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00:00Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages.
00:04Rockers, Marty Jannetty, and Shawn Michaels are going to show you something that you've never seen before.
00:08The superior teamwork.
00:10Tag team wrestling has always been a must-see attraction, and arguably the hottest time for such action would be the 1990s.
00:16If we get in the ring, something bad's going to happen.
00:19It's war, it's D-Day, and lead for demolition.
00:22It was an era that redefined what a simple two-on-two contest could be.
00:27It was the most unlikely tag team ever, JR.
00:30Today, we celebrate those teams with some of the wildest scenes in WWE history.
00:35New champions!
00:36We're going to need some medical attention right now.
00:38See, one without the other isn't any good.
00:41We're coming after you!
00:43This is WWE's greatest moments.
00:49Acknowledge me.
00:51My God!
00:52No call to the bear bear!
00:54This is surreal!
00:57Look at this!
00:58It's like a new!
01:00Welcome, everyone, to WWE's Greatest Moments.
01:08I'm Michael Cole.
01:09And on this edition, we take a look back at some of the greatest moments of an era that defined tag team wrestling.
01:15The 1990s.
01:17The decade saw some of the most memorable duos to ever step foot inside the squared circle.
01:21Even some that made unlikely success stories.
01:24Case in point, The Rock and Mankind.
01:29Collectively known as the Rock and Sock Connection.
01:31These strange bedfellows were bitter rivals for much of 1999, but when common foes came in the form of the tag team champions Big Show and Undertaker, hatchets were buried.
01:42Gold is on the line.
01:43Gold is on the line.
01:46Big Show, you come on out with The Undertaker.
01:50You face The Rock in a handicap match.
01:52Mankind was talking to the people, and the people want mankind as The Rock's partner.
02:01One time, you will be the people's partner.
02:07To see these two guys that were constantly battling against each other, all of a sudden formed this very different union.
02:14And we couldn't be happier as fans.
02:16I think some of the best storylines are when former rivals, bitter rivals, team up.
02:24The difference being, they don't always have the chemistry that Dwayne and I did.
02:31Both Mankind and The Rock's on a double team.
02:34It was a nice dynamic between us.
02:37What is this?
02:39It's the most electrified.
02:41Just two complete opposites that should not form a tag team ever.
02:57There was just this chemistry that you can't help but notice and say, oh my God, I want more of this.
03:06Somehow, here they are, The Rock and Sock Connection.
03:09Rock and Sock. Rock and Sock.
03:13He was able to exercise his muscles as a comedian.
03:17Know your role.
03:18We were having the time of our lives.
03:20It's the most unlikely tag team ever.
03:24The Outsiders, Scott Hall and Kevin Ash were part of the revolutionary faction known as the New World Order.
03:31Totaling an impressive six times as WCW Tag Team Champions.
03:35But before all that, we need to go back to the first.
03:38Hall and Ash would have to take down the toughest team in WCW history, Harlem Heat.
03:49You see the World Tag Team Champions making their way in?
03:52You talk about the great tag teams.
03:54I think you put Harlem Heat at the very top.
03:57They dominated during a time that was tough to dominate because the roster was so loaded.
04:03Hall and Ash, The Outsider.
04:04It was Halloween Havoc, and that had that Vegas Fight Night kind of feel to it.
04:11This place has erupted.
04:14Because that was the first time the NWO was going for their belts.
04:17The power of Hall and Nash against the ability of the World Tag Team Champions.
04:23We wanted to dominate the tag team division.
04:25We wanted to show exactly how good we really was.
04:29This has been an intense World Tag Team title match, as you'll ever want to find.
04:34Loved working with Booker because we're kind of similar in styles.
04:38He's really athletic and really can go.
04:40Going for the Harlem Hangover!
04:42Got him!
04:43Count it!
04:45Come on, referee!
04:46He's got to get Stevie Ray out!
04:47Colonel Parker!
04:48He's a one for McCain!
04:50He's got Parker!
04:51He gave McCain!
04:52Go!
04:52He!
04:52Carter banged off and gave him McCain!
04:55One, two, three, go!
04:59The Outsiders winning the WCW Tag Team Championship by using Colonel Parker's cane,
05:06it was perfect for defining who the Outsiders were.
05:09They were a bad guy team.
05:12We've got new champs!
05:14It gave us validity by beating them and to do it with my best friend.
05:19Like, that was the first time we won a belt together.
