Raw vs Nitro "Reliving The War": Episode 62 - December 16th 1996

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Reliving The War takes a look at the WWF vs WCW / Raw vs Nitro Monday Night Wars that took place in during the mid to late 90's and early 2000's. With WWF Raw airing on the USA Network and WCW Nitro broadcasting live on TNT at the same time, fans had to choose which program they would watch, and this series takes a look at what was on each channel while comparing every match, promo and segment of the Monday Night Wars.
On WCW Monday Nitro, The Outsiders challenge Meng & The Barbarian to a main event tag team match. Hollywood Hogan appears too and he's looking for his Starrcade opponent Roddy Piper, and Kevin Sullivan takes out his frustrations on The Four Horsemen's Arn Anderson. By the time Nitro goes off the air, we end up with 2 new members in the nWo.
On the WWF channel, Bret Hart talks about what happened at In Your House: It's Time and how he feels about Stone Cold Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels getting involved in his WWF Championship match. We also get promos from Sycho Sid and Shawn Michaels, the finals of the Karate Fighters tournament, and Bart Gunn battles Billy Gunn in the main event.
00:00 - Nitro's first 60 minutes
04:34 - Steve Austin vs Vader
07:35 - Ice Train vs Jerry Flynn
09:32 - Godwinns vs Razor & Diesel
11:39 - Bobby Eaton vs Rey Mysterio Jr.
14:03 - Sid & HBK Promos
16:53 - Taskmaster vs Arn Anderson
19:00 - Furnas & LaFon vs T.L Hopper & Dr. X
20:47 - Sting confronts The Steiners
22:04 - Karate Fighters Final / Hulk Hogan Promo
25:58 - Main Events
29:43 - Final Scores
#WWF #WCW #NWO

[@plasticdiverguy1723]

This series has become must-watch viewing. Consider this guy sports-entertained.

[@sethchestosky9903]

One cool thing is sometimes what you liked bio doesn't and vis versa. It's funny what a younger you thought was cool and probably still is. Good Series. Also Double A is awesome

[@lexkanyima2195]

@Zach when ?

[@eXoMuZiK]

True thats DAMN TRUE !

[@TrenchHipHop]

Always good to see Razor Ramen and Unleaded

[@lproof8472]

The worst thing about “Reliving the War” is knowing that it will end. Love this show!

[@Torchmanz]

Eh, got a long way to go. I agree though. It'll be a bittersweet day when it's over. This show is better than modern wrestling.

[@JosephTSena]

You can always go back and rewatch the entire series again.

[@rel8edgamerz445]

I hope he does a series covering everything til the end of WCW vs WWE it would be still a good 2 more years to cover

[@Mellbergfan]

A few years left though, so don't worry!

[@Mojames1984]

I hate having to wait a whole week for the next episode

[@Hughjundies69]

13:56 I'm positive he rang in sick at work, hence why he's trying to avoid the camera

[@CarbonKnights]

I can't believe the Karate Fighters tournament is over. Raw will never be the same!

[@unj]

the era between New Generation and Attitude era will forever be known as the Karate Fighters era.

[@PhenomsServant4]

Theres another one next year

[@spaceghost8886]

@@PhenomsServant4 do they bring back the blimp?

[@politicalmoderate190]

It's OVER!?!? [flips table, storms out]

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

​@politicalmoderate190 That's it! I'm so tuning to Nitro from now on 😂

[@calvinfolan1736]

Shawn was pilled up to the eyes in this promo, Jesus Christ man.

[@zlinedavid]

To quote Sabu....he was Somatose.

[@charlespeeps3024]

pilled HBK vs perc Angle BOOK IT

[@lordcolinb]

He lost his smile 😏

[@dukes1993724]

He lost his last brain cells here

[@craigusselman546]

@@dukes1993724 Sid also seems to have had a few of Shawns special jelly beans.

[@laserramon9926]

It's Thursday, that means a beer and Reliving the War.

[@comfortablynumblbg]

You damn right.

[@delgrady10]

Agreed

[@zlinedavid]

What's everyone drinking? Braxton Brewing Garage Beer for me.

