we were confused and thought he was just some random Satanist! 😂

pretty sure it was originally supposed to be a wild west character instead of a dead man

You are on point with it. The gimmick was indeed inspired from the old westerns of past, as he mentions in his JRE .

@J L his outfit was straight out of a horror movie..looked like he belongs in a hellraiser movie

exactly what i had in mind..before his biker gimmick, he was pale, and more like an unstoppable force..he was like a cult leader, or a possesed man with evil intentions..after the biker gimmick, he was like a ghost, laid back and neutral who brings balance

his main nickname in 2011 was " the last outlaw "

@DekuSlate Late 1998-1999 undertaker was one fucking scary man

He started out as a zombie, transitioned into a weird cultist persona but at the turn of the millennium and with his American Badass persona he basically transformed into what you're saying. A near 7 foot, 300 pound vigilante in a trenchcoat who would walk (or ride on a motorcycle) down to the ring to kick some poor guy's ass. Since he debuted the American Badass character, he's been this way for literally the past 20 years. Even when he's changed back into the undead monster he's still more of a realistic, Batman-like character. Doing dives over the top rope and hitting rapid strikes in the corner rather than standing around and being slow, it's actually crazy how much he's changed over the near 30 years he had in the WWF/WWE.

One of his nicknames was even "The Gunslinger" towards the end. I loved his Phenom character. Fuckin goosebumps every time that man is in the ring.


This might be one of my favorite youtube videos of all time. I find myself watching it every few months, like many of your videos, but this one always gets me excited. A true gem of a video.


I know just about everything in this documentary, I just love wrestling, especially the history of it!

I love the 90s attitude era history forsure 👌


I will forever respect this channel's ingenuity and creativity with its artstyle, research and compiling it all into some of the most amazing storytelling of our time.


Dude, I was in the military from '95 to 2000. Monday we talked about who's fighting that night. Tuesday we talked about the matches. Wednesday we started talking about the next weeks matches. We choke slammed each other, suplexed, body slammed and figure foured each other all the time. I'm pretty sure I got a concussion from getting hit by a chair by another Airman. I chipped a guys tooth doing a leg drop on him. It was chaos and we loved it.

Although I never was in the military I pictured this in my child hood bedroom with my brother. Best memories ever

Once or twice we got really bored in the barracks, grabbed a couple mattresses, lined up behind them in the hall, and charged each other in a tug'o'war style battle. Dumbass cavalry stuff. I loved it.

@Bokrug the Water Serpent my thoughts EXACTLY LoL, Semper Fi Chair Force, we salute yous guys

"DX crotch chop" 🙅♂

@Alex Amaya Yeah well this time the only things that will be broken is your cervical vertebrae and the platform which we will wrestle on.

I was in the duty room every Monday and Thursday with other Marines watching back and forth WWF and WCW.

This is the <b>most</b> American thing I've ever read.

This is the *most* American thing I've ever read.

Taking things to the next level <b>noice</b>

@Bokrug the Water Serpent beautifully phrased

NEW ARTS NU ARTニューアーツニューアート


I love how much Whang (and emp) have grown since I started watching them. Both extremely high quality channels


The monologue on Stone Cold Steve Austin is the most bang on thing I have ever heard. It did not matter who you were and what you were about, SCSA was someone anyone could connect to on a visceral level.


I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't going to watch this video because I don't like wrestling. But I gave it a chance because every other Never Ever episode was just so well done. No regrets


I watched your most recent video on Mac Tonight about a week ago and loved it. It led to me subscribing and having the spongebob episode come up in my reccomended and I watched this one immediately following that. I had to start it asap as a pro wrestler and I didn't think another video you made could grab my interest like the spongebob one did but both are such big parts of my childhood. Thank you, you did an amazing job on all videos mentioned


Please do not let this video distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.

@Top Lobster
yeah it was

Foley had to talk him into it before the match

And everyone truelly thought the just witnessed a murder on live TV pay per view

Then proceeds to kill him once again by slamming him through the top

And choke slammed againts The ring, almost killed him

And choke slammed againts The ring, almost killed him

And he legit almost died. Twice, I took.

Guy’s tooth curved through his nose, it was gnarly.

And then chucked him through the cell ceiling and a chair landed on his face

man, his tooth next to hsi nostril is gonna haunt me for years to come

Ruby Riding Hood <b>replies to an old comment</b> goofy

Ruby Riding Hood *replies to an old comment* goofy

@xdude228 WHY THE HELL DO YOU CHILDREN KEEP MENTIONING SHANE?!

@Cole Brown looks like somebody found out about cuss words and capitalized letters

@Cole Brown You sound pretty salty. Take a deep breath and remember that in 1998 the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeted 16 feet through an announcer's table.

