WWF Armageddon 1999 - The Reliving The War PPV Review

[@Avatar1977]

Hickory Dickory Dock He did it for The Rock

[@jimmyplenderleith9471]

Damn you, you beat me to it.

[@ArcaneAnarchy]

Same man, same 😅

[@zlinedavid]

The Rock said “Kish, “You’re f**king obese” Hickory Dickory Dock

[@nickbanks7954]

Looking back at it, Stephanie's heel turn is justified. Especially how Shane and Vince used her to get to Austin.

[@tayojones9460]

One of the few heel turns thar makes sense.

[@feliciasteward777]

True Stephanie's heel turn made a lot of sense One of the things I liked about her heel turn was That it was in continuity with the previous storyline that she was in a few months prior with the undertaker everything came in full circle with her heel turn.

[@Venemofthe888]

I mean Vince essentially allowed the Undertaker to kidnap her, try to marry her on the symbol as well as many other things. They put her in so much danger so no wonder she gets with triple h to get rid of her dad and brother

[@eastsidereviews727]

Yeah, it's something I didn't think about back then but after going through RTW and seeing everything again, Stephanie was right to turn on Vince for how much of an insane bastard he was.

[@roguerifter9724]

@@eastsidereviews727 I agree her turning against Vince was justified but if she was in on the plan all along the way she treated Test, who had done nothing to give her a justified reason to dislike him, wasn't.

[@zackmeece4723]

Chuck Norris looks under his bed in fear of Steve Mufuggin Blackman!👊

[@roccojamison89gooker51]

Steven Seagal and Jean Claude Van Damme keep a lookout for Steve Blackman as well.

[@Konglomerant]

Mufug Dojo!!!

[@rodneyhurd8818]

I'm still waiting for Shin Blackman

[@toma.4808]

Norris puts the "laughter" in Slaughter. Blackman scrubs chucks toilet happily

[@jackcarraway4707]

Steve Blackman gets Chick-fil-a on Sundays.

[@mattlewis8889]

Bios coming in to make my shitty day a lot better.

[@christopherbissett1986]

Chin up soldier the war continues

[@Jigardo]

Tomorrow is a new day brother

[@roccojamison89gooker51]

@@christopherbissett1986 Use a Chinlock to make your day better, or a Nerve Pinch, FingerPoke of Doom, Back Rake, Bear Hug, or a Big Wiggle.

[@BelindaPettus-u5j]

Preach

[@SatanSquad]

It's just one day Soldier! Keep ya head up! We need you!

[@dougbarrett619part2]

If Kurt and Blackman would have stayed as a team WWF would have won the war in 2000 not 2001

[@roccojamison89gooker51]

If Dan Severn and Ken Shamrock stayed in the WWF long enough for Kurt Angle to arrive, the team of Severn-Shamrock-Blackman-Angle would have won the war in 1999.

[@dougbarrett619part2]

@@roccojamison89gooker51 oh lord if that happened dx wouldn't have last. I need to call the flash to fix the timeline

[@brettmajors69karaoke]

Agreed

[@brettmajors69karaoke]

Bingo

[@TheChrisHype]

“You know, f*** it. This pay per view sucks.” It’s the insightful, ground breaking commentary that keeps me coming back.

[@toptenguy1]

HHH steals a wrestler's bride, and the next PPV main event is HHH against.. The bride's aging father... That was the kiss of death for Test RIGHT THERE.

[@tayojones9460]

Hhh and Vince did Test dirty. The man deserved better.

[@DLRX]

Seriously, Test had the match of the night with Shane McMahon in August at Summerslam 1999 and he’s literally not on PPV again until the Royal Rumble in January 2000. And by then he’s not even in any featured storylines. They did him REAL dirty.

[@dexenationgracey1979]

Who did Test piss off? He was gaining so much momentum until they just pumped the brakes on him for no reason.

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

@@dexenationgracey1979he did gain a lot of momentum again in the invasion via character work and epic matches but went back down the card.

