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00:00Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages.
00:04The Rockers, Marty Jannetty and Shawn Michaels
00:06are gonna show you something that you've never seen before.
00:08The superior teamwork!
00:10Tag team wrestling has always been a must-see attraction
00:12and arguably the hottest time for such action would be the 1990s.
00:16If we get in the ring, something bad gonna happen.
00:18It's war! It's D-Day!
00:21It leads for a division!
00:23It was an era that redefined what a simple two-on-two contest could be.
00:27It was the most unlikely tag team ever, J.R.
00:30Today, we celebrate those teams with some of the wildest scenes in WWE history.
00:35New champions!
00:36We're gonna need some medical attention right now.
00:38See, one without the other isn't any good.
00:41We're coming after you!
00:43This is WWE's Greatest Moments.
00:49Acknowledge me.
00:51My God! No call to the bareback!
00:54This is surreal!
00:57Look at this!
00:58He showed it!
01:05Welcome, everyone, to WWE's Greatest Moments.
01:08I'm Michael Cole.
01:09And on this edition, we take a look back at some of the greatest moments
01:12of an era that defined tag team wrestling.
01:15The 1990s.
01:16The decade saw some of the most memorable duos to ever step foot inside the squared circle.
01:22Even some that made unlikely success stories.
01:25Case in point, The Rock and Mankind.
01:29Collectively known as the Rock and Sock Connection.
01:32These strange bedfellows were bitter rivals for much of 1999.
01:36But when common foes came in the form of the tag team champions Big Show and Undertaker,
01:41hatchets were buried.
01:43Gold was on the line.
01:47Big Show, you come on out with The Undertaker.
01:50You face The Rock in a handicap match.
01:53Mankind was talking to the people.
01:56And the people want mankind as The Rock's partner.
02:02What?
02:03Wow!
02:05One time, you will be the people's partner.
02:08To see these two guys that were constantly battling against each other,
02:11all of a sudden form this very different union.
02:14And we couldn't be happier as fans.
02:16I think some of the best storylines are when former rivals, bitter rivals,
02:22team up.
02:23The difference being, they don't always have the chemistry that Dwayne and I did.
02:31Both Mankind and The Rock trying to double-team.
02:34It was a nice dynamic between us.
02:37What is this?
02:39It's the most electrifying!
02:41What?
02:42No!
02:43A double people's elbow!
02:45A rope's at the cover!
02:47Here he!
02:48Yeah!
02:49We've got the tag champions!
02:53Just two complete opposites that should not form a tag team ever.
02:58There was just this chemistry that you can't help but notice and say,
03:02Oh my God, I want more of this.
03:06Somehow, here they are.
03:08The Rock and Sock connection.
03:10Rock and Sock! Rock and Sock!
03:12Rock and Sock!
03:13He was able to exercise his muscles as a comedian.
03:17Know your role!
03:18We were having the time of our lives.
03:20It was the most unlikely tag team ever.
03:22The Outsiders, Scott Hall and Kevin Ash were part of the revolutionary faction known as the New World Order.
03:31totaling an impressive six times as WCW Tag Team Champions.
03:35But before all that, we need to go back to the first.
03:38Hall and Ash would have to take down the toughest team in WCW history.
03:44Harlem Heat.
03:45You see the World Tag Team Champions making their way in?
03:52You talk about the great tag teams.
03:54I think you put Harlem Heat at the very top.
03:57They dominated during a time that was tough to dominate because the roster was so loaded.
04:03Hall and Ash, the Outsiders.
04:06What's Halloween happened?
04:07And that had that Vegas fight and that kind of feel to it.
04:11This place has erupted.
04:13Because that was the first time the NWO was going for their belts.
04:17The power of Hall and Nash against the ability of the World Tag Team Champions.
04:23We wanted to dominate the tag team division.
04:25We wanted to show exactly how good we really was.
04:29This has been an intense World Tag Team title match as you'll ever want to find.
04:34Loved working with Booker because we're kind of similar in styles.
04:38He's really athletic and really can go.
04:40Going for the Harlem Hangover!
04:42Got him!
04:43Got him!
04:44Count it!
04:45Come on, referee!
04:46He's got to get Stevie Ray out!
04:47Colonel Parker!
04:48He can walk the cane!
04:49He's got Parker!
04:51He gave the cane!
04:52Tony!
04:53Parker banged off and gave him the cane!
04:55One, two, three!