[@donborracho3019]

My exact routine!!!

[@donborracho3019]

@@zlinedavid Drake's Denogginizer

[@mvgsports]

Pretty sure the Mark Henry shirt guy was a plant lol. Great stuff!

[@moxiebbx2858]

That beginning theme brings back so many memories

[@flynnzone70]

Every Thursday is a good one when Reliving The War comes around

[@Will-eh6xe]

Thursday night wars lol

[@InkWarrior]

When is the missing person's report for Glacier coming up?

[@exquisitelemonade3039]

I wonder if Jerry Lynn's career was hampered just by promoters thinking he was Jerry Flynn

[@JM1993951]

“Jerry Lawler Takes a Cyberfist” could be its own video.

[@dan5609]

I've been living in current year for so long I actually popped when the king said what we were all led to think about goldust. Now that was raw, brother!

[@sirklane]

Billy Gunn applies a chin lock. That’s strike one. Made me bust out laughing at work. 😆

[@ByGeorge846]

Did HBK really call himself "The Heartbreaker Sam Mangles" in that promo?

[@at0micwerew0lf]

Heartbreaker Sam Mangles makes me think of a generic wrestling action figure that vaguely resembles HBK.

[@lordrosemount]

I thought he said 'Shawn Merkels', as though he was considering a career as the Chancellor of Germany.

[@lordrosemount]

In fairness, though, if Michaels had come in to the WWE from the indies circa 2010, "The Heartbreaker Sam Mangles" probably is what he'd have been called.

[@antoniogreen8601]

“Little Vader bombs” and “little Taskmasters.” These made me chuckle.

[@dan5609]

@@MrRyan-wu4jx 😂 Mini Hogan

[@IceJJFishArchive]

"little phenom" "little wild things" "little cowboys" "busted his Broncos" lmaoo im dead

[@HabsMike25]

Getting closer to 1997. 1997 is when Raw starts to get very good especially around Feb 97. The summer of 97 Raw was 🔥🔥🔥

[@mikem10481]

I forgot that Bart vs Billy main evented Raw 😳 I'm just counting down to 97.

[@HabsMike25]

Same. That is when Raw starts to get good

[@diywrites8703]

"Ol Jerry Lynn with an F" I was not expecting that and nearly choked on my dinner. Well done sir.

[@constablekennedy7705]

This Era of Professional Wrestling was literally the Golden Age for Me … 🔥

[@lexingtonrobinson8626]

your not alone

[@theexplainer2235]

Not for me

[@martynodonnell8467]

Yeah unfortunately once WCW went out of business WWE also fairly quickly became much less enjoyable. Such an exciting time to be a fan. Due to the nature of media, there will never be another true “wrestling war”. I was a perfect age for The Monday Night War also. Although at the time I only had access to Nitro, on a Friday here in UK. I didn’t realise back then there was “a war” I viewed them as two independent companies. I thought WCW was more a place where the bigger stars of yesterday went to retire.

[@blackbutterfly8136]

@@martynodonnell8467 I agree with you I’m also in the UK and I thought it was where the Had been goes but I watched both on Fridays

[@IceJJFishArchive]

@@martynodonnell8467 it kinda reminds me of Madden NFL and NFL 2k. When NFL 2k5 came out, it scared EA and made EA push out a better Madden product, then when EA bought exclu rights to the NFL, Madden games went downhill. Basically, competition makes better products, and with WWE holding the monopoly, they get to send turd through tv screens despite fans wanting better. sad

[@RetroDanno]

8:28 - A timely reference for me as I just added Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon to my N64 collection this past week! Also the Sid + copious amount of Scooby Snax bit at 14:11 had me nearly spit my dinner out with laughter. Keep up the awesomeness. Love this series.

[@PhilTeoli]

Am I the only one that laughed out loud at "Skid Marks"? LOL

[@dougwalker9286]

Hogan had to appear on Nitro so he would get the 25% of the gate.

[@bdot187um]

And he was awhole lot better than whatever raw had going on.

[@brickcitybikeman3108]

Thursdays now remind me of a time when wrestling was great

[@zlinedavid]

Which is more than anyone could say for Thunder, even back then.

