Raw vs Nitro "Reliving The War": Episode 177 - March 15th 1999

[@WrestlingBios]

Hey everyone! The next episode of Reliving The War AND WrestleMania XV have been completed. Early viewing available on Patreon (if you don't want to wait): www.patreon.com/wrestling_bios

[@daniellewolf3697]

Amazing On Reliving The War BUT Can You Do Backlash 99 Or You Already Did

[@zemox2534]

He will soon. He needs to review WM 15 first.

[@daniellewolf3697]

Oh Yea,Best Match Was Stone Cold Vs Rock Worst Sable Vs Tori @@zemox2534

[@comfortablynumblbg]

More Steve Mufuggin Blackman

[@ChuckWyld]

You started off with Hey Yo again! You missed it one week and I shed a tear.

[@wcokeley85]

The way Mick put refs lines on his shirt and wore it every week since being named special ref for the Mania main event is actually iconic and suited his character so well

[@Ian-Omega]

You mean stripes?

[@MrOvlov02]

sunny was a better ref

[@SeriousPsyche]

I thought he accidentally pressed C-> before the match.

[@kurtomac2386]

Plus it was cheap merch. Grab one of dad’s shirts and some spray paint and you had a shirt to wear to the show lol

[@michealhunt6607]

I remember reading that Tori (the WWF one) did training in Japan and was meant to be pretty decent. But alas, that didn't matter a single bit back then in the womens division lol

[@Am71919]

The WCW backstage environment is complete chaos during this time

[@anthonyharris4234]

Just like Aew currently

[@joshmulligan950]

Hopefully the head writer of Raw can turn things around

[@Kingmaker33]

​@@joshmulligan950Bro It wasn't my idea! Bro! My hands were tied Bro! It wasn't my fault! Bro!

[@nakamaswarrior292]

To say the least.

[@eddie9244]

@@Kingmaker33i hate russo, but to be fair he didnt go to wcw until fall of ‘99

[@innocentorphan1213]

"It's Fing laughable what's happened to the NWO recently. W-What the hell happened?" *Immediately cue up Disco Inferno in NWO.*

[@michaelmcmahon3099]

Needs Das wunderkind to return and save this show!

[@RobJaskula]

​@@michaelmcmahon3099only two more months!

[@Marc_Masters]

Exactly

[@CarterJ9]

The intro reminded me that I missed last weeks RTW and the PPV recap because of Thanksgiving travel. So basically I just got an hour of a half of Wrestling Bios goodness to end a stressful day. This is better than Christmas!

[@camschuster5947]

Thanks for taking all the life stress away every Thursday WB. 😎

[@Wandering_Nowhere]

David "only having eyes for Torrie", is a fair statement. You'd be mad to say otherwise.

[@TimBornholdt]

For what it’s worth, when you say stuff like “but you all know what happened” (like with the Public Enemy and the Acolytes), I almost never do haha! I always appreciate when you give the backstage behind the scenes stories, it makes the whole rewatch a lot more interesting.

[@mitchwooten5150]

I can't wait for the Infamous stone cold beer truck moment on of my favorites in the monday night war era

[@christopherfoley8322]

My favorite moment will always be Vince in the hospital and the introduction of Mr. Socko, and Dr. Austin MD

[@dukes1993724]

My favorite Austin moment is when he becomes CEO and starts handing out beers in a board room meeting 😂

[@PhilTeoli]

@@christopherfoley8322the piss pan hit lol

[@JustJulyo]

Spoiler alert

[@Eric-wu7bp]

And I can’t wait for the famous Bret hart no selling Goldberg’s spear with his solid plate belt

[@Jay-zk7uw]

The Ministry in the bushes made my year.

[@theirishhammer5986]

The beer bath segment next week is going to be wild I look forward to next week oh hell yeah wrestling bios

[@zlinedavid]

Shame the series will end before Angle’s milk bash.

[@criminalmindsgirl2936]

I don't mind seeing Kidman vs. Rey. They always put on some great matches.

[@dford192]

Yeah while more storylines for the cruiserweights would be great, it's not like you can't tell a story in the ring. Plus as long as it's not week after week after week I don't mind them having rematches every now and then.

[@Avylyn]

Came here to say the same thing two great cruiser weights, I'll personally never get tired of, this was some of the best wrestling on WCW at the time

[@criminalmindsgirl2936]

​@@dford192, I agree with you on that

[@jacobkaulback2181]

I'm gonna have to check out that Ernest Miller segment. He's prime Boy Stable material

[@yuorbuddy]

I have zero issue having to sit through the same matches. The tone of frustration makes it worthwhile lol

[@corkscrewfoley]

Like the early eps of RTW, where the frustration built up giving us some comedy gold.