05:25One of the most devastating forces in the WWE Tag Team scene were Axe and Smash,
05:30better known as Demolition.
05:31You take a close look at this face, and you're gonna feel the pain of defeat.
05:37Axe and Smash were unstoppable.
05:40That is, until the Colossal Connection,
05:42where Andre the Giant and Haku shockingly defeated Demolition for the Tag Team titles.
05:48A rematch was set for the Thunderous Toronto Sky Dome at WrestleMania VI.
05:55Demolition with their sights set on getting their championship back!
06:00Haku and Andre had been established as being just about unbeatable.
06:05The idea that Demolition had to beat Andre and Haku was what made this so enthralling.
06:12I loved Demolition. They were my favorite tag team growing up as a kid.
06:17Axe and Smash. Let's go.
06:20And this one is underway!
06:22Haku doing a tremendous job here.
06:25Watch out for Hinen.
06:26Oh!
06:27Excellent teamwork here by the Colossal Connection!
06:31Andre and Haku had things under control,
06:33until they made a colossal mistake.
06:37Andre! Holding him up for Haku!
06:39Under the wall! Haku nailed his partner!
06:43This place is going crazy!
06:46It's over!
06:47New Tag Team Champions!
06:50For Demolition to win the Tag Team Championships again,
06:53in front of 67,000 people, was truly special.
06:57They have done it! Axe and Smash!
07:00Perhaps one of the most popular tag teams of all time
07:06was the duo of Bret the Hitman Hart and his brother-in-law,
07:08Jim the Inville Neidhart,
07:10collectively known as the Hart Foundation.
07:13Listen to the ovation here for the Hart Fall Daytime!
07:17Heading into SummerSlam 1990,
07:19the Foundation looked to capture their second tag team championship
07:22by taking on the powerful Demolition.
07:24It would be a two-out-of-three-falls match
07:26with Tag Team Gold up for grabs.
07:31What a match-up here!
07:32Two-out-of-three-falls!
07:35That's Tag Team Experience!
07:37Stop it right there!
07:38My dad loved wrestling Demolition,
07:41and I always remember, like, as a little kid,
07:42watching them wrestle my dad and Bret
07:44and being really scared.
07:45Oh, wait a minute!
07:47Three!
07:48Demolition victorius in the first column!
07:51Seeing Demolition with the Hart Foundation.
07:53Oh, man, this is amazing.
07:57It's not a match where you can predict
07:59what's going to happen next.
08:00That's why I think that match is such a beautiful match.
08:04Oh, that's Blake Interference!
08:06The winners of the second ball,
08:08the Hart Foundation!
08:12The third ball, both teams very tired.
08:15That match stands out as one of the hardest-working
08:17Hart Foundation matches that I can remember.
08:21Oh, God!
08:22Yeah!
08:23One, two, three!
08:26What a match!
08:28What a match!
08:32They say you can never pick your family,
08:34though sometimes it would be nice to.
08:36That's exactly how the rocket Owen Hart felt
08:38about his older brother, Bret the Hitman Hart.
08:41At the 1993 Survivor Series,
08:43Owen was the only Hart brother eliminated
08:44during the family's eight-man tag match.
08:47Owen Hart is out!
08:49Blaming the Hitman for the situation,
08:51Owen began to show signs of jealousy toward Bret.
08:53I'm sick and tired of carrying the load of this family
08:56and never getting any recognition.
08:58It's always you, Bret!
08:59Things seem to be patched up heading into the 1994 Royal Rumble
09:03where the two brothers challenge the Quebecers
09:05for the tag team championship.
09:06When do you get a load of the brothers' heart
09:12flying for the tag team championship?
09:14A lot of the intrigue was really more about how Bret and Owen
09:17were going to get along,
09:19and the Quebecers exploited that as much as they could.
09:23That's what I'm talking about.
09:24Owen coming in to try to help.
09:25But meanwhile, look at this, double-team, oh, good!
09:29And Bret somehow lost to tag his brother, Owen.
09:34Oh, man, it's a tie!
09:36It's a tie!
09:37All he's got to do is tag his brother.
09:40Bret is already injured.
09:42All Bret has to do is tag his brother, Owen,
09:45but in a last-ditch effort, Bret attempts a sharpshooter.
09:50Wait a minute, Bret just collapsed.
09:52He had the opportunity to tag, and he didn't do it.
09:54The official has elected to end this match!
