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00:00Hello and welcome to OSW Review, the old school wrestling video podcast.
00:05Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay. It's not OSW, it's not our show.
00:10Welcome to Wrestling Biles. It's reliving the war and it's coming up right now.
00:15See you in an hour.
00:19The cho-cho-chosen one.
00:23It's me for a pretty high. Unbeknownst. Unbeliever.
00:32Somebody like the Fuse who I can bring bad news to all these clues who can't NBA jam with the
00:37shoes.
00:38That double shot Hennessy got my mind tripping. Drunk enough to start a campaign on ad-kicking.
00:44With my nigga Keith, we give assists like Scott Pippen. For MC Deryl and Quippen.
00:57Well, here we are. Welcome to Bash at the Beach 2000 and welcome to a full night celebrating this absolute
01:02train wreck.
01:03It's July 9th, we're back in Daytona Beach. A measly 6,500 are in attendance and we've got an estimated
01:09100,000 watching on pay-per-view.
01:11This is the last time WCW would hit the 100k mark, so it's all downhill from here, folks. I wonder
01:17why.
01:18The boys from OSW Review are also covering Bash at the Beach 2000 tonight and their video is going to
01:23go live right after this Reliving the War review.
01:25I'll be jumping over to OSW's video to join in on their live chat, so I'll hopefully see you all
01:31there where we can catch this pretty iconic pay-per-view one more time.
01:34We've got Kevin Nash trying to win Scott Hall's contract when he faces Goldberg, Scotty Steiner defending his US title
01:41against Mike Awesome, and Jeff Jarrett defends his WCW Championship against Hollywood Hogan. What could go wrong?
01:48Our show begins with Ernest Miller telling Big Smooth to keep the MIA and filthy animals away from the opening
01:54match. The cat then hears some music signalling the arrival of the young dragons.
01:58Jimmy, San, Kaz and Yang were involved in an Ernest Miller karate demonstration on Thunder, and the boys got pet
02:04handsomely for taking a beating from the cat.
02:06So it looks like the dragons want to earn some more money perhaps, but they fail pretty miserably. We'll come
02:12back to the dragons a bit later on.
02:15Smooth also failed pretty miserably in keeping the MIA and animals away from the opening match, moving to Guerrera defended
02:22his Cruiserweight Championship against Lieutenant Loco, and even though the factions were sent to the back, both teams made an
02:27appearance towards the end of the bout.
02:29The match started off with Chavo pulling off all kinds of atomic drops, and young Juventud decided he didn't want
02:34to continue. He lay on the ramp while complaining of sore whoobie nuts, but he eventually came back down to
02:40the ring, and really, it was all Chavo here as the match progressed.
02:43The animals returned wearing spooky masks, and yes, improvements all around here, especially for disco. Sorry, the hip-hop inferno.
02:52Mickey J and Ginger Ref were like, ha, you're not fooling us, you dopey dicks, and the animals were sent
02:57to the back.
02:58Hooventud then took control of the match with a great looking sit-down powerbomb, and there it is, the juice
03:03elbow, the most mightily shocking move in sports entertainment today.
03:07Bit nuts how Hoovie's still continuing on with this rock stuff after a throwaway line last year.
03:12Get over it, Juventud.
03:14The misfits then made an appearance, and they too had the exact same idea as the filthy animals, what a
03:20coincidence.
03:21As our referees deal with the general and company, Major Gunz comes bouncing down the entranceway, and our big mama
03:27-jamas easily distract Hoovie.
03:29Chavo pulls off a falcon arrow, Hoovie kicks out at… at three.
03:33And our match ends with Hoovie performing the Hoovie driver, Chavo getting a foot on the ropes, and the lieutenant
03:38gets the pinfall win after a tornado DDT.
03:41Good opener here in comparison to previous WCW PPVs of 2000, so no complaints. Could have done without all the
03:48shenanigans, but it's not surprising either.
03:54Ernest Miller tells the young dragons they did a good job during the Thunder Karate demonstration, but it's over. No
04:00more kung fu and no more fighting.
04:03The dragons are way too focused on the word job though, and I'm guessing they think Ernest has more easy
04:08work lined up for them.
04:09Whatever the case, hearing Jamie Noble talk with an Asian accent is pure money.
04:13Jeff Jarrett barges into the room with one of his… his fat norse ladies from Nitro, the joke being that
04:20the fat lady's going to sing for Hulk Hogan tonight at Bash at the Beach.
04:24In a way, this is exactly what would end up happening.
04:26On Nitro this past week, WCW had someone pretending to be from standards and practices try to stop the ladies
04:33from appearing on TV, and Jarrett smacked him with his guitar.
04:36Truth is, WCW's been having a lot of legitimate issues with standards and practices recently, and it's gotten to the
04:42point where storylines have had to be scrapped, including the one featuring Vampiro in the elusive Lampshade hit.
