What Makes WWE WrestleMania X-Seven One Of The Greatest PPVs Ever?

[@maddrayven7606]

And now I want to hear Jack do a narration for some kind of ancient war documentary.

[@chainedpanda9574]

As a history buff, I'm in.

[@_cjdl_]

Jakc talking bout the Punic wars shouldve just been an april fools video titled this same thing

[@nathanwilliams3671]

1 minute into this. Am I back in History? Oh Limp Bizkit.

[@coreyzorz]

“X-Seven is a stupid name.” Jack woke up and chose violence.

[@socialisttoast]

*glass shatters “By Gawd its HANNIBAL!!” Hilarious intro, amazing video! So good!

[@victorarredondo304]

Wrestlemania X7 wasn't a wrestling show, it was an experience.

[@jandanielbondad5176]

And a masterpiece.

[@deebow_fat]

When people talk about WWE being a variety show, Wrestlemania 17 is a perfect example of that.

[@JungleBunkRootsMusic2022]

Yep, technical wrestling-Benoit vs angle. Spot fest-TLC2. Comedy-gimmick battle royal. Brawl-hhh vs taker. Soap opera-Shane vs vince. Star power-Rock vs Austin. It's the perfect show.

[@splash8429]

@@JungleBunkRootsMusic2022 ohh perfect

[@leerobbo92]

@@JungleBunkRootsMusic2022 Not to mention that amazingly fun hardcore triple threat, and the way they break things up with the battle royal and Chyna's squash match. The pacing of the show is top notch, 3 hours just fly by!

[@JungleBunkRootsMusic2022]

@@leerobbo92 wwe needs to learn from this show. Pacing is a huge problem with modern day manias(apart from wm37). Not every match has to be 10+ mins. Give time to the title matches and the grudge matches but keep the small matches short and sweet. I liked wm 37 because both nights flew by and were short.

[@leerobbo92]

@@JungleBunkRootsMusic2022 Yeah exactly, it's very much a Western problem, same with AEW. Even Benoit and Angle only got 15 minutes, Jericho and Regal had to work with 7 minutes. Top guys, unreal workers with their own fanbases, but WWE understood that everyone was there for TLC2 and Rock-Austin. It's something New Japan understand really well too, only the very top guys ever get more than 15 minutes to work with, and usually they get the full 30 minutes just to make their best seem bigger and better. Always save all the 20 minute matches for the end of the card too. Such a small change makes such a huge psychological difference when watching their events!

[@5fing3rD3athPunch]

the Austin vs Rock video package alone makes WrestleMania X7 one of the greatest, also this event is proof you can have a lot of matches on a card and not have it last 5 hours with fan burnout because not every match needs to go 20 minutes like they do these days and the card builds and builds to the bigger matches and moments whereas today cards are all over the place in terms of pacing.

[@bingbing2442]

Let’s be real this show had 5 good matches

[@nbr6116]

Oh my God, that Hannibal My Way Segway was F'N Godlike! Good F'N job!

[@JaimeGarcia-oz5fh]

The 2 RTC matches (6 man tag and women's title) and the gimmick battle royale were quick matches that served their purpose and the other 8 matches were pretty good in my opinion. The pop that Linda got was something else.

[@alastair852]

"7 seconds ago" Jesus Christ I'm never gonna be this early for a video ever again.

[@danny.4506]

Wrestlemania 17 cannot be touched best mania ever

[@vk47]

Thought I was watching the wrong video at the beginning 🤫🤣🤣🤣

[@Linscass]

Can't believe you didn't throw in the Battle of Cannae into your history lesson where Hannibal gained Total victory over the Romans (of the 80,000 Roman troops that started the fight less than 800 survived the battle) akin to the way Vince had achieved Total Victory over WCW.

[@TheThird1977]

There was meant to be interference by some of the WCW guys during the Vince vs. Shane match, but Shawn Stasiak blabbed about it during an interview the day before Mania and the whole thing was scrapped. This is why they ended up sat in shitty seats with faces like slapped arses for the match instead.

[@DontLeaveTheGardenerWithTheDog]

Rome and Carthage was a great rivalry. It's too bad Carthage had nuclear heat in Rome. Don't think they deserved to be buried after the 3rd Punic War

[@Charlie_Xmas]

that TLC match is what completely got me into wrestling as a kid

[@Aidan_ODonnell]

Jack’s openings for these videos are getting better and better every week 😂

[@mahomednaheez9862]

The History Nerd in me loved hell out of the Intro 😁😁😁😁

[@EOTA564]

Only thing that wasn’t great about WMX7 was the storyline build. WWF had such a great first half of 2000 but the second half was a bit of a clusterf*** with Rock a four month champion (good but they used him to build upper mid carders) and a big Stone Cold Triple H feud which effectively ended a month before WM. Angle’s title reign was completely pointless as he wasn’t quite main event tier at that point. They should just have kept the strap on Rock. All of the upper card singles matches were slapped together at the last minute.

