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@justinrule4162

2 жыл бұрын

Came here looking for answers haha thanks Adam have a great weekend PS thanks to you and all the lads for what you do!

@nick0p962

2 жыл бұрын

@@justinrule4162 mmm

Nah Mark Henry should have won the title after his swerve and literally nothing can change my mind. There was literally no reason for Cena to win.

@5280mminnick

2 жыл бұрын

I'll give you one reason why..... VKM haha

@axtrixblade1761

2 жыл бұрын

It was during Super Cena era that's why 🥺😭

@fausto412

2 жыл бұрын

Mark freaking nailed that. I was in tears saying thank you mark.....nope....he faked everyone out

@andycain4351

2 жыл бұрын

Mark Henry's swerve was mindblowing. I completely bought into his retirement speech and loved that WWE got me hook, line and sinker on it.

@betrayal4life288

2 жыл бұрын

That was IMHO the best swerve ever. In the modern era its so hard to be genuinely surprised anymore. That shit had me hook line and sinker. Fully agree Henry should have won the title in that feud

When Brian Pillman developed his “Loose Cannon” persona, it was really hard to tell if he was working or not. A lot of stuff he did under that gimmick was outrageous.

@wanmanrmy

2 жыл бұрын

He kind of worked himself into a shoot with that persona with the switch to WWF, it was brilliant stuff

@jimbo_1312

2 жыл бұрын

Looking back at it now he was years ahead of his time

@jbj7599

2 жыл бұрын

Even the guys in the back weren't fully sure if he was working, it's a shame he passed when he did. His ankle was messed up but he could still work.

@5280mminnick

2 жыл бұрын

That ONE TIME when Pillman grabbed Brains neck and Bobby FREAKED THE FUCK OUT HAHAHAHAHA

@XD4VID97X

2 жыл бұрын

If you haven't watched it watch the dark side of the ring on him it's brilliant

When the Cultaholic lads suddenly show up back on Whatculture it'll be the greatest work ever

@louiebailey5595

2 жыл бұрын

The only thing that'd save whatculture

@syedviqar5011

2 жыл бұрын

God no

@TheTripster710

2 жыл бұрын

All Hail King Ross

@willooooooo

2 жыл бұрын

Or when the one or two good people on what culture move to cultaholic

@zanethind

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

Honorable mention: ric flair's retirment... such a great work it had to happen in two companies

@daredevil95178

9 ай бұрын

Nothing lasts long until it's Ric Flair.

I'm surprised HBK duping the Montreal Crowd on Raw in '05 into thinking Bret Hart was coming out to kick his ass wasn't on the list.

@TubaDudeNick

2 жыл бұрын

Literally the best work ever

@luisrosario3781

2 жыл бұрын

WHO'S YOUR DADDY MONTREAL?!

@Veggieman87

2 жыл бұрын

The best part of that promo for me is the pink tie. Shawn, not usually one for suits and ties, is effectively wearing Bret's colors in Montreal. Just subtle enough to not notice at first, but once you catch it it's icing on the delicious, delicious heatcake. Mmmmm, heatcake...

@mposh

2 жыл бұрын

I was there. about 15 rows from ringside. It was SOOOOO LOUD. (and the pop La Résistance got when they won the Tag belts later that night was even louder)

@mposh

2 жыл бұрын

@Stephen Greenhorn Rick Rude believed it too, and jumped to WCW (appearing on a live Nitro and pre-taped Raw on the same night).

I will never forget the Mark Henry one I'm watching it with my Stepfather and brother and I said, there's no way he's retiring. They thought I was crazy and then when he went for the hug I said, wait for it. And BOOM, worlds strongest slam. And even still my jaw dropped. I thought maybe I was getting into my own head. That was insane.

@franklingoodwin

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was a work at first but somehow he has me doubting myself. Just goes to show how great a work it was and how good an actor Mark Henry is

@stopthestigma1517

2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorites segments of all time

@EssexAggiegrad2011

2 жыл бұрын

@@stopthestigma1517 That was great

@yedffgd

2 жыл бұрын

Personally, Cena hanging around for the whole promo had me pretty convinced it was a work while watching it.