04:57Oh, no!
04:58Let's go!
04:59The Outsiders winning the WCW Tag Team Championship by using Colonel Parker's cane, it was perfect
05:07for defining who the Outsiders were.
05:09They were a bad guy team.
05:11We got new champs!
05:13He gave us validity by beating them and to do it with my best friend.
05:19Like, that was the first time we won a belt together.
05:22One of the most devastating forces in the WWE Tag Team scene were Axe and Smash, better known
05:31as Demolition.
05:32You take a close look at this face and you're gonna feel the pain of defeat!
05:37Axe and Smash were unstoppable.
05:40That is, until the colossal connection of Andre the Giant and Haku shockingly defeated
05:46Demolition for the Tag Team titles.
05:48A rematch was set for the Thunderous Toronto Sky Dome at WrestleMania VI.
05:53Demolition with their sights set on getting their championship back!
06:00Haku and Andre had been established as being just about unbeatable.
06:05The idea that Demolition had to beat Andre and Haku was what made this so enthralling.
06:13I love Demolition.
06:14They were my favorite tag team growing up as a kid.
06:17Axe and Smash.
06:18Let's go.
06:20And this one is underway!
06:22Haku doing a tremendous job here.
06:24Watch out for Heenan.
06:26Oh!
06:27Excellent teamwork here by the Colossal Connection.
06:30Andre and Haku had things under control until they made a...
06:34Colossal mistake.
06:36Andre holding him up for Haku all!
06:39Haku nailed his partner!
06:42This place is going crazy!
06:45It's over!
06:47New Tag Team Champions!
06:49For Demolition to win the Tag Team Championships again in front of 67,000 people was truly special.
06:56They have done it!
06:58Axe and Smash!
06:59Perhaps one of the most popular tag teams of all time was the duo of Bret the Hitman Hart and his brother-in-law Jim the Inville Neidhart.
07:10Collectively known as the Hart Foundation.
07:13Listen to the ovation here from the Hart Club daytime!
07:16Heading into SummerSlam 1990, the Foundation looked to capture their second Tag Team Championship by taking on the powerful Demolition.
07:24It would be a two-out-of-three-falls match with Tag Team Gold up for grabs.
07:31What a match-up here!
07:32Two-out-of-three-falls!
07:34That's Tag Team Experience talking right there!
07:38My dad loved wrestling Demolition and I always remember like as a little kid watching them wrestle my dad and Bret being really scared.
07:45Oh, wait a minute!
07:46Three!
07:47Got it!
07:48Demolition!
07:49No turn!
07:50In the first column!
07:51Seeing Demolition with the Hart Foundation.
07:53Oh man, this is amazing.
07:55It's not a match where you can predict what's gonna happen next.
08:00That's why I think that match is such a beautiful match.
08:03Oh, the guards played interference!
08:06The winners of the second ball!
08:08The Hart Foundation!
08:12The third ball, both teams very tired.
08:15That match stands out as one of the hardest working Hart Foundation matches that I can remember.
08:20One, two, three!
08:25What a match!
08:28What a match!
08:32They say you can never pick your family, though sometimes it would be nice to.
08:36That's exactly how the rocket Owen Hart felt about his older brother, Bret the Hitman Hart.
08:41At the 1993 Survivor Series, Owen was the only Hart brother eliminated during the family's eight-man tag match.
08:47Owen Hart is out!
08:49Blaming the Hitman for the situation, Owen began to show signs of jealousy toward Bret.
08:53I'm sick and tired of carrying the load of this family and never getting any recognition.
08:58It's always you, Bret!
08:59Things seemed to be patched up heading into the 1994 Royal Rumble, where the two brothers challenged the Quebecers for the Tag Team Championship.
09:06When do you get a load of the brothers' heart, flying for the Tag Team Championship?
09:14A lot of the intrigue was really more about how Bret and Owen were going to get along.
09:19And the Quebecers exploited that as much as they could.
09:22That's what I'm talking about.
09:24Owen coming in to try to help out.
09:26Meanwhile, look at this!
09:27Double Team!
09:28Oh, good!
09:29And Bret somehow after Tag his brother, Owen!
09:32Oh!
09:33Oh!
09:34Oh!
09:35Oh!
09:36Oh!
09:37Oh!
09:38All he's got to do is tag his brother.
09:40Owen, but in a last-ditch effort, Bret attempts a sharpshooter.
09:47Wait a minute, Bret just collapsed.
