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[MUSIC]
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THROUGHOUT THE 1990S, MONDAY
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NIGHT SERVED AS A PRIMETIME
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BATTLEFIELD THAT TRANSFORMED
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PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING INTO
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SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
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TED TURNER'S WCW TOOK ON VINCE
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MCMAHON'S WWE FOR RATING
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SUPREMACY AT THE RISK OF
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EXTINCTION AS INNOVATION AND
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EVOLUTION PAVED THE WAY FOR A
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KING TO BE CROWNED.
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VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
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IN WHAT WAS ONCE A
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MALE-DOMINATED INDUSTRY, FEMALE
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SUPERSTARS TOOK CENTER STAGE.
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WHAT IN THE WORLD?
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IS THAT A--IS THAT A WOMAN?
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EMPOWERED WOMEN BECAME AN
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ESSENTIAL PART OF AN UPRISING
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ATTITUDE.
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AND GENDER ROLES IN SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT WERE CHANGED
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FOREVER.
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OH.
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OH, MY GOD.
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OH.
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THIS IS THE MONDAY NIGHT WAR.
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I GUARANTEE YOU, HELL HATH NO
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FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED.
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[MUSIC]
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HULK HOGAN HAS BETRAYED WCW.
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WHAT IN THE HELL IS HE DOING
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HERE?
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WELCOME TO MONDAY NIGHT RAW.
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MONDAY NITRO.
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AUSTIN 3:16 SAYS I JUST
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WHIPPED YOUR -- .
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BRET SCREWED BRET.
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THE NEW WORLD ORDER, BROTHER.
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CAN YOU SUCK IT?
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WE ARE AT WAR.
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[MUSIC]
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THIS IS A SPECIAL LADIES'
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TAG-TEAM ATTRACTION.
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ONE FALL WITH A THIRTY-MINUTE
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TIME LIMIT.
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IN THE 1970S AND EARLY 80S,
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THE FEMALE COMPETITORS IN SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT LIVED IN THE
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SHADOWS OF THEIR MALE
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COUNTERPARTS, RARELY MAKING AN
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IMPACT ON THE PROGRAMMING OF
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INDUSTRY LEADING WWE.
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HISTORICALLY, WOMEN WERE A
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SPECIAL ATTRACTION, A NOVELTY
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ACT.
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EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, YOU'D
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BRING THE GRAPPLING WOMEN IN.
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AND HERE ARE THE LADIES.
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WOMEN IN PROFESSIONAL
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WRESTLING WEREN'T REALLY DOING
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MUCH.
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YOU SEE THEM MAYBE FIVE MINUTES
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ON THE SHOW AND IT'S LIKE "OH,
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OKAY, GREAT."
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[MUSIC]
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WITH AUDIENCES FAILING TO
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EMBRACE FEMALE WRESTLERS, VINCE
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MCMAHON WAS FORCED TO FIND NEW
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ROLES FOR WOMEN IN WWE.
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LEADING THE MACHO MAN INTO
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THE RING, THE LOVELY ELIZABETH.
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SHE IS GORGEOUS.
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THERE WAS A LOT OF WOMEN'S
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WRESTLING UP UNTIL MISS
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ELIZABETH REALLY MADE A SPLASH
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AS "MACHO MAN" RANDY SAVAGE'S
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MANAGER AND SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL,
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MAKE NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
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ONE OF THE GREATEST HONORS
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I'VE HAD AS A MANAGER IS TO SEE
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THE "MACHO MAN" RANDY SAVAGE ON
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THE COVER OF THE NEW WORLD
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WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT
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MAGAZINE.
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HAVING FOUND A SUCCESSFUL
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NICHE FOR WOMEN OUTSIDE OF THE
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RING, VINCE MCMAHON NO LONGER
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NEEDED FEMALE MATCHES IN WWE
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PROGRAMMING AND VACATED THE
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WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1990.
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MACHO MAN VICTORIOUS.
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AND NOW WITH THE REAL TROPHY,
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ELIZABETH HERSELF.
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BUT THREE YEARS LATER, WWE
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WOULD EMBARK ON A NEW ENDEAVOR
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WITH THE LAUNCH OF MONDAY NIGHT
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RAW LIVE ON THE USA NETWORK.
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VINCE MCMAHON'S TRANSITION INTO
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PRIMETIME TELEVISION PROVIDED A
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PLATFORM FOR INNOVATION.
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IT WAS A GREAT CONCEPT, BUT
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VINCE IS A PROPONENT OF A
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VARIETY SHOW.
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ONE THAT REACHES EVERYBODY.
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THERE'S NO TELLING WHAT'S
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GONNA HAPPEN IN THE BATTLE
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ROYAL.
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AND ONE OF THE WAYS OF
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CATERING TO ALL PEOPLE WAS VINCE
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BROUGHT BACK THE WOMEN'S
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DIVISION.
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[MUSIC]
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THIS MOVEMENT WAS PIONEERED
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BY A YOUNG BLONDE, FORMERLY OF A
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RIVAL ORGANIZATION, TED TURNER'S
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING.
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LOOK AT THE GREAT STRENGTH
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THAT MADUSA HAS.
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MADUSA DEFINITELY SHOWED THAT
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SHE WASN'T JUST A PRETTY FACE.
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SHE LACED HER BOOTS ON AND
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BECAME A GREAT WRESTLER.
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[BELL RINGING]
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, HERE'S
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YOUR WINNER, MADUSA.
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WITH VINCE MCMAHON OPTING TO
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SHOWCASE WOMEN IN A PRIMETIME
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SPOTLIGHT, MADUSA WOULD SIGN
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WITH WWE AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A
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GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY.
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MADUSA WASN'T LIVING UP TO
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HER POTENTIAL IN WCW SO SHE WENT
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TO WWE AS ALUNDRA BLAYZE.
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COMING OFF THE ROPE NOW,
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ALUNDRA BLAYZE.
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UNDERNEATH AND--HOW ABOUT THAT?
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THE BRIDGE, SHE CAN DO IT--YES.
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THAT'S IT.
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[BELL RINGING]
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SHE GOT IT, SHE GOT IT, SHE
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GOT IT.
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WHAT A MANEUVER.
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE
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WINNER OF THIS BELT AND NEW...
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YES.
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...WORLD WRESTLING
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ENTERTAINMENT WOMAN'S CHAMPION,
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ALUNDRA BLAYZE.
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[MUSIC]
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SHE WAS A GOOD-LOOKING GIRL,
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REALLY, REALLY IN GOOD SHAPE.
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SHE WASN'T JUST YOUR TYPICAL 80S
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OLD SCHOOL WRESTLER.
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IT JUST KEEPS GETTING HOTTER
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AND HOTTER, YES, INDEED.
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IT'S A BLAZE FOR SURE.
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SHE STARTED TO FIT THE MOLD
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OF WHAT WE CONSIDER SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT TODAY.
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SO SHE WAS THAT ATHLETIC
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PERFORMER AS OPPOSED TO, YOU
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KNOW, WHAT WE SAW IN THE PAST.
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ALUNDRA BLAYZE HAD A SHINIER
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OUTFIT WITH A LITTLE BIT OF
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JAPANESE FLARE.
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IT WAS REALLY COOL TO SEE HER
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BURST ONTO THE SCENE.
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AND SHE WAS THE NEXT STEP FROM
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THE RING MANAGER AT THE SIDE OF
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THE RING, YOU KNOW, CHEERING ON
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HER MAN.
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THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST WOMEN
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THAT I'D SEEN GO OUT THERE AND
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GET IT HERSELF.
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AND I CAN TELL YOU THE
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WOMEN'S DIVISION IN 1994 IS
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GONNA BE HOTTER THAN IT HAS EVER
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BEEN IN THE WORLD WRESTLING
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ENTERTAINMENT.
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[MUSIC]
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DESPITE A NATURAL SUPERSTAR
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IN ALUNDRA BLAYZE, WWE'S
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REVAMPED WOMEN'S DIVISION HAD A
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SHALLOW TALENT POOL.
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ALUNDRA BLAYZE WAS THE ONLY
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WOMEN'S CHAMPION FOR A LONG
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TIME.
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I WASN'T THAT EMOTIONALLY
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INVESTED IN IT.
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RIGHT INTO THE CANVAS, BERTHA
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FAYE.
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ALUNDRA BLAYZE OFF THE ROPE.
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ALUNDRA, YES, DRIVES HER DOWN
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AGAIN.
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FOR A SHORT WHILE, WWE
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FOCUSED ON A WOMEN'S WRESTLING
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IN THE MIDDLE 90S AND I DIDN'T
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REALLY SEE THE APPEAL AS A FAN.
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IT WASN'T FOR ME.
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AUDIENCES WERE BEGINNING TO
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GROW TIRED OF WWE'S PRESENTATION
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AND MONDAY NIGHT RAW'S RATINGS
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SAGGED BY THE SUMMER OF 1995.
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SENSING AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEIZE
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CONTROL OF THE SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT LANDSCAPE, TED
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TURNER AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
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ERIC BISCHOFF LAUNCHED THEIR OWN
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LIVE PROGRAM, MONDAY NITRO IN
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DIRECT COMPETITION TO WWE.
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WELCOME TO WCW MONDAY NITRO.
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I JUST THOUGHT, WE'LL JUST GO
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HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH THEM, SEE HOW
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IT GOES.
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WE'LL GET IN THE RING WITH THEM.
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WCW WAS REAL COMPETITION.
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TURNER DECIDED TO POUR A TON OF
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MONEY IN IT.
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THEY TRIED TO EMULATE EVERYTHING
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THAT WE DID SO I WAS CONCERNED.
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I DIDN'T KNOW IF I COULD REALLY
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COMPETE, YOU KNOW, WITH THE
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ASSETS OF WCW.
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
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HAD RISEN TO NATIONAL PROMINENCE
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BY SIGNING SOME OF VINCE
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MCMAHON'S MOST POPULAR
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PERSONALITIES.
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LEX LUGER STEPS INTO MONDAY
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NITRO.
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WE MADE A LOT OF NEWS, THERE
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WAS A BIG BUZZ ON THE SHOW.
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WE KNEW THAT WE COULD DO THINGS
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THAT NOBODY EVER THOUGHT WE
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WOULD DO, COULD DO, OR SHOULD DO
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AND IT WOULD PROBABLY WORK.
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ERIC BISCHOFF'S DESIRE TO WIN
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AT ALL COSTS PRODUCED ONE OF THE
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MOST INFAMOUS MOMENTS IN SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY.
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ALUNDRA BLAYZE'S SIGNING WITH
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WWE IN 1993 HAD BEEN A FAIRLY
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LOW PROFILE DEFECTION.
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BUT WITH THE STAKES HIGHER TWO
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LATER, SHE WOULD RETURN TO WCW
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AS MADUSA, JUMPING SHIP TO MAKE
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AN INCREDIBLE SPLASH.
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WCW MONDAY NITRO LIVE ON TNT.
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AND ARE WE LIVE.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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WHEN MADUSA CAME OVER, SHE
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HAD THE WWE WOMEN'S
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CHAMPIONSHIP.
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AND, YOU KNOW, SHE CALLED ME AND
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SAID, "YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT THIS
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BELT.
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SHOULD I SEND IT BACK TO THEM?
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WHAT SHOULD I DO?"
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AND I SAID "NO, DON'T SEND IT
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BACK TO THEM.
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AT LEAST NOT YET.
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BRING IT TO TV WITH YOU."
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THIS IS THE WWE WOMEN'S
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CHAMPIONSHIP...
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WHOA.
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...BELT.
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WHOA.