@Nuke Caulfield Okay, sure. But don't let it distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.

How would it distract me? The video mentions it.

How would it distract me? The video mentions it.

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

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

Don’t let this distract you from the fact in the Summer of 1992 Kevin Nash was raped

@PepperminTea327 Ratatouille is the name of a dish and a movie not a character

This stolen from another video can you be original?

This stolen from another video can you be original?

Shane McMahon: <b>laughs in multiple attempted suicides during matches</b>

Shane McMahon: *laughs in multiple attempted suicides during matches*

Then through him threw the cage and then on to thumbtacks

AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, HE'S BROKEN IN HALF!!!

AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, HE'S BROKEN IN HALF!!!

That was epic as fuck.  Mankind going through the cage and getting slammed on the tacks was insanity.  Different times but fucking amazing times.

How can it, when the moment is highlighted at 18:01 in the video

@Thine Eye DID YOU KNOW HE'S A MAYOR NOW!?

@Thine Eye DID YOU KNOW HE'S A MAYOR NOW!?

into the the spanish announcer's table too if I am correct

Sebastian Nicholas Definitely don’t forget that Mick Foley has also taken bumps on miniature C4 charges, barbed wire ropes, and bladed/barbed blunt objects, and one match in particular where he wrestled with <i>ALL THREE.</i>

Sebastian Nicholas Definitely don’t forget that Mick Foley has also taken bumps on miniature C4 charges, barbed wire ropes, and bladed/barbed blunt objects, and one match in particular where he wrestled with _ALL THREE._

@Crypt0nym0us Sec haha I know. I was just trying to think of something stupid to say. I remember watching the over the edge ppv when it happened. I wasn't there so I didn't see it, but they were showing some video vignettes during the time he fell. I never quite understood where they were trying to go with the blue blazer gimmick in the first place. Bret was my favorite wrestler of all time. I really enjoyed watching Owen too. Both of their careers ended way too soon. Really sad that Owen will never be inducted into the hall of fame. :/

@Chris Michael Owen Hart was the dude who fell 78 feet to his death at Over the Edge in 1999 lmao

Everyone here explaining the match, like it's not explained in detail in the video we're watching... 🤦♂ wrasslin fans

June 28th 1998 Pittsburgh Civic Arena(Mellon Arena) <br>I was 13 and was there that night.

June 28th 1998 Pittsburgh Civic Arena(Mellon Arena)
I was 13 and was there that night.

Shane McMahon jumped from a much higher cell. Twice.

Shane McMahon jumped from a much higher cell. Twice.

Aron not that, use that Undertaker chokeslammed Mankind on the top of the cage, with Foley unexpectedly crashing through, landing on the ring with a chair also hitting his face in the process

I like how absolutely No-one has recognised this is a quote from Nerd City

https://youtu.be/mp__Bx0aodw

@Greedy Animal I think what really makes it crazy is that's not the end of a match. Man got back ontop of the cage and slammed through it into the ring.. And still got up to keep going.

The meme doesn't do the fight justice.

Aron and Shane McMahon jumped off a higher cell

Aron and Shane McMahon jumped off a higher cell

@WeabooScourgeKiller 2368 What is Kane doing in a suit!

This comment doesnt do that fight justice. The absolute Madlad, Mankind, got off his stretcher, got to the top of the cage again, just to be thrown another 12 feet down to the mat, AND he kept going afterwards.

Then Mankind (the crazy bastard) carried on the fight

Then Mankind (the crazy bastard) carried on the fight

Don't forget, they followed this up by choke slamming Mankind through the cell onto the mat. Then tombstones him on thumb tacks. Whew.

@Top Lobster no,the table spot was programmed,but the ceiling one wasn't,making it extremely dangerous for Mick Foley

I was so amazed and shocked all at once when I saw it for the first time. Also keep in mind that no one has really seen something liked that before in wrestling, thus makes it such an amazing and legendary match in wrestling history.

@PepperminTea327 fake fan. His name is Remy

@PepperminTea327 fake fan. His name is Remy


As a wrestling fan, you dont how how much I loved this video.


loved your video dude, very entertaining and informative. And you really nailed it on why wrestling so special and entertaining. I do want to say that to me wrestling is unique form of entertaining and can't be compared to movies and TV. mainly because it's performed in front of an audience and is usually shown unedited on TV.


Hey Emp, I just wanted to say that I really love your video essays. Youtube knows to show me them as soon as they come out because I always view them immediately from start to finish. All of that said, did you really have to use the classical music piece the Five Nights at Freddy theme is derived from around the 5 minute mark? It really felt like you stepped out of the screen and slapped me in the face, I was utterly immersed in the villainous intent. Please continue doing what you do.


