The MEGA BUCKS' Thirsty Demise!! | WWF SummerSlam 1988 - Wrestle Me Review

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Marc & Pete are rendered speechless by the chaste naïveté of The Mega Bucks and the modern mindset of Gorilla Monsoon as they review the triumph of the Mega Powers at WWF SummerSlam '88!!
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[@michaelsmyth5658]

Jessy is a good man through and through . He even tried to help his fellow workers by starting a union . Absolute Respect to Jessy .

[@MichaelMartin-qe5ye]

When you said, "have they never seen a woman?" I couldn't help but think of Dr. D, David Schultz telling Gene Okerlund, "I went looking for a WOMAN!"

[@NatePhillips-c6s]

"I wanted a Woman, i found a lot of men that look like women. Those are your people, Hulk Hogan." Prolly one of the best promos of all time, i died when the gene mean had to turn around so he wouldn't crack on camera.

[@Hellwyck]

@@NatePhillips-c6s "What the hell's wrong wit' you, Gene?!"

[@JamesMMcCann]

The fact that Jesse wanted to start a union would suggest he wasn't out for himself.

[@anangrytexan2244]

heh... but who wanted to run the Union? Jesse. Always look for the power grab and who stands to benefit :).

[@CatsClaw44]

That crowd stood on its feet after Koko hit that dropkick from the top rope. Awesome!

[@secularbeast1751]

Your memorial for the parrot was very touching, guys. :D

[@danjohnson8138]

🥇 congratulations 🎉

[@vasili1207]

but the parrot is still alive

[@NLaBar]

2:55 check out the crowd reaction to koko’s top rope dropkick. That’s one of the main things I miss in modern wrestling. If this match happened today, the fans would be sitting on their hands.

[@entropygames2440]

Bruh that was a legit drop kick and and legit crowd reaction

[@neilsun2521]

Yup. Nothing means anything in today's wrestling cause it's all a spotfest with 0 story pretty much.

[@daschwah]

Noting that Bossman was TWENTY FIVE YEARS OLD in this match.

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

I think a big reason why the main event is so good is because of the respect Hogan had for Andre and also because they are all such great workers

[@richardmoore4941]

Never take a snake's gender for granted. I was told my pet snake (named Damien, obviously) was male, but when she turned six she suddenly started laying eggs all over the place. Gorilla knew whereof he spoke.

[@bdot187um]

I don't care what anyone says this was the best era in wrestling.

[@CheapJabroni]

Nope. Cena ruthless aggression

[@57waldo57]

​@CheapJabroni baha just no, jabroni

[@donjohn2695]

I agree the late 80's in the WWF was the golden era of professional wrestling

[@mehallica666]

Without question.

[@mehallica666]

@@CheapJabroniNice trolling.

[@wrongwayranger4736]

Jesse looks like a pirate referee

[@bdot187um]

He was doing his best Hogan/Superstar remix 😂

[@TONYGILLEY]

Also, during the Mega-Powers celebration just before Savage catches Hogan hugging Liz, there's a moment where Savage is in the corner taking in the cheers of the crowd when Elizabeth is trying to get his attention and he acts somewhat aggressive as he heelishly shoos her away. It wasn't just the Hogan Hug that dropped hints of future events, it's the little subtle moments in that corner that caught my then 15yr old attention.

[@DarkWaveOnSteroids]

Wow I finally get to see what Mark and Peter look like. I thought Mark was going to be a giant and Pete was going to look like Enzo LOL 😂

[@RingsideRebel785]

Wait- This ISN'T Enzo's shiw????😢

[@McMahonHater]

If Jessie had succeeded at starting a union Owen Hart would still be alive today. Thanks a lot Hulk Hogan.

[@mox19380]

a lot of guys may be alive. no union would've allowed it's members to become the pill popping zombies wwe wrestlers became in the late 90s and early 2000s

[@McMahonHater]

@@mox19380 Or roids either. Union jobs tend to have 50% less deaths as I understand.

[@McMahonHater]

Andre isn't transfixed he's yelling for Jessie to count.

[@JuanCruz-cc9jy]

10:30 LMAO!!!! Way to end the show fellas! We all knew what was coming and you didn’t disappoint. Nice job

[@CatsClaw44]

Demolition was a GREAT team and criminally underrated! The Hart Foundation obviously was great.

[@L_Train]

Demolition was OVER rated! They were over like nobody's business and looked like auto mechanics in bondage gear. They had no right being that over

[@maxtracker2904]

I’m not an emotional man but Banya bat’s heartfelt tribute to Frankie the parrot really got me in the feels… ❤

[@duckhive]

Savage socked Hogan in the eye.

