Kenzo is Japanese Marty Jannetty cause his old Tag partner is Japanese Shawn Michaels and that person is Hiroshi Tanahashi.

@TheRizGuy

7 жыл бұрын

I thought Tanahashi was Japanese Cena.

@spaceboy9902

7 жыл бұрын

TheRizGuy Tanahasi isn't the Japanese anybody, he's TANA FUCKING HASHI

@dylanogg347

6 жыл бұрын

Wait, I thought it was just Tanahashi, right? I'M SO CONFUSED!!!

@craigndem6406

5 жыл бұрын

I never knew that. This little nugget of information made my day lmao!

The only reason I remember Mark Jindrack and the Bashams was because of Smackdown vs Raw 2006.

@IsaiahJohnsoncocoinc

7 жыл бұрын

Eddie W. Same here. I literally just scrolled past them while playing the game.

@malcolmboyd3467

7 жыл бұрын

no he was in the first SvR. Pretty sure he was gone by the time 06 came out

@IsaiahJohnsoncocoinc

7 жыл бұрын

Malcolm Boyd Yeah he's in there.

@Armageddon-yt3so

7 жыл бұрын

same here

@ajbahus

7 жыл бұрын

Also Day of Reckoning on the Gamecube. The "Mark of Perfection" was his finisher.

I ACTUALLY REMEMBER MIKE KNOX

@supersamples1718

7 жыл бұрын

Quinn and Valor i have a wrestling card with him on it

@IngrainedReason

7 жыл бұрын

I knew about Mike Knox from a video of top ten bad finishers.

@SAM-ru4vx

7 жыл бұрын

another one on the list of guys TNA signed cause they were in WWE

@FOREVERCraigYT

7 жыл бұрын

I remember Mike Knox's beard more than Mike Knox, His beard was more over than he was

@dreamynachos3439

7 жыл бұрын

Mike Knox is underrated.

The sad part about this era in WWE is there were a lot of really talented wrestlers who were completely misused.

@ShadowsegaExaid

7 жыл бұрын

MrMetalover666 I feel bad for them. Vince McMahon,Kevin "The Bucky Beaver Toothed Asshole" Dunn and the uncreative Saban,Disney,MGM,Warner Bros.,Universal,CBS,Nickelodeon and Hollywood retards basically reduced them to jobbers and fed them to their golden boys like that fucking bootleg Vanilla Ice who shall not be named.

@PuroresuFan

7 жыл бұрын

MrMetalover666 The only one in this countdown so far that's even remotely pushed in WWE is Tye Dillinger

@nicksnyder5199

7 жыл бұрын

Shadowsega V2 well said

@TheRizGuy

7 жыл бұрын

That's true for any era in WWE, and pro wrestling in general, shitty booking has always come in the way of good talent over the years.

@whocares8584

6 жыл бұрын

Not just this era but the new era the pg era & even the Hogan era. Back then I was a fan of Hogan & warrior like most ppl cuz of their superman bigger than life gimmicks & personas but looking back neither had memorable matches with a few exceptions like both of their matches with macho man & a couple others here & there. They were other great talent like me perfect, Jake the snake, Bret, bulldog,bam bam,macho man, piper etc that were better then both of them imo. They weren't jobbers but never got pushed as well as they should've been. 4 all the hate cena gets & love Hogan got & probably still gets they're both mirror images of each other cena being a carbon copy of Hogan. The gimmicks r different Hogan being the wholesome all American cena the Dr of thuggonomics. But if u look at em cena is Hogan 4 the modern age. Hogan hulking up 4 example is like cena going in2 super cena mode. 5 knuckle shuffle is not a finisher but as a signature it's pretty similar 2 leg drop. Say your prayers eat your vitamins is akin 2 hustle loyalty & respect. Both had or at least did a very limited moveset. Both excelled at mic skills. Hogan ripped his shirt cena takes his armband off. Both buried other talent or wwe buried them 4 their character. Both were top merchandise sellers. Both r big & muscular. Both always overcame even the worst odds I can keep going but think I made my point.

