Anyone remember when Simon was the hated one, now he's the only reason What Culture Wrestling is still alive.

You missed one. Fabulous Moolah's "28 year" title reign. It was really 4 separate reigns. She actually didn't have the title for a total of about 70 days, but obviously, WWE doesn't count that.

THE UNDERTAKER BEAT JAKE "THE SNAKE" ROBERTS AT WRESTLEMANIA 8 BY PINFALL AFTER GIVING JAKE A TOMBSTONE ON THE OUTSIDE.

2:55 - Mentions Eric Bischoff, zooms in on Vince Russo. Logic.

The streak was known before 12-0. Not because it obviously was, but back at WM 2000, it was mentioned and even highlighted as a game achievement in the WWF N64 game where Undertaker was damn near impossible to defeat

I was at that ladder match. It was at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, ME. They'd film multiple shows, just changing the banners hanging from the ceiling. I do remember it being a great match.

Simon Miller is the only reason I/m still subscribed.

I remember reading about the Undertaker being 7-0 at Wrestlemania but it was in a Pro Wrestling Insider article. The first time I heard it mentioned on television was him saying he was 9-0 at Wrestlemania going in to his match with Ric Flair.

Andre never having been slammed, or being undefeated for that matter, before facing Hogan at Wrestlemania 3. Look around the WWE archives for an 1981 match between the 2 of them, and Hogan delivers a muh cleaner slam to Andre than the one we'd see 5 years later...

One correction. In terms of Undertaker's streak they mentioned on commentary of his streak for his first match against Triple H and his later match with Flair. THOUGH Orton was the first time it was emphasized off of commentary.

Why is it a complaint that Undertaker beat Bundy via flying clothesline? Wasn't that like his go-to move for guys he couldn't feasibly get up for the Tombstone?

"He beat Jake Roberts by countout..." And you wanna accuse WWE of making things up.

The ladder match referenced here with Bret and Shawn is great. It was in Portland, Maine, and it is one of the first live events I remember attending. It's on the Network for anyone who hasn't seen it.

The WMX ladder match was never recognized as the 1st ladder match but the 1st at WM

they made a big deal out of the undertaker going 10-0 at X-8

am I the only one who feels that Simon Miller looks like Johnny Sins

And what about "Triple h tapped out for the first time to John Cena at WM 22" , when he tapped out to Chris Benoit 2 years earlier at WM 20

THANK YOU! Thank you for mentioning the Bret and Shawn ladder match. I had it on VHS on a compilation called "WWF'S MOST UNUSUAL MATCHES EVER". I told people about it and they never believed me.

Yes Undertaker Tombstoned Jake Roberts on the outside but he then rolled him into the ring and pinned him.

At WM 18, after Taker beat Flair, he stood on the apron & held up 10 fingers, letting the world know he had 10 victories at WM. Jim Ross even mentioned it.

IMO, Austin's true main event breakthrough moment was WM13 when he bloodied in the submission match, but never gave up. It was how he could back up hia tough guy talk that propelled him to the icon he became.

Undertaker acknowledged the streak at WrestleMania 18

Simon is the only reason why i am still subscribed to whatculture lol

Regarding Andre the Giant's height. His height was 7'4" at the time he was measured for his wardrobe fitting for the 1987 film "The Princess Bride", which would've probably been done sometime in 1986. Not sure if that helps to prove, or disprove, but there's that.

Here’s a myth. Asuka was not undefeated for two years. She’s lost battle royals. Granted, she was unpinned and unsubmitted for 2 years but NOT technically.undefeated

I met Buff Bagwell at Free Comic Book Day in my city a few years back. I totally forgot about his mom on a fork lift. Kinda glad I did. He's a really nice guy. I've heard more about his mom in the past 2 months than I've heard about Buff Bagwell... ever. lol.

Taker didn't beat Jake by count out. He pinned him at mania 8.

when i was a kid, i'm always get goosebump when stone cold returns or makes an appearance despite going MIA little did i know that he had a life changing injury with hart but that didn't change that he was always a badass coming in and not knowing who he is going to stun at the ring but mostly mcmahon

The Hart-Michaels ladder match was actually featured in-depth in the official WWF Magazine back in 1992. There was a repeating column called "Clash of the Titans", and the bout got about a 3-4 page review along with photos. By the way, the match is on Dailymotion. It's pretty good.

The Breat Hart/Michaels match was in Portland Maine and I was there. We had no idea what a Ladder match actually was

Doobya-Ce-Doobya - I still love that 😂😂😂

Also in regard to the Ladder Match, the WWE did many of the WrestleMania X matches including the Razor vs HBK ladder match on house shows leading up to Mania. I know, because I attended one.