09:48He had the opportunity to tag and he didn't do it.
09:50The official has elected to end this match!
09:55Owen got fed up and Owen needed to jump out of his older brother's shadow.
10:01What did I tell you?
10:02That's right, Owen!
10:03That's right, you're right!
10:04He should have tagged you!
10:05In his mind, Bret took something away from him and he felt that.
10:08Oh!
10:09Oh!
10:10Oh!
10:11Oh!
10:12Oh!
10:13Oh!
10:14Oh!
10:15Oh!
10:16Oh!
10:17Oh!
10:18Oh!
10:19Oh!
10:20Oh!
10:21Oh!
10:22Oh!
10:23Oh!
10:24Oh!
10:25Oh!
10:26Oh!
10:27Oh!
10:28Oh!
10:29Oh!
10:30Oh!
10:31throw it away from me!
10:32You took it away from me, Bret!
10:33You're too damn selfish!
10:34They hated him, and they boot him when the road dog, Jesse James, and badass Billy Gunn,
10:47combine their talents to form the new age outlaws, there was nothing they wouldn't do
10:51to make to the top of WWE once they were there, the antics didn't stop Tag Team Champions
11:00Team Champions were challenged by D-Generation X
11:02to start making some waves in WWE.
11:05Push the envelope, raise the bar.
11:07And they saw an opportunity to do so against Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie.
11:14This is a no-holds-bar match between Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie.
11:21Chainsaw backdrop running to the dumpster.
11:24Chainsaw is down in the dumpster.
11:26Good grief right in the trash.
11:30We were making a name for ourselves.
11:32They put us up to the challenge.
11:33We accepted.
11:37There's Road Dogg and Billy Gunn, the New Age Outlaws.
11:41They're lucky the dumpster shut they are.
11:44We rolled it off of the stage there.
11:47Wait a minute!
11:48Oh my God!
11:49Don't you dare do that!
11:51Good God, there's people in there!
11:54I can't believe this!
11:55Get them out of there!
11:57Then everybody started coming out and it was really got hectic and frantic feeling.
12:02A lot of emotions and it looks like the New Age Outlaws went to business with themselves.
12:07For them to make such a statement, they're much bigger stars now than they were literally 10 minutes ago.
12:13This moment set the stage for them to really become the New Age Outlaws, one of the greatest tag teams of all time.
12:19Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, we are the New Age Outlaws!
12:25In the 1990s, there was no team more innovative and exciting than Rick and Scott, the Steiner brothers.
12:35Both All-Americans and Michigan, Big Ten Wrestling Champions.
12:39Utilizing a unique blend of power and agility, it wasn't long before the Steiners captured the WCW World Tag Team Championship.
12:46He got it!
12:49Heading into a big title defense at WCW Super Brawl 1, the Steiners found themselves pitted against their two best friends, Sting and Lex Luger.
12:58Sting and Lex, when we get in the ring, we ain't gonna be buddies and we ain't gonna be friends. Me and my brother, one thing to do, and that's beat you up!
13:08We are ready to go for one of the most eagerly anticipated Tag Team Championship match-up!
13:13Good guys against good guys. The fans don't really know what to cheer or boo somebody.
13:20Those are the toughest matches to have.
13:21And so we decided just to have a match where it was free-for-all. Just start suplexing and grounded bound.
13:30Four of the most popular athletes in the history of WCW.
13:34It is elected here, baby!
13:36Pro Wrestling Illustrated named this match of the year in 1991. It was a display of WCW's very best.
13:47Belly to belly!
13:49That's it!
13:50My brother and I and Sting and Lex. There was a mutual respect between all of us.
13:56Great gesture of good sportsmanship. The greatest Tag Team match I've ever witnessed.
14:05When you think of the all-time greatest Tag Teams, you think of Hawk and Animal, the Legion of Doom.
14:09The powerhouses from Chicago won titles wherever they went.
14:12It was just a matter of time before WWE gold was around their massive waists.
14:17And when we get done chewing you, we'll spit you out like the stinking bad tartar that was stuck to our teeth.
14:25Unfortunately for the Nasty Boys, they were standing in the way.
14:29The Nasty Boys were not the most beloved Tag Team ever.
14:40A lot of fans wanted nothing more than to see them lose the championship.
14:45Non-stop action!
14:46Here come the Nasty Boys with the help of Jimmy Hart and his motorcycle helmet.