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I WAS ABLE TO CONVINCE HER
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AGAINST HER WILL THAT IT WAS A
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GREAT IDEA TO STICK THAT WWE
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WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP AND DROP IT
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RIGHT IN THE GARBAGE CAN IN
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NATIONAL TELEVISION.
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THAT INDEED IT IS.
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RIGHT IN THE TRASHCAN.
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AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK OF
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THE WWE WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
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BELT.
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TAKING THE WWE WOMEN'S BELT
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AND THROWING IT IN THE GARBAGE,
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THAT WAS UNBELIEVABLE.
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I DID SEE ALUNDRA BLAYZE
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DROPPING THE CHAMPIONSHIP INTO
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THE TRASHCAN.
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IT WAS [INDISTINCT]
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TO DO AND IT WAS A SURE OF A
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SHOT ACROSS THE BOW AND A PRETTY
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MUCH A KICK IN THE GROIN I THINK
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AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE.
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WHEN ALUNDRA BLAYZE DROPPED
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THE BELT, YOU KNOW, IN THE
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TRASH, I THINK IT WAS
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DISRESPECTFUL FIRST AND
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FOREMOST.
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IT JUST LETS YOU KNOW THAT THE
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WAR WAS REALLY ON.
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THIS IS WHERE THE BIG BOYS
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PLAY.
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AND NOW THIS IS WHERE THE BIG
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GIRLS PLAY.
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WCW DECLARED WAR ON THAT
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NIGHT SO IT WAS A BIG MOMENT IN
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THE HISTORY OF WRESTLING.
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ALUNDRA BLAYZE MADE AN IMPACT
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THAT SET OFF A CHAIN OF EVENTS
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BEHIND THE SCENES AS WELL AS
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WHAT YOU SAW PLAYED OUT ON
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CAMERA.
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HOLY SMOKES.
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MADUSA, THE WWE WOMEN'S
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CHAMPIONSHIP AND THE BELT RIGHT
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HERE ON NITRO.
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THE BELT'S IN THE TRASHCAN.
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AND I TELL YOU WHAT, I'M IN
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SHOCK.
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THE DEFAMATION OF THE WWE
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WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP HELPED
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NITRO EARN A VICTORY OVER MONDAY
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NIGHT RAW FOR THE SECOND
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CONSECUTIVE WEEK IN THE CABLE
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TELEVISION RATINGS.
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[MUSIC]
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AS THE CALENDAR TURNED TO
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1996, WCW WOULD CONTINUE ITS
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MOMENTUM BY ACQUIRING THE MOST
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POPULAR FEMALE PERSONALITY IN
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SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
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INTRODUCING THE LOVELY MISS
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ELIZABETH.
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MISS ELIZABETH COMING FROM
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WWE TO WCW CREATED RATINGS.
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ELIZABETH WAS A STAR ON, YOU
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KNOW, ON HER OWN, SHE COULD'VE
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HAD HER OWN SHOW.
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WELCOME BACK AND WE'RE
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LOOKING AT "THE NATURE BOY" RIC
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FLAIR AND MISS ELIZABETH
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CONTINUING TO SPEND THE MACHO
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MAN'S MONEY.
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SHE WAS FEATURED.
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WCW TAKING HER FROM US WAS GOOD
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FOR HER I'M SURE FINANCIALLY,
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BUT I THINK AS FAR AS HER
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[INDISTINCT]
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WAS CONCERNED FOR WCW WAS MORE
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OF "HEY, VINCE AND WWE, WE JUST
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GOT ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR STARS."
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THROUGH MISS ELIZABETH AND
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MADUSA, WCW REVEALED THAT WOMEN
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COULD BE A CATALYST IN THE
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MONDAY NIGHT WAR, PROVIDING TED
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TURNER WITH MORE RECOGNIZABLE
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TALENT AND SENDING VINCE MCMAHON
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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD.
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[MUSIC]
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MADUSA SET A COURSE FOR
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WOMEN'S WRESTLING TO THE POINT
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WHERE VINCE MCMAHON WOULDN'T
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EVEN CONSIDER WOMEN'S TITLE FOR
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THREE YEARS BECAUSE VINCE FELT
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RIGHTFULLY SO IT HAD BEEN
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DAMAGED IN CREDIBILITY AND IN
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PUBLIC PERCEPTION.
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WE WANTED TO MOVE PAST LADY
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WRESTLERS, FIND THESE ATTRACTIVE
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FEMALE ATHLETES THAT HAD
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PERSONALITY AND A SEX APPEAL.
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THIS IS SKIP, I'M SUNNY.
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WE'RE THE BODYDONNAS.
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DON'T FORGET IT.
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SUNNY WAS THE FIRST OF THE
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REALLY GOOD-LOOKING DIVAS THAT
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CAME ALONG.
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WE HAD THEM BEFORE WITH MISS
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ELIZABETH, BUT NOT TO THE ROLE
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OF SUNNY.
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SHE WAS EXTREMELY PHOTOGENIC,
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SHE WAS EXTREMELY GOOD ON THE
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MICROPHONE.
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AND WHEN SHE CAME ALONG, I THINK
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IT WAS REALLY REFRESHING.
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IT WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
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SUNNY WOULD EMBODY THE
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COMPANY'S CHANGE IN FEMALE
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PHILOSOPHY BY EVOLVING FROM A
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MANAGER TO BECOME WWE'S ORIGINAL
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DIVA.
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RIGHT NOW, I'D LIKE TO
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INTRODUCE TO YOU THE NEWEST,
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HOTTEST, SEXIEST THING GOING
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TODAY IN THE WORLD WRESTLING
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ENTERTAINMENT, ME, SUNNY.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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[MUSIC]
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WITH VINCE MCMAHON EXPANDING
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THE ROLES OF WOMEN ON MONDAY
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NIGHT RAW, WWE WAS ABLE TO STAY
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COMPETITIVE WITH THE
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CHART-TOPPING MONDAY NITRO.
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WE HAD NO CHOICE.
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IF I'M GONNA GO DOWN, YOU KNOW,
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I HAVE TO GO DOWN SWINGING.
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LET'S GO COMPETE.
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NOW, THERE'S WHAT IT'S ALL
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ABOUT, MCMAHON.
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SUNNY.
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YES, INDEED.
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IT WAS CRAZY BACK THEN HOW WE
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WERE ALL TRYING TO FIGHT FOR
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RATINGS.
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WWE WAS TRYING TO DO SOMETHING
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DIFFERENT TO BRING A NEW
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AUDIENCE IN.
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IT WAS VERY PG WHEN I FIRST
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STARTED.
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UNDER MY LITTLE BODYDONNA
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SKIRTS, I HAD, YOU KNOW, LITTLE
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BLOOMERS ON.
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THEN WE STARTED SWITCHING A
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LITTLE BIT AND I WENT OUT THERE
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ON MY ROBE AND JUST TOOK OFF MY
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ROBE AND EVERYBODY WAS LIKE.
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[MUSIC]
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DOES IT WORK FOR YOU, BABE?
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AS SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT
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EVOLVED AND POP CULTURE EVOLVED,
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WOMEN BECAME INCORPORATED INTO
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THE SOAP OPERA ELEMENTS AS LOVE
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INTERESTS.
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IF NOT, BUSINESS PARTNERS WITH
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THE WRESTLERS THEMSELVES.
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MARLENA ALONG WITH GOLDUST
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AND IT'S TIME TO LIGHT UP, ALL
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RIGHT.
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GOLDUST WAS A LITTLE
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DIFFICULT FOR MEN TO WATCH.
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HE WAS DOING VERY BIZARRE
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THINGS, PUSHING THE ENVELOPE.
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BUT MARLENA GAVE THEM A REASON
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TO MAYBE FEEL A LITTLE BIT
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BETTER ABOUT CHEERING FOR
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GOLDUST.
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ALL SHE DID WAS SIT IN THE
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DIRECTOR'S CHAIR AND SMOKE A
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CIGAR.
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BUT SHE LOOKED BEAUTIFUL DOING
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IT.
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IT WAS SO DIFFERENT.
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IT WAS SEXUAL AND YOU COULD
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UNDERSTAND THAT AND YOU COULD
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SEE WHERE THE BUSINESS WAS
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GOING.
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WWE WAS BEGINNING TO FIGURE
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OUT THE FORMULA THAT WOULD HAVE
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LONG-TERM BENEFITS.
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YOU ALL GIVE US A GOOD MATCH
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NOW, YOU HEAR?
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BYE.
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[INDISTINCT]
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BUT WCW CAME UP WITH A
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WINNING FORMULA OF THEIR OWN.
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HERE'S THE NWO.
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READY OR NOT, HERE WE COME.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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[MUSIC]
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WWE DEFECTORS, SCOTT HALL AND
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KEVIN NASH WOULD JOIN INDUSTRY
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ICON HULK HOGAN IN FORMING THE
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REBELLIOUS NEW WORLD ORDER
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GROUP.
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THIS ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT BRAND
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WITHIN WCW WOULD HELP MONDAY
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NITRO EMBARK ON AN 84-WEEK
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WINNING STREAK IN THE
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HEAD-TO-HEAD RATINGS.
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[MUSIC]
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YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT TALKING
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ABOUT TAKING OVER ANYMORE, NO.
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NOT AT ALL.
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WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
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EXTERMINATION.
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THE NWO WAS THE HIT BRAND.
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IT WAS IMPORTANT TO HAVE THAT.
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AND IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS
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DIFFERENT.
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IS THERE ANY QUESTION NOW?
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WHAT IS THE MOST POWERFUL
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ORGANIZATION IN PROFESSIONAL
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WRESTLING?
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THE NWO WAS AN AMAZING THING
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THAT HAPPENED AND CAUGHT ON LIKE
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WILDFIRE.
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THE LINES WERE BEING BLURRED
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BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE AND THEY
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WEREN'T SURE WHAT WAS REAL AND
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WHAT WAS NOT.
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IT WAS A GROUNDBREAKING DEAL.
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IT WAS THE MOST COMPELLING
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TIME TO BE A FAN.
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THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE THIS ON
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TV.
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AND WE'D STILL GO BACK AND FORTH
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AND WONDER WHILE HOGAN WAS LEG
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DROPPING RANDY SAVAGE, WHAT WAS
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WWE DOING ON THEIR TV.
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MONDAY NIGHT RAW CONTAINS
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MATERIAL WHICH MAYBE TOO HOT FOR
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SOME.
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VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
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SEEING SUNNY BEFORE THE SHOW
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IN A BIKINI AND, LIKE, DOING
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LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT, YOU
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WERE JUST, LIKE, "OH, MY GOSH."
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[MUSIC]
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ALTHOUGH VINCE MCMAHON HAD
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LOST SOME OF HIS BIGGEST
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SUPERSTARS TO WCW, HE HAD FOUND
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A NEW FOCAL POINT IN SUNNY.
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WWE PROGRAMMING BECAME GEARED TO
523
00:15:52,328 --> 00:15:54,897
SHOWCASE HIS HOTTEST ATTRACTION.
524
00:15:54,897 --> 00:15:56,565
[MUSIC]
525
00:15:56,565 --> 00:15:57,967
AND HERE COMES SUNNY.
526
00:15:57,967 --> 00:15:59,401
[CROWD CHEERING]
527
00:15:59,401 --> 00:16:00,569
WHAT IS SHE DOING OUT HERE?
528
00:16:00,569 --> 00:16:02,638
LOOKING GOOD.
529
00:16:02,638 --> 00:16:03,839
I WAS THAT GOOD-LOOKING
530
00:16:03,839 --> 00:16:05,474
BLONDE THAT, YOU KNOW, SHE COULD
531
00:16:05,474 --> 00:16:06,475
DO ANYTHING THAT WAS THROWN HER
532
00:16:06,475 --> 00:16:07,409
WAY.
