Umaga was so damn criminally underrated. It still bothers me 17 years later that Khali got a run with the world title instead of Umaga who would have been such a better champ and just the thought of him holding the big gold championship with his teeth doing his pose is epic af. Long live Umaga man. One of the goats of the late 00's
If he hadn’t died I think he could’ve been a good WHC on Smackdown and had a feud with Undertaker like Batista did in 2007. Just two big men battling it out for the WHC.
Yeah that sounds right. The times Lita has been back since The Hardy’s were either not with the company (like Raw 1000 or her run last year) or doing other things (like Matt being Woken in 2018).
"Good news, John! I decided where the match it's gonna take place. It's gonna be Unforgiven, in my hometown; Toronto Canada! And I decided what match it's gonna be; a match you never HAD, a match I NEVER LOST... it's gonna be Tables, Ladders and Chairs!" Edge at RAW August 28 2006 in Atlantic City New Jersey.
2006 really was a weird year with a lot of people leaving or retiring. Angle was gone, both lita and Trish retired and even big show is off TV by the end of the year with his contract expiring in February. Also Teddy Long looking like morpheous up there with the light on his glasses
was also just a strange year in general for WWE, with DX 2.0 showing up, Vince McMahon feuding with 'God', Kane's May 19th storyline, the hatred for Cena in full swing despite being the company's top face, Angle leaving and joining TNA that same year, and so on.
So Johnny Nitro got that name in 2004 when he was Bischoff's assistant. He was Johnny Spade, but when Bischoff was running raw, he started calling himself JohnntyNitro
My girlfriend at the time surprised me with ringside seats for this show for my birthday. The show was on my 30th birthday. Seventeen years later, even though we're no longer together. It's still the best birthday ever.
To this day I consider this to be one of the most stacked/greatest non-Wrestlemania PPVs of all time. We got a TLC match, Hell in a cell match, and a retirement match; one of the best PPVs from the ruthless aggression era
The starpower contrast between PPVs like it and today's PPVs is staggering. Going from Cena,Edge,HHH,HBK,Tresh, Vince, Orton, Lita, Kane, and Jeff Hardy to Damien Priest and Cody Rhodes lmfao.
1, the fact that Trish's run last year included her very first cage match is crazy. 2, give the Highlanders Cpt America's super soldier serum, and you have the Viking Raiders
Man this takes me back. I was tuning in to the John Cena/Edge feud back in 2006. And the TLC match here is one of my favorite matches. Incredible memories.
My sister was obsessed with Paula Dean's wedding,before she was hated. Anyway they had an all day marathon of the shows leading to the wedding episode. I was in my bedroom morning til night while she was watching all that. I watched 3 pay per views,2 of those Legends of Wrestling Round Tables and a bunch of documentaries. This PPV was the first thing I watched.
Almost in line with The Attitude Era Podcast when they did this show, back in December. 2:06 it was actually an I Quit Match Brian. The 2 Out of 3 Falls Match was at Vengeance in June.
I completely forgot that Trish’s retirement and the DX vs McMahon Show Heck in a Sec were also on this show, hate Vince all you want and rightfully so but when it came time to take his comeuppance, he really took it.
The WWE made the Highlanders know nothing of the outside world.....Ironically they probably didn't realise that Scotland invented everything from Television, Radar, Paracetamol, telephone, the U.S Navy, golf, Harry Potter, the song Old Lang Syne, the adhesive postage stamp, special forces, Buick car company, the water bed & co-founded Harley Davidson.
Small thing, but, holy shit, I forgot how over Armando Estrada's catchphrase was; I don't get why WWE insisted (especially under Vince's direction) of having people stop doing things that got them over? It's exactly like when they told Cesaro to stop using the Giant Swing. Also, Umaga was a super underrated big man.
@@Eviltwin531 It's hilarious and sad at the same time how Vince will let go of wrestlers that don't get over, but then try his hardest to mess up some wrestlers that did got over on their own. And he will also shove down everyone's throat wrestlers that aren't over, remember how many years he did that with Roman Reigns? It took Reigns turning heel in 2020 for people to come around him.
