WCW Blunder - Trash Gimmick Matches

[@tmage23]

Wrestling Bios On A Pole Match

[@17thN.O]

In a New York Rules match, bro.

[@pressplayulysses]

There's also a swerve, bro.

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

Now I am hearing American Males in reverse in my head

[@Mo-kh9bw]

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[@Mo-kh9bw]

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[@kyleolson8977]

The Problems with WCW Gimmick Matches: They did not get everyone on the same page about the rules (or somebody changed the rules, brother). They didn't verify if the matches would function properly within the laws of physics. They didn't verify if the matches would hurt the wrestlers thanks to the laws of physics They didn't verify if the wrestlers/celebrities belonged in this kind of match They didn't verify if the audience could see/follow the match. Gimmicks were booked all the time, without warning or reason, to the point they were diluted The matches were overbooked in ways that made the gimmicks pointless

[@21stcenturyrambo16]

>They did not get everyone on the same page about the rules (or somebody changed the rules, brother). Or maybe not

[@skrounst]

Did they have a house show loop? I don't understand why they didnt test some of these in front of a live crowd: A, to see their reaction. and B, to make sure the gimmick even worked (like you said, the laws of physics doesnt care how good your imagination is).

[@alextaylor3015]

Jim Duggan in that martial arts match looks like the big loveably oafish American fighter in Bloodsport that befriends JCVD.

[@TheGraveyShow]

This.

[@SpiritSoaring13]

That's Jackson! But luckily JCVD only called Jackson brother until after j Jackson almost died. Everytime that's been done early, the brother don't make it! Well, off to a bar in Thailand I go!

[@mariogallego5513]

OK USA!

[@theelite9954]

He ain't your pal dickface

[@RemoWilliams1227]

​@@mariogallego5513😂 beat me to it. He also played Ogre in Revenge of the Nerds.

[@WWChampion16]

Catch-As-Catch-Can match turned out to be Dean's final WCW match before leaving for the WWF.

[@mattphoenix4702]

He was SO underutilised EVERYWHERE he worked. At least his impact on the industry as a whole will be remembered a lot longer than his runs as an active wrestler. Still a shame he never got his moment to shine though, Eddie’s moment in the Sun is still one of my favorite “feel good” moments in wrestling

[@djdarq6311]

@@mattphoenix4702he couldn’t talk so he had a clear ceiling

[@MGPW]

I can't blame Malenko for forgetting the rules of the match, given it's WCW and nobody could keep track of what was going on there.

[@stingrey1571]

This is very reminiscent of the bill watts era of wcw. When he banned top rope moves, wrestlers and referees would forget the rules at times.

[@lukelee7967]

I couldn't either, but I doubt he did forget the rules. He likely was never even told them.

[@SensiofRabbitude]

Daffney could apparently. She told the story of trying to get into WCW and them being shocked that she'd followed and understood most of the storylines that even they'd lost track of and were confused by.

[@djdarq6311]

@@SensiofRabbitudeDaffney was an actual fan. A lot of these guys, like Nash, were only ever in it for the money.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

Speaking of rules...what became pro wrestling started out as legitimate catch-as-catch-can wrestling. In other words _every_ pro wrestling match is already a worked catch bout.

[@AlexGilmour]

Have heard it suggested Malenko only ‘forgot’ because he had a foot out the door and didn’t want to risk an inopportune injury

[@TheSBleeder]

I wouldn't be surprised... and if that's true I don't blame him.

[@TheBat1992]

At least wcw gave us some good laugh out loud and blunder material which makes it amazing through this laugh out loud series

[@StageRight123]

2:02 LMAO... Shane Douglas laughing while being a pallbearer. Totally fitting attitude for the moment.

[@mikeharless4596]

"A blunder point for STILL confusing fans 25 years later" 😂😂😂 absolutely masterful, sir

[@stingrey1571]

The nitro gauntlet was hilarious as these were supposed to be unproven rookies. Yet you have John freaking tenta

[@RealTomHanx]

I just glanced at the cover and thought, "oh, Cornette finally got him."