FACTS! Great video dispelling all the WWE lies and the marks that drink the Kool Aid.

WCW also made a HUGE mistake by letting the Undertaker go to wwe

Taker definitely pinned Jake Roberts at WM8. Tombstone on the outside, rolled him in the ring and pinned him. Still good video. Love wrestletalk!

This list is perfect.

Simon DESERVES to be WhatCultureWrestling's frontman.

This music that's playing for this video is there anywhere I can listen to it by itself? I really like this one.

Y’all should do a list of the biggest oversells

Nice video bro

I love how WWE and their marks think WCW "ripped off" Stone Cold, when WWE didn't even create the character. It was ECW that created the Stone Cold Steve Austin character, and WWE just imported him from there. He came up with the Stone Cold after leaving ECW, but before signing with WWE, and he developed the look and mannerisms while in ECW. WWE didn't do anything to create the character.

We’ll never know how tall Andre the Giant really was during his prime, he stated himself that he was 214cm or 7 foot. One of Andre’s managers stated Andre was measured at 7’1, and Harley Race said Andre was measured at 7’2. So we’ll never truly know the true peak of Andre’s height.

Great video!

What about Goldberg’s streak! 68 win a week,92 the next wtf???

And when counting attendance, they do include everyone in the building. Audience, talent and venue workers. Also the pope held a mass there in the 80s which held 92,000 people. It is possible to hold that many people

I watched heat every week for being on free antenna tv and legit thought I missed a sweet hell int the cell for a second

Vince took his time with Stone Cold. Bret and Shawn were still the main eventers in 1996. Vince strategically placed the Tag Belts, IC Belt on Stone Cold, and then waited until the right moment to make Steve the WWF champion at WrestleMania. Look at what happened with Goldberg when he became world champ in WCW. It wasn't at Starrcade, just a Nitro without any real build up. Timing is everything.

Andre was measured at 7’4” and was pushing 500lbs during his autopsy. They compensated for Andre’s deteriorating back and slumped posture by camera tricks, lifts in his boots and him standing on things cause Andre physically couldn’t stand straight up.

The Austin 3:16 speech was a pretty big thing at the time, despite what he did for the rest of 1996. I was in 7th grade and it had all the kids in my class talking about it. Were the guys who make these videos even watching back then?

Even as a kid I thought the Stone Cold timeline was weird! I would always hear that in 1996 he won the King of the Ring and did the 3:16 speech, then next I hear he won the WWF Championship in 1998 at WrestleMania. I'm like wtf happened between then!? Also if you're curious, I started watching wrestling in 1999 after WrestleMania 15 and I'm 25.

Ruthless Aggression Era is a myth too - The Attitude era existed due to specific WWF Attitude branding and Vince's announcement of a new philosophy for the brand to accompany it at the end of 1997. In 2002 with the Get the F out campaign, the Attitude era was finished; and the WWE brand was born. After that, there wasn't any special era, it was just plain old WWE.

Veneno vs Flair We still talk about that down here in 2018

I know I didn't start to become a Stone Cold fan until his infamous interview with Bret Hart leading up to Hart's return to wrestling at the 1996 SURVIVOR'S SERIES! That's the one where Austin not only challenged Hart, he accidentally "outed" Vince McMahon as the REAL boss on WWF television, which hadn't been done before!

I am insane, but I just had a quick look. The seating appears to be groupings of 10 rows of 8 seats each. This in turn are arranged in what can at nearest be described as a 6 x 7 arrangement. Thus 80 seat per group, times 42 groups is around 3300. If you add a few extras on each, maybe 4000 on the in field. Thoughts?

The Wrestlemania 3 93,000 number was ATTENDANCE, not tickets sold or fans in the seats. The arena was full to the maximum. Bruce Prichard had a heated argument with his co-host over this. There were 93,000 in "attendance". That included WWF employees and Pontiac Silverdome employees. Those people were at WM3, therefore, they were in attendance at the event. Bruce was arguing WWF didn't lie about the number since they never actually claimed it was 93,000 tickets sold or 93,000 fans in the crowd.

What I want is the good parts of the attitude era with the talent of today

I was watching the network and they blur out the WCW heavyweight championship. When it was flair vs Hogan. With taker being apart of it. But they blurred it out

Hey Simon Miller and What Culture. You made a mistake! Undertaker did NOT defeat Jake The Snake Roberts by countout. He gave him a Tombstone on the outside of the ring, then threw him back in and got the 1-2-3 pinfall. Also, that was a great little match that was as good as it could have been in just 8 minutes. Nice little story and good ring psychology. I always think of it as the first official big win of "The Streak," and the third best match of WrestleMania 8 behind Macho/Flair and Piper/Bret. Give that match another look please.