Hey Brian! Love the video, and the first WWE PPV I saw as I started watching wrestling. A quick correction: Foley vs Flair at Summerslam '06 was their "I Quit" match; their 2 out of 3 Falls match was at Vengeance that June
He was booked as Johnny SUPERSTAR and Johnny Blaze for the first month on the main roster in ‘04. Then got put in as Eric’s assistant so he changed it Johnny Nitro. It wasn’t Eric’s leaving that prompted the name change, but his absence made the OG name irrelevant
Fun Fact Brian: Even Edge went on record to say he hated The Rated-R Spinner Belt. According to him within a Week he created a Mock-Up for his belt that took strong inspiration from the Old School Intercontinental Championship at the time…except more Edgier with Whites, and Reds, and Blacks, and a whole lot of Edge’s Presence to it. But yeah, making another Spinner Belt with Edge’s Logo was pretty dumb…especially when you consider in Kayfabe how long their feud would last, and his promo on Cena on The Cutting Edge before Backlash 2009 sums up how Edge feels about the Rated-R Championship.
Jeff and John Morrison always had good chemistry. I remember seeing their World Title match on Smackdown in Baltimore shortly before Jeff left the company and it was a great "face vs face" match.
When I say I raised my hands in excitement when you announced this review last week I’m not exaggerating 😂, this is the first and so far only wwe ppv event I’ve attended. Fun fact during the DX match my dad (claims) he was the one who started the “kiss his ass” chant.
This is one of my favorite PPV that’s not the big 4. Cena/Edge, Trish/Lita even the HITC match was very enjoyable. And never forget that RKO on Carlito
This is Andrew before watching, thank you so much! The main event is one of my favorite matches of all time, I think about the finish more often than I should lol
This show had a famous RKO to Carlito A funny Hell In A Cell Match that concluded the DX McMahon feud And a TLC match to conclude the first Cena and Edge feud
I hope we see Cena's I Quit match from Judgment Day 2005 and his triple threat match from Vengeance 2005 reviewed. Often underlooked matches in his career and they're both amazing.
Honestly, you pointing out your concern over the wet mat that Lita had hurt herself on is a major reason why you're my favorite wrestling content creator lol Like it's a minor thing but christ you care about people and that's just nice to see
Oh man, you might have a killer Funker impression, Brian. However, the Big Show "dId I dO tHat!?!?" at 13:30 got a pop from me, another reoccurring impression please!
So I think Kane and Umaga booking was really weird like before Cyber Sunday on a random Raw they would have a Loser leaves Raw match. You think they would have had a street fight or something at Cyber Sunday
I remember ordering this ppv on WWE On Demand... at the age of six at my grandparent's house because my GPA wanted to watch the show, but couldn't. I remembered what my father did to access the WWE channel and off I went. Moments later Charter called my grandma's landline and my mom told them to cancel the ppv buy. After that moment in Michigan you had to verify with Charter if you were buying ppvs. Wish I could make this up.
My all-time favourite Unforgiven PPV. Fun fact: I wanted to get tickets for this show since I was visiting relatives in Toronto at that time in September but they were sold out. Instead, I got the show later on DVD and rewatched it constantly. Also also, this was the debut of the "modern" Hell In A Cell with it being taller than the last one. Also, GOD I MISS THE UNIQUE STAGE! Especially with Unforgiven being a prevalent one as it had a long sign with the event name, kinda like how Backlash was synonymous with swinging hooks and Judgement Day with synonymous with end-of-the-world vibes.
23:31 The one question that I always asked that Brian Zane didn't mentioned at the end of the main event was,"Why was John Cena looked disappointed after giving Edge the Attitude Adjustment towards the two stacked tables?" Cena didn't injured nor ended Edge's life. Edge has went through riskier bumps from the classic TLC matches to his hot feud with Matt Hardy in 2005. Does anyone know why John Cena looked remorseful at the end of the Unforgiven event?
The reason he looked so upset is because he didn't want to win. Not in storyline,but in real life. Cena wanted to move back to Smackdown,but that was denied
I think it had something to do with his role as a babyface and in Kafabe not wanting to do such a devastating move to finish the match and damn near kill Edge. Looked absolutely amazing though. I was a huge fan of Edge and wanted him to win the match but that finish is iconic and probably served him even better.
I'm a doc, a sleepy doc, a sleepy happy doc, if I don't get some rest I'll be a sleepy happy grumpy doc Sneezes I'm a sleepy Sneezy grumpy dopey doc Bashful
I was at the go-home RAW for this event in MSG. The part I'll never forget was when the NYCPD Pipes & drums came out everyone first thought Roddy was coming. Then The Highlanders came out and you could feel the mood just drop to the point they couldn't even boo. However when everyone saw Roddy come out, the air came right back and was probably the pop of the night.
My first ever WWE PPV. This really takes me back to even I was 7 years old and watching Cena vs. Edge and Trish vs. Lita and being immediately hooked as a wrestling fan for the next 17 years and counting.
I went to this show live, and it still lives rent-free in my mind consistently. I loved it and have waited for this review for a very long time. Hell yeah.