[@ennbee2051]

(Sigh) As usual Bruce, you are right. Although I hate to admit it because I just wanna fight.

[@kidwaryodproduction]

Shamed that anyone who joined WCW on that time would be brand as a joke in wrestling scene. If Jim joined WCW instead of Russo, Anyone would make fun of him to this day.

[@williamsmith666]

If Corny DID get his hands on him, he'd be in a body bag, not a neck brace

[@mattc060793]

Cornette vs Russo booked would draw, BRO! 😂

[@Mecha82]

@@williamsmith666 lol Corny is big nerd with anger issues.

[@toptenguy1]

That electric cage match had INSANE present and future star power.

[@justbuggin67]

Thank you Wrestling Bios for your sacrifice and suffering through this. I salute you 🫡

[@JayCord00]

Sacrifice? Thats pure comedy gold bud😂

[@justbuggin67]

@@JayCord00 watching anything with Vince Russo is a time sacrifice.

[@Wandering_Nowhere]

Bios is the MVP of KZbin wrestling content.

[@skrounst]

You may have watched The Doomsday Cage Match more than anyone in the history of earth. That match is almost 30 minutes, and feels like 50. I watched it once, and I dont remember seeing a SINGLE move. So I applaud your commitment to your job sir!

[@UnOfficialAP]

Good lord, what a Blunderstorm

[@pollorican787]

Finally got my power Wi-Fi and phone service back up due to hurricane Helene I’m behind on RTW!

[@Chichimee]

Wow good luck

[@BlackslooklikeHarambe]

You were in the dark 😂😂😂

[@LostChrisB]

David Flair in a ring match.

[@yourboyken7871]

The Uncensored 99 match was crazy but kinda felt like finally Hogan gets screwed over....too little too late.

[@TheJaguar1983]

21:51 Hearing Brian Zane singing "And pushin', and pushin'..."

[@CatVisionTM]

The double blockbuster did look badass though

[@UfodexENMD]

I'm telling you bro when Wrestling Bios uploads a video it's a great day bro!

[@LeftyStegman]

It makes my week bro

[@pac4life88]

Bro..

[@deadafchannelkden]

I SWEAH TA GAHD BRO

[@GlobalWarmingSkeptic]

That definitely works for me, brother.

[@zlinedavid]

Bro….listen…..bro…..what you don’t undahhhhhstand…..about ress-a-ling….

[@blkmamba31]

Tony Schiavone looks like Dr. James Wilson from “House”

[@btbucks]

And we’ll put it in a pole bro!

[@paperplanez104]

Or maybe we won't brother

[@deconstruction.]

get swerved bro.

[@paperplanez104]

@@deconstruction. Get swerved jack

[@Masterofxtreme93]

"blunder point for raising the dead live on PPV" LMAO

[@jerrymarshall5965]

A Tuesday wrestling bios upload let’s f$ckn go

[@iamdb1990]

there needs to be another video for non gimmick matches that were overbooked (which was kind of a WCW gimmick in itself)

[@johnnydropkicks]

I’m surprised that WCW never had a "NASCAR Oval of Doom” match.

[@zlinedavid]

@DaleEarnshark3 Still an improvement over the current “playoff” system. Also, props on calling it the Winston Cup…❤️

[@THEhorihito]

If Vince Russo grew up in the south, it may have been a reality.

[@evrbody]

Don't forget that several minutes of the Doomsday Cage Match involved Hulk Hogan beating up Kevin Sullivan on the outside of the supposedly inescapable cage.

[@brianjmz]

8:43 that's the look of a man who's had peas b'foe

[@risboturbide9396]

next WCW Blunder episode: Van Hammer. His whole career, please.

[@roberttaylor7032]

Far out.... 😅

[@zlinedavid]

@@risboturbide9396 You mean Major “Don’t Call Me Private” Stash?

[@BainesMkII]

It's easy to forget just how confused and confusing WCW could get. I'd seen the match, and still entirely forgot that a busted-open Flair won a First Blood match by 3-count pinfall with a submission hold.

