Bad Times in a Post-Flair World - WCW Great American Bash 1991 Review

[@The73MPL4R]

"I don't think I'm gonna do negative ratings" Oh past Brian. You naive soul.

[@SlvrStryker]

This was also back when he didn't think he was going to do 0-star ratings. Oh past Brian. Oh, the things you have seen now...

[@JackDManheim]

I've only seen him do a zero rating. Did something force him to go even lower? I haven't seen that yet.

[@jef9635]

@@JackDManheim Ohh buddy. Have you got some reviews ahead of you 🤣🤣

[@JackDManheim]

Jef lookin forward to them

[@sammcpherson82]

Also has 5 stars now

[@dasstu]

This laptop gives us all the information and strategies we need to beat our opponents. Laptop:. HIT THEM WITH ME Brilliant!

[@patrickray5692]

and then when Edge came ....

[@CampingMIG]

The laptop made the ultimate sacrifice.

[@FEARSWTOR]

York: The files that are the key to beating Gibson are in the computer Morton: They're IN the computer?

[@EmmettXIV]

Laptop's keys to winning

[@Michael_Chandler_Keaton]

Bro this was a brilliant comment.

[@HellmuthOnTilt4]

Wow Paul Heyman has looked 50 years old for 26 years

[@davidsims5796]

lol

[@nobodyyouknow4379]

And, almost 28 years later, he actually is now in his early 50s, and still looks almost the same as he did in 1991.

[@rodriguez1025]

It's the Patrick Stweart Effect, always looking older than he is has lent him an ironic agelessness.

[@heisensaul5538]

now to be fair he weighed less and had more hair in 1991 lol

[@AnEternalEnigma]

@@heisensaul5538 Not all that much more hair. He was balding really young.

[@heyyou9693]

One of the funniest signs I saw was at a Nitro before Halloween Havoc in 1996: Oz and Kevin Nash vs Diesel and Vinny Vegas. Brilliant!

[@kszirovecz]

That’s too good.

[@EmmettXIV]

Match cancelled. All competitors tore their quads :(

[@p.d.l7023]

He was also 1/2 of the Master Blasters.

[@nobodyyouknow4379]

That would result in Kevin Nash making four times the normal amount of money. How could he say no to that??

[@jamesdixon6332]

That's a good one 😂😂 My personal favorite was at a random Raw show fitting the attitude Era. Dude had an empty seat beside him on the front row and his sign read, "I did two fat chicks for these seats!"

[@Neenockamockawok]

The biggest reason Ricky vs. Robert didn't work no one in the south wanted the Rock 'n Roll Express to break up

[@AloneViibes]

Exactly, they made way more money as a team not liking each other too much then build a rivalry that ended in a month... so true

[@Michael_Chandler_Keaton]

People outside the south will never know how over Rock'N'Roll was. They shut down malls when they showed up and even had an amusement park shut down because the people were in such a frenzy. From the Carolinas to Louisiana and Mississippi, all the way up to Arkansas and Kentucky, Rock'N'Roll ruled the south.

[@diggitydave75438]

Ricky & Robert were crazy over in the south during the 1980's, particularly 1983-1988. From Mid-South to Jim Crockett Promotions...Oklahoma to the Carolinas....they were crazy over. In my opinion, The Fantastics had better overall quality matches with the Midnight Express. But The Fantastics could not get the fans behind them like the Rock n Roll Express did. Plus.....the selling....Robert was good, but Ricky Morton was one of the greatest sellers in pro wrestling history, thanks in large part to Tojo Yamamoto (who trained so many Memphis legends and made selling an art form). Got a little off topic there....but yeah, The Rock n Roll Express could do no wrong during the 1980's down south. Great pro wrestling.

[@kyleshiflet7932]

Rock n Roll was to the south as the Funks and Von Erichs were in Texas

[@christopherkeller6195]

...Rock n Roll will never die. Ricky Morton 1986

[@antoniorivera8]

Lex lugers piledriver at that time was called the Attitude Adjustment...

[@lunathenightwolf1276]

And it’s better then John Cena’s Attitude Adjustment

[@KasumiRINA]

and AA was FU, an answer to F5, which was called TKO when Johnny B. Bad used it, before Sable divorced him and married the guy who copied her ex's finisher >_> Wrestling moves story is like a soap opera.