Here are some you missed: - Hulk Hogan being the first to slam Andre at WrestleMania 3 (when Andre was slammed many times before that). - WrestleMania being a one-of-a-kind innovation for the business, when the first Starrcade happened 2 years before the first 'Mania. - WrestleMania 32 having 100,000 people, when it only had about 80,000. - WWE always puts the fans first, when even today, it's been proven that they only do what makes them money.

gosh, I can't believe *that* person said*that* about *that* video on *that* particular entry 😁

80,000+ paid fans attended WMIII but that doesn't take into account all the free tickets given away in contests or tickets given away to family members and media personalities. in total the attendance was probably close to 90,000

Dusty Rhodes and Tully had a good ladder match at Great American Bash 87.

Triggering me with this one. Re: Attitude Era: It was a golden age -- it's not a myth. Saying that doesn't mean that the product was perfect. It's all relative, but I'd still argue that the highs were more consistently high (Austin v. McMahon, the Harts, DX stuff, etc), whereas the lows (your Choppy Choppy (still a fun angle) and Mae Young's hand) were so minor that they didn't really have an impact on the overall quality and feel of the programming. People also like to harp on the whole match length thing and lack of workrate, but in WWF especially, workrate was never really emphasized in WWE (and in a lot of places) until the Ruthless Aggression era, and a lot of the shift was to compensate for declining creative. What they were doing at the time, especially from 97 through early 99, worked. It's ok to say it. Re: WCW being foolish to release Austin, et al. You narrow it down to just those 3 guys, but a lot of it was symbolic of an overall problem -- the reliance on Hogan and established WWF names at the expense of up-and-coming talent. Austin in particular is problematic because at the time you could see that he was being groomed for a top spot, only to be shoved aside in the fall of 94 once Hogan and his friends came into the picture. As a one off, losing Austin alone wasn't going to kill them, but it was the beginning of a trend that arguably caused their downfall, as seen with guys like Jericho, the Radicals, Big Show and others later hit the glass ceiling and couldn't rise due to politics, creative control clauses, and so on. Re: Austin 3:16: I've seen at least one other person try to argue this, and I have no clue why. WWE has NEVER suggested that he began selling out arenas overnight. That said, he debuted in January. Prior to KOTR, he was in a lower mid-card feud with Savio Vega. Within TWO WEEKS of the win, he started his program with Bret Hart, the most recent WWF Champion. By Survivor Series, he was co-main event. That's a huge bump up the card anyway you slice it. You focus on the fact that he wasn't featured on Raw every week, but neither was HBK (the champ at the time). TV back then wasn't structured the way it is now. You only had an hour show, 3 weeks of Raw aired taped, and the whole notion of every star appearing every week (which began in the Attitude Era) hadn't become a thing yet. KOTR definitely changed things for Austin, and that promo was huge even at the time.

5:06 RIP

2:55 Why are you focusing on Vince Russo when talking about Eric Bischoff

78,000? BALDERDASH! Fine, I can believe that the Silverdome didn't have 93,000 people but I didn't see a single empty seat in the stands. I can see there being a couple thousand sitting around the ring and that would put it st 82,000.

Ladder match was brought to WWE by Bret Hart. They had them in Stampede before WWF ever had one.

Another big one ... they sell their women’s evolution around the idea that Trish vs Lita was the first time the women headlined Raw and it changed how women were seen on the card. 1) Sable vs Luna Vachon closed out a Raw in 98. 2) they were still wrestling in chocolate pudding 3 years after the Trish/Lita match and 3) it only happened cos the PPV that month was Smackdown branded and they had very little going on that needed to go last on Raw!!

Shawn and Scott Hall were bitched out backstage after that ladder match too. It was supposed to end earlier and they decided to keep it going, so WWE had to eliminate another match completely, to make up the time.

I love you Simon but I got one correction. The undertaker/Jake Roberts match at wrestlemania eight actually did end by pin fall. Not by count out.

Actually a quick rebuttal mr. Simon the undefeated streak of The undertaker was noted at WrestleMania 14 in his match against Kane, however the commentators did messed up by saying it started with Jake the Snake Roberts. Undertaker also acknowledged his streak at WrestleMania 18 after he defeated Ric flair so Viva la Bam

Really quick on another correction of Undertaker's streak, he pinned Jake in the middle of the ring after a Tombstone on the outside.