[@Atrocitus-k2j]

I hope Raw keeps winning so we can keep getting the “nice” for WCW week after week 😂

[@TimTE01]

Make it to March ‘01!

[@CJMcMullet]

Knew he was aiming for this all along, and I love it 😂

[@stevenmacaulay8807]

Naw man it's 2000 that hits worse... 2001 is not primo nitro but they were getting there .

[@Obscusion2]

The crazy thing about Road Dogg & Billy Gunn suddenly swapping title hunts is that literally no one seems to legit remember why it happened, though unlike the Fingerpoke of Doom this legit seems like a "We honestly don't recall" situation instead of a "We don't want to admit fault" situation. I think the only person that's never been asked about it is Vince McMahon... and I bet he was the one who made that decision, due to his penchant for suddenly changing things on a whim, if he feels like it.

[@anthonyturner6399]

I still hold my theory as to it being Road Dog who politicked his way into the IC belt. Since he had held the hardcore titles before I can see him using it as leverage. To this day the swap still grinds my gear. I hate it so much as a huge billy gun fan

[@reallyretro]

Vince Russo thought that this was a good idea to swap their matches SMH

[@kurtomac2386]

Road Dogg was the main reason the Outlaws were over. There wasn’t as big as an emphasis on in-ring work back then and the D-O-Double-G was a better entertainer.

[@comfortablynumblbg]

The legend that is Norman Smiley

[@ivansudetic]

Bring back the meng manly meter. I wanna see where jerry Flynn ranks

[@ellismarquez8410]

I was expecting Viscera to pop out from behind the tree.

[@quincykearney9862]

Not going to lie, but I was so fed up with Hulk Hogan doing this time in Monday Night War. He's always getting a title shot and people was getting sick and tired of seeing him on top.

[@gumdeo]

Steiner was the poet of WCW.

[@dmdeign7116]

Horace always looks mildly worried lmao

[@JayRasheed718]

I remember this segment, Lil Naitch used to annoy the hell out of me but i loved Ric Flair 😂😂. And that segment with Scott and Bagwell messed me up I liked them as a tag team 😂.Yet another good show for the week..cheers.

[@sharmellkeane3924]

Much as I love seeing more Disco, this was a genuine wwf win this week I have to say.

[@michaelreich4827]

I'm legit curious how guys like Kidman and Jericho didn't destroy their knees doing their SSPs and Lionsaults over the years. Watch them in slo-mo.

[@WarGhoulKharas]

Took them on their thighs, mainly. It's not like the Tombstone, where you're dropping to your knees with most of your weight and your opponent's weight. That's killing Statlander's knees.

[@zlinedavid]

@@WarGhoulKharasThat’s exactly it. The entire leg lands more parallel to the ring floor so the shock is distributed over a bigger area.

[@dukes1993724]

Jericho stopped doing the lionsault over a decade ago. He can’t do it reliable anymore.

[@mikea4260]

​@@dukes1993724that's simply not true. He still does it to this day. Maybe not in every match like he used to, but I know for a fact he's used it in many of his higher card AEW matches

[@dukes1993724]

@@mikea4260 Special occasions, sure. But not 1/2x per match every match like back in the 90’s/00’s.

[@legendarymooseman]

Perfect timing for my lunch break, thanks a bunch!

[@theirishhammer5986]

Seeing those Norman smilely shirts I love to see the logo put in the Pringles cans that would make me wiggle wiggle 😃

[@jeffh278]

We were watching history in the making and never knew how great we had it

[@eyeguydojima7131]

Rtw is really helping me get through being sick. Thanks wb.

[@eyeguydojima7131]

@@toddmorrissey8372 hahahahaha. that's funny. (btw, nice Maiden pic)

[@slanderman3296]

I got phenmonia rn😢

[@eyeguydojima7131]

@@slanderman3296 well, I hope you start feeling better soon!

[@ThePete1081]

Can't wait for next week. I was at that Albany show. You could smell the beer from the 2nd level. Decresente's is still a popular beverage center in the area today. It was pretty cool seeing their logo in one of the more famous Raw segments.