14:52Uh-oh! Look at that from the outside!
14:55That's using your head!
14:58Oh, look at this!
14:58He got the rope!
15:01Oh! Over to the head!
15:03And another shot!
15:06Hawk gets up there!
15:07He's on the back!
15:10He's on the back!
15:11He's on the back!
15:11He's on the back!
15:12He's on the back!
15:13He's on the back!
15:14What a nice!
15:18I think the wrestling fans have waited so long for us to capture those titles.
15:22I'll be honest with you, I was like a little kid when it felt like I won my first Little League game.
15:26What a moment for Legion of Doom!
15:30One of the most popular teams of all time were the duo of Shawn Michaels and Marty Gennetti,
15:39better known as the Rockers.
15:41Tag Team Specialist, the Rockers!
15:44The Rockers are going to do like they always do, turn heads, turn on crowds, and come out on top.
15:49These two rocked and rolled into the hearts of fans worldwide with their impressive athleticism
15:55and double-team maneuvers. Everything about the Rockers were in sync.
15:58That is, until Shawn Michaels began to think he was outgrowing the tandem and wanted the spotlight to himself.
16:05Shawn really bent out of shape here!
16:07In one of the most infamous scenes in WWE history,
16:11Michaels and Gennetti appeared on Brutus Beefcake's Barbershop to settle their differences.
16:20Maybe we'll get this thing straightened down, Brian.
16:22These two guys haven't been getting along too well of late.
16:24I want to get you out here on the barbershop so we can talk about
16:28and get it all straight once and for all.
16:31These are all guys I've been working side by side with for years,
16:34so I knew there was going to be something.
16:36I can assure you, as the captain of this team,
16:40that there are absolutely no problems with the Rockers whatsoever.
16:46The barbershop was something that Shawn and I talked about for a bit.
16:50I remember one of the first time he told me,
16:53I had to want to tag the rest of our career, and I was okay with that.
16:57I don't know what's going on in there with Shawn Michaels.
17:01If you want to stick together and make this thing work, we're going to shake hands.
17:05We had had a really good run, and then it gets to that point where you can continue to do this,
17:17but a lot of it is going to be just more of doing the same.
17:21One without the other isn't any good.
17:23Oh! Oh, I knew he was going to do that.
17:26I remember being like, oh, this is not the Shawn Michaels that I used to root for.
17:32You see the glass, sounds like, you know, it's movie stuff you've seen in a thousand westerns.
17:41We need a paramedicare! Is there a problem?
17:47At the time, I had no idea that it would become this iconic moment.
17:50I don't think so!
17:55We have finally reached our number one moment.
17:59The late 1990s saw the rise of a young tag team known as the Hardy Boys, Matt and Jeff.
18:04Audiences were left stunned at some of their high-flying and risk-taking antics.
18:11And over the years, the brothers would undoubtedly become the kings of the ladder match.
18:16But it all had to start somewhere, and in No Mercy 1999,
18:19the Hardy Boys took on Edge and Christian in the very first tag team ladder match.
18:28This is the first tag team ladder match in history.
18:34Our chemistries were so good together, and we knew if we went in there
18:38and we had a ladder match with these guys, it would be something special.
18:41Oh! Oh, man!
18:44What are they doing here?
18:48And I heard the reaction, I was like, ooh, I've never heard that before for our matches.
18:55This is going to get interesting, because if they think that's something,
18:59we got a lot more in store.
19:01I got a feeling we're going to see it all in this match, JR.
19:05These guys are going to do everything in their power to get that money.
19:10Look at that!
19:10He dropped the ladder for God's sake!
19:15There was absolutely no fear in anyone involved.
19:20That willingness really helped set them apart, make them different.
19:24It felt like we were kind of changing the direction of tag team wrestling.
19:27And other teams, you know, if they wanted to hang with us, they had to step up their games.
19:32When the ladder came into play, man, there weren't no stopping us, man.
19:35Have you ever?
19:38I have never, absolutely not.
19:40I have never seen any offense like that.
19:42That's it!
19:45But my favorite was the seesaw spot.
19:48Look at this!
19:48Oh!
19:49What the heck?
19:53Jeff Hardy, a lot of petering.
19:57He can't get it.
19:57He got it!
19:59God almighty, the Hardys have won the match!
20:02Christian and Edge have nothing to be ashamed of.
20:04What a magnificent effort by those two.
20:07We'd never received a standing ovation before.