533
00:16:07,409 --> 00:16:08,310
[CROWD CHEERING]
534
00:16:08,310 --> 00:16:12,081
THEY THREW CAKE AT MY FACE.
535
00:16:12,081 --> 00:16:14,917
THEY THREW SLOP ON MY HEAD.
536
00:16:14,917 --> 00:16:16,151
SHE HAD A VERY SPECIAL ROLE
537
00:16:16,151 --> 00:16:17,786
ON THE SHOW BECAUSE THERE WASN'T
538
00:16:17,786 --> 00:16:19,822
ANYTHING THAT SUNNY COULDN'T DO.
539
00:16:19,822 --> 00:16:20,923
I'M GONNA GET AN EXCLUSIVE
540
00:16:20,923 --> 00:16:22,625
INTERVIEW WITH SHAWN HIMSELF.
541
00:16:22,625 --> 00:16:24,093
WHETHER IT'S INTERVIEWING
542
00:16:24,093 --> 00:16:25,261
SOMEBODY BACKSTAGE OR IT'S, YOU
543
00:16:25,261 --> 00:16:26,762
KNOW, ANNOUNCING A SHOW.
544
00:16:26,762 --> 00:16:27,730
EVERYTHING FROM NOW ON WILL
545
00:16:27,730 --> 00:16:28,797
BE ON MY TERMS.
546
00:16:28,797 --> 00:16:30,232
AS IT ALWAYS BEEN.
547
00:16:30,232 --> 00:16:32,501
SHE COULD DO IT ALL, BUT SHE
548
00:16:32,501 --> 00:16:33,535
KNEW HER ROLE.
549
00:16:33,535 --> 00:16:34,637
AND SHE KNEW WHAT REALLY MADE
550
00:16:34,637 --> 00:16:35,738
HER STAND OUT WAS THAT SHE WAS
551
00:16:35,738 --> 00:16:36,972
BEAUTIFUL.
552
00:16:36,972 --> 00:16:38,173
WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE PRETTY
553
00:16:38,173 --> 00:16:39,341
GOOD AT THIS.
554
00:16:39,341 --> 00:16:40,309
YOU THINK THAT YOU MIGHT BE
555
00:16:40,309 --> 00:16:41,210
AVAILABLE FOR A CABINET
556
00:16:41,210 --> 00:16:42,044
POSITION?
557
00:16:42,044 --> 00:16:42,811
OH, MR. PRESIDENT, I'D LOVE
558
00:16:42,811 --> 00:16:43,779
TO.
559
00:16:43,779 --> 00:16:44,747
WHY DON'T YOU STOP BY THE
560
00:16:44,747 --> 00:16:45,814
WHITE HOUSE?
561
00:16:45,814 --> 00:16:46,548
MAYBE WE'LL GO OVER SOME OF
562
00:16:46,548 --> 00:16:47,883
THOSE POSITIONS.
563
00:16:47,883 --> 00:16:49,885
WITH SUNNY, IT KIND OF JUST
564
00:16:49,885 --> 00:16:51,787
OPENED EVERYONE'S EYES.
565
00:16:51,787 --> 00:16:53,722
WE HAVE A MALE AUDIENCE AND
566
00:16:53,722 --> 00:16:55,157
WELL, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GONNA BE
567
00:16:55,157 --> 00:16:56,558
DOWNLOADING HER PICTURES ONLINE.
568
00:16:56,558 --> 00:16:57,593
THEY'RE GONNA HANG UP HER
569
00:16:57,593 --> 00:16:58,661
POSTERS.
570
00:16:58,661 --> 00:16:59,895
AND IT BROUGHT THAT SEXY EDGE
571
00:16:59,895 --> 00:17:02,731
INTO THE WOMEN IN OUR INDUSTRY.
572
00:17:02,731 --> 00:17:04,667
IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT SUNNY.
573
00:17:04,667 --> 00:17:06,268
THE FACT THAT IN 1996 SHE WAS
574
00:17:06,268 --> 00:17:08,637
AOL'S MOST DOWNLOADED FEMALE
575
00:17:08,637 --> 00:17:09,939
CELEBRITY.
576
00:17:09,939 --> 00:17:11,340
SHE WAS REALLY ONE OF THE FIRST
577
00:17:11,340 --> 00:17:12,908
THAT TRANSCENDED WWE TO BE A POP
578
00:17:12,908 --> 00:17:14,710
CULTURE ICON TO EVERYONE IN THE
579
00:17:14,710 --> 00:17:15,644
WORLD.
580
00:17:15,644 --> 00:17:16,312
[BELL RINGING]
581
00:17:16,312 --> 00:17:16,912
[CROWD CHEERING]
582
00:17:16,912 --> 00:17:17,513
HEY.
583
00:17:17,513 --> 00:17:18,180
SUNNY FAN CLUB.
584
00:17:18,180 --> 00:17:19,081
THAT'S HER OWN FAN CLUB AROUND
585
00:17:19,081 --> 00:17:20,049
RINGSIDE HERE TONIGHT.
586
00:17:20,049 --> 00:17:20,983
THOSE FANS THAT SAW SUNNY,
587
00:17:20,983 --> 00:17:22,384
SAW THE WWE SUPERSTARS IN THE
588
00:17:22,384 --> 00:17:24,053
SOAP OPERA-LIKE STORY LINES AND
589
00:17:24,053 --> 00:17:25,721
SO SHE GENERATED A WHOLE NEW
590
00:17:25,721 --> 00:17:28,157
KIND OF AUDIENCE FOR THE WWE.
591
00:17:28,157 --> 00:17:28,991
[CROWD CHEERING]
592
00:17:28,991 --> 00:17:30,893
NOT A BAD PAIR, HUH?
593
00:17:30,893 --> 00:17:32,394
I MEAN, THE BELTS, YOU KNOW.
594
00:17:32,394 --> 00:17:33,762
[MUSIC]
595
00:17:33,762 --> 00:17:35,397
AS WWE WAS FINDING ITS
596
00:17:35,397 --> 00:17:37,499
FOOTING, THEY WERE STILL
597
00:17:37,499 --> 00:17:38,834
TRAILING SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE
598
00:17:38,834 --> 00:17:40,069
RATINGS.
599
00:17:40,069 --> 00:17:42,504
BY 1997, THE NEW WORLD ORDER'S
600
00:17:42,504 --> 00:17:44,907
POPULARITY CAUSED THE WOMEN OF
601
00:17:44,907 --> 00:17:48,877
WCW TO BECOME MORE OF A LUXURY
602
00:17:48,877 --> 00:17:50,279
THAN A NECESSITY.
603
00:17:50,279 --> 00:17:53,048
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.
604
00:17:53,048 --> 00:17:55,050
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.
605
00:17:55,050 --> 00:17:57,653
[MUSIC]
606
00:17:57,653 --> 00:17:58,954
VINCE MCMAHON NEEDED TO
607
00:17:58,954 --> 00:18:00,689
CONTINUE TO ENHANCE THE LEVEL OF
608
00:18:00,689 --> 00:18:02,524
EDGY PROGRAMMING FEATURING HIS
609
00:18:02,524 --> 00:18:04,326
CHARISMATIC FEMALE PERSONALITIES
610
00:18:04,326 --> 00:18:06,261
IN ORDER TO SURVIVE.
611
00:18:06,261 --> 00:18:07,296
[CROWD CHEERING]
612
00:18:07,296 --> 00:18:08,464
I REMEMBER THIS ONE SHOW WE
613
00:18:08,464 --> 00:18:09,898
DID IN HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM IN
614
00:18:09,898 --> 00:18:11,400
NEW YORK CITY.
615
00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:12,835
THEY ANNOUNCED ME AND THE PLACE,
616
00:18:12,835 --> 00:18:13,969
LIKE, ERUPTED.
617
00:18:13,969 --> 00:18:14,803
[MUSIC]
618
00:18:14,803 --> 00:18:15,637
OH.
619
00:18:15,637 --> 00:18:16,438
OH.
620
00:18:16,438 --> 00:18:18,340
OH.
621
00:18:18,340 --> 00:18:21,677
[CROWD CHEERING]
622
00:18:21,677 --> 00:18:23,379
AFTER THAT, IT JUST SEEMED
623
00:18:23,379 --> 00:18:24,546
EVERYBODY STARTED LOOSENING UP A
624
00:18:24,546 --> 00:18:25,581
LITTLE BIT MORE.
625
00:18:25,581 --> 00:18:26,515
THAT'S WHEN I STARTED TO GET A
626
00:18:26,515 --> 00:18:27,816
LITTLE BIT MORE CRAZY.
627
00:18:27,816 --> 00:18:30,052
[MUSIC]
628
00:18:30,052 --> 00:18:32,087
WCW WAS KICKING OUR REAR END
629
00:18:32,087 --> 00:18:32,921
IN THE RATINGS WAR.
630
00:18:32,921 --> 00:18:34,156
WE HAD TO SHAKE THINGS UP.
631
00:18:34,156 --> 00:18:35,491
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE
632
00:18:35,491 --> 00:18:37,359
WERE ABLE TO DO SUCCESSFULLY WAS
633
00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:43,132
MAKE THE DIVA SEXY, POWERFUL,
634
00:18:43,132 --> 00:18:45,000
REALLY A '90S OR NEW MILLENNIUM
635
00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,136
WOMAN SO TO SPEAK.
636
00:18:47,136 --> 00:18:48,170
[MUSIC]
637
00:18:48,170 --> 00:18:49,138
[CROWD CHEERING]
638
00:18:49,138 --> 00:18:50,806
I HAD SOMETHING TO SAY TO YOU
639
00:18:50,806 --> 00:18:52,841
ALL, BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT I
640
00:18:52,841 --> 00:18:53,876
DID WITH IT.
641
00:18:53,876 --> 00:18:55,177
OH, OH, OH.
642
00:18:55,177 --> 00:18:56,311
WOW.
643
00:18:56,311 --> 00:18:57,079
OH.
644
00:18:57,079 --> 00:18:57,980
OH, HERE IT IS.
645
00:18:57,980 --> 00:18:58,781
IT'S ALWAYS HELPFUL TO HAVE
646
00:18:58,781 --> 00:18:59,615
SOMETHING THAT WOULD GET CASUAL
647
00:18:59,615 --> 00:19:00,482
VIEWERS.
648
00:19:00,482 --> 00:19:01,316
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN SKIMPY
649
00:19:01,316 --> 00:19:02,251
CLOTHES WILL ALWAYS CATCH
650
00:19:02,251 --> 00:19:03,318
RATINGS.
651
00:19:03,318 --> 00:19:05,220
WWE'S NEW TACTIC OF USING
652
00:19:05,220 --> 00:19:06,855
GLAMOROUS WOMEN IN RACY
653
00:19:06,855 --> 00:19:09,391
STORYLINES BEGAN TO CATCH ON
654
00:19:09,391 --> 00:19:11,060
WITH VIEWERS.
655
00:19:11,060 --> 00:19:12,294
BUT THE COMPANY WAS ABOUT TO
656
00:19:12,294 --> 00:19:13,896
UNLEASH A FEMALE PERSONALITY
657
00:19:13,896 --> 00:19:16,465
UNLIKE ANYONE THE SPORTS
658
00:19:16,465 --> 00:19:18,233
ENTERTAINMENT WORLD HAD EVER
659
00:19:18,233 --> 00:19:19,568
SEEN.
660
00:19:19,568 --> 00:19:21,570
LET GO OF HER.
661
00:19:21,570 --> 00:19:22,738
LOOK AT THAT.
662
00:19:22,738 --> 00:19:25,039
OH, WHO THE HELL IS THAT?
