Raw vs Nitro "Reliving The War": Episode 225 - February 28th 2000

[@edgyebi1610]

You say the Sid match was terrible but it was a clean finish... in the Main Event... in WCW... on Nitro... in 2000... for the World Title. That alone is a f'ing miracle.

[@MrMcKane]

And so it begins, the road to wrestlemania 16 where the main event is re-written on a weekly basis.

[@PancakeProduct]

Yet still smashes any WCW PPV record

[@HarmonySword]

I hope we get a Uncensored 97 style chart lol

[@nickbanks7954]

Chris is amazed by Sting's aura that he had to put on sunglasses in the thumbnail.

[@bonelessdonutz]

speaking of sunglasses Hogan was the worst.

[@AnthonyFord-zc9fl]

He had to hide his eyes because he got into HBK's fanny pack.

[@ConsistentlyInconsistent21]

"aUrA" Must be a teenager

[@nickbanks7954]

@@ConsistentlyInconsistent21 Yeah, I'm 13 in dog years.

[@jaystreet46]

Is Chris his thumbnail guy?

[@crapsmalloy7273]

"I had even asked Vince, like "Why a hand?" And he just looks at me and goes "It's a hand!" and he laughs hysterically. I'm like "I'm still confused, you didn't answer my question." -Mark Henry.

[@zlinedavid]

“It’s a hand, pal!” Vince really does make less sense than an acid flashback at times.

[@brettmajors69karaoke]

Vince McMahon is perverted to an extreme- and crazy

[@zachsmith1634]

It’s wayyyy more entertaining watching Kane come out to interrupt a match and attack everyone than watching The Harris Brothers do the same.

[@tayojones9460]

Kane could destroy both Harris Brothers with one arm tied behind his back

[@zacharyscott6779]

​@@tayojones9460Careful with that kind of talk... WCW would actually book it on their show. Or an arm on a pole match. Where Kane has to chop it off before the start and only gets it back if he retrieves it. 😂

[@LostChrisB]

The fact the NWO music hit and everyone looked to the entrance and not the dirty old arseholes in the ring, you can’t plan for that kind of humiliation.

[@shaneramey]

I like calling The nWo Harris Brothers the "Get The F*** Outsiders"

[@CrazedGinja]

​@@tayojones9460I think u mean both arms behind his back

[@Stu-b12]

13 months left. Can Our Jam Up Guy handle all that WCW goodness?

[@terrynighman4465]

Of course he can....he's an animal

[@DJDub88]

@@terrynighman4465 an ANIMAL!

[@TheVardon90]

@@terrynighman4465 An animal an animal!

[@michiganpride389]

An animal!!!

[@LlopmondDunderbridge-nn2xt]

Seeing Chyna smile and dance with Too Cool along with Jericho was a nice moment. Rest in Power to her and Grandmaster.

[@pwx13]

She should have slept with the grandmaster

[@mikem10481]

Triple H opening promo. The Reign of Terror in a nutshell folks.

[@alanarmstrong6460]

that promo exchange was amazing. this is A, B conversation so why See you yourself out of it.

[@Mark-Protacio]

Never gets old hearing Bret saying, “He’s an ANIMAL!!!!!” 😂

[@ThunderBunny30]

An Animal! An Animal!

[@Mark-Protacio]

@ 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@patrickschulz9936]

I especially like Davey Boys grin when Owen repeats it.

[@TheVardon90]

It's the little skip Owen does when he shouts "An Animal! An Animal!" that always gets me

[@rusalexander1757]

Yes it does.

[@AllieRX]

If you've played WWF No Mercy on the N64, the main event storyline on Raw is gonna look very familiar.

[@ReetinEntertainment]

Funny enough is that when David was dancing he took the best bump of his life.

[@devious187]

Just over a year left... what the hell are we gonna do on Thursday afternoons when it's all done? We all love and respect ya for slogging through this last year of Nitro, and like you said, we'll all be here with ya!

[@pathutchison7688]

“It’s not just the fact that you’re cold as ice that impresses us so much. It’s that you’re willing to sacrifice”. - George Washington 1778

[@marquan1976]

The Yapapi promo. We have come full circle 😂😂😂😂

[@mlgtrickzzz1014]

Chyna dancing was never on my bucket list. I love it. R.I.P

[@ifgwelf]

Been walking around randomly shouting YAPIPI at work lately 😂

[@AndreNDP]

Make sure you don't threaten your coworkers with strapation, I don't think HR'd love that.

[@zacharyscott6779]

I swear... Brian Knobbs looks like he constantly smells like ball sweat.

