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It's the Monday Night War series that's done properly! This week we look at the 3.18.96 episodes of WWF Raw and WCW Nitro.
World Championship Wrestling are one week away from their Uncensored 96 pay per view and a ton of last minute booking takes place on this episode of Nitro. "The Alliance to End Hulkamania" is properly formed this week, featuring the WCW return of Zeus and another character that got Turner Broadcasting in some hot water.
Over on Raw, the WWF are just 2 weeks away from WrestleMania XII where Bret Hart will face Shawn Michaels in a 60 minute marathon match. Bret is in action this week against Tatanka. Another big match thats been hyped for months in the Undertaker's match with Big Daddy Cool Diesel. This week's episode of Raw sees Diesel opening a casket at ringside, a casket that contains a spooky surprise!
Topics and matches include:
00:00 - Nitro's opening match doesn't get started
02:51 - Jake "The Snake" Roberts in action
04:45 - The Mega Powers on Nitro / HBK & Bret on Raw
07:59 - Steiners vs Public Enemy / Fatu vs Goldust
11:15 - The Bootyman on Nitro
15:05 - The Road Warriors vs The Nasty Boys
16:55 - Diesel & The Casket
18:33 - The Main Events
24:22 - The Alliance to End Hulkamania
26:11 - The Final Billionaire Ted Skit
28:27 - Final scores
#WCW #WWE #Wrestling
Raw vs Nitro "Reliving The War": Episode 25 - March 18th 1996
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If you ask Tatanka, he will tell you, that he was a main-eventer in WWF. I wonder if this one match is what he is talking about.
I loved those tornado tag matches in smackdown for the ps1, those were the days.
that superkick to the heavy bag was devastating
i forgot who was the wcw world champion, the title wasn't mentioned for almost 3 episodes lmao
RIP Zeus
There was a reason the ratings were spot on. The Ted Turner skits were just garbage. All of them. Nobody wanted to see skits. They wanted to see rasslin'
WTF... Nitro was horrendous n still it was giving tough competition to RAW.
that guy that was with Zues looks like the body guard named 'Bledsoe' from the movie Bulletproof...
STEINERS probably gave P.E. their best match. BOOTY oveR ARN... That's CRIMINAL CORNETTE is such a Legend. WWF does such a great job every week of Building/Advancing their top programs. BRET = EXCELLENCE NITRO = LADIES SHOES, Z GANG, SOLUTION
booker t appearing is an easy point for nitro
"On Nitro, Arn Anderson is taking on... sigh... Thebootyman..."
The irony of billionaire Ted is almost too much.
Irish or Scottish?
I love wcw was the best
Wasn't piper involved in a 'car chase' on one of these shows at some point? Or am I mistaken?
What was the issue with the name The Final Solution? Is it a reference for something? Also the Billionaire Ted stuff Vince is such a hypocrite, honestly PoS human being
this one was great man! zeegangsta!
I really like the title card art btw.
I live in Calgary to see the 1996 Skyline is a trip!
The second rope is now called Bret's rope just ask the osw guys
I completely forgot what a great athlete Loch Ness was
Love these series...keep up the great work. Awesome videos. Truly the best
Rock-O-Rock was a seriously underrated worker in the mid 90s
Everyone get bios attention plz on this so I’ve been watching ahead not spoiling anything but when we get up to may 20 WCW moves to 2 hours long I wanted to figure out how scoreing system would work and how bios would make this work I’ll make sure to leave this on every one of bios relieving the war episodes tell he sees it hopefully if he didn’t know this he knows know and have more time to come up with something
This is about a month and a half away from reliving war time so hopefully us the fans can figure out something
Wow what height is The Taskmaster here, looks tiny!
This reminds me of how much I couldn’t stand Sullivan and the dungeon of doom back then. Still hate it.
I never saw the WCW being in the UK. I only got exposed to the WWF. I’ve enjoyed your videos on the The War, but I don’t think I was missing much by not seeing the WCW. As for the Hulk. Why did his fellow wrestlers put up with his no-sells.
Chattanooga represent!
Rikishi is so boring , no idea how he stayed around for 20 years. He's a charisma void
I don't know why Gold dust just didn't come out as the sign of the American dream Dusty Rhodes cuz most everybody hated gold dust
I hated gold dust I thought he was a disgrace to professional wrestling and a disgrace and a disappointment to his legendary father The American dream Dusty Rhodes I can't stand goldust I hated the image the character goldust come out at the son of Dusty Rhodes
hahahahaha, Deep Breath, Sigh, "booty man". Brilliant :-D
Notice how Savage wears "Mega Powers" stuff, but Hogan wears "Hogan" stuff? LOL
Why were people upset by "the solution"
I really miss the crowd being fully lit up like as shown in the Nitro clips. Makes it seem so much more authentic
As the booty man has a fit on his way to the ring hahahaha
11:16 "On Nitro Arn Anderson is facing... The Bootyman."
Hi you're doing a great job keep up and i want to see a full episode about Vince russo like the rise and fall of him thank you
What part of UK you from?
This Giant taking out Loch Ness while Lex Luger poses in the background is actually my favorite wrestling moment of all time. Seriously, I laughed so hard at everything, and Lex played it perfectly. I wish they'd kept Lex as this weird conceited babyface/heel character.
Raw making a comeback!
