That one guy: Viscera needs a title push. Everyone who watched WWF in 1995: How about no?

Upset that Stone Cold isn't actually drunk during matches? Enter Sandman

@blade8989

5 жыл бұрын

The 1flym underrated comment

@twiztid571

5 жыл бұрын

does a fucking match on fucking acid! what a legend

@MN_2003

5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@markmitchell3689

5 жыл бұрын

That one time when Foley had to actually beat the crap out of Sandman just to get an actual 3 count cause he kept getting up😂

@christianhafer9819

5 жыл бұрын

I love Metallica.

Wow. I can only imagine the research and hard work that went into making this video. Whoever did all that hard work, my hats of to you. Great video.

@crb6468

5 жыл бұрын

R69NiX they deserve a pay rise

#9 I remember this. The transformation from beer drinking tag team wrestler Bradshaw to WWE Champion JBL in 2-3 months was A LOT for fans to take in.

@dukes1993724

5 жыл бұрын

Cae Ert It was the Jinder Mahal transformation 14 years early

@jey4908

5 жыл бұрын

It was, but I adjusted quickly. JBL was a great heel.. he's the only heel I really hated lol. My problem with the character was that he became champion too soon and was booked to be too weak when he became one. He never had a clean win in any of his title defenses. Also... the rivalry with Eddie should've continued.

@caeert2962

5 жыл бұрын

@@jey4908 I liked JBL too, he grew well into his main event role. Still, I had to go through a lot of mental gymnastics at first to accept it though.

@998576999

5 жыл бұрын

..............Jinder Mahal.

@MephProduction

5 жыл бұрын

not really, as it was just an evolution of the same character and not a completely new one.

12 year old me was really confused when the WWF logo at the bottom of the screen just became WW.

@iamjobu6101

5 жыл бұрын

The Get the F out commercials helped me out

@ComicBookGuy420

5 жыл бұрын

@@iamjobu6101 you got in first

@HossBonaventureCEO

5 жыл бұрын

@@iamjobu6101 I had a strict 9:30pm bedtime so I didn't get to see the "Get the F Out" commercial until the day after when I watched it on tape. I couldn't ask my friends about it either because they all watched WCW. I was in suspense all day. LMFAO

@iamjobu6101

5 жыл бұрын

@@HossBonaventureCEO lol that's rough man

@trex8682

5 жыл бұрын

@@HossBonaventureCEO WWF had already bought WCW before WWF became WWE.

I'm surprised Christian going to tna wasn't on the list or the ecw reboot

@jayvionwilliams4061

5 жыл бұрын

Jamal Vargas ecw reboot was shit.

@lpmorgan90

5 жыл бұрын

Because neither of these were "early internet"

the WCW sign they show at 5:22 is my sign from monday night raw in tacoma dome =D, was so hyped to see it lol!

@BerryBlack9300

5 жыл бұрын

Lol right🤣🤣🤣

@mattsmoo58

5 жыл бұрын

@@BerryBlack9300 What's so funny? He seems pretty truthful about that. Who would lie about a sign? That would be stupid to lie about.

@middleschooler5652

5 жыл бұрын

What are the chances all these years later u see this video as see ur sign

@BENNY_MAC

4 жыл бұрын

Steve that's so cool! Must have tripped you out seeing that years later.

@inthemosthighwetrust7773

4 жыл бұрын

@@BerryBlack9300 yo people like u stay hating like he doesn't have the ability to go to a wrestling event with a sign he was randomly choosen by the camera man and what he gotta lie for

Simon is the only person that hosts interesting videos on this channel. Thank you Simon for being the only reason I don't unsubscribe

@kimneel8429

5 жыл бұрын

OhighO Skater Jules is better in my opinion.