04:48It was reported that standards and practices wouldn't sign off on the character who was rumoured to be named either
04:53The Lord or Syndrome, though played by Christopher Daniels, and so the whole thing was just thrown in the toilet
04:59and forgotten about.
05:00Anyway, Hulk Hogan hasn't arrived at the building yet, Jarrett's eager to know where Hollywood is, but I'm sure he'll
05:06show up at some point.
05:08Big Vito was supposed to face Terry Funk and Johnny the Bull next, but due to an attack on Thunder,
05:13Vito now has two mystery opponents tonight at Bash at the Beach.
05:16Out comes screaming Norman Smiley in the ever-lovable Ralfus, so we've got these two vs Vito in a handicap
05:22match.
05:23I love how Ralfus just stands there waiting to get hit with a kendo stick.
05:26Typical WCW hardcore match here with the bonus of a backstage big wiggle, Ralfus then got a chance to hit
05:32Vito over and over again with a trash can lid, and yeah, not the most elegant performer is he?
05:38He also stalls for a solid 5 seconds waiting for the lid to get punched in his face.
05:43Norman gets put in an elevator, allowing Ralfus and Vito to take the fight to the ring, we all know
05:48Ralfus isn't a trained performer so his mission right here is to simply take punishment and be happy.
05:53Vito grabs a table and I'm guessing WCW's table budget was sliced in half because that piece of shit's already
05:59broke, but the hardcore champion makes the most of it and he still puts Ralfus through it with a top
06:03rope splash.
06:04Big Vito retains the hardcore title and Norman's just like, ah well, when he comes down to ringside.
06:10Dog shit hardcore match, let's move on.
06:14Billy Boy Goldberg's arrived at the arena, he's got Scott Hall's contract in his skyrocket, Big Nash calls Goldberg a
06:20ball-headed prick before reminiscing a little about his buddy Scott Hall.
06:24Nash doesn't want the good times to end, he's gonna jackknife Goldberg in the middle of the ring, and for
06:29old times sake, Nash is gonna conduct a survey after the bout.
06:33Next up we've got two women fighting over David Flair, so this must be the most unrealistic wrestling match in
06:39the history of our great sport.
06:41David's left Daphne to be with Miss Hancock, he fully admitted to doing the dirty on thunder and he also
06:46admitted to shaving Daphne's hair,
06:47so we've got ourselves a Bash at the Beach wedding gown match, lucky us.
07:27Out comes David and Stacey, we've got a wedding cake at ringside which is gonna turn out to be the
07:31biggest waste of money ever, I'm sure.
07:33David's also brought his hair clippers, so someone's getting a free cut tonight on PPV.
07:38In the ring, David… ah, yeah, David's all over Miss Hancock, isn't he? Daphne comes out and she sees these
07:44two kissing quite passionately,
07:46so David takes a low blow and our match is on. Daphne gets set up in the corner and we
07:51see a handspring back elbow, wrestling moves ladies and gents.
07:55Daphne pulls off a few snapmare takeovers which Tony Schiavone calls fundamentally sound and our match goes to shit when
08:01David and referee Slick Johnson try to break the women up.
08:04Both dudes get their pants ripped off and Luke, Johnson wears his tighty whities over his shirt, what a knobhead.
08:11David takes a headbutt to the groin which Schiavone calls the spot of the year, doesn't take too much to
08:16impress Tony.
08:17The girls then chase each other around the ring before David brings the clippers in, Stacey's just about to shave
08:22Daphne's head but Crowbar comes out to save the day.
08:26Crowbar reads the room, he sees that everyone's in their underwear so he joins in.
08:30I have absolutely no idea what's going on here but WCW pipe in some sound effects when David takes a
08:36sit out gourd buster and Stacey stops the action so she can dance in the middle of the ring.
08:42This is fucking pay per view ladies and gentlemen, you had to pay a fee to watch this, just thought
08:47it'd remind you.
08:47Seeing as Stacey took her own clothes off, the referee calls for the bell, Daphne wins and Slick Johnson takes
08:54a seat to watch Stacey perform.
08:56Before everyone heads back up the ramp, they put that wedding cake to good use and I don't know, I
09:01don't know what to say about this at all, pure bollocks.
09:04One week David Flair's the ultimate nebo baby, he's then a member of the NWO, he then becomes a nutcase,
09:10he gets a new dad and now he's frolicking around in his underwear with two different women.
09:15The journey of a wrestling legend, I guess.
09:22The young dragons are stalking Ernest Miller around the arena, there better be a payoff for this or I'm gonna
09:27be really angry.
09:29Our commentators inform us that Hollywood Hogan still hasn't appeared in the arena, and Hudson says there's been rumors circulating
09:36that Hulk just isn't gonna compete tonight.
09:38Shivani thinks Hogan's playing mind games, wood from the hood playing 4D chess.
09:43Look at the mess David and companies left around the ring, nevermind standards and practices, call health and safety.
09:50Surely this next matchup will take the taste of that rancid wedding cake out of our mouths as it's time
09:55for the tag team title match,
09:57the perfect event to fend the gold against Chronic.
