Thanks so much for watching! Do you have any memories of watching Ultimate Muscle on the Fox Box?

The fact that Samoa Joe (ex WWE current AEW) wrestler got his finisher from this show just shows that it had a legacy in the US.

Funny note: Ultimate Muscle got Mega Popular in the US 🇺🇸! Whats weird was Japan hated it, only because of Kid Muscle( he was viewed the Gohan during Resurrection F) so we even got episodes released exclusively for states that would later air in japan! The dub was hilarious, having Joey/ Mikey as Jaegar and even Team Rocket James as a referee!❤😂

Honestly, this was one of the only properties where the sillier aspects of 4Kids dubs actually worked with the tone of the show. The Kinnikuman franchise has always been silly and 4Kids might have even improved things. Eric Stewart as one half of the announce team was GOLD.

This show changed my brain chemistry forever. My sense of humour is permanently locked at this level.

This one grew on me over time and honestly that theme song was catchy af. Fighting Foodon had a fun theme too lol.

Ultimate Muscle was pretty fire.. Honestly wish we would have got more of it.

HOLY SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT THIS! Jordan you've unlocked something deep inside of me again...

Kinnikuman is pretty much ingrained into the Japanese culture at this point, similarly to Doraemon, Anpanman and so on. The last time I visited Japan which was quite recent, I also saw Kinnikuman characters adorned the walls of the train station I got off, as well as character decorated coin lockers here and there, it’s pretty cool. It’s also often parodied by other manga/anime, mostly for its iconic Kinniku Buster finishing move (in Gintama for example).

I was obsessed with this show as a kid; one of my go-to Saturday morning watches. The humor made me laugh, the action kept me engaged and on the edge of my seat, the character drama (which I'm sure wouldn't be considered THAT deep if I saw it today) intrigued me. It was good stuff. I had an action figure from the show of a character that only ever appeared in I wanna say the last couple episodes of the show, and didn't do anything when he showed up, but that was THE toy for me back then. I gave him a different backstory and powerset, and he was the main character of the adventure series I played with all my other action figures that plagiarized every shonen anime that was on TV at the time. It was great lmao

There also was a chance for the series to continue but many things stopped that idea dead. The arcs that come after this, the "Demon Seed" and "Ultimate Tag" arc respectively, were *EXTREMELY VIOLENT.* Like I'm talking disturbingly brutal at a lot of points. *Characters straight up die horribly or get horrific injuries.*

I still remember the EPIC theme song. It may be horribly localized for an American audiences, but this insane dub was a core memory of my childhood ❤

I'm Irish and I remembered watching Ultimate Muscle on the TV channel Kix when I was a kid, one time I was watching the show in the living room while my mum was forcing an ice pack on my head (because I got a bump on my head during the time lol). Either way, this show was awesome when I was a kid and still awesome to this day. :D

I will always remember one fight Kid had with a Traffic Light fighter. That lives rent-free in my head.

It was and still is the funniest dubbed show I ever watched.

I absolutely adored this show! My mom thought the characters looked gross, but I always thought they were all super cool. I don't remember too much about the show, but I remember/loved the fight between Muscle & Maximilian. I think it was the one where the love interest finally fell in love with Muscle

I was a kid in the '80s and the M.U.S.C.L.E men toys were really popular even without a cartoon or comic in the states. Enough kids had them that you could trade them at school, and there were lots of generic knock-offs that they sold in quarter machines all over the city. I'd garner that it if you counted all the different knockoff types, there have to be at least a thousand different figures.

I was a huge fan of this show to the point when I read the Manga when I was younger I was hella shocked at the difference. The video games are fun too

Ultimate Muscle was a cherished childhood show for me along with Kirby and Yu-gi-oh. My mom liked the show, because of how child friendly the show was; I eventually moved over to watching WWE and TNA. I wouldn't have gotten into wrestling without this show on Saturday mornings. The videogames were fun and imagining superpower special moves as finishers for wrestling is bad ass. If you are ever interested, I grew up with the Galactic Wrestling Federation Game based on the Ultimate Muscle Franchise on PS2. Great game to play! I'm so happy to see this show get some light!

My brother had a bunch of the MUSCLE toys when we were kids. Didn't know there was so much more to it, until the Ultimate Muscle show came along. My brother and used to watch it all the time.

