The Insane WCW Chamber of Horrors Match

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WCW Halloween Havoc 1991 featured the "Chamber of Horrors" match, a match that has gone on to become infamous not only for how out-of-the-box it was, but also for it's comedic value. Sting, The Steiner Brothers and El Gigante took on Cactus Jack, Adbullah the Butcher, Vader and The Diamond Stud (Scott Hall) inside a unique steel cage match; to win a chamber of horrors bout, you had to put your opponent on an electric chair and someone had to pull a lever.
The match initially had a different set of rules and it also featured a very different heel team. Barry Windham, Diamond Stud, One Man Gang and Oz (Kevin Nash) were advertised as the "bad guy" team before Vader, Cactus Jack and Abby were added to the match. This video looks at these changes that were made along with an in-depth look at the match itself. Halloween Havoc 1991 featured some good matches including Lex Luger vs Ron Simmons and Stunning Steve Austin vs Dustin Rhodes, but the event is remembered for the Chamber of Horrors match.
00:00 - Intro
01:15 - Raid Promo
03:14 - Gordon Solie promotes the match
06:09 - Changes being made to the match
07:49 - The Chamber of Horrors Match
15:20 - Final Thoughts
#WCW #WRESTLING #WorldChampionshipWrestling

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[@adamofgrayskull7735]

🤘😜🤘

[@tomsimmons7673]

I just fast forward through it.

[@LyonzDen]

Raid pays well! Get that money bro for all you do for us you deserve it!

[@dazda123]

Done it 👍

[@MrGinja123]

Just so you know most people are gonna skip the Raid Shadow Legends section of this video

[@savageandthebeasts8388]

Mick Foley said it best about this match, "it was a chamber of horrors, just not in the way they had intended."

[@Muhammedalshabea]

About as funny as the jokes in this video. (Not funny)

[@grindelston5968]

Lol you got ratio-ed!

[@theramplocal]

Lmao that's gold. Shotout Mick Foley/cactus jack /dude love

[@mattwebb5276]

Abdullah being the most electrifying man in sports entertainment way before that rocky fella ever thought of it 😂😂😂😂😂

[@stevelowe2647]

Rocky who?

[@Jay-we2ek]

@@stevelowe2647 The Rock, Dwayne Johnson.... Used to be called Rocky Maivia. His nickname was "the most electrifying man in sports entertainment"

[@michiganpride389]

@@Jay-we2ek I think he meant it as a joke. You're not going to watch a wrestling video and not know who the rock was

[@StageRight123]

@@Jay-we2ek You must be new to Wrestling Bios humor.

[@jb888888888]

Rock...oh you mean Don Muraco.

[@ducc764]

Crazy how many legends were in this absolute clusterfuck. Foley, Vader, Sting, the Steiners, Razor... pretty insane.

[@patandmacmusic]

And ALMOST Nash and Wyndham 😮

[@comettamer]

Absolutely a crazy thing for sure and just mindblowing they managed to get em all to agree.

[@clifforddavidson7273]

Dispatch proves that you can have some of the most talented people in wrestling and you can put on the other s*** show

[@rythusd2907]

Rick Steiner probably attempted to climb out the cage because he forgot about the last minute rule change. Once no one tried to pull him down from the cage, he remembered lol 😂

[@guillermosierracuellar9812]

They literally opened a PPV with a murder

[@Cameron_611]

Yeah they should've ended the PPV with a murder.

[@timbartschwolfman]

Wrestling with Wregret reviewed this ppv and gave it 0 stars

[@jb888888888]

They murdered the Giant in a PPV too.

[@blockhead8134]

Wrestling needs more murder spots

[@LobsterPuncher]

If this is what they allowed Dusty to do, just imagine the stuff that got shutdown for being "too crazy".

[@blockhead8134]

Big dutht babaaay ,if ya will

[@robertlawrence4719]

@@planescaped Scott Hall did use a cuddle prod 7 years later.

[@handsolo1209]

The thing that got him fired from the booking job right after TBS bought it in 1988 was pretty crazy.

[@HabsMike25]

@@handsolo1209 I believe you are talking about when Rhodes had Road Warriors put a spike near his eye. That got him fired as Booker right away then Rhodes left WCW shortly afterwards

[@handsolo1209]

@@HabsMike25 Yes. The TBS suits told him no blood on TV and he went and did that. It does give a small glimpse in to his mindset though and his idea that the visual factor is the key. Booking those scaffold matches is also very in line with the Chamber Of Horrors too, visually impactful, but very clumsy and dangerous for the people in the match.