09:59And our trusty ginger referee is gonna take charge of this one, so you just know there's gonna be absolutely
10:04no nonsense here.
10:06Shivani calls Chuck Palumby, which made me laugh, but what isn't funny is the amount of stalling taking place as
10:12we get underway.
10:13Eventually we get some action as Palumby gets tossed over the top rope and he's soon joined by his partner
10:19by way of a gorilla press from the ring to the floor, the crowd made a lot of noise for
10:23this spot.
10:23More time wasting as the champs threaten to walk out, but we finally get some wrestling, in this wrestling match
10:29as Brian Clark and Sean Stasiak hook it up.
10:31Sean gets a few shots in, but things quickly turn around as Clark hits the death penalty.
10:36The challengers stay in control and Palumbo gets dropped with a full Nielsen slam.
10:40The champs are able to low bridge Adams and they do some damage on the outside including a chair shot
10:44across the back.
10:45In the perfect event keep the advantage when things get back inside the ropes as Brian Adams gets wrecked.
10:50We get a let's go chronic chant as Chuck locks in a sleeper but Adams eventually fights out because everything
10:56he does, he does it for the fans, but he gets brought back down with a kitchen sink, so much
11:01for that.
11:02Stasiak locks in a sleeper of his own and Adams certainly isn't on cloud number 9 right now, he is
11:07able to fight out once again and both men go down after bumping heads.
11:11Clark gets the hot tag and he wipes out the tag team champions, he looks for the meltdown, but Chucky
11:16counters and he drops Brian with a DDT.
11:18We go to the outside as Stasiak takes out Clark with a clothesline off the apron, the perfect event double
11:23team Clark back inside the ring, but Adams clears out Chuck and he hits Stasiak with his perfectly safe and
11:29not at all terrifying F5.
11:31The challengers connect with the high times but Palumbo stops the count, he ends up taking the high times himself,
11:37but Sean looks to attack with a lex flexor.
11:39This backfires and Chronic score with a doomsday powerbomb to pick up the win and the tag team titles, so
11:45there you go.
11:46Honestly, this one wasn't terrible, was it worth watching this show for? No.
11:50Was it perfectly serviceable? I'd say so, yeah. The crowd were really into Chronic so that's a bonus too.
11:59Double J still wants to know where Hogan is and Ernest is like fuck a final. Jeff leaves and I'm
12:04just noticing Ernest has a magic 8 ball on his desk.
12:08This is what he uses to decide who wins and who loses when booking matches as WCW commissioner.
12:13That East Asian music begins to play and the young dragons appear to launch an attack.
12:18Miller did say the boys done a good job on Thunder so I guess they want to keep doing a
12:23good job by beating Miller up.
12:25Ah now, this one should be good as positively Kenyon goes one on one with Booker T, two great performers
12:31here so this has the potential to be much of the night.
12:34Booker T is defending the honour of DDP tonight, Dallas decided to go home, Kenyon took over his gimmick and
12:40so Booker's went after Chris as a way to fight back against the new blood.
12:43The crowd chant Booker's name before the bell rings, Booker uses that support to take the lead in the early
12:49going and a big spin kick not only knocks Kenyon down but it also knocks his wig off. A double
12:54whammy for our positive pal.
12:56This act must have fired Kenyon up as he gains control with a back elbow and a shoulder tackle but
13:00a big drop kick stops his momentum. Booker then decides to have a look through Kenyon's novel as Chris is
13:06on the outside.
13:06But that book feels a little heavy for some light reading as it turns out there's a brick hidden inside
13:12it. Booker throws the brick away as Chris proceeds to get battered on the outside for a bit before Booker
13:17connects with a top rope clothesline for a two count. We go back to the outside, lads, come on, you're
13:22better than this.
13:23And this time it's Booker who gets wrecked via the guardrail in the steel steps. Kenyon then places those steps
13:29on top of Booker and he smacks them with a steel chair. Don't know why he wouldn't just hit him
13:33with the chair but who am I to argue with the innovator of offense.
13:36Yeah, that's more like it. A middle rope suplex from the outside back in from Kenyon gets a near fall
13:42before he grabs the chair again. He props it in between the top and middle rope but Booker catches him
13:47with a power slam.
13:48Booker avoids getting thrown into the chair but his counter gets countered with an Alabama bomb. Chris continues to work
13:54on the back with a reverse Boston crab but Booker fights out and, as is the way, Kenyon gets thrown
14:00into the chair that he set up before eating a spinebuster for a two.
14:04Booker takes control of the chair and he looks to whack Chris with it but the referee puts a stop
14:08to that and, in the confusion, Kenyon bops Booker with the book. Booker has been bookbopped.
14:14But alas, without the brick inside said book, Kenyon can only get a two count. Booker recovers to hit a
14:20Harlem sidekick, an axe kick and a book end but he still can't put Kenyon away. He signals for his
14:26missile dropkick but, oh boy, here comes Jeff Jarrett with his guitar and Booker gets clobbered.