[@Eidenhoek]

@@KasumiRINA TKO rotates in the opposite direction.

[@lastfewtokes]

Kasumi Rina Yep because F5 means FU because “U” is the fifth vowel in the alphabet. I figured that out years and years ago

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

​@@lastfewtokes Also FU, because...well...it stands for "F**k You" & Cena's STF submission was also called STFU (which stands for "Shut The F**k Up") at the time, also. Even a song on Cena's debut rap album (which included both "Basic Thugonomics" & "Bad, Bad Man" on it) was titled "You Can't F**k With Us".

[@RealEricLWalker]

I was there at The Baltimore Arena for this atrocity. The Network footage nor tape does justice to the rage that everyone had and the "We Want Flair" chant were much louder than is on any footage. Also, the Scaffold Match was changed because of Maryland's Athletic Commission as well as the "Mixed Tag" which are still technically illegal in Maryland. This was the original hi-jacking of an atrocious show. Great job reviewing this near company killing PPV.

[@karlc2869]

They edited out the We Want Flair! chants?

[@RickinBaltimore]

I was actually at this PPV in Baltimore. I had no idea Flair wasn't at the show until right before, the entrance to the arena o went in had a guy who had copies of a "dirt sheet" (I want to say it was Meltzer's I don't have it anymore and can't remember), and it had the headline about Flair not in WCW. From the START the "we want Flair" chants were going and didn't see to stop.

[@Fastollis]

Holy shit Scott was doing the toothpick before he joined WWF! The copyright infringement suit in 96 was bollocks! (I know there was more to it than that.)

[@119Agent]

He was doing that in AWA while Mr Perfect was slapping his gum after spitting it.

[@joshbouman1654]

For real, there is barely a difference between Studd and Razor.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Especially since Razor Ramon was basically the Diamond Studd doing his best wannabe Cuban Tony Montana-from-Scarface shtick & since Vince McMahon & his cronies had, apparently, never seen the gangster film based on a Hollywood romanticism of Al Capone, they thought Scott Hall had invented the persona on his own! XP

[@allencollins5666]

​@@TherealRNOwwfpoohAnd Eric Bischoff Just Confirmed it That WCW Created The Character And Vince McMahon Just Changed The Name. It Had Been Said Vince McMahon Never Came Up With An Original Idea. After Ric Flair Left WCW To Go To The WWE, The Dangerous Alliance Storyline Made Fans Positively Forget All About Him Instead Of The Company Being Very Hurt.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@allencollins5666 Are we talking about when Ric Flair left in 1992 (complete with taking the Big Gold with him to the WWF due to paying out the deposit on the gold the champion had to abide by to carry it around with him before getting reimbursed by the company he represented by getting the money back he was owed as champion, only for the TV executive in charge who never understood wrestling to balk incredulously at paying Flair what he was rightfully owed, which subsequently led to Flair refusing to give up the physical belt until a new regime in WCW finally paid Flair back the money -- with interest [Flair was keen to point this detail out later when he was interviewed about the situation] -- after which he gave back the Big Gold to WCW & instead used a blurred out WWF Tag Championship to continue his "Real World Champion" storyline) due to a disagreement with Jim Herd (the guy who told the "Nature Boy" [who basically stole Buddy Rogers' entire persona, so much so that they had a match together, in which Rogers basically passed the torch to Flair] that he was no longer over/popular, to cut his flowing beach blond hair & take up an unwanted Spartacus gimmick that would've fit in line with the recent _Gladiator_ / _Troy_ films, but simply wasn't _Ric Flair_ in terms of character, nor name value/crowd recognition)? Somebody is forgetting that once the WCW audience found out far too late that WCW had to scramble to put Barry Windham VS Lex Luger for their temporary World Championship (which didn't look nowhere near as impressive as the Big Gold, which Flair still had in his position until he was properly paid) in place of Ric Flair, the crowd in attendance turned on the match, loudly chanting "We Want Flair" in unison. The Dangerous Alliance led by Paul E. Dangerously (Paul Heyman, pre-ECW) may have been a successful stable that had "Ravishing" Rick Rude, Medusa (aka Alundra Blaze), a no-longer "Stunning" but pre-ECW & certainly pre-WWF/E Steve Austin, "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton, and The Enforcers ("Double A" Arn Anderson & the owner of Larry Land himself, Larry Zsbysko) in it, but as good at being bad -- they were heels, after all -- as they were, they certainly didn't stop fans from forgetting about the face of the NWA/WCW, because excluding Sting, nobody epitomized WCW more than Ric Fair, especially in the pre-nWo era.

