Reviewing EVERY WWE Attitude Era PPV...In 3 Words Or Less | The 3-Count

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

Fun fact: They DID gimmick the glass for Shane/Kurt, but some tech realized the pyro would shatter the more flimsy glass, so they replaced it with real glass...and didn't tell anyone. I feel like the Bossman reveal was the last time Vince McMahon allowed a remotely subtle reveal to happen in a storyline. Because "people didn't get it," so therefore: bash them over the head with every single twist from then on.

[@boyankovachev7982]

I think you are giving Vince too much credit with this take. Like, I'm not saying that he isn't, or at least wasn't, a great promoter, maybe the best one at the time, but unless I misremember, subtle reveals have never been his style. Which I'm not saying is always bad, but think that we can all agree that there are times when a subtle reveal would be far more impactful. One love ❤️

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

@@KegOfMeat Thank you for correcting that, ALSO very interesting!

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

@@boyankovachev7982 Ain't gonna catch me defending Vince anytime soon, I'll take that explanation! I think mine's funnier, but MUCH less likely.

[@Beavie]

It was REAL Glass you say? *CM Punk and Jack Perry have entered the chat*

[@cody1390]

​@@Beaviecry me a river..then damn it BEAVie lol

[@Savage_Lee]

The bad follow up to the Montreal screwjob with Owen came down to Shawn refusing to work with him

[@ginakearney4146]

Per usual.

[@TheLukey27]

Luke makes a very good point about Austin/Bret. As a kid it never occurred to my feeble brain.

[@619Dynamite]

because for a turn to happen, it needs to build to, and they built to mania where the actually turn happened. he's not right.

[@leonzaduncan2438]

​@@619DynamiteYep Bret got cheered before the match, and even cut a baby face promo before the match. Yes the seed were sown for weeks, but it didn't fully develop until the end of the match.

[@animatedCHUG]

I think you should do 3-Count episodes for individual years, that way you'd eventually cover every PPV. Could definitely make for more fun viewing experiences, I'm sure other people would second this too

[@jmablazer]

Seconded

[@PowerPackers90]

Yeah im one of those 97 is the Attitude Era guys. while there is small New Gen Era stuff in 1997. there more "attitude", Austin's rise up the card, Rock's heel turn, DX, Taker title run leading to Kane, Sable Terri and Sunny being the 1st "divas", ECW invasion, and Raw is War reband. So to me it's Mania 13-18 is the Attitude Era. With the night after being the start of Ruthless Aggression with Brock's debut and announcement of first Draft.

[@KingCanada]

And just to add to your argument, let's think about the build-up from SummerSlam to Survivor Series in 97. What do people more fondly remember: The Patriot's feud with the Hart Foundation, or HBK's feud with Undertaker? We all know the answer to that question.

[@ginakearney4146]

Couldn't agree more. I got back into WWE with Raw 25 in 2018 after I stopped sometime in 2012. Subscribed to the Network and began watching the 1996 ppv's from King of the Ring on and then for the first time all of 1997 through the point I began watching Raw on TV in mid-1998. Of course, kid in a candy store being able to watch all of those ppv's that I was only able to listen too (the ppv channel, the picture was scrambled but you could hear it) because at 11 I could never convince my parents to purchase them for me. It ruled!

[@eliasmg9144]

Same for me but with 2002, to me the attitude era ends when the smackdown and raw split happens

[@KingCanada]

15:28 Surprised Pete didn't throw the penalty flag on those two. They both said 4 words. Oli was "Let's say....Boss Man?" and Luke was "Boss Man did it". I don't care how other people stylize it, his name is specifically worded "Big Boss Man" on his WWE Alumni page.

[@IBeNerdy76]

Even WWE doesn't hold by that. Sometimes it's Boss Man and other nights it's Bossman. In my mind it doesn't matter at all.