The final solution 😆 its 💩 like this that makes me love old school wrestling. 😆 😆 😆
When hogan gets leslie a win over AA, its time for AA to get stiff and no sell all match.
oh btw the "Solution" real name Robert Swenson Jr. sadly passed away in 1997 due to heart failure :(
when nitro hits 3 hours are you only going to cover the head to head portions or wil you still give us a break down of the first hour?
Some excellent strutting and cutting there by Beefcake...
Oh dear WCW not doing well on relieving the war atm. WCW need to change it up Bring back Eddie and you get some points
Wow Raw dominated Nitro in the point spread this week with six matches and segments going in their favor. This is probably the best showing from WWE so far. They won that battle. However they still lost the war that week in the ratings portion.
Imagine how many people looked at the name they picked for Zeus and thought "yeah, that seems fine" dear god.
Another great video, love this series...I would love to see you do a bio if Harley Race, think you would do it justice 😁👍
I've always thought the "dog faced gremlin" was one of the most hilarious-awesome-hilariouslyawesome nicknames ever.
Sheesh I'm rooting for nitro but damn hogan screwed up wrestling with his selfishness and bischoff valued ratings over content
Good old Randy Anderson
Diesel turning heel should have been on Monday night raw. Again I just don't understand why Vince wanted to do it on a house show and why did it take so long for events to turn him heal after the survivor series?
Why were people offended by that name?
The biggest mark for Brett Hart was Brett Hart
me: this Nasty Boyz match reminds me a lot of 80s WWE WCW: enter Zeus
I love the series, but it still has 5 more years to go where the shows went for 3 hours. That's a lot of serious reliving to be had.
The hypocrisy in the last Ted skit is hilarious
Would be interesting to see how many total segments each program won over all.
Ryan, BIG FAN of the channel!! Been watching since you started and changed it to Wrestling Bios. I freakin love Reliving The War man! Every Friday me and my brother watch and that's how we get the weekend started. Keep up the work brother, we appreciate you
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
So billionaire Ted is telling the truth here?
and for nitro more hogan and savage in the main card these break downs really show you why ppl got sick of nitros bs early on you can see it its awesome
If Hogan is part of the segment, you can bet that Raw is deservedly getting the point.
I saw Cornette so I'm here 👍
I guess Luger never got over his Summerslam win without getting the WWF championship three years earlier. So he did this win just to stick it to Vince.
Best thing going on ALfirst
It’s amazing when you actually see evidence, actual footage to jog a failing 37 yr old mind, but in my minds eye I don’t ever remember Arn doing this much jobs at WcW.
Nitro was better again. WWF biased again
It's funny considering Nitro won 8 shows in a row near the start and everyone was calling him a WCW mark. It's almost like you're a fuckwit or something... hmmm... >__>
NOW I KNOW U ARE A WWF FAN BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY A TAPE WWF CAN BEAT A LIVE SHOW. AND U SAID EARLIER U WILL NOT GRADE TAPED SHOW. LOL
What? Also what?
Whoa first time raw lost only 1 match in the entire show.. Soon we get to see the end of Kevin Sullivan's control in creative for WCW and the beginning of the NWO take over..
Ugh !!! I get tired of Hogan no selling everything.... smh
I was die hard with Raw this whole time. 12 y.o. me didn't watch Nitro.
But anyway
Fatu playing along with the gimmick was great.
This Ted skit shows how much Vince McMahon was threatened by his involvement with WCW. How ironic lol
"Billionaires run the capitalist society we live in and Ted Turner is one of those billionaires. Ted says that he decides what people watch and he’s fine with destroying lives in his capitalist world” Thank god the righteous Vince McMahon prevailed in this war because he is definitely not any of those things 😬🤥
6:07 was brutal.
Do a video on Jake Roberts during this time period?
I loved Jake in the 80s and early 90s, but in 1996 his run was a flop
At the time, I waiting to see a Bret hart vs Tatanka match. It finally happened. Such a great match they had on that Raw back then.
This is the best series on this channel hands down keep it going sir
Thank you for your time and hard work putting these fine videos together.
Threatens to tea bag his opponent...lol 😂
Nothing I love more than to pop a Wrestling Bios video as I make dinner.
Deebo and Bane
Pfft. WWF bias all up and down this episode.
Funny, I was watching always sunny pop-pop episode with my friend and told him about the "Solution" wrestler and the horrible thing that got thought up.
Road Warriors, Harlem Heat, Steiners, Sting & Luger, Nasty Boys WCW had a hell of a tag division at this time 🔥🔥
I love the disappointed sigh before you say "The Booty Man hahaha
Came here just coz I saw corny on the thumbnail 😂
You need to do a video on Tracy Smothers #rip
I haven't watched wrestling since the early 2000's, but you have me waiting for these every week like an actual live Raw or Nitro. I appreciate the hard work and dedication with these man. Keep it up with the great content!
Jim Cornette always seemed like a horse's ass to me... Screw him
How dare you disrespect the Booty Man
can someone explain to me why ''the final solution'' is so offensive, that it needed to be changed/redacted
Still no eddie guerrero on wcw? Not even sting was on this show.... Wcw had so many older wrestlers taking all the tv time when they had so many talented younger stars sitting at home or in the back room... When I was a kid watching wcw at this time I really had no idea the show I watched was so terrable ..
Deeboh was looking for Hogan
Diesel vs Barry should not get the point over the LOD/Nasty Boys. This is the only time I’ve disagreed with winner of the point this whole series.
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