This was the first time I ever saw Cena become a world champion just two months after I got into wrestling. The show itself is an underrated classic! Hell in a Cell, TLC, Orton vs Carlito, Trish’s final match. Perhaps one of the greats in this era
Silly factoid about myself just throwing out there. Jeff Hardy was the person at one point in my life that helped me overcome my fear of heights. I’d wanted to be a wrestler since I was literally born, there are pictures of me doing the Jack hammer suplex to a teddy bear 3 times my size when I was 2 and under it my grandma had wrote “too much WCW” but I had a big fear of heights. Seeing Jeff do the highflying stuff he could do when I was around 11 I was like “I bet this guy isn’t scared of heights though” and I spent literal hours upon hours in my back yard doing stunts off of ladders and stuff onto a giant trampoline we had till I got over that fear. Taught myself moonsaults and how to do the whisper in the wind till I got to the point I could do a standing moonsault on flat ground when I was in highschool like Victoria used to and would do it for foot ball friends onto an old ruined mattress I had out back too. The trainers at the wrestling school I went to didn’t think it was all that funny or impressive but those were good memories as far as I was concerned. 😅
16:37 that definitely goes against most stories you hear. Usually someone retiring or leaving a company will do the job in their last match. That just shows how much respect the fans and company had for Trish to put her over and put a belt on her in her retirement match. 😮
What makes the main event special to me is the fact that John Cena, my childhood hero won the WWE Championship on my birthday just North of where I lived
This was right in the heart of when i first got into wrestling back in junior high. Love going back and seeing stuff from thelis period. Feels so old now lol. I loved the DX stuff then. Thought it was so cool
One of my favorite PPV, thanks Brian 😊 Quick notes : - The cell for HIAC was higher than it was for the previous matches and it kept that height since. - I remember a RAW when Armando Estrada did his usual speech but didn't finish it because he realised the crowd was into it and they ended the speech for him. He had a great angry face in result. - Apparently Edge went briefly unconscious during the STF-Ladder spot because Cena went too hard. Also love the look on Cena's face when he won, he didn't celebrate hard because he knew the local crowd wouldn't have been happy for it (even if he had a decent pop anyway). Cena always knew how to adapt his behaviour with the audience. - When Big Show was laying on the ropes after the superkick by HBK, we can spot him readjusting the ropes because there weren't tight properly (don't know if it was edited on the Network/Peacock since). I laughed a little at the time because it was kind of a no-sell ("hey he isn't knocked out !") and I wasn't used of those moments ^^
I always felt this show wasof two halves... Everything before HitC was nothing but afterwards, everything just clicked. Funny too with Carlito at Unforgiven where he faced Evolution; faced Flair at 05, Orton here and Triple H 07. Always thought this was a solid show and one of the best of a pretty decent year in WWE.
2:41 16,105 and my sister and I were 2 of that number, my ONLY ever live PPV! 19:17 Despite his comments about Trish and Canadians, THIS is actually the match that inspired me to become a Randy Orton fan. We had a fan sitting in front of us who had Carlito's hairstyle but would do the Randy Orton pose at the start and finish of the match...was very bizarre. NEVER liked Carlito, and wasn't sure about Randy up until that night. 21:26 Funny you should say that, because one of the Top 5 things I still remember about that night was how incredibly divided and electric the fans were WHILE WAITING TO BE ADMITTED INTO THE ARENA! It was chilling! The live reaction during the match felt similar, despite what might've been broadcast on PPV. Happy and proud to have this as the only PPV I ever attended live. The Trish match will always make me cry a little, and to have it happen 6.5 months after I got to meet her in person...made for a magical year. Still hoping to get her to sign the DVD one day lol.
Cena vs Edge is my favorite match of all time. Seen it a thousand times ever since I first saw it as a kid who was huge Cena fan. Excited to see your videos this May.
I thought this was a great PPV. I remember buying the dvd back in the day, and it was always one my favorites to watch. Haven’t gotten to it in the review yet, but Carlito vs Orton was great, the decimation of Vince and Shane, the TLC match, and Jeff and Nitro always put on a good show together.
Hey Zane, who is this devante guy? Destroy him lol you're my favorite wrestling CZcamsr and to me you shouldn't be talked about unless it's in a good light. Love your vids I'm a big fan much love from Geo of CT
A lot of people hate this DX run but this year is what got me into wrestling. Shawn and Hunter are still my favorite wrestlers to this day. I guess it’s just nostalgia but I still go back and watch this run and love it doesn’t hurt that it coincides with the amazing Dena be edge feud bf edge teams with Orton vs DX.