@nathantturnert1631

2 жыл бұрын

Ohh bs man

"I still got a lot left in the tank!" One of my favorite quotes

I keep getting worked by Cultaholic into thinking Adam Pacitti gives a damn about NordVPN

@kirkhammett2107

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

This list 100% needs Jerry Lawler slapping Andy Kauffman.

@werewolflover8636

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! This list is a complete joke that this isn’t even mentioned!

What about that time Randy Orton suffered that career ending injury, only to RKO AJ Styles outta nowhere? That was a helluva Work.

I feel like I'm one of the only people that remembers Scott Steiner's false retirement speech on Nitro 12.27.99 He was speaking in normal human decibels without his sunglasses on, crying and everything. It was great.

@Gamesta100

2 жыл бұрын

Nope I remember and I was looking for this comment. I genuinely believed him. The way he acted it out and him crying tears is what really had me thinking it was real.

Honourable mention Kaufman and Lawler. Yes it was for a single territory and kayfabe as a whole was bigger back then but going on David Letterman made it a much bigger deal. They even made a movie about it.

@williamslater-vf5ym

Жыл бұрын

People still think that was real, and they legitimately hated each other. That's how great of a work it was.

The retirement of Mark Henry fooled me big time. Should've won the WWE world championship.

@SkellyDrAgOn

9 ай бұрын

He did win the World Championship but it was 2 years prior to this moment.

@JaimeD.

9 ай бұрын

@@SkellyDrAgOn I know. I meant the WWE Championship.

I saw CM Punk that summer when I was walking away from Comic Con w/ and arm full of breakfast burritos. He looked at me and I gave him a curt head nod (‘sup). He gave me the WEIRDEST look back and kept it moving. That’s all.

@TheLarryburns84

2 жыл бұрын

sounds like something he'd do 🤣

Shawn Michaels collapsing in the ring after taking an enzugiri from Owen Hart had me fooled for the longest. Shawn had recently come back after being legitimately jumped and beaten outside a club and the way Owen and the ref sold it, it had major “this should not be happening” vibes. I never knew it was a work until years later when it was mentioned in an article in PWI as well as Shawn’s book (if I remember right)

Antonio Inoki might be the only man with more chin than Bruce Campbell.

@luisrosario3781

2 жыл бұрын

The Great Khali, perhaps?

@varenoftatooine2393

2 жыл бұрын

You should try googling Nathan Cleary

@carribob1992

Жыл бұрын

You ever seen the chins on Jimmy Hill and Bruce Forsyth? They be massive.

I haven't watched wrestling for more than giggles in 20 years. This brought a lot home for me. It entertains the adult about the fantasies of the child and makes the magic of those times something more than what they ever could have been on their own. As much of a personality and sarcastic whit the creator here is, he also does something else unlikely: tells a story that brings me so completely into its world that I forget the story teller is weaving that world. I've been worked!!! Best wrestling breakdown I've ever seen.

Hogan-Andre in Pipers Pit was so real to me. It probably was a little real too. The concern Piper had for Hulk was surreal.

That Mark Henry work still gets me.😂🤣

@noobsaibot8844

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂

What about Lawler and Andy Kaufman?

Jake Roberts having his snake bite Macho Man was the biggest work for me. I was a child and that literally terrified me. It was also when my parents decided for the second time to not allow me to watch Wrestling lol, which I kinda silently defied by watching on my little black and white TV. But that "ban" was kinda over soon after anyways.

The Young Bucks claiming that they stopped doing the “Too Sweet” because of a cease and desist was a pretty good one. I only found out it was a work in their book!

Miss the days of universal kayfabe honestly . When we bought it and wrestlers lived it

@dohboy200

2 жыл бұрын

you just got older, thats all.