Wish you'd do something like this for Nitro. Which I found WAAAY more interesting during this Era. Also as the underdogs, I think Never Ever fit them a hell of a lot more.

Because it's actually true we will Never Ever have Nitro again.


There's only two things missing from this video.
1: footage of Stone Cold Steve Austin dressing up as a doctor so he can get into Vince's Hospital Room and beat on his broken leg before smacking him in the head with a Bedpan.
And 2: footage of The Rock shoving Vince's face into another wrestler's ass in the ring to a cheering crowd.

ILL TAKE IT FROME HERE NURSE!!! hahahahaha

Not only that, the Stone Cold persona, actually was born in ECW.

My mom was working nights at the time, and came home right as my dad and I were watching the scsa scene. It made it even better

Man….that was a good time for wrestling lol

@Danny Caracciolo is there a video online somewhere? if so, link please? I think we all want to see this

What about "this is your life" promo when Mick made Rock break character?<br>Foley IS God!

What about "this is your life" promo when Mick made Rock break character?
Foley IS God!

i liked stone cold and when you mentioned that damn

badass

Its also missing Hulk Hogan body slamming yokozuma and Kain and the Undertaker's fued.

That bedpan crack is my favorite bit of WWE ever.

@Rocky Cintron which episode? i havent watched him in about 2 years. i just couldnt take something new to piss you off each week ya know. how is it these days?

@Hanskah that a very important thing a lot of people just forget. It's not fake it's scripted. Fake would be if they pretended to bounce around and get hit. Scripted is taking physical thrashes that conclude when the script's outcome is fulfilled

3: The battle damage in pro-wrestling. The wrestlers aren't paid to fake a slapfight. They're paid to beat the crap out of each other to pre-determined conclusion.

Not just any wrestler, 300 pound Rikishis ass

What about Trump shaving McMahan on the stage?

@Evan W no instead Shane got Baited into throwing himself off the hell in the cell cage and crashing into the announcer Table.

Super Eyepatch Wolf already included that in a video.


Late 80s/early 90s “Rock & Wrestling”/“New Generation” era MADE me a fan of wrestling. Mid to late 90s “Attitude” era wrestling KEPT me a fan of wrestling…….even to this day. I was a kid and teenager during those times. Into adulthood I’ve maintained an oscillating relationship with wrestling in hopes that it will one day again reach the height of entertainment value it had in those eras. It hasn’t. It’s come close in moments but nothing sustained.


This is the most perfect video to describe wrestling. <b>Except</b> , the exclusion of Vince Russo. It was not Vince McMahon waking up one day realizing how to change his company. It was in fact a middle class writer from their magazine who set up and wrote the story that you so perfectly described. To this day Russo does not get the recognition he deserves for what he did for WWE and for Raw because of his stint in WCW later, but we mustn't erase facts that McMahon was brought up to Speed culturally by Russo, and that Mick Foley, HHH, DX, Stone Cold and the "evil" McMahon were all able to thrive because of Russos writing and setting up stories. Now I'm not going to call him Shakespeare but the basis of your video was on a writer, a play writer, and the moment you capture at the end of this video was derived from the writer Vince Russo. Exceptional Job otherwise man, loved it.

This is the most perfect video to describe wrestling. *Except* , the exclusion of Vince Russo. It was not Vince McMahon waking up one day realizing how to change his company. It was in fact a middle class writer from their magazine who set up and wrote the story that you so perfectly described. To this day Russo does not get the recognition he deserves for what he did for WWE and for Raw because of his stint in WCW later, but we mustn't erase facts that McMahon was brought up to Speed culturally by Russo, and that Mick Foley, HHH, DX, Stone Cold and the "evil" McMahon were all able to thrive because of Russos writing and setting up stories. Now I'm not going to call him Shakespeare but the basis of your video was on a writer, a play writer, and the moment you capture at the end of this video was derived from the writer Vince Russo. Exceptional Job otherwise man, loved it.


Wrestling is an art form. It has some of the most beautiful storytelling I’ve ever seen.


This video was absolutely legendary, I’m not a wrestling fan but Emp is so good at what he does.


Emplemon has a knack for making any topic invigorating. I’ve never cared about NASCAR or Wwe, but these Never ever videos are wholly captivating


Once upon rewatching this,
I got more impressed by how You explained The believeness that everything on TV, does'nt matter if it is real or not, can be both just as Entertaining and Exciting,
This really got Me thinking about The Joy factor of TV and Entertainment in-general.