I can't believe that Brian didn't mentioned that Keny pinned the bald guy with a facebuster by grabbing him in the moustache 😆 Fun fact: Edge had lost a TLC match before the Cena match, it was TLC 4 on SD 2001.
Edge has talked a lot about this match on various interviews. The STF through the ladder almost went HORRIBLY wrong. Because of the ladder, Cena couldn't get his arms all the way around Edge's neck and the result was him unintentionally choking Edge but not realizing it. Edge apparently legit blacked out briefly in this move until the referee finally realized something was wrong. Edge has stated another minute or 2 in that hold like was originally planned and it would have gone south quick.
I love how that lady in the front row starts cussing at Cena and the ref had to go calm her down. On the network and dvd, they had to censor that lady lol
The fans: “Cover Hogan again”
BZ: “That doesn’t work for May brother”
Brian Zane needs to cover the history of the chinlock
Brian changed the theme month because he knew he’d have to talk about Hogan Knows Best again.
He’s watched a lot of crap for our amusement, I think he’s earned a month off.
Exactly so I say, booooooooo
He should just play the clip of Hogan listening to Young Jeezy all month at the end of each Cena episode 😂😂😂
Wish he'd do Judgment days from 2000 2001 and 2002
Umaga was so damn criminally underrated. It still bothers me 17 years later that Khali got a run with the world title instead of Umaga who would have been such a better champ and just the thought of him holding the big gold championship with his teeth doing his pose is epic af. Long live Umaga man. One of the goats of the late 00's
Yeah he was also great in the ring, RIP Umaga.
Blame that on Vince’s unhealthy obsession with big men
Umaga was big.
Khali was champ cuz India has money and WWE wanted it
If he hadn’t died I think he could’ve been a good WHC on Smackdown and had a feud with Undertaker like Batista did in 2007. Just two big men battling it out for the WHC.
I'M ON THIS PPV!😁
I'm the one during the Highlanders intro with the sign "Real Champs Wear Kilts!"
Sweet sign 😂
Awesome!! Bet that's a great memory 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Stupid sign
If I'm not mistaken, this show might be the last time that all 3 parts of Team Xtreme have been on camera together at one time
Yeah that sounds right. The times Lita has been back since The Hardy’s were either not with the company (like Raw 1000 or her run last year) or doing other things (like Matt being Woken in 2018).
Yes it was
Whoopdeefuckindoo👍🏻
"If I'm not mistaken" like you didn't research this and word it that way on purpose.
Like you would know what he researched..... seriously why bother whit ignorant comments like that dude @@TPee-um8yn
“Cena got booed more in Toronto”
ECW One Night Stand crowd: Am I a joke to you?
"Good news, John! I decided where the match it's gonna take place. It's gonna be Unforgiven, in my hometown; Toronto Canada! And I decided what match it's gonna be; a match you never HAD, a match I NEVER LOST... it's gonna be Tables, Ladders and Chairs!"
Edge at RAW August 28 2006 in Atlantic City New Jersey.
Even though he was 3-1 at the time the match took place 😂
Amazingly, they had already deleted the benoit/jerkcho TLC 3 win... even though bemoit was still alive
JR’s line of the night “Mr McMahon!!! Literally Up The Big Show’s Ass!!”
“Yes, there are TWO Highlanders.”
Somewhere out there, the Kurgan’s ears are burning.
Wow. I can't believe I didn't get that till I read it out loud 😅
Brian used creative control to allow himself not to put over Hogan this year lol. Well played Brian
2006 really was a weird year with a lot of people leaving or retiring. Angle was gone, both lita and Trish retired and even big show is off TV by the end of the year with his contract expiring in February.
Also Teddy Long looking like morpheous up there with the light on his glasses
was also just a strange year in general for WWE, with DX 2.0 showing up, Vince McMahon feuding with 'God', Kane's May 19th storyline, the hatred for Cena in full swing despite being the company's top face, Angle leaving and joining TNA that same year, and so on.
You take the blue pill, you gon be in a tag team match, playa. You take the red pill, you go one on one... with the undertaker!
Morpheus Long is so based its breaking my brain
2006 was an epic year. It was like 2002, when Ruthless Aggression was like Attitude era.
So Johnny Nitro got that name in 2004 when he was Bischoff's assistant. He was Johnny Spade, but when Bischoff was running raw, he started calling himself JohnntyNitro
His theme song was even the nitro theme. It was hilarious
Could've sworn he was Johnny Blaze one week
@@riotd.r.8363 yeah it was really short
@@johnkallday That’s not fair at all. Forgive yourself for making minor mistakes like these. It’s easily corrected in the comments
John Morrison has changed his last name more times than a 50s Model
I'm assuming JR's Pac-10 referee reference is about the Oregon/Oklahoma game that ended in controversy a couple weeks before that.