[@irvinwilliams2959]

😂😂😂😂

[@TheIronLung420]

😂😂😂

[@coryshannon3815]

He was a practitioner of "Pity City", so...😂

[@renatop2610]

Back in Peru where I grew up during this time period, the local TV station that carried RAW and Smackdown would only show a condensed 1 hour version of each show. The show would have the opening promo/match, a few mid card matches or promos relevant to the world title and the main event. This meant we missed a lot of the low and mid-card matches and storylines. Thanks to this series I finally get to enjoy some of that stuff of this era we missed Head Cheese, the APA, Godfather and DLo, etc.

[@vkartikv]

The David flair dance deserves a nitro victory

[@MarcoCaifan87]

Man, I still remember the next day in my 6th grade gym class “Did you see Jericho and Chyna dancing with Rikishi and Too Cool?!” Man, I miss my childhood sometimes 🥲

[@CreationsVibration]

"David Flair had the hots for all of the nitro girls" we all did mate, we all did.

[@MrBeardsley]

The crowd collectively forgetting the Harris Bros were in the nWo kinda sums up their whole career.

[@williamsmith666]

Jericho's calling other wrestlers by the wrong (but similar sounding) name was the best thing he ever did. Shame he didn't run with it more

[@PaulWerkema]

Norman is rocking a Randy Moss jersey tonight.

[@g-dub5272]

Straight cash homie

[@RetepAdam]

Beautiful timing. Here’s hoping Randy makes a full recovery.

[@scottthompson3954]

Ah yes, the No Mercy 64 storylines

[@ReaperCrew2682]

Man, ya know what? I think this series should go on until the end of the attitude era.

[@jayclifford9700]

Mae Young slowly appearing at the bottom of the screen had me laughing but also looking over my shoulder in the dark. Truly terrifying stuff.

[@TexasAmericana]

Its Thursday. You know what that means!!

[@leseditongela663]

That's gonna be a good little piece of business..

[@sethkaplan]

Billy Gunn: even with one arm im twice as good as you’ll ever be😂😂😂

[@lateralus5925]

you gotta remember jimmy hart was the one who told hogan this but i never see people question him about what he ACTUALLY told hogan, i think hart was in such poor condition physically he could barley get the words out and hogan just misheard him and did his best to make sense of it all while under such heavy emotional stress over his friends hospitalization

[@aarongaray2595]

We're on the road to McMahon-A Mania a McMahon in every corner. Stephanie/HHH, Shane/Big show, Vince/Rock and Zombie Linda/Foley.

[@RedMonsterInc]

Norman Smiley fighting for the honor of Terry Funk in retrospect is really wholesome. Also the dead fish WCW logo overlay was fantastic! Love the channel, sir!

[@MeltzersStammer]

Trips had a great one liner in that promo. "Rock this is a A and B conversation, C your way out of it"

[@dasdeke]

12:30 the answer is being best friends with Hulk Hogan. Also thank you for what you do. I'm about to go in the surgery tomorrow and this is gonna help with my spirits.

[@georgemetcalf8763]

Yapapai also sounds like the lyrics from one of the early seasons of Ranma 1/2 in the late 1980s.

[@iamlint4254]

Botchamania once did a Ranma x Hogan bit and I lost it. Never knew where that came from but Ranma 1/2 is easily my all time favorite anime as a kid.

[@SuperSonicShadow27]

I look forward to Steve Blackman winning the Hardcore Title on this series. The line outside the Mufugga Dojo will be into the next state

[@S0METHINGWILD88]

David Flair dancing perfectly matches the music edit. 😄

[@zachsmith1634]

I always wonder what the hell Torrie and Kidman be talking about while they walk the isle to the ring 🤣 And poor Mark Henry, gets put into the Mae Young having a hand storyline just to be sent to OVW. What a reward for going along with such a ridiculous storyline lol.

[@zlinedavid]

Hey, props to Kidman. He was about 3 galaxies out of his league and was still tapping that.

[@MongrelWarrior]

Oh Jesus, the one with the Yapappi promo. We're in for a treat, ladies and gents.😅

[@bonelessdonutz]

F mark madden, rest in peace brain

[@PhillipCummingsUSA]

Norman Smiley Goldust is a dream match.

[@devyndowling689]

Crazy we only have a year left

[@AaronAlexanderOfficial]

6:08 YAPAPI BROTHER!!!!

[@tjpetrucce8156]

"Wrestlemania is gonna suck if it's headlined by HHH and Big Show, " Rock said. True. Yet we still get that with Foley and Rock thrown in to job out. Should've been Rock and Foley finishing their story with Rock pinning Mick to truly end his run, but nope, gotta keep cramming HHH down our throats because politics and Stephanie.

[@lexkanyima2195]

But what was the original plan ?