[@Fixxer315]

Flair's firing before the show had more of an impact on Luger than anyone else. It may not have saved this show, but it might have saved Luger's title run by giving it some credibility to start the run.

[@martyklestadt6766]

According to Barry Windham on one of the WWE DVDs about either WCW or the Four Horsemen, it was supposed to be Windham who would get to have a run with the WCW World title had Flair not left. (Maybe at Starrcade?) Instead, they had Luger beat Windham here, and Windham missed his turn to be World champion. He would later get a run with the NWA (later WCW International) title, but that was not an official World title at the time.

[@originallmoney9099]

Brian, you NEED to do a video about the Jim Herd era of WCW. It. Is. NECESSARY.

[@KyrinChase]

Jim Cornette, would be very proud

[@charlesgrybosky1916]

Oh yeah. What he said!

[@aztecwrrior1997]

This would be an episode of Dark Side of The Ring

[@siliodon]

I know this comment is 5 years old now and it's not likely Brian still checks comments for videos this old, but I 100% back this idea. Also an exploration/explanation of the confusing NWA/WCW/WCW International World Heavyweight Championship saga would make for a good video too.

[@MsCreepyChan]

Ah, WCW, the "________ on a _________ match" company.

[@dylanogg347]

Nice to see that the toothpick was a part of Scott Hall's character, even this far back.

[@aznluvr7]

The heel turn was stupid for Luger. I mean all he did was listen to Harley Race when Race basically said "win the match". I mean what are fans supposed to say "that bastard, how dare he listen to advice!"? Also the advice was just "now is the time"...so yeah, if they wanted him to become evil, they should have had him actually do some real interference.

[@demarfowler1325]

Surprisingly, There WAS been heat between Luger and Windom from (a) Them loosing the tag belts to Anderson and Blanchard to join the horsemen in 1988 followed by very little evidence a feud , and Luger taking the US title from Windom in 1989 with no feud or rematch. The feud that never happened. WWW Material?

[@chrisoneill4865]

Lugar did bust up Sting' s knee a few months after this.

[@119Agent]

It was explained a little better on Main Event that they were in cahoots all along.

[@drexlspivey5828]

It was an absolute given in WCW at the time that babyfaces never, ever had or paid attention to managers, if he listened to Race that was basically him becoming a bad guy

[@dreddbustya2153]

Good to see you covering the much neglected early 90's WCW. This might be my favorite era.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

@DICK LONG Hogan SURE fucked up WCW...

[@martyklestadt6766]

I preferred the late '80s, because that was when I was first getting into following pro wrestling.

[@Metlhd313]

The belt is actually the Western States Heritage Title (last used in 1988 IIRC), only altered with the plates and the globe colored blue (the belt originally had a red globe)

[@SirPunzalot]

Okay smark

[@charlottecorday8494]

​@@SirPunzalotHe's right, Ron. Go back to 411 where your belong.

[@superstarreviews9937]

No it ain't dumbass! It was Dusty's old, Florida championship wrestling belt! Larry Zybsko has the western states belt! He says what it is in the video moron!

[@im_calvinbaldwin]

Good bit on learning most of your vocabulary from J.R. He is the reason why I have an affinity for learning and utilizing (new) words.

[@luisalbertoarenasaraya4579]

Calvin Baldwin For my English Speaking I imagine I am JR and go wild

[@crisdes7260]

gorilla monsoon taught me the terms 'sub scapularous' 'solar plexus' and 'lower lumbar region' when i was a wee lad.

[@KasumiRINA]

The irony of J.R. constantly messing up on AEW and unable to remember names and moves like... how he called Tope Suicida?! Suicido del Torpedo?.. Botchamania has a special segment called Ross Time now, as he regularly can't do words.

[@andrejg4136]

@@KasumiRINA Unfortunately, it's another reminder that time claims all men, bit by bit, or sometimes in whole chunks. Love hearing JR, but he's obviously not late 90s peak J.R. anymore.