[@CHAOTIXMaddLass]

we nearing the end of 1996...LET'S GO!!!!

[@martynodonnell8467]

The best year ever in professional wrestling 1997, is right around the corner!

[@timbartschwolfman]

@@martynodonnell8467 1997 was WCW'S Year 1998 was considered one of the best years in Wrestling with Raw and Nitro trading Rating Wins

[@martynodonnell8467]

@@timbartschwolfman I’ve always found 1997 more exciting as a whole. By the time 1998 came around the NWO felt stale and had run it’s course and although WWF was exciting. I found 1997 to have more which held my attention.

[@jhonny6toes]

That clip from Haggard never fails to make me laugh

[@garyv2498]

I just wanna say, I usually hate most videos that try to have a "TV show intro", but this one is so good I can't skip it.

[@The2KXperience]

Just remember it's always darkest before the dawn. Next week we see WWF at the bottom. From then on, there's nothing but the climb. The climb that gives us arguably the greatest, most entertaining era in pro wrestling history. I can't wait. It's been a pleasure going on this journey with y'all and I look forward to continuing it.

[@racewiththefalcons1]

I love how devastating the Scorpion Death Drop seemed at that time. You got hit with that and you were out. The end.

[@JoeFlan]

Thursdays make me excited for wrestling again like the old days! Can’t thank you enough man.

[@KyleJWest-vn9kn]

This is the kind of content the WWE Network should be putting out. Bravo, sir! I heard that DDP watches this series too!

[@kellymault7320]

As always thanks eh. The Street Fighter overlay for the Karate King was absolutely superb.

[@brophymusprime593]

True men of culture, our weekly meeting.

[@skinnylegsjoetex]

This series has me looking forward to Thursday’s now. Love it!

[@natkingcharcoal4608]

I want Monday night raw to be replaced with 3 hours of wrestling bios content

[@Am71919]

I second, third, fourth and fifth that

[@makaveli4205]

WWE died after the Chris Benoit incident

[@martynodonnell8467]

@@makaveli4205 I think it slowly died after WCW went out of business. It was watchable during the mid 2000s, two characters made me turn off, JBL then when he went away we were hit with King Booker. Couldn’t get back into it after that.

[@zlinedavid]

That company died when they changed the name to WWE.

[@martynodonnell8467]

@@zlinedavid it’s always WWF to me. It’s been almost 20 years since name change and it’s never sounded right

[@rustykuntz94]

16:33, who would that longtime WWE apologist podcaster be? YOU Know 😂

[@davidringle7]

This is the moment you've all been waiting for. IIIIIIIIITTTTSSSS TIME

[@ricstormwolf]

"Big Fakey Cool and Botchy Ramon" "Bret gets a good match out of anyone theory" 😂😂😂

[@bigbudju1773]

Only Sable can take a cyber-fist and walk away victorious. Pure talent.

[@CreationsVibration]

Finally the conclusion of the karate fighter tournament saga

[@reedeux7818]

Shawn Michaels looked so baked, God started yelling, "Nobody's higher than me!" at him

[@ducc764]

I always save these until Friday morning. Wake up for work, have some coffee, watch the best series on KZbin and my mood is a 10/10 heading into work. Thanks for the great work you do, this was such a brilliant idea and we have so much more to look forward to. I don’t know if KZbin gives out awards, but if they do you’d better get one for this series.

[@outlawrip-offartist4161]

I cried when cyber fist lost.

[@E_l_l_i_e]

"We hit rock bottom, guys. Looking forward to it" 😂

[@sandsplasherasmr1865]

The . " you just hit rock bottom " was one of The Rocks original catch phases

[@ThePriorityBox]

FINALLY the Bret VS fake Razor match we've all been waiting for

[@donborracho3019]

The crowd goes mild!!!! LOLOLOLOL....Always at least one line the kills me in these episodes!!!

[@Vaga-Bard]

It's the low blow references that get me. The little Vader bombs. Lol. Theres like 1 in each episode.