10:00Owen got fed up,
10:01and Owen needed to jump out of his older brother's shadow.
10:06What did I tell you?
10:07That's right, Owen.
10:08That's right, you're right.
10:09He should have tagged you.
10:11In his mind, Bret took something away from him,
10:13and you felt that.
10:15Oh, God!
10:17Really hurt.
10:18He kicked me absolutely hard as he could.
10:19He's not going to stand in the shadow of Big Brother anymore.
10:23We saw Owen do what everyone kind of thought he was going to do,
10:27but everybody hoped he wasn't.
10:28I had a chance, Bret, and you stripped it away from me.
10:31You took it away from me, Bret.
10:33You're too damn selfish!
10:35They hated him, and they booed him.
10:37When the Road Dogg, Jesse James, and badass Billy Gunn combined their talents to form the New Age Outlaws,
10:49there was nothing they wouldn't do to make it to the top of WWE.
10:52Once they were there, the antics didn't stop.
10:59Tag team champions were challenged by D-Generation X to start making some waves in WWE.
11:05Push the envelope, raise the bar.
11:07And they saw an opportunity to do so against Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie.
11:11This is a no-holds-barred match between Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie.
11:21Chainsaw backdrop running to the dumpster.
11:24Chainsaw is down in the dumpster.
11:27And no!
11:28Good grief right in the trash!
11:30We were making a name for ourselves.
11:32They put us up to the challenge.
11:33We accepted.
11:34Oh, no!
11:37There's Road Dogg and Billy Gunn, the New Age Outlaws.
11:41They're lucky the dumpster shut J.R.
11:44We rolled it off of the stage there.
11:47Wait a minute!
11:48Oh, my God!
11:49Don't you dare do that!
11:51Good God!
11:52There's people in there!
11:54I can't believe this!
11:55Get them out of there!
11:57Then everybody started coming out, and it really got hectic and frantic feeling.
12:02A lot of emotions, and it looks like the New Age Outlaws went to business for themselves.
12:07For them to make such a statement, they're much bigger stars now than they were literally
12:11ten minutes ago.
12:12This moment set the stage for them to really become the New Age Outlaws, one of the greatest
12:18tag teams of all time.
12:19Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, we are the New Age Outlaws!
12:25In the 1990s, there was no team more innovative and exciting than Rick and Scott, the Steiner
12:34Brothers.
12:35Both All-Americans and Michigan, Big Ten Wrestling Champions.
12:39Utilizing a unique blend of power and agility, it wasn't long before the Steiner's captured
12:44the WCW World Tag Team Championship.
12:47He got it!
12:49Heading into a big title defense at WCW Super Brawl 1, the Steiner's found themselves pitted
12:54against their two best friends, Sting and Lex Luger.
12:58Sting and Lex, when we get in the ring, we ain't gonna be buddies and we ain't gonna be
13:01friends.
13:02Me and my brother, one thing to do, and that's beat you up!
13:08We are ready to go for one of the most eagerly anticipated Tag Team Championship matchup!
13:14Good guys against good guys.
13:15The fans don't really know what to cheer or boo somebody.
13:19Those are the toughest matches to have.
13:22And so we decided just to have a match where it was a free-for-all, just start suplexing
13:27and ground and bound.
13:29Four of the most popular athletes in the history of WCW.
13:34It is electric here, baby!
13:37Pro Wrestling Illustrated named this match of the year in 1991.
13:41It was a display of WCW's very best.
13:47Belly to belly!
13:49That's it!
13:51My brother and I and Sting and Lex, there was a mutual respect between all of us.
13:56Great gesture of good sportsmanship.
13:59The greatest Tag Team match I've ever witnessed.
14:05When you think of the all-time greatest Tag Teams, you think of Hawk and Animal, the Legion
14:08of Doom.
14:09The powerhouses from Chicago won titles wherever they went.
14:12And it was just a matter of time before WWE gold was around their massive wastes.
14:17And when we get done chewing you, we'll spit you out like the stinking bad tartar that was
14:24stuck to our teeth.
14:25Unfortunately for the Nasty Boys, they were standing in the way.
14:29The Nasty Boys were not the most beloved Tag Team ever.
14:40A lot of fans wanted nothing more than to see them lose the championship.
14:45Non-stop action!
14:47Here come the Nasty Boys with the help of Jimmy Hart and his motorcycle helmet.
14:51I think the wrestling fans had waited so long for us to capture it.