#neverforget
My girlfriend at the time surprised me with ringside seats for this show for my birthday. The show was on my 30th birthday. Seventeen years later, even though we're no longer together. It's still the best birthday ever.
Sucks to be your current gf/wife
To this day I consider this to be one of the most stacked/greatest non-Wrestlemania PPVs of all time. We got a TLC match, Hell in a cell match, and a retirement match; one of the best PPVs from the ruthless aggression era
Very underrated B-List PPV
The starpower contrast between PPVs like it and today's PPVs is staggering. Going from Cena,Edge,HHH,HBK,Tresh, Vince, Orton, Lita, Kane, and Jeff Hardy to Damien Priest and Cody Rhodes lmfao.
1, the fact that Trish's run last year included her very first cage match is crazy.
2, give the Highlanders Cpt America's super soldier serum, and you have the Viking Raiders
Man this takes me back. I was tuning in to the John Cena/Edge feud back in 2006. And the TLC match here is one of my favorite matches. Incredible memories.
13:37 Shane's getting Donkey Kong ping ponged! Like our sponsor Mario Tennis Power Tour for the Game Boy Advance!
Classic 😂lol
When zane said Jrs commentary went off the rails in this match, i immediately said, Oh so basically his commentary on AEW.
'That's right...there are two Highlanders.'
But...but....but...'there can be only one!'
My sister was obsessed with Paula Dean's wedding,before she was hated. Anyway they had an all day marathon of the shows leading to the wedding episode. I was in my bedroom morning til night while she was watching all that. I watched 3 pay per views,2 of those Legends of Wrestling Round Tables and a bunch of documentaries. This PPV was the first thing I watched.
Almost in line with The Attitude Era Podcast when they did this show, back in December. 2:06 it was actually an I Quit Match Brian. The 2 Out of 3 Falls Match was at Vengeance in June.
Oregon being a Big Ten team is such a strange sentence 😂
I completely forgot that Trish’s retirement and the DX vs McMahon Show Heck in a Sec were also on this show, hate Vince all you want and rightfully so but when it came time to take his comeuppance, he really took it.
The WWE made the Highlanders know nothing of the outside world.....Ironically they probably didn't realise that Scotland invented everything from Television, Radar, Paracetamol, telephone, the U.S Navy, golf, Harry Potter, the song Old Lang Syne, the adhesive postage stamp, special forces, Buick car company, the water bed & co-founded Harley Davidson.
Small thing, but, holy shit, I forgot how over Armando Estrada's catchphrase was; I don't get why WWE insisted (especially under Vince's direction) of having people stop doing things that got them over? It's exactly like when they told Cesaro to stop using the Giant Swing. Also, Umaga was a super underrated big man.
I chalk it up to Vince's control freak nature. He wants people to succeed... as long as it's HIS idea, and heaven help you if it's not.
I agree, both those dudes from 3MW were really good.
Underrated by who?
@@Eviltwin531 It's hilarious and sad at the same time how Vince will let go of wrestlers that don't get over, but then try his hardest to mess up some wrestlers that did got over on their own.
And he will also shove down everyone's throat wrestlers that aren't over, remember how many years he did that with Roman Reigns? It took Reigns turning heel in 2020 for people to come around him.
I believe this is the only pay per view to feature a hell in a cell and a tlc match.
This era takes me back to High School. Watching Raw on Mondays, ECW on Tuesdays, TNA Impact on Thursdays and Smackdown on Fridays! Good Times!
Hey Brian! Love the video, and the first WWE PPV I saw as I started watching wrestling. A quick correction: Foley vs Flair at Summerslam '06 was their "I Quit" match; their 2 out of 3 Falls match was at Vengeance that June
It was Johnny “Nitro” because he was debuted by Easy E, changed it after Eric left to Morrison
I mean bischoff was off TV in late 05, and he changed it to Morrison after he won the ECW title in June 07.
He was booked as Johnny SUPERSTAR and Johnny Blaze for the first month on the main roster in ‘04. Then got put in as Eric’s assistant so he changed it Johnny Nitro. It wasn’t Eric’s leaving that prompted the name change, but his absence made the OG name irrelevant
Fun Fact Brian: Even Edge went on record to say he hated The Rated-R Spinner Belt.
According to him within a Week he created a Mock-Up for his belt that took strong inspiration from the Old School Intercontinental Championship at the time…except more Edgier with Whites, and Reds, and Blacks, and a whole lot of Edge’s Presence to it.