[@hellgrey2136]

With Pete's rulings on the handshakes, I'd argue that the ones that are close, like the "Gotta Be Kane", should be a handshake, and the exact same ones should be a 3 count scissor

[@press_x_tojason]

Let’s be real, Attitude Era starts with the nWo formation at Bash at the Beach 1996 and Austin’s coronation at King of the Ring 1996, two weeks apart in June-July 1996.

[@TomGarrett73]

I love these SO MUCH. Unfailingly entertaining.

[@mgunter]

1995 in 3 words or less/fewer, it was one of the worst years for WWF/E. I'd love to hear what you say about Mantaur.

[@l228spn]

Rest in peace

[@num1Jaysta]

Also WCW

[@christopherphelps2749]

Armageddon 2000: Best Promo Ever "which means-ah, he's got to beat the game-ah, in the middle of the ring-ah, and he's got a $2 slut for a wife-ah"

[@Darro85]

Royal Rumble 1999 has the Royal Rumble 2000 poster and not the 99 one. Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder! (Simpsons reference FTW). And I am in the group that considers Wrestlemania X-Seven to be the end of the Attitude Era.

[@ajk]

I would too.

[@proudy4911]

Hear me out. Why doesn't Three Count have Three members? Bring in Pete he already contributes from behind the camera so why not embrace that!

[@jaredfauber7507]

Make it rotating person. Pete one episode, Tempest for one, Sully, Dave Bradshaw, there are a lot of options for some fun opinions.

[@BaithNa]

The handshake would be tough to pull off with three people but I'd like to see them try.

[@MrOgaAkin]

@@BaithNaI mean have you SEEN The Acclaimed and Daddy Ass? 🍑

[@dylangross3702]

No thank you

[@yummyteeth7021]

Jesus no. Pete is godawful and by far the worse one

[@riotd.r.8363]

I'm more afraid of the Hart Family kitchen than the Dungeon.

[@thetimebinder]

Facts

[@RApollos107]

26:20 the thing I remember most is the intro video for the PPV featuring the video game like CGI Austin heads while you hear “And Now… WWF Unforgiven!”

[@MrDecomon1]

We need the Ruthless Aggression era now

[@brians6949]

Love this series! And I just got my three count t shirt in the mail a few days ago 😁

[@StoneyGREATness]

The Snyder Cut Version Bit was the best thing ever...Pete's laughing in the background killed me...🤣🤣🤣

[@ricmar92]

I popped every time lol

[@dastardlywun]

Anything gets a laugh these days it seems

[@freakfoxvevo7915]

No Way Out of Texas: *Why's Savio here?* King of The Ring 98: *Everyone wants Head!* Fully Loaded: *TVs wheeled in* Rock Bottom: *Worst PPV set* Royal Rumble 99: *Beyond the Mat* Mania 15: *Rage Party* Over the Edge 99: *Rest easy Owen*😢 King of The Ring 99: *"My Name's Billy"* SummerSlam 99: *Ventura ruins Hunter* Kennel from Hell: *"Hey! Stupid!"* Royal Rumble 2000: *Headbanger cone boobs* Mania 2000: *Oops! All Multi-Man* Summerslam 2000: *Shane nearly dies* Armageddon 2000: *Why Sawdust?* Royal Rumble 2001: *Honky gets Jarret'd* Mania X-Seven: *All the gimmicks!* King of The Ring 2001: *Poor DDP* Invasion 2001: *Austin Face? No!* Unforgiven 2001: *Rah Rah USA!* Survivor Series 2001: *TNA origin story* Vengeance 2001: *Jericho deserved better*

[@garyhen2028]

Owen certainly did check in on Austin, I've heard this over and over, Austin clearly says it during the broken skull session with bret

[@RApollos107]

I would argue that the Attitude Era was between Mania 13 and Mania 18, basically the way I see it, the start of the first Brand Split was the end of the Attitude Era.

[@ajk]

Also was about time WWF became WWE too. Was just 2 months later.

[@vinnyscaramuzzino8088]

These three words videos are really good. Definitely help through my hangover days. Appreciate ya!