[@adamcadwell4560]

Still think if Austin wasn't injured we would have maybe got Austin vs Rock 2 and Triple H vs Foley. Or can you imagine a fatal four way of Austin. Foley, HHH and Rock

[@lexkanyima2195]

@adamcadwell4560 ok

[@donology]

As Mike Graham said "He broke 6000 guitars, never drew a dime"

[@T.h.e__T.r.u.t.h]

This series is legendary and such a trip for those that lived it to have it all condensed and compacted

[@UDW13]

When I saw the hand segment for the first time, my assumption was that the "joke" was, due to her age, Mae couldn't properly carry a child and was only able to gestate a hand. I suppose if that's what they were going for it would've been, like, a baby hand... but that's just what was supposed to be happening.

[@zlinedavid]

Don’t try to apply logic to an illogical situation. This was Vinny Mac humor on acid apparently.

[@DA2626-j6j]

Earliest I've been in years, solid effort

[@AnonYMous-pm8jf]

And to top it off, a big ol' Vampy Kane bump too 18:26

[@karnasinghjawanda9596]

Can’t wait till April when Vince Russo comes on tv screen

[@MannyPatino]

Pure pro wrestling hell and I’m here for it

[@That_Guy-]

​@@MannyPatino pure bro* wrestling, im not sorry lol

[@Dr-Alexander-The-Great]

@@That_Guy-bro. How about a bro on a pole match, bro

[@vinnievegas3765]

At the Birmingham (England) house show in March 2000 there was the same reaction when nWo music played and then the whole arena groaned when Ronald & Donald came out

[@Jujubutter]

My favorite time of the week! Love the channel brother, you’re a jam up guy for sure!

[@Eric-wu7bp]

We’re only weeks away until the WWF Debut of Trish Stratus and the 24/7 rule being added to the hardcore title, can’t wait 😁

[@EmmanuelJim-e4v]

That doesn't brother for me brother dude

[@zlinedavid]

@@EmmanuelJim-e4v Jack.

[@shaneramey]

A completely random Curt Hennig face turn after being a straight up heel for over two years somehow fits perfectly in this era of Nitro.

[@vikenmanjikian4607]

That Meltzer analysis is what put him on the map

[@RyanRumbles434]

David Flair's skills and charm get better every week. 😌

[@lionnfulx2287]

i miss this era. a fookin hand stuck in there for 30 years could only be found in the 2000s

[@benvu2364]

Your commentary on episode 225 had me dying tonight! Hahahaha!!

[@papdizzle88]

The intros are just beautiful thank you sir

[@Hi-Im-High]

Now that's gonna be a good little piece of business

[@VIGLounge]

The Rock VS the Brooklyn Brawler with a heel champion. I feel like WWE(F) did the exact same thing when Undertaker was champion and feuding with Stone Cold Steve Austin.

[@Atroz7]

it's brought up how weird it is seeing the Radicals on Raw, but it's also so weird seeing Sid be one of the first pushes that leads WWF out of obscurity and also one of the last gasps of WCW

[@MackTatum]

I wasn't leaving my house until I watched this show.

[@tylerhodder2453]

Still On The Road To WrestleMania 16 & Uncensored 2000

[@shaneramey]

Damn RAW didnt even have to try to beat Nitro at this time.

[@Christopher-es5jk]

My anticipation for Reliving the War and Wrestlemania XVII has never been higher

[@babayaga1988]

why you stopped doing those intros for norman smiley I miss those

[@CallumRSU30]

24:34 IT'S WALLABY!

[@galarthenry1450]

34:46 I can’t wait until the April 10th episode 😂😂😂

[@michaelreynolds3179]

Stro was seriously underrated

[@WickedFireBird69]

23:40 I have ALWAYS wondered about this segment ever since seeing it live. This was and still is one of the top three weirdest wrestling segments of all time.

[@foxstarkiller]

19:50-20:05 Correction: Billy Gunn's injury happened on the go-home SmackDown! for No Way Out, when he hit a Fameasser on Bubba Ray Dudley through a table.

[@zachsmith1634]

The Mae Young giving birth to a hand had the scumbag Vince written all over it. I can just see Vince laughing his ass off during that segment. It had the fart sounds and everything.

[@AmazingGuy13]

Why wasn't the Jericho and Saturn match a disqualification?

[@johnbparker]

I stopped watching WCW in 1999. This David Flair stuff is pure gold!

[@brianstiles1701]

As a kid I was a huge mark for Steve Mufug Lombardi, the Brawler of Brooklyn

[@HALBY400]

There is absolutely no way that Jimmy Hart didn't mutter 2 words from the hospital. Hogan must've mispoke. What Jimmy said was "yapapi, baby"

[@SonnyO]

Listening to the dead fish analogy had me thinking. Man we’re almost one year away from the finale now.

[@thefckumean2209]

Loved playing this storyline in No Mercy.