"When is a work not a work?" Me - "when it's a shoot brother" - I need to get a life. LoL

That Henry one was beyond amazing! He was so underrated in WWE

"You think it's that easy??? I got a lot left in the tank!!!!" Mark Henry...Swerve of the Century....

Got to love Nash's grin while sat there holding his ticket for the WCW event.

The Mark Henry swerve is a personal fav. I jumped out of my seat and marked out hard for it at the time.

Montreal Screw job is a work. I’ll stand by that forever

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Yes! I guessed right about Pillman being in the top 3! 😄

This is a great list and I’m old so was privilege enough to watch quite a few of them live but I would rank salmon suit Henry as number 1. Seeing that live and watching the livechat was incredible, he worked absolutely everyone. One of my favourite wrestling moments ever.

As an Iowan, the "Terrified Middle America" bit rings so true. Hahahaha!!!

2:54 video starts. Thank you.

@tez9149

2 жыл бұрын

You mean your welcome?

i love how Enoki was undefeated until Vader gave him the second loss of his career

Them “I don’t understand the wrestling is popular” Me. “This one time an old lady stood up and we cheered so loud we almost destroyed the Astrodome.”

Mark Henry shouldn't be on this list, how could anyone not see him turning on Cena ?

Mark Henry Retirement is and always will be #1 for me. The Hall of Pain gimmick was long overdue and he should have been given more runs as World Champ; he deserved it.

11:59 My heel character might break that one day, just be prepared 😉😂

Is it really still considered a work if Lesnar caved Randy's skull in a little and gave him a concussion?

@Jubei66666

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah and wasn't Jericho just asking people if it was a planned spot and Brock got up in his face?

The Montreal Screw Job, just kidding....had me in tears. 😂🤣😂🤣

I love that you guys worked us in the list.

I don't give a damn what Cornette says, the Screwjob was definitely a work and I will die on this hill

@KellieLeigh48

2 жыл бұрын

Same here... After hearing Bruce Prichard's take. They knew Bret was going to WCW and all sat down to play it out... Even if no one else on the roster knew. They got worked too lol

@hrishik_1503

2 жыл бұрын

It's really difficult to figure out, evidences leading both ways. Personally I still think Bret didn't know.

@deedeethedog05

2 жыл бұрын

@@hrishik_1503 thing is though, if he did know, he'll take it to his grave. No one is more old school than Bret, he'll never tell

Randy orton trusting brock to do that do him is is insane. Could have done serious damage

The Mark Henry one was obvious when he ask Cena to stay in the ring imo.

@brucedellinger4910

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. It annoys me when people comment they didn't see it coming, how could you not ?

Google Ox Baker starts a riot in Cleaveland. Very worthy of this list, if not in the top 3.

@KomradeKrusher

9 ай бұрын

"The natives are getting restless..." - "Just a little more heat..." 😂

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I felt so sorry for Orton after that Brock deal, and I didn’t think it was possible to feel sympathy for that man. Wouldn’t have minded a rematch on that one, honestly.

Where is Andy Kaufman vs Lawler? This is without question the greatest work in history! So much so that it single handedly changed the face for wrestling forever and made wrestling what it is today! People also thought it was completely real for many years, well after Andy’s death to Jerry said that it had all been Andy’s idea. The fact that this wasn’t even mentioned makes me question your knowledge of wrestling in general!

@Gamesta100

2 жыл бұрын

Hell I don't even think it was 10 years ago that I learned that whole thing was a work. My friend thought it was real all the way up to last year. He didn't even believe me that it was a work and even still insisted that it it started off as a work and then became a shoot later in the feud.

Can’t wait until Dean Ambrose leaving WWE is revealed to be a work like you all said! Still waiting!

Nothing beats that salmon blazer 😄 Legendary

12:58 DON’T SCARE ME LIKE THAT ADAM😭

Where's Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler? People didn't really know it was a work for 20 years

A great list!

Adam continued to be the funniest person on the internet, let alone wrestling youtubers

Man I love your videos! Lol

Excellent swerve at #1. 😂

I was at that Raw with Henry’s fake retirement shit was gold and the crowd was white hot.

