RIP Rick Rude. One of the greatest heel characters in wrestling history. Gone but never forgotten as Simply Ravishing

@gatchywatchyentertainmentb2090

5 ай бұрын

May he rest in peace at least he’s away from a sweaty Nebraskan hog like me.

@stsolomon618

5 ай бұрын

One of the greats indeed

@17thNO

5 ай бұрын

RIP Ravishing Rick Rude

@Official_Kings_Versus

5 ай бұрын

Rest easy, Rick Rude 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

@noz48a2

5 ай бұрын

Hard to forget when he's the one who lost his "Ravishing One" due to steroid injections. Don't be "Rude"

When Scott Hall shows up in the psych ward, i LOVE how all the patients do the "spooky fingers" at him.

It feels like WCW burned through several months' worth of material in one Nitro.

@martinbabich1920

5 ай бұрын

This comment has nothing to do with yours, but that's how I feel about Batman v Superman

@DJThree8s

5 ай бұрын

They had to try something, they were getting smoked

@waynetech10

5 ай бұрын

​@@martinbabich1920 On that unrelated note, I didn't hate every frame of that film, but it was years of development, in one film, coupled with unnecessary angst.

@martinbabich1920

5 ай бұрын

@@waynetech10 I hated every movie Zack Snyder was involved in, and now I know WB were at least partly to blame for those movies sucking

@lamestraw6409

5 ай бұрын

But the first title change (or even match) would be enough. They had such good opportunities with DDP, Goldberg, Sting and Nash in the Title picture. Could have been grand for WCW. @@DJThree8s

That custom Mean Street Posse song you got is the definition of a hit!!! That song is gonna fly up the charts in every country

@that_VIP_guy

5 ай бұрын

the song isn't custom, its been around for years, still a great intro clip though

16:52 "Surprise me WCW, Blow my socks off with what you have planned next..." "Ah yes, Erik fuckin Watts, thats just absolutely fantastic." This got me good, great stuff as usual bios

@zacharythomason7359

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂That was a good one

@thehauntedexplorers1738

5 ай бұрын

It had me crying, and then it was followed by that hurricanerana.

On the one hand, it's Reliving the War and that's always a Jam Up Time. But, we are getting closer to Over the Edge 1999 and I'm not ready to be sad.

@christophernicholson20

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I agree as much as I love the Reliving The War videos I an definitely not looking forward to that video the Over The Edge pay per view and Owen Hart tragedy 😢😢😢

@melasn9836

5 ай бұрын

Same here. That one's gonna hurt...

@twfchamp02

5 ай бұрын

I’ve been thinking about the Owen Tribute Show for the last two months of watching this and I’m not ready for it either, despite him being gone for 24 years.

@anotheratheist

5 ай бұрын

Or pissed off because Vince McMahon abused this so hard.

@AmazingGuy13

5 ай бұрын

It's soon upon us 😢

Beaver Cleavage, Mental Institutes, “Meat”, and LSD. Monday Nights were wild in the late 90’s 😂😂

@zlinedavid

5 ай бұрын

You left out pimps, porn stars, prostitutes, satanic rituals and on the horizon…weekly servings of pie and strudel.

Flair in the mental institution of one of my last memories of Nitro before I just gave up and switched entirely to Raw.

@exe2517

5 ай бұрын

I think Flair told his family to switch to Raw whenever these section were aired beforehand.

@mattdeters8306

5 ай бұрын

NITRO = Now I'm Turning Raw On

It's depressing seeing so many wrestlers pass away so young over the course of RTW.

@fast_mattw8059

5 ай бұрын

Steroids, alcohol, cocaine, speed, painkillers, lack of sleep and strenuous activity daily. It’s kind of a wonder we didnt lose more as sad as that is to say.

@JessCorey

5 ай бұрын

Choices for most.....Tragedy for some...

Weird thing is WCW's rating's where still strong, if they had just focused on maintaining instead of trying to beat the out of this world WWF rating's they would have been fine probably.

@zlinedavid

5 ай бұрын

Couldn’t have said it better. They focused on being an alternative WWF instead of an alternative TO the WWF.