14:32This allows Kenyon to hit a Kenyon cutter off the ropes for the one, two, three, and if you're wondering
14:37why Jeff Jarrett appeared here, it's because he and Booker had a good main event match on Thunder this past
14:41week where Jeff almost lost the WCW Championship.
14:44The in-ring stuff was good here but there were also many shenanigans which is a real shame. However, I
14:51wonder will the finished play in the event later on in the evening.
14:58Pamela Polchok wants to talk to Mike Awesome about his upcoming US title shot and Mike's more interested in talking
15:05to one of Jarrett's big ladies. He accuses Pamela of being jealous and this is the beginning of Mike's fat
15:11chick thriller gimmick which I'll unfortunately talk about more in the coming weeks.
15:16So here we go, two big bastards are set to batter each other for the US title as big pop
15:21-a-pump defends against Mike Awesome. The champion's out first with his head hoochie, Medasia, and our lover of larger
15:27ladies comes out second.
15:28We see the rare occurrence of Scott's double axe handle from the apron actually connecting as the two begin brawling
15:34on the outside. Steiner gets backdropped into the crowd and Awesome leaps over the guardrail on top of him, still
15:40impresses me every time.
15:41They have a brief scrap through the audience and Scotty gets body slammed on the concrete floor, they fight back
15:46towards the ringside area where Awesome gets hit with a fancy folding chair before bouncing off the ring steps.
15:51In the ring, Scott stays in control with a Steiner line and his signature elbow but a boot to the
15:57face in the corner turns the tide in Mike's favour.
15:59He gets caught out when he goes up top though and Scott makes him pay with a middle rope belly
16:04to belly overhead suplex. Hell of a move here from the big bad booty daddy.
16:08Some mounted punches in the corner and a backbreaker keep the champ in charge but his suplex attempt gets countered
16:14and he gets hung up on the top rope.
16:16Back we go to the outside and I'm starting to get a bit fed up with it at this stage
16:20of the evening.
16:21Awesome whacks Scotty with the ring bell before letting waste to the US champion with a steel chair. Ginger ref
16:26lets it go though because, you know, relax rules and all that.
16:30And Dave Penzer poops his pants when Steiner gets thrown into the guardrail. Awesome scores with his top rope clothesline
16:36just as we see the cat appear on the ramp, presumably to make sure Scotty doesn't use the recliner which
16:41was banned by the commissioner.
16:43Another big belly to belly forced the cat to get on the apron but he's quickly dealt with by Steiner.
16:48The distraction leads to a low blow followed by an Alabama slam from Awesome for a two as the cat
16:53looks on. Awesome hits his big top rope splash but he still can't put the champion away.
16:59Ginger ref takes a tumble so the cat gets in the ring but heel buffoonery ensues as he kicks Awesome
17:04by mistake.
17:05Miller gets taken out with another belly to belly suplex as does Awesome and Steiner looks for his submission finisher.
17:12The cat tells him though he'll strip Scott of the title if he puts the hold on but Scott realizes
17:16just how worthless the US title is nowadays and he pops the recliner on and so the commissioner calls for
17:22the bell.
17:23Mike Awesome is the new US champion, I think, but the cat takes the belt away up the ramp only
17:29for him to get attacked by Scotty. This means the belt might be vacated but who knows.
17:34Again, this one was sorely let down by all the time wasting outside the ring. It just seems to be
17:39the theme of this show, unfortunately.
17:41It's also a shame to see Scott's US title run end in such a stupid way. Scott's held that belt
17:46since winning it back at the Spring Stampede tournament making him the longest reigning champion so far since the beginning
17:52of the new blood storyline.
17:58Vampiro takes on the demon next in a graveyard match, and it really should have been called a little frolic
18:04in the pond match because that's the only notable thing that happened here. They splashed around in some water.
18:10For the uninitiated, Dale Torborg wanted to give the demon character up because Vampiro was making life hell for old
18:16dirty Dale and his fiancee Asia. Vampiro then tricked Dale into bringing the character back, and to be fair, this
18:22whole storyline is so messy,
18:24because the original plan to have Christopher Daniels involved as Lampshade Man had to get scrapped. Standards and practices also
18:30stopped a bit where the demon was supposed to spit fire in Vampiro's face, so this one was doomed before
18:36it even began.
18:37WCW's efforts to raise the demon character up recently has been nothing but a complete flop, and really we're just
18:43waiting for the return of sting so he can get some revenge on Vampiro after what happened at the great
18:48american bash.
18:49Dale gets smacked with a big Mario block before getting put in a coffin and tipped into a shallow grave.
18:55Vampiro now has to make it back to the arena in order to officially win the match, what we got
19:00here was terrible and the poor lighting didn't help at all, but let's wait and see if Vampiballs makes it
19:05back to the building. Traffic's terrible at this time of night.
19:08Shane Douglas must have heard those rumours about Triple H ripping off his gimmick, he says he's the franchise and
19:15he's that damn good.
