10 Times WWE Re-Wrote Their Own History

From Hulk Hogan being the first ever wrestler to slam Andre The Giant to Kofi Kingston's disappearing accent, these are 10 Times WWE Re-Wrote Their Own History.
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[@johnlindsay4310]

I heard a story that in 2002, WWE (Steph specifically) hired a continuity editor to go back through four years and make sure character motivations made sense and timelines were consistent. He apparently found so many inconsistencies, Vince got mad and fired him.

[@MoxyOh]

Trying to follow the Big Show alone would give any reasonable person a coniption.

[@Camthur1]

@@MoxyOh Oh lord. Poor Big Show. He flip flopped from being the biggest monster on the roster to a clown and then back to monster. They did it over and over again. Show was a such an asset that you could keep him anywhere you wanted, even away from any titles and it would be fine. Repeatedly compromising his credibility as a threat is another matter altogether though.

[@pelayowhitewolf3276]

ok mark

[@Camthur1]

@@pelayowhitewolf3276 Lol, I'm not a Mark. Flip flopping the Big Show character back and forth wasn't good for their business and all it did was make it more difficult for Paul Wight to go out there in the ring and be convincing in whatever role they had him in at the moment. If you have an asset like that guy, you protect him, not misuse and degrade his character. They had a very similar problem with how they treated the Kane character.

[@operationlull3742]

This is hearsay

[@Hains22]

Kofi could have easily said “aren’t supposed to be French, what happened to Your accent” to HHH😂

[@M1ddest]

it wasnt french that was his wcw character

[@saeed_05]

@@M1ddest his first character was a french aristocrat and ge was called Jean-Paul Levesque

[@M1ddest]

@@saeed_05 that was in wcw.

[@JacksonIsDeath]

@@M1ddestWWE owns WCW so it’s canon, cope

[@ha04Rry]

@@JacksonIsDeath 😭😭😭

[@EasyJayce]

Getting the F out may have been forced upon them but the marketing will forever be genius

[@Exile559]

Gotta agree. They turned a bad thing happening into one of their best marketing ploys

[@dalewollaston6665]

Vince would never admitted to getting successfully sued, by a panda 😂

[@scottmiller4859]

Yes yes yes

[@R1PP3RR0M3R0]

I'll always get a kick out of them keeping Kofi's Caribbean sounding theme for YEARS after he stopped using the accent lol.

[@jacohenn42]

To be fair, it's a banger so I don't blame them

[@w3s75]

@@jacohenn42 exactly

[@rokkstarxin]

@@jacohenn42 fax

[@scotttaber7008]

WWE rewriting their own history? Surely not!

[@JaimeD.]

(GASP) NO! 😯

[@christophergilliam5537]

Noooo...not wwe

[@josephsnider8190]

No.. they definitely fit 183,000 people into a 70,000 max stadium. And all those tournaments in Brazil were absolutely insane, you should have been there. 😊

[@jimbo_1312]

​@@josephsnider8190 true story!

[@maui3551]

They don't rewrite it but change it

[@8bitGutPunch]

"The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior" is the most entertaining video release WWE ever made. Christian doing the WM6 "plane promo" is the funniest shit ever.

[@originalchristianvogt]

And somehow while beging hidden by Paul Bearer and disguising himself (thinking he is disfiguringly burnt) Kane was visiting High School like a normal boy and had a girlfriend named Katie.

[@itz_xw_]

Paul Bearer*

[@Surv1vor1993]

When I was 10 and Kane unmasked in 2003, and the subsequent rampages he went on in the weeks that followed, he was the single scariest thing I had seen in my life. Absolutely terrifying stuff back then

[@anthonyfera5213]

I remember being so scared as a kid when he lit JR on fire.. I thought it was real because I was so young 🤣🤦🏼‍♂️

[@daltonpinell6251]

If there were a convention hosted by WWE about wrestling history, said convention would certainly be called RetCon

[@k2thaizzale]

This was a few years before my time but the one that always sticks out hardest to me is the Rumble '92 finish with Sid and Hogan. The original version had the crowd going crazy for Sid eliminating Hogan fair and square, with Heenan and Gorilla going "wow that's incredible!" and then chastising Hogan for yanking Sid out afterward like a sore loser. Cut to them showing the finish on whatever the next episode of TV was, and they'd dubbed over both the crowd and the commentary so they were booing Sid, cheering Hogan, and Heenan and Gorilla's new commentary was much more in line with what Vince wanted. This has been his M.O. since day 1.

