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00:00I would hazard a guess a lot of people listening to this do not recall the World Wrestling Federation in the year 1990.
00:06Maybe you didn't even know it was called the WWF.
00:09I am old.
00:10To improve your knowledge though and get you up to speed,
00:13Hello, I am Simon from WhatCulture.
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00:18And yeah, this is 10 things you didn't know about the WWF in 1990.
00:24Number 10, The Ultimate Warrior wrestled Phil Collins.
00:27Man, this is gonna take some explaining.
00:29So Phil Collins was indeed the front man of pop band Genesis as well as an individual artist in his own right.
00:35So one day when he was making a video for a song, he had an idea.
00:39Why not tap into wrestling?
00:41I mean, we've all been there.
00:43This was for Two Hearts, which went on to become a huge hit and tied into a network special known as But Seriously,
00:49which told the story of Phil and some TV executives trying to build to a big event.
00:55This is officially the most 90s thing ever.
00:58The chosen man to help with this was indeed The Ultimate Warrior, and if you're asking why wasn't it Hulk Hogan,
01:03well, he was the first choice, but when he couldn't do it, The Warrior was always number two.
01:08It does start alright as well as The Ultimate One and Collins begin to dance, when it gets violent.
01:14Warrior grabs Phil and throws him around the place, and even though the singer tries to fight back, he failed.
01:20Of course he did.
01:21It's actually quite bad when you watch it now, although really, what were our expectations?
01:25This was meant to be silly, and it was.
01:28I'm not sure anybody thought we were getting a five-star classic.
01:316.25 stars in the Tokyo Dome.
01:33Number nine, Shane Douglas was the third rocker.
01:36Well, almost anyway.
01:37Now this was five years before Shane Douglas had a very public war of words with one Shawn Michaels,
01:42and given that somebody had to step into HBK's shoes for enough house shows,
01:46yeah, Douglas got the nod.
01:47He was young and blonde, after all.
01:50Now this happened throughout the summer, and obviously was off-camera,
01:53but I'm sure Shane was thinking, well, if this goes well, I'll be in the company's good books.
01:57Was being a good soldier, after all, doing what was asked.
02:01As it turned out, he was wrong.
02:03Once he was done with this, Douglas was kind of anonymous for a year,
02:06apart from a very short appearance in the 1991 Raw Rumble,
02:09although guess what he did on his last night for the company?
02:12He teamed with Marta Giannetti to take on the Oriental Express at a live event.
02:16This kind of feels like a troll.
02:19Now there is a lot more to discuss with Shane's WWF run,
02:21but that's another video for another day.
02:24Just know eventually, he got booked as a teacher.
02:28No, I'm not kidding.
02:30Number eight, the WrestleMania commentary era.
02:32So up till 1990, Jesse the Body Ventura and Gorilla Monsoon
02:35were the WrestleMania commentary team in some capacity.
02:39It's all we knew.
02:40When the Ultimate Challenge rolled around, though,
02:41the WWF decided to head in a different direction,
02:45Jesse would leave entirely.
02:47He fell out with Vince McMahon over money,
02:49and the fact he tried to form a union.
02:51Why did that fail?
02:52Hulk Hogan.
02:54Again, that's a different video.
02:56The reason it's important to talk about, however,
02:57is because of what they represented.
03:00Monsoon was the straighter-than-straight announcer,
03:02whereas Ventura liked the bad guys
03:04and would find a way to justify their dastardly actions.
03:07Now this was nothing new,
03:08but it's still a dynamic that WWE leans on today.
03:11Obviously, Gorilla would also leave a legacy
03:13alongside Bobby the Brain Heenan,
03:15and you can hear the body with Vince behind the desk too.
03:18That was always interesting.
03:20Mostly because Jesse took every shot he possibly could.
03:24Number seven, the original Survivor Series card.
03:26The first Survivor Series was planned a long time out.
03:29As pay-per-views acted as these monumental moments
03:32as opposed to monthly occurrences,
03:34the powers that be would need to know what the idea was
03:36so they could book everything else leading up to it.
03:39Because wrestling is nuts,
03:40there's no way it would hold up, though.
03:42Part one here is when Rick Rude did a Jesse Ventura,
03:46he fell out with Vince McMahon over cash,
03:48and he jumped ship.