15:21those titles.
15:22I'll be honest with you, I was like a little kid when I felt like I won my first Little
15:26League game.
15:28What a moment for Legion of Doom!
15:34One of the most popular teams of all time were the duo of Shawn Michaels and Marty Giannetti,
15:39better known as the Rockers.
15:41Tag Team Specialist, the Rockers!
15:44The Rockers are going to do like they always do, turn heads, turn on crowds, and come out
15:48on top.
15:49Woo!
15:49These two rocked and rolled into the hearts of fans worldwide with their impressive athleticism
15:55and double-team maneuvers.
15:56Everything about the Rockers were in sync.
15:59That is, until Shawn Michaels began to think he was outgrowing the tandem and wanted the spotlight
16:04to himself.
16:05Shawn really bent on his shape here!
16:08In one of the most infamous scenes in WWE history, Michaels and Giannetti appeared on
16:13Brutus Beefcake's Barbershop to settle their differences.
16:20Maybe we'll get this thing straightened out, Brian.
16:22These two guys haven't been getting along too well at least.
16:25I want to get you out here on the barbershop so we can talk about this thing and get it
16:29all straight once and for all.
16:31These are all guys I've been working side-by-side with for years, so I knew there was going to
16:35be something.
16:36I can assure you, as the captain of this team, that there are absolutely no problems with
16:44the Rockers whatsoever.
16:46The barbershop was something that Shawn and I talked about for a bit.
16:51I remember the first time he told me that I don't want to tag the rest of our career,
16:56and I was okay with that.
16:57I don't know what's going on in there with Shawn Michaels.
17:01If you want to stick together and make this thing work, we're going to shake hands.
17:05We had had a really good run, and then it gets to that point where you can continue
17:16to do this, but a lot of it is going to be just more of doing the same.
17:21See, one without the other isn't any good.
17:24Oh, I knew he was going to do that.
17:26I remember being like, oh, this is not the Shawn Michaels that I used to root for.
17:35Oh, my God.
17:37You see the glass.
17:38Sounds like, you know, it's movie stuff you've seen in a thousand westerns.
17:42We need a paramedic hand.
17:43Is there a problem?
17:45At the time, I had no idea that it would become this iconic moment.
17:50I don't think so.
17:52We have finally reached our number one moment.
17:59The late 1990s saw the rise of a young tag team known as the Hardy Boys, Matt and Jeff.
18:04Audiences were left stunned at some of their high-flying and risk-taking antics.
18:08Go, dude!
18:09Go, fuck up!
18:11And over the years, the brothers would undoubtedly become the kings of the ladder match.
18:16But it all had to start somewhere.
18:17And in No Mercy 1999, the Hardy Boys took on Edge and Christian in the very first tag team ladder match.
18:28This is the first tag team ladder match in history.
18:32Our chemistries were so good together.
18:36And we knew if we went in there and we had a ladder match with these guys, it would be something special.
18:41Oh!
18:42Oh, man!
18:44What are they doing here?
18:46Oh, my God!
18:47And I heard the reaction.
18:49I was like, ooh, I've never heard that before for our matches.
18:55This is going to get interesting, because if they think that's something, we got a lot more in store.
19:02I got a feeling we're going to see it all in this match, J.R.
19:05These guys are going to do everything in their power to get that money.
19:10Look at that!
19:10They've dropped the ladder, for God's sake!
19:14There was absolutely no fear in anyone involved.
19:20That willingness really helped set them apart and make them different.
19:25It felt like we were kind of changing the direction of tag team wrestling.
19:28And other teams, you know, if they wanted to hang with us, they had to step up their games.
19:32When the ladder came into play, man, there weren't no stopping us, man.
19:37Have you ever?
19:38I have never!
19:39Absolutely not!
19:40I've never seen any offense like that!
19:43That's it!
19:44But my favorite was the seesaw spot.
19:48Look at this!
19:49Oh!
19:49What the heck?!
19:50Jeff Hardy!
19:51A lot of teetering!
19:54He can't get it!
19:56He got it!
19:57God almighty!
19:58The Hardys have won the match!
20:00Christian and Edge have nothing to be ashamed of.
20:02What a magnificent effort by those two!
20:04We'd never received a standing ovation before, and then it wasn't, that wasn't really a thing.
20:09It all blew me away.
20:11And then, but that's also when it started to sink in, like, okay, we did it.
