Reliving The War Special: Episode 21.5 - WCW Nitro 12th Feb 1996

[@piyushsethi5427]

RIP road warrior animal 🙏

[@stewartmeetball3417]

Another legend gone rip animal

[@timbartschwolfman]

He's with Hawk

[@bradcarter2072]

OHHH WHAT A RUSH!!!!

[@VERDICTInsanity]

Thanks for the memories ❤️

[@cellgames808]

Yeah and Woman Miss Liz and Mean Gene. Crazy how all three at 11:38 are gone.

[@stevea4362]

It would have been funny if you showed clips from the dog show in wwe's place, and awarded points to the dogs.

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

Yeah

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

Honestly, Raw could have won

[@KEWLV1C]

This would be amazing!! I hope WB sees this

[@pauljames6353]

An australian silky terrier prancing around is far more interesting than a Hogan match. More athleticism and psychology that's for sure.

[@anthonymorlett146]

HAHA that would be funny

[@LuchadorMasque]

When this series is finally done, the playlist will be truly epic

[@hrbie84]

That powerbomb Konan pulled off, might be the safest, best display of "taking care of an opponent" I've ever seen. Props to Konan for being so strong to not only catch Crowbar, but pick him back up and make the powerbomb look good, while still safe.

[@awentimes8221]

I respect you bios man!

[@jerryjanik480]

That just made my day

[@dawsonbosco8217]

I'm watching back the old videos since I found Wrestling Bios a little late, but I must say this is a great comment.

[@TheShockninja]

Steve Grissom was promoting the NASCAR Busch Series (now Xfinity) race at Daytona International Speedway, which he would actually win in the WCW car. That series was the 2nd tier below the "big league" NASCAR Cup Series (Winston Cup at the time).

[@Bsfnelz20]

AWESOME thanks for the HISTORY LESSON i always wondered is WCW had a RACE CAR since they are based in Atlanta

[@toddbarts2120]

@@Bsfnelz20 yes indeed they also had a NWO car driven by Kyle Petty at one time.

[@johnskidmore5884]

Also, the comment about wrestling fans watching racing being a stretch. That is actually a true statement. I'm from the Southeast region of the United States. NASCAR racing is huge here. And the majority of the people that watch racing also watched wrestling. Hell in the 90s it would be me, my brother, and our uncle at the dirt track on Friday night, wrestling on TV Saturday night, racing on TV Sunday, and wrestling again on TV Monday night.

[@stewartmeetball3417]

I really look forward to these vids. It's s real blast down memory lane. Thank you wrestling bios

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

Best part of Thursday

[@greenwoodmississippi3153]

Ikr

[@ThunderBunny30]

I respect you Wrestling Bios Man!!! - Brian Pillman 1996

[@Ashley28822]

I love that a fellow Northern Irish native uploads these! Brilliant channel!

[@justablokepostingfunvids7137]

Luv this series il stay right till you get to 2001 if you keep it going mate lol

[@WrestlingBios]

Thanks man. We have a long way to go, but I'm here until I get kicked off :)

[@lukasjames69]

@@WrestlingBios why is the Reliving the War playlist not oldest to newest anymore??

[@ericw48]

I love this series. I have followed it since day 1, and I look forward to watching every episode through 2001. Also, I never would've thought that I needed the Union Underground/Nitro theme mashup in my life, but I totally do.

[@carnage2380]

R.I.P. Animal! Hawk can now soar the wrestling heavens with Animal...

[@carnage2380]

@Gunt Gershwin 🤔😜😂🤣💀

[@mrblonde609]

Love how Woman throws Flairs coke stash into Hogans face.

[@zlinedavid]

Oh come on.... that's nowhere near Flair's entire stash.

[@iDeathMaximuMII]

@zlinedavid It ain't, that pack was for the first session only lol. He had more in the back

[@ferriswheeler08]

The superbrawl part brought back memories!!! Pillman's exit really got the war going once he left after this. I have to recommend OSW's review of this Superbrawl.. it was amazing.. just like this channel!!!

[@WildSide_Est2024]

Borstal Boy shorts!

[@extremeking425]

I obtain so much wrestling knowledge from these videos.

[@eugenedantzler4485]

Would it be possible to get a video on Norman Smiley??

[@scottyboi3759]

Giant haystack at the end of his career. Guy could bearly move at this point. Bigg daddy vs Haystack you need to check the match out.

[@Thor-Orion]

scotty boi i hate that this is the only run many in America saw of his. Because in his prime he was probably the inspiration of many a big man with his body type (Tenta; Yoko, Bammers, Vader) to go on and become all time great legends in the business.