[@becauseidontcare]

And don't forget it was for the title AND Presidency of the World (Championship Wrestling) 😂

[@theunorthodoxecclesia]

So your saying Jim Duggan looked like donald gibb from bloodsport

[@Ocram_sokart]

NERDS!!!!!

[@blkmamba31]

Hurricane Milton is getting ready to hit Tampa. I know the Hulkster is on all of our minds at this moment………. BROTHER!!!!!

[@blackfoxx86]

I'm ready for Milton. It's Kick or be Kick'n

[@blkmamba31]

@@blackfoxx86😂😂

[@criminalmindsgirl2936]

He's on your mind. Nobody cares about him

[@justbuggin67]

The Mike Awesome casket scene wasn’t a blunder, it was a swerve bro

[@JasonNapier-v3x]

All of them laughing carrying the coffin 😂🤣

[@kamenanew9867]

That was great

[@nick0potamus]

12:20 the double blockbuster was pretty great.

[@Jerry-zc5qt]

In 2024 wwe could do a cinema style match with someone using their iPhone to record the action. The end result would still be way better than anything wcw ever did

[@charliejames1981]

You gotta admit ... When crazy things happen in wrestling I'm sure WCW is the first to come to mind lmao

[@chubbycatfish4573]

Malenko's botch by rolling out and losing the match was his last appearance in WCW, too.

[@TheGraveyShow]

The amount of content you pump out is impressive. What a pittance!

[@CragDoll]

uploaded 4 seconds ago! perfect timing! :D

[@lukelee7967]

(Starts singing) "He's a man called Meng!" I know what you're thinking, that's Sting's theme song. But if you want to tell me, don't. Go tell that to Meng.

[@BetaHouseRocker]

Funny. Brian Zane actually does that bit when reviewing classic WCW Pay-Per-Views and reviews a Meng match from it. You deserve a like.

[@kerpal321]

Vince Russo turned Mike Awesome into That 70s Guy, I just can’t get over it

[@zlinedavid]

Even taking the WCW “old guard” out, Russ-bro was handed Bret, Goldberg, Awesome, Benoit, Malenko, Eddie, Saturn, Booker, Steiner, Konnan, Rey, Lance Storm, Jarrett…and more, and couldn’t make a coherent program out of it.

[@NightVisionPhantom]

Always feels weird seeing Jim Ross and Tony Schiavone together before they were rivals, so to speak during the Attitude Era.

[@Rob-rx3jw]

You can't give Demon and Vampiro a Blunder point for that. This was WAY AHEAD of its time. WWE can thank this for the cinematic match type.

[@chainsawhijinx4039]

I appreciate the Dan theme from Street Fighter Alpha 3 being featured. That's my personal favorite fighting game 😁

[@pleaseshutup7053]

Hhaha interesting choice

[@backup368]

Luther Reigns was one of the Piper tryout people.

[@joelma1109]

My goodness catch -as-catch-match is my favorite blunder moment with Dean legitimately forgetting about the rules, can’t stop laughing at that moment lol

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

When pro wrestling was a legitimate competition it was catch-as-catch wrestling. In other words _every_ pro wrestling match is already a worked catch bout. Catch wrestling was essentially what's called "submission grappling" now (basically MMA without the striking).

[@MidTennPews]

"That doesn't work for me, brother" on a pole match.

[@CodyDempsey-i4z]

Kanyon calling Judy Bagwell " an old battle ax" will always be funny 😅😂😂.

[@zlinedavid]

@@CodyDempsey-i4z Hearing Steiner call her an old scallywag was better. 😂

[@CodyDempsey-i4z]

@@zlinedavid I forgot about that one 😂.

[@zlinedavid]

@@CodyDempsey-i4z Understandable. Steiner on the mic during that era was spouting out legendary remarks every week it seemed.

[@CodyDempsey-i4z]

@zlinedavid definitely. And don't forget his famous " Steiner Math" promo in TNA. Absolutely brilliant.

[@elec8101]

Heihachi's theme during the Chamber of Horros segment. Nice.