Because there are lots of times were I constently get bored of the same type of content, and sometimes it can be diffecult to get into more Categories.
But suddenly I had a special interrest in getting more invested and learn about stuff that i never ever (no pun intented) thought i whould get so into and kind of build an big interrest towards it, and one of those interrests were and still are Wrestling, and it was thanks to My friends and You that i got bigger into Wrestling :).

Plus I think You're Never Ever series is fantastic and I whould love to see one on Stores or something like that in the possible future.


I could watch these all day, find myself pausing you’re videos about every 30 seconds because there’s so much interesting and rewatchable moments in each of your vids


That show was the most incredible thing to visit.  Raw turned your local arena into a temporary insane asylum populated by maniacs, psychopaths, and literal evil itself.  The idea that these guys lived ordinary lives, showed up to work, sat together in the locker room putting their pads and costumes on while sharing comradery would have been like finding out we were living in the goddamn Matrix movie. (Another thought fresh in our child minds in 1999).  To me the arena almost felt like a place where you were in a certain amount of danger. Somewhere in the building The Undertaker had perhaps convened his Ministry of Darkness. What foul magic could they be working in the dark corners of my Ice Palace?  DX would be there, planning their mayhem for the night and reliving the experinces they'd had sampling Tampa's underbelly and would share with us in story later. Perhaps Stone Cold would be brooding in some lonely spot with his six pack, waiting for his match or someone to disturb him, whichever came first. It didn't matter. He knew the outcome. The Texas Rattlesnake would be ready to savor whatever prey he could catch later that night. Vince would be there too. Perhaps having a discussion with the Briscoe Bros. about why they he thought Tampa was just about the worst town on the face of the Earth and that he couldn't understand why they continued to run their body shop and wrestling gym there. In fact, later that night he came out and told us just that! He said something like "Tampa is really an awful town and this arena sucks. That's why we almost never come here. You should all thank us for coming to this god awful place because we felt sorry for you. Enjoy the show because it'll be a long time before we'll be back, losers."  All the while sirens are going off, glass is being shattered and they're shooting off all kinds of fireworks right next to you. The lights keep going out. The brawling spills into the crowd.  Wrestlers are getting maimed by cruel attacks from merciless villains that sometime wield otherworldly powers. You find yourself eye to eye, feet away from crazy, dangerous men and women who seem bent on doing whatever it takes to win, even if that meant taking a life or losing their own. TLDR? They didn't call it the War Zone for nothin', kids. Today's show don't come close. The WWF sold you a ticket to an adventure.

Reading this comment gave me goosebumps. Thank you. 😎

This is the most beautiful comment I've ever read

Sounds like how the circus was for me as a kid, except for adults.

People often forget that Shakespeare's works was for the peasant class. It costed a single shilling to stand at the floor of the show and watch what was considered the greatest theater ever made.

That is beautiful, and people say Americans have no culture Professional Wrestling is like our modern day Shakespearean theatre.

I remember growing up thinking the exact same. I thought thats how they live. They are insane people. It was an adventure. The rock really only talked in third person. Triple hhh always had a water bottle in his hand and hes always angry.  Stone cold always mad at beats people. Seeing them live normal lives took away that thing from this great entertainment. I was scared as hell of paul bearer and as a very young kid would close my eyes seeing him

Beautifully said. If you ever write a book Ill be the first to buy it. Seriously.

I moved to Clearwater from Philly 2 years ago. Went to the Raw reunion show 2 months ago. Let me tell ya.... Tampa Fans have NOTHING on Philly fans. I mean nothing. Two different worlds, man

If you want insanity and extreme, watch CZW or ECW.


Fantastic video! There are moments in wrestling where no other movie, book, video game or TV show has made me feel any sort of emotions like wrestling does. There are some moments in the WWF/WWE that really make me shed tears of pure nostalgia, Rock v Hogan, Mankind v Undertaker, HBK v Austin with Mike Tyson as Enforcer, Undertaker v HBK, Sasha Banks v Bailey on NXT (to really kick start the women's revolution in Wrestling), HHH return to MSG in 2002 after his injury, to name a few. It's the months of story arcs and character building, if not years, and tuning in and making it a tradition every monday (tuesday morning for me, thanks EU!). It's so special, we will never see it again, but I tune in every Monday and Friday because I still love it. No matter how trashy and repetitive it gets nowadays. I've been watching back from the Montreal Screwjob at SS 1997, and watching every episode of Raw and eventually smackdown in 1999, and every PPV, and it still holds up.


Ive watched this video about a thousand times, and its just now occuring to me that this video should’ve been called “There Will Never Ever be a wrestling era like the Attitude Era”


As someone who grew up not watching wrestling at all, I think Vince making himself the the most unhinged villain in his own product is absolutely hilarious


as a kid in the deep south I lived for stone cold Steve Austin, dale Earnhardt, and grave digger. watching all of your videos has brought back so many good memories


Emp makes a video praising WWE. WWE rewards his loyal respect and admiration with a takedown notice.