[@BlondeMcGuinn]

11:49 I like how the cage obscures everything going on in the ring.

[@johnfalcetta5431]

"Absolute Clusterfuck of epic proportions " Perfect summary

[@gorowlystomak3339]

I hate to tell you this Wrestling Bios, but it's not the 20th anniversary. It's the 30th anniversary. We're all just that damn old.

[@KwanzaaBot1966]

When I was a kid Vader freaked me out with the helmet. It was intimidating. Him and The Great Muta were the coolest heels back in the day.

[@landeny65]

Vader was probably the most credible heel in the history of wrestling

[@jeffreyriley8742]

Vader was unreal at this time.

[@tomsimmons7673]

R.I.P. Paul Heyman's hair.

[@blockhead8134]

His hair took a bump ,and never recovered

[@1993Shashwat]

As a fan who started following wrestling after the attitude era came to an end, these videos are truly a gem. I have been following your reliving the war series regularly and am truly fascinated how competitive wrestling would have been in WWF-WCW rivalry days. I started following wrestling in the Ruthless Agression era when WWE was the only name apart from smaller promotions like TNA. But watching your content, I have developed great interest in how rich wrestling actually was. Love your content. Great work. Fan from India. 👍

[@MrGinja123]

I 100% agree as I started watching wrestling when I was bout 4-5 (which would of been about 1998/1999) but I was able to buy tapes of PPV's and would mainly get fixated on WWF so when it comes to pre-1998 it becomes interesting to me

[@jonathanbedolla9677]

I was 7 years old in 98' and for me until about 2002 WWF was life. I unknowingly once asked my mom what her favorite pie was after the Thanksgiving special. Cherry, pumpkin or 'Poontang' pie. She flipped 😆 🤣

[@User-1683x2]

@@jonathanbedolla9677 lmao 🤣

[@darthvadersmom3147]

@@jonathanbedolla9677 😆😆😆😆

[@Phoenix00Knight]

@@jonathanbedolla9677 lol

[@doctormeatball7618]

I would 100% be down for a deep dive of '91-'94 era WCW Who else is with me?

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Yep

[@bobmonk64]

I'd extend that to 89 - 94 (NWA to WCW to WWF lite)

[@jeremybrown9273]

that would be cool. I was too young to know the difference between wwf and wcw back then so that era of WCW is pretty much all new to me.

[@jeffjackson9679]

Blows my mind having 4 legends (Gordon Solie, Schivone, JR, and Heyman) all commentating on this garbage.

[@firewalker1372]

That was Heyman? I thought that’s who that was. Just wasn’t 100 percent sure.

[@jeffjackson9679]

@@firewalker1372 Yeah he looked a lot different in the early 90s. Balding and putting on 150 pounds can make a difference.

[@kingmalice6362]

A lot of people tend to forget that WCW was going into a more kid based demographic and back then the matches like Chamber of Horrors, Thunderdome, White Castle of Fear etc… were the most amazing matches to us. I’m 41 now and obviously can see more issues with certain matches now but back then it was a completely different story.

[@tafua_a]

Honestly, had it been slightly less convoluted (say, keep the original set of rules, have the caskets be filled with weapons and have the "ghouls" be what happens to those who cannot escape), it would have been some silly fun, like the Silent Night Bloody Night match (my definitive "3 black holes" match). This way though, it's just a clusterfuck that you can only laugh at, and not with.

[@stuffingtonjfluffypantsiii]

You can hear JR die a little more inside every time he has to say Refer-eye

[@baronvonsvengoonie1767]

Rick was having a quick flashback of the old playground days

[@lolchillbruh9104]

The fact that they handcuffed the masked man from the coffin had me rollinnnnnnn 😂😂😂

[@toptenguy1]

The heel side had some INSANE "Future star power". Hall, Cactus and Vader were all about to peak.

[@Michael_Chandler_Keaton]

A masterpiece of a match. Classic.

[@arturoalmazan5262]

😂😂masterpiece??

[@HeartyArtie]

I love how they have a stagehand popping up on camera to close the haunted house set door at the entrance immediately after each competitor walks out. It's good to know it wasn't really closing on its own.

[@crixus8183]

The refer-eye camera, ghouls, Stings WTF face, had me dying 😂😂😂 amazing video!