[@corycarter4689]

Tell me why I was just telling this story the other day😂

[@gatesofwrestling]

I’m just happy that those 2 guys in that thumbnail I watched in the mid-card as a kid, I’ll be able to say at the end of this mania, both won the world title at the show of shows

[@alexgaspar2525]

I am hoping that Roman wins and Sami Zane wins at Summer Slam it will give Roman over 1000 days. Cody should win it later instead of getting a title shot after entering at number 30 in the RR.

[@TheIllustriouBlueJay]

They haven't really forgotten about the Eddie/Dom relationship since they're allowing Dom to essentially be a giant reference to it right now.

[@cjq23]

Adam saying bumbaclarts has made me life a lot better

[@coreyzorz]

For real hahaha

[@dlcdnl]

The sad thing is you could've made this '100 times WWE rewrote their history"

[@kennyfleck8630]

Looking forward to ten MORE times WWE rewrote their history 😉

[@-_._._-]

Fun thing regarding not saying Benoit; I remember watching a video on the WWE KZbin channel where Kevin Owens' parents were shown on screen. His mothers' last name is Benoit, but isn't related to Chris. If memory serves, the mother introduces herself on camera and says her first name, then WWE went and muted the audio when she said her last name but the captions still showed "Benoit".

[@nixda9326]

thats pretty stupid

[@dysartes]

I do wish they'd rename the Warrior award to the Shad Gaspard award, if they haven't already.

[@michaelmontgomery6404]

THIS!

[@TMNCurtlesonTwitch]

I fully support this.

[@MrWebby93]

100% Name after someone who did good in the world, not a horrible person with horrible views.

[@burritoboy2751]

Adam: "Brothers, eh?" Me: "If you haven't tried to kill your brother, it's probably because you don't have one."

[@jreed7125]

5:46 I genuinely never knew Goldberg had anything to do with this match until I played the 2k14 30 years of Mania mode some years ago

[@jesmccoy26]

That SOS theme was pretty good not gonna lie lol completely forgot about it

[@stephenhester9804]

I can understand the Benoit thing but feel he shouldn't just be erased from History as the whole situation is a lesson in why Wrestling Companies need to pay close attention to the welfare of Performers

[@Bubblez1991]

I agree Chris son David Benoit wants to wrestle as Chris Benoit Jr but as of right now he’s in Canadian wrestling

[@pato94nabz]

8:40 Adam saying “Bumbaclart” caught me off guard 😂😂😂

[@agentorange1156]

Kofi should played the game and asked if trips was supposed to be British too

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

Heh, "should've played the Game".

[@-dfh-866]

You mean French.

[@agentorange1156]

@@-dfh-866 was he French when he first HHH? In his early wwe days?

[@-dfh-866]

@@agentorange1156 he was a French aristocrat as hunter Hearst Helmsley. I'm not sure if he had a French accent at first when he was hunter, but he did have a French accent before that in wcw which was weird. But in wwe, he was first known as the French aristocrat. That was his gimmick. Then he was in DX and still did his bow taunt he'd do as his aristocrat gimmick for a bit while in DX with Shawn Michaels. It kinda just faded away and he shortened his name to triple h.

[@Strikerexe]

@@-dfh-866 lmao while it was French they definitely gave him a posh-British theme song lol

[@stevegallo8483]

WWE has blacklisted Chris Benoit, but Fabulous Moolah (and her many, many crimes against her fellow female wrestlers) hasn't been. Make it make sense, WWE!

[@linuxameteur]

TO BE FAIR I don't think Moolah has killed anybody(?).

[@stevegallo8483]

@@linuxameteur She stole from most of the women and prostituted them to the male wrestlers. Don't know that she killed anyone, but there was talk some of those women killed themselves as a result of Moolah's actions.

[@-dfh-866]

​@@linuxameteur that we know of. Tbh, bc of the things I recently learned she did decades ago, I wouldn't put it past a person like her to do something like that.

[@oceanshrugs9235]

Simple: one was on CNN and can't be swept under the rug

[@MikeHughey728]

I think WWE missed a huge opportunity just a couple of years ago by not pairing up Kofi with Lana. "Aren't you supposed to be Russian?"

[@MaximusJohal]

WWE could have easily put an extra line on the bottom of the F to make an E, simple.

[@Nintenuendo-st5ys]

The plot point of eddie as dom's dad hasn't been disregarded, he has gone out of his way to adopt a modern style the likes of the old school eddie with chyna, he wear the same hair, uses the same finisher. That boy is acting like Eddie is his dad even if it isn't mentioned out loud.

[@EmberwindTale]

Except now Dom says that he wishes he had been Eddies son, so.....

[@Nintenuendo-st5ys]

@@EmberwindTale so?