I remember in GM mode from SvR 2006 I gave Doug Basham a WWE title shot on Raw against John Cena the week his contract ran out. He then proceeded to beat Cena in the main event of a Raw and I brought him back just so I could beat the shit out of him with Kurt Angle at SummerSlam

@ShadowsegaExaid

7 жыл бұрын

RedskinsCanefan21 I remember it. I gave Hidenreich the WWE title until he lost it to Doug Basham. I had Doug Basham tried to defend it against Edge and he lost. Doug Basham got pissed at me and what happened? I fired him off of his contract as I said "That's what you get for insulting me!" As I kicked his ass with Stone Cold Steve Austin.

@rickyrosay33977

3 жыл бұрын

No joke Scotty 2 Hotty is my world heavyweight champion I even have pics I use the ai and he beat Hassan however scottys popularity is still too low so his Cinderella story is going to end early

2:50 Naka-merica when Nakamura won the US Title

@claymathewselevator8121

11 ай бұрын

Brian Zane predicted the future

Gavin Spears as number 10. I see what you did there Brian. I see what you did and I don't appreciate it.

@luckykoopa9892

7 жыл бұрын

I imagine he won the tyebreaker to take the spot.

@greatone10

7 жыл бұрын

I think Gavin Spears as #10 was perfect placement.

@Asb20334

7 жыл бұрын

Jasmine S I don't get it can someone explain it

@jeofreymarquez6868

7 жыл бұрын

arsh bull gavin spears today is in nxt as tye dillinger

@aperson206

7 жыл бұрын

Stan!

Number 11 - QUARTER PAST TEN!

@QuicklimeTime

7 жыл бұрын

Can o' Coke for that man!

@CelticKillerSOB

7 жыл бұрын

My boy!

@alvinjohnson5037

7 жыл бұрын

A winner is you

@theoldman7473

7 жыл бұрын

What Bar is quarter past 10.

@SergBeret

7 жыл бұрын

QUARTER PAST TEN, YA FOOKIN ANIMAL, YA!

Now that you mention it, that Gavin Spears does have a Perfect 10 resemblence with someone I've seen... Wait a minute, of course! He's Stan, the guy that was kicked by Shawn Michaels

@MrDman21

7 жыл бұрын

He looks more like a low-rent Charlie Haas.

@BmanTheChamp

7 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, I had no idea. You get a 10 from me for noticing that.

@MrDman21

7 жыл бұрын

The Champ HA HA!

@shawnfields266

7 жыл бұрын

wait, that's the guy Shawn Michaels kicked?!!

@robertm6590

3 жыл бұрын

Now he's Shawn Spears of the Pinnacle in AEW...

In my SVR 06 GM mode mark jindrak beat triple h three times and won the wwe title. Then lost it two weeks later

@pittsburghmike5962

7 жыл бұрын

The way it should've gone down in real life

@Xehanort10

5 жыл бұрын

Did he lose it back to HHH?

when braun strowman debuted i thought mike knox returned

Call me crazy, but I think the whole Kizarny gimmick could've gotten over. It at least seemed interesting.

@pittsburghmike5962

7 жыл бұрын

He looked like a messed up young jericho

@SeanStrife

7 жыл бұрын

It probably didn't work out because his debut match against MVP was EXTREMELY boring.

@Cobralalalala

7 жыл бұрын

I think having him cut his entire promos in carny speak was the first mistake. And then they gave up on him after one match. Also, he should have debuted as a heel. Sinn Bodhi is a talented and interesting guy and should have done better.

@seanjahns3238

7 жыл бұрын

Plus he is married to Jerry Lawler's ex wife The Kat

@codeblack9407

7 жыл бұрын

McBandit Hope you're crazy

I almost forgot how many lackluster tag teams (excluding La Resistance) were on the WWE roster during the Ruthless Aggression era. Also, I agree that Mike Knox got the short end of the stick when he was working with the company. Damn you, Kelly Kelly.