[@Adam-dy5cn]

​@@dexenationgracey1979 it's been said it's his mic work that cost him his chance at stardom. He had the look, he had some good moves, but he had no swagger.

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

My dad was at this show. He was on the deck I believe and when the rock came out, several women rushed the deck and crushed him against it just to get a look at the rock 😂.

[@Unitenotfight]

Your poor father being crushed by a swarm of horndog females 😮😢😂

[@brettmajors69karaoke]

Profound irony

[@tomclark362]

I think the mean street posse is the biggest success story of the attitude era. Real life best friends of Shane o Mac turned pro just because of their friendship with a McMahon.

[@zlinedavid]

Except Joey Abs. He was a trained worker from the get-go. Rodney and Pete Gas were legit friends of Shane-O-Mac though.

[@hypnotics7886]

If he hadn’t already, this is around the time Chris Kreski became (or was to become) head writer and brought in a new storytelling method to wrestling and the injection of the Radicalz helped make January - October 2000 one of the best periods in my nearly 40 years of watching WWE.

[@DasNordlicht91]

Kreski as head writer is only matched by the current era of WWE in terms of consistent long-term storytelling.

[@david83ryan]

And then they replaced him with Stephanie....the mind boggles!

[@jackcarraway4707]

What really helped Kreski was the arrival of the Radicalz. With that to go with Jericho and Angle and the emergence of the Dudleyz/Hardyz/E&C WWE had arguably its best midcard scene.

[@AmazingGuy13]

McMahon-Helmsley Regime still running strong

[@Speedyreedy1218]

They told you so 12.13.99!

[@kaseyharrison2056]

😂😂😂 I'm already dying 2 minutes in with how the MSP all got eliminated

[@theirishhammer5986]

Armageddon is here which means it’s another reliving the war ppv review let’s go soldiers! It’s war time! The final WWF ppv of 1999 I just love professional wrestling

[@DMForever1]

This was triple Hs best theme

[@timbartschwolfman]

My Time Suited him

[@galarthenry1450]

Yep it is

[@Unitenotfight]

Agreed. Loved it. Really made him feel like a main eventer.

[@deviousnate7238]

100%

[@vat_laaw]

Perhaps his best suited theme, but yeah I'm a motorhead fan.

[@Venemofthe888]

Looking back on stephanie's heel turn here i feel like she is more than justified to turn against her dad here. They essentially let her get kidnapped by the undertaker who wanted to marry her in a dark ceremony and being tied to the symbol and the higher power was her own Dad. They also essentially used her to get to Stone Cold which is crazy

[@leonarddillon256]

Where was Test in Armegeddon 1999?? Test should have been having a rivalry with Triple H in honor of saving Stephanie's marriage to the Game or at least have some revenge for being heartbroken. To only have him written off the storyline and have Vince book himself against HHH, made Test look like a chump who wasn't that in love with Stephanie at all. Hell, he should have at least interfered in the main event but just conveniently disappeared because the creative team doesn't know how to utilize Test as the ex-fiancé. Heck, he didn't have much to say about Stephanie's heel tuen after this PPV, making him even more irrelevant.

[@arlibrarian]

In retrospect, the number of times Vince McMahon main evented PPVs, to say nothing of episodes of Raw and Smackdown, is a bit wild when you think about it. The sort of thing people would blast Bischoff and Russo for. It’s also kindof hard to argue he wasn’t a legitimately bigger draw than Eric, Russo or Test was at that point though.

[@andrelegeant88]

Test just wasn't a good wrestler at this point, and I don't think when the started the angle that they planned to go where they went with it.

[@1992geop]

He was wrestling Al Snow at the preshow.

[@brettmajors69karaoke]

Who’s sleeping with who? Stephanie Is............ with wverybody

[@star22let1]

He did in the "Who called the cops" storyline when HHH got arrested after someone called the cops saying he was hurting her.