663
00:19:25,039 --> 00:19:25,340
WHO IS THAT?
664
00:19:25,340 --> 00:19:26,475
WHAT IN THE WORLD?
665
00:19:26,475 --> 00:19:27,309
IS THAT--IS THAT A WOMAN?
666
00:19:27,309 --> 00:19:28,243
[MUSIC]
667
00:19:28,243 --> 00:19:29,078
CHYNA--EVEN THE TIME WHEN
668
00:19:29,078 --> 00:19:29,912
[INDISTINCT]
669
00:19:29,912 --> 00:19:30,879
SEXUALIZED AND TO SEE SOMEONE
670
00:19:30,879 --> 00:19:31,880
WHO WASN'T THE NORM, WHO WASN'T
671
00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:33,248
YOUR TYPICAL DIVA.
672
00:19:33,248 --> 00:19:34,149
CHYNA WAS JUST A SIGHT TO BE
673
00:19:34,149 --> 00:19:34,983
SEEN.
674
00:19:34,983 --> 00:19:35,884
YOU KNOW, LIKE, THE FIRST TIME
675
00:19:35,884 --> 00:19:36,852
SHE CAME OUT, IT WAS JUST LIKE,
676
00:19:36,852 --> 00:19:38,520
"WHO IS THIS PERSON?"
677
00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:39,455
THAT HUGE WOMAN IS BEAR
678
00:19:39,455 --> 00:19:40,556
HUGGING MARLENA AND SHAKING HER
679
00:19:40,556 --> 00:19:42,624
LIKE A RAG DOLL.
680
00:19:42,624 --> 00:19:43,826
YES.
681
00:19:43,826 --> 00:19:45,561
SOMETIMES DIFFERENT IS GOOD.
682
00:19:45,561 --> 00:19:46,962
AND IN THIS CASE, DIFFERENT WAS
683
00:19:46,962 --> 00:19:47,996
GREAT.
684
00:19:47,996 --> 00:19:49,331
CHYNA COMES IN.
685
00:19:49,331 --> 00:19:50,899
YOU SEE THIS MUSCULAR WOMAN AND
686
00:19:50,899 --> 00:19:53,902
YOU LOOK AT HER AND YOU GO,
687
00:19:53,902 --> 00:19:55,771
"THIS GIRL CAN BEAT ME UP."
688
00:19:55,771 --> 00:19:56,738
[MUSIC]
689
00:19:56,738 --> 00:19:57,806
THIS GIRL CAN BEAT UP HALF
690
00:19:57,806 --> 00:19:59,541
THE GUYS IN THE ARENA.
691
00:19:59,541 --> 00:20:00,342
[CROWD CHEERING]
692
00:20:00,342 --> 00:20:01,376
UNBELIEVABLE.
693
00:20:01,376 --> 00:20:02,978
CHYNA WAS THE FIRST DIVA WHO
694
00:20:02,978 --> 00:20:04,980
EVER CAME ALONG THAT COULD
695
00:20:04,980 --> 00:20:06,381
COMPETE ON AN EVEN FOOTING WITH
696
00:20:06,381 --> 00:20:07,649
THE GUYS.
697
00:20:07,649 --> 00:20:09,184
AND THAT'S SOMETHING NEVER
698
00:20:09,184 --> 00:20:10,252
REALLY BEEN SEEN BEFORE.
699
00:20:10,252 --> 00:20:11,386
AND THAT ITSELF WAS A BIG POINT
700
00:20:11,386 --> 00:20:14,156
OF INTRIGUE REALLY FOR THE FANS.
701
00:20:14,156 --> 00:20:15,858
SHE WAS JUST DIFFERENT THAN
702
00:20:15,858 --> 00:20:17,259
ANYTHING WE'VE EVER SEEN.
703
00:20:17,259 --> 00:20:18,694
LIKE A MODERN DAY AMAZON SHOWING
704
00:20:18,694 --> 00:20:20,062
OFF HER MUSCLES AND FLEXING HER
705
00:20:20,062 --> 00:20:20,996
PROWESS.
706
00:20:20,996 --> 00:20:23,332
IF YOU WERE JUST A RANDOM PERSON
707
00:20:23,332 --> 00:20:24,733
FLIPPING THROUGH CHANNELS IN
708
00:20:24,733 --> 00:20:26,969
YOUR TV SET AND YOU SAW CHYNA,
709
00:20:26,969 --> 00:20:28,070
YOU WERE FORCED TO WANNA SEE
710
00:20:28,070 --> 00:20:29,638
MORE BECAUSE SHE WAS SO UNIQUE.
711
00:20:29,638 --> 00:20:30,672
AND WAIT A MINUTE--WHAT...
712
00:20:30,672 --> 00:20:31,573
LOOK AT THIS.
713
00:20:31,573 --> 00:20:32,341
WAIT A MINUTE.
714
00:20:32,341 --> 00:20:33,142
LOOK AT THIS.
715
00:20:33,142 --> 00:20:33,909
UNBELIEVABLE.
716
00:20:33,909 --> 00:20:34,576
GOOD, GOD.
717
00:20:34,576 --> 00:20:35,177
WOW.
718
00:20:35,177 --> 00:20:36,078
BART GUNN WEIGHS 270 POUNDS.
719
00:20:36,078 --> 00:20:38,380
[MUSIC]
720
00:20:38,380 --> 00:20:39,715
AS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE
721
00:20:39,715 --> 00:20:41,416
ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT GROUP
722
00:20:41,416 --> 00:20:43,585
DEGENERATION X, CHYNA WOULD BE A
723
00:20:43,585 --> 00:20:46,288
MAJOR PLAYER ON RAW FOR YEARS TO
724
00:20:46,288 --> 00:20:47,756
COME.
725
00:20:47,756 --> 00:20:50,325
CHYNA WAS JUST THIS LARGER
726
00:20:50,325 --> 00:20:51,760
THAN LIFE CHARACTER THAT PEOPLE
727
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:53,095
COULDN'T WAIT TO SEE.
728
00:20:53,095 --> 00:20:54,329
SHE WAS SUCH A UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL
729
00:20:54,329 --> 00:20:56,932
AND SHE ADDED SO MUCH TO DX.
730
00:20:56,932 --> 00:20:58,233
WHENEVER SHE WAS AT RINGSIDE,
731
00:20:58,233 --> 00:21:00,402
THERE WAS A DANGER THERE.
732
00:21:00,402 --> 00:21:01,570
AND DX USED TO PLAY OFF THIS A
733
00:21:01,570 --> 00:21:02,538
LOT.
734
00:21:02,538 --> 00:21:03,572
IF YOU WERE AN OPPONENT BATTLING
735
00:21:03,572 --> 00:21:05,240
DX, CHYNA COULD KICK YOUR REAR
736
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,142
END ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE RING.
737
00:21:07,142 --> 00:21:08,243
[CROWD CHEERING]
738
00:21:08,243 --> 00:21:09,745
OH.
739
00:21:09,745 --> 00:21:11,180
DID YOU JUST SEE WHAT CHYNA JUST
740
00:21:11,180 --> 00:21:12,881
DID TO KEN SHAMROCK?
741
00:21:12,881 --> 00:21:14,216
THE DIVAS REALLY STARTED TO
742
00:21:14,216 --> 00:21:16,118
MAKE A STRONG PRESENCE ON WWE
743
00:21:16,118 --> 00:21:17,653
PROGRAMMING.
744
00:21:17,653 --> 00:21:19,021
ALL OF THEM WERE IN THE
745
00:21:19,021 --> 00:21:20,155
FOREFRONT OF EVERY STORYLINE
746
00:21:20,155 --> 00:21:21,089
THAT WAS GOING ON.
747
00:21:21,089 --> 00:21:22,057
AND WCW DECIDED, "WELL, WE GOT
748
00:21:22,057 --> 00:21:23,125
TO DO SOMETHING, TOO."
749
00:21:23,125 --> 00:21:24,560
[CROWD CHEERING]
750
00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:26,562
WITH RAW GAINING MOMENTUM,
751
00:21:26,562 --> 00:21:28,630
WCW WAS IN DANGER OF LOSING
752
00:21:28,630 --> 00:21:31,500
GROUND TO WWE IF THEY DID NOT
753
00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:34,736
INCORPORATE MORE FEMALE TALENT
754
00:21:34,736 --> 00:21:36,438
ON NITRO.
755
00:21:36,438 --> 00:21:37,839
BUT I'M GONNA INVITE A LOT OF
756
00:21:37,839 --> 00:21:39,508
WOMEN, PROBABLY 14 TO 22 WOMEN,
757
00:21:39,508 --> 00:21:40,742
YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THAT?
758
00:21:40,742 --> 00:21:41,743
NO.
759
00:21:41,743 --> 00:21:42,811
NOT A PROBLEM, I LIKE IT.
760
00:21:42,811 --> 00:21:45,881
GUYS WATCH SHOWS THAT HAVE
761
00:21:45,881 --> 00:21:47,749
GOOD-LOOKING WOMEN ON THE SHOW.
762
00:21:47,749 --> 00:21:49,718
AT THE TIME, I WASN'T A FAN OF
763
00:21:49,718 --> 00:21:50,986
WOMEN'S WRESTLING PRIMARILY
764
00:21:50,986 --> 00:21:52,421
BECAUSE THE LEVEL OF ATHLETICISM
765
00:21:52,421 --> 00:21:53,855
REALLY WASN'T THERE ON A BROAD
766
00:21:53,855 --> 00:21:55,524
BASE.
767
00:21:55,524 --> 00:21:57,092
THERE WASN'T ENOUGH REALLY
768
00:21:57,092 --> 00:21:58,427
HOT-LOOKING WOMEN THAT COULD
769
00:21:58,427 --> 00:21:59,561
REALLY GO OUT AND HAVE A GREAT
770
00:21:59,561 --> 00:22:00,996
MATCH THAT WAS FUN TO WATCH.
771
00:22:00,996 --> 00:22:02,064
THERE WERE A HANDFUL, BUT IT WAS
772
00:22:02,064 --> 00:22:03,432
A SMALL HANDFUL.
773
00:22:03,432 --> 00:22:05,067
I WAS TIRED OF WOMEN VALETS THAT
774
00:22:05,067 --> 00:22:08,237
THE CONCEPT WAS JUST DONE TO
775
00:22:08,237 --> 00:22:09,204
DEATH.
776
00:22:09,204 --> 00:22:10,372
BUT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I HAD TO
777
00:22:10,372 --> 00:22:11,173
KEEP AN OPEN MIND.
778
00:22:11,173 --> 00:22:11,974
I THOUGHT, "LET ME THINK OF
779
00:22:11,974 --> 00:22:12,975
SOMETHING."
780
00:22:12,975 --> 00:22:14,309
I SAT DOWN, I WAS EATING MY TACO
781
00:22:14,309 --> 00:22:16,812
CHIPS AND DRINKING A BEER.
782
00:22:16,812 --> 00:22:19,047
I THOUGHT, "WHAT--WAIT A MINUTE.
783
00:22:19,047 --> 00:22:20,415
THIS IS REALLY SIMPLE.
784
00:22:20,415 --> 00:22:22,150
WHAT DID THE DALLAS COWBOYS DO?
785
00:22:22,150 --> 00:22:23,952
WHAT DID THE NBA DO?
786
00:22:23,952 --> 00:22:25,053
THEY HAVE CHEERLEADERS.
787
00:22:25,053 --> 00:22:26,488
WHY NOT DO THE SAME THING?
788
00:22:26,488 --> 00:22:27,990
I'LL CREATE THE NITRO GIRLS."