20:15All four of us went from just being WWE wrestlers at that point, to becoming WWE superstars.
20:23What an amazing display!
20:25There weren't game-changing thrown around a lot these days, but that match was undoubtedly just that.
20:34Well, that'll do it for this edition of WWE's Greatest Moments.
20:37Hope you've enjoyed this look back at the very best tag-team moments from its most famous era, the 1990s.
20:49What is your name?
20:50I told you!
20:51It doesn't matter what your name is!
20:54In the wild world of WWE, the words spoken on a live microphone can leave you with the symphonies of a verbal smackdown.
21:02Remember tying bows in our shoes when we were kids?
21:05And, of course, your shoes were always tied together.
21:07The unpredictable era of the 1990s saw some of the best wordsmiths that fans ever lent their ears to.
21:13Austin 316 says I just whipped your ass!
21:17Today, we look back at some of the biggest mic drops of the 1990s.
21:21What you gotta do?
21:23You gotta do!
21:24This is WWE's Greatest Moments!
21:26Woo!
21:31Oh, my God!
21:32Oh, come on to the bear man!
21:34Yeah!
21:35This is surreal!
21:37Look at this!
21:38It's not new!
21:40Welcome, everyone, to WWE's Greatest Moments.
21:49I'm Michael Cole.
21:50And on this edition, we're looking back at some of the wildest mic drop moments of the 1990s.
21:55The outlandish duo of Shawn Michaels and Triple H certainly had their share of controversial moments.
22:00We promise there will be less references.
22:04Oh, .
22:05Raging Against the Machine was the name of the game for the unpredictable D-Generation X.
22:10And let's go to the wise ass of the WWF.
22:16D-Generation X was raunchy.
22:19They broke the fourth wall.
22:21Look, smarty pants.
22:22Didn't Austin break that stack of dimes you call a neck in the first place?
22:27We said what we wanted to say.
22:29We went places you weren't supposed to go.
22:32We were just jabbing whoever we wanted to jab at the time.
22:35Now, Triple H, this is your chance, my friend.
22:41I want you to unload on the World Wrestling Federation,
22:46because this is what you've been waiting for, buddy.
22:48Get him!
22:49I remember saying to Vince beforehand, like,
22:51hey, how stiff do you want me to be in this thing?
22:53And he was like, go for it.
22:54I've been sitting back for a couple of years.
22:58I watched his eyes change.
23:00While you and the World Wrestling Federation have spread your legs like some cheap .
23:07And I was like, oh, man, I might have just crossed the line.
23:10But I'm already over it.
23:12So I went full tilt.
23:14The way things are going.
23:16Excuse me, I'll hold the mic.
23:18McMahon's losing control.
23:20At least you're good for something.
23:21From his standpoint, you know, I give you a green light and you frickin' just pounce on it.
23:27And so on one hand, are they disrespecting me?
23:30But then on the other, he just thought it was like, you gotta get a pat on the back.
23:34They're ballsy as hell.
23:35Because from now on, this ring is our house.
23:39And it is our house of pain.
23:43Vince came in the back.
23:44I said, was that okay?
23:45And he looked down for a second, then looked me dead in the eye and was like, yeah, it was great.
23:50It's like interviewing the ninth grade gym class.
23:53If you grew up in the 1980s, chances are you were a Hulkamaniac.
24:00Say your prayers, eat your vitamins, and believe in yourself, brother.
24:04Hulkamania is running wild like it's never ran before.
24:08Hulk Hogan transcended sports entertainment and was a hero's hero.
24:12Hulkamania is running worldwide.
24:13But when the Hulkster joined Scott Hall and Kevin Ashton WCW to form the New World Order.
24:18The end of Hulkamania.
24:19The professional wrestling world stood in absolute shock.
24:22The scourge of the wrestling world.
24:26The New World Order is taking over professional wrestling.
24:33Superhero like that just can't imagine ever being a villain.
24:37I'm the greatest wrestler in the world.
24:40I made professional wrestling.
24:43By the time he had committed to do it, he was already all in.
24:48So he wasn't gonna pull any punches.
24:50You fans can stick it, brother.
24:53Hulk Hogan was sick of the establishment.
24:56I'm the leader of the NWO and these are my guys that are coming in.
24:59The New World Order shall rule the wrestling world.
25:04They threw stuff because they hated Hulk.
25:07Hulk, it was really visual with all that stuff reigning in.
