WCW Uncensored 1996 - The “Reliving The War” PPV Review

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WCW Uncensored 1996 took place in Tupelo, Mississippi on the 24th of March 1996. The event features the infamous Doomsday Cage match where Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage try to defeat 8 guys in a unique cage structure. The Alliance To End Hulkamania featured Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Meng, The Barbarian, Kevin Sullivan, The Ultimate Solution, Lex Luger and Z-Gangsta (Tommy Lister Jr.).
The Doomsday Cage Match is remembered as one of the worst gimmick matches WCW ever produced but elsewhere on the card Konnan took on Eddie Guerrero, Fit Finlay vs Lord Steven Regal also took place, The Giant battled Loch Ness (Giant Haystacks) and a tag team match was slotted into the semi-main spot; Sting and Booker T vs The Road Warriors.
This video is part of the Reliving The War series.
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[@patrickdalton361]

Nah. I love your content but I'm not playing a gatcha game

[@SheriffOutlaw]

I might try it out. It looks interesting and Good Afternoon Good Sir! Cheers always to you and this fantastic channel! 🍻 This makes being a Wrestler and a fan of the business even more insightful

[@tristanhudson8519]

Need a holly holm. Ronda a bozo

[@SheriffOutlaw]

@@Crushbra I'll take it. I love reliving classic WCW PPVs

[@adamofgrayskull7735]

Fun fact Finely was from Green isle not Belfast I know his family my Uncle was sleeping with his sister

[@polymathing]

"Randy Savage chases Kevin Sullivan with a giant wooden plank" with the visual of Randy made me keel over in laughter 🤣 27:20

[@SpacedCobraIII]

Hogan and Savage running around clunking everyone with plastic frying pans is still my favorite part of this disaster.

[@victoryusmc]

Savage was proud of his hits

[@aceassn716]

Baby faces winning using heel tactics

[@CGB_Crash]

Its legit the first moment I saw of wrestling that made me laugh out loud.

[@DasNordlicht91]

Think of the many times wrestlers looked badass smacking foes with steel chairs or baseball bats and then throw that away when you see the Not-So-Mega Powers thwacking a bunch of heels with frying pans.

[@At0micPunk90]

Saw the Doomsday Cage Match once and only once. A true "clusterfuck" in every sense of that word. It's hard enough to follow on the broadcast, can't imagine what it was like trying to watch this in the arena.

[@ronaldsb3]

Dusty’s commentary was on 💯💯💯💯 all night in this one

[@TravJam317]

Dusty IS the reason to watch this PPV.

[@louisvelez40]

The only match I liked on this PPV was the Finley vs Regal match

[@christianwitte406]

"Little stinger"

[@anthonychobotdoespopcultur7762]

This is awesome

[@josephchaparro1037]

Isn't everything meaningless when Flexi Lexi isn't there?

[@Tonedogg24]

My favorite part of the cage match is when Lex gets “Irish whipped” across the cage and just full on runs into the cage. It looked horrible

[@CrashHeadroom]

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[@tonistark33]

NOT THE "GOOD EYE"!!! LMAO

[@kyleolson8977]

Doomsday cage backstage meeting: Everybody but Hogan: "What are the rules?" Hogan: "I win. We'll call the rest in the ring, brother". Everybody else: "Whatever, let's get this over with."

[@michaelbreen7865]

Sounds about right.

[@janitor4life]

Kimberly Page in that outfit was the best part of this whole event. SCHWING!!!

[@stevencook420]

God yeah..she is often over looked..but I'd take that over sable all day..and sunny when she was on a ecw ppv looking so good

[@jimsmith8993]

No. This guy only likes Alex Wright.

[@Lawnschiclettooth]

True…but with this event, that’s really not saying much

[@marcespinoza6068]

It's amazing how close this cartoonish match and the debut of the nWo is. In your mind they feel far away because of the crazy tonal shift that happens but damn they were close.

[@bryanmack4054]

I know right….just months apart but feels like two distinctly different eras

[@ernieb352]

Imagine showing this PPV to a young fan who's never seen WCW but knows about Impact, WWE or AEW, and telling them that company almost put the WWE out of business.