[@MiaoW36]

My heartbeat is accelerating while the main event start.. what an historic moment! Thanks a lot for this chanel, reliving this epic wrestling period is a true pleasure. MERCI ! 🇫🇷

[@WrestlingBios]

Thank you so much 😊

[@T-Bag13]

UK version was uncensored.

[@timbartschwolfman]

So you saw Kat Flashing the crowd

[@david83ryan]

So was Royal Rumble 2000 on Channel 4....unfortunately

[@wcokeley85]

On the repeat they edited it so Sgt Slaughter put the towel around her as soon as her bra came off

[@bencross3759]

Lucky UK

[@Morechinlockvicar]

@@david83ryanmae young, now that was a difficult wank.

[@brettrossi034]

Man, I miss these type of themed PPV sets. Yeah, they were probably time consuming and expensive to produce, but they were awesome

[@LordHeath1972]

3:46 Are you kidding? Yeah that didn't look at all deliberate did it? Why did Farooq just jump over the top rope in such an obvious manner?

[@patrickhein6986]

Triple H´s "My Time" Theme is still my favourite of him.

[@christophernicholson20]

Facts 💯

[@christophernicholson20]

Jim Johnston is a genius when it comes to theme songs

[@JStorm90TV]

This remix tonight wasn't all that a rare miss for wrestling bios in my opinion

[@PoeticProphetic]

It was Riskishi that tried to run down Vince…. He’s been looking for a parking space since Survivor Series

[@jasonsierchio1167]

I always wished the Headbangers got a little push.... not even a huge one... just a little one... some more TV time... some storylines... anything... lol

[@gfpbaneable]

They needed a new gimmick.

[@kamenanew9867]

​@@gfpbaneableSaw a match recently with vampiro and the headbanger's. They still wrestle in the indys.

[@Speedyreedy1218]

​@@gfpbaneableNAOL kinda buried them in 98. They didn't step up.

[@jackcarraway4707]

There is zero room for them. Too Cool, APA and to a lesser extent the Hollys are the top comedy tag teams and the Dudleyz/E&C/Hardyz are the main workhorses.

[@soulweaponx6644]

I liked how the WWF stayed true to the name of the PPV. It was Armageddon because it ended Vince's reign, and all hell would break loose under the Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley era.

[@gearoid9835]

I stopped watching wrestling in late 1996, just after the introduction of the fake Razor Ramon and Diesel. The next time I watched any WWF programming was Armageddon 1999. I was shocked by how much the product had changed and in so short of time. It didn't seem like the same company. The difference was like chalk and cheese / night and day.

[@jasonsierchio1167]

Torri was hotter than Sable... and everyone in that womens champ match... seriously, why didn't they push her? Did she have an attitude problem?

[@nicholaschristie8699]

Simple: Vince is an old pervert who thought he could take advantage of Sable more than Tori. At least, that is my guess.

[@AW-kr9fl]

She was so hot and had an amazing natural body. Unlike juiced up Chyna

[@stevefromyellowstone7911]

I was always of the opinion that lita and molly holly were the prettiest of this time period lol

[@KingKidGoku32794]

The McMahon Helmsley Faction Begins

[@Speedyreedy1218]

Woohoo!

[@TheBat1992]

I wonder what could have been if Undertaker made his return at this paperview since he was on the poster in his minstry gear it could’ve been him scaring big show at the end of show with lord of darkness music but sadly due to tearing his pectoral muscle we have to wait for another 6 months sadly

[@ms3862]

"Xpac stretches Chyna out" somehow this sounds so dirty!

[@AW-kr9fl]

He certainly stretched her out 😅

[@eastsidereviews727]

And this begins not only the McMahon-Helmsley Regime on screen, but planted the seeds for a real life marriage between HHH and Stephanie. Who'd have thought a dumb relationship story that started with Test, Stephanie, Shane, the Mean Street Posse, would become the power couple in modern wrestling. Year 2000 is loading and the Federation is about to COOK! Can't wait!