19:16And I'm sorry, Triple H and Shane Douglas are not alike at all except for that one time Shane wore
19:22a biker cap. I have absolutely no idea how or why people compare Triple H to Shane Douglas, but I
19:28guess it comes from folks looking at pictures on the internet.
19:30Shane's facing buff daddy tonight, the franchise had to work solo while buff was legitimately suspended and he blames buff
19:37for derailing his career for a couple of weeks, and it's so WCW that the guy who got suspended for
19:43beating up innocent crew workers gets to come back as a good guy.
19:46Let's spend the first half of the match fighting on the outside, eh? Haven't seen that tonight, good shit. Shane
19:52spends a solid 30 seconds pulling up the protective mats on the outside only for his piledriver to get reversed,
19:58hate it when that happens.
19:59In Back in the Ring, Bagwell performs a swinging neckbreaker before, you guessed it, we go back to the outside.
20:05Bagwell gets his left ball smashed into the ring post and when he takes a chair away from Shane, he
20:10gets said chair punched in his face.
20:12Shane then targets buff's surgically repaired neck with a snapmare followed by a Kurt Hennig rolling neck snap, and well
20:19well well, look who it is, Billy Kidman's expert Tory Wilson.
20:23She gets on the apron and Shane looks for a kiss, the franchise gets smacked in the face, so she
20:28must be here to support Bagwell, right?
20:30Well, these two do have a kiss in the middle of the ring and buff thinks he's in luck, the
20:34moment he turns his back though he gets kicked in his right ball.
20:37This, in turn, allows Shane to pull off the Pittsburgh plunge, but somehow Bagwell kicks out and the match continues
20:43on.
20:44Tory stops buff from performing the blockbuster and Bagwell takes an inverted atomic drop. Shane then shows off his brand
20:50new finishing move right here and he scores a pinfall win,
20:53and this is just an opinion from a long time fan, but if you're gonna change your finishing move, make
20:58sure it looks better than the one you're leaving behind.
21:01This shoulder jawbreaker thing's nowhere near as good looking as the Pittsburgh plunge. Guess what you called this move too?
21:08Go guess. Yeah, the franchisor. Fuck's sake.
21:16Oh here we go, it's now time for our WCW Championship match, Jeff Jarrett vs Hollywood Hogan. Hulk Hogan has
21:23arrived at the arena, Jeff Jarrett gives a cryptic message when he asks Mean Gene if he's ever seen the
21:28usual suspects. You know what this means, I know what this means, they've made documentaries about this nonsense, but here
21:35it is.
21:36Jeff's music plays for what feels like an eternity, and then Vince Russo shows up. We haven't seen Russo since
21:42he retired Ric Flair on Nitro, but he's back and he's walking to the ring with purpose.
21:47Double J follows, he gets in the ring for his pyro, and here comes Hollywood Hogan. As Hulk gets in
21:53the ring, Russo has a pretty worried look on his face, and Jarrett decides to head back up the ramp.
21:58Hulk says Jeff is the chosen one, he's been chosen to get powerbombed in the middle of the ring, but
22:03trust me folks, we won't be seeing the rare Hulk Hogan powerbomb tonight at this show.
22:08Jeff doesn't look too amused, but he does eventually make his way back down to the ring, Jarrett takes his
22:13time before stepping inside the ropes, and when the bell rings, Jeff lies down.
22:17This is the same thing Hogan did back at Halloween Havoc, but they're trying to make this look as real
22:23and unscripted as possible. Russo takes the belt, he throws it into the ring before heading back up the ramp,
22:29and Hogan says…
22:36Hogan puts a foot on Jarrett, he wins via pinfall, and we've got a new WCW World Heavyweight Champion. This
22:43was all a work, Hogan knew this was gonna happen, Russo knew it was gonna happen, the commentators, Jeff Jarrett,
22:50and no one else knew that Vince and Hulk had preplanned all this, but because Hulk wanted to win the
22:54championship tonight, this is what was conjured up and it's bullshit.
22:58I know it's harder for younger fans to believe, but once upon a time, people would've paid money to see
23:03Hulk Hogan perform, and the way this played out pretty much robbed those fans of seeing Hollywood work in the
23:08ring.
23:09But this isn't where the story ends, a little later on Vince Russo comes back out and he has a
23:14lot to say for himself.
23:15From day one that I've been in WCW, I've done nothing, nothing but deal with the bullshit of the politics
23:32behind that curtain.
23:35I've got a wife, I've got three kids at home, and I really don't need this shit.
23:42I came back for every one of the guys in that locker room that week in, week out, bust their
23:51ass for WCW.
23:54I came back for the Booker T's. I came back for every single guy in MIA. I came back for
24:06the animals. I came back for Jared.
24:09I came back for the guys behind that curtain that give a shit about this company.
24:15And let me tell you who doesn't give a shit about this company. That goddamn politician Hulk Hogan.