The Gino blinding Chris Adams angle got to be top for me.

#1 is eddie guerero the father of dominic! Thats the most epic

Y2J squaring up to brick is just a silly image 🤣🤣

Bruce Prichard: Montreal Scr… Everyone else who was there: Shut the fuck up, Bruce!

Kyle O'reilly last year when he looked like he was in serious pain, but he actually was a good seller

Great video hahahaha

Was the Yes movement a work? Was it always the plan to have Bryan in the main event and they were just teasing their audience and build the hype or did the WWE belatedly cave in just because they feared that their premier event was going to get booed out of the building?

@leonconnelly5303

2 ай бұрын

Bit of both

Honorable mention: Randy Orton fooling AJ Styles.

Thanks 🙏

Couple of weeks? It was 8 days 😪 🤦‍♂️

I love professional wrestling because it’s so preposterously fun.

Cheers you guys! You got me good. The whole while I'm thinking, they can't possibly mention Montreal right? Then when u 1st said it, I yelled so loud I had to go back to hear the "just kidding part"...well played sirs.

As great as the fake retirement segment for Mark Henry was there was already plans for Cena/Danielson a month later at Summerslam 2013 so Cena/Henry was a throwaway feud even though it was a great throwaway feud

@OMAR-vk9pi

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody seems to get that

Everyone’s always talking about the Stone Cold Pop but I’m just like what about that Linda just fuckin standing up from a chair pop?

Not that it was a work, but I have a vivid wrestling memory that stuck with my childhood for a while….. 2006 maybe?? That era, Dx had just gotten back together and they were massively over… Randy Orton and Edge had just teamed up created Rated-RKO. One night on raw, shit got extra physical and ended massively bloody with DX getting the conchairto/concerto(ehh nice wordplay for a move). I was so bought in, I was 6 years old and that was some shit a 6 year old shouldn’t have been viewing 🤣 thats one of my earliest times of buying in to the product mentally/emotionally.

Props to randy letting Brock do that. That takes cajones

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Doesn't vpn's disconnects you from yt? If you are watching it on tv via wifi

God damn Mark Henry was 2013?! I feel old asf.

Need to do this again because what MJF did yesterday was great

Zombie Linda her best role ever

Funniest work ever was when you fell for Enzo and Cass invading ROH and started crying on Twitter about it

Honorable mention to The Million Dollar Man offering a kid $500 if he could just bounce a ball 15 times. Of course the kid failed to do the job and he didn’t get paid.

@dashtoroya2838

3 ай бұрын

He actually kicked the ball at 14.

Antonio Inoki is the asian version of the Chad meme

Are we just gonna skip over the whole aces and eights thing from tna/impact? That got so much heat when bully ray showed himself as the leader

good video

Bro Chris Jericho is the MAN

I am probably going to get that VPN just to get access to old WCW pay per views.

3:00 - start

@matteofabrizi3527

2 жыл бұрын

thank you

No offense, but Jerry Lawler vs Andy Kaufman is still the greatest work ever.

@werewolflover8636

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This is without question the greatest work in history! So much so that it completely changed wrestling forever! The fact that this kid doesn’t even mention it proves to me he doesn’t know shit about wrestling!

Roman’s whole career face or heel, he’s a ginormous work by Vince McMahon and the E, he has been Vince’s boy toy since late 2012

ECW Invasion when Sandman spit on Savio.

1:57 Oof, I live in the US.

How Pillman isn’t in the HOF is beyond me

the fans didnt riot because vader beat the heroic antonio inoki the riot happened because they promoted a match between antonio inoki vs. riki choshu the two top guys and it turned out to be just an angle to debut vader

I haven't watched yet, hoping the 2 that got me as a kid are on here. The Rockers break up at the Barber Shop. And Earthquake sending Hogan to the hospital

Rank every iwgp heavyweight & intercontinental champions

video sponsorship.... touche 👍🏿

Skip to about the 3:00 mark to avoid the long winded commercial

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Let's go phat mark