[@feliciasteward777]

Yep you're definitely right on that The Helmsley-McMahon regime definitely playing at the seeds for what what happened later on in real life with triple h and Stephanie McMahon and would leave a huge impact on WWE going forward but yeah 2000 was an amazing year for the WWF by that point you might as well say WCW done for there was no coming back for WCW because the WWF was dominating WCW in the ratings and pretty much dominated the whole year of 2000 it was definitely the company's most successful year ever

[@Speedyreedy1218]

❤❤

[@DLRX]

One of my favorite Jerry Lawler calls happens when Sensei Blackman gives Kurt that post match beatdown, “The 4th I stands for Blackman’s an idiot.” LOL

[@Devypocalypse]

Newcastle Brown Ale sponcored NUFC shirt in the crowd. Ahhhh one of the GOAT Premier League shirts.

[@stsolomon618]

The end of 90s are upon us

[@leseditongela663]

Are you ready for the New Millennium?

[@stsolomon618]

@@leseditongela663 yep!

[@Devypocalypse]

God that entrance set up was GOATED.

[@g-dub5272]

Manchester Utd is absolute dog 💩. Wrestling Bios vid came in just in time to make the day better

[@jayjayson9613]

Heel Triple H was my favorite wrestler growing up. Next month we have his feud with Mick Foley at Royal Rumble 2000 and No Way Out 2000. My favorite feud. The "My Time" theme is a banger too.

[@Speedyreedy1218]

W

[@ASoberBear]

This is the bastard cruel evil Triple H I love to hate. I think his character work for this era is fantastic. An ego that got more power and just becomes a new level of deprived and paranoid.

[@Speedyreedy1218]

Goat heel.

[@markfrank3307]

your music is always top notch. was that RTJ?

[@skyguy5587]

Yup yup RTJ featuring Zac De La Roch

[@AllieRX]

The night Miss Kitty became Miss Titty. I remember this night vividly. I was 12 years old, just over a month shy of turning 13. It was insane seeing a naked woman on a live WWF PPV.

[@wwered96]

The final WWE PPV of the 20th Century and for me one of the most underwhelmed WWE title matches you could have imagined for the last big show before a new Millennium. I'm not sure how much Austin having to be written out at Survivor Series changed creative but Hunter becoming champion with Steph's help would have been a better way to set things going up into 2000 to say we have a power structure outside McMahon men.

[@RKStrikerJK5]

6:55 Wait until Blackman becomes the best mufuggin Hardcore Champion ever. Shin Blackman is _coming._

[@borobinson7005]

Ahhh yes.. the aluminum foil pie pan trash can lid 😹🤣🤣 Those old trash cans are made out of galvanized steel you can tell these shiny wrestling trash cans are made out of thick aluminum foil

[@caseymckenna7111]

Shoutout to RTJ in the intro. They always wanted Zack de la Rocha on Hunter’s intro.

[@geneglenn5119]

We needed sensei Blackman to break up the fight between rikishi and viscera. Only person they would have backed down from

[@melrupp4237]

I’ve seen all of your work and love what you do. But I have to say, your commentary on the Blackman/Angle match is another level of awesome. You outdid yourself on that one. Top notch stuff! 6:19

[@borobinson7005]

Headbangers are like, "who the hell are these Slayer Exodus Anthrax thrash metal bands we supposed to be representin" 😹🤣🤣

[@benespinosa6725]

WWF Armageddon 1999 was a great ppv can't believe this happened 25-years ago it's really been that long lol time flies the main event was crazy Stephanie McMahon's Heel turn was awesome and very iconic.

[@31GRoom]

That’s when the day when Stephanie McMahon heel turn and married to Triple H😂 gotta love the storyline

[@toma.4808]

Ray traylor. His bossman comeback was great. Hes got that pre shield look

[@michaelaburns734]

It's a good Armageddon. Next PPV Starrcade '99. I am dreading that one for the "Specific spot."