[@jorisweyen7934]

I keep hearing Giant Haystack was figuratively & literally huge in his prime. Any links to recommended matches?

[@scottyboi3759]

@@Thor-Orion he had a short run. Its a shame. I think he was going to do a feud with the Giant and Hogan. Just imagine those matches.

[@scottyboi3759]

@@jorisweyen7934 his match with Bigg daddy, Haystack vs Kendo Nagasaki,

[@scottyboi3759]

@THE WALKING BLUES I totally agree with you

[@drjohnsmith5282]

Miss Elizabeth's stunning beauty never ceases to amaze. A classy, sexy lady

[@JM1993951]

I have so much on my mind with work and home life during any given week. This came as a legitimate surprise at work when I got the notification. I love this series.

[@PJErvin]

I look forward to this series every week. I remember two quotes from this Nitro, if I’m thinking about the right one: Arn Anderson’s, “no, the sky is not falling…“ line, and Macho’s “Helter Skelter, yeeeeaaaaahhh!”

[@patrickschulz9936]

I just found this format and I am currently working though the episodes. I love the format. Thanks for your time and work. I really appreciate this view back into the most exciting time in Wrestling in my eyes.

[@calebshultis8423]

I really love this series. You do wonderful work. Also R.I.P Road Warrior Animal. 😥

[@wendigo1619]

one of the few youtube series i can't wait to watch the next episode, i have the entire monday night war on a selection of vhs tapes since my older cousins were fans of both wwf and wcw not wanting to miss a thing

[@mitchell1985]

Childhood memories god i love the 90s

[@zacharythomason7359]

Same Here

[@mikeyyls2044]

Probably the best wrestling channel going. No politics, no grudges, very mature yet fun. Thanks for the great work!

[@the_cruz13]

I started watching all the episodes a couple of days ago. Thank you for these episodes very well done. It's done very professionally and I hope you continue to do these.

[@garyhammond7683]

A genuine highlight of my Thursday evening

[@heisensaul5538]

Get series man. Love it, one of my favorites. I hope you do a Raw before the war, 1993-1995. That'd be awesome :)

[@MrBeardsley]

Fun fact: About a year after Devon Storm’s appearance on this episode of Nitro, he worked the opening match of Maccabiah Mania 2 (immortalized on the notorious Grandmasters of Wrestling DVDs) where he lost to his frequent tag partner Ace Darling. Later in 1997 he started working for WWF as a job guy, which included losing to Taka Michinoku in the Light Heavyweight Championship tournament.

[@pipepicasso8112]

Nice shout out to Crowbar and his Twitter page. It's great Crowbar gave you a compliment on one of your videos.👍

[@Realriggs09]

RIP Animal, love watching this when i just watched both PPV's last night !!

[@slanderman3296]

Can u do a bios on Hugh Morris? I always remember him bc even as a kid, I kept thinking, man that guy is crazy smiling.

[@mikemccoy5092]

Totally agree

[@wolfgangbollwein8135]

General Hugh G. Rection :-D

[@brandonpage7087]

I agree. He deserves a wrestling bios episode, & so does Alex Wright.

[@lpbbinc]

That would be some interesting. Isnt he a WWE trainer? Isnt he the one who was abusive or something?

[@kikihome2]

Thanks for another great episode!

[@Czah5]

To this day, the mere mention of dog shows is enough to sour my mood.

[@meatwad42069]

i know i can’t speak for everyone especially considering i wasn’t alive then, but nascar and WCW were both southern based promotions seeing a high rise in popularity at that time, while also at least somewhat sharing a similar fan demographic. wouldn’t be surprising if there were a lot of WCW/nascar fans, especially considering the amount of dale earnhardt memorabilia i see in the stands. now if those people knew who steve grissom was, is a whole other question lol

[@banksta3]

There are plenty of wrestlers that have passed away prematurely over the years, and many had sad endings. But everytime I see Miss Elizabeth, it's extra sad.

[@vegetacarrasquillo8271]

Man the intro to this series gets me hype every time

[@stevengrvp]

I respect you bios man

[@AdmiralMcFish]

Giant Haystacks' time in WCW is so surreal that I usually forget it even happened. You have a guy who was essentially mega-over in the UK, and to this day is one of the people (along with Big Daddy and Kendo Nagasaki) who is brought up if you mention wrestling to people, and yet he was a short-lived unknown there.

[@TheSlashTraxNetwork]

even as a kid when i saw undertaker pull diesel under the ring i was like um diesel's feet just touched the floor and bret is still climbing the cage...so um....diesel wins cuz the rules state whichever wrestlers feet touch the floor first right? :)

[@TyyTheFlyGuy]

Very impressed by your intro, incredibly professional looking. Not sure when you changed it but props my friend.