Michael Bloom everyone knows its fake, except kids

This is, was and will always be the greatest event to ever happen on Monday night raw. The Rock, Stone Cold, Mick Foley, Vince, the New Age outlaws, Triple H. This was special. I cried when he won. Stone Cold had his back, when DX had his back. And the Rock was not to proud to give the fans exactly what we wanted.

@Michael Bloom literally every single WWE fan knows its fake

Michael Bloom expose?😂...bro everybody that’s past the age of 11 knows wrestling is fake. It’s a tv show with characters and storylines

@Michael Bloom WWE knows most of it's fans know it's fake

The old raw theme song is literally in the video. It doesn't surprise me

83rdox smh 🤦♂ it’s called fair use buddy

well he's praising an era the WWE want to hide becase their newer shit will never come anywhere near the attitude era

@Other Gopher I ate my words and shit it out.

@Michael Bloom i hope you were sarcastic

Exactly, I posted JBLS 9/11 tribute and it was pulled and argued my point in the leave a reason section and it was unblocked, Fight them its a fucking video

That irony hurts. It was like a fan was taken straight to the ring.

I get the joke, but I've seen other videos where they praise WWE and they never got taken down.

@LimeX Don't mention WCW around Titan Towers. Hopefully, AEW can make WCW fans like myself fulfill our hearts with joy with bringing the WWT to its knees and go for the head.

prob because he exposed them for being fake 🤔


I just noticed he uploaded this video on the 20-year anniversary of the match where mankind won the title for the first time... Very clever.


As someone tht just returned to watching WWE after taking roughly 15 years off, there's just something inside that brings out the child everytime I hear the bell.


So glad I finally watched this video. Much like your NASCAR stuff I didn't really know anything about WWE but now I can say I understand the hype and love for it. Great video!


Am I the one who loves the ending to this video? It give me chills listening to the audio from that match. Everything from Jerry Lawler yelling in disgust at Mick winning, to Michael Cole cheering out how Mankind has achieved his dream. Literal nostalgia 🥺


Only reason I looked forward to Monday nights growing up

Weird. I always spend every second at school looking forward to Monday nights.

Yo! I just hinged some of your vids recently.

Yo! NEXPO, now knowing that you were a wrestling fan has made me an even bigger fan of yours

Ever since the attitude era died, it sucks now

Ahh me and my older brother would always watch wwe and Monday night raw! That’s how we bond.. ahh good times

Aye. My grandfather religiously watched it. Good times

Holy shit man, you’re one of my favorite YouTubers


I remember witnessing this as a kid watching Mankind win. It was amazing to see. Gives me goosebumps thinking about it til this day


I find it so crazy that in the late 90’s and early 2000’s that wrestling and nascar dominated tv’s across America every week and now nearly 20 years later they are recovering from almost dying off and are slowly becoming more popular again. <br>Ps would like to add that I hate people who say that nascar isn’t a sport or wrestling isn’t real because they are both real in a way. NASCAR is a sport because of the diet and good physical shape required to drive a stock car because if you aren’t in good shape or have a good diet you won’t be able to finish a race let alone drive the car for hours upon hours without collapsing from exhaustion or dehydration. Wrestling is also real because the performers who take the bumps can die from landing incorrectly on a top rope jump or by taking a move like a pile driver incorrectly and breaking your neck like in Stone Cold’s case.

I find it so crazy that in the late 90’s and early 2000’s that wrestling and nascar dominated tv’s across America every week and now nearly 20 years later they are recovering from almost dying off and are slowly becoming more popular again.
Ps would like to add that I hate people who say that nascar isn’t a sport or wrestling isn’t real because they are both real in a way. NASCAR is a sport because of the diet and good physical shape required to drive a stock car because if you aren’t in good shape or have a good diet you won’t be able to finish a race let alone drive the car for hours upon hours without collapsing from exhaustion or dehydration. Wrestling is also real because the performers who take the bumps can die from landing incorrectly on a top rope jump or by taking a move like a pile driver incorrectly and breaking your neck like in Stone Cold’s case.


I can remember numerous sundays watching Raw with my dad as a kid. He loved Austin so much. Shame I can't find the magic in wrestling anymore


In order to be loved...

You need to make a great video about the WWE
You've earned my sub emp!


Mic Foley after falling of a steel cage

"Hell yeah let me at him again"

choke slammed through cage

"Hell yeah let me at him again"

Mic Foley after falling of a steel cage

"Hell yeah let me at him again"

*choke slammed through cage*

"Hell yeah let me at him again"

“Hey Mr. Douchebag, why’s your ego so massive?”