789
00:22:27,990 --> 00:22:30,993
[MUSIC]
790
00:22:30,993 --> 00:22:31,994
ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE.
791
00:22:31,994 --> 00:22:33,262
I'LL PUT TOGETHER THIS GREAT,
792
00:22:33,262 --> 00:22:35,130
HOT-LOOKING TEAM OF DANCERS.
793
00:22:35,130 --> 00:22:36,398
WE'VE GOT NITRO AND THE NITRO
794
00:22:36,398 --> 00:22:37,399
GIRLS.
795
00:22:37,399 --> 00:22:38,500
THEY LOOK BETTER EVERY WEEK.
796
00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:39,568
THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL.
797
00:22:39,568 --> 00:22:40,969
THEY ARE STUNNING.
798
00:22:40,969 --> 00:22:42,371
I'LL HAVE THEM COME OUT RIGHT
799
00:22:42,371 --> 00:22:44,906
BEFORE WE GO TO COMMERCIAL SO
800
00:22:44,906 --> 00:22:46,408
THE PEOPLE AT HOME DECIDE
801
00:22:46,408 --> 00:22:47,576
THEY'RE GONNA STICK AROUND AND
802
00:22:47,576 --> 00:22:49,077
GET ANOTHER LOOK AT THESE GIRLS
803
00:22:49,077 --> 00:22:50,746
AFTER THE COMMERCIAL BREAK.
804
00:22:50,746 --> 00:22:52,848
WELL, FANS, AS WE SAID, WE
805
00:22:52,848 --> 00:22:54,316
ARE GONNA HAVE...
806
00:22:54,316 --> 00:22:55,484
WE HAVE BONUS COVERAGE WITH
807
00:22:55,484 --> 00:22:56,418
THE NITRO GIRLS.
808
00:22:56,418 --> 00:22:57,419
YEAH, BOY, OH, BOY.
809
00:22:57,419 --> 00:22:59,321
THE NITRO GIRLS COMING UP.
810
00:22:59,321 --> 00:23:00,589
LET THEM PERFORM IN FRONT OF
811
00:23:00,589 --> 00:23:01,857
THE LIVE AUDIENCE FOR THE THREE
812
00:23:01,857 --> 00:23:03,091
OR FOUR MINUTES THAT WE'RE DARK
813
00:23:03,091 --> 00:23:04,192
ANYWAY.
814
00:23:04,192 --> 00:23:05,394
AND JUST AS WE COME OUT OF
815
00:23:05,394 --> 00:23:07,262
COMMERCIAL BREAK, WE'LL GET THE
816
00:23:07,262 --> 00:23:08,730
LAST COUPLE OF SECONDS OF THEIR
817
00:23:08,730 --> 00:23:10,332
ROUTINE AS THEY SEGUE BACKSTAGE
818
00:23:10,332 --> 00:23:12,501
AND WE INTRODUCE OUR NEXT ACT.
819
00:23:12,501 --> 00:23:13,669
SO, THE FORMULA WORKED REALLY,
820
00:23:13,669 --> 00:23:14,803
REALLY WELL.
821
00:23:14,803 --> 00:23:15,637
[MUSIC]
822
00:23:15,637 --> 00:23:16,338
[CROWD CHEERING]
823
00:23:16,338 --> 00:23:17,306
WCW MONDAY NITRO.
824
00:23:17,306 --> 00:23:18,373
WHAT A NIGHT THIS HAS BEEN.
825
00:23:18,373 --> 00:23:22,210
WE ARE POISED FOR THE BIG SUPER
826
00:23:22,210 --> 00:23:23,578
MAIN EVENT.
827
00:23:23,578 --> 00:23:25,714
NITRO GIRLS WERE NOT JUST
828
00:23:25,714 --> 00:23:27,149
SEXUAL, NOT JUST ENTERTAINMENT.
829
00:23:27,149 --> 00:23:28,383
A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH.
830
00:23:28,383 --> 00:23:29,651
THEM DANCING AND BEING
831
00:23:29,651 --> 00:23:31,253
ENTERTAINING AND BEING WOMEN ON
832
00:23:31,253 --> 00:23:32,988
THE SCREEN FOR A FEW MINUTES,
833
00:23:32,988 --> 00:23:34,156
WHETHER YOU WANNA SAY THAT
834
00:23:34,156 --> 00:23:36,224
THAT'S EMPOWERING WOMEN OR JUST
835
00:23:36,224 --> 00:23:38,293
WHETTING MY APPETITE FOR WANTING
836
00:23:38,293 --> 00:23:40,095
TO WATCH THEM, EITHER WAY, IT
837
00:23:40,095 --> 00:23:41,163
GOT PEOPLE WATCHING, IT GOT
838
00:23:41,163 --> 00:23:42,164
PEOPLE THINKING.
839
00:23:42,164 --> 00:23:42,998
I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT
840
00:23:42,998 --> 00:23:43,832
CONCEPT.
841
00:23:43,832 --> 00:23:45,067
IT WAS DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, TO
842
00:23:45,067 --> 00:23:46,435
HAVE GIRLS OPEN THE SHOW AND NOT
843
00:23:46,435 --> 00:23:47,803
WRESTLERS.
844
00:23:47,803 --> 00:23:48,737
[MUSIC]
845
00:23:48,737 --> 00:23:49,738
THE NITRO GIRLS WAS THEIR WAY
846
00:23:49,738 --> 00:23:50,839
OF HAVING GOOD-LOOKING WOMEN ON
847
00:23:50,839 --> 00:23:52,808
THE SHOW WITHOUT ACTUALLY
848
00:23:52,808 --> 00:23:53,975
[INDISTINCT]
849
00:23:53,975 --> 00:23:54,043
IT WAS THEIR WAY OF TRYING TO
850
00:23:54,043 --> 00:23:56,712
BE DIFFERENT AND FANS LIKE IT.
851
00:23:56,712 --> 00:23:57,813
THE NITRO GIRLS WERE PRETTY
852
00:23:57,813 --> 00:23:58,980
TO LOOK AT.
853
00:23:58,980 --> 00:23:59,848
THEY WENT OUT THERE AND DANCED.
854
00:23:59,848 --> 00:24:01,083
[MUSIC]
855
00:24:01,083 --> 00:24:02,651
HEY, GIRLS ARE GONNA GET
856
00:24:02,651 --> 00:24:03,919
JEALOUS.
857
00:24:03,919 --> 00:24:04,753
I AM EXACTLY WHERE YOU ALL WANNA
858
00:24:04,753 --> 00:24:05,687
BE, IN THE MEN'S LOCKER ROOM
859
00:24:05,687 --> 00:24:06,755
TONIGHT.
860
00:24:06,755 --> 00:24:08,156
[MUSIC]
861
00:24:08,156 --> 00:24:10,826
BUT THEY COMPARED US TO THE
862
00:24:10,826 --> 00:24:11,960
GIRLS THAT THEY HAD.
863
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:12,728
THERE REALLY WASN'T' A
864
00:24:12,728 --> 00:24:13,495
COMPARISON.
865
00:24:13,495 --> 00:24:14,496
SO AS FAR AS THE GIRL
866
00:24:14,496 --> 00:24:15,564
COMPETITION, I THINK WE HAD THAT
867
00:24:15,564 --> 00:24:17,766
BY A MILE.
868
00:24:17,766 --> 00:24:20,068
THE MONDAY NIGHT WAR WAS
869
00:24:20,068 --> 00:24:21,770
BRINGING WOMEN TO THE FOREFRONT
870
00:24:21,770 --> 00:24:24,005
OF SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
871
00:24:24,005 --> 00:24:25,374
YOU HAVE TO CHANGE WHEN
872
00:24:25,374 --> 00:24:26,708
SOCIETY CHANGES, AND YOU HAVE TO
873
00:24:26,708 --> 00:24:27,676
STAY CURRENT AND RELEVANT, AND
874
00:24:27,676 --> 00:24:28,744
YOU HAVE TO EVOLVE.
875
00:24:28,744 --> 00:24:29,811
AND THAT'S WHAT THE WWE DOES.
876
00:24:29,811 --> 00:24:33,382
WWE'S DIVAS REFLECTED THIS
877
00:24:33,382 --> 00:24:35,917
RACY SHIFT IN SOCIETY AS VINCE
878
00:24:35,917 --> 00:24:38,320
MCMAHON CONTINUED TO PROMOTE HIS
879
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:42,491
MORE CONTEMPORARY PRODUCT.
880
00:24:42,491 --> 00:24:43,558
IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT
881
00:24:43,558 --> 00:24:44,860
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN HERE IN THE
882
00:24:44,860 --> 00:24:46,128
WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT.
883
00:24:46,128 --> 00:24:47,229
BUT NOW MORE THAN EVER, TRUER
884
00:24:47,229 --> 00:24:49,231
WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN.
885
00:24:49,231 --> 00:24:50,799
THIS IS A CONSCIOUS EFFORT ON
886
00:24:50,799 --> 00:24:52,134
OUR PART TO OPEN THE CREATIVE
887
00:24:52,134 --> 00:24:53,902
ENVELOPE SO TO SPEAK IN ORDER TO
888
00:24:53,902 --> 00:24:55,470
ENTERTAIN YOU IN A MORE
889
00:24:55,470 --> 00:24:56,738
CONTEMPORARY MANNER.
890
00:24:56,738 --> 00:24:58,340
[MUSIC]
891
00:24:58,340 --> 00:25:01,143
AS 1997 CAME TO A CLOSE,
892
00:25:01,143 --> 00:25:02,978
VINCE MCMAHON STOOD BEHIND HIS
893
00:25:02,978 --> 00:25:05,547
COMPANY'S CHANGE IN DIRECTION.
894
00:25:05,547 --> 00:25:07,249
IN WHAT WOULD BECOME KNOWN AS
895
00:25:07,249 --> 00:25:10,051
THE ATTITUDE ERA, WWE
896
00:25:10,051 --> 00:25:11,420
PROGRAMMING TOOK ON AN
897
00:25:11,420 --> 00:25:13,889
UNPRECEDENTED CREATIVE FREEDOM
898
00:25:13,889 --> 00:25:15,490
IN AN ATTEMPT TO ENTERTAIN
899
00:25:15,490 --> 00:25:17,759
AUDIENCES AND TURN THE TIDE IN
900
00:25:17,759 --> 00:25:20,061
THE HEAD-TO-HEAD RATINGS AGAINST
901
00:25:20,061 --> 00:25:21,897
WCW.
902
00:25:21,897 --> 00:25:23,165
THIS A FIGURE OF SPEECH RIGHT
903
00:25:23,165 --> 00:25:24,099
HERE.
904
00:25:24,099 --> 00:25:25,333
HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?
905
00:25:25,333 --> 00:25:26,501
[CROWD CHEERING]
906
00:25:26,501 --> 00:25:28,637
EMBRACING A NEW ARTISTIC
907
00:25:28,637 --> 00:25:30,639
LICENSE, THE CONTENT OF MONDAY
908
00:25:30,639 --> 00:25:32,073
NIGHT RAW BEGAN TO MIRROR THE
909
00:25:32,073 --> 00:25:33,341
MATURE THEMES OF ITS MAINSTREAM
910
00:25:33,341 --> 00:25:34,509
PRIMETIME TELEVISION
911
00:25:34,509 --> 00:25:37,212
COUNTERPARTS.
912
00:25:37,212 --> 00:25:38,880
SHAWN AND I BOTH GOT JUMBO
913
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,215
WEENIES.
914
00:25:40,215 --> 00:25:42,250
[CROWD CHEERING]
915
00:25:42,250 --> 00:25:45,654
BUT CHYNA, SHOW US WHAT YOU
916
00:25:45,654 --> 00:25:48,390
BRING INTO THE BARBECUE, GIRL.