25:11And this is a pretty good example of the way your life is gonna go, Hulk Hogan.
25:15Well, you know, dude, I laid it out straight for all those kids, brother.
25:19They didn't wanna follow the path, so I'm done with a man.
25:23Hulk Hogan betrayed millions of people around the world.
25:27Betrayed WCW.
25:29We'll beat up the whole WCW right now, and what are they gonna do?
25:34Oh, please, Hulk Hogan, I can't believe it!
25:38When you talk about the greatest to ever do it on the microphone, the Nature Boy, Ric Flair, is in the conversation.
25:44This kid stealing, wheeling, dealing, limousine right, jet flying, son of a gun!
25:50Gold and fortune were always on the mind of the Nature Boy.
25:53And at the 1992 Royal Rumble, Flair would surprisingly last over one hour to become the undisputed WWE Champion for the first time in his illustrious career.
26:03The party commenced backstage. It was a celebration that no one would ever forget.
26:13All right, by virtue of winning the Royal Rumble, we have a brand new World Wrestling Federation Champion.
26:19At Royal Rumble, it wasn't for a title match at WrestleMania, it was for the title.
26:23Winning that thing that night and the next day being their champion, I mean, it was something I hadn't experienced in a while.
26:30I'm gonna tell y'all with a tear in my eye.
26:35With a tear in my eye.
26:38With a tear in his eye.
26:39With a tear in my eye.
26:41This is the greatest moment in my life.
26:45It was one of the first times that I saw that emotion from Ric Flair that wasn't just like, over the top, put on charisma.
26:50It was, oh, this is a genuine Ric Flair really creating something.
26:55And this is the only title in the wrestling world that makes you number one.
27:03Woo!
27:04Woo!
27:05We did it!
27:06I can see it getting emotional.
27:08I was thinking, wow, this is history.
27:10We're not the kind of guys that say, we told you so, but we told you so.
27:16Everyone remembers that interview.
27:19Everyone.
27:20No, it's Ric Flair!
27:22And y'all pay homage to the man!
27:25Woo!
27:26Ha ha ha!
27:28Over the course of WWE history, we've seen a literal who's who of trash talkers become industry icons.
27:37And right on top of that list is the most electrifying man in sports entertainment, The Rock.
27:42The Rock says, know your role and shut your mouth!
27:47The Rock is gonna give you the biggest smack down.
27:50Your seven foot, 500 pound, big fat candy ass has ever seen.
27:56No one was safe when the great one had a mic in his hand.
27:59And as he says...
28:00It doesn't matter what you think!
28:02And after winning the 1999 King of the Ring, badass Billy Gunn was about to find that out firsthand.
28:12Finally, The Rock has come back to Indianapolis!
28:18Now, on to badass Billy Gunn.
28:23My goal was just to entertain the fans.
28:25I didn't want to be the loudest, I didn't want to be the biggest, but I do want to be the best.
28:29The Rock understands what took place.
28:31The night you won King of the Ring, you got down on your knees, put your little hands together, and you said a prayer, and it sounded like this.
28:40Oh dear God, my name's Billy, and I just won King of the Ring.
28:46But there's one problem.
28:48Everybody still thinks that I absolutely suck!
28:52I remember we, everybody popped.
28:55And everyone who was watching by the monitor, I was sitting by the main monitor, there was a big pop, a huge...
29:01You know, and people were legitimately entertained by it.
29:03And then at that point, Billy, your house started to shake, the heavens opened up, and God himself spoke to you and said this.
29:12Bob?
29:13Bob?
29:14But my name's Billy!
29:15It doesn't matter what your name is!
29:18Rock, of course, just being Rock, you know, that pretty much speaks for itself.
29:2320-plus years later, that's still a promo people bring up with Billy Gunn.
29:28If you smell what The Rock is cooking.
29:40Upon his debut in 1990, the mysterious R of The Undertaker was unlike anything WWE audience has ever seen before.
29:48Undertaker causing a lot of sleepless nights for a whole lot of folks.
29:53His few words over the years were dark and ominous, leaving fans chilled to the bone.
29:57Rest in peace.
30:01But one night on Raw in 1998 saw the Deadman enter the ring without the typical fanfare, and angrily spoke his mind.
30:12Why is he coming to the ring?
30:15I've had enough.
30:17The times were changing.
30:19You got to see a different side of The Undertaker by himself.