@ryankeefe2102

5 ай бұрын

Honestly I think in retrospect which is always better than foresight that 99 should've been the rebuilding year push goldberg raven booker Kidman rey konnan etc

@therealangelalexander1858

5 ай бұрын

​@@ryankeefe2102 The fact Booker and Steiner weren't in contention for the world title around this point is honestly baffling. Hell we got another 14 months in the timeline before Booker wins his first wcw title, and a bit longer until Scott wins his first world title.

@ryankeefe2102

5 ай бұрын

@therealangelalexander1858 I'll throw Raven in that mix too he should've been in that picture around this time

@Hyde_Hill

5 ай бұрын

@@ryankeefe2102 Jericho, Benoit and Eddie of course as well. Because they would have extended if they had been elevated earlier.

Hearing Owen Hart and Over the Edge, just send a chill down my spine. 😔

@zacharythomason7359

5 ай бұрын

Same

@mariobros68

5 ай бұрын

And it boils my blood after knowing Kevin Dunn careless of his death and procedd with the PPV. I'm just glad he's finally gone

@ayejayreviews8760

5 ай бұрын

Alright we all know it's coming

@brian_b_music

5 ай бұрын

@@mariobros68He should have been gone a lot sooner. But apparently he saved some WWF tapes from a fire, so he had a “job for live” or something like that.

@coreyhall1150

5 ай бұрын

It just makes my BLUE BLOOD BOIL​@@mariobros68

It's hard to believe that Charles Robinson used to have this big of a role

@karlitosway7474

5 ай бұрын

Right?! Growing up all I ever knew him as was a referee. WWE could’ve used him better.

@rcharles317

5 ай бұрын

I remember him rocking his version of the ric flair "RF" trunks

@DasNordlicht91

10 күн бұрын

This whole thing was essentially how Charles got the "Little Naitch" nickname, especially with him being so closely-tied to Ric Fialr.

RIP Rick Rude. In Bret's autobiography, he mentioned that wrestlers die in 3. Around that time, it was Rick, Owen, Gorilla Monsoon.

@Venemofthe888

5 ай бұрын

didnt Gorilla pass away in October of 99

@gatchywatchyentertainmentb2090

5 ай бұрын

It’s sad that Owen and Rude were only the beginning of the tragic onslaught of young talent dying throughout the years.

@dukes1993724

5 ай бұрын

@@gatchywatchyentertainmentb2090Pillman?

@FrankyWorldPeace

5 ай бұрын

@@Venemofthe888 Basically they all transitioned in 1999.

@gatchywatchyentertainmentb2090

5 ай бұрын

@@dukes1993724 Yeah but Owen I think was the start of the real on string cause it was just continuous after he died

my god, that Mean Street Posse video. I nearly spat out my drink. so fuckin funny, props mate

The Eric f'n Watts part killed me 😂😂😂😂

Rest in Peace Rick Rude he was simply Ravishing compared to all those sweat hogs. Unfortunately this year still has another huge death not too far away. I didnt realize how close Rude and the next death were close together

Sting and DDP two of my favorite WCW guys.

28:20 This is the type of transition that makes RTW a must watch each week. Pure poetry.

@kcjustice08

5 ай бұрын

Esp. him calling them Godfather's Creatures of the Night. Lol

Sting vs DDP Match was awesome

Hell more than Sting winning the title, what amazed me about it was that it was a clean victory too. No weapons, no cattle prods, no 5 NWO run ins, etc. Definitely was a refreshing glass of water for WCW at the time.

@luckywallace

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely awesome match. If WCW had kept the belt on Sting and given him a good run at this point I think it would have given the company a big shot in the arm. The fans always loved the Stinger but his late 97 - early 98 title run was a mess and when he won the beltagain later in 1999 it was as a heel... which didn't work as the fans still cheered for him anyway.

@nandilukas1129

2 ай бұрын

​@@luckywallaceRight🦂

Best line of the video: Austin says he's got 99 problems and Stephanie McMahon ain't one. Hit me.

@zacharythomason7359

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

This is one of my all-time favourite Nitros and Sting v DDP is my favourite US match of all time. So awesome to finally get to this RTW!

@camschuster5947

5 ай бұрын

Underrated classic for sure. Amazing match.