<b>Gets slammed against a wall of legos</b>

Not even thumbtacks could stop that absolute madman

Mic wast supposed to go through the cage he got knocked out for a few seconds

“I’m sorry I’m sorry. I thought this was America!”

“The Boulder not conflicted. Let’s go again.”

Mick Foley is the walking embodiment of the "I'll do it again" meme

Caleb from the hit Build engine game Blood.


I'm only halfway through this video. But it's incredible. The editing, timing and information is top tier. <br>Thank you for all I've learned about my favorite Shakespearian play with oily dudes "fake" fighting.

I'm only halfway through this video. But it's incredible. The editing, timing and information is top tier.
Thank you for all I've learned about my favorite Shakespearian play with oily dudes "fake" fighting.


I think that was around the middle of the greatest ever period of wrestling. The characters and stories were great, every match was entertaining. It was Mick, The Rock and Austin's show. Whenever you heard that smashing glass, you would feel an intense rush of excitement because you knew something brilliant was about to happen.


I don't know you, but I'm proud of you. This was artfully done


I think I've seen this video like 10 times. I love it so much. There will never ever be as good a video about pro wrestling as this one


This will go as one of the best Youtube videos of our lifetimes. Thank you!


Wrestling has definitely changed and I would say that has contributed more to the diminishing of its popularity than how the world has changed around it.


great work, I had truly forgotten what it was like to switch between raw and wcw on Mondays


The only thing I really took any issue with was referring to Ric Flair as "older and more established talent" from WWF.. But I know what you meant. This was fantastic


God tier vid, and I don’t even like wrestling but this made me respect it.


I grew up watching between 2005-2014 and even though I missed the attitude era and early 2000s I’m still so happy to have grown up watching guys like Cena, edge, Batista, Mysterio and others


This was the best argument I've heard for why you shouldnt judge pro wrestling just cause it isn't real. I'd never liked pro wrestling cause it didn't feel genuine, but he makes a fucking amazing point.


Would love to see an "Update" to this now that AEW is in the fold of the pro wrestling business.


amazing storytelling, you got a 20 year old european to care about, understand and appreciate monday night raw

dont ever stop making videos, please!!!


WWE is just the American equivalent of anime.

WWE is just the American equivalent of anime.

@Vulgrim to be fair, there are a lot of different genres and companies in wrestling

@ZootedBeaver i agree with you, 2020 is one of the best year that wwe have after 2016. In this year we got edge returning, drew winning the royal rumble, an amazing babyface championship run, roman reigns vs jey uso, boneyard match, we got amazing pay per view like the royal rumble, wrestlemania 36, backlash, money in the bank, summerslam 2020, clash of champion, hell in a cell, we also got one of the best women match in the year that is sasha vs bayley at HIAC, the hurt business, randy orton legend killer run, randy vs edge and lastly alexa bliss and the fiend stuff is entertaining. Sure we've got some bad moments like extreme rules 2020,  ricochet squashed by brock, Goldberg winning the championship, braun title reign is horrible, john Morrison getting wasted and etc. But in my opinion this year is miles better than the 2018-2019 garbage

@Vulgrim lol ok buddy. I like both WWE and AEW. Yes AEW is better but I'm just saying product wise WWE isn't as bad as it used to be

@Vulgrim WWE is actually decent these daya

@Vulgrim WWE is actually decent these daya

@ANDON HOWARD My comment was like a year or so ago, Yeah I figured but most of the pushed wrestlers are bad and wwe ratings are at an all time low, wwe like most things that used to be great arent so great anymore.<br>And im not gonna change my opinion that daniel bryan was pushed too hard, never liked the authority storyline, that pushed cm punk over all for triple H to play this big bad guy, a lot of stuff from 2014 to 2020 just gets worse.

@ANDON HOWARD My comment was like a year or so ago, Yeah I figured but most of the pushed wrestlers are bad and wwe ratings are at an all time low, wwe like most things that used to be great arent so great anymore.
And im not gonna change my opinion that daniel bryan was pushed too hard, never liked the authority storyline, that pushed cm punk over all for triple H to play this big bad guy, a lot of stuff from 2014 to 2020 just gets worse.

Best comparison I've read. And I love both.. well anime still

@alfa01spotivo Jojo isn't even modern it's a 30 plus year old series

Miguel Juarez but WWE isn’t, he didn’t say pro wrestling he said WWE

Why would you say something so controversial and yet so true

@Vulgrim Im gonna sound like a boomer but

The 90's and the early 2000's where the best

@douglas wahid Was there an actual law passed or something?