[@nastypig5459]

"tony says these are the ghouls" ah yes the ghouls, an important part of any wrestling match

[@watchmman3408]

Kaz putting Kevin in a torture rack is good stuff looking back. Kaz was worlds strongest man around that time. He's a power lifting and strong man icon

[@jayl878]

I had to rewind that a few times to verify that was Kevin Nash. The dude put him up there like it was nothing.

[@JM1993951]

@@jayl878 yeah, Nash looked average-sized there.

[@codycooper5768]

Nash as Oz looks like a giant sized surfer Sting

[@peterq1978]

i still have this on PPV on VHS tape.... for when am doing some Horsemen Business. when i saw this as a kid i thought it was awesome, but every time ive seen it since, the wrestlers dont seem to know what they are doing at all, even the ref.

[@epicproportionsmediaproduc6697]

“Clusterfuck” is exactly the right word to describe this. It’s like a train wreck: it’s really hard to watch but you can’t look away,

[@ghsrandy]

Is nobody gonna mention the "El Gigante looks like he just wrestled Shawn Michaels in an iron man match, as he walks around for someone to beat up." 😂 Maybe it's just my man's smooth delivery 😎

[@austinsmith7731]

Nothin I love more than getting off work and seeing a Wrestling Bios vid in my sub box

[@Thor-Orion]

NO RYAN! NOT YOU TOO! I love you so much, I’ll forgive the Raid schilling, but only because your promo for it was very funny. They usually don’t allow creators to alter their copy at all, I’m glad you were allowed to.

[@johndean8214]

Out of all of the wrestlers in that match, Abdullah The Butcher was the only one that didn't go to wwf/wwe to wrestle under the same name, or a different name.

[@hiimbarryscott3763]

"Diamond studd/tried to put" That one's fire tbf

[@jayparker9225]

I just wanna say I been away for a bit and I just see all your new content to catch up with.. fantastic work you do.thank you for bringing my childhood memories all back!🇬🇧

[@jesterr7133]

I love it. "So...they just completely fuckin changed the rules." lmfao

[@tafua_a]

"I've changed the rules, you gotta fry your opponent now!"

[@frankez1975]

Bios, I stopped watching wrestling in 1990…..your (and your team’s) videos have reignited memories that I thought were lost forever. Thanks!

[@taffysaur]

“At least there were explosions.” That kinda makes it look MORE fake, lol. I am no expert, but one has to imagine that electric chairs are designed NOT to explode.

[@christopherharte4741]

I was 12 when i first saw it. As a kid i actually enjoyed it and had fond memories of that ppv, then i got older and rewatched it, yeah it was terrible, but as a kid, it was fun to watch

[@thomascreech1696]

How is Oz not Kevin Nash? Seriously, that's the same person, right?! I was convinced until I saw him up on dudes shoulders like that. No one's carrying Kevin Nash that casually lol

[@0ldFrittenfett]

It is Kevin Nash. And the guy who has him in the torture rack was Bill Kazmaier, a legit world strongest man.

[@mr83]

Oz tore a quad reading this comment

[@tomsimmons7673]

💩 booking. Nash was just breaking into the biz.

[@thomascreech1696]

@OldFrittenfett you know what? I knew all that, but my eyes were tricking my brain. He just doesn't look anywhere near 7ft right there. Thanks for confirming.

[@lordrosemount]

In hindsight it was a good decision to take that Oz guy out of the match and job him on the undercard. I can't see him getting anywhere in WCW.

[@veka114]

Yeah if that guy stayed longer in the company he probably would ruin it to the ground.

[@austinsimmons4393]

Thanks so much for this! You are by far my absolute favorite KZbin guy!!! 👍🏽

[@greyjedi6430]

I really hope u mean that

[@MrMrMrprofessor]

I only started watching wrestling last summer in 2022 when my friend introduced me to AEW. As someone who is unfamiliar with a lot of wrestling history, I LOVE your videos. They are so informative and entertaining.

[@mr.x9566]

One of those gravestones reads "MINN TWINS 1991". The 1991 baseball World Series was contested between the Minnesota Twins and the (Ted Turner owned) Atlanta Braves between October 19th-27th 1991 with Minnesota eventually winning 4-3 on October 27th - the same date as this event. Another one of those gravestones make reference to WCW Producer Keith Mitchell and (then) WWF Producer Kevin Dunn - "Here lies Keith, his friends called him Kevin".