@alejandronunez1114

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@dustyjarvis464

5 жыл бұрын

Ditto

@iorilamia

5 жыл бұрын

Why don’t you marry him

@OhighOSkater

5 жыл бұрын

@iorilamia I asked and he said no. I asked why and he slapped his head, snapped his fingers and said here's why. I was devastated

'I saw Max Mini trying to commit suicide the other day....by jumping off a curb.' ....one of Kings old 'gems'...

@jasonrunion614

3 жыл бұрын

Lawler had a lot of corny jokes but his whole shtick about Bret Hart's parents was comedy gold

Congratulations Simon you have realised a number of people's absolute worst nightmares. _Digging up posts and airing them publicly they made nearly 20 years ago._ But real talk, it as as people say, the more things change the more they stay the same. Wrestling will always have its natural ups and downs and there will always be the people who are never satisfied!

@truindividual

5 жыл бұрын

indeed. Wrestling message boards are a very scary place.

The JBL days are considered "early" internet? Damn I'm old

@AntonXul

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I thought the same thing when JBL’s name was mentioned. I hadn’t realized how long ago that was.

Man I remember these. Really glad I use a different screenname now than I did during my early internet smark days.

Billy Kidman had one of the best entrance music

@RahubaatNeteru

5 жыл бұрын

Kidman had the best Shooting Star Press and still does...

@neilmcfarlane5050

5 жыл бұрын

Had a darling of a girlfriend too

@jessexmartinez1332

5 жыл бұрын

He had a horrible shooting star press. Paul London and Matt Sydal on the other hand...

@XTesT15X

5 жыл бұрын

You can run if you want to...

@TheSBleeder

5 жыл бұрын

@@RahubaatNeteru Ask Chavo Guerrero if Kidman had the best shooting star press.

Do people really think the Vince would allow Stone Cold to drink actual beer and risk critically injuring someone? Please.

@igottwopeepees

5 жыл бұрын

In the 90s? Yea, sadly.

@CamaroAmx

4 жыл бұрын

That’s why he A: spilled most of it and B: drank a majority of the time after the matches.

@horrorfan4-life689

4 жыл бұрын

He drank after the matches.

Yeah a Sierra Nevada torpedo IPA doesnt quite scream working class hero, brilliant beer though

Boy when he said that jbl won his title 15 years ago it just hit me how time flies by. It feels like it happened not too long ago. I guess because I have watched wrestling in about 12-13 yrs

Didn't the name change to WWE occur mainly because of a lawsuit win by the World Wildlife Fund?

God, I was a Viscera fan myself back in the day, but to suggest he was _WWE Champion_ caliber is absolutely ridiculous; I think even 2006 me would've laughed at that guy.

@barry1185

5 жыл бұрын

Great Khali was a champ then.

@rabasi8330

5 жыл бұрын

Viscera was ECW champion at best.

@mcj88

5 жыл бұрын

@Rodycaz low effort troll, try harder next time

@rabasi8330

5 жыл бұрын

@Rodycaz No.

@bradleydolphin1049

5 жыл бұрын

They tried him chasing the title in 1995 amd look how bad that was

I haven't heard the name "Billy Kidman" in yearrrrrrrrrsssss lol.

And now we've got crackpot theories like Roman Reigns faked his leukemia or Brock Lesnar's UFC matches were scripted

@JDeppFan2272

5 жыл бұрын

Man, I hope no one would fake leukemia just to get over in wrestling, lol.(Never mind that it actually worked, and he is finally getting cheered) It just seems like a really low thing to do.

@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663

5 жыл бұрын

@@JDeppFan2272 The WWE faked the whole Big Show's dad having cancer in the late 90's...

@Blackwolfninja89

5 жыл бұрын

@@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663 yeah but with the way the company is now, they would lose partnerships

@samlongden834

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not happy that you think that Joe would never do anything like that

@samlongden834

5 жыл бұрын

My comment in relation to r r commentt

Lite/light beer isn't called light because it has a lower %, it's because it has lower calories. Bud lite, Coors light etc are all beers that have above 4% which is normal for lagers.