[@whitty3210]

18:28 Ollie: “it’s the 90’s” Luke: “It’s December 99😆” Ollie: “Everyone knows that the 90’s finished around 2007” Me: 2007? That’s around the time Chris Be- oh yeah, that checks out

[@y2empleh]

The Bret/Austin turn happened at Mania. While they had teased the turns for weeks, the actual act of Bret refusing to release the hold didn't happen until Mania. Look at the Bloodline stuff. They tease the turns for weeks and months but still the consensus is "Sami turned on Roman at Rumble"

[@Tomhockman]

dissapointed you didn't go with "but I digress" for Taz's debut

[@Rodderz1992]

This was so nostalgic! This was when I changed from WCW to WWE so remember a lot of this.

[@threestwos]

The first rumble was technically 20 so it was the smallest 30 man rumble

[@ManiacsWord]

I disagree. I feel Attitude Era is Wrestlemania 13 - Wrestlemania 18.

[@SwaggBoi69]

22:45 Oli just doesn't wanna take the W, sometimes leaving my man Luke out there like that 😂😂

[@ShifT818]

summerslam 97 is recognized by wwe as the start of the attitude era. atleast thats what they said in wwe 2k14

[@vincentvalen72]

Luke brought out the leaderboard, season 2 confirmed :D

[@vanshier1159]

At all in london in our section after a two kick out we all did the high pitch three.

[@nathanspradlin8570]

According to WWE, the Attitude Era started at SummerSlam '97 and ended at WM X7.

[@BaithNa]

The attitude era was by far, the most fun era in pro wrestling history.

[@christianbowersox6442]

Any chance we could get a video like this for the ruthless aggression era?

[@pbs216]

I haven’t seen backlash 99 in years but I do remember that Boss Man did it

[@TheGreatDevlin]

Ground Zero was the first Taker-HBK PPV match?? That's crazy considering how long they'd already been in the company together.

[@robbiemiraclemakers]

Butterbean butter boom Is what I would have gone for

[@KingsNerdCave]

From now on I will say the attitude era started when Sid crapped himself at Mania 13. Granted there are 3 good things from Mania 13: Austin vs Bret, Taker closing the show by winning the title (despite the match itself stinking), and Sid crapping himself of course.

[@cody1390]

Attitude Era..in this mans opinion who was lucky enough that I was lucky enough as a wrestling fan for the periods I had watched WHEN I watched as my immaturity and growth out of it lined up pretty well as the product did also..I always thought in HINDSIGHT I believe that survivor series 96 - Until the "Ruthless Aggression slap heard round the world" episode of SmackDOWN! However I understand for those who just see survivor series 96 more as the primer or the pieces coming together organically and the pretty good argument i believe even myself that it wasnt done intentionally and was more of the ingredients/storm building before touching down survivor series 97'/Vince's "attitude promo" that proceeds it..i have a hard time justifying in my head that if you dont count survivor series 96' than you have no other chouce in terms of argument validity and consistency to use any date after that but before SS 97' the earliest or Vince's attitude promo..idk.. anyone get what i mean??

[@dwaynepitts3232]

Long Live the attitude era, Wresltemania 15 was the first wrestling show I ever watched, been addicted ever since. Thanks for the video guys, I really love these 3counts, so much fun and so many memories :)

[@dougjackson3890]

Since we are bringing the prop back, when are we getting season 2 of Worst Match Ever?

[@Nian2000]

Royal Rumble 98?wasn’t the smallest, first ever Runble was only 20 person Rumble

[@Brodysseus]

Does anybody know about the college class they were talking about? When and where?

[@Matt913]

Make Season 2 of Worst Match Ever, you cowards. (jk luv u this video is quite nice)

[@stream_gene]

Aaaah who put Rumble 2000 poster as 1999!? Blasphemy!

[@hdafkaksbfabfbao77]

Are we going to get “worst match ever” coming back soon? I need to know more about horrible wrestling

[@rhcwpeps]

So honestly, anyone else think WM18 was the last night of the Attitude Era? Rock/Hogan, Austin/Razor, Jericho/HHH, Undertaker/Flair, I feel like it’s the last symbol of WWE/F vs WCW. But I understand why they didn’t wanna keep going.