This episode unlocked some proper core memories I have from being a child and watching WWF. Probably my earliest memory of wrestling is Undertaker with Stephanie McMahon that night. Real deep shot of nostalgia that I wasn't expecting. Great work as always.

I was a big WWF fan at this time, and a girl in my class was a WCW fan. We agreed to watch 1 episode of each other's show to see which was better. Needless to say, the mental hospital and double belt drop didn't change my mind. In her defense, the whole "marry darkness" thing was weird to her. So we just went back to watching our own shows, lol.

@sherrix6881

5 ай бұрын

Never happened. It’s not true. We made that one up.

@juststatedtheobvious9633

5 ай бұрын

r/nothingeverhappens

@BrandNew777

5 ай бұрын

You knew a girl?

@juststatedtheobvious9633

5 ай бұрын

@@BrandNew777 Most people know more than one, in fact. They even have more than one personality between them. Not sure why the idea of girls watching wrestling is still shocking anyone...they certainly weren't shy about cheering for the R&R Express or the Von Erichs...

Scott Hall walking into the Frame at the Insane Asylum was Hilarious 😂😂😂, Forgot about this😂😂, 1999 was An Awesome Year

Thursday afternoon means Reliving The War! This is my second favorite piece of wrestling video this week, topped only by the R-Truth / Judgement Day video on Raw this week.

This guy is genius with the side skits from Bret's Jam, to Bret's cat Smokey, to that Mean Street Posse clip 😂

@whisperienced

5 ай бұрын

Wiggle wiggle

This is without question the greatest series of videos ever put on the Internet!

JR saying “it was the right thing to do!” resonated within me💯

@roccojamison89gooker51

5 ай бұрын

Quaker Oats is for you. JR is a fan of Wilford Brimley. Maybe they're (JR and Brimley) are distant cousins.

Charles Robinson was hilarious in this segment and in the upcoming weeks

Under rated and highlighted moment that DDP vs Sting match. I don't even remember it being part of the best of WCW set. Probably overshadowed by the Flair mental hospital non sense, what happened later and general decline of WCW and WWF being so hot at the time.

What a night this was. Rock’s huge face turn, Rick Rude’s passing, and a big time match for WCW with Sting Vs DDP.

The whole 1999 WWF roster is shaping up to be like WrestleMania 2000 for the N64. Just one guy missing, but he'll debut in August.

@wilhelmbeaston8003

5 ай бұрын

That's right, we got Meat now!

Started watching wrestling this time last year after a drunk night talking about the attitude era. Started in 96 KotR and now I’m here. Been with you ever since then but now I’m all caught up Love the series. Thank you for all your hard work!

@riproaringanus

5 ай бұрын

Worst thing that happened to me was catching up after 150 plus episodes ready to watch and then oh no, I have to wait 😢

@markthomas3130

5 ай бұрын

@@riproaringanus killer init

Assman - hands down one of the best themes in wrestling ever. I've Got It All was also an absolute banger!

@That_Guy-

5 ай бұрын

"The one" theme sounds like it belongs in a 90s family sitcom

@taydafranklin7800

5 ай бұрын

Don't forget his Billy and Chuck theme.

Hindsight really messes with our perception of things, but at the time, Russo actually had a good reputation even among the Observer crowd. Him going to WCW was seen as a massive steal.

BRO!!!! I’m so happy to be here. Took months grinding all 182 episodes to catch up! Including pay per views! I’m buying a fuckin shirt! 💪🏾💪🏾

The only RAW I went to. Great memories.

RIP Rick Rude

Seeing the Rock turn face for the 1st time gives me chills..its the beginning of where we are and we he is today

@KevinPayton-fq8gd

5 ай бұрын

He turned face in 1998 but this face turn in '99 is exactly what you stated. His career shot up to the moon inside and outside the ring after this turn.

38:20 still one of the coolest moments of the Attitude Era.

It's almost time watch Beaver Cleaver break character and meltdown live on RAW.

@zlinedavid

5 ай бұрын

*Cleavage

Nice of Sting to reapply his makeup after the first match, and then give a slight interview already back in makeup.