[@guyfranchise934]

I was actually at this episode of RAW. At the end of the Billy and Bart match you can see the medics wearing jackets that had TGH on the back. TGH stands for Tampa General Hospital and those of us that were close to the ring thought that something really did happen to Billy because 1: Why would they send real medical personnel to the ring? and 2: We could hear Billy's wife screaming and cussing out Bart. Still to this day I can't believe the WWF worked me over like that 😔

[@reggie3819]

Perfect cure for my depression! Thank you wrestling bios

[@Slim451]

The Karate Fighters was the highlight of Raw. Cyber Jobber needs to retire.

[@slothkng]

It’s so weird watching the Chris and Nancy stuff knowing how it all ended. It’s like a car crash you can see coming but can’t stop sad really

[@RolfWrenWalsh]

The fact that Faces of Fear never held the World Tag Titles is an absolute tragedy. Barbarian is a former US Tag Champion though. so I guess there's that....

[@RichSmithson]

Worse considering Public Enemy won the titles once and the faces of fear never did. When the faces split up and Meng had his undefeated streak in either 97 or 98,, I have no idea why they didn’t at least make Meng the TV Champ.

[@tonescars]

At this point can we call Glen Jacobs in this Era, Big Daddy Kane?

[@lumporgini]

Don'f forget about his greatest character. Issac Yankem

[@T-Bag13]

No, there is only 1 BDK.

[@danielcraig6615]

Wow the Fake Razor & Diesel thing lasted a lot longer than I thought.

[@timbartschwolfman]

Watching this after taking my nap

[@robclendenin6006]

I love how he puts the 2 intro music together for for raw and night and Nitro

[@sandsplasherasmr1865]

What songs are they

[@JamesHetfieldIsGod]

finish 11 hour shift, sit down with food and watch this every thursday without fail

[@Brawnald]

When fake Diesel and Razor team up they’re the Doubtsiders.

[@McDanieI]

I still have my ticket stub from this Show. I found myself in the crowd at 11:07. I'm in the bottom left corner second row and I am the person on the left wearing the backwards HBK biker hat. See the lady in the pink shirt.. I'm the second person to her right..but left looking at it... I've been waiting for this one!!

[@GleeChan]

9:51 Imagining Fake Razor saying all politely "There really was no need for that, mate." just makes me laugh.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

The "Ran Into A Tree" era of WWF/WWE. 😂 🤣

[@craigphillips9383]

Been waiting for this. Not in to wrestling at all, haven't been since end of the 90s early 00s, but 80s 90s I was hooked as a kid so love watching this, some episodes brings back memories of being at mine or my cousins having sleep over watching wrestling 😅🤣

[@martynodonnell8467]

It is sad to say. However wrestling has only ever been enjoyable during a select few years. The 80s boom and The Monday Night Wars era most notably. It’s a form of entertainment that’s spent more years being either sub par, boring or unwatchable, than good entertainment.

[@cvz14]

these videos got me nostalgic all the time . Love them

[@drewcross9927]

I always wonder when the Benoit storyline turned into the truth. Like were they already in a real relationship during this episode?

[@RichSmithson]

It says the affair started in 97, but iv been watching these nitros for months and it’s blatantly obvious something is going on with both of them. One promo I remember is Flair saying Benoit was driving the girls wild all night and you can see Nancy rolling her eyes. So yeah maybe she officially left Sullivan in 1997? Pretty sure that’s when she retired from managing, with Kevin as head booker, she probably lost her job.

[@valormeer]

It's that time of the week again

[@crazycheff]

wrestling bios back at it again with the fire

[@nearvanaman]

Ref took that DDT like a champ at 18:18.

[@Jasondirt]

Love this series Thank you for doing these.

[@yojamesawesomeshow4838]

Who's reliving the war like I am I'm in 1996 March of 1996 right now I'm enjoying every moment of it thank you wrestling bios

[@Obscusion2]

It's a shame that Billy Gunn got saddled with Rockabilly when he returned a few months later, because he looked really cool in that black duster jacket. "The Outlaw" Billy Gunn would have been simple but effective gimmick for him, and would have allowed for perfect naming sense when he & Jessie James later teamed up & became the New Age Outlaws. Also, I'm honestly amazed that nWo Souled Out was announced by way of a simple promotion via commentary. I would have figured that it was announced via an in-ring promo by Bischoff, where he gloats about all the power he has, so he gives "the good guys" their own PPV, just because he can. Weird.