@berniebasset9465

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe in the US where you drink weak beer.

@killan001

5 жыл бұрын

They just add a bit of water to it.

@jackbutton169

5 жыл бұрын

@@berniebasset9465 I'm from the UK, most UK Lagers have between 3.9% and 5%

@Streez-00

5 жыл бұрын

If you drink light beer why drink at all

@blackwingdragonmasta

5 жыл бұрын

If you want to drink why drink beer in the first place? It's weaker and worse tasting than literally any other alcoholic beverage every

Those Torpedo IPA's are really good!

This channel sure loves bringing up that Triple H/Booker T storyline from 03. Its almost up there with Meanie getting bashed!

@zenos02

5 жыл бұрын

Or The Montreal Screwjob

@magicalace27

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah along with katie vick,montreal screwjob

@jaredglickman299

5 жыл бұрын

Well... it is the guy who will eventually run the company directly involved in one of the most racist, non-comeuppance angles in the past 20 years AND the only necrophiliac angle ever, from what I know.... kinda big in no certain terms

@tracexl

5 жыл бұрын

Wait... you mean JBL beat up the Blue Meanie?! I've never heard of this! /s

@kennyhouser3467

4 жыл бұрын

Well it's a channel ran by virtue signaling Leftist Brits soooooo...

It's so trippy seeing and hearing The Smart Marks Forums mentioned on here along with user names I recognized. I was extremely active at that forum at the time.

@kennyhouser3467

4 жыл бұрын

sMarks are why wrestling is shit in 2020. Prove me wrong...

Simon from WhatCulture: could narrate a Chia pet growing for two weeks and make it sound like the most awesome thing ever. He's that damn good at this.

Stone Cold has good taste...Torpedo has gotta be one of my favorites as well.

3:14 What we all really hated about the name WWEntertainment was that even the promotion name was a breach of kayfabe.

@kevlingcustomtitantrons9375

3 жыл бұрын

Kayfabe was dead long before then, people knew that and just wanted a reason to bitch about shit

Wrestling fans new drinking game. April 1st last Raw before wrestlemania everytime someone says wrestlemania you have to take a drink. 3hr raw. Good luck liver.

@TheSBleeder

5 жыл бұрын

I've got a better one: Watch an episode- any episode- of Smackdown from 2000 and take a drink every time Michael Cole says "Wait a minute!"

@hen-dogg3436

4 жыл бұрын

I've got a better one. From the last 5 years, drink a beer every time Michael Cole said....IT'S BOSS TIME! What are the chances of you staying sober? NO CHANCE, CUZ THAT'S WHAT YOU'VE GOT! 😂

Triple thumbs up for the dial up connection sound during the intro.

Well stone cold says on his podcast the beers were real he said he always left the ring with a buzz after slaming beers on the ringposts he said even though he only got half the beer in his mouth he always left with a buzz so Idk about all this

@JDeppFan2272

5 жыл бұрын

Well half of 6 beers is still 3 beers. And that is if he only does it three times. If he does it more... Yeah, one can get a buzz from 3 beers.

@straightoutofstockton

5 жыл бұрын

@@JDeppFan2272 Ya for sure especially when your slamming them that fast your gnna get a nice little buzz

@jaredglickman299

5 жыл бұрын

Especially with his blood pumping if he had just worked a match, and presumably an empty-ish stomach

@straightoutofstockton

5 жыл бұрын

@@jaredglickman299 Ya i didn't even think about that but it adds to it for sure

@isitoveryet9525

4 жыл бұрын

I don't understand why fans assumed just because it was light beer, it wouldn't give him a buzz....especially the way he'd slam them down. Some nights he would open like 5 or 6 cans, so I don't doubt he got a buzz.

Now everyone saying that if Kofi doesn't win at Mania everyone would stop watching, yet no one stopped watching when HHH went over the Rock at Mania in 2000. Oh that's right, it was the "attitude era"

@demo23nz

5 жыл бұрын

The Kofi situation with an 11 year vet getting his first title shot is quite different than the battle between two hugely pushed guys much earlier in the careers.