[@TheMistahWooseNetwork]

No wonder Ric Flair went to the WWF in 1991! People were chanting "We Want Flair!"

[@EmmettXIV]

WWF

[@unhappyspoon0428]

@@EmmettXIV that's what they said

[@hasbrosbeforehoes]

i love watching these older videos and hearing you say "im not gonna do negative ratings" if you only knew lol

[@SapinskiMath]

As rough as this PPV was, it's interesting how we've come full circle 28 years later with JR & Schiavone calling the action again today in AEW.

[@danielmas5493]

Got a WWE mark bashing AEW.

[@danielmas5493]

Indie trash? I see that WWE has indie trash too. Insulting comment to wrestlers that put their bodies on the line for your ass

[@LordTeaboBaggins]

bigevilworldwide1 Well, at least WWE would never dare hire Indy trash. Like Tyler Black, or Kevin Steen, or El Generico, or Davina Rose, or...

[@MrCubFan415]

Tracy Hudson Or Bryan Danielson.

[@LordTeaboBaggins]

Mr. Cub Fan 415 Right!? Thank god WWE would never be so wrong-headed as to hire Indy trash like Danielson. Thank god they never signed that guy from the Chick Magnets either. They’d be out of business now!

[@skycaptaincharisma]

"Who gave that dog a manager's license?" - mark out, like a proper carny would.

[@JulioHernandez-wy8nh]

We are all fucking marks lol

[@dubbhaus650]

"One man gang looking like he's done this before" Cocaine joke love it hahaha

[@Jojobizzare80]

Razor Ramon was created by Scot Hall look at the Diamond Stud lol

[@Michael_Chandler_Keaton]

And DDP.

[@CatsClaw44]

The Brian Pillman angle was a play on Windham who earlier in his career wrestled as The Dirty Yellow Dog

[@CutterHistorical]

Heyman is only 52???

[@WrestlingWithWregret]

+CutterHistorical I know, right?

[@gleenfales]

1965 if you think about it... Not that crazy he jus like my dads age

[@mgb4692]

51, 9/11/65

[@thekidfromiowa]

MGB Same day as Moby and Bashar al-Assad. Really! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11#Births

[@mgb4692]

I think the "only" part of it comes from he was only 21 when he first showed up in Memphis, and 23 next fall for MX vs MX. A lot of people would have thought he was older when he started, thus the surprise now

[@BaileyJack1997]

You have to love these classic ppvs. Nice review as always!

[@danmount9462]

No Midnight Express and breaking up Rock N Roll Express? How friggin stupid was Herd?

[@mrkipling2201]

Dan Mount as stupid as you can get.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

He also fired Ric Flair when "Naitch" refused to cut his hair & take up a Roman gladiator gimmick named Spartacus.

[@HeartyArtie]

Referee knees Dustin Rhodes on the head when diving for the cover @12:59 lol

[@aztecwrrior1997]

That happened. Damn

[@joshfowler708]

Just discovered your channel a few weeks ago. Love the content. Definitely binge worthy

[@MikeyMike-uu3fe]

Iam on a mini binge now...Respects Bro..👊

[@dnhs5441]

Freebirds were over in the south and would be cheered even as heels. Their theme song even got played on the radio in the south.

[@eclipse528]

European here, can you explain why you (and i mean that in general) seem to say Baltimore being part of "the south" ? because looking at a map, to me it looks pretty damn north

[@AnEternalEnigma]

One of the key elements of the WWF's lawsuit against WCW over the depiction of Hall & Nash was that they were doing their WWF mannerisms and specifically mentioned Hall doing the toothpick thing. But as you can see here, he was doing the toothpick thing before Razor Ramon.

[@cha0s1980]

Wow a Steve Austin match with empty seats haven't seen that in a long time. I say you review Starrcade 1990...yes that one with the classic Sting vs. Black Scorpion match

[@thekidfromiowa]

Daniel Bullock The tag team tournament with teams from around the world added variety and I enjoyed it overall.

[@MrKenichi22]

Anthony Bowling Well, I love me some Steve Austin, even before he was Stone Cold.

[@MrKenichi22]

V/CV/ World Championship Wrestling Syndicate Great point there. Thanks I will check it out.

