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through so many characters, he had around about 47,922 names. Anyway, Kevin Sullivan did win before he started to hear voices in his head, and I do not believe they were Randy Orton, and they summoned him to some kind of mystical cave. It was very filled with dreams, and of course it came from parts unknown, where some like weird, nest creature guy, will make sure there's an image on the screen right now, told Kevin Sullivan, listen, my friend, I have one task for you, therefore you shut me up when, as the taskmasker, and do you know what that task is? You have to go and kill Hulkomania. I actually didn't learn more about this, we never figured out why Hulk Hogan was such a threat, so if I was going to hazard a guess, Kevin Sullivan here had done a bunch of drugs, and decided what if I do beat Hulk Hogan, that would be good for my career opportunities, but I only had a tip to around this, so I just pretend I met a mythical man in the forest and he told me to do it. Now Sullivan knew who's going to have to help here, so he went and assembled the worst bunch of people ever. I have the more written down here, now you have the shark, now Sullivan actually was aware of the shark, because he used to be the avalanche once again, I'm not killing his old true, when he went and found Kamala, because that guy was just hanging out, but the best
part is, he asked the zodiac to join, and the zodiac was the man who had no name, was also bruised by a beefcake, so he's already gone through three iterations. Ben and Vader also thrown in this, what the flood was WCW thinking, although Vader took it very seriously, he basically dubbed it a roadkill tour, where he just beat enhancement after enhancement talent, to prove that he was like a successful dude, and eventually he was going to be the one, the Thumpout Hulkomania. So once again, if you are going to watch this, make sure you do it on drugs, and the big spin here is that Kevin Sullivan had what last person in his pocket, which was the debuting the giant that would be Paul White or the Big Show in WWE, and you may have heard about this, WCW spun it as, oh that's right, this is Andre the giant sun, which is why he wants to get his revenge of a Hulk Hogan, because he slammed Andre at WrestleMania 3, I mean that was part of the match, but I guess, in WCW lore, that was like the end of Andre, once again it didn't make any sense, and really the only reason WCW was doing this is because they needed some people for their war games match at 4-Broad 1995, just standing alongside the red and yellow of Hulk Hogan was of course the match remains sting and Lex Luger.
As ever though, the steps got completely thrown out the window, because the big spin here is if Hulk Hogan's team did win, which they did, Hogan would get 5 minutes in the ring with Kevin Sullivan to beat his ass, went instantly, out came the giant, the Big Show, the Paul White man, and he started to beat up Hulk, so if you had bought this pay-per-view, to see Hulk Hogan work Kevin Sullivan's ass, it just got stolen away. Now come on I was also part of this group, but he actually left WCW, so all of a sudden he just doesn't exist anymore, when we are building to the big old world title program between the giant Hulk Hogan at Halloween Havoc, so what did WCW do to promote this, what kind of amazing match should we put on, well I don't know how else to say this, we had a Sumo monster truck fight, and yes you heard that correctly on top of the Joe Lewis Arena, Hulk Hogan was in one monster truck, and the Big Show, Paul White, the giant was in the other monster truck, with the idea of being to push the vehicle out of a circle, like he would do in Sumo wrestling, of course Hulk Hogan won, because even when it was some weird monster truck battle, he wasn't allowed to lose, when he accidentally knocked the Big Show slash Paul White slash the giant off the top of the arena, and everybody thought he was dead, now listen Hulk Hogan was very upset about this, as you would believe,
when we got to the pay-per-view, and the giant just walked to the ref like nothing had happened, once again I am not kidding, so we threw somebody off the building, and the payoff was, well you were stupid for believing in that word, you're in good even worse, because during the match Jimmy Hart went and smacked the referee with the megaphone, meaning the giant did win by disqualification, and we found out soon afterwards, actually in the deal was quite clearly Hulk Hogan had a bother to read, it said the title could change hands on a disqualification, so just like that, the giant was the champion, it only a second other professional wrestling match, and also made the Jimmy Hart join the dungeon of Doom, when of course WCW did go WCW, they decided we don't like this, we're going to make sure that belt does get relinquished, even though they put the contract together, like one of their lawyers must have seen it too, but once they saw an emotion they decided we shouldn't have done this, now really it was to justify the World War 3 pay-per-view, where once again WCW decided one more has to be more, when we had a three-ring 60-man battle royale, this really was the most battle whose face he's got a new hat approach to pro wrestling, somebody had gone, I'd say it was better than two rings, three, that
somehow Randy Savage actually did come out as the WCW champion, which was nice, but the major focus of the story was Hulk Hogan taking on the dungeon of Doom, so like what happened throughout the match-of-man's career, he may have had the gold, but he was kind of playing second-filled Hulk, and just before that pay-of-you-two Loch Ness had joined the dungeon of Doom, which actually was UK star, giant haystacks, which kind of does sum up, when we also had the Yeti look at the screen-worst thing ever, humorous you probably know of him, Conan Big Bangla, and the one-man-game- Hi friends, Sean Lindner from Two Black Guys with Good Credit here, whether you're running a nonprofit at school or small business, Walmart Business here to support your mission, they make it easy to order what you need, from tech and cleaning supplies to everyday essentials, all at low prices and with helpful tools like spend tracking a tax exempt purchasing
