ONS was like a 5-year high school reunion, where everyone still pretty much looks and acts the same, some friends were lost along the way, and the memories were greater than the events themselves.

@MohamedAli-xu3uw

Жыл бұрын

Its like having a swimgers from the glory years.

@djtrankilo231

Жыл бұрын

It definitely happened at the right time.

@andrewlynch1754

8 ай бұрын

It was a microcosm of ECW itself.

i love that vince loved the jbl joke heyman made.

Growing up in the Ruthless Aggression era, I never heard of ECW til the Rise and Fall of ECW dvd. As a kid, I had no idea this kind of wrestling exist and it was a sight to behold. ONS 2005 was a great event.

@angel.hernandez6669

Жыл бұрын

Poser

@Peerocka

Жыл бұрын

Same here, class of 96

@thomascolella8341

Жыл бұрын

How old were you?

@zacheatsworld

Жыл бұрын

@@thomascolella8341 I was 10 when I got the dvd.

@Oldschool1943

Жыл бұрын

@@Peerocka ecw existed since 92 and appeared in wwf shows twice before going out of business with wcw. hold that L mr. class of 96.

The Awesome vs Tanaka match at ONS is one of my favorite matches ever. They beat the shit out of each other. Hardcore doesn't always mean blood and broken glass. The Jericho and Lance Storm match is kind of underrated I think.

@damonodell9125

Жыл бұрын

They had better matches in 99 ecw

@dareason7581

Жыл бұрын

i just finished watching Awesome vs Tanaka... that ending was crazy FAM!!!! Man awesome bomb tanaka on the table outside of the ring... tanaka seemed like he hulked the fuck up then awesome flys to him lmfao shit is nuts!

@bigjoeofthe707

Жыл бұрын

Did you hear the alternate commentary for the event? Lmao. Oh man. They mic’d up the anti-ECW coalition led by JBL, Kurt Angle, & Eric Bischoff. Man the commentary during the Awesome-Tanaka match. JBL called Tanaka his limo driver.

@bnrso

Жыл бұрын

@@dareason7581 that dive comes out of fucking nowhere too lmao

@LTKK

Жыл бұрын

@@bigjoeofthe707 I never knew that. Now I want to watch the whole show again but with alternate commentary lol

This PPV was a perfect example of Vince playing the political short and long game. Give the fans a little “moment” let them feel like they have their victory, but in the meantime crush the brand and everyone involved in the long run. He made money, made ECW a joke, and buried it. Total victory.

@vampirascoffin870

7 ай бұрын

What's also crazy Shane was going to own ECW have Paul as the booker , make ecw a internet exclusive company and have mma/shoot mix with wrestling basically become nxt before it became cool & Vince was hating quickly cutting the legs off

@MarvinT0606

4 ай бұрын

ECW died when it went bankrupt and got sold. Vince just gave it a proper funeral. It was awesome while it lasted.

In 2005 I was weaning myself of wrestling as I was about to head to uni and knew I wouldn't be able to follow it like I would want. This show was perfectly placed for me and was exactly what it needed to be. It provided a real blow out nostalgia trip for the late 90s gritty feeling product that hooked me in through my adolescence. It will always hold a special place in my heart 🙂

@FrostWazowski

6 ай бұрын

What an event to see as sort of a "final farewell" to your following of the wrestling world. While I could say it's one of the greatest wwe ppvs of all time (I'll never call it a "premium live event" because it sounds stupid) I could just as easily say that it's not REALLY a wwe ppv, especially when compared to it's sequel the following year.

Saw this in the movie theatre (when that was a thing.) Unbelievable memories from that time. I graduated high school in '05, and this PPV was huge in keeping me interested in my late teens/early 20's. Now, I don't care what is "cool" or not and am back being a huge wrestling nerd. But, it really was an awesome time and kept my passion ablaze.

@intuitivelymagician2076

Жыл бұрын

Graduated grade 8 in 05

I remember watching this on PPV with my lapsed wrestling friends who kind of lost their passion after ECW and WCW closed. I won't forget how hard we popped for Heyman's promo on Edge and JBL It was a fun, nostalgia-fueled night

Still give me chills when i remembered Awesome vs. Tanaka match.

ECW: One Night Stand 05 is one of my all time favorite shows. I didn’t watch the original ECW when it was around, but this a neat little piece of what it was all about.