The guy in the yellow at 10:05 looks like Mojo Rawley lol

@Hoops276

5 жыл бұрын

Slim Slimson the guy at 9:55 behind AJ styles looks like Ellsworth lol

I'm still upset that WWF changed to WWE.

@BENNY_MAC

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Screw the World Wildlife Fund lol.

@StageRight123

3 жыл бұрын

@@BENNY_MAC World Wildlife Foundation

@jasonrunion614

3 жыл бұрын

Blame those damn pandas

The Fact they didn't dawn another line making a E off the old logo bewilders me.

Viscera thing was on the former wrestlecrap forum, so it was probably a joke.

You realize they didn’t just randomly decide to make JBL a stock holder. They actually just decided to be realistic and turn his character into who JBL was in real life. Anyone who does 5 mins of research on JBL will know that he was into trading stocks as his hobby. So in all actuality they went from random 90s gimmick character to a real life one.

@ThePickles69

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah you missed the whole point. Fucking dumbass.

@necrolobstercongaming6851

5 жыл бұрын

Ryan Wilson yeah dude, your dumb

@Somnogenesis

5 жыл бұрын

They don't say that in the video Ryan, they say that the sudden elevation of JBL to the main event felt as random as if they made Rowan into a stock-trader and pushed him to the title today.

@fishin4bass2002

5 жыл бұрын

Kevin Epstein no I think you are the one who is the dumbass who doesn’t have the intelligence to realize how bad of a comparison that was. Then again you don’t seem like the kind of person who has the intelligence to question anything someone says on tv or the internet.

@fishin4bass2002

5 жыл бұрын

necrolobstercon gaming wow some hard hitting deep analysis there. Ironically you are the one who is actually dumb for not realizing when someone uses a bad analogy.

Love the topic, super simon genius (lanie poffo referance) a few from your list were a very very very vocal minority.

Hi, I'm the admin/owner of the FAN boards that you cite in #6 (the Viscera bit). Thank you for...the coverage...I think?

World Wrestling Entertainment sounds like a record label that would let Hogan, Savage, Cena, Road Dogg and R-Truth drop multiple group albums.

Gotta love Simon! .. Perfect how you said ninnies and showed the 2 worst things that ever happened in whatculure history lol well played!

Kudos on the search!

The Alliance didn't even have a logo in 2001

What Culture Wrestling yo guys what brilliant sound effect you used for the clip

That who's better Shawn Michaels vs Bret Hart topic is still raging today. I see it on a daily basis on wrestling videos concerning either one. I prefer HBK, but Hart's great too.

So Whatculture randomly took a still from *Aashiqui 2* at 2:55! 👏👏 Very nice

I was in preschool by the time WWF legally changed to WWE back in 2002. My dad, uncles and other relatives at the time were all confused but I was getting more into wrestling around that same time. I was more into SmackDown than Raw back then until 2004 around Wrestlemania 20 as I watched both Raw and SmackDown equally before I began kindergarten

Whatculture you guys make me happy!!

@ThePickles69

5 жыл бұрын

Leave

This is actually brilliant journalism haha. We often think we’re worse than we were before when it comes to the internet and as wrestling but we are exactly the same. Just more of us now

9:55 wait!!!! Is that James elseworth???

@johnnymccollum5935

5 жыл бұрын

Its air paris...

Is it Aditya Roy Kapoor, using Bollywood for images? 🤔 Still awesome video as always, Keep it up

We know exactly why JBL became champion: Triple H didn't want to work Thursday.

What did we even do in the internet before KZread came up?

@AntonXul

3 жыл бұрын

Chat rooms were popular back then.