20:09And then it wasn't, that wasn't really a thing.
20:12It all blew me away.
20:14But that's also when it started to sink in.
20:16Like, okay, we did it.
20:18All four of us went from just being WWE wrestlers at that point to becoming WWE superstars.
20:25What an amazing display!
20:28There weren't game-changing thrown around a lot these days.
20:32But that match was undoubtedly just that.
20:35Well, that'll do it for this edition of WWE's Greatest Moments.
20:38Hope you've enjoyed this look back at the very best tag-team moments
20:42from its most famous era, the 1990s.
20:48What is your name?
20:51I told you!
20:52It doesn't matter what your name is!
20:55In the wild world of WWE, the words spoken on a live microphone can leave you with the
21:01symphonies of a verbal smackdown.
21:03Remember tying bows in our shoes when we were kids?
21:06And of course, your shoes were always tied together.
21:08The unpredictable era of the 1990s saw some of the best wordsmiths that fans ever lent their ears to.
21:14Austin 316 says I just whipped your ass!
21:17Today, we look back at some of the biggest mic drops of the 1990s.
21:22Whatcha gotta do?
21:24This is WWE's Greatest Moments.
21:27Woo!
21:28Woo!
21:28Woo!
21:28Woo!
21:29Woo!
21:30Woo!
21:30Woo!
21:31Woo!
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21:32Woo!
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21:47WWE's Greatest Moments.
21:49I'm Michael Cole, and on this edition, we're looking back at some of the wildest mic drop
21:54moments of the 1990s.
21:56The outlandish duo of Shawn Michaels and Triple H certainly had their share of controversial
22:00moments.
22:01We promise there will be less references.
22:04Ah!
22:05Raging Against the Machine was the name of the game for the unpredictable D-Generation
22:11X.
22:11And let's go to the wise ass of the WWF.
22:17D-Generation X was raunchy.
22:19D-Generation X was raunchy.
22:20They broke the fourth wall.
22:21Look, smarty pants.
22:23Didn't Austin break that stack of dimes you calling that in the first place?
22:27We said what we wanted to say.
22:29We went places you weren't supposed to go.
22:32We were just jabbing whoever we wanted to jab at the time.
22:36And Triple H, this is your chance, my friend.
22:40I want you to unload on the WWF because this is what you've been waiting for, buddy.
22:49Get him.
22:50I remember saying to Vince beforehand, like, hey, how stiff do you want me to be in this
22:54thing?
22:55And he was like, go for it.
22:56I've been sitting back for a couple of years.
22:58I watched his eyes change.
23:00While you and the WWF have spread your legs like some cheap .
23:06And I was like, oh, man, I might have just crossed the line, but I'm already over it.
23:12So I went full tilt the way things are going.
23:18I'll hold the mic.
23:19McMahon's losing control.
23:20At least you're good for something.
23:22From his standpoint, you know, I give you a green light and you frickin' just
23:27pounce on it.
23:27And so on one hand, are they disrespecting me?
23:31But then on the other, he just thought it was like, you got to get them a pat on the back.
23:35They're ballsy as hell.
23:36Because from now on, this ring is our house.
23:40And it is our house of pain.
23:43Vince came in the back.
23:45I said, was that OK?
23:46And he looked down for a second, then looked me dead in the eye and was like, yeah, it was great.
23:51It's like interviewing the ninth great gym player.
23:57If you grew up in the 1980s, chances are you were a Hulkamaniac.
24:01Say your prayers, eat your vitamins, and believe in yourself, brother.
24:05Hulkamania is running wild like it's never ran before.
24:09Hulk Hogan transcended sports entertainment and was a hero's hero.
24:13Hulkamania is running worldwide.
24:15But when the Hulkster joined Scott Hall and Kevin Ashton WCW to form the New World Order.
24:19The end of Hulkamania.
24:21The professional wrestling world stood in absolute shock.
24:24The scourge of the wrestling world.
24:29The New World Order is taking over professional wrestling.
24:35Superhero like that just can't imagine ever being a villain.
24:39I'm the greatest wrestler in the world.
24:42I made professional wrestling.
24:44By the time he had committed to do it, he was already all in.
24:49So he wasn't going to pull any punches.
24:51You fans can stick it, brother.
24:55Hulk Hogan was sick of the establishment.
24:57I'm the leader of the NWO and these are my guys that are coming in.
25:00The New World Order shall rule the wrestling world.