Thank you Jordan Fringe! This was one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoon shows! Great job!

You unlock to dormant memories for me with this video. One with Ultimate Muscle, because I completely thought it was a fever dream. And number two was fighting foodons! I have tried to remember the name of that show for almost fifteen years

I swear this guy scratches that 90's nostalgia every week. Keep doing what you're doing dude!!

This was a show I remember watching as a 14-15yr old in high school and loving it. Appreciate this vid on an unsung hero of that era for television.

This was my jam before the wrestling show aired. Isn't it amazing that when you watch the intro, the artist can make a goofy face like Kid Muscle seems so cool when he's serious. They really put effort in the art and it's amazing how they pulled it off.

this show deserved a longer video :( it was really fun i love this channel

Jordan thank you for this video. Im right of the perfect age to have been a kid during the 90's wrestling boom and thus became one of my guilty pleasure Saturday morning shows. Played the PS2 game a whole lot too

I hope the new anime can help Kinnikuman become popular in the west. I can already imagine Twitter being full of "out of context" scenes due to how bizarre it can get at times.

Dude, I watched this show with a PASSION! It was among my favorite saturday morning cartoons. Back then, I was hella into WWE, so this sparked my interest automatically damn near every clip that was shown I recognized as well as the characters. I hope that it does make a comeback, and Funimation or Toei doesn't ruin the experience.

Yes!! You finally covered this haha great vid man!👌🏽

I remember watching this as a kid and thinking it had to be a sequel. Glad to see I was right after all.

Awh man, this brings back memories. I found Ultimate Muscle: Legends Vs New Generation on sale for GameCube and bought it despite never having heard of it. Ended up being one of my favorite games.

YEEESSSS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COVERING THIS 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

I almost forgot about this! I love this channel

Damn this video discussion really takes me back to the Saturday mornings during & after my high school years of watching this anime. Loved this anime & still do!

Thank you for this! Really hope they bring it back to the states.

Great video, Man! I have lots of fond memories watching Ultimate Muscle with my friends as we waited to watch Kirby Right Back at Ya and Sonic X. It was like FoxBox's version of Yu Yu Hakusho and Dragonball Z to us. On a side note I'd love for you to do a Remember Video of Case Closed (aka Detective Conan in Japan). That show was my favorite show on Adult Swim and I felt like it didn't get the credit it deserved. Just an idea for a future video I'd love to see.

Love these classics. When tv really tried to get you entertained for hours.

I definitely remember this, Jordan. It's so good!

This show was my childhood, bro! Thanks for covering it, Jordan and when new season of the OG Kinnikuman comes out to celebrate that show's 40th anniversary, it better take place after Ultimate Muscle and show Kid and Roxanne getting married and having their own kid, possibly, Kid Muscle Jr.? That'd be cool to see and since Discotek Media picked up the license and along with the home video rights to the series, and they've officially released the full English dubbed series to the public finally, fans can relive the glory in all 77 episodes of the series before the new season comes out early next year! And they better bring Marc Thompson and the other 4Kids English voice actors,; 'cause they were what made all of these shows from the early 200s! And it just wouldn't be the same without them! I hope they do that, please!

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!

Every so often, I still find myself singing that theme song to myself. I also remember those old M.U.S.C.L.E. toys I got by the bucket as a kid. I loved those things!

Finallyyyy , long over due. Loved the intro

Jordan, I want you to know that this show is constantly on the back of my mind, yet I couldn't remember it's name. Thank you for saving me from this hell. My mind is finally at peace

I've never clicked a video faster. I'm glad you can release these little guys now.

YYYEEEESS! Been hoping you'd cover this show. I loved wrestling as a kid, so seeing a cartoon/anime focused around superhero like wrestlers was the perfect mix for me. I had all the games, a lot of action figures, and recently put a lot of these wrestlers in a wrestling game. Definitely looking forward to watching this when I get home. 😁

i recently read both series just out of curiosity and I was happy to do so. it was very different from the anime I watched, there is more blood and the attacks feel more brutal. Also, the original series gave me a big surprise how the series developed into what it eventually became.

OMFG! I was thinking about this show and I could not for the life of me figure out were this vague donut mouth character was from. Thank you, for helping but my mind at ease.