[@Mr_Tocs]

In terms of Gimmick Matches in WCW, I always remember the Thunderdome Cage Match between Funk/Muta and Sting/Flair. All the hype about the electrified top of the cage, then part of the cage gets set on fire BEFORE the match starts and Muta has to mist the fire just to put it out. I know they tried to play off the electrified cage gimmick later in the match, but it makes me think TNA was watching this match when they thought of THEIR Electrified Cage Match in 2007

[@ctwwtc8761]

Vic Venom approves bro

[@Venemofthe888]

it feels like when wcw tried to do a double stipulation match that one of those stipulations is thrown out of the window immediately lol

[@adcooper9881]

Because Russo is on the thumbnail I read it as gimmick matches from hell bro. Lol

[@DannieGemz]

The thing with the Charles Robinson moment was actually part of a crooked story line, he was Ric Flairs personal referee.

[@Datenshidelenfer]

Fun fact about the Term Catch: we still use it in france to talk about pro wrestling while amateur is called "lutte"

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

That makes sense because what evolved into pro wrestling started out as a legitimate catch-as-catch-can wrestling. It was a combination of various kinds of American and British folk wrestling, Irish collar-and-elbow, and pehlwani wrestling from India. Over time the wrestlers realized by "working" the matches they could increase the audience's interest. When wrestling was added to the 1904 Olympics all the submission moves were banned and that new sport was called "freestyle wrestling". "Catch wrestling" was basically what's called "submission grappling" today. Essentially it's MMA without the striking.

[@gordonirvine726]

Very engaging. Watched the whole lot. love your outlook.

[@UptownDv3]

This my favorite series 😭😭😭😭 Russo was clueless man

[@2LlamasENT]

@3:41 No "Arn with an Iron" Blunder point #6

[@DMForever1]

I can never forgive Russo for that Oklahoma gimmick. Imbecile

[@anthonyturner6399]

Like if anything you have so much material on Jerry the King that it’s despicable he chose to go after JR’s medical condition. Like just have a fat over weight dictator that’s a perv on your show with a nepotism kid wrestling and it’s 100x funnier then anything Russo did in his era.

[@criminalmindsgirl2936]

true about JR. But as for Jerry, he never went to jail because his so called victim recanted her story. She publicly admitted to lying about the assault. It's literally online

[@CNYKnifeNut]

​@@criminalmindsgirl2936 When "it's literally online" is your big own, you may wanna look into things a bit further.

[@darthnowlan]

Did she admit publicly to lying?

[@anthonyturner6399]

@@criminalmindsgirl2936 Bruh it doesn’t matter how if he sexually assaulted a woman, did you not hear his commentary back in the day? Bro would sexually harass women on commentary and be a perv that way. Charges or not the dude was a pervert and Vince Russo knows more about it than everyone in this comment section combined. Plus that woulda aged real well I promise you that.

[@jasonlee3759]

I think it’s about the time where there’s gonna have to be some ‘Mufug Dojo’ Tees!!!!🎉

[@nazoyaoi6123]

The ironic thing about Uncensored 1999 was that I was there. Good show, despite the finish to said First Blood Cage Match.

[@WrestlingBios]

That is incredibly ironic

[@Adam-kn3tv]

Is your name Alanis?

[@nazoyaoi6123]

@@Adam-kn3tv No.

[@darthnowlan]

Next WCW Blunder episode should be on Jim Herd's time running WCW. And you could have added a blunder point for the Halloween Havoc match for the terrible debut of the Yet-Tay!

[@becauseidontcare]

4:38 All the replacement issues reminds me of some MyGM power card type stuff

[@alonfizi4213]

I think the concept of a tringle cage on top of each other is good, the question is simply how to carry it out because it is doable

[@djdarq6311]

The real concession stand brawl in Tulupo was great

[@JackMcSomeone]

WWE actually released a DVD set of the War Games matches in 2013 and they included War Games 2000. So I would assume that WG2000 is officially canon in the War Games timeline

[@retepoteil]

God this is gonna be good

[@letsgetgaming2429]

Let's go another WCW Blunder video, one of my favourite if not favourite series aside from Reliving The War of course❤❤

[@skidmo]

Wresting Bios on a pole match.