[@Zhortac]

Chris Jericho, in WWF/E? HA, fat chance. Like he'd change sides, run a Y2K spoof lead up, interupt one of the biggest stars in his debut, and become a massive success and multitime champion. I mean, come on...

[@wcokeley85]

And as if Vince would have him beat both Stone Cold and The Rock on the same night to be the 1st Undisputed WWF/E Champ

[@stevenmacaulay8807]

We all know that would never happen.. After all it would break the seal on Steve Blackmans true power and the end of us all.

[@Zhortac]

@wcokeley85 yeah, and next you're gonna tell me he'll be a co-intercontinental champion with Chyna...lol

[@hoddish3755]

this rey vs kidman match is simply one of the best cruiserweight (single) matches ever happen in wcw. pure non stop action

[@bobbyunavailable]

The Big Show looks absolutely huge here.

[@primusvsunicron1]

hope we get a Big Poppa Pump Timeline video

[@benzinoify]

FIT IDEA!

[@brandonperkins176]

WWF dominated 1999 while WCW was slowly dying to a crawl! Really enjoying this episode

[@dukes1993724]

1999 was the peak for WWF in terms of storytelling.

[@peterjaketalkswrasslin6920]

That super kick was a thing of beauty… smooth and raw all at once.

[@troyf.9050]

Man!! WWE could not be stopped in this era! The Attitude Era😈!!

[@BigLee1901]

So both main events feature A Poster Guy and A Big Guy vs. A Bald Dominate Guy In Black Trunks and A Crazy Guy

[@freshparkfilms]

8:08 I'll never understand why they didn't save Big Show's debut for that years wrestle mania,😅 i guess the war was so tight at that point Vince wanted to show off everyone he could steal away

[@ericjohnson5462]

I’m sure the cooperation will enjoy the refreshments Austin’s brought for them

[@m.a.mehalick0910]

Goldberg taking that boot from Nash is way too funny.

[@ignatiusjackson235]

Timestamp?

[@andrewstrom8157]

I'm one of the biggest nWo marks around. I've got signed merchandise from all the key members and I even like Vincent. Even I changed the channel to Raw when it was Stevie Ray vs. Horace.

[@laronnpowell1700]

As a lifelong WWF fan, I don't blame you..

[@ThisIsMYStoryAS]

Thursday afternoons always hit different for me now. It's a pleasure watching Reliving the War!

[@eastsidereviews727]

Weekend can't get started without Reliving the War on Thursdays. A great video as always!!

[@ClassicBoxingMatches]

Here we go

[@zemox2534]

I can't wait until you get to the introduction of Little Nature boy, Charles Robinson. One of the greatest wcw moments.

[@bobmarshall8527]

Fun fact, this is my favourite Nitro ever. The whole promo battle with Flair, Goldberg, Nash and Hogan was great as was the tag team main event. I hadn’t seen Uncensored the night before we didn’t get WCW PPVs over here so seeing Hogan hulk up absolutely delighted me.

[@Austin-Miller85]

We need the meng manly meter back on relieving the war

[@AmazingGuy13]

Seeing Rey unmasked is so weird

[@sqectre]

WCW is just hard to watch at this point, what the hell are they thinking? Every storyline feels half baked

[@fearless1024]

One of my favorite things about the week! RTW 4 life!

[@bigrigjoe5130]

I always thought Vince calling the cops and them refusing to help because this is clearly a fake publicity stunt was a cool touch of realism in the wacky attitude era

[@edwardellis3038]

The cops were right based on how this storyline ended….

[@butchvito]

I love how Nash comes storming down to the ring demanding a title shot when just a few months ago he literally laid down for Hogan and handed him the title. Why? Because WCW.

[@laronnpowell1700]

Like Nash said.. If Nash books himself to beat the streak, what's the payoff for Kevin and the FPOD??

[@CrookdMoe]

Been waiting for this episode for a few days now since im all caught up. Lets go!

[@martinzies2874]

Reluctant to praise the wcw out of the ring footage cause there was so much of it, but that Disco video edit was muchos hilarios 😂😂😂😂

[@zacharyscott6779]

Thats just mean ragging on Shane about the leapfrog hahaha. Well done, Bios.

[@timothymattson5369]

I remember as a 16 year old, I briefly tuned in to WCW to see David checking into a hotel and some woman absolutely obsessing over him. I was like "Hmm, that's not exciting" and I didn't catch anything else about the show. I honestly had no idea that Ric had a title reign around this time, I was fully behind the WWF at this time.