@Richard Beau Dangles  dude hahahaha you are commenting on a post I made 10 months ago lol the context of what I was arguing doesn't matter and I do not care about modern wrestling, wrestling went from two dudes beating the ever loving shit out of each other with a nice story to some of the safest pg cuddling with horrible characters and bad writing, nothing redeemeble except when they have to bring back the oldschool legends for nostalgia.

That's the line my friend used to get me into it.

That's the line my friend used to get me into it.

@Miguel Juarez I suspected that for a sec ngl

@Miguel Juarez I suspected that for a sec ngl

@Vulgrim, shut up idc? Obviously you do care or you wouldn't of had such a reaction to that dude's comment.

@Miguel Juarez Lolo,  and anime is more popular in America than it is in Japsn. Funny how that works...

@Chris Michael so do anime characters and wwe wrestlers play characters

Except that the characters have noses... And are real people.

@l Z I how? There was only like one gay couple and thats it

@DynastyKit nah Jojo, hero academy, attack on titan, one punch man are all pretty good and thats just a few

@MAHKEL HARRIS Don't blame them, the very few animes I have seen were written like how a 14 year old would write something, very edgy but without the point.

23:48 its funney becouse i was like is this anime it sounds like it.

@l Z I You do know you're just talking about Shonen(battle oriented shows aimed at 13 year old boys)? I'm sorry if I come off as a bit pretentious here but I think more people should realize that anime are just Japanese *cartoons*. Not a genre in it of itself

Also I didn't really mention anything about anime. I was just saying that RAW was pretty gay since the way you phrased your comment made it seem like it was the opposite

@l Z I You do know you're just talking about Shonen(battle oriented shows aimed at 13 year old boys)? I'm sorry if I come off as a bit pretentious here but I think more people should realize that anime are just *Japanese* *cartoons*. Not a genre in it of itself

Also I didn't really mention anything about anime. I was just saying that RAW was pretty gay since the way you phrased your comment made it seem like it was the opposite

@z #37549 it does but at least they hav stories and promos that dont relate to that, if wwe was an anime steve austin would be constantly talking about how he must protect his friends and would have colorful emo hair

I remember when Stone Cold and the Rock used to talk about food. Things got dark after Blue Blazer dies...

The Ancient Kaiser Mythra It has its moments

The Ancient Kaiser Mythra It has its moments

Anime & wrestling aren't different from each other.

Anime & wrestling aren't different from each other.

no it isnt, anime is full of anime hair gay people, wrestling at its best is like the literal opposite

@Miguel Juarez The vice versa thing applies. Anime is more popular in America than it is in Japan, it IS popular is in Japan except most asians [in Japan] see anime as <i>childish.</i>

@Miguel Juarez The vice versa thing applies. Anime is more popular in America than it is in Japan, it IS popular is in Japan except most asians [in Japan] see anime as _childish._

@Miguel Juarez as anime is more popular in America than japan

@just some guy who does what he wants Same thing goes for wrestling. There's good modern wrestling, you just have to hunt for it.

@DynastyKit well alot not all, just hard to find anything worthwhile

NXT

Johnny Gargano = Shonen Anime Protagonist

NXT

Johnny Gargano = Shonen Anime Protagonist

And now it's just garbage, sadly. Thankfully anime is still alive.

holy shit that is knowledge i should not know

holy shit that is knowledge i should not know

It could also be considered live action comic books

It could also be considered live action comic books

@Van Dagylon  Not necessarily, anything modern anime has, has a fucking better storyline and is less pg than wwe, wwe is so pathetic, you might as well be watching kids wrestling.

@Bhargav Chavda  I never said anyones work ethic is bad particularly, but yeah their characters are shit as well as the storylines and the overall pg era.

Or, as it's more frequently put, it's masculine soap opera.

Or, as it's more frequently put, it's masculine soap opera.

I feel like this works better for comic book movies

I feel like this works better for comic book movies

@jhon viel ehhhh, that's hard to say there is a lot of different genres in modern anime, which i stopped watching, but it's not really compareable to the wwe, when modern wwe just gives you one shit storyline, pushing overrated characters who are trash the usual, john cena, daniel bryan, roman reign, brock lesnar and weird newcomers.

Wrong, pro wrestling is more popular in Japan then it is in America.


Wow, i applaud you. Best story telling of wrestling and build up. Love when you give cultural context. Amazing job


Monday Night Wars were really amazing. That period of WWF & WCW at it's most popular. That kind of boom period is never going to be reached again.


Masterful put together.<br>Thank you for this run down 👍

Masterful put together.
Thank you for this run down 👍


I'm so glad I got to watch the Monday Night Wars during this timeframe as a teenager. So great


It didn't say "Die, Rocky, Die!" It was German for: "The, Rocky, The!"