[@johnepants]

This was the absolute Nadre of the hulkamania era in WCW. Whatever bump Hogan gave them in 1994 was beginning to die out, and I think WWF was starting to win more ratings at this time. It took the complete change of tone with the Outsiders to help WCW shoot above the WWF

[@420blowingsmoke]

​@@johnepantshe's telling you at the end of the videos what the ratings are and they're pretty even for the most part back and forth. The last episode WCW had a 3.6 while raw had a 2.9

[@scypsylock9402]

Giant Haystacks at this point was becoming ill and left shortly after this match and sadly passed away. Being sick was what caused him to lose the match up to Hulk Hogan. I can't remember, but I think he had cancer during this time. He was a huge guy at 6'11" and had a heart that matched his girth. He was known to be very nice and very giving.

[@andrewramsdale]

Yes it was cancer that killed him

[@infamousprime694]

He literally says it in the video, did you even watch it?

[@CalvinTennessee]

He died Nov of 98. over two years after this.

[@Ian-Omega]

@@CalvinTennessee 2 years is short

[@kidneystonermusic]

Is it still real to you, dammit?

[@blmareterrorists]

*hears intro Me: THE MAN CALLED STING! He does this, he does that, he's quick as a cat and he hits them with a bat! What baaarrr is the Stinger?

[@michaelkeller5927]

Myah myah myah myah!

[@That_Guy-]

@@michaelkeller5927 a winner is you

[@tallgoose85]

Hilarious that WCW signed Medusa without it having a womens division to put her against

[@travismiller4320]

I will never forget Scott Keith referring to the Doomsday Cage match as Mega Powers vs The Alliance to End Hulkamania or opposite of HEAT

[@ameliastencil6058]

I wish I would've appreciated Regal more when I was younger. Finly too

[@tims4502]

8 heels vs 2 baby faces, and the baby faces still won. Sometimes it was really embarrassing to be a wrestling fan

[@MrBeardsley]

Heenan has a great call during the Doomsday Cage Match, at one point he says “What a great thing for television!” And he’s right, it’s pretty impressive watching on TV but you have to imagine most of the live audience couldn’t see a damn thing with the big cage being up by the entrance.

[@denniswilliams6519]

Probably the most ego-driven match Hulk Hogan has ever been involved in. Which IS saying something.

[@DeezScotts2023]

I went to this show when I was like 13-14 years old. I honestly couldn’t remember much of the undercard. I actually hadn’t been into wrestling for a few years, but a friend of mine who was a huge fan had an extra ticket. I had been a big fan of Sting when I was younger, so I was really excited to see him and the idea of the cage match sounded really unique. Man… did it really suck. I remember that it felt like Sting wasn’t in half the match because he kept leaving the ring. And it was impossible to see anything going on in the cage. Our seats were in the nosebleeds anyway, so it was hard to see much of anything, but the mid-to-upper levels of the cage were in the same line of sight as the lights. We were either blinded or could only see vague shadows. Thankfully, we didn’t miss much. 😅

[@ASCUMBAGWh0re]

Just wondering .. if i had to stretch you out myself, who would win you or me? Shoot match

[@DeezScotts2023]

@@ASCUMBAGWh0re hard money that I get stretched but you get stretchered.

[@billblaski9523]

And then I'd come and stretch both yall fools out

[@LuisHGarcia]

I don't want imagine if Booty Man did a 3rd chinlock in that match. Also, fun fact: WWE's Great American Bash '06 (aka ELEVATED LIVER ENZYMES) would see Steve/William Regal and Fit Finlay in a "rematch" and even Nick Patrick would also be the ref for that one. Wrestling is funny sometimes.

[@christopherfoley8322]

I preferred Eddie as a Heel, when he was trying to teach Chavo how to cheat and stuff and his reaction when Chavo shouts in the ring "Hey look Eddie, i'm cheating to win" and Eddie looks like "Dude, you're not suppose to be announcing it"

[@at3479]

Well, The Alliance to End Hulkamania did work.....sort of. Months later, he would turn heel and that ended Hulkamania

[@travismiller4320]

I remember Kevin Sullivan saying he tried to kill Hulkamania and it was ironic that Hogan ended up killing it.