[@geoffprime4579]

No mystery WB, Knobbs was one of Hogan's best friends.

[@zlinedavid]

One of the worst kept secrets in wrestling were that Beefcake and Knobbs were Hogan’s dope carriers.

[@TheLandofObscusion]

And with the birth of the hand by Mae Young, which at least grew up to be a seemingly respectable young man, we have seen the last of Mark Henry on Reliving the War, I believe. Mark won't be seen on WWF TV for TWO WHOLE YEARS, returning in April of 2002, which I think remains the record for a main roster talent (not main event, as I accidentally had at first) being sent back down to developmental to improve.

[@zlinedavid]

Thing is….he wasn’t main event just yet. It’s easy to say in hindsight, but that’s also like saying “The Ringmaster” was a main event talent. No, he became a main event talent, but he wasn’t then.

[@TheLandofObscusion]

@@zlinedavid Sorry, I meant to say "main roster talent", not "main event".

[@zlinedavid]

@@TheLandofObscusionFair enough….although there was no such thing as “main roster” either. OVW was unknown to anyone if you didn’t live within a certain distance of Louisville.

[@scottmcginn2169]

When David Flair became a national treasure.

[@Genolocs]

Love the updated intro

[@MC_Chex]

Love your content man... So nostalgic!!

[@henrikschmidt3964]

FINALLY, I had the Mae Young hand angle explained. I can totally believe Meltzer's story and it makes more sense then any other I have heard regarding this.

[@S0METHINGWILD88]

20:54 the dancing girl on the right completely no-sold David's classy dance moves. 😄

[@Smythoski]

Ahhh... my weekly reminder that it's almost Friday and the work week is almost over

[@devious187]

Ahhh, the notorious "hand" episode, the single dumbest storyline in WWE history, it even makes the Katie Vick angle look like Emmy Award winning material! Also, every time I see David Flair I'm reminded of the movie Multiplicity... I'm pretty sure someone cloned a clone of Ric, let's look in his wallet to sed if there's a slice of pizza in there lmao

[@extremeking425]

It's 3pm on Thursday already? I guess it's time for Reliving the War.

[@JamesMMcCann]

Looking at all the talent WCW had at this point and the fact that they still managed to screw the pooch is really quite the accomplishment.

[@lezlethal]

Flair vs Henning and Benoit vs Taz should have been 2 epic matches.

[@dylanbarnes9191]

Real tired of this starting videos without the "hey yo" that really made me hyped clicking on these to enjoy with my family and it's not the same without it if you don't say hey yo

[@ThunderBunny30]

The crowd checking the entrance versus accepting that the NWO music was playing for the Biker Michael Likers was too funny. The King of Biker Michael Likers is coming Judgement Day 2000

[@shaneramey]

I shouldn't have been eating during that Dave Meltzer explaination about the Hand Birth.

[@presntnow]

Oakley Sunglasses are the best ❤

[@israelavilazambrano7943]

YES, IT'S HAPPENING, BROTHER!!!

[@israelavilazambrano7943]

I cannot wait for the next episode of ''Reliving the War'' series, March 6th, 2000: witness the Yapapi Strap Match. No.1!

[@LostChrisB]

Wcw fantasy booking, Sid opens the show, his stomach taped and admits that he’s hurt, but that doesn’t mean he’s weak and challenges anyone in the back to a title shot in the main event, he’ll dangle the gold in front of all the sharks in the back and powerbomb the first one who comes to take a bite. Out comes Luger looking to continue what he started and become champion, but even as he lifts the mic to his lips and claim the challenge there’s Sting behind him, baseball bat to the head, Sting takes the mic from Lex’s limp hand, steps over his body and calls out Sid, “It’s show time!” Main event, there’s no guitar nonsense before hand, they let Sting and Sid work for 5 to 10 minutes, actually put on a (what am I writing, I’ve clearly gone insane) show before the interference, the two guys in the ring fight it off before turning on each other again hitting a double closeline. Sting is up first, looking to lift Sid and finish him off but it’s pin or be pinning as Sid rolls up Sting for a sudden 1, 2, 3. Sting is up first, fuming at the loss and stands over a broken Sid still lying in the middle of the ring, are we going to see a heel Sting? No, (Sting always works better as a face) the Stinger stops, composes himself and laughs, gesturing for a mic. “You got me there champ, you took advantage of my ring rust to steal a win, but I got to say, you’re not looking that strong. I think us sharks will be circling even closer from now on, I’ll be seeing you in the again ring real soon.”

[@ArcaneAnarchy]

Ahh yes the Apple Pie promo. Love it!

[@roguerifter9724]

I don't think Ric Flair would be upset to find David's secret stash. He would probably just be annoyed it was somewhere so obvious and teach him batter hiding spots.