There is nothing as exciting as a lunch break with a fresh cultaholic video!! Much love and thanks y’all 🥳

I didn't see this live, but it's good and boy did I love OG ECW. Great, great memories!

Heyman in 2001: "I declare bankruptcyyyyyyy!!!"

Still remember watching this Live free on Channel 4 here in the UK,was amazing

ANY time I can revisit the halcyon days of ECW, I'm a happy camper. I miss the good feeling I used to get watching the original. I've felt that a few times since, most notably the first times I saw RoH in 2013 and when I finally discovered AEW on KZread. For a number of weeks and even months, I felt the spirit of ECW as "the little show that could".

Ah seeing the former WhatCulture guy going back to the well of Meanie-JBL is making me nostalgic

ECW One night stand 2005 was awesome and it was a whole lot better than the 2006 event even though that gave us RVD Winning the WWE Title was awesome and the crowd singing Enter sandman @ one night stand 2005 was great sucks that it's Dubbed on the DVD and peacock even though Heyman used it without permission this was an amazing PPV from Beginning to end.

@Thor-Orion

Жыл бұрын

Metallica is the one band guaranteed to sue you.

@benespinosa6725

Жыл бұрын

@@Thor-Orion Bingo!

@nathan1234537

Жыл бұрын

06 one was too much more like wwe turn 05 which had that old school ecw feel

20:05 that chair shot receipt was SO necessary. I hear a lot of different things about Stevie being a little bit of a strange character personally, but he's still respect by most of his peers. I would definitely want him on my side with how loyal he proved himself to be.

@richardtherichard26

Жыл бұрын

Steven Richards is a swell guy. I was a huge wrestling fan as a kid, including a fan of Stevie, one time he had to have a surgical consultation from the dr my mother worked for. He took a picture with her and left a voicemail on my phone. This would’ve been around 2008, so I’d have been about 14 and to hear THE Steven Richards on my voicemail was quite a moment. He’s a decent enough guy outside the ring. At least in my book

@Thor-Orion

Жыл бұрын

@@richardtherichard26 I never heard anything overtly negative, just that he can be a little bit of an oddball and has a unique sense of humor. Everyone gets on with him in the locker rooms he's been in, fans have nothing but good experiences with him. So I already figured he's a good dude

Too bad that they can’t do a WCW reunion event in Atlanta Georgia.

Fantastic video yet again, Well done Jack and everybody involved👏

Being a Philly native, it was WWF/E, WCW, and ECW. We were spoiled.

I remember watching this PPV and afterwards I phoned the Toronto wrestling radio show that was covering it to tell them that they were wrong, and the matches were awesome actually and then closed out my talk by telling them that the Leafs suck. Nailed it! Great PPV! I had never seen Super Crazy before and his moonsault into the crowd lives rent free in my brain forever. Mike Awesome power-bombed his opponent through 3 different tables, and the Dudley's went through a fire table. Benoit and Guerrero always great. Psychosis unmasked unceremoniously. RVD didn't wrestle but did some crowd work on the mic. If you just ignored the WWE guys in the crowd trying to ruin the show, it was great.

Never really watched ECW but remember loving ONS. Great video

Possibly the best time I ever had as a wrestling fan truly amazing being In a theater with so many other ECW fans we screamed and chanted and erupted in a rendition of enter Sandman during the entrance truly surreal

Just watched the whole show for the first time a few months ago, and wow, I’ve missed so much. I thought the Benoit/Guerrero match was pretty emotional considering what’s happened since.

@Thor-Orion

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, almost foreshadowing. So sad.

Man I remember staying up until 1am to watch ECW. Jerry Lynn vs RVD was insane! Lynn cracked his skull

Great to see these videos again especially with Jack doing the voice-over

@verbal_backflips9493

Жыл бұрын

Think it just a reupload

Fantastic video, more ECW content please! 😀

Sandman's entrance that night was the greatest thing I have ever seen in wrestling. It was amazing. Also, Chris Benoit had a killer match that night. He just murdered it in the ring. He just put everything on the line, like he was trying to kill himself.

@Thor-Orion

Жыл бұрын

That's uh... not really funny at all.

@ObliqueVisualsNz

Жыл бұрын

Kek

@miguelnewmexico8641

6 ай бұрын

@@Thor-Orion it's a little funny. more unfunny than funny, but still a little. admit it, come on.