[@MrKenichi22]

V/CV/ World Championship Wrestling Syndicate I wiil, thank you

[@michaelmellette8245]

Daniel Bullock if you are hating on his hustle. Thats not cool.

[@parkerlyme]

Immediately when I heard Jim Herd is running WCW at the time I already knew it was a bad show

[@BigDaddyViX-2]

Johnny don't be bad Johnny be GAY......

[@Originolley]

Shit was hilarious

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@sixf0ursixf0ur56 That's who the gimmick was parodying, much like Vevelteen Dream's current Prince gimmick.

[@jeremyc9593]

Dude could have had an infinite amount of gimmicks and never got over. He was terrible.

[@Dave-rf1zj]

@@jeremyc9593 Johnny B. Badd did get over though. He had a good babyface run with a couple tv title runs. He wasn't huge, but he did have a fanbase.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@SomeDumbKid1 well, Prince's image was influenced by both Jimi Henrix and Little Richard, and Johnny B. Bad is also obvious reference to Chuck Berry. Also, how was it gay being married to Rena Mero, aka Sable?..)))

[@borednow5838]

Have this on good old fashioned VHS so remember that dodgy opening very well! Good for Brian for standing up for the Morton/Gibson match. They told a great story and I for one was engrossed in that match. That and the Sting chain match the highlights of one of the worse PPV's ever.

[@DubayBay]

Dubya cee Dubya

[@justinmartin69jm]

Rasslin

[@charlesgrybosky1916]

Wow. Ms York has quite possibly some of the biggest shoulderpads I've ever seen outside of a football uniform. I don't think Ace Frehley's (Kiss guitarist) were that big on the '79 Dynasty tour.

[@jroberts2nd]

Anyone who thought the 80s ended in 1989 really needs to watch some early 90s TV, the 80s stuck around for an age.

[@nickhughes8179]

@@jroberts2nd I swear the 80s didn't fully end until 1994

[@martyklestadt6766]

For most decades in the 20th century, it wasn't until the "2" year (e.g. 1992) that a decade began to have its own feel. And there were a lot of women (my then-girlfriend included) who were sporting the shoulderpads back then.

[@Djarra]

Austin says this is one of his worst performance, partly because the scaffold was the wrong type so it wobbled especially when you had a big man on there.

[@mountzod]

Man, early 90s wcw was depressing lol

[@TobeyStarburst]

No it wasn't

Not really. Had some great wrestling once you got past the cartoon gimmicks.

[@distantandvague]

I swear, every dude with a last name beginning with Z has been nicknamed “Z-Man”

[@Venemofthe888]

I'd love to see u do December to dismember

[@5nokli]

Venemofthe888 yes PLEASE!

[@gabefolco1888]

I was the one that suggested that first!

[@Venemofthe888]

MaritimePizza good for you

[@gabefolco1888]

thanks for the support dillweed

[@Fixxer315]

Another comment on the scaffold match: This type of match was supposed to be reserved for true blood feuds, and the only real angle between the four was the TV title change from Eaton to Austin.

[@Mr_Gray_Sky]

When asked about his outfit, DDP informed us that he invented the fanny pack, bedazzling, and the American flag.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663]

Ric Flair should have at least put Luger over at the Bash to give proper closer to the fans that watched Luger chase Flair for years for the belt...

[@jackmorley999]

Your channel is amaZANE

[@CaptianBastard7]

Just Became A Backer \mm/ I LOVE That Your Reviewing Classic PPV Content! I Wish I Could Do 10 So I Could Recommend Backlash 99 (the last IYH PPV and hope when funds become more abundant that i'll be able to) It's The Least I Can Do For My Favorite KZbin Channel (seriously.. me and my girlfriend have done a good third of your kayfabe kitchen) The Wrestling Movie Reviews Are Some Of My Faves (though i'm surprised you haven't done they live yet) Keep Up The Amazing Work, I Cant Wait For The Next Live Stream.

[@kingofthecommentsection8056]

Jeff El Heffe B tell Brian to review bash at the beach 2000

[@TJV83]

I feel bad for Austin and Eaton for having to carry the horrible opening match.

[@darkman060]

Also with the York Foundation, the founding member, Mike Rotunda(becoming Michael Rotunda) actually started cultivating his Wall Street/Corporate gimmick before leaving for WWF to become IRS before coming back to WCW as Michael "V.K." Wallstreet...three guesses what the VK stood for

[@sheepdavis]

It's already well known what VK stood for.