[@dustinwainwright6429]

Devin storm looks like Saul Goodman with a mullet and a love for professional wrestling

[@victoryusmc]

Great work, trying to watch it from the beginning! I started around episode 60

[@stewartmeetball3417]

I saw big daddy versus gianthaystaks. 1989 Perth Scotland

[@CujoKelly]

Fun Fact:Giant Haystacks was also a pretty good singer I recommend “Baby I need you” if you’re really trying to set the mood with that special someone, just don’t show them his picture.

[@zenincenseshop9257]

RIP road warrior animal

[@alexh8613]

Quickly mentioning that Arn Anderson got the win and then moving on even faster

[@ostos108]

My dad actually has a 1/64 die cast version of that WcW Nascar from Racing Champions in a box somewhere in his garage still in it's package. I was like 7 when all this was airing and we watched Nitro and Raw together all the time.

[@michael.tmclean2095]

You made my teen yrs look really good

[@carlosdias8142]

Its amazing how far Brian (take a chill)Pillman was ahead of hid time .. he had the attitude minded era in his mind b4 anyone really knew what they were trying to do

[@alexh8613]

Wow, who knew that WCW had that many wrestlers to fill out that SuperBrawl card? If you based it on Nitro, you would think that WCW only had 6 or 7 wrestlers

[@freddiejohnson6137]

Most of WCW's mid card stories were still unfolding on Saturday Night at that point which had more time to do it at the time being a two hour show. It could be ages until we get those shows on the network though to fill in the gaps of mid card stories.

[@slanderman3296]

"CANN I GET A HELL YEAH?"

[@stewartmeetball3417]

HELL YEAH

[@pauljames6353]

Keep doin what you're doin brotha! Best wrestling channel on KZbin!

[@Mojames1984]

This is actually my favourite series on KZbin. Is it sad that my favourite content on all of KZbin is a series about 1990’s wrestling? 😕

[@alexh8613]

Nash leaving for WCW had nothing to do with Bret Hart not taking a Jackknife powerbomb and everything to do with the giant pay check WCW was offering

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

Yeah. Nash is all about money.

[@attiepollard7847]

But we got to admit if that was true it just shows how Petty Bret Hart is. I love the guy doing my childhood but as an adult I'm starting to see why he was disliked backstage by some people

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@malikail57 well nash was more selfish than bret and nash nowadays respects bret for elevating him. Also Bret had great promos he could definitely cut promos if given chance

[@MrTeeWix]

Hey can you please bring back the from beginning to recent playlist of reliving the war? It was handy having them play in order. Sorry I'm so far behind 😅 I started a long time ago so thought I'd start from the beginning again. Keep up the awesome work mate 😁

[@freddiejohnson6137]

Always found it amazing around this time that even when others were in WCW title match Hogan still managed to be the main event. Saying that though it was better than the nWo period where there was hardly any title defences on PPVs and even in the matches that Hogan was in as champion and lost the title was never on the line which they got away with not mentioning it at all until the last minute. I always wondered who would by these shows since most of the time between 96 and 98 they were mainly full of main events that were miss sold or ones that were meaningless and had little build.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Well he was the reason wcw ever turned profit in 1995 his drawing power gave him the leverage to influence the booking

[@T-Bag13]

Double A spine buster, awesome move looks cool as hell.

[@chasearoundthebar8905]

Awesome per usual my friend! Great trip

[@benniewoods1124]

You the GOAT fam.... You need to be protected at all cost lol Thank you once again

[@dreadfuldansdiscs2781]

I respect you, Bios man!

[@tonetrip_]

I just finished watching every nitro last year. Then I started watching Raw and Superstars. Now I discovered reliving the war and I'm watching it along with Raw a few episodes behind.

[@jessaphillips2846]

NASCAR and WCW are southern (US) staples from the 90’s. Steve Grissom was right on the money.

[@aaront.akabiggs631]

Quality as always, thank you WB

[@McPoshSquatch]

Alright, now I'm really confused. I could of sworn in previous episodes that Miss Elizabeth was already with Flair as was Woman? I also could of sworn that one week she came back and was in the corner of Hogan and Savage as they faced Flair and whomever. Then the following week or the week after she turned on Macho Man along with Woman and they joined Flair then? Ugh. I am so lost.

[@ronaldsb3]

You were right, another damn good Flair Promo!! 🔥💯😂

[@Kuudere-Kun]

I rented this SuperBrawl on VHS a few times when it was already a relic a bygone era and I really enjoyed it, I felt it was a good show.