[@philipdefibaugh5683]

I always thought it was a reference to Kevin Sullivan since he worked backstage back then, but the WWF Kevin Dunn jab makes more sense.

[@S.T.A.N.D_inspirational]

The music played as they entered was really cool, Rick's tights were designed very cool for this

[@rogueprince1341]

Man old school Scott Steiner and Scott Hall what have been one Hell of a match.

[@badbabybear1]

Mom, can we get Wargames? Mom: We have Wargames at home Wargames at home:

[@zeokin9531]

The unique match type videos are my favorite. Keep them coming

[@JunkYardCardGuy]

Having talents like Sting and Vader in an 8 man steel cage event "should" have been a no-brain hit...what a train wreck.

[@sparks2spare782]

I remember feeling a bit of embarrassment for begging my parents for this PPV. 😳

[@SkepticalMantisCHANNEL10]

😆😆😆

[@kidneystonermusic]

First ppv I ever got as a kid! Even at 5 years old I was confused as to why Windham was supposed to be on the heel team. Still I watched this on VHS more than any other show other than probably Mania 8. Great video, man

[@rush437]

i was around 10 when this happened. i thought this match was cool as hell when i was a kid. always thought it should have been the main event not the opener

[@nathanshaffer5105]

That ref vs the switch was funny but the poor guy getting his glasses kicked that cracked me up.

[@itsjohniley]

This was the first WCW PPV match I ever saw, I bought the VHS (which had some matches cut for time I've come to find out) not having any clue of what to expect. The match did seem to promise a lot, but delivered very little!

[@BoereViking]

Imagine Cody revamping this for AEW to show his dads true vision...

[@martynodonnell8467]

Another awesome upload from the greatest wrestling channel on the planet! I picked up this PPV on VHS from a car boot sale. Years ago, it was the first WCW PPV I watched and the first non WWF event I had watched. Although it was a complete train wreck. I enjoyed it. I Watched it back in the day when I was transitioning from thinking it was all real, before the days of the internet and everything being at the touch of a button.

[@hollywoodtre6098]

Abdullah falling over at the end was the best part of it all

[@danielainger8666]

Chambers of horror match is possibly the most WCW thing ever.

[@asbestoslung3109]

Mad nostalgia for this. Had it on VHS back in the day.

[@philipdefibaugh5683]

I now have this on VHS (The actual PPV version) , a friend gave it to me, I just need a working VCR to play it on.

[@GoddesseyCreations]

Tbh, I would've LOVE to see what Rick Steiner would've done if that chainsaw had started up😂😂😂😂

[@robcinq5956]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rel8edgamerz445]

Great video I love all your content if it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t have came back to wrestling 🤼‍♀️ and wrestling was life as a kid thanks fam

[@baronvonsvengoonie1767]

Is it the same person leaving this kind of comment? Like you just obviously stating Universal facts for all of us it's not up to opinion discussion or debate is when you down with wrestling bios your down4 life ..... and that's too sweet!!!!!!!

[@olalesio9260]

I have the exact same sentiments

[@nekkbone4634]

I agree totally..your videos brought me back to a passion of long ago .. awesome

[@ghsrandy]

Real Rap Raw.

[@whodat8902]

I thought I watched more wrestling as a kid than I did. I loved the stuff, but just didn't watch much tv. This has really filled in the gaps. It's interesting to see how much my point of view has changed. More into in ring action now. As a kid my favorites were Warrior or Jim Duggan. A good gimmick was more important. As an adult, I can appreciate guys like arn Anderson so much more.

[@tripleh327]

Bishoff described it as a teacher trying to give a somewhat neutral evaluation about the child that keep eating glue and sticking pencils inside his nose

[@jaybee5315]

“Atleast there’s an explosion” nice dig on AEW 😅

[@stevengilley5107]

Thank you for the work you put into these

[@kiprandom7208]

Same cage type used in the Thunder Dome match. That was Flair & Sting vs Great Muta & Funk.

[@jamesbounds]

I wouldn't be surprised if Vince brought this match back. He brought the Punjambi Prison match back.

[@jmalb42]

Whats amazing is that this Horrors match is so...well...horrible, that the fact that The Dangerous Alliance started at this PPV gets forgotten about!

[@jeremyyoung5708]

Saw a few posts mentioning some shared thoughts by us... ( us as in your adoring, ever waiting ever wanting fans) but would just like to say that i love content....good luck on your terrific series reliving the war.... Its bloody diabolical mate

[@johndean8214]

So Sting invented the coffin drop in this match before Darby Allin was even born.