But yeah, making another Spinner Belt with Edge’s Logo was pretty dumb…especially when you consider in Kayfabe how long their feud would last, and his promo on Cena on The Cutting Edge before Backlash 2009 sums up how Edge feels about the Rated-R Championship.
Jeff and John Morrison always had good chemistry. I remember seeing their World Title match on Smackdown in Baltimore shortly before Jeff left the company and it was a great "face vs face" match.
Agreed... RIP Pac-12 😢
"So Alone... So ALONE!" Jay Sherman critic reference noted and appreciated.\
When I say I raised my hands in excitement when you announced this review last week I’m not exaggerating 😂, this is the first and so far only wwe ppv event I’ve attended. Fun fact during the DX match my dad (claims) he was the one who started the “kiss his ass” chant.
Z Man’s impressions will never not be hilarious!!! The Jeff Hardy one was gold 😂😂
This is one of my favorite PPV that’s not the big 4. Cena/Edge, Trish/Lita even the HITC match was very enjoyable. And never forget that RKO on Carlito
100 percent agreed👍 it's up there with Exteme Rules 2012 and Money in the Bank 2011 in my opinion.
Jeff “Bob Ross” Hardy
This is Andrew before watching, thank you so much! The main event is one of my favorite matches of all time, I think about the finish more often than I should lol
This show had a famous RKO to Carlito
A funny Hell In A Cell Match that concluded the DX McMahon feud
And a TLC match to conclude the first Cena and Edge feud
And Trish's retirement match
I hope we see Cena's I Quit match from Judgment Day 2005 and his triple threat match from Vengeance 2005 reviewed. Often underlooked matches in his career and they're both amazing.
Honestly, you pointing out your concern over the wet mat that Lita had hurt herself on is a major reason why you're my favorite wrestling content creator lol
Like it's a minor thing but christ you care about people and that's just nice to see
23:15 When JR said that I was picturing Dennis Reynolds calling the match lol
Oh man, you might have a killer Funker impression, Brian. However, the Big Show "dId I dO tHat!?!?" at 13:30 got a pop from me, another reoccurring impression please!
So I think Kane and Umaga booking was really weird like before Cyber Sunday on a random Raw they would have a Loser leaves Raw match. You think they would have had a street fight or something at Cyber Sunday
Brian, can we please get an Armageddon 2006 review this December? 🤞🏻So much to talk about from that show
Requests are for patreon donates fool
PLEASE do a “Perc-Angle” retrospective
In two weeks it’s the 20th anniversary of Judgment Day 2004….
I feel so old 🥺
Was that the show with Eddie/JBL title match (before their bullrope match at GAB 2004)?
@@FantomGoat yes it was 🩸 😀
@@francoisdesbiens2787 I thought it was a bloodbath, but started to second guess that I was mixing that match and the bullrope match.
I was literally going to say Vince McMahon. Stay out of my head Brian 😂.
"The Marine. Rated R for Rental" That's funny.
I remember ordering this ppv on WWE On Demand... at the age of six at my grandparent's house because my GPA wanted to watch the show, but couldn't. I remembered what my father did to access the WWE channel and off I went. Moments later Charter called my grandma's landline and my mom told them to cancel the ppv buy. After that moment in Michigan you had to verify with Charter if you were buying ppvs. Wish I could make this up.
My all-time favourite Unforgiven PPV. Fun fact: I wanted to get tickets for this show since I was visiting relatives in Toronto at that time in September but they were sold out. Instead, I got the show later on DVD and rewatched it constantly. Also also, this was the debut of the "modern" Hell In A Cell with it being taller than the last one.
Also, GOD I MISS THE UNIQUE STAGE! Especially with Unforgiven being a prevalent one as it had a long sign with the event name, kinda like how Backlash was synonymous with swinging hooks and Judgement Day with synonymous with end-of-the-world vibes.
I was there in the third row when I was15. Amazing experience
23:31 The one question that I always asked that Brian Zane didn't mentioned at the end of the main event was,"Why was John Cena looked disappointed after giving Edge the Attitude Adjustment towards the two stacked tables?"
Cena didn't injured nor ended Edge's life. Edge has went through riskier bumps from the classic TLC matches to his hot feud with Matt Hardy in 2005.
Does anyone know why John Cena looked remorseful at the end of the Unforgiven event?
The reason he looked so upset is because he didn't want to win. Not in storyline,but in real life. Cena wanted to move back to Smackdown,but that was denied
@@speedy932key4 I don't know if cena on smackdown would have worked especially at this time with Batista being his counterpart and very similar
@@Venemofthe888 if I had to guess,had Cena gotten his wish,they would have traded Batista back to Raw to keep the rosters balanced.