This was published on my Birthday 😊 Thanks guys

Man.. you guys went deep deep in the internet 😂

@ThePickles69

5 жыл бұрын

😏

Love how the guy says WWE needs to do something "out of the ordinary" which just means doing what he wants because when they do put belt on someone they deem undeserving like Jinder or JBL they flip out

Ok I actually agree with point #8. It's one of my biggest pet peeves when someone say "The WWE"

the guy's reasoning behind number 6 is why I stopped watching wrestling, they never pushed other stars. when I was watching all they did was push cena, orton, or HHH and the title would just go between the 3 of them and it bored the crap outta me. plus it didn't help that they got rid of the hardcore division when they went all PG.

2:54 Aditya Roy Kapoor in Aashiqui 2 !! Damn it I never thought of this being a potential meme thing !! So sad though

I just assumed Austin's beers were props some sort of fizzy water

To this day I see JBL's title reign as WWE's way to bring the work-rate bar down, after Brock, Angle, Benoit and Guerrero more or less placed it on a near New Japan level. Because lets be honest; at the time, the sloppy powerhouse that was John Cena beating Brock Lesnar would have looked daft. The Summerslam 2014 treatment was a logical reality, even in 2003/4.

It took me years to realize that “Get the F out” was referring to the F in WWF. I thought it was just a weird slogan that happened to happen around the time that the name changed. I was young.

“The year 2000 sucks” yea ok whatever guy

@MahdiRanger

5 жыл бұрын

That was a popular opinion with alot of wrestling fans... Wrestling fans have not changed.... they grow up and complain about the current product.

@soulcrusher807

5 жыл бұрын

If you look back, not thinking about the years about to come, you could see how someone who just watched through some of the hottest years in wrestling history would think that.

@MahdiRanger

5 жыл бұрын

@@soulcrusher807 99-2000 got hate. trust me

@tierral9052

5 жыл бұрын

2000-2012 (mostly raw) was pretty decent. I actually enjoyed 2012 raw and 2011 SD

@godli6063

5 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed 2016-2017 smackdown, but everyone disagrees with me.

And people think the Internet hating on WWE only began recently.

As a kid, I was so fucking mad jbl took the belt off Eddie. Eddie was my favorite. But looking back now, jbl was one of the most effective heels I had ever seen.

I remember those wrestling forum sites... And the smarks that lived on them.

Man, it sounds like Richard Ayoade was complaining on a hell of a lot of message boards.

Light beer means low calories not low alcohol, they have the same alcohol as non light beers

@vincent2993

5 жыл бұрын

@CAWP Shop all canadians are crying little bit chez

@cornholio5318

5 жыл бұрын

No it's less alcohol but not by much Budweiser ABV is 5% , Bud Light is 4.7%. All the other top beers are like that.

@drunkenmcbastard6374

5 жыл бұрын

Real men drink Natty Ice ....and really drunk men drink Natty Daddy lol 8.0 alcohol.....a 4 pack and your good ....for another 4 pack...lol oh yea I'm a alcoholic my bad

@nickvandam

5 жыл бұрын

The beers shown in the video are the same strength as there non light versions

@CamaroAmx

4 жыл бұрын

And light beer is better to drink when you’re trying to stay in shape because beer has empty calories. The less empty calories the better.

This doesn’t change my childhood Not even a lil bit

Hey TSM made the list. I probably posted in that Name change thread lol.

Suprised Mahal wasn't on this list

@MahdiRanger

5 жыл бұрын

Do you know what early internet means??? Mahal won the title in 2017....

Simon Miller does a good Jim Sterling impression.

Anyone else notice that when Simon does his "snarky re-readings" of the old posts, he sounds like Robin Leach?

I remember how I watched the WCW PPVs just for the cruiserweight matches. The actual main events mostly sucked in comparison - at least in my eye.

@officialwildkid9992

5 жыл бұрын

Same here. that was the only good thing about WCW.

@larryparr2799

5 жыл бұрын

Dead Phoenix yeah I would watch the first hour of nitro for the cruiser weights flip back to raw the second hour and mostly watch Raw’s main events instead of third hour of nitro.