[@thomascrowley9122]

Wrestling Bios Mom on a pole match

[@JayCord00]

Comedy gold, younger it was frustrating seeing wcw collapse so badly but being older, i find it so funny and amusing looking back at it😂

[@TalesOfBrandino]

I'm so glad that the Sumo Truck match made the list. So sad that the San Fransisco 49ers match didn't make the list lol

[@laurenced2916]

John Cena winning anything gets a blunder point

[@kaycee8948]

6:02 "How stupid do you have to be?" Lmaooo

[@raphaelforkel7759]

"Hey what is my new ring name?" "The Final Solution." "Oh ok." Music for this feel?

[@DebitAdams]

Obviously Kanyon got the forklift from his construction worker gimmick.

[@jakeharrison7196]

More pole matches than you can shake a pole at

[@Jerry-zc5qt]

I know the outcome of the doomsday cage match was yet another example of Hogan politics. It not only made the corny and goofy dungeon of doom look worse than they already did but it basically took way the credibility of Ric Flair and Arn Anderson. In the second half of the 80s Flair Anderson and the 2 other Horsemen ran roughshod over Jim Crockett promotions. Then Flair Anderson and I think 7 partners couldn't take the past their primes Hogan and Savage

[@LuisHGarcia]

8:42 - Extra Blunder point for C-show talent Horshu AKA the future Luther Reigns in WWE.

[@Sougamwthmana]

Unfair and messy blunder point rankings is pretty on brand for this video series though

[@Debrody1]

OMG imagine Ross vs. Oklahoma in a Vigra on a pole match. That is as awesome as the time Kamala desceded from the rafters for an iron man match against Vader.

[@Leloup6760]

Hell Yeah! W-Bios bringing the top tier dinnertime entertainment!

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

21:35 *Insert Brian Zane's song about this match*

[@uncleben8012]

New york rules match baby!

[@babauranai]

My first wcw ppv was war games triple cage when nash and russo won

[@18t32]

Did you enjoy it

[@BetaHouseRocker]

Wasn't a pay-per-view. Just a random Nitro. What's messed up is the babyfaces had "qualifying matches" throughout the damn show. It was absolutely dumb, and commentary did the match no favors either.

[@theLeomega]

I feel I would have turned WCW around if I had the book

[@Jerry-zc5qt]

In your entry on the chamber of horrors match. The most Ludacris part of the matches you had to win by strapping your opponent in an electric chair. Who in their right mind would sit still while someone is strapping them in an electric wheelchair? At least in ladder matches you get the illusion that someone is legitimately incapacitated so their opponent can get up the ladder. In the chamber of horrors match if memory serves me correctly Abdullah the butcher looked like he was conscious while getting strapped in

[@kidneystonermusic]

He was but Rick Steiner kind of belly to belly suplexed him into the chair, so he was selling instead of just standing up

[@stuffingtonjfluffypantsiii]

My head cannon is Malenko didn't botch when he left the ring. He said "F this stupi s**t and nopped out of the match

[@zlinedavid]

@@stuffingtonjfluffypantsiii That’s probably 100% accurate.

[@frankez99]

Every time I see fireworks 💥 or sparks ⚡️ used at an indoor event I think of that nightclub fire 🔥 at that Great White concert in Rhode Island.

[@bigjoeofthe707]

9:55 and left John Tenta pissed offhand looking for Arn Anderson.

[@e93sports80]

Nice video brother!

[@joshuacampbell289]

Kidman was fu**ing pissed after that DQ win vs Malenko

[@greenkoopa]

Ed Fereira was trash for doing Oklahoma

[@darthnowlan]

Cornette actually hit him.

[@greenkoopa]

@@darthnowlan earned

[@shaneramey]

Duggan was straight up Ray Jackson from Bloodsport in his match against Meng.

[@nisfinest1]

Do you remember c.99 Worldwide's Batman-esque captions on Channel 5? e.g. KAPOW! and SPLAT! during matches?

[@ollieduracell]

Trainwreck after trainwreck

[@nikeok3298]

22:32 I'm ashamed of you. Erick Bishoff literally resurrected this man, and you said that it's a blunder?