[@aaronlafountain6524]

I’m not ready 😢

[@michaelaburns734]

@@aaronlafountain6524 Me neither. The Career Ending Super Kick of Bret Hart from Goldberg is going to make me wince again.

[@TheSBleeder]

"The mother of all potatoes."

[@quincykearney9862]

I cannot wait for The Radical to show up

[@imal25]

WILL SEE YOU TOMORROW FOR RETRACING THE STEPS TIL THEN HAVE A NICE DAY AND TAKE CARE.

[@tomclark362]

I think Steph should have been drunk but not passed out. It just makes more sense that Steph would drunkenly marry HHH thinking he was big Andy.

[@andrelegeant88]

She wasn't actually passed out. It was all a swerve.

[@Speedyreedy1218]

​@andrelegeant88 That's not clear. She aligns with him at the ppv. But he still could've drugged, married, and raped her, but convinced her a week later to forgive him and stick it out because of their greater, common enemy.

[@jakeharrison7196]

There we were and here we are is an Oasis lyric, nice touch 👌

[@paulcrisafi4415]

Run the Jewels x The Game, *chef's kiss*

[@deancreambetweens]

The opening 🔥🔥🔥

[@heathharris2545]

That mean street posse theme is just gold.

[@TheLandofObscusion]

To think that, in just a couple of months, we'll hit the 25th Anniversary of this show's final moments. To call it one of the most impactful moments in WWE history (& probably pro wrestling, in general) would be an understatement.

[@tommylovesstuff]

To imagine the kinda early 2000s tag title run Angle/Blackman could’ve had is mind blowing. Losing the titles eventually to the mean street posse 16-15 in a 2 hr iron team match that takes up an entire smackdown

[@motherlove202]

8:01 I'm not a lesbian, but I'll take Ms. Kitty's "puppies" over what we will get at next month's PPV

[@NickMullet]

Wait, so the reason we got rumble 2000 free on channel 4 was because miss kitty got them out? Excellent.

[@tayojones9460]

Looking back 1999 was a rough year for Big Show. His debut was slightly embarrassing, his alliances with the Union and The Undertaker were short and ended abruptly and his first reign as WWF champion was pretty lacklustre with the only highlight being the feud with Big Bossman.

[@Unitenotfight]

Totally didn’t remember Kane coming off the top of the cage. That’s insane and incredibly impressive for someone 7 ft. Why isn’t this talked about more???

[@kor8513]

The ending of this show really is the start of the final era of the Attitude Era, the Chris Kreski Era, and it resulted in 2000 being one of the overall highest quality years in WWF history. It's all uphill from here folks.

[@mikebryant614]

Hell Yeah, Wrestling Bios comin in to make my Sunday ! That deserves a BIG WIGGLE !

[@dacobylaw4721]

I always loved the part where Albert tried to attack the Big Show, and the Big show completely no sold his attack and chokeslamed him through the announce table while Jr on commentary, said "Big shows got the prince" I don't know why but that always makes me laugh

[@rickisgrate]

The fact cultaholic just reported on miss kitty's baps coming out at this PPV literally minutes before this video came out is super weird

[@rebelsrenaissance1983]

The day my 16yo self fell for Stephanie hook line and sinker. Time for the McMahon Helmsley Era to begin.

[@wastelander138]

I love that you big up Steve Blackman so much. He was one of my fave mid-carders from that era.

[@jiovanysoltero923]

15:15 The Beginning of X-PAC Heat Even though I always enjoyed his presence in the ring

[@kidgruesome407]

Damn, we a re REALLY early.

[@venomsnekko]

Seeing Big Show doing a kip-up in person must've been absolutely terrifying lmao

[@damented7699]

Mate!!What are you going to do when RLTW finishes? Don't what I'm going to do on a Thursday night.