[@dlewis1701]

You drop in a Steve Blackman shout-out? I hit the like button. Simple as that.

[@uhobme2028]

Funny enough that TLC is what got me into Pro-Wrestling. Hell, this PPV is my first Wrestling memory

[@ssjcbluewolf1316]

Video starts off with a history lesson. Clicks off the video real quick lol

[@robinhyde1975]

Great work Jack and the Cultaholic team. Love the new style.

[@NotQuiteCupid]

Awesome video. Would love to see more of these. And maybe even a "Why was this show so bad?" Series.

[@liamhemstock2286]

I’d say many factors. The build/buzz around the event was at an all time high coming off one of the companies best years ever (2000) and Royal Rumble and No Way Out 2001 being massively praised PPV’s The main event of The Rock vs Stone Cold Steve Austin was massive because they were the companies biggest baby faces (Austin in 1998-1999 and The Rock in 1999-2000). The star power is the biggest a card for a wrestling show has ever been, more so in hindsight because a ton of the wrestlers on this card would go on to win multiple world titles but even just at the time in 2001 they were still big stars because the promotion was so popular that everyone felt like a big deal. It’s why guys like Drew and Roman are struggling to breakout into the main stream because everything around them is so mediocre fans don’t want to be around it. Which is a shame because Drew and Reigns are brilliant. The match quality and PPV structure was also excellent, it all followed nicely and the matches that no one cared about didn’t go long. Like what Jack said about Takeover New Orleans this show whilst is remembered as one of the best wrestling shows ever is also considered the end of the Attitude Era and the beginning of the end of wrestling being massive in pop culture, I would disagree with that because Raw the next night drew well over 5 million viewers (a million more then the previous week) but WWE have never been able to top the near perfectness of this show. They have got close with SummerSlam 2002, WrestleMaina 30, WrestleMaina 19, Money In The Bank 2011 but non have ever had a bigger impact on the business and what it represents more then WrestleMaina 17. I call it WrestleMaina because you don’t call WrestleMaina ‘WrestleMaina XXX’ because that would be silly😂😂

[@Beansontoast93911]

WrestleMania 36 is the greatest of all time because not one fan who was in the Arena went home unhappy

[@jahmeirduncan6870]

Literally every match itself was memorable or had something that kept you glued to the screen

[@matthewwrestling600]

Besides Eddie Guerrero vs Test. I don't remeber that at all

[@jahmeirduncan6870]

@@matthewwrestling600 I only remember it because they sadly both passed

[@hanssprungfeld8487]

APA and Tazz vs Right to censor?

[@michaeldallaway1988]

@@hanssprungfeld8487 awesome clothesline from Bradshaw

[@domcapo91]

I have never once left a KZbin comment and I also don’t know if jack will ever see this, but I really felt that jack needs to know that he has the most PERFECT voice for historical KZbin videos! His telling of the Punic wars was actually amazing!! Historical KZbin videos should totally be a side gig for Mr Jack G King, js

[@jwalitbharwani]

I want these over the top intros EVERY WEEK!!! Yes Jack!! I LOVE THIS!! ❤️❤️

[@Obedientturd]

what a stunning introduction

[@nathanspencer9696]

I really like this series. I wonder if it would benefit of having a set of reasons why an event/wrestler is good. I think it could be interesting to see the positives and negatives of each thing and then discuss how despite how it could have some drawbacks, it is still a 'great' With that said, keep up the great work. The content is always great and appreciated.

[@MrsDoubtfire042]

1:50. I see what you did there. Well played! :)

[@InfectedChris]

This was a well-written and narrated video! I really like this series.

[@BorkKillsOneLegMan]

we always get a 10/10 intro from Jack the Jobber

[@415Dynamite]

Not just Wrestlemania but I think the entire year of 2001 was good back then. Some ups and downs but mainly a good year in my opinion

[@kingdangoz1771]

Easily the most controversial part of this video is Jack saying that calling it Wrestlemania X7 is stupid.

[@ScottYoung29]

Every time he says year 2000 I need to just sing busted in my head, i know the song is different but it's close enough

[@chriscrawford6191]

Not much has changed but now wrestlemanias under water.

[@mathprodigy]

I think you're right bro

[@kamfisher1714]

One of the greatest wrestling shows ever if not the greatest.

[@michaelbeeson612]

Jack messing with Gen Z's history teachers.