03:49Whoops.
03:49You can still see Survivor Series graphics
03:51with Rude in them, though,
03:52and when you research it today,
03:54it sounds like he could have gone after Hulk Hogan.
03:57He would have lost for sure,
03:58but still, he's back at the top of the card.
04:00Akeem was also going to be a part
04:02of Sergeant Slaughter's mercenaries team,
04:04but he departed too,
04:06and it was the same story for Bad News Brown.
04:08He was the fourth guy on Team Ted DiBiase,
04:10but exited stage left,
04:12although that one worked out well.
04:14And you want to know why?
04:15Because his replacement was none other than The Undertaker.
04:19Talk about sliding door moments.
04:21Number six, Brutus Beefcake versus Mr. Perfect.
04:24At WrestleMania VI,
04:25we chose Brutus the Barber Beefcake
04:27to end Mr. Perfect's undefeated streak.
04:30Goes to show,
04:31you didn't think cutting your hair
04:32was going to help in wrestling,
04:34but you were wrong.
04:35The idea was that Perfect would win
04:37the Intercontinental title after this,
04:39meaning we could get to the 1990 SummerSlam
04:41and do the big rematch,
04:43but sadly, Brutus never made it.
04:45The real-life Ed Leslie was involved
04:47in a horrific parasailing accident
04:48that almost killed him
04:49and absolutely took him out of wrestling for a while.
04:52Instead, Vince McMahon shuttled in
04:54Kerry Von Erich as the Texas Tornado,
04:56and just to really surprise the fans,
04:58Kerry won.
04:59He would only hold the title
05:00for a couple of months
05:01before Perfect won it back,
05:03but still,
05:04it made the title pretty interesting
05:05as we went throughout the year.
05:07As an added note too,
05:08Beefcake was also penciled in
05:10to win IC gold at SummerSlam 1998,
05:13and that didn't happen either.
05:14Instead, The Ultimate Warrior
05:16was going to return,
05:16so the hairdresser got storyline hurt.
05:19Let's just face it,
05:20this basically wasn't his lane.
05:22Number five,
05:23the Texas Tornado pretends
05:24to hold the IC title.
05:26So as we have just brought this one up,
05:28let me give you some more info.
05:30So we've already talked about the fact
05:31that his championship reign
05:32was relatively short,
05:34and it all did get a little bit weird
05:35at the Survivor Series.
05:36They're a Kerry team
05:37with The Ultimate Warrior
05:38and The Legion of Doom
05:39to face Mr. Perfect
05:40and all three members of Demolition,
05:42meaning not only do we have
05:43the world and Intercontinental Champion
05:45together,
05:46but yeah,
05:47Tornado and Perfect
05:48were at odds again.
05:49Given how the taping
05:50scheduled worked back in the 90s though,
05:52on November the 19th,
05:53the WWE had filmed Von Erich
05:55losing his title to Mr. Perfect
05:57with this pay-per-view
05:58airing on the 22nd.
05:59As it wasn't going to be shown
06:00to the TV viewer
06:01until the 15th of December,
06:03we had to keep going forward,
06:04but you know there was
06:05at least one fan
06:06with a massive eyebrow raised.
06:09They knew the deal,
06:10but 30 years ago,
06:11you could have told somebody this
06:13and they wouldn't have
06:14believed you anyway.
06:15Number four,
06:15Mr. Perfect,
06:16the workhorse.
06:17We shall continue on
06:18with this theme
06:19and remember this,
06:20in the 90s,
06:21all wrestlers worked
06:22a hell of a lot.
06:23I mean,
06:24it's crazy now,
06:25but back then,
06:25it was borderline nuts.
06:27Nobody could match
06:27what Kurt Hennig did in 1990 though,
06:30because as well as bouncing around
06:31with the Intercontinental title,
06:33he basically fought
06:34every single top babyface
06:35in the company.
06:36He was tussling with Hulk Hogan
06:38on house shows
06:38at the start of the year,
06:39then did his program
06:40with Beefcake,
06:41moved on to The Ultimate Warrior
06:42after he won the big belt,
06:44faced Jake Roberts,
06:45Tito Santana,
06:46Jim Duggan,
06:46the big boss man,
06:47Hercules,
06:48the Legion of Doom,
06:49Roddy Piper,
06:50and so many others,
06:50I've just got to stop here.