[@jimmyjames3819]

😂 When they were describing slick's friends lmao

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

😂you guys are having way too much fun lol

[@larrywasek7307]

The end still frame with Hogan's music playing is Is genius

[@andrewcrouch2362]

Great wwf wrestling summerslam 1988 was ive got this as well on tagged classic dvd good video upload 👍

[@stephenberry7876]

You have me and my kids in stitches

[@underwearskids1]

OMFG that rope spot where Ray Traylor crotches himself, is absolutely PERFECT.

[@joshuaDstarks]

How Boss Man hits the ropes and doesn’t take the ring over with him I’ll never know. That’s a big boy right there.

[@samspurgeon4222]

I know right? I was always in awe of how well he moved around the ring at a high speed...his agility was better than most guys half his size

[@Paulthompson9942]

​@@samspurgeon4222I first saw him as a slimmed down version at Wrestlemainia 7 against Hennig and I was blown away at how fast he was he was probably faster then Perfect

[@jimmyp7928]

This channel is great - a proper laugh.

[@michaellee8816]

Summerslam 88 immortalised in the WWF Superstars Arcade game ("no one beats......Megabooooookkkkkssss")

[@danjohnson8138]

🥈 👏👏👏 ✌️

[@neilsun2521]

Jake's theme tune was like a more upbeat version of Sycho Sid's.

[@thehurriblank1228]

Love the Sim City music for Frankie.

[@QuintilianA]

Slick Pimp Walked so Stokely Hathaway could run and then fall over.

[@NegotiableHemingway]

I’ve said it before you guys should work your way through every Raw/Smackdown/Nitro episodes and do commentary videos on all of them from the first ones. You’d be making videos for years to come and you’d have more and more people watching your hilarious takes.

[@HellhammerSS]

Hand on her ass at the end was Perfect!!!!😂😂😂

[@henrysellers9348]

Virgil get over here and clean my shoes...calm down Ted 😂

[@pendafen7405]

The snake spot troubles me quite a lot. Poor thing must have been overwhelmed with all the light and noise and getting chucked about.

[@TheGM-20XX]

Died when I heard the SimCity on the SNES music.

[@GhostManBrandonDDpre]

"Rigid." best line ever.

[@thevo4100]

I'm really enjoying the channel. This is basically how me and the chaps that I work with pass the time discussing the madness of wrestling. I watched the Stone Cold / Booker T video and we had had the exact same conversation a few days earlier.

[@thethinkingcatakaneonormie3527]

The better Demolition Vs Hart Foundation summer slam match was Summer Slam 1990 as it was 2 out of 3 match

[@undertakerfanz628]

My favorite part of SummerSlam 88 was the Powers of pain debut I love the powers of pain👆 they were scary

[@ramonestrada1503]

That ending!!!!

[@Goldnfoxx]

Oh, I loved the ending to the main event. I first watched this slightly after the fact, would've been after WrestleMania V (so, spring or summer '89) as a 14yo, and with his parents in our living room, in a sorta laid-back, albeit still conservative '80s household. When Liz took her skirt off, my dad cracked up. I'd not been _allowed_ to watch wrestling just a few years before this. I don't know if it was because it was too violent, or there was some social stigma attached to it, or what; however, most of my friends were into it by this point, so they watched this event with me. But at that moment, my parents just sorta got it, understood wrestling as the silly, innocent kind of cartoon it actually was.

[@pendafen7405]

Elisabeth's rose dress in this match is so pretty and glam. I'd hate to have to rip it or take it off as well. Well, and to have to go down to pants in front of drooling neckbeards and mouthbreathers.

[@airfixx_8952]

Love the Hart Foundation combo move where Anvil does the powerslam and then he powerslams Bret from the 2nd buckle onto the oppo afterwards........ We didn't see it anywhere near enough...... They set it up in this vid but don't follow through with it.... I think they only time they do it on PPV is vs BrainBusters at SSlam 89.

[@Paulthompson9942]

Im fairly sure they did it at Summerslam 1990 against Demolition

[@GSEtheMajor]

Boss mans head not rolling off tho

[@timaustin2000]

"Rigid." Needs to be on a t-shirt

[@markholey]

love summerslam 88 great video guys

[@Donathon-xt2nl]

Ah the 80's....by the Goddess I miss those days.... well what I remember of them honestly.. LoL

[@brianwarden7250]

Wassup with Superstar Billy Graham's shirt??? Ray Traylor, " Big Boss Man", was one of the nicest people I ever met. Koko was one of the toughest guys in the locker room. Ask Steve Kiern. Don't mess with Koko. I saw Boss Man with Hogan at Thompson Bowling Arena in Knoxville in 88 and that was the first WWE show there after Continental folded and before Cornette set up Smokey Mountain Wrestling in 91. Andre made 500k $$$ for this show. Transfixed on Elizabeth's bits. This did not age well. lol

[@Norma-uc8dy]

Boss Man might be the only guy to take a clothesline while tied in the ropes. Usually the guy in the ropes is able to escape at the last second.