24:22All day long I'm playing politics with Hulk Hogan. Because Hulk Hogan tonight wants to play his creative control card.
24:34That meant that tonight in the middle of this ring, when he knew it was bullshit, he beats Jeff Jarrett.
24:43Well guess what? Hogan got his wish. Hogan got his belt and he went the hell home. And I promise
24:52everybody else I'll go in the goddamn grave.
24:55You will never see that piece of shit again.
25:00So Hulk Hogan now has the WCW belt. And Hulk, let's refer to that as the Hulk Hogan Memorial Belt.
25:11Because from here on in, that belt don't mean shit.
25:17There will be a new WCW belt. And as far as I'm concerned, that belt still belongs to the one
25:27guy that busts his ass week in and week out in the middle of this ring.
25:32And you people can love him and hate him, but he doesn't screw anybody back there and that's Jeff Jarrett.
25:40He will defend that title in this ring tonight. And he will defend that title against the son of a
25:50bitch back there who for 14 years has been busting his ass in WCW and can't get a goddamn break
25:59because of the Hulk Hogan.
26:00And I'm talking about Booker T.
26:07Booker T and Jeff Jarrett are the two reasons why I'm in this damn stinking business to begin with.
26:15So tonight in this ring, for the WCW title, two deserving guys, Jarrett and Booker will compete for the WCW
26:27and they'll tear this goddamn ass down.
26:29And Hogan, you big bald son of a bitch, kiss my ass!
26:43Right, so Hulk Hogan decided he wanted to leave this pay-per-view holding the WCW championship. He has creative
26:49control, so legally he can do this. It's a harsh reality, but it's the truth. WCW gave Hulk this creative
26:56clause and he's free to use it anytime he pleases.
26:59Vince Russo did not want Hogan to leave Bosch at the beach as WCW champion, so they came up with
27:04this idea of Jarrett lying down and Hogan taking the belt away.
27:08Russo would then come out, he would announce that Hogan isn't the real world champion, and he'd book a match
27:13between Jeff Jarrett and Booker T for the real world title.
27:16The idea was that Hogan would hold one belt, Booker or Jeff would hold the other, and eventually Hogan could
27:22come back claiming to be the one and only WCW champion, and this would lead to an undisputed title match
27:27at a future date.
27:28It was a way to please Hulk, it pleased Russo because there's still Jarrett or Booker holding the championship, so
27:34it should've been all good.
27:36It's actually a shit idea when you think about it, and it's still messed around with paying customers, but that's
27:41neither here nor there.
27:42All that mattered was that Hogan was happy and WCW still had a champion.
27:47Russo hit the ring after the Hogan and Jarrett match and Hulk wasn't too enamored with what came out of
27:51Russo's mouth.
27:52Hogan felt that Russo went too far by calling him a piece of shit and what have you, and so
27:57Hogan decided to legitimately sue Russo and WCW for defamation,
28:02false light invasion of privacy for Russo discussing Hulk's quote, creative control card on TV, and breach of contract saying
28:09as the agreed storyline had been altered when Hogan used said creative control card.
28:14WCW would end up countersuing saying as they tried to get Hogan to come back for future pay-per-views
28:18but he refused to do so, Hulk was contracted to appear in six pay-per-views per year by the
28:23way.
28:23And Hulk wouldn't get a single penny out of this lawsuit because the courts said Russo's speech was in the
28:29context of a wrestling show, it was all in a scripted and worked environment, so the courts nor Hulk Hogan
28:35could establish with clear and convincing evidence that Russo's speech was made with actual malice.
28:40There's never been a better time to say it, you worked yourself into a shoot brother. Hogan wouldn't come back
28:45to WCW, this is his exit from the company and from the Monday Night War, so bye bye Hulk I
28:51guess and welcome to a Hogan free world championship wrestling.
28:54In regards to Russo, I honestly think this is the best promo he ever cut and probably the best thing
29:00he ever did in WCW, not because he went so hard on Hulk, but just because he delivered the promo
29:06in such a real and convincing way.
29:08You could tell he meant some of the things he was saying, but Vince has always claimed that he was
29:12working here, he was working the boys backstage, he was working the fans at home and in the audience.
29:18And as far as Vince knew, Hogan was going to come back eventually to set up that future undisputed title
29:23match. Did Vince go too far? Obviously he did, seeing as Hogan tried to sue him, but it's remarkable how
29:30Russo can be so wrong for doing something so right.
29:33To give Hogan credit, he did have creative control and no matter what way you spin it, it always comes
29:39back to that fact. That's a contractual obligation from the company to the employee, even if it is a clause
29:44that's bound to cause problems.
29:46WCW were stupid enough to give it to him, Hogan took advantage of it, so there is an element of
29:51Russo trying to get around that. Yeah, a gigantic mess that equates to watching a car wreck. It's terrible, but
29:57it's fucking entertaining to watch.
29:59Before moving on, I should also talk about Booker T. Creative staff at WCW felt Booker should get an opportunity
30:05because of the work he'd put in up until this point, and I fully agree.