917
00:25:48,390 --> 00:25:49,357
UH-OH.
918
00:25:49,357 --> 00:25:50,425
THAT IS THE BIG STICK.
919
00:25:50,425 --> 00:25:55,096
[MUSIC]
920
00:25:55,096 --> 00:25:56,465
A LOT OF THAT STUFF ON TV
921
00:25:56,465 --> 00:25:58,633
SHOCKED RADIO, SHOCKED
922
00:25:58,633 --> 00:25:59,768
TELEVISION.
923
00:25:59,768 --> 00:26:01,403
BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD WAS A
924
00:26:01,403 --> 00:26:02,304
DIFFERENT TIME.
925
00:26:02,304 --> 00:26:03,505
THE SEXUAL INNUENDO THAT'S WHERE
926
00:26:03,505 --> 00:26:05,907
WORLD WAS AT THE TIME.
927
00:26:05,907 --> 00:26:06,842
YOU LOOK AT OTHER MEDIA
928
00:26:06,842 --> 00:26:07,843
FORMS.
929
00:26:07,843 --> 00:26:09,211
THEY WERE ALL PUSHING THE
930
00:26:09,211 --> 00:26:11,011
ENVELOPE.
931
00:26:10,912 --> 00:26:11,713
THING.
932
00:26:11,713 --> 00:26:12,914
BUT WE DON'T INFLUENCE SOCIETY.
933
00:26:12,914 --> 00:26:15,317
SOCIETY INFLUENCES US.
934
00:26:15,317 --> 00:26:16,585
AND I BELIEVE THAT'S WHAT THE
935
00:26:16,585 --> 00:26:18,086
ATTITUDE ERA REFLECTED.
936
00:26:18,086 --> 00:26:19,321
WE PUSHED THE ENVELOPE LIKE
937
00:26:19,321 --> 00:26:20,355
CRAZY.
938
00:26:20,355 --> 00:26:21,590
[CROWD CHEERING]
939
00:26:21,590 --> 00:26:22,824
OH, NO.
940
00:26:22,824 --> 00:26:24,559
STUNNER.
941
00:26:24,559 --> 00:26:27,128
AUSTIN JUST STUNNERED CHYNA.
942
00:26:27,128 --> 00:26:28,263
GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY.
943
00:26:28,263 --> 00:26:30,799
[CROWD CHEERING]
944
00:26:30,799 --> 00:26:32,834
WWE'S GROWING AUDIENCE
945
00:26:32,834 --> 00:26:34,803
CLEARLY APPROVED OF THIS RACIER
946
00:26:34,803 --> 00:26:36,338
PRODUCT.
947
00:26:36,338 --> 00:26:37,739
MONDAY NIGHT RAW WAS CLOSING THE
948
00:26:37,739 --> 00:26:39,875
GAP WITH MONDAY NITRO IN THE
949
00:26:39,875 --> 00:26:41,176
CABLE TELEVISION RATINGS AS 1998
950
00:26:41,176 --> 00:26:44,346
BEGAN.
951
00:26:44,346 --> 00:26:45,814
AND THE NEED TO PUSH THE
952
00:26:45,814 --> 00:26:47,549
ENVELOPE WOULD CONTINUE TO
953
00:26:47,549 --> 00:26:49,417
PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR THE DIVAS
954
00:26:49,417 --> 00:26:51,486
OF WWE TO STEP INTO THE
955
00:26:51,486 --> 00:26:52,754
SPOTLIGHT.
956
00:26:52,754 --> 00:26:53,889
PEOPLE ARE READY FOR KIND OF
957
00:26:53,889 --> 00:26:54,923
A CHANGE WITH SOMETHING TO BE
958
00:26:54,923 --> 00:26:55,757
SHAKEN UP.
959
00:26:55,757 --> 00:26:56,658
AND IT WASN'T JUST WITH THE
960
00:26:56,658 --> 00:26:57,492
GUYS, IT WASN'T JUST WITH STONE
961
00:26:57,492 --> 00:26:58,260
COLD, AND DX.
962
00:26:58,260 --> 00:26:59,561
LIKE, THE GIRLS BROUGHT THAT,
963
00:26:59,561 --> 00:27:00,562
TOO.
964
00:27:00,562 --> 00:27:01,496
THEY WERE COMPLETELY NECESSARY
965
00:27:01,496 --> 00:27:03,398
AT THAT TIME.
966
00:27:03,398 --> 00:27:05,233
WWE'S FEMALE PERSONALITIES
967
00:27:05,233 --> 00:27:08,336
EMBODIED THE ATTITUDE ERA.
968
00:27:08,336 --> 00:27:10,138
NONE MORE SO THAN A BLONDE
969
00:27:10,138 --> 00:27:12,240
BOMBSHELL WHO ONLY A YEAR
970
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,276
EARLIER HAD FOUND HERSELF
971
00:27:14,276 --> 00:27:16,745
WITHOUT A DEFINITIVE ROLE.
972
00:27:16,745 --> 00:27:17,979
MARC MERO HAD BEEN ON THE
973
00:27:17,979 --> 00:27:19,080
SHELF.
974
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,081
AND WE'RE NOT SURE WHAT TO DO
975
00:27:20,081 --> 00:27:22,016
WITH SABLE OUT.
976
00:27:21,816 --> 00:27:22,751
AT THAT POINT.
977
00:27:22,751 --> 00:27:23,718
SHE'S KIND OF A PERSON ON AN
978
00:27:23,718 --> 00:27:24,753
ISLAND.
979
00:27:24,753 --> 00:27:25,587
[CROWD CHEERING]
980
00:27:25,587 --> 00:27:27,556
HERE COMES SABLE.
981
00:27:27,556 --> 00:27:29,157
I REMEMBER SABLE BEING A
982
00:27:29,157 --> 00:27:32,060
MODEL FOR AN INFLATABLE CHAIR.
983
00:27:32,060 --> 00:27:34,095
[MUSIC]
984
00:27:34,095 --> 00:27:35,163
WHAT DOES SABLE SIT ON THESE
985
00:27:35,163 --> 00:27:36,665
DAYS?
986
00:27:36,665 --> 00:27:37,832
OH, OF COURSE IT'S A CHAIR FIT
987
00:27:37,832 --> 00:27:39,334
FOR A KING.
988
00:27:39,334 --> 00:27:41,736
THE KING OF THE RING CHAIR.
989
00:27:41,736 --> 00:27:45,540
SHE CAME OUT, THE PEOPLE WENT
990
00:27:45,540 --> 00:27:46,741
BANANAS FOR HER.
991
00:27:46,741 --> 00:27:47,809
[MUSIC]
992
00:27:47,809 --> 00:27:49,144
I'M, LIKE, SHE NEEDS TO BE
993
00:27:49,144 --> 00:27:51,246
MORE INVOLVED IN THE SHOW.
994
00:27:51,246 --> 00:27:52,881
SHE'S BLONDE, SHE'S BUXOM,
995
00:27:52,881 --> 00:27:55,884
AND SHE IS BEAUTIFUL.
996
00:27:55,884 --> 00:27:57,218
NO LONGER A BACKGROUND
997
00:27:57,218 --> 00:27:59,220
PLAYER, SABLE WAS PUSHED AS THE
998
00:27:59,220 --> 00:28:01,890
NEXT MUST-SEE FEATURE OF AN
999
00:28:01,890 --> 00:28:05,060
EVOLVING MONDAY NIGHT RAW.
1000
00:28:05,060 --> 00:28:06,561
SHE ALWAYS LOOKED PERFECT.
1001
00:28:06,561 --> 00:28:08,229
SHE LOOKED LIKE A RUNWAY MODEL.
1002
00:28:08,229 --> 00:28:10,465
SHE WAS THE DIVA THAT GUYS WOULD
1003
00:28:10,465 --> 00:28:12,167
DREAM ABOUT WHEN THEY WATCHED
1004
00:28:12,167 --> 00:28:13,401
OUR PRODUCT.
1005
00:28:13,401 --> 00:28:14,903
AND THESE BOOS FROM THIS
1006
00:28:14,903 --> 00:28:16,738
CAPACITY CROWD ARE BECAUSE THEY
1007
00:28:16,738 --> 00:28:18,740
WANNA SEE SABLE.
1008
00:28:18,740 --> 00:28:19,908
AND MERO'S SENDING SABLE
1009
00:28:19,908 --> 00:28:20,909
APPARENTLY BACK TO THE LOCKER
1010
00:28:20,909 --> 00:28:22,043
ROOM.
1011
00:28:22,043 --> 00:28:27,549
[MUSIC]
1012
00:28:27,549 --> 00:28:29,618
MARC MERO'S RETURN FROM
1013
00:28:29,618 --> 00:28:31,119
INJURY WOULD BRING WITH IT AN
1014
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:32,587
ONSCREEN STORYLINE WHEREBY THE
1015
00:28:32,587 --> 00:28:34,389
MALE SUPERSTAR WAS JEALOUS OF
1016
00:28:34,389 --> 00:28:36,324
HIS FEMALE MANAGER'S SUPERIOR
1017
00:28:36,324 --> 00:28:38,960
POPULARITY.
1018
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,162
THESE PEOPLE CAME HERE TO SEE
1019
00:28:41,162 --> 00:28:42,998
ME WRESTLE, NOT YOU TAKE THOSE
1020
00:28:42,998 --> 00:28:44,466
CLOTHES OFF.
1021
00:28:44,466 --> 00:28:45,634
UH-OH.
1022
00:28:45,634 --> 00:28:46,901
I'M THE STAR HERE.
1023
00:28:46,901 --> 00:28:49,738
MARC, TAKE IT EASY.
1024
00:28:49,738 --> 00:28:51,873
AND WWE'S MOST PROMINENT DIVA
1025
00:28:51,873 --> 00:28:54,242
WOULD DEVELOP INTO A NEW MODEL
1026
00:28:54,242 --> 00:28:56,311
FOR EMPOWERED WOMEN IN SPORTS
1027
00:28:56,311 --> 00:28:57,512
ENTERTAINMENT.
1028
00:28:57,512 --> 00:28:58,713
[CROWD CHEERING]
1029
00:28:58,713 --> 00:29:01,982
SABLE REALLY HELPED TO DEFINE
1030
00:29:01,982 --> 00:29:02,450
THE TERM DIVA.
1031
00:29:02,450 --> 00:29:03,818
SABLE WAS NOT ONLY A DIVA BUT
1032
00:29:03,818 --> 00:29:05,153
SHE WAS KIND OF THIS VIXEN THAT
1033
00:29:05,153 --> 00:29:06,621
WASN'T LIKE SUNNY, SHE WASN'T
1034
00:29:06,621 --> 00:29:08,757
LIKE CHYNA, AND SOMEHOW SHE
1035
00:29:08,757 --> 00:29:10,558
MANAGED TO STILL HAVE CLASS BY
1036
00:29:10,558 --> 00:29:12,961
WEARING ALMOST NOTHING.
1037
00:29:12,961 --> 00:29:14,362
SHE, TO ME, BY FAR THE
1038
00:29:14,362 --> 00:29:16,264
SEXIEST DIVA AND SHE JUST HAD
1039
00:29:16,264 --> 00:29:18,400
THIS CONFIDENCE IN WHEN SHE
1040
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:19,968
WALKED TO THE RING AND SHE HAD
1041
00:29:19,968 --> 00:29:22,637
THIS TOTAL ATTITUDE AND SEXINESS
1042
00:29:22,637 --> 00:29:24,139
ABOUT HER.