I think it had something to do with his role as a babyface and in Kafabe not wanting to do such a devastating move to finish the match and damn near kill Edge. Looked absolutely amazing though. I was a huge fan of Edge and wanted him to win the match but that finish is iconic and probably served him even better.
@@speedy932key4 was John unhappy on RAW? That was the brand that made Cena a mainstream star, no?
Cena/Edge feud at that time was really underrated.
7:00 that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Unlocked some childhood memories of watching WWE as a kid. 🤣
6:14 My darling. I’ve always loved. Oh no, Promootheus.
ProMEtheus!
I'm a doc, a sleepy doc, a sleepy happy doc, if I don't get some rest I'll be a sleepy happy grumpy doc
Sneezes
I'm a sleepy Sneezy grumpy dopey doc
Bashful
U Can’t See May 🤣😭🤣😭 I love it
Also this show was lowkey stacked!!!
I was at the go-home RAW for this event in MSG. The part I'll never forget was when the NYCPD Pipes & drums came out everyone first thought Roddy was coming. Then The Highlanders came out and you could feel the mood just drop to the point they couldn't even boo. However when everyone saw Roddy come out, the air came right back and was probably the pop of the night.
I was waiting for that Big Show “taking time away” jab😂
Also yes, RIP PAC-12
My first ever WWE PPV. This really takes me back to even I was 7 years old and watching Cena vs. Edge and Trish vs. Lita and being immediately hooked as a wrestling fan for the next 17 years and counting.
The theme song for the PPV “Run” by Day of Fire is a BANGER! The Cena/EDGE TLC match promo is one of the BEST EVER! 🤘
RIP PAC 12
I went to this show live, and it still lives rent-free in my mind consistently. I loved it and have waited for this review for a very long time. Hell yeah.
U Can’t See May is the best name for a themed month, looking forward to these videos!
Hey Bryan fan of the show especially the wcw throwbacks but chill on Jim he wasn’t being racist
This was the first time I ever saw Cena become a world champion just two months after I got into wrestling. The show itself is an underrated classic! Hell in a Cell, TLC, Orton vs Carlito, Trish’s final match. Perhaps one of the greats in this era
Silly factoid about myself just throwing out there. Jeff Hardy was the person at one point in my life that helped me overcome my fear of heights. I’d wanted to be a wrestler since I was literally born, there are pictures of me doing the Jack hammer suplex to a teddy bear 3 times my size when I was 2 and under it my grandma had wrote “too much WCW” but I had a big fear of heights. Seeing Jeff do the highflying stuff he could do when I was around 11 I was like “I bet this guy isn’t scared of heights though” and I spent literal hours upon hours in my back yard doing stunts off of ladders and stuff onto a giant trampoline we had till I got over that fear. Taught myself moonsaults and how to do the whisper in the wind till I got to the point I could do a standing moonsault on flat ground when I was in highschool like Victoria used to and would do it for foot ball friends onto an old ruined mattress I had out back too. The trainers at the wrestling school I went to didn’t think it was all that funny or impressive but those were good memories as far as I was concerned. 😅
16:37 that definitely goes against most stories you hear. Usually someone retiring or leaving a company will do the job in their last match. That just shows how much respect the fans and company had for Trish to put her over and put a belt on her in her retirement match. 😮
3:01 "What the hell are you doing here Jeff Hardy! Didn't you die 3 years ago?"
12:40 Big Chuckle
You're not gonna look back on the "u can't C may" fondly. But I'm here for it. Love the reviews.
One of the best WWE PPV’s ever. So many classic moments. Easily the best PPV of 06.
Last week an Invader Zim reference, and this week quoting the Critic? Z-man, you are on fire.
I had cake mopping flashbacks when the Trish vs Lita match went to the outside
Foley's feud with Flair culminated with the I Quit match at SummerSlam, the 2 out of 3 falls match was at Vengeance
I remember borrowing the dvd from my uncle every other weekend watching this over and over and over again.
What makes the main event special to me is the fact that John Cena, my childhood hero won the WWE Championship on my birthday just North of where I lived
Props to the strings on Trish's pants for staying in place.
Damn dude, you and MarkyD decided to upload some real bangers today!
Tables! Ladders! And chairs! Oh my!
Your videos are the highlight of my week. Thank you for always providing entertaining videos! Zaniac 4 Lyfe!!
This was the very first wrestling show I ever attended! Thank you for doing this review!