[@olivierroy5540]

I agree that visually that cage looked impressive, the match… the less said the better

[@SuperLane]

My parents took my brother and I to see this show. My brother was 3. I was 5. Can never find us when I watch it back. Even though we were close to the ring. The size of loch Ness and the Giant, and my brother and I repeatedly asking our parents what was going on during the main event, only to be repeatedly told that they didn't know, are the only things I remember.

[@shingotink5062]

29:45 Luger pulls the punch then a second later punches him anyway WTF

[@LordDeBahs]

magical clove lol

[@generalkhan5569]

Watching this ppv brings back good memories for me...I remember I had just bought 2pac-All eyez on me album from the mall then came home and saw this live on ppv....ahh the 90s

[@zacharythomason7359]

Do you keep up with today's wrestling?🤔🤔🤔

[@generalkhan5569]

@@zacharythomason7359 not really and why are you asking me this on a wrestling docuseries based on the 90s?

[@carter3369]

2Pac = GOAT

[@CaptHigdawg]

It's fun watching the split screen matches when you remember how small and crappy most of our TV's were back then. You could hardly see what was going on.

[@firewalker1372]

Funny seeing Deebo wrestling in WCW 😂

[@dawgpound187]

That was the downfall of the company, you can only copy another organisation for so long before it falls apart, No originality what so ever

[@cordellmarley7558]

Zeus

[@MissAlmostFine]

😂😂😂

[@ilkvomit88]

I always hated this title of the pay-per-view because it was never uncensored... like why call your pay-per-view uncensored if it's still going to be a basic pay-per-view with no cussing,blood or female booty

[@zacharythomason7359]

Exactly I don't why WCW decided to call it that.

[@ohbogey]

25:35 they might have been actually throwing coke around😅😤😂😤🤣😤🤡 there's not a single person in this match who didn't do some stuff

[@sylviaclarkson2002]

Konnan vs Eddie Guerrero 2:34 Finley vs regal 4:39 beefcake vs ddp 7:29 Loch nest vs giant 9:56 Sting booker vs road warriors 13:56 Doomsday cage 24:56

[@thek1ng02]

Thank you

[@stevencook420]

Loch Ness.. wouldn't wanna go to the toilet after this guy..lol

[@WakeUpDead2012]

Stings face paint looked BAF! How did he come up with these intricate face paint designs over all those years?! They were almost never the same and always looked cool AF!

[@jameshill3403]

THIS is what WCW countered WrestleMania with. Seriously.

[@kidneystonermusic]

Hey, it was only Mania 12, throw Booty Man out there! Bootybootybootybooty!

[@bryanmack4054]

What can ya say…wrestling sucked in the mid 90s, pre NWO/ Austin

[@deelove7518]

Mania 12 sucked. Unless you like Caribbean strap matche

[@pafoneto1275]

@@bryanmack4054 Wrestling didnt suc, was only WWE and WCW the ones that suked.

[@bryanmack4054]

@@pafoneto1275 I forgot about that 6 star match in Tokyo in 1995

[@ThisIsMYStoryAS]

When Animal hit Luger backstage, Luger's reaction is hilarious! "Look at me Jimmy, Ahhhh". Ryan didn't show and explain it enough but please watch it on your own time for a good laugh.

[@Jiren261]

"He ruined my sheen Jimmy"

[@UndergroundSkat2000]

Stagger Lee interviews Booker T and Sting, Luger has a broken heart, Hawk no sells a pile-driver on the concrete floor, and the Doomsday cage match is a disaster lol I love wrestling!

[@AmazingGuy13]

It's crazy what WCW would become in just a few short months

[@stevengrvp]

Yes let's go more ppv which is great hope the vacation is well bios man

[@traviskitchens9790]

I was there live, I had great seats but couldn't see anything in the cage. Had to buy the vhs when it came out so I could see what I missed. I paid twice for this atrocitie

[@stingrey1571]

this ppv is the height of hogan's ego run amok. two dudes vs all the top heels and win.