1043
00:29:24,139 --> 00:29:25,373
WHEN YOU WALK THROUGH THOSE
1044
00:29:25,373 --> 00:29:26,474
CURTAINS, CONFIDENCE PLAYS A
1045
00:29:26,474 --> 00:29:27,976
HUGE ROLE.
1046
00:29:27,976 --> 00:29:29,310
THAT SELF-AWARENESS, THAT
1047
00:29:29,310 --> 00:29:31,880
SEXUALITY, I REALLY LIKED TO
1048
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,081
PLAY IT UP.
1049
00:29:33,081 --> 00:29:34,516
I'M NOT THE CHEERLEADER.
1050
00:29:34,516 --> 00:29:36,451
I'M NOT THE SMILEY PERSON.
1051
00:29:36,451 --> 00:29:38,553
I'M THE REAL SENSUOUS, SEXY, YOU
1052
00:29:38,553 --> 00:29:39,654
KNOW, COME AND GET ME, KIND OF
1053
00:29:39,654 --> 00:29:41,990
GIRL.
1054
00:29:41,990 --> 00:29:45,025
THAT STAGE IS MINE FOR THAT
1055
00:29:45,025 --> 00:29:45,360
MOMENT AND I'M GONNA MAKE THE
1056
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:46,995
MOST OF IT.
1057
00:29:46,995 --> 00:29:48,663
SHE TOOK ON A PERSONA AND SHE
1058
00:29:48,663 --> 00:29:52,300
BECAME THIS ENTITY ONTO HERSELF.
1059
00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:55,236
NOT ONLY WAS SHE A LEADING DIVA,
1060
00:29:55,236 --> 00:29:56,237
SHE COULD ALSO GET IT DONE IN
1061
00:29:56,237 --> 00:29:57,205
THE RING.
1062
00:29:57,205 --> 00:29:58,373
[CROWD CHEERING]
1063
00:29:58,373 --> 00:29:59,541
OH, NO.
1064
00:29:59,541 --> 00:30:00,542
SHE STUCK HIS HEAD BETWEEN
1065
00:30:00,542 --> 00:30:01,376
HER...
1066
00:30:01,376 --> 00:30:02,177
SABLE.
1067
00:30:02,177 --> 00:30:03,078
THE SABLE BOMB.
1068
00:30:03,078 --> 00:30:04,813
SABLE BOMB.
1069
00:30:04,813 --> 00:30:07,315
[CROWD CHEERING]
1070
00:30:07,315 --> 00:30:08,650
GOOD LORD.
1071
00:30:08,650 --> 00:30:10,151
SABLE JUST DROPPED MERO LIKE A
1072
00:30:10,151 --> 00:30:11,920
BAD HABIT.
1073
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,054
[CROWD CHEERING]
1074
00:30:13,054 --> 00:30:14,989
HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A
1075
00:30:14,989 --> 00:30:16,624
WOMAN SCORNED.
1076
00:30:16,624 --> 00:30:18,693
THERE'S THINGS THAT WE SAW
1077
00:30:18,693 --> 00:30:19,661
HER DO THAT WE DIDN'T SEE THE
1078
00:30:19,661 --> 00:30:20,795
OTHER GIRLS DO.
1079
00:30:20,795 --> 00:30:21,896
SO IT WAS PRETTY COOL.
1080
00:30:21,896 --> 00:30:22,997
IN THE MONDAY NIGHT WARS, I
1081
00:30:22,997 --> 00:30:24,299
THINK IT WOULD DEFINITELY BE
1082
00:30:24,299 --> 00:30:25,800
SOMETHING THAT WOULD HELP EDGE
1083
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,102
VIEWERS TO THE WWE PRODUCT.
1084
00:30:27,102 --> 00:30:28,369
[MUSIC]
1085
00:30:28,369 --> 00:30:29,471
THE INNOVATIONS OF THE
1086
00:30:29,471 --> 00:30:31,873
ATTITUDE ERA HAD PAID OFF.
1087
00:30:31,873 --> 00:30:34,142
IN APRIL OF 1998, MONDAY NIGHT
1088
00:30:34,142 --> 00:30:36,144
RAW DEFEATED MONDAY NITRO IN THE
1089
00:30:36,144 --> 00:30:37,812
RATINGS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
1090
00:30:37,812 --> 00:30:40,482
NEARLY TWO YEARS THANKS IN LARGE
1091
00:30:40,482 --> 00:30:42,217
PART TO A RISING SURGE IN
1092
00:30:42,217 --> 00:30:45,153
POPULARITY OF WWE'S RACIER
1093
00:30:45,153 --> 00:30:46,721
FEMALE TALENTS.
1094
00:30:46,721 --> 00:30:49,157
ROUND TWO.
1095
00:30:49,157 --> 00:30:50,592
SEEKING TO BUILD ON THIS
1096
00:30:50,592 --> 00:30:52,660
SUCCESSFUL FORMAT, WWE
1097
00:30:52,660 --> 00:30:54,662
INCORPORATED MORE RISQUé
1098
00:30:54,662 --> 00:30:55,064
PERSONAS INTO THEIR MALE
1099
00:30:55,064 --> 00:30:59,334
CHARACTERS AS WELL.
1100
00:30:59,334 --> 00:31:02,237
HELLO, LADIES.
1101
00:31:02,237 --> 00:31:03,471
THE SURPLUS OF SEXUALLY
1102
00:31:03,471 --> 00:31:05,240
PROVOCATIVE DIVAS IN THE WWE
1103
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,942
LEAD TO CHARACTERS BECOMING A
1104
00:31:07,942 --> 00:31:09,644
LITTLE MORE RACY.
1105
00:31:09,644 --> 00:31:11,045
AND I'M LOOKING AT GUYS LIKE VAL
1106
00:31:11,045 --> 00:31:12,046
VENIS.
1107
00:31:12,046 --> 00:31:12,981
THE GUY IS THE PORN STAR OF THE
1108
00:31:12,981 --> 00:31:14,249
WWE.
1109
00:31:14,249 --> 00:31:15,683
AND THEN NOT ONLY THAT, YOU GOT
1110
00:31:15,683 --> 00:31:17,085
GODFATHER WALKING OUT WITH THE
1111
00:31:17,085 --> 00:31:19,020
HO TRAIN.
1112
00:31:19,020 --> 00:31:20,321
IT'S THE HO TRAIN.
1113
00:31:20,321 --> 00:31:21,556
WOHOO.
1114
00:31:21,556 --> 00:31:22,624
[MUSIC]
1115
00:31:22,624 --> 00:31:24,092
I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WAS A
1116
00:31:24,092 --> 00:31:26,895
BIGGER FAN OF THE GODFATHER AND
1117
00:31:26,895 --> 00:31:27,896
THE HO TRAIN THAN THE KING.
1118
00:31:27,896 --> 00:31:28,830
I LOVED IT.
1119
00:31:28,830 --> 00:31:29,964
I MEAN, THIS WAS THE ABSOLUTE
1120
00:31:29,964 --> 00:31:33,568
BEST UTILIZATION OF BEAUTIFUL
1121
00:31:33,568 --> 00:31:36,638
WOMEN IN THE WWE.
1122
00:31:36,638 --> 00:31:38,072
YOU HAD THE GODFATHER WITH
1123
00:31:38,072 --> 00:31:39,340
THE PIMP, YOU KNOW, POSITION
1124
00:31:39,340 --> 00:31:41,209
THEN YOU HAVE THE HOES.
1125
00:31:41,209 --> 00:31:42,710
NOW THAT RIGHT THERE IS REALLY
1126
00:31:42,710 --> 00:31:44,078
HARD TO TAKE, SOMETHING LIKE
1127
00:31:44,078 --> 00:31:45,814
THAT.
1128
00:31:45,814 --> 00:31:46,981
IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO
1129
00:31:46,981 --> 00:31:48,650
CONCENTRATE ON ANYTHING ELSE
1130
00:31:48,650 --> 00:31:50,585
WHEN WE ARE LITERALLY SURROUNDED
1131
00:31:50,585 --> 00:31:51,053
BY THE MOST GORGEOUS LADIES IN
1132
00:31:51,053 --> 00:31:54,155
CABLE TELEVISION, THE GORGEOUS
1133
00:31:54,056 --> 00:31:56,124
JUST PUT YOUR MIND TO IT,
1134
00:31:56,124 --> 00:31:57,692
FOCUS.
1135
00:31:57,692 --> 00:31:58,893
THE NITRO GIRLS COULDN'T GO
1136
00:31:58,893 --> 00:31:59,061
THAT FAR.
1137
00:31:59,061 --> 00:32:02,463
WCW JUST COULDN'T COMBAT WWE AND
1138
00:32:02,463 --> 00:32:04,799
THEIR SEXUALITY.
1139
00:32:04,799 --> 00:32:06,401
IF THE NITRO GIRLS WERE ERIC
1140
00:32:06,401 --> 00:32:08,002
BISCHOFF'S WAY OF COUNTERING THE
1141
00:32:08,002 --> 00:32:10,205
SEX APPEAL IN WWE, THEY DIDN'T
1142
00:32:10,205 --> 00:32:11,139
DO IT RIGHT.
1143
00:32:11,139 --> 00:32:12,273
THEY REALLY WERE JUST FILLER.
1144
00:32:12,273 --> 00:32:15,042
IT LOOKED LIKE, "WE DON'T HAVE
1145
00:32:15,042 --> 00:32:15,143
ANYTHING FOR THE SEGMENT.
1146
00:32:15,143 --> 00:32:16,277
SEND THE GIRLS OUT."
1147
00:32:16,277 --> 00:32:17,712
THEY LOOKED LIKE CHEERLEADING
1148
00:32:17,712 --> 00:32:19,647
AND IT WOULDN'T DO IT.
1149
00:32:19,647 --> 00:32:21,216
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
1150
00:32:21,216 --> 00:32:23,384
WAS FAILING TO CAPITALIZE ON
1151
00:32:23,384 --> 00:32:25,220
USING WOMEN AS A FOCAL POINT OF
1152
00:32:25,220 --> 00:32:27,488
THEIR PROGRAMMING.
1153
00:32:27,488 --> 00:32:29,390
BUT THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER OF
1154
00:32:29,390 --> 00:32:32,227
1998, WCW AND WWE TRADED
1155
00:32:32,227 --> 00:32:35,864
VICTORIES IN THE MONDAY NIGHT
1156
00:32:35,864 --> 00:32:36,965
RATINGS.
1157
00:32:36,965 --> 00:32:38,299
IN ORDER TO STAY AHEAD, VINCE
1158
00:32:38,299 --> 00:32:40,068
MCMAHON WOULD ROUTINELY BREAK
1159
00:32:40,068 --> 00:32:41,669
TRADITION BY PUSHING THE
1160
00:32:41,669 --> 00:32:43,238
ENVELOPE.
1161
00:32:43,238 --> 00:32:44,873
AND THANKS TO A CONTINUED FOCUS
1162
00:32:44,873 --> 00:32:47,175
ON RACIER CONTENT, SABLE WOULD
1163
00:32:47,175 --> 00:32:48,810
EMERGE AS ONE OF THE BIGGEST
1164
00:32:48,810 --> 00:32:50,378
NAMES IN THE INDUSTRY DURING
1165
00:32:50,378 --> 00:32:51,813
SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT'S MOST
1166
00:32:51,813 --> 00:32:53,915
POPULAR TIME PERIOD.
1167
00:32:53,915 --> 00:32:55,617
IT WAS SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE
1168
00:32:55,617 --> 00:32:57,151
HAD NOT SEEN BEFORE.
