Was hiring The Nasty Boys truly best for business? Let us know in the comments below!

@RestingBeachFace721

6 ай бұрын

I think Hulk Hogan had good intentions but kooky ideas.

@jcorley45

6 ай бұрын

@@RestingBeachFace721 He had good intentions for himself

@Krillep

5 ай бұрын

Nasty Boys were in WCW already. Hogan created two wrestling booms and WCW was the better show 94-98.

@Axs_Nice_Hair

5 ай бұрын

@@Krillep That's right. The nasty boys had been in WCW almost a year before Hulk showed up.

@bridgetbonds5169

5 ай бұрын

Hi Eric bischoff my name is Bridget and I’m from Michigan I and I’m your biggest fan and I really want to meet you one day soon and please comment back to me thank you 😊

When Hogan goes to bed he sleeps on top of the covers. Those blankets ain't going over on the Hulkster, JACK!

@corybuckle944

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@frankmfeb13

5 ай бұрын

When the blankets asked if they could cover hulk he replied with " that's just not gonna work for me, brother "

@MG-vo7pz

5 ай бұрын

Hogan just lets Bubba the Love Sponge's ex-wife get over

@sethbailey2557

5 ай бұрын

Brother brother brother

@sethbailey2557

5 ай бұрын

Brother brother brother

Bischoff: "Hulk, we can't hire all of your buddies." Hulk: "That's not gonna work for me, brother.

@megatron7057

5 ай бұрын

Sounds like Aaron rodgers lul

@brandocalrissian3294

5 ай бұрын

​@@megatron7057haha good one.

@namemcnamerton4249

5 ай бұрын

HTM: This sucks I'm going back to sing on shotgun Saturday. E: I'm gonna tell everyone I made you cry and had you up against a truck.

@joseconcepcion6949

3 ай бұрын

Only one the was cool that he did bring in was macho man and that's it anyone was dead weight and lost there touch that's honky talk man,beefcake,Jim Dugan,akeem, boss man,many more that I'm sure where 80s WWF at the time that ran with hulk Hogan that ain't worth what was mid 90s WCW run not pushing the younger guys was lost wcw war pushing the wrong people

Who would win in a fight? Batman with prep time or Hogan with Creative Control

@LiamAddison08

6 ай бұрын

Hogan no contest

@idcwhatuthink4985

6 ай бұрын

If Hogan does get pinned, Bstman has the whole teen titans attack him, and the riddler counting 1 2 3 in a swerve brother

@criticalbill2090

6 ай бұрын

"I`m Vengeance....." "That`s not gonna work for me, brother"

@grant1739

6 ай бұрын

Hulkamania gonna run wild all over Batman.. but to be fair Hogan would make Batman look small and he has no superpowers so Hogan in my book!

@mauricesanchez6804

6 ай бұрын

Hulk Hogan with an artist brush in his hand brother.

Bischoff is a part of what I like to call The Pinocchio Trio, along with Paul Heyman & Bruce Prichard. 3 guys who regularly bend the truth but are so charismatic that you don't care.

@IHateNicolasCage

6 ай бұрын

Meanwhile Hogan just lies

@MrFoxxx47

6 ай бұрын

I wouldn't put Bischoff in the category with those guys lol.

@danger170388

6 ай бұрын

I agree, he's separate from that group

@jamesmiller5331

6 ай бұрын

There are wrestling marks that are paying for Eric Bischoff's horse stables LOL

@imreadytoberuledbyap

6 ай бұрын

Wait so you worked at wcw or turner when all of this was going down? I love how people who have had zero to do with anything to do with the industry blurt comments out like they where.

Randy Savage is still, kind of, the spokesman for Slim Jim. There's at least one Slim Jim product out there that still to this day bears his face.

@Marc_Araujo

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, he's still in the most recent commercial (that also has LA Knight and Bianca Belair in it) busting out the catch phrase.

@gothabilly5

5 ай бұрын

There's 2 now in my local stores

@zlinedavid

5 ай бұрын

Snap into a Slim Jim OOOOOOOOOHHHHHH YEEEAAAAHHHHHHHH

@Felamine

5 ай бұрын

The commercials still use his "Snap into a Slim Jim!" soundbite. I wonder if his family still gets royalties for that.