[@Camthur1]

Trying to fake burns on Kane with make up would have been next to impossible to pull off. (or to maintain through matches) Having the dude be so messed up emotionally because it's all in his head is brilliant. You can have him do almost anything you want after that. Masked Kane was amazing, but the dude with a shaved head who acted like he was broken mentally is scary.

[@namikstudios]

The Rey/Dom angle was exposed before it even started - millions of people had already seen Rey without his mask while he was in WCW and Dom looks exactly like his dad.

[@FazeRustyNuts]

Rey Mysterio is a fake dad... Eddie always took care of Dom

[@antoniosmith5350]

Being half jamaican, hearing you say bumbaclot is worthy of a thumbs up alone

[@HurriShane00]

Nobody thought that Vince McMahon changed it to WWE because he wanted to emphasize the entertainment Factor. Everybody knew it was about the World Wildlife Fund

[@hasanx8066]

They will forever be phony as hell for the warrior turnaround smh

[@SeanPynrose]

Thank you so much for someone shining a light on the Andre slam ordeal. I remember seeing a top 10 on KZbin of top 10 first time achievements of all time at a ppv recently and on it was Hulk slamming Andre and it being reference that this was the first time this had happened to Andre. It upsets me to know end to play this off just to sale and poll and viewers. As impressive as it was anytime Andre was slammed, it happened multiple times before WEE making a big deal out of it

[@iami3rian394]

We had (good) cable as a kid, and I remember WATCHING the match where Kamala slammed Andre... then like a year later they were going on and on about Hogan being the first to do it. Lol, um... no.

[@maui3551]

I see Kane storyline like this where he was not really Burned but the parents did die in the burning house and Kane mental mind went so crazy to the point where he thought he was burned by the Undertaker all thanks to the evil Paul Bear⚱️

[@Aqwtiny]

I feel like I’ve seen this exact video with this exact content at least 6 times

[@BigRemzOfficial]

That bumboclart threw me off loool i had to rewind to make sure i heard properly

[@EasyJayce]

Loved the video but I thought the WCW part could’ve done with a bit more explaining? 😂

[@frighty]

This. I was a teenager throughout the MNW and tbh, maybe the DX invasion was a stretch and Foley's title win was the big one, but it certainly was a huge moment that contributed greatly. I mean, of the examples they gave, I don't see any of them as being incorrect.

[@vDeadbolt]

1. WCW's closure was due to Time Warner merging with AOL. It had nothing to do with Vince or the WWF. 2. DX played little to no part in WWE's success. They were simply over, that's all. 3. Vince claimed that WCW poached talent when Vince was known for poaching talent and killing off the territories.

[@frighty]

@@vDeadbolt 1. Nobody said anything about the closure of WCW. The MNW was pretty much over by 2000. 2. DX was involved in Austin' first world title, Mankind's win over the Rock, The screwjob, the ushering in of the Attitude era, elevating lower midcarders into the spotlight, etc. But with all that, again, I somewhat agree that their part is a bit overhyped. 3. With regards to the Monday Night Wars, talent poaching was not in Vince's best interest and the words weren't even mentioned in the video. Did WCW not buy a metric ass ton of WWE stars in their rise to the top?

[@vDeadbolt]

@@frighty congratulations on starting an argument out of nowhere. Not only that, but you somehow managed to lose said argument. I'm stunned.

[@frighty]

@@vDeadbolt I see now. You're baiting. K.

[@StevenKluber]

I think Dom has the charisma to bring the custody storyline back during his feud with Rey.

[@kalebnolan8343]

Isn't that what he is doing right now 😂

[@StevenKluber]

@kalebnolan8343 it wasn't lined up when I posted this last Thursday. But Dom heel is 🔥

[@chrisxavier3147]

Well, Kofi always did look stoned in his pics from that time

[@kuoasify]

cant stop loving the music in the background

[@markharrelson9926]

I’m theory, the Kane excuse isn’t that far fetched, and would’ve been a pretty good cover up if they hadn’t had those “yo look how ugly he is” moments when they “unmasked” him those few times backstage

[@Kapper2310]

you guys have been on fire lately - the last few videos have been perfect!

[@Kwaighzo]

Jamaican Kofi made the last list too. Didn’t realize it had that much relevance.

[@markmyers6756]

I think that first DVD is how wwe Really feels about ultimate warrior.

[@nickmontoya3001]

Plus with Benoit, any match that is showen with Benoit (ie, the original MITB match) the match is show in a wide screen and far away shot.....I mean the whole match is in the view of a fan watching from the stands and not from a camera view

[@circleancopan7748]

I and my late mom loved Eddie for the different reasons: me for his guts, she for his beautiful face.