25:05They threw stuff because they hated Hulk.
25:08It was really visual with all that stuff reigning in.
25:11And this is a pretty good example of the way your life is going to go, Hulk Hogan.
25:16Well, you know, dude, I laid it out straight for all those kids, brother.
25:20They didn't want to follow the path.
25:22So I'm done with a man.
25:23Hulk Hogan betrayed millions of people around the world.
25:28Betrayed WCW.
25:30We'll beat up the whole WCW right now.
25:33And what are they going to do?
25:35Oh, please, Hulk Hogan, I can't believe it.
25:37When you talk about the greatest to ever do it on the microphone,
25:43the Nature Boy, Ric Flair, is in the conversation.
25:45This kid stealing, wheeling, dealing, limousine right, jet flying, son of a gun.
25:51Gold and fortune were always on the mind of the Nature Boy.
25:54And at the 1992 Royal Rumble, Flair would surprisingly last over one hour
25:59to become the undisputed WWE champion for the first time in his illustrious career.
26:05Oh, yes!
26:08The party commenced backstage.
26:09It was a celebration that no one would ever forget.
26:14All right, by virtue of winning the Royal Rumble,
26:17we have a brand new World Wrestling Federation champion.
26:19That Royal Rumble, it wasn't for a title match at WrestleMania.
26:23It was for the title.
26:24Winning that thing that night and the next day being their champion.
26:27I mean, it was something I hadn't experienced in a while.
26:31I'm gonna tell y'all with a tear in my eye.
26:36With a tear in my eye.
26:39With a tear in his eye.
26:40With a tear in my eye.
26:41This is the greatest moment in my life.
26:45It was one of the first times that I saw that emotion
26:48from Ric Flair that wasn't just like over the top put on charisma.
26:51It was, oh, this is a genuine Ric Flair really creating something.
26:55You're number one, and this is the only title in the wrestling world that makes you number one.
27:04Woo, woo, woo.
27:06I can see it getting emotional.
27:09I was thinking, wow, this is history.
27:11We're not the kind of guys that say, we told you so, but we told you so.
27:16Everyone remembers that interview.
27:19Everyone.
27:20No, it's Ric Flair, and y'all pay homage to the man.
27:25Woo.
27:30Over the course of WWE history, we've seen a literal who's who of trash talkers become industry icons.
27:37Right on top of that list is the most electrifying man in sports entertainment, The Rock.
27:42The Rock says know your role and shut your mouth.
27:48The Rock is going to give you the biggest smack down.
27:51Your seven foot, 500 pound, big fat candy ass has ever seen.
27:56No one was safe when the great one had a mic in his hand.
27:59And as he says, it doesn't matter what you think.
28:03And after winning the 1999 King of the Ring,
28:05badass Billy Gunn was about to find that out firsthand.
28:12Finally, The Rock has come back to Indianapolis.
28:19Now, on to badass Billy Gunn.
28:23My goal was just to entertain the fans.
28:26I didn't want to be the loudest, I didn't want to be the biggest, but I do want to be the best.
28:30The Rock understands what took place.
28:32The night you won King of the Ring, you got down on your knees, put your little hands together,
28:38and you said a prayer, and it sounded like this.
28:41Oh dear God, my name's Billy, and I just won King of the Ring.
28:47But there's one problem, everybody still thinks that I absolutely suck.
28:54I remember we, everybody popped.
28:56Everyone who was watching by the monitor, I was sitting by the main monitor.
28:59There was a big pop, you know, and people were legitimately entertained by it.
29:04And then at that point, Billy, your house started to shake.
29:07The heavens opened up, and God himself spoke to you and said this.
29:14Bob, but my name's Billy.
29:16It doesn't matter what your name is.
29:19Rock, of course, just being rock, you know, that pretty much speaks for itself.
29:2420 plus years later, that's still a promo people bring up with Billy Gunn.
29:29If you smell what The Rock is cooking.
29:41Upon his debut in 1990, the mysterious R of The Undertaker was unlike anything WWE audience has ever seen before.
29:49Undertaker causing a lot of sleepless nights for a whole lot of folks.
29:53His few words over the years were dark and ominous, leaving fans chilled to the bone.
29:58Rest in peace.
30:02But one night on Raw in 1998 saw the dead man enter the ring without the typical fanfare,
30:08and angrily spoke his mind.
30:13Why is he coming to the ring?
30:16I've had enough.
30:18The times were changing.