@jeffj6815

5 ай бұрын

There's still a life-size standee of Randy Savage at a local store plugging Slim Jims 😊

Hogan and Macho got me into watching WCW and I stayed for awhile

I'm never quite sure just how reliable Eric is from a booking and creative perspective when he talks but I always like him telling a story.

@randolphdefreese7874

5 ай бұрын

So true.some people say he is full of shit but the way he tells the story it sounds credible.

@ShadowAngel18606

5 ай бұрын

@@randolphdefreese7874 He iis still full of shit, like this story. Nasty Boys joined WCW in July 1993, when Hogan was still under contract with the WWF (He was just about to start the Summer Tour of Europe) and wouldn't even negotiatie with WCW for another 7 months. So them coming in had absolutely nothing to do with Hogan whatsoever.

@ajbahus

5 ай бұрын

He just very pleasant the way he talks. It’s the opposite energy that someone like Cornette brings lol

@ants5449

4 ай бұрын

​@@ajbahusCornette only survives because of his foul language and erratic moods take those away and they'd be very dull boring podcasts

@magiusfantasia5506

4 ай бұрын

I will admit, a lot of his opinions, I don't nessecarily agree with. But when he talks business, I agree with him 90 percent of the time. I don't LIKE some of the things he says or does, but I can't deny that I *do* agree with a lot of his business deacons even if I don't like that. That doesn't mean I agree with ALL of his business decisions, but I feel like a lot of them were pretty sound in reason.

The Nasty Boys came to wcw in 1993 almost year before Hogan signed with the company.

@UziBlancoOfficial

4 ай бұрын

I was thinking that was the case, I'm 35 now so I was younger back then an didn't pay as much of attention that u do now but yea I believe you are correct about that..

@1punchmann

4 ай бұрын

That was a pre serenade of hogan

@johnbeardshall2898

4 ай бұрын

True but it was because of friendship that they got resigned at alot of money plus he got them into TNA

all i hear is that sound clip of Owen Hart on wrestling bios " he's an animal, an animal!" 1:26 😅

@AttackoftheJoe

6 ай бұрын

Jam up guy

@LiamAddison08

6 ай бұрын

Steve mufuggin Blackman

@dudethunder730

6 ай бұрын

@@LiamAddison08been mfugged with the mfug elbow

I love the interviews this channel produces but I hate how it’s not full interviews. I wanna see the whole thing. Not just clips.

@boxingfan6766

4 ай бұрын

Me too. I really wanna see the full Edge and Paul Heyman interviews in full.

"You probably arent old enough to remember the Randy Savage Slim Jim Commercials" Oh Yeeeaaah right in the "Now I Feel Old". Those were my Childhood.

@namemcnamerton4249

5 ай бұрын

They made a new one every year up until his death.

@AzureSymbiote

3 ай бұрын

They used Savage for SJ ads at the recent Royal Rumble.

This was the show in cork a few months ago , he had barely made it due to flight issues, I was there, great guy🤛😂😂

Good stuff from Bischoff. It changed the game. When Hogan went to WCW is when i started loyally watching. Miss those days. Wcw had a ton of programming on TBS.

Hacksaw was and still is beloved. Good dude.

@namikstudios

5 ай бұрын

Yep. I'm Australian, so obviously the whole USA gimmick has no meaning for me, but it certainly got a great reaction from the crowds he was performing in front of.

@clayton5584

3 ай бұрын

As an American we feel the same way about Arnold Schwarzenegger

@nickcancelliere5638

3 ай бұрын

​@@namikstudiosjag awwve comment mate.... Btw it's an American company...soooo

@namikstudios

3 ай бұрын

@@nickcancelliere5638 it (WCW) was an American company, yes. I was lucky enough to see it and Hacksaw live when WCW toured Australia in October 2000. Hacksaw had turned heel at that stage tho and had joined Team Canada, trading the Stars and Stripes for the Maple Leaf. Still had his trusty 2x4 tho!

Bischoff embellishes but he's relatively consistent about WCW being a division of Turner affecting the way it was run compared to WWE

This interview works for me, Brother.

Hogan is the greatest wrestler, mat technician, and entertainer the business has and ever will see.. he also worked 366 days in one year brother

@thekingofkingsrp

5 ай бұрын

I think it was 400.

@watchingvidz5060

5 ай бұрын

@@thekingofkingsrpit was

@pjay213

5 ай бұрын

leap year?