We're getting closer to over the edge 1999 and I'm not ready for that one

@jarlwhiterun7478

5 ай бұрын

Nobody is 😔

@Venemofthe888

5 ай бұрын

its a little bit chilling that we are less than a month till it happens its so surreal seeing the leadup

@woobgamer5210

5 ай бұрын

hopefully we can see No Mercy UK first, which gives us one extra video to be prepared, as No Mercy UK is only 3 days before Over the Edge.

@Venemofthe888

5 ай бұрын

@@woobgamer5210 I didn't realise they were that close together

Not ready to say goodbye to Owen. Two of the things that I've been dreading since the start of this series is OTE and Raw Is Owen 😭💔 we are getting more and more close to it

@zacharythomason7359

5 ай бұрын

Same here

@adamcadwell4560

5 ай бұрын

One of the most heart breaking moments in Wrestling and to make it worse, they had guys coming into it a few months later he could hsve had great matches with, without the stupid gimmick that ended his life.

On the beach in Costa Rica watching reliving the war love it

The Rock's babyface turn

@Mr.Suavehouse

5 ай бұрын

Good times are soon upon us my friend

WCW haven't yet to stop stooping low, we haven't seen Oklahoma yet.

Legit check your channel 5 times each day for a new reliving the war. Your other stuff is awesome as well. Your channel is gold. Thank you for all the hardwork you put into these videos.

@whisperienced

5 ай бұрын

I'll save you time. Reliving the war is always released on Thursdays.

I'm sure that all this ministry stuff will have an amazing payoff and one for the ages!!

@PaulieD1984

5 ай бұрын

The hower power revelation is a shocker and makes so much sense

@roccojamison89gooker51

5 ай бұрын

@@PaulieD1984 The Hour of Power or the WCW Power Hour

@mrdude88

5 ай бұрын

It did. At the end of this year, because of what Vince did with the Ministry, Stephanie betrayed her father for HHH.

@steve2372

5 ай бұрын

​@@roccojamison89gooker51he's making fun of hornytaker from his promo at the last ppv

@roccojamison89gooker51

5 ай бұрын

@@steve2372 25:15 A T-Shirt saying "That Almost Works For Me" would definitely be a great payoff for Wrestling Bios.

I can recall this episode of Raw like it was yesterday. But all I remember about this episode of Nitro was the Flair Mental Asylum "promos/skits" or whatever you want to call them. Not the matches. Not the title changes. Just that! Oh well. Another great video, WB. Thanks as always for sharing. 😁👍

Mideon wrote this week’s Nitro

RIP Rick Rude, sincerely a RTW sweat hog.

just knowing owens fate isn't far away is getting emotional..

Ah, the start of the legendary Earl Hebner v Triple H rivalry

@zacharythomason7359

5 ай бұрын

How can I forget about that.

despite the difference in ratings both shows are every week absolutely packed! One of the things I remember more vividly from the attitude era is how huge wrestling was. It was almost as if there weren't casual wrestling fans. If you were a wrestling fan you were tuning in every single week

Farooq with the dope pants on. 😂

I’m loving that Mean Street Posse skit it’s on level with Alex Wright 😂

I only ever got occasional glimpses of WCW and this Flair storyline was one of those occasions. I could never understand how WCW had ever beaten Raw.

And here we have The Rock's face turn. Which he will remain as a face for 3 years.

It's Thursday night and you know what that means! Reliving The War is here again. Notable stuff happening this particular week. And of course this is when the world said goodbye to the legend that is Ravishing Rick Rude. RIP to him.

Its mind blowing that Nitro was able to last 2 more years !

@KevinPayton-fq8gd

5 ай бұрын

Right.

@Illusive1313

5 ай бұрын

It also blows my mind thinking about the train wrecks yet to come.

The Over The Edge review is gonna be a good one. I've never actually seen any videos talking about the matches that took place before and after Owen's accident, so I'll be watching that one for sure.

@theinsufferablebutthole8923

5 ай бұрын

Im sure the Undertaker was on the card.

I can't even begin to explain how damn underrated "Ravishing Rick Rude" was. He was the total package and should've been WWF champion back in the day 🏆. The phrase "Often imitated but never duplicated" is so true when it comes to Rick Rude. Val Venis tried the gimmick with the porn star element attached to it in the Attitude Era but it wasn't the same. There will only be one Rick Rude. RIP to the "Ravishing One" 😢🕊️🌹🙏🏼.