[@cxgrosskreutz7213]

You got it all wrong. When the Lever is turning to ON, it means "you can sit on the Chair,, no Problem". When somebody switches it that means "Better get off the Chair now or you going to get electrocuted."

[@TheFriendlyWeirdo]

Rick Steiner vs Vader would’ve made an awesome singles program.

[@Stable_Genius]

Foley takes a sick top rope DDT from the Steiners but can't properly sell the move due to the lowering of the chair. Lol

[@ninjavigilante5311]

This was funny asf good job my guy lol.

[@fredfuchs7525]

I defeated Shadow Legends by throwing my phone against the wall

[@supremeasiaticallah2303]

I was traumatized seeing Abdullah The Butcher in that electric chair, I thought he was dead.

[@JM1993951]

Abdullah: You get hepatitis, and you get hepatitis, and you get hepatitis.

[@tafua_a]

"You get hep c, and you get hep c, and you get hep c! Everyone gets hep c!"

[@grahambarlow9415]

OH YES!!! This was being promoted when I first started watching WCW, late night on ITV! Oh Happy times! Absolutely love 91-92 WCW! LOVE IT!

[@valentinnanchev5596]

I just love that type of matches that happened once This is why i love this one

[@TaliaIGhul]

I lol'd through mostly this whole video, especially the part where the ref was holding up the switch.

[@brucewhite360]

@WrestlingBios and Jim Cornette have brought back my love for Pro - Wrestling

[@GLJosh]

Come on AEW, its part of Dusty's legacy. Actually this would have been perfect for the Cinematic Era of Wrestling.

[@alexklinov6653]

This was a good match. I loved it. Elegante, Abdullah, Cactus Jack, Vader. Bring smile. Remembering matches Elegante getting destroy by Vader. And who can forget Cactus Jack with Abdullah the Bucher. Classic. Thank you! another great upload.

[@HulkHands54]

*El Gigante

[@summer-np6fx]

Another home run! Thank you!

[@nuduce123]

I've been out of town for a while so now I get the treat of binge watching 2 weeks worth of content. I am excited for all of this content. Keep up the great work. Best and most unique wrestling channel. The rest are just copycats of each other.

[@panelvixen]

Now if only we can get an Exploding Ring match to splode like that. Someone call Megumin.

[@Drummer8282]

This seems like something from Vince Russos 2001 WCW. So perhaps when WCW peaked in ‘98, it actually reverted back to early 90’s WCW.

[@rustykuntz94]

Actually it will be 30 year anniversarry coming up

[@onehitterquitter2130]

The whole production cost $20.75 😏

[@SNOwyte]

Its the way sting lobs the coffin lid in the air...makes me laugh as well

[@nebraskajoenelson8987]

1. OSW 2. Wrestling bios 3a. Simon Miller 3b. Oli Davis

[@KAZ3EM]

In this match we got the outsiders alpha version (planned before the changes) as a blond wizard and a diamond fanatic! Who had thaught at that time, that these to guys with this kind of gimmicks would have a decent career push at wwf, and come back to change WCW and the whole landscape of the wrestling buisness years later?! If I were there with a time maschine and would tell them what I know since today about the buisness they would laugh and think I'm on drugs or something. Men.......who had thought at that time!!!???!!!

[@MCWFanatic]

I loved this as a kid but now...oh boy, it just makes me laugh out loud!

[@VC11122]

Another great video man, always love your videos and you have such a great way of explaining things in both an informative and entertaining way. This match always makes me laugh, especially when I see that finish.

[@travisprice1325]

Paul E Dangerously is really working that weird ass mullet

[@Cameron_611]

Chambers of Horrors should've been the main event (I'm not joking).

[@PigeonHoledByYT]

From the roster, before and after the changes, it looks like WCW was the one who took over WWF. Hall, Nash, Foley, Jim Ross, Paul Heyman

[@archer8814]

3:23 starts

[@cheeseslice9993]

Wrestling Bios and OSW Review 4 life 🔥

[@jeremywilliams5141]

I have the utmost respect for The American Dream. But I don't know what he was thinking with this concept.

[@anthonychobotdoespopcultur7762]

Awesome content

[@lucky-sz4eq]

Keep them coming.

[@dontbesuchamorty]

The instrument of terror was a double neck guitar. Brother.