[@jakeharrison7196]

The first PPV I ever bought myself……I chose poorly

[@Leloup6760]

At least you weren't the one to buy WCW's Halloween Havoc in 98'. LoL

[@antoniosmith5350]

"He then locked in a muta lock, cause real recognize real." See, it's lines like that which makes this channel the best wrestling channel on youtube

[@Smok3yR1der]

"My God, these boys are gonna play" Look at the adjective, there, play!

[@kristianolliviere9045]

This was in Sunrise Florida at the Amerant bank arena. My hometown. I live in nearby Plantation Florida

[@johnmueller2138]

Wcw big bubba would be very proud of big boss man having a wwf title match on ppv

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

This is why Triple H is running the company today (for shoot)

[@Elfo_Scuro]

Will you do an honest review of the McMahon Netflix series?

[@feliciasteward777]

we're getting closer and closer to the year 2000 can't wait for you to cover that entire year and it was one wild year for WCW and a very eventful one

[@Aslaug75]

Dunno if you know, Wrestling Bios, but you got a preeeeeeetty big shoutout on Cultaholic in last week's friday podcast-video. It's at around 1:46:00 or so ... for last week, as mentioned, not the most recent one as of writing this. They praised you to high heaven, and honestly, it's so well deserved.

[@SatanSquad]

Cultaholic is garbage!

[@SatanSquad]

Cultaholic is garbage!

[@WidSilson]

Are we just gonna gloss over the world's largest kip-up??

[@Drummer8282]

🎸 There we were, now here we are All this confusion, same to me 🎶 - Oasis

[@dyrr836]

Chanting boring during a Kurt Angle vs Steve Blackman match should be an honest to God crime.

[@Devondavis-fm2dz]

That intro tho 🔥 w vid bios Armageddon was a classic event

[@jackcarraway4707]

Next month is not only the start of arguably WWE's best year but Royal Rumble 2000 is an all-time classic.

[@bobbygermain9635]

Let’s go!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@DeathRobotKailozo]

4:26 it’s why I’m here. Let’s get to kickin.

[@zlinedavid]

Kick or be kickin

[@JasperTheFriendlyGoth]

Content on a Sunday. Muh'Fuggin hero!

[@Caseycarlo]

Let's go

[@AmazingGuy13]

Why did Triple H and Chyna stop appearing together?

[@z216ghost]

They stopped being on screen and working together when he started dating Steph

[@Speedyreedy1218]

​@@z216ghostWrong. October 99.

[@AmazingGuy13]

I'm early

[@ginaxxgodgames9573]

"The theme continues as he (Billy) gets stuck in his shirt as The Rock lays the Smackdown" THESE TEE SHIRTS ARE TOO TIGHT TOO BILLY! I'M PISSED NAOW!

[@tafua_a]

"THE DOOR IS LOCKED TOO!"

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

I often wonder how many people over the years, suffer a Mandela Effect confusing this Tori with Torrie Wilson of WCW, who would also eventually winding up in the WWE? 🤔

[@prettylaurynn]

Nobody if they actually were around back then . This torri was even in the wrestlemania 2000 and the no mercy video game

[@AdamTheDude1985]

When will Reliving the war end? Last nitro I’m guessing?

[@Ghostie____]

Yeah. When Vince buys WCW. That is the offical end to the war. I hope he at least covers WM17.

[@georgeh4171]

Could do the Invasion period I suppose.

[@z216ghost]

He said until Survivor Series 2001

[@theshakter]

This ppv was on at 3am here in the UK.

[@stevengrvp]

Football 🏈 and wrestling love it

[@tenebrousoul9368]

I absolutely despised Viscera

[@denniswilliams6519]

I get Triple H is the heel and all but it is actually annoying how much offense Mr. McMahon gave himself vs. him. This guy is the top heel wrestler in your company and yet you have McMahon on top of him for quite sizeable stretches of this match.

[@Speedyreedy1218]

HHH gives faces a lot of offense.