[@Thunderwing88]

Liz turning heel is the biggest crime in WWF/WCW history.

[@Chuckbreakseven]

Arn Anderson was such a valuable guy. Great ring work and sells well for everyone.

[@anotheratheist]

15:33 that‘s the steel chair from WWF Royal Rumble for SNES.

[@yeezynapkins2970]

it was probably pretty cool for the fans to see hogan and savage teaming up again at the end

[@BringBackSOAD]

Love how everyone who watches these is super cool and singing this brilliant guys praises in the comments. You are a treasure to those of us who remember when wrestling wasn’t so damn stupid

[@alanguages]

Woman (Nancy) and Elizabeth both had a tragic ending. So sad and a large pity.

[@heathmichaels885]

I really do love these shows. also RIP Animal, the last Warrior down. 2020 sucks.

[@huttyhutuniverse3736]

Fu to whomever decided to thumbs down this work of art should be ashamed of yourself

[@donborracho3019]

Dawm yo!! this has become my most anticipated weekly wrestling show.

[@chindub6563]

Another amazing video keep up the amazing work bro much love from south Carolina

[@mikel888666]

Any chance of something like this for ECW in the future? Either a reliving the war against WWE or just something like this episode with no scoring system made into a series. Either would be great

[@kennywright1021]

Hulk Hogan forshadowing bigger things to come. Also I noticed Steve Mcmichael wasn't commentating at Nitro.

[@gen-x-dad]

Savage-Flair for the title, but instead the other cage match with Hogan-Giant for no title of course is the main event. yikes. I respect you Bookerman. yikes. Dumpster Droese. yikes. I never got the appeal of Miss Elizabeth, nice window dressing but brings nothing else to the table. Loch Ness? terrible, i didn't even remember his run. Space Mountain LOL. Arn Anderson, Konnan, Crowbar, Scotty Riggs, even Hugh Morrus could work. Hogan with 15 minutes left...wow...Arn's spinebuster was pure magic. I thought it was a pretty good Nitro actually, other than Loch Ness.

[@jamesandrewjohnstone1931]

Well I learned that the Giant Haystacks had a run in the states.cheers.

[@onyoursix8408]

Hey to everyone who is following this amazing series.

[@NotAGarage]

If the timing is right this series won't be complete until 2025. Investment

[@mikemccoy5092]

Will u do a bio on big daddy or some of the other UK and European stars

[@garygood6804]

@wrestling bios When it cam to the southern states in the u.s. it was monster trucks, racin', and wrastlin'.

[@arrowwolfz]

The start of my weekend

[@JumpingJackFlash1989]

Straw that broke the camels back my arse. Nash left for money. He didn't lose clean to Bret at Survivors Series, he didn't lose clean to Bret here. Bret was the Babyface. Basic psychology. Bret lost clean to Shawn. Shawn never lost clean to anyone. He had no issue with his bumchum. Why hold Bret to different standards?

[@mikecooke7876]

am i the only one who loves the way little or battle sounds with the ascent.

[@Bertnasty]

It would have been easy for you to just take a week off! So glad you didn’t! Great video!

[@matthewlucas4142]

I’m a little late but congrats on 150k

[@claybaxter3202]

Bret wasn't selfish. He was smart. Nash was money hungry.

[@banksta3]

I think you could accurately say that Brett was selfish and Nash wanted more money.

[@RisingJericho]

When Vince opened 1996 he said something to the effect of "Change is in the air". Now with Steve Austin in the company, and Kevin Nash and Scott Hall talking to WCW... that's not as far off as Vinny Mac thinks.

[@clinthammer965]

...but who won the Dog Show?

[@darrelsapp1232]

Bischoff said on the Pillman episode of his podcast that he wasn't necessarily EXPECTING Pillman to come back as opposed to letting him make more money than he was willing to pay him at the time and giving him more money when he got over enough to warrant the price tag.

[@lbbonnie3753]

This did not show on my notifications. Subscribed and alerts turned on - BOOO KZbin.

[@angusthecat1689]

liz turning heel was a shock no one saw coming

[@mikemccoy5092]

Surprised Elizabeth didn't want anything to do with wrestling after divorcing savage

[@jhwin30]

I bet alot in attendance where actually Nascar fans. Love these videos.

[@hottkrap1188]

Such a great series

[@jerryjanik480]

I was going to put down respect you but I respect you Booker man rest in peace animal of the Road Warriors and LOD my thoughts and prayers to the Lord to the Laurinaitis family