30:20You got to see a different side of The Undertaker by himself.
30:24Now it's time The Undertaker got what is rightfully his.
30:30I demand my shot at the World Wrestling Federation title.
30:37All those guys that were cutting these unbelievable promos.
30:42It was just like, man, you know, I have that in me.
30:47I think it's time you got your pencil neck geek ass out here and faced The Reaper.
30:54And then I, did he just say that?
30:59I think it was just so different for the time period and it just caught people off guard.
31:05Seeing The Undertaker talking like a normal human being was an absolute shock.
31:12We are alive, anything's had to happen here.
31:19Perhaps one of the best on the microphone in the 1990s was none other than the Hellraiser himself,
31:25Stone Cold Steve Austin.
31:28Stone Cold Steve Austin is going to whip somebody's ass.
31:32And that's the bottom line, cause Stone Cold said so.
31:37He said whatever he wanted.
31:39Stone Cold Steve Austin does what he wants when he wants.
31:42But he did whatever he wanted as well.
31:46Give me a hell yeah.
31:49Which did not sit well with the WWE commissioner, Sergeant Slaughter.
31:53There will be law and order. Have I made myself clear?
32:00Uh oh, good god almighty, here he comes.
32:09Like once the glass shattered, the audience was ready.
32:13What the hell is going to come out of Steve's mouth?
32:15I'll break every damn law you can make and can't nobody stop me.
32:19I will.
32:20No, you won't.
32:21It was all about cutting a promo and all about letting those people live vicariously through me.
32:26You sit here and you say, that's an order. This is an order. That's an order.
32:32Hell, I can look at you, son. The only thing you've been ordering is a whole bunch of damn cheeseburgers.
32:38There's something obviously very intriguing about seeing somebody go after the authority.
32:44You talk about me delivering the Intercontinental title.
32:49The only thing that I'll deliver is a big can of whoop ass right to your front door.
32:56He said whatever was on his mind. He did it with cuss words.
32:59We thought, let's see how far he's going to take it.
33:01Is he ever going to actually like really cross the line?
33:03And sure enough, he did it right before our ass.
33:11It was definitely just like a shocker. Nobody saw it coming.
33:14Stone Cold not only dropped the mic that night, he dropped Sergeant Slaughter.
33:18He's a rattlesnake and he'll strike anybody he wants to.
33:21In the late 1990s, a new WCW star was on the rise in the form of Chris Jericho.
33:30While his in-ring abilities were a sight to behold, it was his charisma on the microphone that got everyone talking.
33:37My future, which is so bright, I gots to wear shades.
33:40Engulfed in a rivalry with the man of a thousand holds, Dean Malenko, Jericho took the opportunity to prove he was better than his opponent in every way possible, as only he could.
33:56Malenko, you claim to be the man of a thousand holds, but I counted and you know about 60, but I know a thousand and four and I wrote them all down. Here we go.
34:06My moniker was a man of a thousand holds, so he kind of tried to one-up me by having four more holds in me.
34:11Hold one, arm drag. Hold two, arm arm. Hold three, the moss-covered, three-handle family credunzel.
34:25What's gonna be next? What other obscure move is he going to name?
34:29Number five, the Saskatchewan spinning nerve hold.
34:34Is it just gonna stay in the ring?
34:36Number eight, arm bar.
34:37And he's reading so long that they go to commercial break.
34:41Number 10, right-handed punch.
34:43When they come back, Chris Jericho is still reading the list.
34:49Can we physically get him out of the ring?
34:51Hold number 712, the super blizzard.
34:55Some of the words that he was just spewing out at one point, I'm just like, yo, what the heck?
35:00Hold number 713.
35:03This must be allowed.
35:05Now they're finally able to get him out of the ring,
35:07but he's more concerned with the safety of his list of holds.
35:11Give me my holds.
35:13Still has several hundred more to go.
35:15I got 200 more holds to the list.
35:17Nick Foley has always left audiences in awe of his daredevil-like performances and his hardcore
35:25nature, but he was also able to captivate fans with a spoken word.
35:29I mean every word.
35:31When I tell you, I'm gonna tear you apart.
35:34One instance takes us back to 1995 in the land of extreme ECW.
35:39Foley thought the promotion may be a little too hardcore for his taste.
35:42The sign in the crowd directed at his young son set him off into one of the most malevolent
35:47monologues audiences had ever heard.
35:52Cain Dewey.