@BeardedBruh

5 ай бұрын

No, no, no. On leap years it wasn't out of the question to get 520 days out of him, give or take an hour or two. Hard to really pinpoint the exact amount. But hey, when you're pulling a Superman time warp, traveling around the globe and gaining hours constantly, who can keep track? Give the guy a break, I don't believe a single one of you could wrestle 4 OR 500 days in a year, so get off his monstrous back, would ya?

@stevechavez83

5 ай бұрын

I think just recently he said he worked 420 days in one year 😂

Bischoff: he had an attorney named Henry Holmes, who's a f***ing animal. Bret: HE'S AN ANIMAL! Owen: AN ANIMAL! AN ANIMAL!

@jacksmith-mu3ee

4 ай бұрын

Steve Bucemi : I AM AN ANIMAL . I M N ANIMAL...... I CAN'T GET MY FOOT OUT

Nasty boys were in wcw a year before Hogan got there

@ducklife420

6 ай бұрын

yeh dusty got them their deals

Hacksaw was a real showman

@mexmexican8619

Ай бұрын

He paved the way for mentally challenged characters like Eugene

I like how Eric remembers all the good shit he’s been involved in but just can’t piece together the bullshit

I know its tv, but that episode of Hogan Knows Best where they have Brian Knobbs stay over... thats exactly how i always imagined that guy to be. Someone who "lived their gimmick" when they most definitely SHOULDN'T have, and had fame simply because they rode Hulk's coattail. As for Hacksaw, met him a handful of times as I was friends with a family member of his, and that guy always cool. Dude deserved good things.

@dbreiden83080

5 ай бұрын

He came off to me as 1 of those dudes you think to yourself "Why would anyone want to be his friend"

@Willrocs

5 ай бұрын

Cause he would do all the things hogan wanted to do but couldn’t cause the image brother can’t disappoint the little hulkamanics. Plus it fed into hulks ego have someone nasty boys lol

@joshuasteward6097

3 ай бұрын

To be fair, I think the Nasty Boys were popular in WWF.

where can i watch these full interviews? is there a streaming service i can buy?

Didn't the Nasty Boys come (back) to WCW about a year before Hogan? What's their signing got to do with Hogan?

@Rocker-kr9nu

4 ай бұрын

Yes they did! Nothing! Hogan jumped to WCW after his Series "Thunder in Paradise" flopped.

Bruce Prichard is halarious with his impersonations.Especially with Jim Cornett impersonations😂

Awsome video. That was very informative and entertaining. I could watch Eric for hours. 😊

@jacksmith-mu3ee

4 ай бұрын

I couldn't

Nasty boys were a great team. So it was worth it

So it wasnt necessarily that he HAD to sign Hogan's friends. It's that, as a good businessman and talent manager, he WANTED to sign those wrestlers. Very smart decision looking after for his big prize

a big problem in the demise of WCW..besides overpaying wrestlers...was the PPV's more often than not were hyping NITRO instead of the opposite...i cant tell you how many times at the end of a PPV the announcers would say " i wonder whats gonna happen on nitro?"

@boriqua87

5 ай бұрын

I feel that was only done as to counter program RAW. And it worked for a while as we know. Their biggest downfall was their biggest money maker in the beginning, though. The NWO was amazing and then it was like WTH is going on?

@namikstudios

5 ай бұрын

That's because WCW was part of a television company, Turner. Getting ratings on TNT and TBS was good for their entire business, not just WCW.

When I would watch clash of the titans on tbs I would see sat night ads. It was my only frame of reference for wcw. Had no clue hogan showed up until starrcade 97, my 1st live ppv.

It’s crazy because I loved wrestling WWF and WCW Saturday night was my show and Saturday morning I was happy when a lot of wrestlers came there because I got more shows with other wrestlers like

Hulk Hogan had a T.V show when WCW went off called Thunder in Paradise so yeah them negotiations was tough!!!

I’m suprised he could “recall” any of these stories.

@swishbenoit4489

5 ай бұрын

Shut up and do a double reverse mortgage with Conrad

It’s rather annoying when fans talk smack about Hogan. Many of these fans don’t appreciate how important Hogan’s presence and charisma was to the growth of professional wresting. Hogan boosted the incomes of every single professional wrestler. Even the legendary Ric Flair admits to Hogan’s financial influence on the business. Every professional wrestler over the last 40 years owes a big debt of gratitude to Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon. When Hogan passes (and may he live another 30 years!) fans will start shedding crocodile tears and talking about he great he was. Tell him now that he’s still here!