@TheUPChannel

7 жыл бұрын

Los Matadores vs La Resistance, in a battle of hackneyed, underwhelming tandems, and it all happens NEXT!

@joshbouman1654

7 жыл бұрын

Ugh I hated La Resistance... and Deuce and Domino AND Cade and Murdoch. Fuck me there were some shit teams back then.

"No man's sky was more enjoyable than Cazarny's career" Ouch Zman

Watching in 2020 now that Nakamura IS now a joke. Brian was ahead of his time.

@claymathewselevator8121

8 ай бұрын

Nostradamus

Vito is the guy who wore a dress

@JMFabiano

7 жыл бұрын

Better known now for his lawsuit gimmick.

@Wwesattitude

7 жыл бұрын

James Fabiano ha.

I vividly remember the Kizarny vignettes and just being weirded out by them. They were creepy... but not quite Boogeyman-level creepy. In hindsight, that was a gimmick that was doomed to fail from the start... it was too hokey.

@NICKWAPPERER117

7 жыл бұрын

Alec Rants Yep I remember being a kid (I won't say how young in fear of making anyone feel old) and seeing them week after week after week. He showed up twice! And I only saw him one of those times lol I was like "that's it?!" It's kinda sad how that stuff happens though ya know?

@falsevektor

7 жыл бұрын

James Florin oh yeah for sure lol. it's kind of lame having to sit through all those vignettes and getting such a weak payoff

@TraxelAxel

6 жыл бұрын

I remember those vignettes also. I also found them odd but I was young so I attribute it to that. I also was completely ignorant of anything about wrestling apart from what was on WWE tv so the whole relation between wrestling and carnivals went totally over my head

@claymathewselevator8121

8 ай бұрын

Sinn Bodhi

it looks the the perfect 10 had another chance.

@jmaxx7410

5 жыл бұрын

Aaaaaand he's gone.

BISCUITS AND GRAVY

@bigbadbeardo

7 жыл бұрын

jenkind1 BISCUITS AND GRAAAAAAVAAAAAAAY

@KMartReady

7 жыл бұрын

Bigbad Beardo Oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhh Biscuits and Gravvvyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@mat2000100

7 жыл бұрын

MADE ME A MAN

@dylanbaron__

7 жыл бұрын

OOOOOOOH BISCUITS AND GRAVYYYYYYYY

If he's eligible then Eric Escobar has to top the list

@WrestlingWithWregret

7 жыл бұрын

He WAS high up there originally, then I recalled he was around AFTER 2008, which is regarded to be the cut-off point for this era.

@davidmitchell-baker6604

7 жыл бұрын

Wrestling With Wregret fair enough, I thought that there was a slight chance that he may have made the cut given that Knox and Slam Master J did, but I suppose they were around for a a few years before hand. But still, anything to get Escobar a moment in the spotlight again! ;)

@ForDemFolks

7 жыл бұрын

+Wrestling With Wregret sooooo Vance Archer Colin dellany and Idol Stevens?

@otheamazing

7 жыл бұрын

Wrestling With Wregret I tend to agree with you but I believe Slam Master J debuted in 2009 with cryme tyme but I might be wrong

@WrestlingWithWregret

7 жыл бұрын

otheamazing Technically, Jesse had been around since 2007.

I'm about to listen to Eazy now 😂😂

Absolutely love this series Brian. I started watching wrestling during the Invasion angle and the mention of some of these stars brings back so many memories of surfing wrestling boards and talking about stars like Mordecai or Sean O' Haire. I'm a long time fan of your channel and don't usually leave a comment but I thought I'd express my gratitude for these come and go stars of the past. I think you put out some of the most original content out there and I always enjoy your discussions of the ruthless aggression era. Great work Zane, keep it up!

top 18 brutis beefcake gimmicks

@hellomynameisxero

7 жыл бұрын

Panda Playz there's actually 18 different Brutus Beefcake

I will re watch this video at 10 : 15 in honor of number 11.