@salinaember9527

5 жыл бұрын

i didnt watch wcw in the 90s but when i played the video games i would always pick the cruiserweights as my character. thats actually how i knew a lot of the wrestlers when they debuted on wwf

D'Lo Brown did deserve a bigger push. Maybe not a World Title run, but perhaps another Intercontinental Championship Reign.

Lol I guess I am dying because I am not going to choose between the Hitman and HBK!

As someone who religious watched smack and all the ppv. JBL was an awesome heel. Honestly he had so much heat I swear to god

Good list idea

The theory about the WWE being crap because was a monopoly was right. Quality went down after the attitude era and led to new competition from other companies like AEW today

I either wasnt a WWE fan online or I wasnt a huge fan during the Stone Cold bit. Never heard of it.

JBL winning the WWE title is almost the equivalent to Jinder Mahal winning... Jobber to Champion quick af. Only difference is, JBL could talk on the mic & get heat. Jinder?? Not so much...

@mryagami8448

5 жыл бұрын

JBL was never a jobber. I remember him being booked to be a powerhouse.

The internet was the wild wild, west in the late 90s.

@QueenHela240

4 жыл бұрын

Internet is still Wild!

I was freaking out after seeing the thumbnail thinking it wasnt actually beer. Would've ruined wrestling and my childhood 😂

I miss the old old forums where we’d just argue. 😆 Now they’re just blogs and comments get removed. And everyone is extreme stalker on the talent. It was just guessing before. Now everyone knows everyone’s contract and just creepy stuff.

@jmoz9305

5 жыл бұрын

There's still plenty of forums around

@MrWicked17

5 жыл бұрын

Not like the old days.

@jmoz9305

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrWicked17 there at some that are still exactly the same, you just need to look harder. PhantasyTour for one example

Listen man. If you thought Stone Cold actually drank full blown alcoholic beers, still put on long grueling matches, and actually walked away fully sober are you serious right now? What’s next, people thinking Dora The Explorer works for The First 48 as a lead investigator, or Underdog actually played for The Chicago Bull as an front assist to Jordan? Maybe someone’s out here really believing that Popeye The Sailorman fought Mike Tyson in the main event at Madison Square Garden in 94. Nice, just nice.

Thank god it’s Simon narrating this.

What forum had people suggesting to give Viscera the belt?! and no mention of the original LOP forums? Probably for the best tbh.....

I must be getting old. JBL being champ seems like yesterday to me

The narrator of this vid is pretty awesome. You're very collected and level headed, like JR if he were an Englishman. Good job and cheers from Canada.

Accurate description of Reddit

The internet back then was the Wild West.....completely unfiltered

I remember ... the German commentators indeed started saying ''in WWE'' instead of ''in the WWF'' before.

They were forced to change the name because a Wildlife foundation went by wwf as well

You guys making fun of Marks is HILARIOUS. “Stupid marks” -The crowd that likes wrestling for the matches

I swear I was hoping for Big Daddy V big push as well...he was one of my favs in that time, such a creepy gimmick and such a underrated wrestler.

@arrowsmate1127

5 жыл бұрын

Heel turn crime Tyne, have him as their shadowy gang boss, debut bdv as their boss and let it roll from there he would have had the belt at the same time khali had it tho it still baffles me he got the belt yeah India growing economy but still

No one thought the universe was going to explode. The WWE was a terrible change.

1:48 do people realize that light beer refers to it being light in calories and not alcohol?

WWF was AWESOME I'm 44 years old the 1st match I saw was IRON SHEIK vs HULK HOGAN for the WWF TITLE I can count on my 10 fingers & 10 toes how many WWF CHAMPIONS there were between that and when the WWF bought WCW

Sierra Torpedo's are BOMB!

D-LO Brown should of got a push

@discoder

4 жыл бұрын

I think crippling Droz ended any chance of that.