10 Bizarre WWE Experiments You Totally Don't Remember

[@lukekenan998]

The uso penitentiary was legendary. I remember it like yesterday and it needs to come back

[@chrisg3193]

its still around, but since the usos are in the bloodline, they dont say it that much anymore, but as of recently Heyman says hes the wardon of the penitentiary 🤣

[@HardlyQuinn]

Heel jeff hardy in TNA as the Antichrist Superstar was absolutely epic and underrated. Unfortunately it was killed by his 'match' with sting. Personally though while it lasted I thought he was incredible in thos role

[@MessianicJewJitsu]

I thought it ended poetically and at the hands of a man who could oppose an antichrist.

[@ChristopherJohn4389]

Well, that makes one of you

[@badmotherfucker6328]

İ LOVED heel Jeff! He was super cool and his promos got better and better when he was a heel. İ still remember “İ am professional wrestling” line.

[@gauravsubodh9604]

Jyada pagal

[@asapoluu9885]

Took the heel turn too literally

[@fullmontymayhem]

Oh man I randomly remember that period of time when they started doing the "last time on Monday night raw" recaps at the start of the show

[@Biting_bullets25]

Think that was 2015

[@jarrettwirth4490]

Dragon Ball Z vibes

[@onyroo]

Taboo Tuesday/Cyber Sunday would work way better today than when it was a PPV.

[@talentedloaf8516]

Jeff Hardy’s heel run in TNA definitely worked and was awesome, people just love to shit on anything TNA has ever done even if it was good.

[@tomseville2345]

They're actually doing the lockdown graphic now on NXT with Dijak, who is the heel Big Boss Man now, apparently. Luckily, it's currently confined to the entrance wall when he interrupts a promo. He also at least gets to have matches like the one with Wes at Vengeance Day, so he's not in full Retribution hell again *just yet*...

[@andycain4351]

I thought there was a month of so where Vince McMahon retired but I don't think we're allowed to remember that anymore.

[@hasanx8066]

"He's from another country, boo." Sounds like most my childhood of wrestling lol

[@aliengranpa]

The iron sheik comes to mind 😂

[@matphillips8026]

Don’t know if it classes as an experiment but that time they had a computer as the general manager was god awful

[@solascriptura-e7t]

C'mon, Vince, If it ain't broke; do NOT try to "fix" it. All the more reason to appreciate how much effort Trips has put into turning this baby around. 👏👏👏

[@joshie_b1987]

I still wanna know what the point of making Shelton Benjamin just look around while being interviewed was

[@RobertJW]

I had to double check to make sure that a llama hasn't already held the DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship!

[@zacktyler485]

Lmao wouldn't surprise me

[@tomseville2345]

Sheamus was finding his way on the main roster in 2013? He was a former two-time WWE champion, Royal Rumble winner and WH Champion since December 2009...

[@ryanmuskin729]

I don’t think he meant for the first time- I think he meant he was lost in the shuffle trying to find his way

[@CH-ju8zt]

I find the bizarre thing to be that Simon remembers the cruiserweight title being fun with enzo and Neville. When it was the best with Cedric Alexander and Buddy Murphy. because it was.

[@joshie_b1987]

Enzo is an incredible character, he just can't wrestle for crap

[@nickgosse2091]

Roast of the Cruiserweights... never forget that closed RAW

[@pedrotorresboreli9708]

Pro Wrestling is weird, sometimes the things that are the best aren't the most fun, and vice versa.

[@rayedmonds6108]

Cedric, Buddy and Ali were great in the CW division and made 205 Live an underrated show during that time. But there's only one King of the Cruiserweights! Neville did the best work of his career during that time. I was hoping his AEW run would have resulted in so much more after seeing the potential that Neville/Pac has during that CW run.

[@Hawkeye26]

2:09 "everybody loves Jeff Hardy instantly" well DUHHH! He knows all the good contacts to get the "stuff", yo!