I was new to wrestling at that . Eventually watched it on wwe 24/7 subscription Boy what a show it was. Everyone in class was talking about ut

Enjoyed this, what a crazy moment in wrestling history.

Love this series!

Hard-core homecoming hitting it out of the park 🤣

ONE OF THE BEST PPVS EVER!!!!!

Big fan of the original ECW, and I've been following the indie promotion Game Changer Wrestling, or GCW. I've been to 4 shows (taped for pay per view broadcast) in Atlantic City, NJ, and I'm going to another show this weekend (10/8/22). The big fan chant it this brutal indie promotion is "Gee See Dud!" and it captures the raw energy of ECW with lots of dangerous high spots and bloody death matches.

Most important thing that ever happened was ecw forming and it is the #1 reason wrestling had it's resurgence and it's largest crowds ever

Awesome narration !!!!

AWESOME WORK!

You the man Jack! Keep The content coming!

I grew up with the tail end of the ruthless aggression era into the pg era. stopped watching wwe almost altogether from probably 2015-2018, but curiosity for ECW, and in turn binging all of it, reignited my love for wrestling just in time for the indies to really start popping off again for someone just getting back in again, and aew just a year or two away. Without ECW, I probably would've been to lapsed to even give AEW a thought, let alone get into RoH and PWG. One Night Stand has a special place in my heart in a different sense, because I feel like it was a good send-off in a retrospective sense. I loved the first show, because it felt like what WWE could've done with ECW. Slightly toned down, and could've served as great late night programming to give an hour slot too after raw or smackdown. ECW could've stayed as a 3rd brand and filled that superindy void that NXT created well after WWECWs death.

I was 12 or 13 when I visited my brother and sister from my Dad's side of the family and I was flipping channels looking for a WWF or a WCW show on cable around Charlotte NC and I saw a show from a wrestling organization that I heard a few fellow die hard wrestling nerds talk about and also one I had read about in PWI and it was called ECW. I can't fully tell you how much this show blew my young wrestle loving mind. It was like you played Atari for years and loved it but then you play Super Mario Bros

Hi jack thank you for this series

That VHS intro was dope

Jack! I'm still waiting on your next weird episode.... episode. That was the best thing I've ever seen.

+1 for the proper use of the word "alumnus." So many people get that wrong.

I remember the late 90s. Staying up to watch ecw on regular TV. Shout out Gary horn

I hated John Cena as a kid. Always wanted RVD, Jeff Hardy, Randy Orton, or Edge as the top guys. ONS 2006 is probably my favorite match of all time

Was ringside. SICK. SHOCKING. UNFORGETTABLE. THE BEST. 😁

ECW one night stand is one of my favourite ppvs ever

4:40 Paul Heyman specifically told Vince not to book the bingo hall but to book Hammerstein instead. Much better venue while still being intimate enough for the classic fan feeling for the event. The ECW "arena" would have been plagued with over crowding and poor production value.

my favorite PPV of all time

Xpw trying to move in to someone else's venue, wow, takes me back to this month

I have it on disk, god what an atmosphere,

Mike Awesome is the biggest What If in wrestling

ECW One Night Stand 2005 is underrated ppv

ECW and its Franchise Player, former World Heavyweight Champion, Shane Douglas was in New York City but didn't attend One Night Stand because he was involved with "ROH Hardcore Homecoming".

I wish Mike awesome signed back up that night. Might still be with us if so

Paul Heyman was always highly respected by WWE's creative, even when he and vince didn't see eye to eye. They always admired the wrestling mind of the Wise Man as they do today.

Great vid. Starting to feel like I've watched Jack grow from a prepubescent putz into a real journalist. Good on you Jobber.

Mike Awesome will remain one of my favorite wrestlers ever... It baffles me that WWE(or WCW) didn't give him a manager that could talk for him and make him one of their top guys...

@djtrankilo231

Жыл бұрын

maybe that could've saved him

19:39 oh god damnit. And here i was thinking I’d make it through an ons video without hearing about this story

Tanaka vs Awesome! Nuff' said...

One night stand 06 is forever 🐐 ed

You left out that Awesome got hurt at the end of the match which ultimately became his last match. He suppose to go back to Japan for another tour for Pro-Wrestling NOAH later in the Summer/early Fall.