This show was so good I remember waking up every Saturday morning just to watch it along with Kirby. My brother even had the GameCube game.

Now that you bring it up . Can't help me remind me of bo-bo-bo-bo . Something I would strongly recommend if wasn't so difficult find full episodes

As a kid, I had a bootleg NES cartridge with 72 games on it, one of which, titled simply "Wrestle" in the menu, was actually a very early game based on this manga. It was one of the more fun games on the disk, with a bunch of different wrestlers to choose from, each having some kind of "special move". It was very simplistic and extremely weird and goofy with no context, but it was fun and I probably played hours of it never knowing what it was based on. I also remember having one or two of those weird rubber figures as a kid too. Thanks for adding context to a little bit of my childhood :D

Dang, Saturday mornings used to be lit! It'd be so hard deciding what channel to watch because Fox Kids/Fox Box and Kids WB had a lot of bangers to choose from! Of course, we had the staples of Nickelodeon, Disney & Cartoon Network too and oh gosh One Saturday Morning! Thanks for this trip down memory lane!

Imagine if we get a reboot anime for _Ultimate Muscle/Kinnikuman_ and if it gets an English dub I hope some of the of the English voice actors would return it would be just like the 2021 _Shaman King_ series all over again. EDIT: I just realized that 6 months ago and in this video we would be getting a new _Kinnikuman_ anime in honor of the 40th anniversary of the manga.

8:44 - Fun aside, the Sonic X version of Eggman, the first take on the character Pollock voiced, had a prolonged stint as a lunchador in the pro wrestling scene in the Archie comics. He called himself “El Gran Gordo” thinking it translated to “the great big guy” instead of what it actually meant. He even threw down with Sonic in the ring mostly legit and lasted longer against him than any of his robots… which includes E-100 The Eggsterminator, the giant mecha powered by the Chaos Emeralds that spent a whole episode beating up Sonic uncontested until he got the emeralds for himself and went super.

God bless you sir, This show needed more exposure. !

I remember this channel has 10k subscribers and now 600k plus subscribers. Keep up the good work ❤

The Fox Box certainly had an amazing cartoon lineup back in the day. This show was a lot of fun and definitely one of my favorites. Please do Funky cops someday in the future!

Yooo, I did forget about this. thanks for the nostalgia

I've actually gotten into Kinnikuman in recent years. I'm caught up with the OG manga and am currently reading through Nisei/Ultimate Muscle. Looking forward to the new anime, and I hope it gets a good dub.

I’m sure other old ppl like me. Remember first seeing the little rubber guys(like army men, but smaller), then a cartoon in Japan. I remember this as well. Love the channel

This show has so many innuendos that went over my head as a kid, it's constant too.

Omg I remember watching, playing and having the figures! Such a throwback in the nostalgia

What i find interesting is that last year i discovered through another youtube video that this was a sequel to another series and during the show they had many references, but without context it went through our heads like thin air Like watching dragon ball z without knowing it had a story about goku when he was a kid

I never watched an anime about wrestling, but this was the exception I made and I really got into it in the past, because it had comedy, action and more. Recently I found out that the japanese serie was called Kinnikuman (confirmed and explained by this video) and it had 100+ episodes, movies, spin-offs and so on...even an ecchi version where King (or Kid, I don't remember which one) was a woman! Kevin Mask was my favourite one, so cool.

As a wrestling fan ultimate muscle brought me joy as a kid. It’s just as hype as ever.

What a blast from the past! I loved Ultimate Muscle!

I remember loving this anime as a kid. It's how I discovered wrestling, and while my love for the IRL sport eventually faded (after over a decade) I still love this series and would gladly rewarch it.

I used to watch this when I was in Italy and it was one of my absolute favourites!!! Such a good time and many laughs

I remember watching this every Saturday morning, not really understanding it but liking it lol. Please review Zatch Bell some time soon ❤

I love my yt. I didn't expect to see a vid like this. The nostalgia is hitting hard

This was my favorite show!!!! Till this day i hate myself for not watching the final episode!!!!! 😢 they need to bring this back!!!!

I only ever heard of this series due to the gba game i owned....it was quite a fun game! the special moves felt satisfying to pull off

Fighting foodons and kirby right back at ya really bring back memories. Me and my bro would wake up early to watch them every Saturday.