Hulk Hogan looking out for his friends is admirable, considering how many other wrestlers he "screwed over" in order to keep his spot in the WWF.

@washingtonfootballskins

5 ай бұрын

😆 🤣 😂 and Hulk held his friends down.

@johnwireman2660

5 ай бұрын

He wanted them to have jobs, he just didn’t want them to get ahead.

@Me-qp8vz

4 ай бұрын

He used those friends to make himself look better.

@rayyzo1

3 ай бұрын

Cringe comment

@MrAac1984

3 ай бұрын

His friends weren’t threats to him. They were all mid-carders / Glorified Jobbers / Jabronis!

Man, oh man, did Austin ever dodge a bullet by not becoming Hulk Hogans little brother lmao

@troysmith8334

5 ай бұрын

the one he said had no marketing potential...lmao

@joshuasteward6097

3 ай бұрын

@@troysmith8334 How much potential did Stunning Steve Austin have? I think US champ was his peak. You can't predict what someone will do as a new character with a different company.

@joshuasteward6097

3 ай бұрын

I dunno. Maybe that gets him bigger payoffs and more screen time. Then Hogan trusts him and maybe he's in WCW's main event scene and never leaves WCW.

@ScubaSteveO1987

3 ай бұрын

@@joshuasteward6097 true. Isaac Yankem became a star when he became Undertaker's brother lol

@troysmith8334

3 ай бұрын

@@joshuasteward6097 I think when he became US champ i really don't think Bishoff saw him as a world champion after that. Once Hogan came into the wcw camp, Austin's relevance went south

I loved Hulk Hogan when i was a kid so no matter what bad things i hear he still got me into watching wrasslin

@ReanimatorsMutilations

5 ай бұрын

I loved him n had never even seen him wrestle 😂

When they trashed Team 3D locker room was funny as hell 😂. They was pissed 🤣

Doesn't Steve Austin mention this in his famous ECW Promo about teaming up with Hogan or so?

I love Hacksaw. Not only as a person, but he was a good big guy wrestler. He had that, 'that,' every average person could relate to. I loved his facial expressions. They were so funny. He was so over with the fans. I was upset that they did not do more with him as far as at least being the US champ a little more. People loved him and they did not do enough. If WWE was smart, they would bring back WCW. Let it be its own company, but have some cross overs. Bring in the old school guys to be agents, trainers, and help run the show. The younger guys like DDP and Nash can still wrestle.

@silles8

5 ай бұрын

Nash can still wrestle? The man with glass knees and paper quads? 😂

@MP-in4or

5 ай бұрын

@@silles8 if fair can do it, even w a shirt on, so can Nash. A few knee replacements..... anyone can be back to normal, lol!

@ReanimatorsMutilations

5 ай бұрын

​@@MP-in4orNash doesn't want to. He's not an idiot

@thekingofkingsrp

5 ай бұрын

I wanted them to do that from when they bought it.

@OikPoinFive

5 ай бұрын

​@@silles8don't throw rocks at glass legs!!!

On Macho Man. The best thing for him was going to WCW. Vince had him on the commentators table. From what I've read, he, for whatever reason, decided Randy didn't have 'it' in the ring anymore. Once Randy went over to WCW, he proved Vince wrong. To this day, one has to wonder what the Hell Vince was thinking? Randy was in great shape, and he became even more muscular later on, but he proved that he wasn't a washed-up wrestler. Vince's way of looking at guys proved to be wrong several times.

@peterbaini8752

4 ай бұрын

I wonder what would have happened if Macho stayed in the WWF and wrestled through 94-99. Matches against Shawn, Taker, Bret, Austin and the Rock would have been great. Imagine Macho v Mankind! Imagine those promos 😅😅

@brianticas7671

3 ай бұрын

Macho man still had it but Vince mind was to push new talent. Thats why WCW had it's Demise. All of WCW midcard left because of that

Randy savage is still on the slim Jim wrappers to this day.

Make it very easy for me to find the full interview please

Steve Austin did not pitch to be Hogans little brother. Austin had the idea for it to be revealed that he was Hogans nephew. They weren't going to tag team. Eric kept the idea in his mind enough to use it with Horace after Austin left WCW.

@godfather71190

5 ай бұрын

Horace was Hogan's real life nephew.