35:56Somebody had taken the time and the effort and the thought to make a sign that said Cain Dewey.
36:07Like advocating the caning of a three-year-old child, which is my son's age at that time.
36:13When I relayed that to my wife, she nearly got sick.
36:16It's embedded in my skull.
36:18It's embedded in my heart.
36:20And it's embedded in every nightmare
36:24that I will ever have again.
36:25You ripped out my heart.
36:27You took everything I believed in and you flushed it down the damn toilet.
36:32It was like this form of therapy in that I could just get out these real life emotions.
36:37When you open up your soul and it gets on,
36:43that's to make Jack a very mean boy.
36:45He no longer loved the fans and wanted to tell these selfish, uncaring, heartless,
36:51son of a bitch fans what he thought of them.
36:54Those fans who sit there and say he's hardcore.
36:58He's hardcore.
36:59Wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.
37:03We saw what Mick Foley was doing in ECW and the fact that he despised everything about ECW.
37:08We had to have Mick Foley.
37:11Dewey Foley is a three-year-old boy.
37:15You sick sons of bitches!
37:24The mid-1990s ushered in a new generation of WWE superstars.
37:28And at the forefront is Bret the Hitman Hart.
37:31The excellence of execution was beloved throughout the world
37:35and prided himself on being the very best role model he could be.
37:38I am the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.
37:44However, by 1997, a new side of the Hitman reared its face.
37:48All you American wrestling fans, you don't respect me.
37:53The American wrestling fans, coast to coast, can kiss my ass.
38:01I wonder what you'd like to say to these American fans here tonight in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
38:07The sly look on my face should have said it all.
38:11I'm really mad at America for this, what they've done to me.
38:15Last week, I said the United States of America was one big giant toilet bowl.
38:25If you were going to give the United States of America an enema,
38:28you'd stick the hose right here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
38:33When Bret Hart said they would insert the hose in Pittsburgh,
38:37jaws dropped to the floor.
38:39I will never forget that line.
38:41Shawn Michaels, you're going to just be one more name that I'm going to add on to a list
38:47of Americans that I'm going to flush down the toilet.
38:51He was frustrated and angry, and now he's getting the chance to load on you, and he did it.
38:56I will be fifth time World Wrestling Federation champion, and I promise
39:02to bring the championship belt back to Canada where it belongs.
39:06It's now time for our number one moment.
39:11It is also time to play the game.
39:14The Hall of Fame career of Triple H is second to none.
39:18From the Greenwich snob.
39:19It's high time for all these superstars to learn a lesson in class.
39:24To the sophomoric degenerate.
39:26Let's get rid of this sucker!
39:28Triple H was always a master of his craft, but was missing that elusive prize.
39:33In 1999, Jim Ross sat down with a cerebral assassin in a moment that cemented Triple H
39:39as the future of WWE.
39:43What, you want me to shoot with this interview?
39:45I'm going to shoot with it.
39:46I'm going to tell you how I feel, whether you like it or not.
39:50There's moments in time where you can be real and not having to be projecting on a microphone
39:54to a large crowd, and I knew that was a pivotal moment for me.
39:57I don't need anybody else, JR.
40:00This is about me. I don't need to be in a clique anymore.
40:04I don't need to be in DX anymore. It's about me reaching my goals.
40:09I think he got a lot of things off his chest, and we had never heard him really that impassioned,
40:14that hell-bent on, my God, you're going to notice me.
40:17You guys talk about being students of the game.
40:20I am the f***ing game, JR.
40:23It just was something that I said.
40:25I was no longer Hunter Hearst-Helmsey. I was Triple H.
40:28It was the game, like it was a different conversation.
40:31I knew that we had heard something special.
40:34There is nobody that eats, sleeps, or breathes this business more than me.
40:40And now it's my time to prove that to the world.
40:43To hell with The Rock, to hell with Austin, to hell with The Undertaker.
40:47I own all their asses.
40:49This is someone to be reckoned with. This is a top guy.
40:53But when it's said and done, it's about me getting what I deserve in this business,
40:58and that is becoming the WWF champion.
41:01And with those famed words, a superstar was born.
41:08Triple H truly encapsulated, becoming the game.
41:11Went on to have a Hall of Fame career.
41:14That'll do it for this edition of WWE's Greatest Moments.
41:18I hope you've enjoyed this look back at some of the biggest mic drop moments of one of the craziest
41:23times in professional wrestling, the 1990s.
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