[@MrSteve1king]

Love the chemistry between you two

[@dbone3356]

21:17 It's not the worst match ever, it's just worst than most.

[@Gravity999.]

Recently found a huge lot of vhs's from this era, ppvs and mini docs. Might have to watch them all lol

[@TheGreatDevlin]

6:19 The first Rumble literally has 20 people, Luke. Lol

[@arashitendou5941]

Most don’t count that one much since it was the prototype It had no prize, hardly much star power, and is only remembered for the first point and who one it

[@robertbradshaw5281]

Who the f is Bill Pritchard ? Lol

[@RikouHogashi]

The Taker vs Mankind HITC double cage spot is PEAK Attitude Era for me it made me Admire the Absolute Lovable Badass that is Mick Folly to this day when I saw it on cable as a kid

[@YTJRBC2]

bring back worst match ever!

[@Badartist888]

"I was invested, until the payoff." Yeah that is how I feel about so much wrestling. You think with so much money floating around they could do a few script writing classes and perhaps throw a few wrestlers acting classes (for promos mainly).

[@arashitendou5941]

As proven a few years back WWE hires seemingly clueless and crap writers Example: that chick who revealed in a interview she didn’t even know one of the world champions name at the time Ie BOBBY LASHLEY

[@antoinestroman3431]

Absolutely right about Bret/Austin. Me and my loved Stone Cold at that time and it hadn’t dawned on us that everyone else did too. He was already a face coming in.

[@patrickmcgavin2245]

Vince was the referee. I remember Vince telling Austin the only way he'll win. Is if Vince's hand counts three. Vince got knocked out Austin used Vince's hand to count the three.

[@un_known5895]

backlash 2000 was the last channel 4 wrestling show, they already had a deal for april and that was it.

[@demarcoadkins]

This was really cool, I always enjoyed these types of videos, I wasn’t even born when some of these pay-per-view aired hope that Peacock would have some of these on the network.

[@ajk]

They all are, every PPV ever is on it.

[@landen3994]

Fun fact: Austin has zero issue with his neck he has a bruised spine. He says it in the documentary they did I believe a year ago

[@TheThird1977]

"Smallest Rumble Ever" is 1988 as it only had 20 guys in it.

[@jacohenn42]

Any day 3 count gets uploaded is a great day

[@er0372]

i’d always say the attitude era was KOTR 96 until WM X7. but hey, that’s just me

[@ericstorm124]

Agreed

[@DateMike22]

I feel you because of the Austin-McMahon dynamic that unfolded at the end of WM X-7. But technically the Attitude Era actually lasted until 2002 when the Ruthless Aggression era took over.

[@dhruvtrivedi1335]

Did you notice the partsfunknown channel doesnt have the photo of Adam and others on the channel page? Just a logo of partsfunknown. Is it a sign?

[@bennyrees123]

Agree 100% with Luke’s comments on wm13 double turn.

[@troyneal8772]

Nice to see the WME leaderboard getting a cameo, still hoping for more episodes someday.

[@diabeticman2194]

The Worst Match Ever board popped me, hoping season 2 is on the horizon

[@akshit318]

Here's my hot take.... attitude era ends at manis 19... 17 was the peak... They tried doing the same thing for 2 more years... But with rock and Austin done...imo this was the new page turn they were looking for

[@omagnon]

BRING BACK ADAM

[@jimllc]

......the WWE recognizes the Attitude Era as being from WM XIV to WM X-Seven, where does anybody get the idea it started in 97 and ended post-Invasion? I never understood that.

[@Ozzie_1986]

royal rumble 01 jericho vs benoit ladder match is amazing

[@isiahwitkowski5444]

Do ruthless aggression era

[@BBoy4040]

I count SummerSlam 1996 as the start of the Attitude Era since that's where it starts in WWE '13, and I guess people count the Invasion as the end of the Attitude Era, but I definitely see that as the start of the Ruthless Aggression era since the RA era was basically WWE fully incorporating ECW and WCW elements into their programming.