[@americanmeowth3336]

Great episode as always! We should all appreciate how clean the old-school swinging neckbreakers were. In this episode alone, both Disco Inferno and Austin hit sweet, smooth swings and the opponents sold so well.

[@maxeybailey718]

Highlight of my Thursday shift at work every week

[@kaseyharrison2056]

Love the Dancey punch and dancey knee 😂

[@BigLee1901]

33:26 Third time, but counting Raw only, it's his second time, the other time was on an episode of Sunday Night Heat in late Summer of 1998

[@kardynalsyn9501]

IMO That initial last half of 96 and all of 97 was their height and the best time to tune in to see the nWo. Even while in that time-frame the member count definitely got bloated with too many useless performers and or wrestlers. Like you said though, Starcade 97 should have been the end of the group after Sting "won"

[@Cableguy15]

You hit the nail on the head with the "useless performers and wrestlers" bit. Even some of their bigger names were barely wrestling for a while, there. More power to them for making money without having to work, but the NWO could only cruise by on coolness and hype for so long. At some point, about 3/4ths of the group felt like they were just there to stand around or be stooges that Sting was meant to beat up.

[@AGH69]

I was hoping after Sting crushed Hogan at Starrcade, it wouldn't be long before the NWO ended. Apparently Bischoff had no plans to end it though, because of merch sales, Japanese deals and probably a lack of ideas. I was expecting Sting vs. Bret Hart to dominate the opening months of 1998, being sold as a world title unification, while Hogan would be occupied with cleaning house in the NWO and feuding with Savage. WCW had 3 PPVs in 1998 before Wrestlemania when Austin beat Shawn, so a best of 3 between Sting and Bret could've been huge.. Homeboy Stings emerges victorious and the Hogan rematch(es) can now take place once Savage is dealt with.. keeping in mind Hogan's creative control and needing to have him onboard with losing to Sting clean at Starrcade to set all this up.

[@DBecks09]

They still had so many opportunities, man. Wolfpac vs nWo (Nash vs Hogan?). Goldberg vs nWo/Hogan after the fingerpoke. But a freaking double turn vs Ric Flair!? What!?!?!?

[@diywrites8703]

Since the theme is video games for the Bret Hart telling Road Dogg to shut up... have you considered doing a resident evil one where the road dogg opens one of the doors and you have the door opening animation of the first game and behind the door is... ... "Shuddap"

[@WrestlingCompilations]

Like all of us watching it, I'll be sad once we reach the end of the series

[@benziescha5438]

It would have been nice if Meng had been U.S champ around this time, got some regular use out of the belt. I say nice....normal. As it's a wrestling show. Wake up Eric! 😂

[@BenedictNarwhal]

YES! We need wake up Eric shirts in the don't fire Eric (Young) font

[@borobinson7005]

Dam I forgot today was Thursday Wrestling Bios is the Jam man!! 😼😹😾

[@anthonyrivera2306]

As tradition goes, RTW IS HERE!!!!

[@BenedictNarwhal]

Love the Road Dogg i.c belt win! Mainly cause he was my mainstay i.c champ on no mercy as a kid haha

[@kitfo18]

Big-V was the bush and everyone else was hiding behind him...

[@QuartzMatrixed]

Vicodins wanted may be best sign ever

[@rauladdams5709]

Its has relevant temporal value. 100%.

[@MixManiac120]

The Buff/Scott promo was a great opportunity to build Bagwell up to be a Contender. By the time DDP became Champion youd have Buff there to challenge.

[@g-dub5272]

By this time I was a complete WWF guys. I kept trolling my WCW friends that Nitro keep copying Raw, they’re matches aren’t any good and their stories don’t make any sense

[@mikescott8903]

No you didn't

[@WickedFireBird69]

Official debut of Paul's new name.

[@butchvito]

Watching this series makes you realize how short the nWo Elite run really was. It was time to wrap it up anyway. I'm excited to see the return of both Sting and Macho Man.

[@zlinedavid]

We get super-roided edition Macho Man too.

[@butchvito]

@@zlinedavid Oooh Yeah! With Gorgeous George as well.

[@sherrix6881]

I’ll tell you straight mate, with nothing kept from you. Ain’t nobody care. Like, for real. Just shut your damn mouth 👄

[@btbucks]

I laughed my ass off at the Disco video version

[@roguerifter9724]

Face Flair and allies screwing Heel Hogan was one of the greatest ideas WCW had in 99 IMO. Face Flair and Face Eddie Guerrero are the ultimate proof that you can be a face and still fight smart instead of fighting like an idiot.