[@BigTiger_99]

It actually took me a bit, And I thought it was some kind of Sexual Innuendo, But then i just thought “Vincent Kennedy Wallstreet”

[@MrRywee123]

Vagina King?

[@danielthomason1962]

love the 1990's WCW stuff.... I had all their VHS tape's in the UK.... £11.99 each... I had to save up

[@joshuabable2971]

Ruined my drink with that "Who gave that dog a managers license"

[@aaronhurst4379]

Also, the fact that the fans cheered the Freebirds seems to show evidence that smarks were around before the Internet

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663]

I think Bobby Eaton has been in EVERYONE of the NWA/WCW Scaffold matches or at least it seems like it... 😕

[@benthomas6828]

14:20 omg, I was rolling in laughter when I saw that. Wtf...just crazy

[@andrejg4136]

I absolutely shudder at how easily you could get sucked into blatant casual homophobia even in the 00s, like it wasn't that long ago that screaming homophobic slurs on voice chat was something 'everyone' did. People still do it yeah, but at least it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be.

[@agsconnolly]

I used to watch this on VHS all the time when I was a kid, but only now do I realise the video didn't have the first three matches on it (the scaffold match, the Diamond Stud match and the Oz match). From this review it sounds like I should be grateful.

[@williamschutz4982]

Oz never got the push he deserved.

[@jb888888888]

WCW should have held a WHC tourney in Rio de Janiero for the vacant title.

[@chernosmarket6294]

Man how tf are u still at 100k. Good thing im subbing before 1m

[@andycain4351]

There's a parallel universe out there somewhere where Steve Austin falls off the scaffold, it ends his career and Stone Cold Steve Austin doesn't exist. I'm so glad I'm not in that universe ❤️

[@TheNeonParadox]

WCW was so bad back then, but as a kid I loved it. It's sad, too, because they did have some really good talent. And man, between Madusa, Alexandra York, and Lady Blossom, WCW had a clear edge against WWF in the female category.

[@martyklestadt6766]

I still prefer that era's WCW to what we got in 2000, and for that matter, the WWE of today!

[@flamethrowerflufsalisbury]

Kevin Sullivan's hair in the OMG/ El Gigante match makes it 4****

[@stncldrwg]

I would watch this over any PPV main evented by Jobber Mahal.

[@zackattack3867]

4:26 aged perfectly

[@marccaselle8108]

Oh good lord PN news. The last thing i saw of him, when he was in the original ECW years ago.

[@huntermeaney5354]

royal rumble 2002 review!!!

[@jwd10228]

Hunter Meaney Royal Rumble 2002 wasn't bad ?

[@gleenfales]

+John Mortimer who tf said it was.... Some PPV reviews have been good ones and bad ones. Unless I'm mistake is this called wrestling with wregret bad PPV reviews?

[@jwd10228]

Glenn Fales I mean im pretty sure all of the classic PPV reviews Brian has done so far have been bad besides ECW Barely Legal . I thought he was suggesting that Royal Rumble 2002 was a bad PPV for Brian to review

[@gleenfales]

+John Mortimer they're classic PPV reviews. And Capitol punishment was another good one.

[@jwd10228]

Glenn Fales dude i cant sit down and enjoy Capitol Punishment , WWE was shit in 2011 until CM Punk dropped the pipe bomb

[@jroberts2nd]

A very late question, but just how did the Maryland Athletic Commission have any power over pro wrestling shows? That's always been a mystery to me. More importantly, why the hell did they keep booking big PPVs in Baltimore if practically every time they did, this shit happened?

[@Ecwfan]

What is sad is Morton had he turned heel in the mid 1980's , he'd have been huge. By 1991 the business had changed a lot and Morton then was a low card guy. Also in a shoot interview , Gibson did tear his knee up in real life and it blew a big pay day the team had waiting in WCW as they were gonna be pushed. Gibson told Morton to do the singles run when the company suggested it.

[@nightowl8363]

The Computerized Man of the 1990s.....

[@brianhall4182]

Huh. It's strange for me to see Scott Hall and Kevin Nash in WCW before their NWO days. I didn't even realize they had been in WCW before that. The more you learn.