@kingofkombat5629

7 жыл бұрын

Quarter Past Ten, Also HELLO fellow OSW Fan

Superstar doesn't succeed in the Ruthless Aggression Era: Gets chokeslammed by Kane

After a long day of work, I come home and discover your immensely, entertaining videos. Please keep making more you have made me a subscriber.

Brian pretty much predicted what WWE would do with Shinsuke

@josewmeldondo

Жыл бұрын

Yep, spot on!

@claymathewselevator8121

11 ай бұрын

Nostradamus

And now we're here with nakamura wearing an uncle sam costume....

@claymathewselevator8121

11 ай бұрын

Brian Zane is Nostradamus

I love your video's, they are always a blast to watch :)

That N.W.A. is appreciated tho

shinsuke treated very differently now

Mark Jindrak is very successful here in México

@rickyrosay33977

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah he even appears in some Mexican soap operas

Isn't Kizarny the guy who married Jerry Lawler's Ex wife?

@Djarra

7 жыл бұрын

Yep he also does comic books about a possessed flower and works as a production artist on low budget horror films alongside running a tattoo shop. He also did some artwork for DDP and is a close friend of Jake Roberts.

@Tikitackfouls

7 жыл бұрын

MrMcKane which one

@shawnfields266

7 жыл бұрын

I don't know is he?

@BASSQUATCH001

6 жыл бұрын

Yup, and he also runs a promotion out of Las Vegas called Freakshow Wrestling.

"#10, Gavin Spears" I see what you did there Also, funny thing about Knox and the Wyatts, not only did he have a similar backwoods feel to Bray, he had the exact same finisher

Did not expect eazy duz it at the end props to you Zane!

There's a startling number of wrestlers here that I do remember.

You really found the bests! :) I remember haved a strange feeling about Kisarny like "what? All that promo and only one one-on-one match?!" Very strange story.

Another great episode. Looking forward to the final part tomorrow. :-)

Ha Ha Ha! #10! I saw what you did there, Brian.

@kingkai_3954

7 жыл бұрын

Please explain i dont get it lol

@aaronmiles5748

7 жыл бұрын

Gavin spears is now Ty Dillinger in NXT, Ty Dillingers gimmick is he likes the #10, it's actually incredibly over with the fans there.

@darylcastillo1439

7 жыл бұрын

Gavin Spears is now NXT's "The Perfect 10" Tye Dillinger

@kingkai_3954

7 жыл бұрын

+Daryl Castillo Thanks now i get it lol

@2xoliverontwitch592

7 жыл бұрын

he is now "perfect ten" Ty Dillinger

As always, great Video!

More vids like this pls they're some of your best Brian !

thanks for all your content

Thanks for doing these, they've been a good trip down memory lane. Shaniqua could've been good given time, her destorying Nidia, Torrie and Dawn was super entertaining in my opinion Kenzo was good to at the start, they really messed up there.

6:35 I had no idea who Tye Dillinger was until he debuted on SmackDown because I didn't start watching NXT until last year. So up until his main roster debut as Tye Dillinger, I had no idea why the hell you were doing that. 😂

Memorable Bashams match: Rey Mysrerio & Eddie Guerrero vs. the Bashams. Then again, that's the only Bashams match I've ever seen...

@RandalfElVikingo

7 жыл бұрын

Mauricio MF The Guerreros vs Basham Brothers in Suvivor Series 2003 is the one I remember, but I remember every match from that PPV.

These videos remind me of how little I truly missed during the near 10 years I didn't watch wrestling.

Mark Jyndrak would be awesome on Lucha Underground!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Gaven Spears now known as Tye Dillenger in NXT?