[@landonmiles97]

Paul Heyman is still is a major player on RAW. He has a large job behind the scenes.

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

Haa! i really Don't remember most of these, but then again i wasn't paying attention to Wrestling when they happened. 😅👍

[@glassesman15]

The Best background music, super easy to listen to and pretty good too

[@dylanogg347]

The problem with Jeff Hardy's Heel Run in TNA wasn't his character, it was that he was one of the many lackeys in Immortal, despite being the Top Heel and World Champion.

[@itisnotjustin]

I actually remember 1800fella. Those commercials were so fun!

[@yagrammylemons]

1-800 fella had Sheamus brogue kick a tree to save a cat 🤣🤣🤣

[@ObstagoonGuy]

I totally forgot about the weird AR prison cell and other graphics. But now I remember.... thanks Simon.... thanks for reminding me....

[@tompatchak8706]

Hoooollleeeee sheeeet!!! I kind of remember the Apple gimmick but after you explained what the letter stood for it popped into my head and I just started laughing hysterically in my car on break from work and people are walking past me looking at me funny. That was some good TV right there

[@elisamaria3628]

Won’t lie I laughed hard when that prison bar graphic appeared on the usos

[@OffDeGanja]

Rvds and Jeff hardys earlier matched from the 2000s got me wrestling and ofc the triple threat tag matches as well

[@EvolutionSTUD10S]

A lot of newer stuff ok this list. There’s also RAW underground. Or who remembers Eric Rowan and that damn pet crate?

[@DLiteLife]

Something I can’t wait to forget, Raw Underground. Big Yikes there!

[@Jovaniel]

I stopped watching for a few years, and the moment I turned back in I saw that. Bye again hahaha

[@DLiteLife]

@@Jovaniel 🤣

[@zanethind]

When Heyman running Raw in 2019 it was actually awesome since he made the Braun Strowman and Bobby Lashley rivalry better

[@Hitomora]

But Jeff as a Heel wasn't too bad in TNA

[@HardlyQuinn]

I thought it was damn good

[@chrisguardiano6143]

@@HardlyQuinn until the main event of Victory Road 2011 which was an absolute disaster. You know it's bad when Bischoff had to come out & rush the ending of the match to avoid the embarrassment of having a drunk competitor in the main event.

[@scubasteevo7013]

I don't think I even knew of any of these, except the cruiserweights on raw and the ko thing

[@robertclark2253]

The Cruiser weight section reminded me the Light heavyweight division and we all know what happened to that and the previous Cruiser weight division .

[@robertclark2253]

@@k.konczak3291 Okay I'll keep that in mind for future reference .

[@Shin-Blade]

I totally forgot about APPLE. That was horrible... 🤣

[@sah4128]

1-800-Fella kinda sounds amazing honestly 😂😂😂

[@EddieVH5150]

2:58 when TNA tested the waters they did ok but the company that really made the heel JEFF Hardy in my opinion is GCW. Indeed it’s a good action figure fed. Same goes with WSC, BBE, and MDT.

[@bhproductions1061]

Anyone else remember Raw Underground?

[@FungiRy91]

Unfortunately

[@tomseville2345]

The best thing about that was the visual of Omos on door duty...

[@Zman82]

Lasted like 3 weeks 😆

[@LegateGiles]

Remember that period of about two weeks where every match was two out of three falls?

[@mkay6915]

I'm surprised the Wild Card rule isn't on this list

[@Ambar_of_Kotu]

God that was so stupid.

[@kwetribute3838]

The cruiserweight concept failed because the wrestlers were presented only as high flyers. During the inaugural tournament, they used submission finishers and had a more complete presentation. The promo graphics was a Road Dogg thing and awful. One of the worst ideas WWE has had. And the Matt Riddle flip flop flinging is still bad. As for forgotten experiments, we had: 1) Incorporating viewer touts in the show, when touting was a thing for 15 minutes. 2) The introduction of a group of Luchadores as a regular element to TV. The acrobatics were so over the top, even for that style of wrestling. They all eventually left. 3) Audience participation during 'A Moment of Bliss', when the crowd was asked to provide questions. They tried it a few time and it just protracted the show-within-a-show even more than usual.