This was right in the heart of when i first got into wrestling back in junior high. Love going back and seeing stuff from thelis period. Feels so old now lol. I loved the DX stuff then. Thought it was so cool
One of my favorite PPV, thanks Brian 😊
Quick notes :
- The cell for HIAC was higher than it was for the previous matches and it kept that height since.
- I remember a RAW when Armando Estrada did his usual speech but didn't finish it because he realised the crowd was into it and they ended the speech for him. He had a great angry face in result.
- Apparently Edge went briefly unconscious during the STF-Ladder spot because Cena went too hard.
Also love the look on Cena's face when he won, he didn't celebrate hard because he knew the local crowd wouldn't have been happy for it (even if he had a decent pop anyway). Cena always knew how to adapt his behaviour with the audience.
- When Big Show was laying on the ropes after the superkick by HBK, we can spot him readjusting the ropes because there weren't tight properly (don't know if it was edited on the Network/Peacock since). I laughed a little at the time because it was kind of a no-sell ("hey he isn't knocked out !") and I wasn't used of those moments ^^
Next year I expect "You can't see Mae": a tribute to Mae Young!
Just in time for the 25th anniversary of Hand
Carlito feuding with Randy Orton seems like a fever dream. Never remember rhis happening
I always felt this show wasof two halves... Everything before HitC was nothing but afterwards, everything just clicked. Funny too with Carlito at Unforgiven where he faced Evolution; faced Flair at 05, Orton here and Triple H 07. Always thought this was a solid show and one of the best of a pretty decent year in WWE.
2:41 16,105 and my sister and I were 2 of that number, my ONLY ever live PPV!
19:17 Despite his comments about Trish and Canadians, THIS is actually the match that inspired me to become a Randy Orton fan. We had a fan sitting in front of us who had Carlito's hairstyle but would do the Randy Orton pose at the start and finish of the match...was very bizarre. NEVER liked Carlito, and wasn't sure about Randy up until that night.
21:26 Funny you should say that, because one of the Top 5 things I still remember about that night was how incredibly divided and electric the fans were WHILE WAITING TO BE ADMITTED INTO THE ARENA! It was chilling! The live reaction during the match felt similar, despite what might've been broadcast on PPV.
Happy and proud to have this as the only PPV I ever attended live. The Trish match will always make me cry a little, and to have it happen 6.5 months after I got to meet her in person...made for a magical year. Still hoping to get her to sign the DVD one day lol.
Damn JR was being more spicy here than his barbecue sauce
Fun fact about this match. The Ladder STFU by Cena actually choked out Edge temporarily to the point where he legit was knocked out
Cena vs Edge is my favorite match of all time. Seen it a thousand times ever since I first saw it as a kid who was huge Cena fan. Excited to see your videos this May.
I love Jeff Hardy's braided hair phase. He first tried it out in 2002, doing the pig tails.
Another glorious impression from the Z-Man. HHH was spot on!!
this was definitely one of my favorite PPVs as a kid because it had a Jeff Hardy match, Hell in a Cell, AND TLC all on one card
I thought this was a great PPV. I remember buying the dvd back in the day, and it was always one my favorites to watch. Haven’t gotten to it in the review yet, but Carlito vs Orton was great, the decimation of Vince and Shane, the TLC match, and Jeff and Nitro always put on a good show together.
Hey Zane, who is this devante guy? Destroy him lol you're my favorite wrestling CZcamsr and to me you shouldn't be talked about unless it's in a good light. Love your vids I'm a big fan much love from Geo of CT
A lot of people hate this DX run but this year is what got me into wrestling. Shawn and Hunter are still my favorite wrestlers to this day. I guess it’s just nostalgia but I still go back and watch this run and love it doesn’t hurt that it coincides with the amazing Dena be edge feud bf edge teams with Orton vs DX.
I can't believe that Brian didn't mentioned that Keny pinned the bald guy with a facebuster by grabbing him in the moustache 😆
Fun fact: Edge had lost a TLC match before the Cena match, it was TLC 4 on SD 2001.
Edge has talked a lot about this match on various interviews. The STF through the ladder almost went HORRIBLY wrong. Because of the ladder, Cena couldn't get his arms all the way around Edge's neck and the result was him unintentionally choking Edge but not realizing it. Edge apparently legit blacked out briefly in this move until the referee finally realized something was wrong. Edge has stated another minute or 2 in that hold like was originally planned and it would have gone south quick.
I love how that lady in the front row starts cussing at Cena and the ref had to go calm her down. On the network and dvd, they had to censor that lady lol
One of the earliest PPV’s I watched. Great review as always Brian