06:52It kind of makes sense
06:53why his back stopped working
06:54in 1991,
06:55but in this 12-month period,
06:57he worked 194 times.
07:00There's likely more
07:01we don't know about too.
07:02This was just perfect though.
07:04Back in 1989,
07:06he had smashed through 173.
07:09Number three,
07:10there is a lot
07:11of the gobbledygooker.
07:12So the narrative today
07:13is that the WWF
07:14revealed the gobbledygooker
07:16at the Survivor Series
07:17as their new mascot,
07:18realized this was a stupid idea,
07:20and he was gone again.
07:22It's not exactly true.
07:23Even after the horrendous reaction
07:25at the pay-per-view,
07:26Vince McMahon wouldn't let it go,
07:27so he kept trying.
07:29It meant we saw the giant turkey
07:30with Tugboat and the Bushwhackers,
07:32as for some reason
07:33they all cut promos,
07:34and before every single live show,
07:37the gooker was sent out
07:38in front of the crowd
07:39to see if he could get some cheers
07:40the WWF were hoping for.
07:42Surprise, surprise,
07:44it never clicked.
07:45I wonder why.
07:46Their last big plan
07:47was to have gobbledygooker
07:48the twirl Howard Finkel,
07:49and I mean that literally.
07:51He stood there
07:52and spun Howard around
07:54like this was meant to help.
07:56Soon after,
07:56he was finally kicked out the door
07:58and into the history books.
08:00It's one of the worst ideas ever.
08:01Number two,
08:02Jacques Rougeau goes back to back.
08:04If you do bring up Jacques Rougeau
08:05to any harder wrestling fan,
08:07they will likely remember
08:08the tag team of
08:09the Fabulous Rougeaus
08:10and the Mountie.
08:12These were his calling cards.
08:13The year didn't start well
08:14for the team
08:15as they lost to the Bushwhackers
08:16and the Rockers,
08:17which was mainly because
08:18the WWE had decided to move on.
08:21They wanted to do something different.
08:23It meant Jacques vanished from TV
08:24when from nowhere
08:25we started to get these vignettes
08:27for none other than
08:28the Mountie.
08:30Yep.
08:30It saw him harassing Canadians
08:31because he took his job
08:32way too seriously,
08:34and we weren't trying to pull the wool
08:35over anybody's eyes here.
08:37Vince McMahon on commentary
08:38would just tell us
08:39this was the same guy.
08:41What the flub is he doing?
08:42There was a story too
08:43because apparently Jacques
08:44wanted to reclaim some law
08:45and order in his own life.
08:47I can't lie.
08:48I absolutely loved it.
08:50I mean, do you remember
08:51that jailhouse match
08:52with the big boss man?
08:53I watched it over and over again
08:55as a kid,
08:56and even today,
08:57it makes absolutely no sense.
08:59Number one,
09:00Vince McMahon says no
09:01to The Undertaker.
09:03It almost changed the course
09:03of history and the process.
09:05Now that Mark Calloway
09:06has retired though,
09:07he's thrown the baby out
09:08with the bathwater
09:09and is happy to talk
09:10about anything,
09:11including how his life
09:12almost went a different way
09:14and that he almost never had
09:15the iconic run that he did.
09:17We've already talked about
09:17how he debuted
09:18at the Survivor Series,
09:19but on his Six Feet Under podcast,
09:21The Dead Man revealed
09:22that yep,
09:23while right-hand man
09:24Bruce Pritchard
09:25put him over huge to the boss,
09:27McMahon didn't see it
09:28even after a meeting.
09:30Telling Mark Wright
09:30to his face
09:31that the company
09:31didn't have anything for him,
09:33it all changed down the line
09:34when the concept
09:35of a traditional maudition
09:36was brought to the table.
09:38Turned out Vince did think
09:39that Calloway had something
09:40to him as a person
09:41and the rest we know.
09:43He was right too.
09:44Those guys have been
09:44best of buds for years now.
09:46I mean,
09:47they were even hanging out
09:47in Saudi Arabia
09:48the other day.
09:50What the flub is happening?
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