[@eastsidereviews727]

Also, wow the nWo is just going out sad. All disconnected and disjointed. I get that fans wanted to cheer Hogan, but all this stuff was done so weirdly and poorly. And somehow, somehow it gets worse with nWo 2000! But that comes later!

[@WaterInmyHands]

For anyone who was a WCW guy around this time, does WCW feel stale? I watch this and can't help but think of how WWF was just firing on all cylinders while WCW feels stale and stuck in the past but I'm not sure if that's just becuase I was watching WWF at the time and was keeping up with/invested in these stories while WCW I'm getting an abridged version. Even Goldberg feels underused and uninteresting

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

WCW's most hardcore long term fans tended to be more interested in the workrate than the storyline. In a time before every match was a gymnastics demolition derby, and KZbin made everyone a supersmark, WCW could generally guarantee at least one match that showed off what genuine athletes could bring to a pre-predetermined contest.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

I forgot to say, this was not considered a good time for WCW.. Except maybe in retrospect, and only when compared to how much worse it's going to get.

[@quincykearney9862]

I think WCW died after the Finger Poker of Doom. They have many young talents that could have kept the company going, but everyone was getting buried by NWO. Guys like DDP, Chris Benoit, Booker T and yes even Raven should have been the world championship doing this time doing the Monday Night War.

[@dukes1993724]

@@quincykearney9862DDP, yes. The rest were not that popular (yet) or built up properly.

[@RobJaskula]

Yes. You'd still flip over to see if there were cruiserweights on - when you're 13, 1999 Raw had waaaaaay too many skits - but going into WrestleMania 15 you'd pretty much only be watching Raw. The Nitro ratings are about to go into free fall. To be fair, I ended up burning out on the WWF in 2000 and the last 5 months or so of WCW are pretty good!

[@mrrida503]

It's the birth of Lil' Naytch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Insomniaaron]

It's Thursday night and you know what that means! Reliving The War is here again!

[@king_eternal]

Ravin pulling an Amber Heard on his sister and sandman haha

[@theirishhammer5986]

My favorite day BAYBAY! It’s time for reliving the war! Let’s gooooooooooooo BOOM! 🤘🏻

[@JohnnyBoombatz1119]

haha the DigDug one might have been the best "Shut Up" yet. And oh man I can't wait for next week! I was only 9 but was in Albany for the beer bath!!!

[@123456789011ful]

favourite series in youtube right now

[@carlcouture1023]

Watching Mysterio and Kidman every week made me want to watch lucha libre.

[@NotScrubNotGood]

The WCW title picture is about to get some BANG!! for its buck very soon

[@BowserBlanchette]

Another great episode of Reliving the War!

[@mjbalistreri]

This Raw was the first wrestling show I ever attended. So cool to do it again here.

[@seansanchez1245]

Konan took that Chart Buster so well.

[@djpanther77]

Wow, can't believe it's finally here W c w nitro March fifteenth 1999 was my first ever wrestling event. I ever attended live I can't believe we're living. The war has gotten this far. Thank you so much

[@anotheratheist]

It‘s Thursday and you know what that means!

[@Summertimeblues28]

This was 2 days before my 20th birthday. What a time to be a wrestling fan in ‘99

[@christopherbissett1986]

If your not here on Thursday evenings then I don't know what your doing

[@UfodexENMD]

IT'S THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MENAS!!!!!! WELCOME TO RELIVING THE WAR!!

[@rauladdams5709]

I work split shifts Thursday's, Friday's and Saturdays. With stock on Thursday, its my longest day of the week. Reliving The War lessens the blow. Much appreciation and love for this huge Endeavour. Stay Safe, Brother. 👍

[@BigLee1901]

26:27 I bet Viscera was standing in plain sight while all of the other Ministry members were hiding behind him and the cop just mistakens him for a water-tower (if you know those huge watertowers that have the eight legs around them and has a stem in the middle, I call those the King Mabel Watertowers because when I first seen Mabel/Viscera, he reminded me of those)

[@srichardf]

At this point in time in WCW Eric Bischoff is spending more and more time away from Nitro. I think he said the stress was getting to him and therefore head booker Nash was running the show.

[@Hallofshame-f7x]

We need a wrestling bios rant on how jerry flynn getting a push on wcw

[@daeleonmanuel5360]

this was the 3rd time Undertaker dressed as Kane