[@WildSide_Est2024]

Makes you wonder why Jesse James didn't get paired with the Honky Tonk Man seeing as he already had a singing gimmick

[@BOG0690]

Excellent music choice. The throwback to Mystical Ninja was great!!

[@martynodonnell8467]

Another awesome upload from the best wrestling channel on the net, thank you Mr Wrestling Bios.

[@AquamentusLives]

One of the only channels I’ll give a thumbs up to even before the video plays 👍

[@TheMuldoonFella]

Dont know how he did it but Wrestling Bios got me super invested in the Karate Fighters Tournament from the start of it to the finale. So bravo sir

[@billyozzie8331]

Love this, totally hooked. Thank you

[@landeny65]

Benoit drinking red wine out of a white wine glass at 17:11 is a good example of why WCW went under. What a glaring oversight.

[@christopheraikens597]

Omg, hearing a Goemon reference and then music from the SNES Mystical Ninja is epic 😂

[@alexdawson80]

Look forward for these every week thank you keep em coming 👍

[@bigyellowplumes]

Cheers to Bios!

[@LobsterPuncher]

Vince asking people to believe in fake Razor and Diesel is like those sad parents who want their teenagers to play along with Santa.

[@louisvelez40]

Best part about reliving the war is the content, so much content. Worst will be when it's all gone but until that time. Until then enjoy this wonderful series.

[@xtracheesepls776]

@23.50 love the 🎶🎵 from the first level in the background 😆

[@jimmymcvain520]

Dude your Channel is amazing... i can only imagine the time and love you put in These Videos... im a huge wrestling Fan ever since, and i hope you never running out of content... thanks 4 the entertainment... wrestling BIOS. 4Life, and 2Sweet of course

[@brycegrenier]

“The boys ran out and stole a bunch of crayons to look like Sting tonight at Monday Nitro” 💀😂

[@FreshPrinceofGA]

Dude probably called in sick to work and didn't want his job seeing him on TV 😂

[@irishpanic]

Another Thursday complete. Nothing better to beat the heat than relieving the wars

[@KastleKrossface]

The fan hiding his face is probably Nelson Muntz's missing dad. Who conveniently enough, popped out to grab some milk.

[@wrestlingwithart]

Another great video. Thanks for the consistently great content!

[@wrestlingfightpin]

Best part of the day

[@shaolinotter]

love the mystical ninja music!

[@josecabrera7090]

We Can’t Wrestle! That’s a great name for those guys! Lol

[@slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404]

The best version of the intro

[@AJ-Johnson12]

To this day Sid still has some of the best promos ever. He played his charcter so well. From hsi interviews you see these days ot just shows how much his charcter was different from the man he really was. Love his music.

[@fitness65]

We're almost getting close to Bret harts heel turn as this promo he cut on this raw was planting the seeds for a Bret hart heel turn. Also bulldog helping Bret Hart was also planting the seeds for the eventual hart foundation in 1997.

[@BeeJaySee]

Best series on KZbin

[@mutts.nutts1]

Love this Series and watch it each night, I know this will come to an end however when it does I would love to see it continue with the WWE 2000s as would be a good watch with your perspective

[@philippep9826]

''Like if it was Fing Tony who had the VCR under his desk'' LMFAO

[@bossplaya1110]

The Heartbreak Kid Shawn Magnals lmao

[@drjohnsmith5282]

This great series continues - thank you brother. Looking at the ratings, raw would kill for ratings like that these days. WCW was just better in this era. Finally, Michaels looked considerably worse for wear here. I thought those Scooby snacks were supposed to ‘accelerate’ him

[@JADIP-hl8yd]

Great episode. Ppv reviews are on point as well. As always, great work. 👍

[@lastactionhero7541]

I love seeing these video pop up in my feed.

[@yateez420]

You make me love Thursday's. Ty bro