[@apr8189]

Seeing Sting in this match and then seeing him the night after Halloween Havoc is something else in 96

[@WarlockX4]

Rhonda Rousey in RAID shadow legends huh? I take it her weakness is a kick to the head by the duchess of Holms or face punches from the barbarian queen Nunez?

[@ASCUMBAGWh0re]

Cant stand her, she needs to be stretched by ... i guesd chyna if she wasn't RIP

[@Jiren261]

It's amazing to see the difference in 96 WCW after NWO. Talk about a year of 2 halves.

[@ronaldsb3]

I still watch that Finley/Regal match from time to time! Regals drop kick, the stiff shots … and then the ending! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🔥🔥🔥

[@mikem10481]

The Mega Boys explode!!

[@zacharythomason7359]

Do you keep up with today's wrestling🤔🤔🤔

[@chrisjamesr77]

31:07 OK, that is seriously a badass shot right there!

[@michaelaburns734]

Finally Bash At The Beach '96 is next on WCW calendar.

[@jonathanmartinez8347]

Everyone talks about how dangerous Russo was without Vince as a filter, but I think Hogan, love him or hate him, was just as dangerous without Vince..via 94 - debut of nWo

[@Thor-Orion]

4:40 Konan is considered an all time great for a reason, and Eddy's greatness just goes without saying.

[@Taylorac1111]

“His good eye” I died 😂

[@jwhite455528]

You f&%$÷r....you made me install Raid haha. Ive always enjoyed games like that. Played it for 30 mins now back to the vid. Thanks for the content ive literally watched every single vid youve posted

[@jeffdeming8811]

Hahaha I forgot how DDP looked at this time lol. Its like diamond Dallas Omega

[@JamesMMcCann]

The Bootyman is so mind-numbing he makes you think you're seeing Liz when you're seeing Kim...

[@fitness65]

I remember watching this show on VHS through a friend's recorded vhs tape. This show was dreadful and the main event didn't help matters either

[@SemajV1]

"As Elizabeth says the Booty Man is so cute." That always went over my head.

[@x--LeethaL--x]

30:45 is My late dad's face basically where the play button is... 30:54 My dad head looking to left.. holding me. I've seen SEVERAL shots of me standing beside him on a chair or in his lap in my ripped up Yellow and Red Hulkster tank. I was 10 years old living the Wrestling dream. !

[@x--LeethaL--x]

4:09 I'm the kid in yellow Hulkster shirt. I had mentioned I was 10 but I was only 9 in March. 2 days before my parents anniversary. I sure do miss my awesome dad! RIP JLT

[@Justmenesto2]

Loved your reaction to the DDP vs Booty man Hahaha!

[@tripleh327]

Watching wcw before nwo era is like a trip using stale acids It is a trip It is different It is insane But is not a good one

[@Stanhousen]

We all know you'll watch the doomsday cage again. It's ok.

[@Mark-nh2hs]

Never underestimate the POWER of the Chinlock 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@martynodonnell]

Another awesome upload from the wrestling channel with the most jam on the planet

[@daysgonesequel]

How about a video on some of the best announcing calls from the Monday night wars?

[@deelove7518]

Hogan's lucky Vince didn't give guaranteed contracts back then otherwise hall and Nash wouldn't of made it to WCW to save Hogan's career

[@trueSconox]

So to make Ryan watch the doomsday cage porridge again is the mission. 🤣😂🤣

[@BrandRedacted]

I'm glad i didn't have to pay for this djit show. Those were the good Ole days of descrambler boxes

[@kidcrossfire3489]

It’s a shame we didn’t get a shot of Loch Ness approaching the ring to “BOO YAHKA BOO YAHKA SIX ONE NINE!”

[@jeffwerth2707]

Geesh that cage - you couldn't see anything...like the start of Q3 at the Super Bowl where the smoke from the pyro has not cleared out yet.

[@williamthompson5504]

You call Kimberly "Elizabeth" at one point. Love the video and your work.

[@jamaalmoses8821]

Kevin Sullivan said he sacrificed all the heels...as an olive branch..to get Hogan to turn heel in the Summer.