Oh yes!! This show is great! Rewatched it a bit ago and still holds up pretty well imo.

I completely forgot about Ultimate Muscle until a few years ago I was going on a childhood cartoon intro binge and the intro for it popped up, huge nostalgia blast, I was a big wrestling and anime fan growing up, and this show might have been my first introduction to both

Thank you for this!!!!! I love you man thank you thank you thank you so much!!!!

I also never liked wrestling myself, but damn did I love Mucha Lucha and Ultimate Muscle as a kid.

My mom use to go to thrift shopping a lot and our local Salvation Army would give away new toys from this show for awhile with purchases. So this show while I’ve never seen it has been burnt into my mind with a lot of nostalgia

Yo. You mentioned Fighting Foodons. That show was lit! You should do a video on that too!

YES. That show got me to try meat with rice. I loved waking up every Saturday morning to watch this classic. I still vaguely recall Checkmate and how traumatizing his loss was. Or the ridiculous names, moves, and stories of the characters. I dunno if it still holds up to my tastes now, but it will always have a place in heart with other Saturday morning cartoons (like Viewtiful Joe)!

This was locked somewhere in the back of my brain. Seeing the walrus brought joy, those memories flared up.

This show is my earliest memory of any tv show along with Kirby right back at ya and its been in the back of my mind for over 20 years maybe its time to hunt down the manga for it

this is one of my favourites as a kid

I remembered watching it on Cartoon Network in my Home Country, the Philippines in which is well, a blessing for Me and I'm not kidding, this is a real thing.

I remember going to toys r us and getting a cardboard "fox box," with a DVD with promotions including this. I kind of wish i was older to commit to the series so this is the perfect call back😅

It was sooo good! I remember how happy I was whenever this was on TV

I need to rewatch this series

Ultimate Muscle is an English dub version of the sequel series to the original Kinnikuman. But they pretty much make it similar to to how pro wrestling is shown over here in the states and add many elements from the WWE into it it felt like.

Well this just forcibly unlocked some ancient Saturday morning memories

I loved this show when I was a kid. I couldnt wait to watch it every Saturday morning. The GC game was a blast too.

I remember the manga being a LOT more brutal than the anime. Some guys literally getting dismembered, their entire arm destroyed, and their faces peeled off.

Jordan your the goat to my Nostalgia can't wait for toonami and yu yu Hakusho

And don’t get me started on fighting foodons, I sing the theme under my breathe when I’m cooking at home, not to mention I cannot day forget about it normally anymore. It always comes out as Spaghettaboutit. Whenever I make rice, you guessed it, you hear “fried ricer!” Echoing in my kitchen.

I loved Ultimate Muscle when i was a teen and have learnt a few interesting facts in my adulthood when revisiting the series, first off... in the manga Kevin Mask defeats Kid Muscle in the final match of the Choujin Championship while the anime reverses the result, and secondly; the Ultimate Muscle didn't do so well it viewership ratings in Japan but thrived in western audiences; in a sense 4kids and the west saved this particular anime from being cancelled.

It's crazy how I was just thinking bout this show the other day then the goat known as Jordan Fringe posted a video about it. I got into the show kinda late. The only reason I even started watching it was cause my cousin had the GameCube game you smoke of. I remember how much fun it was to play wrestling with all these cool characters alongside all my cousins. Then it got me interested in the show. But around the time I want to start watching it, they cancelled it. I never knew this show was so popular in Japan though. That is really amazing.

I picked up some of the Ultimate Muscle figures when they came out. I still have a couple of them. But I was enamored with the first generation of figures.

I never watched the show, but had an almost complete set of the lil toys. Seemed like a hundred of em.

This was so good back the nostalgia

Damn thanks for reminding me of this gem !

I've already got the complete Ultimate Muscle Series Blu-ray a few days ago and I am very happy because now I can enjoy watching the episodes on my big TV screen. Even thought that I am happy to get this anime series at last I'm hoping that some of my past anime series like Cardcaptors (Nelvan), Spider Riders and Yo Kai Watch will finally be released onto Blu-Ray in the future just like Beyblade G Revolution, Sonic X and Ultimate Muscle.