30:09I've loved watching Booker while covering Reliving The War, and there's excitement about Booker potentially winning the WCW Championship. Many
30:16people forget about the match he had on Thunder against Jeff and how well the crowd reacted to Booker when
30:21he nearly won the championship, but there's also the lawsuit I spoke about before in a previous episode of Reliving
30:27The War, the one filed by many WCW superstars of colour who felt they weren't getting pushed in World Championship
30:33Wrestling. It was a racial discrimination lawsuit.
30:36Many believe this is why we're seeing Ernest Miller in a prominent commissioner role, it's why Ice Train was brought
30:42back, it's why Stevie Ray is set to become a full-time commentator on Thunder, and many also believe it's
30:48the reason why Booker T was put in this championship match.
30:51It could very well be, the court filings are online for everyone to see, but I see Booker is a
30:57very deserving competitor who's wrestled at a ridiculously high level right up until this point. He was given stupid gimmicks
31:04and storylines, such as the whole fighting for the letter T nonsense and the return of GI Bro, but Booker's
31:10an easy top 5 WCW competitor right now based on ring work alone, and forgetting about the lawsuit, he absolutely
31:16did deserve the main event a pay-per-view.
31:19It's a disservice to even mention the lawsuit when talking about Booker's work in WCW.
31:24As stated, there's been documentaries made about this mess, and as time goes on, more and more little bits of
31:29information get brought to light. You can hear Russo, Bischoff, Hogan and Jarrett talk about it, and you'll also hear
31:34the OSW boys rip it to shreds in just a moment.
31:38Finally, it's worth pointing out that the commentators had no idea how to react here. They were shocked at first,
31:44then very interested in what Russo had to say, and finally, they were joking as they threw their hands up
31:50in defeat. A very, very interesting night at the office for WCW.
32:01Well, moving on. In the middle of this debacle, Vampiro returned to the arena, so Vampyballs wins our graveyard match.
32:08He began talking about how Dale wanted to walk on the dark side, and he's now buried alive, but the
32:13crowd chants we want sting, and yeah, I want sting too.
32:16A bunch of randomers wearing sting masks bring a coffin down the ramp. The commentators say this is possibly the
32:22same coffin the demon just got put in, the crowd are still chanting we want sting, Vampiro says sting's dead,
32:29and Vamp then goes out to the rampway to confront the sting doppelgangers.
32:33The coffin opens up, the real sting appears, I think, and Vampiro gets taken out with a few baseball shots
32:39before getting put in the coffin.
32:40The stingers back, again, I think, and we're on our way to another sting vs. Vampiro match very soon.
32:49Backstage, Goldberg says it's taken all the professional courtesy he's got not to rip up Scott Hall's contract, but mate,
32:55I watched you eat that contract the long way on Nitro, so you're not fooling anyone.
33:00Goldberg says he's more intense and pissed off than he's ever been in his life, and he's held onto the
33:05contract so he can rip it up right in front of Kevin Nash.
33:08Goldberg says the outsiders are no more after this match, and tonight Billy Boy's gonna end Scott Hall's career.
33:16Kevin, meanwhile, wants Scott Steiner to watch his back, but Scott says he's busy. Nash reminds him that this is
33:21for Hall's contract, but Big Papa pumps in no rush to help out his big buddy.
33:26The competitors make their entrances, Goldberg places Hall's contract on the commentary table after shoving it down his trunks, the
33:33inks all smeared thanks to Goldberg's bald sweat,
33:36and even Kev can't believe the absolute state Goldberg's left this important paperwork in.
33:41Goldberg's first day attack, and Nash gets brought to the corner. If we've learned anything about Kev and Nash over
33:45this series though,
33:47it's the fact that no one does corner offense better than Big Sexy.
33:50Kev goes on the attack, but when he tries to choke Billy Boy out, Goldberg grabs his foot.
33:55Nash gets tripped up, and Goldberg follows up with his single arm under hook suplex, and there it is, the
34:00super safe sidekick.
34:01I should note that the commentators mentioned on Nitro that this is the move that put Brett Hart out of
34:06action.
34:07Had Goldberg not turned heel, I don't think this would have been talked about.
34:10Nash gets up, he delivers a chokeslam, and then Scottie Steiner walks down along with Medesha.
34:16You can smell the swerve coming a mile off.
34:19Scott tries to motivate Nash by showing him the bad guy's contract.
34:23The two get up, and Nash gets his ass kicked in the corner.
34:26In the opposite corner, Big Kev gets a boot up, and we see a dodgy sidewalk slam.
34:29And when Goldberg kicks out, Kev dodges a spear.
34:33When the two eventually get back to their feet, Nash pulls his singlet down.
34:36He sets Goldberg up for the jackknife.
34:38And, swerve bro, it's a swerve bro.