Am I the only one who loves Jules's out-tro 😂

The ladder match Between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels was at Survivor Series 92' not Wrestling Challenge. They may have shown highlights on wrestling challenge but the actual match was at Survivor Series 92.

Slightly unrelated, but am sick of WWE saying the Network is the ONLY place you can watch their PPVs. THAT. IS. A . LIE.

They don't Say Michaels vs Ramon was the first. Just that it was one of the most memorable

Fun fact, Flair lost the NWA Title to Carlos Colon and left with it prompting Carlos to create the WWC Universal Championship!

Steve Austin was supposed to be in a WCW World Heavyweight Championship feud with Ric Flair, but Hogan's arrival scuttled that pretty quickly.

one thing I hate about the term "Attitude Era" is that it omits WCW & ECW ~ they make it seem like WWF was the only promotion around. I prefer to call that time period the "Monday Night Wars"

I remember stone cold was on the free for all in 96 for summer slam with yokozuna. They definitely didn't push him like they should have for awhile.

I liked the shorter matches. Less likely they went into the ads that way.

Every time I open a list from whatculture, I pray please be Simon or Jules. Otherwise I leave. Lol

There’s a picture on the Google of Andre standing right across from Big John Studd and he’s at least 2 inches taller, leading me to believe that he was right at about 7 feet. But not 7 foot 4.

Love all of this, but Simon, I found an error. You said The Undertaker beat Jake Roberts by countout. This is incorrect because after he Tombstones Jake on the outside, he rolled him back in, and scored a pinball victory.

Holy crap that bearded bald-headed dude scare the crap out of me towards the end

I miss the Attitude Era and Ruthless Aggression

Stu Hart promoted the FIRST ever ladder match in 1972. Cowboy Dan Kroffat vs. Tor Kamata.

GroundBRAKING? I know y'all have editors! How did that get past them?

#2 I think the short TV matches is actually a good thing. Why would I pay money to see two guys go for 20 min when I just saw that on Raw this week? also, it would get more people on the show.

I believe The Undertaker's Streak became a thing at Wrestlemania 17 when he fought Triple H

_"How's anyone supposed to see it?"_ Ah I dig that 'Chiefly British' humour we share. As for biggest myths, the two greatest falsehoods from the considerably large 'E' have to be: *1) Hulkamania is a Vince McMahon creation/was born in the WWF* - WhatCulture Wrestling actually debunked this nicely in a video (albeit while reenforcing it in others!) but it is unequivocal that everything Hulkamania aside from the specific colour scheme was fully formed in the AWA. The only debate should be how much was Hogan's input and how much was Verne Gagne - Vince simply purchased the act, no assembly required. McMahon should receive credit for pushing him as the top babyface star where old man Gagne was stubborn and set in his ways about what a real wrestler looks like. *2) Vince McMahon Jr. made wrestling massively popular/before his national takeover, wrestling wasn't a major attraction* - I was late in learning this but regional territorial wrestling was absolutely huge and a far bigger part of each region's culture before the territories died out. Obviously WWF/E spread itself across more markets but it's always been far less of a draw than the regional promotions it replaced. Wrestling was bigger _before_ Vincent K went national, he just flourished because he combined each smaller market share and took all the profits rather than numerous different promoters competing for them.

5:55 WOWW....Simon does one inch really matter though. I could see if they lied to us about Andre by like a few inches, but one stupid inch...come on that’s just grasping at straws bruv😭😭

I must say you taking wcw's side on letting go of Austin,Foley and thriple h is like agreeing with WWE for letting go of cody Rhodes or letting go of Christian or Angle to TNA(obviously at one point?)

You forget Pat Patterson "winning a tournament in Rio de Janiro" to crown him 1 st ever IC champ ;)

Picture of Vince Russo when talking about Eric Bischoff. Jim Cornette puts WCW's demise squarely on the shoulders of Jim Herd and his decision making. Andre the Giant losing his first match to Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania III is also a long-held myth, as are the home countries of a cross-section of many a 'foreigner', past & present (Kamala, Nikolai Volkoff, Santino Marella, Jinder Mahal, Lana and so on).

gilberg wearing the old school chuck norris gloves

it was the first ladder match ... in MANIA history

One myth they tell on Royal rumble every year is hbk is the only wrestler to win the rumble by being the number 1 entrant but Chris Benoit did it as well

I agree with the Austin part. He delivered that speech in 1996. He didn't even get his first title till 1998. Sure his popularity starti g growing and stuff but that speech although being iconic, was no where near the beginning of "stardom".

Andre looked pretty cool when he was younger.