[@Njbear7453]

Newb

[@lizardsboy81westcoastshawn7]

Johnny be gay 😂😂😂 I miss Brian pillman when he went of script he was hilarious

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

Missy & Rick vs Arn & Paul was made the last bout because the main event ended on a downbeat note with Luger turning heel in the process of capturing his first World title, so they needed a bit of comic relief to send the fans home happy.

[@MekoUnknown]

This one is one I wanted to see you review. It was so bad you couldn't help but laugh by the end of it.

[@Mister-jv6zq]

The second ticket is for "you" the viewer...

[@jeremyc9593]

That makes sense, but a free ticket to this show? Absolute rip-off.

[@mulldrifterz6469]

Bash at the Beach 1996 please.

[@heisensaul5538]

I went back and watched that and it's a one match show. Besides the historical significance of the main event with a Hogan heel turn, it's just what they would have normally booked at that time in WCW.

[@joshbouman1654]

@@heisensaul5538 ... obviously. What else would they have booked?

[@heisensaul5538]

@@joshbouman1654 oh im not a booker and if I could have watched this live back in 1996 I would have loved it. But watching when I was in my late 20s vs when I was 8 in 1996 are two totally different things. I didn't hate it or anything I just didn't think the ppv itself was anything special outside of the Hogan heel turn and the NWO storyline. And to some extent I think even WCW realized that too. If you listen to the commentary team they just put over the main event more than anything else, and I think that's really smart tbh.

[@joshbouman1654]

@@heisensaul5538 I think that's part of what makes that night so special, it's a legitimate twist. In the months prior they were doing the Uncensored Cage match, THE YETAY and the utterly horrendous Slamboree show. The fact they turned the entire product on it's head with one segment on an otherwise mediocre show is what makes it so memorable.

[@heisensaul5538]

@@joshbouman1654 The main event is the best part of that show, You wont get any argument out of me from that. But once again, looking at the undercard, even like the Ric Flair match was just ok, and usually he tends to have the best match on the card.

[@JDWanko]

Remember-Missy would later sue for sexual harassment. Art imitates life.

[@JustinLeeper]

I had never seen Oz in action, either. It’s funny how this card is the same era of a WCW Magazine issue I owned - Baddstreet, PN News, Black Blood, Johnny B Badd.

[@flch95]

That computer gimmick was fun and creative and actually quite a bit ahead of it’s time considering that it’s basically advanced analytics which has become so prevalent in sports nowadays lol.

[@lampini]

Yeah it’s a pretty good gimmick if given to the right person. It would get more over the more the wins pile up. Like imagine if the computer predicts winning the TV title and then he does it

[@flch95]

@@lampini yeah I remember him being on a good winning streak to start with so it certainly got over. Don’t remember where it fell apart though.

[@rowdycmoore]

Wow, there were late stragglers coming to this event? Where was it held - in Dallas?

[@heyyou9693]

I think the idea of managers is having a stable. Heenan family, Jimmy Hart, Mr. Fuji. You don't have many guys who need them, but it would bring something to the show for guys that can't talk.

[@walkingdude8248]

I'm loving these retro reviews

[@MrKenichi22]

Woah Scott Hall & Kevin Nash pre 1996! Had no idea he was Oz and Hall was Diamond Studd.

[@tmage23]

The main reason DDP got a big push in WCW was because of his friendship with Hall stemming from them working together here.

[@MrKenichi22]

tmage23 Awesome to hear!

[@ronanthesuperginger]

HEY I WAS MANGED BY THAT GOLDEN retriever HE WAS THE BEST MANGER

[@ewitallday80]

The goodest boy.

[@tims4502]

Ronan THE SUPER GINGER - let’s not forget his wrestling moves either. Lick attack Flying forepaw Tail wag of doom

[@drexlspivey5828]

It's silly when people give the WWE credit for Razor Ramon, Razer Ramon was The Diamond Studd with a silly accent, that was literally the only difference, the look, the toothpick at the camera, he was doing the entire gimmick in WCW first

[@tubey84]

At least Bash 1991 has historical interest value - Austin with hair, Heyman 'wrestling', Missy Hyatt in her prime and so on. Battleground was just a painful watch. Yeah, 30 years from now, probably is technically the better PPV, but... god it was bad.