2 words for ya Matt freakin Hardy

I grew up in a suburb of Boston. My dateless Saturday nights as a teen were spent watching Ecw and waaf real rock tv on telemundo.

I watched this live at the time on sky I think and I can't believe I was 21 when this happened! 🤯 Amazing show though and didn't feel like a WWE show at all 👍

good video

@ghost.8836

Жыл бұрын

You haven't watched all of it.

@KingHayabusa384

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@PomptonII

Жыл бұрын

jerran spearman

I wonder if anyone hit Blue Meanie…

Sandman did not come out to enter sandman on every replay or DVD version of the show. Fans maybe heard it live but they didn't pay for rights for it for any recordings.

We need a last ECW Called ECW one last stand

in 05 u can go see ppv at the movies theatre for like 10 bucks and at the royal rumble i won the rise and fall dvd for answering the question who was the first person to win the rumble at the no 1 spot

Funk also stated that at his age, he couldn't do 2 shows in three days and perform like he wanted.

It's funny kevin Dunn obviously underestimated ecw's popularity which is why I think every ten years wrestling management should be replaced because of wrestling being the way it is ten years is how long it take for wrestling landscapes to change

God these videos are awesome

19:39 there it is!

@David_001

Жыл бұрын

Waiting for that

Francine should have hired Snitsky.

'Member the ECW vs WWE special that happened , I think before the 2nd One Night Stand? 🍇

I was only around 5 at the time but I remember the build up to this and my mum offering to buy the ppv which never happened as a birthday present but I said no because as the big mark I was “I didn’t want to give ECW money” basically wwecw started I was convinced it was a rival promotion so I missed this and next years event. Gutted 😪😂

@djtrankilo231

Жыл бұрын

lol

Interesting what you say about WWE wanting to sign Awesome on the back of the show-stealing match with Tanaka. Did they forget that they'd already had him a few years previously in amongst the 'Invasion' team, and completely squandered him.... 🤔

I sat front row ringside at Hardcore Homecoming. I had no interest in the WWF event. To this day I have never seen it.

I had the rise and fall of ecw on vhs man.

Was this reuploaded?

I like his video

Still wish one night stand 1 had RVD

19:38. 65% of WhatCulture's list entries.

Although ONS was a great show, HH had more of that ECW feeling.

16:27 where Angle has perhaps the worst comeback in wrestling history

Mike Awesome is one of the saddest, what could have been, stories in wrestling. He had the talent, size, and look to be an incredibly huge star, but, no. Horrid booking and characters killed what could have been. Still kinda pisses me off to this day.

JBL really showed that hes not a bully by beating the shit out of the Blue Meanie

Man the audio for Hardcore Homecoming was bad. During New Jack’s in ring promo I could barely hear what he was saying

A never knew there was 2 one nyt stands always knew abt every match on both shows but always thought in my head they were together n December to rambert destroyed it. So there was actually 3 ppvs n no 2 lol

The promo Heyman gave still gives me chills to this day though it was ruined by Layfield being a dick

RVD and a handful of ECW wrestlers were entertaining to see but without the street fight rules most of them lost their identity

All those idiots in the balcony totally ruined the atmosphere of ONS. The JBL reign was a dark period for WWE.

I'm sure it doesn't sit well with WWF higher-ups that the best remembered show of the last 20 years was one they had nothing to do with.

What exactly did JBL do to Meanie in the brawl that made him look like that? The dude looks like he pissed New Jack off. Every time some video talks about it, they just briefly mention, "JBL went extra hard on Meanie during the skirmish" but, like, how? Did he pull a knife on him? Why is he so sliced up?

@MopShrudel

Жыл бұрын

Meanie had a match 2 days prior, his opponents 2nd punched him in the head too hard, causing meanie to get stitches.

@sammacdonald3945

Жыл бұрын

@@MopShrudel Oh, okay! Thank you, that explains a lot. So I'm assuming JBL just popped the stitches open or something -- he's still a dick but he's not as homicidal as the aftermath would imply.

I never got the chance to enjoy an ECW show back when it was in business, but watching One Night Stand was at least the next best thing.

I rather have a show full of supposed 4 star matches than a show with a 5 star and a bunch of 2s. One Night Stand had 4 stars all over it.

Hard kokki