[@inuenndo_]

“My Way”- End Video

[@joshuavaughan3125]

Came for the wrestling, stayed for the history lesson.

[@benjaminroberts1496]

Love you Jack

[@DJDoubleCee]

I would have liked WrestleMania 17 better if Stone Cold hadn’t turned heel. It was still thought it was a good show but Austin becoming a bad guy in the end ruined it a little bit.

[@maroon9273]

Worst, Mr. McMahon interfering on that match. Spoiled a great match. Stone cold should've beat rock with no interference whether heel turn or none.

[@prod.justjae9957]

Rock vs Austin and the tag team tlc match

[@prod.justjae9957]

@@adammccallion8640 yep

[@Biggucci97]

I actually no bs showed my non wrestling friend the tlc at x-seven and then the rock came Austin for a pure entertainment match.

[@yasa122]

More like this intro pleas!

[@dereksather5921]

It had a little bit of everything with most of the best workers in the world at the time.

[@keljo093]

Is this the greastest intro ever? It was incredible.

[@michaelmirza1933]

Dude I came here for wrestling not history class

[@daithio]

These intros.....

[@lilpoetat]

thanks!

[@machotransandyravage]

What a fucking intro xD

[@oldskoolhero84]

I'm a rare mania 12 guy.

[@My19812011]

Shawn Michaels winning the title was up there with Sting winning the title at Great American Bash, Randy Savage winning the title at WrestleMania 8, Sting winning the title at Starrcade in 1997 and Austin winning the title at Fully Loaded in 1999 as my all time favourite title wins

[@waynetant2584]

Preach! The boyhood dream.

[@fredfredburger3611]

I didn't know about any of this war stuff because I'm American and they don't teach anything about the rest of the world in schools.

[@emanueltwr]

Vamos Cultaholic

[@TheWhaller]

It’s X-Seven

[@noahpeters170]

Do you want to here something funny I just watched wrestlemania 17 last night

[@jerransperarman9411]

good video

[@ergoat]

X7: The culmination of flushing away the Invasion angle and years worth of dream matches because of Vince's pettiness. A heel turn by Austin that went over as well as a wet fart during oral sex. (What?? What?? begins...) Yeah, the TLC match was amazing, but this PPV was the moment that many fans started to turn away from WWE for good (myself included).

[@radentstwo9793]

Even though this Mania was good, truthfully it's overrated and gets way too much praise

[@jamesmnaylor]

Wow, wow, wow. Your going to totally ignore the greatness that is wrestle mania 9.

[@aiden5831]

I know. While we’re at it we gotta talk about 2 and 11

[@aiden5831]

I’m sorry but I never agreed Mania X-7 was one of the greatest Manias. Apa vs Right to Censor sucked, Chyna vs Ivory was like 5 minutes, Eddie vs Test was bad, Benoit and Angle could have been fantastic but was slow and had nothing good in it,the gimmick battle Royal was godawful, and Austin’s heel turn was unbelievably stupid. We’re they supposed to boo the most over guy in the company in home town?!

[@gouthamks2021]

Are u an idiot?Benoit vs angle was slow???!And the main event was the greatest main event in mania history cause it was the whole damn story that austin would do anything it takes to be the champion... Every single fan in the asterdome was into every single match on the card and u mean to tell me the hardys vs dudleys vs E&C sucked??U goddamn idiot!!!Not to mention the buy rate of the goddamn pay per view

[@aiden5831]

@@gouthamks2021 no the Taz and Apa vs Right to censor sucked. I have my opinion on the heel turn and you have yours

[@hanssprungfeld8487]

That's some good trolling there !

[@gouthamks2021]

@@aiden5831Maybe...But It dint matter....the people were into every single match on the card and the heel turn made sense on a story point of view and it is a moment that nobody will ever forget...but to call the damn PPV bad because APA vs RTC sucked???!!!Like WTF???

[@kamfisher1714]

You’re delusional

[@DanteLaBrie]

My Answer: IT's not. One of my least favorite Manias. 19 and 20 were much better

[@veevendetta3448]

I was there April 1st 2001 with my buddy. It was an experience not a wrestling show.

[@elchomper.1063]

Cause you watched it when you were 10.

[@brakezhell]

Answer is simple. Headlined by the greatest rivalry in wwe. You also had arguably the best 3 way tag match in history. There was literally no dull match at that mania. The worst match was probably Chyna vs ivory, but because of the story behind the people didn’t mind much

[@AntoniusNV]

Opening a wrestling video with discussion about the Punic wars: b-b-b-based.