[@killingragethrowback]

Honestly, I think what turned the tide for real is Mankind's story and his rise to the Championship as a literal fan favorite underdog while WCW was doing the Fingerpoke of Doom. One show had it's best on, the other had it's worst.

[@namikstudios]

WWE were right to distance themselves from Benoit. He is the one who destroyed his legacy, not them. The problem is that making him taboo has lead to this situation where some see him as a victim, which is absurd beyond belief. And no, suffering concussions is not an excuse for domestic violence and murder. Not even close.

[@multiyapples]

Rest In Peace to those that passed away.

[@mringram]

Great video

[@TheRav3n]

I just don’t like how Dominick touts Rey as his dad. I’m sure that would break Eddie’s heart if he were still with us….

[@keyesy9]

Top shelf 🙋‍♂️

[@theneonchimpchannel9095]

I think the then World Wrestling Federation could have made a new agreement with the World Wildlife Fund that would have benefited both parties...a yearly PPV called PandaMonium from which all of (or a percentage of) the profits would be donated to the World Wildlife Fund. That way, the World Wildlife Fund makes money to support their cause and gets a lot of free publicity worldwide and the World Wrestling Federation not only gets to keep their name but also gets some good PR for helping a world famous charity and very worthy cause.

[@dmg326]

anybody know the song used in the background during the list?

[@TJ52359]

I forget the year, but WWE Put out a "History of Wrestlemania" One off magazine some time Post-Benoit that featured pictures from each Mania, and little Blurb about Every Match (including Dark matches, IIRC) and for almost Every Match it was written as X Beats Y,... when it got to Mania XX and HHH, HBK, Benoit... there was a Picture of HBK & HHH, and the Blurb was 'HHH Loses Title in Triple Threat"

[@RillaGOrilla0224]

S.O.S will always be a banger

[@tompatchak8706]

That’s a solid list,

[@sargefan19]

It is hilarious that even Cultaholic can't put DX in a true tank they put them in a Archilles TANK DESTROYER when bringing up them being in a jeep with a recoiless rifle

[@dkcunderwaterlevelmusic5021]

About the Edge and Christian retcon, WWE had already changed their backstory from brothers to best friends in 2004 when they were both on RAW.

[@TheZivin]

Before getting into internet or mostly as kid I always thought some wrestler were brother and siblings or cousin like HHH and HBK, Cena and Orton, Brock and Batista, Edge Christian and Jericho, Benoit and Jericho because of first name, Kane and Undertaker, Flair and McMahon, even stone cold and rock funny thing is Flair McMahon and Hogan were the grandfather and father of some and all the blonde women were from one side of family and rest were from other

[@FazeRustyNuts]

​@@TheZivin did you think hornswoggle was Mr McMahons real son too?

[@TheZivin]

@@FazeRustyNuts I was in hostel at that time so never got to see wrestling for like 6-7 yrs that's why there's mostly late attitude era and early stage of ruthless aggression era in comment but yeah if I had watched that as a kid I might have believe

[@meant4hell]

Here in Australia, we can watch all the old wrestling stuff on Binge, including the events with Benoit in it unedited

[@ThandrieDavis]

8:57 You can. You literally can.

[@jerranspearman3369]

good video

[@jasonjimerson7046]

Only 10? There's gotta be like a hundred examples of this that could be listed.

[@Est93]

In 2005 when they said Eddie guerrero had NEVER beat Rey Mysterio 😒

[@pygmalionxxx]

What’s the background song

[@randyslegacy99]

Ah, gotta love when a panda put Vince McMahon in a submission move.

[@liam88hd66]

Disappointed in the lack of “jamaican” puns. It’s jamaican me crazy…

[@kitsunemetal]

Didn't WWE do the same thing with Matt Borme's version of Doink at first they wanted nothing to do with the character no offense to the Phil Apollo version but now they say how great Doink is despite the character losing most of his matches

[@awkc63]

To be fair, the Kane thing wasn't WWE's change, it was all Glenn's idea

[@deathmauler181]

Adam,you jamaican me crazy.

[@Neeboy]

I also thought koffi was from Jamaica but now Ghana 😂

[@bentron3030]

The Monday Night War and Prichards podcast on the Invasion,etc are absolutely ridiculous. Such BS. It's too va that generations of fans will think this was all true because they weren't alive during this time period. But glad I was.