@TOFTS77

5 ай бұрын

@@godfather71190 I know he was. But the way they handled the Horace angle was beat for beat Steve's pitch. Not knocking Horace but had he had the charisma of Austin the angle might of actually done well.

@norrisc7163

3 ай бұрын

​@@godfather71190I know Horace was Hulk Late brother son

God Bless the billionaires that love wrestling and don't care about losing money over it.

I’m such a wrestling fan, I dig into EVERYTHING wrestling and STILL just found out about 2-3 years ago that Brutus was the disciple. Blew my mind

@Moxleygirl

5 ай бұрын

When I found out I was shocked, people talk about how all he did was have a beard and have blonde hair but he was completely unrecognizable

I don't necessarily believe everything Eric says, but he is a great storyteller, and totally worth LISTENING TO, if not necessarily believing. Which is, funnily enough, basically how wrestling works.

@1980Triumph

5 ай бұрын

you literally have decided not to believe without evidence or anything, just straight bias and that is insane

@JayCord00

5 ай бұрын

Both of you, only said the truth about everything in your life, you never lied !? People like you 2 are pathetic. Look at yourself before talking about somebody else "lies" 🤣🤦

@DankHillCometh

5 ай бұрын

must suck to have that mentality

@mightilyoats2729

5 ай бұрын

...what?@@1980Triumph

@namikstudios

5 ай бұрын

Yep he's a great talker, both in promos and in reality. Probably the best example of that is how he cut that promo on the fly at TNA at Victory Road 2011 when Jeff Hardy went out to have the match with Sting while he was high as a kite. Kind of gets overlooked because of what Jeff did but the way Eric handled that was an improv masterclass. Not many people could pull that kind of promo off under those circumstances as well as Eric did.

I haven't heard a lot about them, but I wouldn't want to run into Sags and Knobs if they had a few pops too many at the bar.

The Nasty Boys are the physical manifestation of Beebop and Rocksteady lol.

Not gonna lie, when Hogan came in I gave up on them. I knew it would become the Hulk show.

@matthewross3998

5 ай бұрын

Hulk wouldn’t fight him unless he was the one going over

@johnnyskinwalker4095

5 ай бұрын

and it indeed became terrible. lol

@andrewft31

5 ай бұрын

@@matthewross3998you know that isn’t true lol Hulk put Arn Anderson over twice… same with Paul Wight, Luger, Sting (Hogan used his creative control to have Sting win which Sting was against), Piper (their deal was Piper got the wins but Hogan kept the belt), Luger, Kidman… if he had been insane with using his creative control their is no way he would have agreed to have Kidman go over because it defies logic just because of the size difference.

@CuteLesbo69

5 ай бұрын

@@andrewft31 Hogan only put people over when it put him in strong light. Every time he put someone over on tv it was because something else would boost the ratings, so he put himself in a position to put someone over but it gave the appearance the ratings bump was because of him. It was always the Hulk Show.

@lodi70005

5 ай бұрын

@@andrewft31 Hogan put Arn over? I remember how strong Arn looked in that win,lol. How many people interfered in that match?

He had to hire Hogan’s friends so he could be one of Hogan’s friends. His biggest fear was not being Hogan’s friend, so he did whatever Hogan wanted.

One Thing I disagree on Eric with is his stance on Bill Watts. Watts was the first promoter to have black champions and pushed Junkyard Dog, in that interview Watts simply said a business owner should have the right to hire or not hire anyone no matter what race they are. How is that racist? He gave more black wrestlers opportunities than anyone and was close friends with many of them.

@kevinkbradshaw2239

5 ай бұрын

Ya, Eric I guess forgot the racial stuff Hogan was caught on tape saying. He sure can remember what "bad" stuff Watts supposedly said

@freedomisslavery6840

3 ай бұрын

Yes, he was simply making the correct point that the end result of the Civil Right act legislation is that it essentially outlawed freedom of association.

@stephenmillar7455

3 ай бұрын

Er... there's a little more to it than that...

@pinnacleproductions6275

3 ай бұрын

@@stephenmillar7455 are you going to elaborate?

@ScottSmith-xy3jk

5 сағат бұрын

Tell us you don't know anything about Bill Watts without telling us you don't know anything about Bill Watts.