[@birdstimpson725]

Just had to pause to go and watch the 1 800 FELLA adverts Holy shit, they're hilarious 🤣😂

[@philo2189]

I remember that lock down graphic. They also did this thing with the subtitles. That's when I stopped watching. I was like they officially turned this into sesame street.

[@rayedmonds6108]

You didn't like the words ROCK STAR!!!!! scrolling across the screen during Nakamura's entrance? Honestly I was finally done with WWE shortly after that too.

[@atljames97]

I was with the Lockdown graphic! Lol

[@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu]

I remember the lockdown graphic

[@thecastleofenlightenment2604]

I loved Hardy's heel turn on TNA

[@johnyang1731]

Main events at the halfway point was also a bad experiment. Yes it was to combat Monday night football but I think ratings did worst

[@eddiehancockii]

Does anyone not remember these? Serious question because i remember all of these.

[@Vikdeb25502]

Lol. Who doesn't remember cruiserweight divison? I like Simon quite a lot but this is an odd video.

[@pedrotorresboreli9708]

@@Vikdeb25502 the cruiserweight one I think he is referring to when they slotted like 20 minutes of Raw only to it. Still, watching raw being purple was something that I remember somewhat. The only one I didn't know was Jeff Hardy being hell for 3 weeks in the beginning of the 2000's, but why I would know or remember it, it didn't matter?

[@zanethind]

Cruiserweights on Raw was better than Cruiserweights after Smackdown though

[@geoffsatterfield4858]

Two words: Raw Underground. What the hell even was that?? It was stupid, and worse the “unscripted” fights were even more choreographed than the matches in the actual ring.

[@multiyapples]

I remember the cruiser weights on raw.

[@tompatchak8706]

Wait… Did I just see the new day as the acolytes? Holy crap that would be spectacular

[@darrelladams4188]

Llama a champion…. Could see it as part of 24/7 stories

[@ononsoorizu6556]

If Simon ever landed in wwe the pop he’d get would be insane!

[@hazardtriplezero]

Anyone else get a vision of Carl from Llamas with hats cutting a promo from the intro?

[@ajgarro4132]

Backround music makes it sound like Simons trying to rap🤣🤣🤣

[@MyMechagodzilla]

Surprised that Raw Underground and/or the Britt Baker talk show segment didn't make the list.

[@tomseville2345]

Rebel in her dental assistant uniform and purposefully fake laughter at Britt's intentionally bad jokes was funny, though...

[@BoundlessxArts]

Pretty sure Britt isn't in WWE

[@MyMechagodzilla]

@@BoundlessxArts Whoops! Didn't pay attention to the "WWE" in the title.

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Every Apple member excluding Santino Marella is in AEW

[@MikeMajora]

I was just thinking about 1 800 fella yesterday

[@SeparatedMiles]

'10 experiments you totally don't remember' *proceeds to show 10 things I do very well remember*

[@DJCloroxx]

2018-19 Vince was peak bollocks.

[@rayedmonds6108]

So after laughing at WCW and their electric chair at Halloween Havoc 91 for decades, WWE decided to use an electric chair in their ring?😂

[@zackattack3867]

Also, SOOOOOOO many of these are from the last 5 years

[@gustavoclarindo101]

The no wrestling during ad breaks period pissed me off to no end, impossible to watch

[@keepingitrealawesome]

Aye I liked heel Hardy in TNA an his theme song was fire 🔥

[@djmarvelousmark]

I so totally remember all these moments

[@EddieVH5150]

‘Welcome to the USO Penitentiary!!!’