[@zacharymoore8345]

Domnic does kinda look like a young Eddie that WWE probably could have gotten away with him still kayfabe being his son

[@parampreetsinghsudan8056]

Honourable mentions Bray Wyatt and Abigail Like Harper accent Rocky school days Jinder Mahal being Indian

[@cijmo]

I think non-wrestling fans should see this. How many of us have to tell people "I know it's storyline, I still find it entertaining!" Yessss we get it, Edge and Christian aren't brothers, guess what, we even know that the Dudleys aren't either! Yes, we know JeanPaul wasn't a French aristocrat (because he had a real crappy English accent). We know. We know. We know!

[@boundsy88]

Edge and Christian just magically not being brothers anymore kinda pissed me off.

[@paularies5276]

what about jason jordan being the son of Kurt Angle and Hornswoggle be the son of Vince MC

[@djfred5027]

Always wondered if edge and Christian were actual brothers or just best friends. Got my answer in this video!

[@shockdiesel3470]

I can't be certain but I think Hogan can lay claim to being at WrestleMania 3 and being the first to slam and beat Andre the Giant all in the same match please correct me if I am wrong about that cousin all the Andre stories I heard that wooden was never really clarified

[@charlesorlando794]

Christian or Edge? Who was better? I am on the Christian side. Always felt he was better in the ring, took the big bumps and was more entertaining. Edge gets the slight nod on the mic, but not by much.

[@Lastcaress-xx8px]

Chris Benoit was my favorite wrestler

[@tripprogers8447]

How bout the real American theme used to belong to the U.S. Express before hogan . Wm 1 hogan came out to eye of the tiger but on the network and dvd real American is dubbed in

[@treflosho]

These were the first time "ret-cons" were introduced to a bunch of kids...well, except for comic book fans.

[@micahsanders6043]

Hogan admits the slam was scripted

[@adamlone5548]

6:53 Ummm.....WCW DID reveal results from WWF's pre-taped shows before they aired. This is common knowledge.

[@sockaloupe]

Kane unmasking was always so bad to me. Come on, even if he had to take it off after the loss, they couldn’t fire a makeup crew to make him look like darth Vader unmasked esque? Then he can just put the mask back on…

[@brarissabh4404]

Remember when cm punk said this company would be a better place after vince die

[@JewKyle666]

I think the Kane angle would be an iconic change of direction. It makes total sense for the character itself.

[@RichJT87]

The idea that Dom could be anyone's son but Rey's is laughable. As the only Filthy Animals fan, unmasked Rey is my Rey so the resemblance is really apparent to me. Give Dom horns and braces.

[@ericwilliams2980]

In summary WWE does not care about continuity but doing what's Best for business 😉

[@oceanshrugs9235]

HHH is such a jerk for doing that to Kofi 😂😂😂

[@stevenpagnani7005]

Wasn't triple H supposed to be French in WCW? Then a rich snob?

[@yousufseedat7736]

I miss kofi Kingston old them

[@soulessshadow5356]

That SOS theme was bangin'. I still listen it to today haha

[@JaimeD.]

@@soulessshadow5356 Was a fun theme song.

[@realkoval9251]

Correct me if im wrong. Wasnt Killer Kowalski the first man to pin Andre ?

[@ABD-pc3jf]

Nothing about their revisionist history annoys me more than their portrayal of WCW of being some unwatchable clownshow.

[@elc1960]

To be truthful, both WCW and WWF had their moments of being "unwatchable clownshows" in 1997-2000. Often occurring simultaneously with each other. It wasn't anywhere close to being top-notch storytelling all the time for either company; some winners, a whole lotta losers for both of them.

[@davidparkes7741]

I grew up in that Era & honestly at times, especially towards the end it was exactly that.

[@multiyapples]

Interesting.

[@SeanPynrose]

Remembering my childhood the 2 biggest icons at the time were Hogan and Warrior. I was such a huge fan and torn when they had their title vs title match with Warrior in the end being the one I wanted to win. Now so many years later, I hear all the back stage politics and how they both in the business as far as letting others get over were both gigantic AHOLES. It really makes,me wish I'd been a fly on the wall at the meetings before the title 4 title match just to see how those discussions went and how much of a headache they both were during the meeting trying to put over themselves as they should win.

[@ScrewWorld]

Wait what’s the real Monday night war story then?????

[@bentron3030]

WWE made it look like WCW was good for a couple weeks with The NWO and that was it. The show was terrible. Started off good but then went downhill.

[@robertdennis804]

2nd lol 😂 but seriously love y’all work

[@SeanPynrose]

Is it just me or as Dominik has grown he really does look more like Eddie than Rey. Sorry. Makes you wander

[@mackisbrocklesnar]

this is entertainment. entertainment is fiction and fiction can change anytime

[@vDeadbolt]

Except that it wasn't fiction that was altered. Did you not watch the video?