@crjackman3825

7 жыл бұрын

yup

@crashunderride

7 жыл бұрын

Axel Crowe That's what I thought. lol

@MrStatistx

7 жыл бұрын

Thats why he did the 10 hands thing

@crashunderride

7 жыл бұрын

***** I don't have WWE Network, therefore, no NXT.

@supersamples1718

7 жыл бұрын

crashunderride Tye Dilingers gimmick is that hes "The Perfect 10"

5:00 I distinctly remember as a kid playing Smackdown vs Raw 2010 and finding out you had to play thru Road to Wrestlemania to unlock Jesse....fucking JESSE, a locked character...mind you Festus wasn't locked, but Jesse was

2:46 my god the foreshadowing

Hey Zane love the channel! About the Bashams i remember the match they lost the tag belts to Eddie and rey and they were in SVR2006

I adore how many clips of these guys has them being Chokeslammed by Kane. Is that the WWE, "you're out," signal? A Kane squash match?

I vaguely remember Deuce and Domino during the Ruthless Aggression Era.

@revans100591

6 жыл бұрын

Kain d. Badguy I remember them but only because of the girl that came to the ring with them the gimmick they had at the time was corny.

I feel your length of the "Ruthless Agression" era expands past when it ended and into another period of WWE history.

This is awesome!

Suzuki really got the short end of the stick. Dude had a pretty respectable career before and after his stint in the WWE.

Oooh, that Tye Dillinger reference has not aged well since sadly he really isn't doing much better these days. To the point that I just had to Google to find out if he was still working for WWE since I'm pretty sure he hasn't been on TV for months now.

@glennb6020

4 жыл бұрын

Happy now?

Michaels superkicking that dude, and then asking who he was, was hilarious! I had never seen that before!

Damn!! I remember the Kizarny vignettes. WOW!! Talking about blowing dust off the tapes.

Wow if you didn't predict Nakamura's US Tile run...

Love the Eazy-E tag at the end.

I liked Kizarny. You would think being friends with Adam and Jason, Edge and Christian, he would have stayed longer

@claymathewselevator8121

11 ай бұрын

I always thought that too

Manu, Slam Master J, and Mike Knox? Three people I actually remember in a row!

Luckily Kizarny is still doing well enough in the indie circuit, and had a pretty cool run as a rudo in Chikara a while back, introducing the Batiri, feuding with Ultramantis Black and being part of the Flood megastable.

@claymathewselevator8121

8 ай бұрын

Sinn Bodhi

I will forever be in debt to Mike Knox. Not for his forgettable WWE run but for his TNA stable The Menagerie and giving us Rebel and her amazing curves.😳

@claymathewselevator8121

11 ай бұрын

Then Rebel/Reba in AEW with Britt Baker

Wasn't Gaven Spears "Stan" the random guy backstage that Shawn Michaels kicked and said "See, I just kicked Stan!"

@Tikitackfouls

7 жыл бұрын

Christian Kallio si

@MrJ-rw2hb

7 жыл бұрын

Christian Kallio he is now the Dillinger in NXT

@MrJ-rw2hb

7 жыл бұрын

Tye

@shawnfields266

7 жыл бұрын

was he?! really?! that's the dude Shawn Michaels super kicked in the face?! I remember that moment it was hilarious!

OMG ... Shawn Michaels so savage poor Mike xD Shawn: "was he in the match?" Triple H- "yes" Shawn: "So we're doing good" XD

@Jacktrack7

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say "savage" he was straight up burying a fellow worker in a wrong way, everyone can do that but not everyone is allowed, HBK knows he can get away being a c*nt cause he's a legend but a lesser wrestler would've rightfully caught massive heat for that.

when you are compared to no man sky, you know its bad.

@G33kCulture

6 жыл бұрын

Multiplayer starts today!

Heidenreich was also one of the *"Forgotten Ruthless Aggression Era Wrestlers"* too.

That No Man's Sky joke doesn't mean as much nearly 4 years later.