[@notdevpool1946]

Can do a review on ric Flair's first run in WWF

[@mgunter]

nothing below a half star, hope you don't have to review victory road '09.

[@damightybenstein]

mgunter Or Victory Road 2011. Spoiler alert: it didn't just suck, it fucking sucked!

[@TheSejanoz]

Or Victory Road 2011, for that matter.

[@matthewwatson9726]

mgunter in your house in October 1995 is up there

[@Aaron-zs7cf]

Victory road 09 *shudders at the MINUS 5 stars match of sharmell vs jenna.

[@mgb4692]

Even worse, BW was sort of reprogrammed going into the match and doing promos afterwards in which he "didn't know what Lex Luger was capable of". So he walked out on Luger three years earlier to join the Horsemen and feuded with him for most of the next two years (other than his Widowmaker stint), yet he "didn't know what Luger was capable of". Good job WCW!

[@timothylewis2527]

Thumbs up and subscribed. This video was awesome. Shout out from the "Children of the Toast"!!

[@John_Smith77]

"Who gave that dog a manager's license?!" Me Brian. In my defense, I was 3 years old.

[@andresfgp13]

"not everyone needs a manager" AEW sweats in the distance.

[@beckerboy1225]

You have to do WWE's Great American Bash 2006 next! Between the original Punjabi Prison match (where Khali was replaced by Big Show for some reason), and Bobby Lashley's elevated liver enzymes, it was truly a show that had it all.

[@TravJam317]

The Russian Chain match was booked like the majority of Koloff's Chain Matches. The other finish I recall seeing out of several of their matches was the babyface getting the fourth corner when the referee was distracted, or knocked out (thus not seeing him win the match) leading to Koloff knocking the babyface out with help from foreign object/outside interference in the center of the ring to get all four corners easy with the ref looking.

[@187alan]

Your wondering why the mixed tag match was last. Its wcw booking thats it.

[@mgb4692]

They wanted a face go-home match, of course that wasn't going to be possible even if Sting had come out and won the belt Hogan WM9/MITB-style

[@wpreston86]

My only logical explanation is that Arn Anderson (Ric Flair's best friend) was put on in the main event probably to appease him with how the Flair situation was handled.

[@KasumiRINA]

A mixed tag with removing the woman is what weirds me out. Like, where's the mixed in that?..

[@JoshDangIt]

Jesus Christ what does it take for a show to get an F?

[@williamhowe1]

Have no good matches.

[@cwell510]

I remember actually ordering this pay-per-view and immediately regretting it afterwards. On the plus side my friends and I got pretty drunk and high while watching it which made it at least that much more viewable.

[@johnepants]

Holy shit I don’t know why Dustin blatantly ripping off his dad made me laugh so hard. I’m so glad he eventually came into his own and carved his own niche for himself.

[@zionkraze9965]

Wait, Jim Ross & Tony Schiavone commenting together?!

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

Newbee...

[@mrkipling2201]

Tony schiavone had only just rejoined WCW at that point. 1989 and 90 he was in the WWF.

[@mikeking4349]

Souled out 2000!!!

[@OptimumTaurus]

I think the worst part about Brad Armstrong? A number of wrestlers have said Brad Armstrong, behind the scenes, is one of the funniest, most charismatic guys there is. It's like, he has all this personality but he could never seem to get it to come across on camera. On camera he was just a fantastic, very underrated worker. Also when I first watched this show, I felt sorry for OMG for having to try to carry El Gigante. OMG was never a great worker or anything but he was at least competent as far as big huge guys were. Sometimes you can tell a guy is really doing his best and OMG was trying *really* hard.

[@jonathanturbide2232]

Yeah either Brad just wasn't able to be "that guy" once the camera was on due to shyness or just being incapable of doing it, or perhaps he decided to be serious/dull/vanilla on purpose since he was representing the Armstrong name and was taught by his dad to take the business seriously. Either way, him being unable to connect with the fans or to show his bosses he could be more than just a "good hand" really hurt his career. Good career, but it should have been much much better. Truly the definition of underrated.

[@ghostfac3182]

JR and Tony together. Both the voices of their respected companies years later.

[@velvetpilot2008]

JOHNNY DON'T BE BAD, JOHNNY BE GAY! Brian Pillman was one of the greatest and he was hilarious as well.