34:41I would complain about Scott Steiner running back to the New Blood multiple times like the faction some sort of
34:47lady of the night,
34:47but after what happened with Hogan earlier on, the New Blood storyline is more or less finished.
34:53Spear, Jackhammer, Kev gets pinned, and that means the outsiders are no more.
34:57Goldberg rips the contract up while Nash gets put in the Steiner recliner,
35:01and, yeah, I think it's a mistake turning Steiner heel again.
35:04He was doing so well as a babyface, but we could potentially see a two-man power trip with Goldberg
35:10and Big Papa Pump.
35:11No doubt WCW's gonna mess it up.
35:19Booker T says he's surprised by tonight's events, but Opportunity has knocked and Booker's gonna answer the door.
35:24He's gonna do what he's gotta do, so here we go, Booker T vs Jeff Jarrett for the World Heavyweight
35:29Championship.
35:31The commentators are still in a state of shock, they say Nash vs Goldberg was supposed to be our final
35:35match,
35:36and you can sense Shivani's frustrated as he sends it over to Michael Buffer.
35:40Buffer says this is one of the most amazing nights in the history of professional wrestling in the crowd boos,
35:45but they definitely perk up for Booker T's entrance.
35:48Out comes Double J, the bell rings, and we have a slow starter here after a few stalemates.
35:53Neither man can overcome the other.
35:55The first big move's a dropkick from Booker T, this leads to Jarrett taking a timeout,
35:59and when the match resumes, Booker stays on his opponent with a heartened sidekick.
36:03Booker's looking good here.
36:04We go to the outside and into the audience.
36:07The most controversial thing about this show should be how no one fights inside the ring.
36:11It's a mob scene as Booker and Jarrett fight through the crowd,
36:14and that's because Doug Dillinger's merry men are the worst security guards in the history of security guards.
36:20The two make it back to the ringside area where Booker gets thrown on the announce table.
36:24Jarrett follows this up with a piledriver, which doesn't get the reaction you'd expect it to,
36:28but we continue on in the ring with Booker shaking it off, so Jarrett applies a sleeper.
36:32A long, long sleeper that gets followed up with another one.
36:36And another one from Booker T.
36:38I was hoping for Booker to pull out all the stops here, but we have seen way, way better in
36:42the past.
36:43Keep in mind though, he did wrestle earlier on.
36:46Jarrett manages to put Booker in the figure four, but Booker reverses the pressure.
36:49The move gets broken up and Jarrett continues targeting the leg and knee.
36:53Double J misses a teabag and Booker starts fighting back,
36:56and we see the axe kick and spinebuster from Book.
36:59The fans think it's all over, Jarrett kicks out,
37:01so Booker goes for another Hardim sidekick, but he crotches himself on the top rope.
37:06The match is definitely picking up a bit now, but we're already approaching the end.
37:10Billy Silverman gets wiped out and this allows Jeff to grab his world championship.
37:14Jeff tries to use it, Booker dodges the attack,
37:16Double J gets smacked with the belt, but he still kicks out of Booker's cover.
37:20After a low blow, Jarrett grabs a steel chair, the chair gets wedged in the corner.
37:25And just like Kenyon earlier on, the guy who sets up the spot takes the bump.
37:29Eventually, Jeff gets frustrated, so he attacks the referee and he hits Booker with a low blow.
37:34He then grabs the acoustic equaliser, but his attack fails.
37:38Double J jumps straight into a book end, and Slick Johnson runs down to count the one, two, three.
37:43Booker T is the new WCW World Heavyweight Champion,
37:47and yeah, this moment right here is pretty fucking awesome.
37:50The fans get on their feet as they celebrate Booker's monumental win,
37:54a win that came around due to some very controversial circumstances.
37:58But as mentioned before, Booker T absolutely deserved this win,
38:02and for me, it helps negate the nonsense just a little bit from earlier on.
38:06Booker T's the man.
38:13Bash at the Beach 2000 was always one of those shows I had lurking in the back of my mind
38:18when covering the entire Monday Night War.
38:20One of those shows I knew I had to cover eventually, whether I liked it or not,
38:24so it's a relief to get this one in the books.
38:27It's actually not a terrible show, just for the sheer entertainment value it provides.
38:31I know it's a bit of a joke to look back on,
38:33and the controversy surrounding Russo and Hogan's what always gets brought to the forefront,
38:36but there are a couple of decent matches here along with Booker T's title win.
38:40I wouldn't really call the main event all that good,
38:43it's actually a bit annoying that this is probably the WCW match Booker T's most known for
38:48because he's way, way better than this,
38:50but all in all, I've set through worst WCW pay-per-views in 2000 and 1999.
38:55Now you're going to hear what JAV1 and OOC think of Bash at the Beach,
39:00their Viewer's Choice videos going live on YouTube in just a moment,
39:04so thank you for watching this Reliving the War video,
39:07and I'll see you over on OSW Reviews channel.
39:09Please take care.
39:13We'll see you over on OSW Reviews channel.
39:14We'll see you over on OSW Reviews channel.
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