[@shady3legend]

This where John Cena got his inspiration for the nexus burial....what was wrong with the cage they never used it as a weapon like most cage matches

[@kramregnomnori7624]

When you gonna do king of the ring 96 and the international incident PPV. Great work though 👍🏼

[@alexrekzu4079]

29:40 "The Total Prostate"

[@zacharythomason7359]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@matthewrobinson5193]

Doomsday cage would’ve worked if they had a reason to go up to the top tier. Such as the world title or a money in the bank type match. Where one would have to go get it and bring it back down to escape the cages. So maybe a fatal four, 6, or 8 wrestlers to battle it out.

[@BrolyChan]

looking at the doomsday cage, I can only imagine that it would've been a lot more exciting if you had younger guys willing to take crazy bumps and guys who specialize in hardcore wrestling. Hell, I could see the modern day guys having a ball coming up with spots to do in this match, no doubt one of them would go through the floor of the upper level. The rules and cage itself would need to be tweaked for modern day but it could definitely work, don't know how you fix the live audience issue though.

[@paulgibbon5991]

Thing was, I'm not at all sure the cage would have withstood a big move.

[@senatorarmstrong4936]

The music really makes me think of all of the things Haystacks and Rey Mysterio have in common.

[@jimmyplenderleith9471]

Savage going after Zeus for dropping that Summerslam 89 Main Event and December 89 Cage Match vs Hogan and Brutus

[@skylarrexwinkle3129]

Thank again for the great content, you do such a fantastic job summarizing the context of the time and it takes me back to being 9-10 years old when i would video raw and nitro. wish i stil had those tapes, lol. Cheers bud!

[@YogsenForfoth]

OSW Reviews did a really good review of this PPV.

[@Joshua-uw7wm]

The WCW was great as far as regular shows but they got stupider and stupider with the ppv as time went by

[@850bigboy]

R.I.P Deebo

[@roccojamison89gooker51]

Billionaire Ted: OK guys, we need a new slogan for our wrasslin show. Vince Russo: How 'bout "Uncut, Uncensored, Uncooked?" Billionaire Ted: Ahh, no we already stole that one.

[@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4]

the old pythons looking pretty sad in the thumbnail , the pro body builders would laugh

[@jbanks979]

So much of WCW’s nonsense really does come down to “the number one guy never lost or was ever even allowed to come close”. I don’t know what they could have even done with Hogan as a face after this. He basically no sold the entire company and beat every single heel without much effort. What more could even be a threat after dispensing with the horseman, and the dungeon, and lex, and all of his 1986 friends with minimal effort? Hogan was always a heel, they just start booking him correctly a few months from now

[@Burger-urger]

Wrestling bios fuckin rules!

[@omerta316]

WCW sure did love cage matches

[@dashingpurpool2240]

I always forget how good Konnan was before he joined the DoD then nWo.

[@LordDeBahs]

he gets out of shape and gets lazy in ring . wonder what happend

[@justbobbowman]

I enjoyed the Sting Booker T. vs. L.O.D. was a good match. It was the first time I really paid attention to Booker T.

[@dalejennings2677]

Doomsday cage match....was it the worst match ever? Was it the worst match you have seen, either for this or, just as a wrestling fan.

[@marccaselle8108]

I mean there was that horrible 1988 doomsday cage match.

[@nitailevi8001]

Slater was inspired by Owen Hart.

[@michaelkeller5927]

Final solution is Kanye West's favorite wrestler

[@hollywoodhiggins1576]

I remember loving the ppv as a 8 year old! This might of been the first one my dad bought for me an my brother!

[@johnepants]

Aaaaasnnndd I just turned it on lmao

[@TheDoubleZTV]

To this day, I still feel that the main event of this show is the worst match that I've ever seen. Rules were confusing, the action was beyond boring, and the botched finish didn't do Ric Flair any favors. They could've had ANYONE take that punch, but they pulled it on their World Champion instead.

[@tomadey6534]

By far the worst ppv of the year

[@ElmoKnowsWhereYouLive5150]

I love pre-nWo WCW. Sure, I'm a masochist with a history of self-injurious behavior, but that's beside the point.