Pretty sure the Nasty Boys returned to WCW in 1993. Hogan made his WCW debut in 1994z

What exactly did Bill Watts say. Considering his biggest babyface in MidSouth was Sylvester Ritter aka The Junkyard Dog

Eric is a Hogan fanboy, plain and simple. His might be the biggest man crush I’ve ever seen. Bischoff was desperate to be cool, desperate to be one of “the boys,” desperate to have a piece of the spotlight. The man joined a faction that was trying to take down the “establishment” - and HE was the establishment. How tf are you fighting against yourself? I’ve always said that X Pac was the tag along 3rd wheel who always wormed his way into the group of cool kids. Bischoff is that tag along 5th wheel that bought his way in. It’s really pretty pathetic.

@paulwerline6249

6 ай бұрын

I've always said the same thing. If you've ever heard him talk about The Booty Man(Brutus the Barber Beefcake) he sounds like Hogan's current lover jealously complaining about his ex.

@thekingofkingsrp

5 ай бұрын

Pretty clever bought his way in using someone else money lol.

@geraldconnolly2140

5 ай бұрын

Heyman is that you?

@ignatiusjackson235

5 ай бұрын

True about Eric, but X-Pac could work with the best of them. There's a reason WWF would use him to get a good match out of newbies during the Attitude Era. I just don't think his character, size, and skillset fit the mold of a "superstar." He was the best "role player" you could ask for until the drugs took over towards the end of his run.

Terry looked out for Terry. Period. He wouldn’t have had the attorney he had otherwise. He clearly played the nice guy and had his attorney be how he really wanted to be.

I am not a fan of many creative decisions this man has made but as a long time professional manager I can say with confidence that this guy is a managerial genius

@rancidcrawfish

5 ай бұрын

Working at walmart isn't the same thing

Eric Bischoff is amazing. Great on the mic and a wrestling legend himself by the genius he showed with Hollywood Hogan and the nWo.

@rolltide9547

5 ай бұрын

He copied and stole the NWO from Japan clueless.

I lived slim Jim and those commercials

Wow i didnt know Hank Aaron was working at Turner

I'm a big fan of Steve Austin but I don't think him pretending to be Hogan's little brother was a good idea.

@joshuasteward6097

3 ай бұрын

They could have had it turn out to not be true as part of finishing the story.

Hulk Hogan joining WCW shook up the world.

Facinating

😂😂 Eric’s math tho…”our PPV share was 60/40 (wcw got 40%). After signing Hulk I was able to flip that. We’d do $2m per ppv, we’ll thats $200k per ppv where we got a raise”……. That would be $400k per show as a raise.

@MajorLeagueCOD

5 ай бұрын

He’s talking about the difference between getting 40% and 60%. Eric is saying when they got 60% because of Hogan that it was an extra 200k on every million difference just from having Hogan.

@kyleannett7623

5 ай бұрын

@@MajorLeagueCOD My guy, 8:42 give it another listen. He clearly says they were making $2m per ppv, and follows up with that’s a $200k raise….. that’s 10% not 20%, her never once says per million, he based his incorrect math on $2m revenue….. I didn’t go to the Scott Steiner school for math😂, I know what I commented, and I’m right.

@joshuasteward6097

5 ай бұрын

​@@kyleannett7623When they got 40 percent per million, that is $400,000. When they got 60 percent, that's $600,000. A $200,000 raise. I guess you are saying what he meant isn't exactly how he phrases it.

@kyleannett7623

5 ай бұрын

@@joshuasteward6097 you guys when does he say per million? Ever? The percentage as profit is whether it’s $10 or $1 trillion…. The only number he ever plainly says is $2m per ppv, and immediately says that’s a raise of $200k per show…. It’s not, it’s $400k. Eric made a head math mistake lol. It’s like Kevin Nash saying “Adjective” lol. Kevin is highly intelligent, but in that moment he was wrong lol. Eric is also highly intelligent, he just brain farted the math a bit.

Man I would LOVE TO KNOW who booked that crap with Austin and Duggan.... I was on the verge of quitting watching WCW after that. Then Austin got fired not too long after that 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️. I wanna say at some point it's been said that loss was due to needing to give Austin time off for injuries and that lead to the incident with him and management on the phone where Austin himself has admitted he handled things poorly. Either way that title change pisses me off to this day

@joshuasteward6097

5 ай бұрын

Austin was injured. So what if they picked Hacksaw to win the US belt from him? He dropped it to Vader at Starrcade 3 months later.