[@rayedmonds6108]

I gave up on watching WWE on a weekly basis in 2018. I heard about Raw After Dark and was somewhat intrigued. Then I stopped hearing about it. I asked my buddy what happened to the angle, what was the payoff, etc. He said "I don't know. I guess the Saudis paid the light bill and that was the end of it." 🤣

[@claymathewselevator8121]

The words on promos reminded me of Adam West Batman

[@Ajessopp1981]

Surely Raw Underground has to be on this list

[@oldandbitter]

"You totally don't remember..." Except when you do. Vividly, and in great detail. The pompous nature of most WhatCulture writers has me visiting the site less and less lately.

[@aryan0111]

You forgot about RAW Underground!

[@zackattack3867]

I actually can rmember the lockdown thing, because it was so wierd

[@DJDoubleCee]

Jeff Hardy was just never meant to be a heel I guess 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@tomseville2345]

Like when Vince Russo turned Rey Mysterio heel in WCW in 2000 and had him get pinballed by Kevin Nash for weeks. Even unmasked and with the Filthy Animals gang stable he is a born babyface, and we were supposed to cheer Kev just mauling him and everybody else...

[@bmmania0120]

I don't think Simon is doing well

[@masterrserch3971]

Oh I remember the cruiserweight on raw... they should've kept that... the amazing athleticism would've eventually gotten over

[@dgthe3]

No, it wouldn't. And not just because the matches were usually 6-man tag spotfests that had no reason for happening. Nearly every single person on the roster is an incredible athlete. Even the big guys. So when you can see guys that have an extra 40+ lbs of muscle on them doing a lot of the 'cruiser weight' moves, the cruiser weights aren't adding anything to the show.

[@marvelsProtege]

Number 4 was the best because we're still using it

[@angeloalmario]

Thanks for bringing the last list here lol that's the first reason probably sami got lost in the shuffle for what he said about aew then here we are today now that his being cheered again being back by the crowd cause he used the bloodline he ruins the bloodline 🙄🙄

[@joshuathomas3500]

forgetting that time a laptop was the raw gm.

[@DOMCRUZMUSIC]

“These idiots were the Apple” 😭😭😭😭

[@tomseville2345]

Young looking eight-year-old at the end...🤣🤣

[@IlGreven]

How about Raw Underground?

[@CreateToInitiate]

Surprise, surprise, insulting true wrestling fans' intelligence once again. SOME people will remember ALL of these occurring.

[@j_o_g_g_l]

Does anyone remember "RAW Underground"?

[@pseudonic]

Pants LOL

[@adamgonzales4188]

One night in Milwaukee

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Apple did People Power before John Laurinaitis

[@EddieVH5150]

Honestly I would call 1-800- FELLA lol

[@elliotKanjovu]

0:27 wait a minute, I'm not the only one right?

[@rayedmonds6108]

Thanks for pointing out what didn't need to be pointed out 😂

[@LUKE2KOFFICIAL]

When sami zayn said aew 🤣 Cory was shuck 😬😳

[@terryarmbruster9719]

Most come t watch Simon's stuff so just call it WhyCulture Wrestling already

[@Stephenx63]

You notice a lot of KZbin videos automatically get 100 likes as soon as they get uploaded.....

[@dannyaraya8017]

i don't remember apple at alllllll

[@Mr99RAT]

This should be called u do remember moments unless u too young

[@allinthemix6594]

Raw Underground 😂😂😂

[@divyanshbahuguna6324]

Emma promos were weird as hell

[@scottmccurdy6493]

God, 2019 WWE....

[@PUCKTHEGREATEST]

i’m gonna need wrestling youtubers to stop talking about the apple “faction” as if it was intended to be anything either than a one off

[@ranwolf1240]

YOU are the GM!

[@aealum2004]

The lions den match

[@onyxturpin6382]

205 live put on good multi man matches and everyone shining

[@farbdalegend9023]

Gonna start counting for a whole year how many time Simon exclaims I’m Simon from what culture

[@aliengranpa]

365...at least.😁

[@BrandonLeeBach]

I want my RAW UNDERGROUND