[@Greg400]

"Repressive giant police state monster" 😂💀

[@LTGamingYoutube]

Great laugh to this as always 😂🚀

[@jeffwhite5007]

Something that bossman and slick have in common is that prisoners would hate them both. Correctional officers and human traffickers are hated by prisoners.

[@theweejoke9850]

Big Andre loved dropping them h's... "Ulk Ogan!"

[@pendafen7405]

4:43 no you're right, it's like a Michael Mann film

[@Demomandan]

For the most mythologized summerslam by wwe, always being present in any game they make “summerslam 88” they never mention that last bit with Elizabeth. Never actually watched it until now.

[@mnorris790]

Yeah one of the reasons I was always a Sensational Sherri man was that say what you will about her, she never appeared to have Stockholm Syndrome.

[@asurlybarber3620]

Hogan always sold for Andre because he was afraid not to.

[@darthdmc]

Another mission for WWE's Most Wanted - the bottom half of Miss Elizabeth's dress.

[@samspurgeon4222]

I don't think anybody would want it now....😂

[@CornPopodopolis]

Can you imagine how much DNA has been deposited on that thing by now

[@samspurgeon4222]

@@CornPopodopolis I'm pretty sure if you threw it from a ring now, you'd have to toss it like a frisbee....😂

[@tmage23]

Hogan would sell for Andre because the consequences of not selling for Andre would be painful for a long time.

[@alessandrotaccari358]

La mano di Hogan sul culo di Elizabeth alla fine è da antologia

[@toptenguy1]

Thing is, Elizabeth's character was so pure.. She may as well have been 100% NUDE right there. LOL

[@sixth_under6766]

Great!

[@WaldoBagelTopper]

🥲 The Frankie thing kind of made me chuckle and tear up at the same time. I understand Frankie died in a fire. That hurt me to hear. I know that Koko loved that bird like it was his kid. I had birds as a kid. I kinda get it.

[@christopherwiessner555]

2:39 that’s his clients.

[@Norma-uc8dy]

8:09 Miss Elizabeth has probably farted at ringside a couple of times already during this match. Oooh yeah !!!!

[@TheLokiBiz]

The idea of non-binary snakes had me laughing a good bit there... Hell yeah, I'm all for Gorilla "queer ally" Monsoon haha

[@WaldoBagelTopper]

LMFAO You hear these guys laughing and making connections as to how a pimp (Slick) knows a cop, and Bolsheviks- THAT is what I miss about wrestling. As a kid, it's all magic. As a teen, you start to crack jokes with your friends about the ABSURDITY of wrestling. Like why did the IRS wrestle in the early 90s. Hes a tax man!! What did he do, leave the office and go straight to a local arena to fight? 😂 Likewise, wrestling is a competition or "sport", but why did wrestlers feel the need to occasionally go to their opponents houses and beat up their opponent in front of their wife and kids? LMAO!!! Why was there a wrestling convict in an orange jumpsuit performing in an arena full of cops that work security?

[@LuminalSpoon]

More SimCity SNES music ☺

[@DrSpoculus]

Ventura covered his arms because he had lost miscle mass by that time. Same reason Savage wore long sleeves in TNA.

[@christopherwall2121]

That's why Macho Man started wearing those gaudy outfits as the Macho King until the end of his WWF run.

[@ningboy3274]

You definitely do still see tag ropes, I don't think they ever got rid of them in WWE (they did in AEW ). I notice them in use most in recent times in matches with the Usos, or Sami Zayne and Kevin Owens. They don't ever address the tag ropes, and I don't think they enforce having to use them, but you do still see them in a lot of the tag matches in the WWE.

[@wrongwayranger4736]

Tiny little Koko

[@TONYGILLEY]

A friend and I would make this joke during the Elizabeth's little walk of shame where everyone is transfixed on her, we'd yell out "A WOMAN'S BARE SKIN" as we're both alluding to Andre the Giant being far more animated in his reaction to Liz as he's pointing at her and making the most ruckus while the other heels are just looking on in bewilderment at the sight of a woman.

[@TheManOfTheHourEveryHour]

Not Gorilla turning WWF into the World Woke Federation for Damien 😭😭😭😭 the GOP would melt down today 😂😂😂

[@UnpluggedIndividualYT]

We were royalty as kids and didn't know.