[@sp33dybozohi86]

Bruv wtf do you mean its one of the greatest. IT IS THE GREATEST WWE PPV, SHOW, ANYTHING LIKE THAT IN HISTORY

[@MultiCheeseLouise]

i can still remember it now. i was 9 years old, my mum had let me set an alarm for the middle of the night when the PPV started in the UK. i quietly sneaked downstairs and sat a foot away from the TV. i obviously had no idea at the time that i was watching history being made and was witnessing peak WWE. but I'm glad I was there to see it live.

[@FaysalIsGoated]

No other Wrestling event has not and never will come CLOSE to topping WrestleMania 17. The entire freaking PLANET watched that day. It had EVERYTHING you could possibly want. An entertaining lower card(APA and Tazz vs RTC, Chyna vs Ivory, Eddie Guerrero vs Test), Technical wrestling(Jericho vs Regal, Benoit vs Angle), Hardcore brawling(Shane vs Vince, Big Show vs Kane vs Raven, Dudleys vs Hardys vs Edge and Christian TLC 2), and big main event matches(Triple H vs Undertaker, Austin vs Rock 2).

[@merciless41582]

Wrestling will never be this great again unfortunately. During the Monday Night Wars Era and the Attitude Era, you had 11-14 million people watching wrestling and their pay per views. It just isn’t popular as it once was. Wrestlemania 17 is what Starrcade 1997 should’ve been. The way the Hogan Sting match ended really put a dark cloud over WCW.

[@SSJ2Phenom]

The greatest Mania and WWE PPV of all time.

[@georgejohnson4329]

I'm sorry Wrestlemania 17 has aged horribly.

[@darsanmprasad1741]

Greatest tlc match was at wm 17

[@thomasrodriguez-b3n]

No not one of the greatest nothing. It killed WCW and ECW. Fact. So this show looking back is bad and stupid. Fact 100% wrestlemania 14 was really the greatest. Yes Fact. So. This mania made everything bad. Stone cold turning heel was stupid. A bunch of garbage afterwards too. So deal with it

[@reddhead2948]

The most overrated pile of shit in history of the world

[@thomasrodriguez8629]

No. It was the end of the WCW and ECW. It was okay. But overall it was garbage afterwards. Fact 100%. A bunch of dumb decisions. And wrestlemania 17 led to this garbage invasion angle that summer. Fact. Its stupid looking back. Wrestlemania 17 is terrible. Yes it is. Great Nothing. It was bad. Stone cold heel turn was stupid Triple h vs undertaker OK. Bur. Stupid ABA taker. TLC is like the stupid spot fest today. And E&C Winning. Horrible. Afterwards it was pointless garbage. Stone cold and Triple h stupid. Shane McMahon saying what up to WCW jobbers. Yes jobbers. It was a cheap throw in. Sorry but wrestlemania 17 is dumb and it led to nothing good. And it makes it worse now looking back nothing.

[@DADON99]

Austin’s heel run was fantastic…y’all just didn’t like it because y’all couldn’t accept a heel Austin. And I don’t know why y’all crap on the invasion angle…it was good😂. Would it have been legendary if Goldberg, Sting, NWO etc was apart of it?…of course but it was still good

[@DukesMusic84]

WM17 was fantastic. And they even got Limp Bizkit involved, giving them possibly the best match hype video ever for Austin vs. Rock.

[@matthewhigdon9272]

Jack what about the field of cloth of gold?

[@cultz6000]

Jack the jobber 🤪🤪

[@waynetant2584]

A moment in time - well summed up, lad. :)

[@bally40001]

Best intro ever young Jack

[@kkollee]

Excellent analysis. Great video, Jack.

[@marvelsProtege]

Nope the finish made me 🤮🤮🤮 irl I 😢 too

[@marvelsProtege]

Hunter go murdered just got jobbed smh 💔 when getting slapped up by Taker

[@MuthuMuthu-yc2ij]

World best sports wwe

[@outlawrip-offartist4161]

Fun fact the Astrodome nickname was the eighth wonder of the world.

[@ShowdeQuetzal]

*My way starts playing*

[@MrBrownsugar85]

lol 19>17

[@shonenjumpmagneto]

Fix The 'What Makes X A GOAT' Playlist! - Singles GOATS - Tag Team GOATS - PPV GOATS ...include them all!

[@dictatorrich3412]

Stone Cold is an underrated seller. Just watch how he sells for most of Bret Hart's moves on Mania 13.

[@antonazoflores8798]

Jack has a great narrator tone 🔥

[@its3005]

Bro, you didn't even mention the Gimmick Battle Royale, or the live music entrances. So disrespectful.

[@RowanScholtanus]

Chefs kisses for that intro

[@michaelfish8642]

Top quality intro!!!

[@edwee645]

Wholesale gives a fuck

[@Nbflowers1989]

Amazing intro, once again, Jack lol