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booty, as in your rear end, as in your ass, so once again the Barber Beefcake had got another name on his WWE resume, he honestly was going through them about one week. The Dungeon and Doom also decided they were going to change their name to the Alliance to End Hulk Hogan, which I guess is very on the nose, when Arn Anderson and Ric Flair actually joined. Now once again, Flair and Randy Savage were going at it at this point, and Randy was still a friend of Hulk's in the storyline, but why the fuck would you take two members of the Four Horsemen and stick him with this? So don't tell me WCW was really really good until one day they weren't, they were doing stupid stuff too. I suppose the big payoff came unscented 1996 for once again, WCW made an even bigger still cage, and this time caught at the Tower of Doom still cages, and there was what 42,000 rings and three different still cages, I mean I'm exaggerating there, but once again you can see on the screen, it was so over the top and just to make it even worse, it was Hulk Hogan and the matcher man taking on around about 8 heels, that's right, and you know how I ended it, with Hulk Hogan winning, no wonder he was getting booted this time, we had to go away before coming back and join the NWO, every single person watching WCW thought
this was ridiculous, but even when you read it, which is what I'm doing on the internet right now, it says Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage defeated Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, man, the barbarian, next Luga who had gone hill by this point, the TAS Master, Z Gangster or Z Gangster, and the ultimate solution, then one put was called the final solution, and if you don't know what that means, Google it, once again WCW can kiss my ass because that's actually offensive. Then indeed happened on March 24th 1996, and what was going to happen only a few months later during the summer time, Hulk Hogan as we've kept talking about, was going to join the NWO, so no wonder Eric Bishop went to him and said, dude, you really need to do this, the last thing that WCW fans had seen was a contingent of heels, led by Ric Flair, being smashed by Hulk Hogan, and once again, even the Randy Savage was there, he always felt like he was playing number two, which was absolutely ludicrous and you will never believe that happened on TV. We haven't even talked about the vignette when Hulk Hogan turned up in that magical cave, and he touched a waterfall, and he didn't understand what water was, it's been like 30 years, I don't know what was happening. Talk about a bunch of quits too, because right after this, the alliance to end Hulk Amalia decided, nope, it didn't work
this time, and they turned their attention to Chris Benoit and Woman. Now if you know your resting history, you know that Kevin Sutherland and Chris Benoit, they had a feud over woman, and Woman who was Nancy Benoit, so we know that story, she was married to Kevin Sutherland at the time, but of course he was booking the show, and he booked them kind of at a romance angle, eventually Woman left Kevin Sutherland in the real world, and she got with Chris Benoit, and now of course that was going to have terrible ramifications down the line, but once again, when you were watching this on television, nobody could believe it, it was just so batship crazy. Now thankfully men in the barbarian were able to come together as a team would take on the outsiders for the tag team titles, although they eventually lost. But do not forget the soon after this two, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall were going to go heel, which meant by proxy, the dungeon they're doing when our baby faces, because everybody had to team up against the new world order. So in the space of a few months, it went to, we must kill Hulk Hogan to damn it, we should have killed Hulk Hogan, because now look what he's got to done, and essentially what we have learned here by doing this video is that Bobby the Brain Heenam was always right. Could I actually go through the time nine and find when WCW officially ended this, but they did it on the quiet, especially the beach 1997, because Kevin Sutherland and Chris Benoit
had that big blow off match, it was if Kevin Sutherland loses, he has to retire, he did lose, he kind of retired, but not really, and then the dungeon of doom was never spoken of again by everybody, even people in the dungeon of doom, because if you think the retelling I've just told you is nuts, wait till you see it in person, we jumped over huge vignettes here that WCW actually poured money into, and every single one was just like where it is come from, you must have been high when you put this together, and also when it landed on the director's lap, who went, dude, we've absolutely done it, we should all go out for coffee. So it's generally terrible, it's all terrible, however it is so bad it's good, terrible, so you probably can check it out, and make sure you do see that Hulk Hogan scene, when he touched the water, and he shocked the water, feels this way, I have no idea, WCW was trying to do, but listen, it got back in 1999 in 2000, we know about that, we've talked about it all the time, but it was not immune from it, during other eras, and some people like to believe it was the explosion of the Monday Night Wars, well, all of a sudden things got crazy, no it wasn't, it was going on for years, as much as the WWF in the mid-90s were obsessed with people having gimmicks or jobs, WCW was doing
the same, but it was all cartoons, and it was all nonsense, and it was all childish, it's absolutely ridiculous, it's absolutely stupid, and I've just proved this. Hi, this is Pablo Torre from Pablo Torre, finds out, and today I want to talk to you about Boost Mobile, because we spent a lot of time analyzing inefficiencies in sports, overvalued contracts, money tied up in the wrong places, and so on, but those inefficiencies aren't just on a roster, sometimes they're in your own monthly expenses. Boost Mobile says switching to their $25 unlimited forever plan can unlock up to $600 in savings a year. That's $25 a month for unlimited data, talk, and text when you bring your own phone. If that money is trapped in a pricey phone bill, it might be worth a second look. Visit boostmobile.com to learn more. After 30 gigabytes, customers may experience slower speeds, customers pay $25 per month, as long as they remain active on the boost mobile unlimited plan. Savings claim based on a January 2026 boost mobile survey of 1,000 Americans with single-line unlimited plans, comparing average annual payments of major carriers to 12 months on the boost mobile unlimited plan. For full offer details, visit boostmobile.com.
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