@soulofanerd9364

5 ай бұрын

@@joshuasteward6097 now THAT PART was a relief, Duggan losing to Vader but he never should have had the belt in the first place. As I said yes Austin was injured and needed to drop the title but I'm not in favor of anyone dropping titles to unworthy opponents so in this case Austin was above that kind of loss in my view, Jim Duggan was no where near a title holder level at that point and really ever in my opinion

@joshuasteward6097

5 ай бұрын

@@soulofanerd9364 Maybe. But who should have won it? The crowd liked Hacksaw. He did the usa chant, perfect for the belt, and it gave a veteran recognition.

@soulofanerd9364

5 ай бұрын

@@joshuasteward6097 ehhhh I don't like the idea of kinda squashing an up and coming star who's been built for 3-4 yrs in a match with a way past his prime guy especially with a title involved that doesn't do anything for the prestige of the title. Off the top of my head I'm still sure there were better candidates than Duggan. Hell was Macho there yet? That's a guy who brings something to any title he had

@namikstudios

5 ай бұрын

Dusty Rhodes was the head booker for WCW when this happened so it was probably him.

Hogan gave wrestling life, twice. We're not watching any wrestling on mainstream TV today perhaps without Hulk Hogan.

@iTubeYourDadsMinge

5 ай бұрын

You forget that Vince McMahon’s entrepreneurial approach and vision were huge factors in Hogan’s success. If McMahon didnt eat up all of thr territories and take a gamble on the first Wrestlemania, then we likely wouldnt have heard of Hulk Hogan either. Wrestling didnt explode just because of Hogan. And he grew stale, so turning him bad was the best thing to do for shock factor. To say Hogan alone is to credit for wrestling’s original boom and then late 90s peak is incredibly naive.

@Jestin612

5 ай бұрын

That's cap. It would have taken off eventually.

@andrewft31

5 ай бұрын

@@Jestin612when? And when he turned heel the industry was at an all time low and he made it must watch TV again

@Jestin612

5 ай бұрын

@@andrewft31 pfft, 🤣. Hogan is so overrated. Savage or Bret Hart could have blown it up. Hogan is just a dude who benefited by being stingy and creative. So Hall and Nash had nothing to do with the NWO?

@chadjustice8560

5 ай бұрын

Hogan is nothing without Vince shoving a ticket up his ass but also the guy on the other side, so with Piper at the beginning and then Andre to push it that much farther.

I'm no hogan fan but bringing in nasty boys makes sense. They were a real established tag team. Jimmy hart, honky and Jim Duggan make sense to be in a southern wrasslin company. The only one with no financial benefit is beefcake, zodiac' brother Brutus, and the booty man.

That is an awesome story.

Bruce, Russo and Eric say whatever they want to make them look good

Hacksaw is today and forever a treasure.

"You're probably not familiar with the Randy Savage Slim Jim commercials..." You mean those commercials that had a major cultural impact and still get made to this day using footage of him on TVs surrounded by new wrestlers doing impressions of him? Nope, never heard of it. We're far too young to know about those commercials that they still make (they sell a Randy Savage themed Slim Jim RIGHT NOW, Eric, catch up a little)

@grantmcphee5149

5 ай бұрын

He's in the UK.

Hacksaw got his start out of Alabama in the southern wrestling territories doing his football tackle finish. The WCW crowd knew him from the early 80s. Plus his USA gimmick was always going to be over. Once he hit Andre with the 2x4 & knocked him out he should have gotten a bigger push. WWF wasted him. He was the #2 babyface in that organization for a few years.

The Nasty Boys were already in WCW when Hulk Hogan came on board...

Love Hogan or hate him, usually if you were on his team you made more money 💰. Hogan was over he was one of the greatest wrestlers of the 90's and the greatest wrestler of the 80's for sure. Flair will disagree with that statement, but that's why it's called an opinion from a Hogan fan 😂.

Say what you want about Hogan, him looking after his mates is cool

@mrFiiSKiiS

5 ай бұрын

Hogan just played the game better than the others.

@allencollins5666

5 ай бұрын

Hogan Overly-Criticized.

What was Austin thinking with that idea??

@korovievice

6 ай бұрын

He probably just viewed it as a part-time comedy angle that could get him screen time with the organization's biggest name. Pretending to be Hogan's family and then inevitably backstabbing him also works with the Hollywood Blonde character. Truthfully, this would've been a highlight amongst Hogan's work in WCW up until the NWO.