2:42 That's some amazingly accurate prediction

I don't know why Brian you put Eazier Said Then Dunn in the ending but I love it Triple Thumbs up 🖒🖒🖒

3 videos in 3 days? I must have died and gone to Heaven!

i had watched this video before knowing who tye dillinger was and now that i'm watching it back the gavin spears bit really had me shook for a minute

"How much do you have to suck to be a Samoan in WWE and not get a push?" Sean Maluta: (sadly walks away while the ending theme from The Incredible Hulk plays)

Holy shit! Brian called it about Shinsuke +Wrestling With Wregret

Kizarny is doing pretty well for himself, he is now known as sin bodhi

'Be glad your boy isn't dressed up like Uncle Sam.... yet.' I hate you, Brian.

so far I have remembered all of these guys

oh my god brian predicted united states of nakamerica

Pretty sure Ruthless Aggression ended before 2010

@MrDman21

7 жыл бұрын

so many wasted tag teams in the Ruthless Aggression era :-/

@Rromantiq

6 жыл бұрын

2008*

@KegOfMeat

6 жыл бұрын

Nope the Ruthless Aggression Era ended in 2008 when the company went PG.

@powerspyin2

5 жыл бұрын

Once the PG rating came, the ruthless aggression ended

@KushClarkKent

5 жыл бұрын

Benoit put the nail in that coffin. WWE has been vanilla ever since.

I loved jessie and festus on smackdown and was sad when they stopped doing the gimmick. They really made festus look like a monster. Would’ve liked to see that tag team last longer

Kizarny has his own fed in Vegas called Freakshow Wrestling, alongside his wife Karen Kreep. It's a bit much for me, kind of a "trying to hard to be weird" kind of thing, but they seem to be enjoying themselves and have a decent amount of fans.

I loved Kenzo's pretending to love America through a shit eating grin phase.

bless Jesse's little hart, his figure makes a good base for an Owen custom

No Man's Sky more enjoyable than Kizarny's WWE career? I nearly did a spit take hearing that. Brian, you savage! Haha

My only memorable moment of The Basham Brothers was from a WWE video game. When I was playing GM mode, I simulated a match between Danny Basham and John Cena to build up a rivalry between John Cena and JBL. I watched the match to spark some interest with GM mode. What made this memorable was that Danny Basham actually beat John Cena in the simulated match fair and square. No interference or weapons were ever present. I literally was shocked and went to my friend..."WOW, imagine if Danny Basham actually beat John Cena on WWE Raw."

With the Brand Extension back, I decided to have a little trivia fun and try to list every male WWE Superstar who appeared on either Raw or SmackDown more than once, or at least once in a pay-per-view match, between 2002 and now - excluding Heat and Velocity, and also ECW unless they were there in the late fall of 2007 or afterward, when ECW effectively merged with SD and they began appearing on each others' shows. (Legends made it on if they appeared more than once, so the likes of Hulk Hogan, Sergeant Slaughter and Doink the Clown are on my list.) I assigned each Superstar to either Raw or SmackDown depending on which brand I felt more defined their career; if they appeared ONLY in 2014 or 2015, I assigned them to Raw by default. My findings were interesting: 256 Superstars, with an equal number (128 each) of Team Red and Team Blue! Bobby Roode is the most recent addition as of this week, and the Singh Brothers will make the list once they start wrestling regularly and out of street clothes.

Haha, love the Easy E at the end.

Number 10, clever. I'll give a thumbs up for that!

happy thanksgiving to Brian and everyone else

That scene of Slam Master J doing that weird boxing hop and messing with his hair? Even today I get him confused with Dolph Ziggler.

The only reason I remember Knox is because of SVR 2010 & 2011

I actually do remember something from the Bashams (ok really Shaniqua)...it wasn't the Bashams in the promo but Bradshaw. I remember a backstage promo where Bradshaw asked why he never saw Shaniqua and Benjamin at the same time and that Shaniqua was Benjamin in drag.

Mark Jindrak's claim to fame in WWE is having one of the best theme songs in WWE history...

BONUS!!! Remember Stan? The guy HBK kicked for no reason? That is Gavin Spears!

Eazy-er said than done I see ya Z-Man

Good video

You know what I agree that the Bashams entry is definitely justified considering that I completely forgot the Bashams were even on that Wrestlemania card

that number 10 entry was just perfect. you could say he was...........the perfect 10. :D