[@m.otransformers4855]

The luster

[@nichhodge8503]

4:37 Judging by Damian’s size Damian is definitely a female snake as female snakes are a lot larger than male snakes. But if Damian identifies herself as a male snake and goes by a male name then you have to respect her lifestyle choice 🐍

[@mikehunt4986]

Elizabeth looked fine. You guys are making something out of nothing.

[@mew888]

Are you lads going to All in tomorrow?

[@petedonaldson2698]

Marc is mate! Pete's over in Japan watching DDT

[@TheSunDanceKid100]

There all of Slicks Girls clients of course lol

[@Rydonattelo]

🦜 Sim City Super Nintendo music. When you know you know

[@mox19380]

this was about the apex of wwf. hogan was still beloved, although i think this program with savage started to divide fans over hogan. i remember even as a 6 year old feeling like, hogan touching Liz that way seemed wrong. i couldn't figure out why but i sympathized with savage and didn't see him as a crazy jealous heel but an understandably jealous husband/boyfriend

[@tamazutra1041]

Can somebody name the song in the intro luv it!

[@msmith42001]

Dibiase should have been legit champ at some point in this era. Maybe from one ppv to the next.

[@airfixx_8952]

Different times/different approach to booking + It was a babyface fed. Piper, Andre, Ted, Bad News, Rude, Perfect...... In a parallel universe they could all have had title runs. Dibiase should have won the 89 Rumble though 100% no doubt. He cheated by buying a number from Slick and came in last... It would have been the perfect way to rehab his character after being foiled by Hogan & Savage for a year.

[@jammiebooker6489]

Haha....sim city music

[@L_Train]

Every time I look at demolition I think I will never understand how they got so over. They look like guys that should be working at an auto parts store or something. Like they like to wear bondage gear after their shift

[@Toooldforthis78]

I know what you mean, Ax especially always looked like your mates dad after a hard night out!! But despite this I think they worked really well, they got that balance right where you always thought they could be a threat, but they could also lose to anyone so their fights were always hard to predict - they just made it more interesting than those you know would win every time.

[@michaelsmyth5658]

Sherry was sexy but Liz was absolutely stunning She was in a different league

[@airfixx_8952]

Weird take on BossMan here...... This match is as good as it gets for him? That's wild! His title matches with Hogan were great....The whole Twin Towers/Mega Powers thing was main event for 4/5 months....... Then he got to put the nightstick to Dusty......... His face-run was superb also..... Amazing work-rate for a big man too.

[@barkboingfloom]

Jesse should have disqualified Macho & Hulk for touching the referee during the count.

[@richardpreston7333]

Elizabeth is just one of those people in wrestling who was an absolute sweetie, but also completely out of her depth.

[@duckhive]

She was too pure for that world. Loved seeing her on the mic in ICW.

[@pooddescrewch8718]

Demolition were excellent . Far better than The LOD

[@vxrdrummer]

If you want to count something said by commentators, count how many times Jesse and Gorilla say, 'absolutely', during WM6. Its pretty much every other word on the PPV. Luckily its my favourite PPV so I don't care, but they say it a hell of a lot!!!

[@airfixx_8952]

Pretty much every PPV from around this time one of the comms gets into a mental rut of saying the same phrase over and over again.... LOL Jesse: "Absolutey" "Positively" Monsoon: "It's a happening" 'Right in the kisser"

[@vxrdrummer]

@@airfixx_8952 I'd love to see an official count of all of these phrases/words!

[@danjohnson8138]

🥉 🤷

[@arthurj.downeyjr_2013]

😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@vasili1207]

frankie is still alive ..... wtf

[@michaelsmyth5658]

Shame the DM kid didn't get the push he deserved . He was the best 👌 ever . The British Bulldogs and the Hart Foundation could of been in amazing matches ..

[@airfixx_8952]

What do you mean could have been? They feuded for nearly a whole year.......

[@michaelsmyth5658]

@@airfixx_8952 Didn't know that . i'll have a look . Cheers kid All the best 👍 .

[@wbcwinnipegbeltcollector]

It always struck me as weird seeing "Mega powers" Scrolled on hogan's ass I'd have loved it if he was so egotistical that Macho gets this New Robe Made and Hogan just wears the same tights as usual 😂 Like he didn't even dress up cause he knew the belt was coming back 🙄

[@marionlawless]

That happened later... I think Survivor Series.

[@pooddescrewch8718]

Didn’t Frankie die in a fire 🔥 ?

[@pooddescrewch8718]

Slick was supposed to be a street preacher not a pimp

[@GilesArt]

Very weird projection to accuse Elizaberth of being uncomfortable, guys. The reason why it worked as a finish is because she wasn't that type of character, not even slightly, thus doing anything even slightly provocative could be sold at a major level. Her "decency" was immensely protected, and as a result, something like this could be sold successfully without her barely needing to reveal anything at all.