@zlinedavid

5 ай бұрын

Would’ve been more entertaining than the Dungeon of Doom 🙄

It's easy to be a nice smiley face guy😊 when ya have a killer Rotty on the end of the leash... Cheers🍻 RP

wcw was never ever considered a regional southern promotion. WCW was always a major promotion that had national tv....

@Chevyboiz

5 ай бұрын

It was regional when it was Georgia Championship Wrestling

The one thing I was hoping he would touch on and he didn’t was Hulk Hogan’s creative control aka that doesn’t work for me, brother. It made booking Hogan difficult but that was one of the “parameters” Hogan insisted on. He didn’t trust WCW to protect him to the degree McMahon did.

I could really go for a slim jim right now

“That’s not gonna work for me brother”

Hacksaw was the BEST!! I would trade 100 Bishofs for one Hacksaw...

Hulk Hogan once again wanted people around him to make him look good and if it was up to Hogan there would be no nwo bc he didn't want it . Wcw could have been way better with story lines but it was all about Hogan like when a star like Brett Hart came over they did nothing with him. No wonder they tanked

Eric Bischoff, the Scott Coker of professional wrestling.

Very odd that Bischoff says Bill Watts is a racist considering that Watts was the first promoter to put the belt on a black man.

Thunder Lipps Runs Wild Brother!!!

Hahaha, at 4:02! 😂 Eric pulling a Rock!

When Hogan was going to WCW, they had to bring some friends and not so friends with Hogan from the WWF to the WCW. Mean Gene Okerlund, Bobby The Brain Heenan, The Nasty Boys, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, The Honky Tonk Man, Jimmy Hart, Sensational Sherri Martel, Brutus Beefcake and Macho Man Randy Savage.

@Eddie-lm3jf

4 ай бұрын

Some of those people had been in WCW for months before Hogan went to WCW.

@chriswideman1218

4 ай бұрын

@@Eddie-lm3jf like mean Gene Heenan Sherri

Why does my man have saiyan hair?

Imagine living off something the rest of your life you did for like 4 or 5 years 27 years ago

@catdad1988

5 ай бұрын

That something is more than 99% of the fanbase will ever do with their entire lives.

I like wcw and wwe but I always liked wcw better should still be around wcw.

0:50 Two words that are the very definition of an oxymoron "Hogan and honesty"

I think that Hulk only wanted to work with people he trusted and was comfortable with is only half true. Hogan branded himself both within wrestling and as an image outside of wrestling and always selfishly. You couldn't stand in his shadow unless he allowed it, and you were willing to be a sycophant at worst or at least his subordinate at best. He's a valuable piece to wrestling, especially in that early-mid 90s WCW, but it cost other people the chance to be at his level having to be held down too. Of course, he never saw it that way, I'm sure.

@cjjonez

5 ай бұрын

That's a myth being held back if you being used any. It's up to the performers to get over as a heel or face. Creative gives the parameters, but it's up to the performers to execute. The great ones just need screen time. Might take sometime but the greats going to get over.

@gbody2617

5 ай бұрын

Stop being the common snowflake weenie nowadays! Nobody had it like Hulkster - PERIOD! A lot of the guys weren't ready to hold the company on their shoulders and make money for everyone. You're looking at it wrong and this is what's so disgusting about this generation where everyone feels entitled. P*$$*£$!

@Yroko

5 ай бұрын

​@@cjjonezhogan had soo much pull with creative and looked down on any up coming star. Too many talents didnt make it to upper card because of him. When most of them left wcw back to wwe during raw or to tna after the buy out. They made a name for themselves.

@cjjonez

5 ай бұрын

@@Yroko I disagree with you Hogan didn't hold "the supposed talent" they brought nothing to the table for Hogan to work with. They had nothing of value to bring to Hogan Being a solid performer dont mean you a draw.

The guy literally signed Razor Ramon and Diesel at their peak popularity, end of story. He's no genius or braniac business man.

WCW died in 94 it just didn't get buried until 01

History

0:48-0:51 honest? Lmao!

I remember when those damn WWF wrestlers came to WCW, it sucked. It just didn't fit. That being said sometime I prefered their stuff in WCW. Like Duggan was more gritty in WCW with his tapped fist matches.

Eric is right. Those names carried a lot of weight with us fans from back in the day. No one cared about Sean, Brett, Austin etc. they were nobody’s