In Germany "the" is gendered, "die" is the female version jussayin

Well, no one that speaks German could be bad.

No-one who speaks German could be evil fans.

"And it's Sideshow Bob with the rake out of nowhere!"


I watch this video when you posted it. It aged poorly in less than one year and I'm actually glad it did. AEW made this real. Thank you Tony. Screw you Vince.


I remember watching Rey Mysterio as a kid and wanting to be like him. The 619, the intro everything, as well someone like me was up there. Sure John cena and the rock were also my favorites but they just didn’t have the same appeal to me.


18:08 This is my first time watching this, but I will be very disappointed if you do not give credit to good ole JR for his incredible commentary. His and Jerry Lawler's commentary in this era is largely responsible for the love the fans developed for these guys. Many storyboard points were driven through JR's commentary.


I never watched wrestling, but I think I get it now. Great video.<br>Also worth mentioning how they changed to WWE because the World Wildlife Fund sued them.

I never watched wrestling, but I think I get it now. Great video.
Also worth mentioning how they changed to WWE because the World Wildlife Fund sued them.


>when a man has lost his hair, he has nothing left to lose

Truth.

@Evan W what in the hell is regular virginity

@Evan W stay strong bro. I’m sure you got a Johnny Sins thing going on!

And I took that personally.<br>'Michael Jordan

And I took that personally.
'Michael Jordan

@Evan W so what? Shave it and keep it movin partner

@Dante's Inferno my hair is gone and i havent even lost my regular virginity

Was totally expecting a "Keeps" ad transition there.  Missed opportunity to be sure.


Even now when you hear Austin's glass shattering, it still rings out. It's amazing.


im sure not everyone has gone to see pro wrestling live but i have to say, just like many other things in life, the experience seeing it in person is wildly better than on tv.<br>i HIGHLY recommend trying it out at least once. even if it ends up being a mediocre event, im sure youll still enjoy it

im sure not everyone has gone to see pro wrestling live but i have to say, just like many other things in life, the experience seeing it in person is wildly better than on tv.
i HIGHLY recommend trying it out at least once. even if it ends up being a mediocre event, im sure youll still enjoy it


As a wrestling fan this makes me emotional and I don't know why


this is epic. never expected you to bring up how in 1998, the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeted 16 feet through an announcers’ table

Glenn Jacobs, is that Kane? Why's he wearing a suit?


In early 2000's as a kid I used to loove wrestling, especially Smackdown. Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit were my absolute favorites.. we'll we know how that ended. Atleast Rey Mysterio didn't die while I was fanboying wwe, it was crazy times


This isn't my first time watching this, but for some reason hearing about the declining ratings this time really made me quite sad.


For the past 5 years I've been rewatching 90s wrestling. It's so entertaining to me. So many fun and charismatic people


Countless HD livestreams of Family Guy episodes, completely unchanged, inarguably copyright infringement: A-OK.

100% fair use, educational, passionate video which took weeks of research and editing, also doubles as free advertising for TV, a dying medium of entertainment: unforgivable.

I mean, obviously, right?

TBF those livestreams are constantly being taken down or are edited to a point the show is barely watchable. They're just constantly making new channels to continue it

Uosdwis R. Dewoh
YouTube wants TV to die confirmed.
And then, they will aim for the beer.

NO TV and NO BEER

Uosdwis R. Dewoh
YouTube wants TV to die confirmed.
And then, they will aim for the beer.

*NO TV* and *NO BEER*


This was fucking awesome, thank you for this video. I relived this moment


Mr. McMahon: "This is a wholesome tv show for all of your family"<br> continues to get beaten by Stone Cold in order to get fans hyped to fantasy about beating their bosses xD

Mr. McMahon: "This is a wholesome tv show for all of your family"
 continues to get beaten by Stone Cold in order to get fans hyped to fantasy about beating their bosses xD

In his defense I think he said that in 85...and it was more wholesome then.  Even Vince couldn't refer to the attitude era as wholesome. Thats what made it even more fun.


Just come back to this after seeing it when it was first aired(?), amazing now as it was then. Easily one of your best vids Emp


There may never be another moment that captures this level of excitement...

And then CM Punk returns to wrestling via AEW.  Tell me that wasn't the hottest crowd ever


Man the backflips you did in this video to avoid copyright claims is the real show here

Even the YouTube algorithm doesn’t like a spotfest. Damn. At least we can still see the video

Who would've thought that on one random day, just scrolling through youtube comments, I would see Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler in the same section. Wow. Just wow.

That’s the problem with YouTube’s copyright claim mechanism. It’s left up to an algorithm that clearly doesn’t understand the law. Stuff like this is only promoting WWE, not taking away any potential revenue.