30:23Now it's time The Undertaker got what is rightfully his.
30:29I demand my shot at the World Wrestling Federation title.
30:36All those guys that were cutting these unbelievable promos.
30:42It was just like, man, you know, I have that in me.
30:46I think it's time you got your pencil neck geek ass out here and faced the Reaper.
30:54Whoa!
30:55And I...
30:57Did he just say that?
30:59I think it was just so different for the time period, and it just caught people off guard.
31:05Seeing The Undertaker talking like a normal human being was an absolute shock.
31:11We are alive.
31:12Anything's happened to happen here.
31:14Perhaps one of the best on the microphone in the 1990s was none other than the Hellraiser himself, Stone Cold Steve Austin.
31:26Stone Cold Steve Austin is going to whip somebody's ass.
31:31And that's the bottom line, cause Stone Cold said so.
31:37He said whatever he wanted.
31:38Stone Cold Steve Austin does what he wants when he wants.
31:41But he did whatever he wanted as well.
31:44Give me a hell yeah.
31:46Which did not sit well with the WWE commissioner, Sergeant Slaughter.
31:52There will be law and order. Have I made myself clear?
32:05Uh-oh.
32:06Good God Almighty, here he comes.
32:09Look, once the glass shattered, the audience was ready.
32:12What the hell is gonna come out of Steve's mouth?
32:15I'll break every damn law you can make, and can't nobody stop me.
32:19I will.
32:20No, you won't.
32:21It was all about cutting a promo and all about letting those people live vicariously through me.
32:26You sit here and you say, that's an order. This is an order. That's an order.
32:31Hell, I can look at you, son. The only thing you've been ordering is a whole bunch of damn cheeseburgers.
32:38There's something obviously very intriguing about seeing somebody go after the authority.
32:44You talk about me delivering the Intercontinental title.
32:48The only thing that I'll deliver is a big can of whoop ass right to your front door.
32:55He said whatever was on his mind. He did it with cuss words.
32:58We thought, let's see how far he's gonna take it. Is he ever gonna actually like really cross the line?
33:03And sure enough, he did it right before our eyes.
33:05No!
33:06Attack!
33:07Attack!
33:08Austin has just attacked the commissioner!
33:11It was definitely just like a soccer. Nobody saw it coming.
33:14Stone Cold not only dropped the mic that night, he dropped Sergeant Slaughter.
33:18He's a rattlesnake and he'll strike anybody he wants to.
33:24In the late 1990s, the new WCW star was on the rise in the form of Chris Jericho.
33:30While his in-ring abilities were a sight to behold, it was his charisma on the microphone that got everyone talking.
33:36My future was just so bright, I gots to wear shades!
33:41Engulfed in a rivalry with the man of a thousand holes, Dean Malenko, Jericho took the opportunity to prove he was better than his opponent in every way possible.
33:51As only he could.
33:55Malenko, you claim to be the man of a thousand holes, but I counted and you know about 60.
34:02But I know a thousand and four, and I wrote them all down, here we go.
34:06My moniker was a man of a thousand holes, so he kind of tried to one-up me by having four more holes than me.
34:11Hold one, arm drag!
34:15Hold two, arm mar!
34:19Hold three, the moss-covered, three-handled family gradunzel!
34:24What's gonna be next?
34:25What other obscure move is he going to name?
34:28Number five, the Saskatchewan spinning nerve hold!
34:33Oh.
34:34Is it just gonna stay in the ring?
34:35Number eight, arm bar!
34:37And he's reading so long that they go to commercial break.
34:40Number 10, right-handed punch!
34:43When they come back, Chris Jericho is still reading the list.
34:48Can we physically get him out of the ring?
34:51Hold number 712, the Super Blizzard!
34:54Some of the words that he was just spewing out at one point, I'm just like, yo, what the heck?
34:59Hold number 713!
35:01The Super Blizzard!
35:03Now they're finally able to get him out of the ring, but he's more concerned with the safety of his list of holds.
35:09Look at my holds!
35:12Still has several hundred more to go!
35:15I got 200 more holds to list!
35:18Mick Foley has always left audiences in awe of his daredevil-like performances and his hardcore nature.
35:25But he was also able to captivate fans with the spoken word.
35:28I mean every word!
35:30When I tell you, I'm gonna tear you apart!
35:34One instance takes us back to 1995 in the land of extreme ECW.
35:39Foley thought the promotion may be a little too hardcore for his taste.