[@tomtalks23]

Mania 17 for me is the definitive ending. Austin turns heel and aligns with Vince, WCW and ECW are dead. It is the end of an era both in story and in real life.

[@zionkraze9965]

Wait, where the hell is the One Night Only PPV? You know, the night that Shawn Michaels sent Davey Boy Smith to his death?

[@JonathanH71]

Uhm 1988 would be the Smallest Royal Rumble ever

[@dwaterson21]

Wrestlemania XV: Multiple wrestlers murdered Butterbean kills Bart Gunn, Undertaker kills Big Boss Man, and Stone Cold damn near kills The Rock.

[@leonelcardenas5847]

That 'head and shoulders' thing was so stupid. However, I thought it was one of the most creative ways to finish a match! Stupid AF, yet Fn AWESOME! MIZ WOULD AGREE!!!

[@adamsalisbury9052]

the first rumble ppv had 20 people in it, so 98 isnt the smallest.

[@danielhogan6255]

Anyone who likes the joss whedon cut over the synder cut are the same people who unironically liked she hulk and the last jedi. I will brook no insult from two dudes whose third favourite band is billy joel. Both of yall look like the kinda fellas that eat quakers oats and drive a mini van....yeeeeah... Seriously though, love you guys💖

[@nathangibbs7149]

I'm curious to Luke's adamance that the 2001 rumble is the best. All i've really heard from him is that he loves it, but he doesn't explain why. There are several i would argue are better, but i can defend these points. I don't recall him ever defending why he likes that one so much, other than he loves the 90's and he thinks teh drew carey spot is the best thing ever.

[@virgbarger]

1998 RR wasn't the smallest. Hacksaw's only had 20 Wrestlers.

[@drkproductions9907]

BRING BACK WORST MATCH EVER.

[@codystaples3260]

It is the double turn. Bret was on his way, Austin was on his way and this masterpiece solidified it. Even the promo package still put Bret as a scorned babyface

[@wesmcgee5628]

Adam Blampied to Established Titles confirmed

[@charleszulas4021]

I was at judgement day 98 as a teen. My 3 words for that show "Henry squashes Rock". (but yes BAD main event)

[@dragonrana88]

for Austin's Heel Turn, my three words are "should have audibled" should have shook Vinces hand then pulled him into a stunner.

[@benwarner2940]

This is my comfort series

[@davidmosesisraelissachar]

Judgment Day faction stole the name of WWE's old PLE

[@patrickmilner4149]

I say the attitude era started with the Austin 3:16 promo and ended with WrestleMania 17. WCW went out of business a week earlier and the WWE had no more competition which is why the attitude era was around to begin with.

[@chaotictherory]

How about the start of the Attitude Era being when Bret Hart cut that promo on RAW after losing the cage match to Sycho Sid.

[@TequilaToothpick]

HHH wins at No Way Out 2001 to plant the seeds of doubt in Austin's mind that he can't beat Rock and set up his heel turn.

[@haraldrauppraupp1761]

7:35 please review every WCCW ppv 😢 there are Short, awesome and its good timing with "The Iron Claw" coming soon...

[@unclefred3128]

Bring back "Worst. Match. Ever!"

[@maxmaier7023]

14:15 WHO'S DA MAN

[@nvc3334]

KOTR 97 “filmed in warehouse” I only remember the shitty arena.

[@rusty501]

why is the Royal Rumble photo for 99 and 00 the same?

[@davidmosesisraelissachar]

Val Venus is like ROH's Dalton Castle

[@Puerto_Rican_Lover_4_Uuuuu]

The Attitude Era ended at WrestleMania X7 no buts about it...debate all u want about when it started but its ending is undisputed..

[@JMC1396]

Wwe are missing out on money if they don't release special edition wrestlemania 13 " sid shits himself " t shirts