@Hilversumborn

5 ай бұрын

Underrated?! He’s in the Hall of Fame!

@juststatedtheobvious9633

5 ай бұрын

So is Koko B. Ware.

“It was me Austin! It’s was me all along, Austin! 💀

Rick rude was followed by so many of his friends . Is so sad that wrestlers lost themselves to conditions only to entertain us

Man, the decline of WCW is just so sad to see. Russo didn't kill the company, but he sped its demise. We still have the arrival of Russo to come as well as the disaster for WCW that was 2000 in general. I got sad when it was mentioned the Godfather will face Owen Hart at the next PPV.

@JPD2587

5 ай бұрын

Russo was just the final nail in the coffin.

@heisensaul5538

5 ай бұрын

@@JPD2587 He helped speed up the demise of the company.

@juststatedtheobvious9633

5 ай бұрын

Nah. There's plenty of nails left after his first run.

@JPD2587

5 ай бұрын

@@juststatedtheobvious9633 look there’s lots of nails to go around.

@duckquack2000

5 ай бұрын

@@JPD2587The coffin was made of nails by the time WCW went under

I’m really enjoying your slow descent into madness as WcW gets more and more deranged.

Rest in power to Rick Rude, & I’m not looking to forward to Over the Edge ‘99, it broke my heart as a child when I read about the circumstances of Owen’s death & coupled with the fact that it was on the day I was born gave me an eerie feeling,Long live the king of Hearts ❤️

@zacharythomason7359

5 ай бұрын

Same

Still the best part of my Thursdays. Thank you for all the work that you put into doing this.

Sting vs Diamond Dallas Page WCW World Heavyweight Championship match was the very last time I watched WCW when I was a kid on April 26, 1999 before months later until August 26, 1999, I started watching the WWF/E.

Love these "Reliving's" It takes me back. Miss every last minute of it, Love every last minute of it!!! Its about to hit me, these next few episodes. RIP The Ravishing One!! He died 2 days before my birthday, I was like man that hurt!!

That was my first ever WWF live event I went to! So I thank you for doing this episode! Brought back memories

Sting with a ganso bomb at 10:57. That’s crazy.

After many years being subbed this is the best wrestling channel on yt.

Seriously thanks for the memories man❤

10:57 - Did Sting pull off a bloody Kawada Driver/Ganso Bomb!? I sure didn't remember this watching back then.

RIP Ravishing Rick Rude gone but never forgotten

Thank you for this ❤

I’ve been waiting for this and we’re almost there, The Rise of The Game!

Thursdays are awesome thanks to these videos 🍀

I was at Nitro this night with like 3 or 4 friends. The title changes were good matches and a big surprise. More than anything else though I remember all the standing around the live audience did during the Flair segments. The segments would be thrown to AND followed by commentary which you can’t hear when you’re there live. They would happen following or before commercial breaks. Some were back from commercial to commentary, throw to Flair segment, back to commentary to another commercial break. There were times we stood there for 15 minutes without anything happening in the arena.

I so look forward to you getting through WCW 2000 🍿

My son Logan, when he was little, thought Billy Gunn's theme song said, "I'm a nice man! I'm a nice maaaaan" 😂 I didn't feel the need to correct him.😊

Despite all the craziness that was going on in both companies at the time. This stuff is still more entertaining than watching today's wrestling!

love it thanks bro

Yo, been here for a while. Loving it.

This show happened on the day I was born.

This was the first ever Nitro I saw. It was recorded on a VHS tape and given to me by my grandmother. Good times! At the time I didn't get the DDP/Sting match but now, especially knowing how few actual finishes we saw in big name matches on Nitro, it's awesome.

Love the Ric Flair segments on WCW.

Best part of most weeks!

16:16. My word, you are funny sir. That deadpan . . . man.

This is definitely one of my favorite Nitros.

Waited an hour for this. Worth it. Now to conquer the world

You know it’s a good episode when you hear “Ay yo”

A couple of quick title changes is just WCW preparing for 2000

Flair can style and profile absolutely anywhere.

I always watch these vids on 1.25x speed because I struggle for time, even sped up the Hurricarana on Bam Bam was genuinely hilarious

I need the full mean street posse rap lmaooo

Mean street posse had the best theme music