35:42And a sign in the crowd directed at his young son set him off into one of the most malevolent monologues audiences had ever heard.
35:49Cain Dewey.
35:55Somebody had taken the time and the effort and the thought to make a sign that said Cain Dewey.
36:07Like advocating the caning of a three-year-old child, which is my son's age at that time.
36:12When I relayed that to my wife, she nearly got sick.
36:15It's embedded in my skull, it's embedded in my heart, and it's embedded in every nightmare that I will ever have again.
36:25You ripped out my heart!
36:27You took everything I believed in and you flushed it down the damn toilet!
36:32It was like this form of therapy in that I could just get out these real-life emotions.
36:36When you open up your soul, and it gets done!
36:42That's to make Jack a very mean boy.
36:45He no longer loved the fans and wanted to tell these selfish, uncaring, heartless son of a bitch fans what he thought of them.
36:52Those fans who sit there and say, he's hardcore, he's hardcore, wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire!
37:02We saw what Mick Foley was doing in ECW, and the fact that he despised everything about ECW, we had to have Mick Foley.
37:09Dewey Foley is a three-year-old boy.
37:14YOU SICK SONS OF BITCHES!
37:18The mid-1990s ushered in a new generation of WWE superstars, and at the forefront was Bret the Hitman Hart.
37:31The excellence of execution was beloved throughout the world and prided himself on being the very best role model he could be.
37:38I am the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.
37:42However, by 1997, a new side of the Hitman reared its face.
37:48All you American wrestling fans, you don't respect me.
37:52The American wrestling fans, coast to coast, can kiss my ass!
38:01I wonder what you'd like to say to these American fans here tonight in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!
38:06A sly look on my face should have said it all.
38:11I'm really mad at America for this, what they've done to me.
38:15Last week, I said the United States of America was one big, giant toilet bowl.
38:21If you were gonna give the United States of America an enema, you'd stick the hose right here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!
38:32When Bret Hart said they would insert the hose in Pittsburgh, jaws dropped to the floor.
38:38I will never forget that line.
38:40Shawn Michaels, you're gonna just be one more name that I'm gonna add on to a list of Americans that I'm gonna flush down the toilet.
38:49He was frustrated and angry, and now he's getting the chance to load on you, and he did it.
38:56I will be fifth time World Wrestling Federation champion, and I promise to bring the championship belt back to Canada where it belongs!
39:05It's now time for our number one moment.
39:10It is also time to play the game.
39:14The Hall of Fame career of Triple H is second to none.
39:17From the Greenwich snob...
39:19It's high time for all these superstars to learn a lesson in class.
39:24...to the sophomoric degenerate...
39:25Let's get rid of this sucker!
39:27Triple H was always a master of his craft, but was missing that elusive prize.
39:33In 1999, Jim Ross sat down with a cerebral assassin in a moment that cemented Triple H as the future of WWE.
39:42What, you want me to shoot with this interview? I'm gonna shoot with it.
39:45I'm gonna tell you how I feel, whether you like it or not.
39:49There's moments in time where you can be real and not having to be projecting on a microphone to a large crowd, and I knew that was a pivotal moment for me.
39:57I don't need anybody else, JR. This is about me. I don't need to be in a clique anymore. I don't need to be in DX anymore. It's about me reaching my goals.
40:07I think he got a lot of things off his chest, and we had never heard him really that impassioned, that hell-bent on, my God, you're gonna notice me.
40:16You guys talk about being students of the game. I am the game, JR!
40:22It just was something that I said.
40:25I was no longer Hunter Hearst-Helmsey. I was Triple H. I was the game. Like, it was a different conversation.
40:30I knew that we had heard something special.
40:33There is nobody that eats, sleeps, or breathes this business more than me.
40:39And now it's my time to prove that to the world. To hell with The Rock, to hell with Austin, to hell with The Undertaker. I own all their asses.
40:48This is someone to be reckoned with. This is a top guy.
40:53But when it's said and done, it's about me getting what I deserve in this business, and that is becoming the WWF Champion.
41:03And with those famed words, a superstar was born.
41:08Triple H truly encapsulated Becoming the Game.
41:11Went on to have a Hall of Fame career.
41:14That'll do it for this edition of WWE's Greatest Moments.
41:18I hope you've enjoyed this look back at some of the biggest mic drop moments of one of the craziest times in professional wrestling, the 1990s.
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