1169
00:32:57,151 --> 00:32:58,586
AND WHO DOESN'T LIKE A GOOD
1170
00:32:58,586 --> 00:33:01,389
BIKINI CONTEST OR AN EVENING
1171
00:33:01,389 --> 00:33:03,391
GOWN MATCH WHERE YOU CAN TURN ON
1172
00:33:03,391 --> 00:33:05,260
YOUR TV AND ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW
1173
00:33:05,260 --> 00:33:06,561
YOU HAVE THESE GIRLS RIPPING
1174
00:33:06,561 --> 00:33:07,562
THEIR CLOTHES OFF?
1175
00:33:07,562 --> 00:33:08,463
HOW CAN YOU CHANGE THE CHANNEL?
1176
00:33:08,463 --> 00:33:09,397
IT WAS ALMOST LIKE, "WHOA, THIS
1177
00:33:09,397 --> 00:33:10,398
ISN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN ON JUST
1178
00:33:10,398 --> 00:33:12,400
NORMAL TV."
1179
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,501
THEY WERE BREAKING DOWN THE
1180
00:33:13,501 --> 00:33:15,870
CORD AT LEAST TO THE POINT OF,
1181
00:33:15,870 --> 00:33:17,238
YOU KNOW, NO MATTER WHERE YOU
1182
00:33:17,238 --> 00:33:18,373
PUT SABLE ON, SHE'D BEAT
1183
00:33:18,373 --> 00:33:22,677
ANYTHING WE HAD.
1184
00:33:22,677 --> 00:33:23,978
WITH THEIR COMPETITOR ON THE
1185
00:33:23,978 --> 00:33:26,648
ROPES, WWE CONTINUED TO EXPAND
1186
00:33:26,648 --> 00:33:28,516
THE ROLE OF THEIR FEMALE
1187
00:33:28,516 --> 00:33:29,951
SUPERSTARS.
1188
00:33:29,951 --> 00:33:31,386
VINCE UNDERSTOOD A PUZZLE
1189
00:33:31,386 --> 00:33:33,087
PUTTING A SHOW TOGETHER AND
1190
00:33:33,087 --> 00:33:34,489
HAVING BEAUTIFUL WOMEN TALENTED
1191
00:33:34,489 --> 00:33:36,958
ENOUGH TO WRESTLE AND PUT ON A
1192
00:33:36,958 --> 00:33:40,228
GOOD SHOW, THAT'S JUST ICING ON
1193
00:33:40,228 --> 00:33:41,229
THE CAKE.
1194
00:33:41,229 --> 00:33:42,063
[CROWD CHEERING]
1195
00:33:42,063 --> 00:33:43,131
AN ONGOING RIVALRY BETWEEN
1196
00:33:43,131 --> 00:33:45,533
WWE DIVAS, SABLE AND JACQUELINE
1197
00:33:45,533 --> 00:33:48,469
HAD HELPED PROVIDE A VARIETY OF
1198
00:33:48,469 --> 00:33:50,405
COMPELLING PROGRAMMING FOR
1199
00:33:50,405 --> 00:33:51,973
MONDAY NIGHT RAW'S GROWING
1200
00:33:51,973 --> 00:33:52,874
VIEWERS.
1201
00:33:52,874 --> 00:33:54,142
ACKNOWLEDGING HIS TALENTED
1202
00:33:54,142 --> 00:33:56,311
FEMALE ROSTER, VINCE MCMAHON
1203
00:33:56,311 --> 00:33:58,646
WOULD END THE THREE-YEAR HIATUS
1204
00:33:58,646 --> 00:34:00,982
AND RELAUNCH THE WWE WOMEN'S
1205
00:34:00,982 --> 00:34:03,451
CHAMPIONSHIP IN SEPTEMBER OF
1206
00:34:03,451 --> 00:34:04,485
1998.
1207
00:34:04,485 --> 00:34:05,186
[CROWD CHEERING]
1208
00:34:05,186 --> 00:34:06,054
HERE WE GO.
1209
00:34:06,054 --> 00:34:07,055
DING, DING, DING.
1210
00:34:07,055 --> 00:34:08,356
HISTORY WILL BE MADE TONIGHT.
1211
00:34:08,356 --> 00:34:09,691
WE WILL HAVE A CROWNING OF THE
1212
00:34:09,691 --> 00:34:10,892
NEW WORLD WRESTLING
1213
00:34:10,892 --> 00:34:11,960
ENTERTAINMENT WOMEN'S
1214
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:12,894
CHAMPIONSHIP.
1215
00:34:12,894 --> 00:34:13,895
RIGHT IN THE HEIGHT OF THE
1216
00:34:13,895 --> 00:34:15,129
MONDAY NIGHT WAR IS THEY BRING
1217
00:34:15,129 --> 00:34:17,065
BACK THE WWE WOMAN'S
1218
00:34:17,065 --> 00:34:19,032
CHAMPIONSHIP.
1219
00:34:19,032 --> 00:34:19,167
AND I THINK IT WAS THE RIGHT
1220
00:34:19,167 --> 00:34:20,134
MOVE.
1221
00:34:20,134 --> 00:34:21,369
JACQUELINE TAUNTING SABLE
1222
00:34:21,369 --> 00:34:22,203
SAYING COME ON.
1223
00:34:22,203 --> 00:34:23,071
SABLE--OH, MAN.
1224
00:34:23,071 --> 00:34:23,805
OH.
1225
00:34:23,805 --> 00:34:24,539
LOOK AT THAT.
1226
00:34:24,539 --> 00:34:25,239
THAT'S IT.
1227
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:25,907
FANS ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD TO
1228
00:34:25,907 --> 00:34:27,008
SEEING THE DIVAS.
1229
00:34:27,008 --> 00:34:28,142
RATHER THAN JUST WOMEN GOING IN
1230
00:34:28,142 --> 00:34:29,444
LEOTARDS AND WRESTLING, THERE
1231
00:34:29,444 --> 00:34:30,745
WAS PERSONALITY, THERE WAS
1232
00:34:30,745 --> 00:34:32,580
CHARACTER, THERE WAS SEX APPEAL,
1233
00:34:32,580 --> 00:34:33,748
AND THEN YOU CAN ADD THAT INTO
1234
00:34:33,748 --> 00:34:35,383
THE WRESTLING THAT YOU SAW IN
1235
00:34:35,383 --> 00:34:36,551
THE RING AND MIXING IT ALL
1236
00:34:36,551 --> 00:34:37,552
TOGETHER, I THINK THAT WAS
1237
00:34:37,552 --> 00:34:38,519
REALLY COOL.
1238
00:34:38,519 --> 00:34:39,587
GOING FOR THE SUPLEX.
1239
00:34:39,587 --> 00:34:40,688
SABLE'S TAKEN--OH.
1240
00:34:40,688 --> 00:34:41,556
LOOK AT MERO.
1241
00:34:41,556 --> 00:34:42,223
CHECK IT OUT.
1242
00:34:42,223 --> 00:34:43,057
MERO IN THERE AND--OH, AND
1243
00:34:43,057 --> 00:34:43,891
JACQUELINE.
1244
00:34:43,891 --> 00:34:44,859
[BELL RINGING]
1245
00:34:44,859 --> 00:34:45,960
MERO HAD THE FOOT.
1246
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:46,894
MERO TRIPPED SABLE AND HAD THE
1247
00:34:46,894 --> 00:34:47,862
FOOT.
1248
00:34:47,862 --> 00:34:49,564
[MUSIC]
1249
00:34:49,564 --> 00:34:51,366
JACQUELINE, THE NEW WORLD
1250
00:34:51,366 --> 00:34:52,800
WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT WOMEN'S
1251
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,068
CHAMPION.
1252
00:34:54,068 --> 00:34:56,804
[MUSIC]
1253
00:34:56,804 --> 00:34:58,906
A WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP WOULD
1254
00:34:58,906 --> 00:35:00,808
USHER IN A BOASTED DIVAS
1255
00:35:00,808 --> 00:35:02,877
DIVISION AND MORE FEMALE
1256
00:35:02,877 --> 00:35:04,912
SUPERSTARS BECAME A PART OF THE
1257
00:35:04,912 --> 00:35:07,148
WWE ROSTER.
1258
00:35:07,148 --> 00:35:08,649
WHEN YOU LOOK AT DIVAS FROM
1259
00:35:08,649 --> 00:35:10,818
THE '90S YOU HAD A REALLY,
1260
00:35:10,818 --> 00:35:12,220
REALLY, SOLID ROSTER AND THEY
1261
00:35:12,220 --> 00:35:13,388
WOULD GO AT IT JUST LIKE THE
1262
00:35:13,388 --> 00:35:14,322
GUYS.
1263
00:35:14,322 --> 00:35:15,623
A WOMEN'S MATCH.
1264
00:35:15,623 --> 00:35:17,825
IT USED TO BE AN ATTRACTION.
1265
00:35:17,825 --> 00:35:19,227
DURING THE ATTITUDE ERA, WOMEN
1266
00:35:19,227 --> 00:35:20,828
BECAME THE ATTRACTION.
1267
00:35:20,828 --> 00:35:23,030
[CROWD CHEERING]
1268
00:35:23,030 --> 00:35:25,066
THE WWE DIVAS WERE DEFINED IN
1269
00:35:25,066 --> 00:35:26,234
THE ATTITUDE ERA.
1270
00:35:26,234 --> 00:35:27,969
OUR FEMALES WERE LARGER THAN
1271
00:35:27,969 --> 00:35:29,370
LIVES THEMSELVES.
1272
00:35:29,370 --> 00:35:31,806
THEY WERE SEXY, THEY WERE FUN,
1273
00:35:31,806 --> 00:35:33,374
THEY WERE MANIPULATIVE, THEY
1274
00:35:33,374 --> 00:35:35,343
WERE NOW A PART OF STORYLINE.
1275
00:35:35,343 --> 00:35:36,677
[MUSIC]
1276
00:35:36,677 --> 00:35:38,079
[CROWD CHEERING]
1277
00:35:38,079 --> 00:35:40,882
THE NINTH WONDER OF THE WORLD
1278
00:35:40,882 --> 00:35:44,318
MAKING WWE HISTORY, THE FIRST
1279
00:35:44,318 --> 00:35:47,055
WOMAN EVER TO ENTER THE ROYAL
1280
00:35:47,055 --> 00:35:49,424
RUMBLE MATCH.
1281
00:35:49,424 --> 00:35:52,827
AS 1999 BEGAN, WWE'S ATTITUDE
1282
00:35:52,827 --> 00:35:55,296
ERA WAS PRESENTING DIVAS WITH
1283
00:35:55,296 --> 00:35:57,131
OPPORTUNITIES THEY HAD NEVER
1284
00:35:57,131 --> 00:35:58,699
RECEIVED BEFORE.
1285
00:35:58,699 --> 00:35:59,801
CHYNA WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO
1286
00:35:59,801 --> 00:36:01,102
COMPETE IN A ROYAL RUMBLE.
1287
00:36:01,102 --> 00:36:03,237
SHE COMPETED AGAINST MEN.
1288
00:36:03,237 --> 00:36:04,972
AND THERE GOES MARK HENRY.
1289
00:36:04,972 --> 00:36:05,740
[CROWD CHEERING]
1290
00:36:05,740 --> 00:36:07,508
OH, NO.
1291
00:36:07,508 --> 00:36:11,779
WWE DIVAS BECAME SEX SYMBOLS,
1292
00:36:11,779 --> 00:36:13,147
ICONS.
1293
00:36:13,147 --> 00:36:15,516
EVERY MAN WANTED THEM.
1294
00:36:15,516 --> 00:36:16,617
SABLE, I THINK, SAID IT THE
1295
00:36:16,617 --> 00:36:17,885
BEST.
1296
00:36:17,885 --> 00:36:19,287
THIS IS FOR ALL THE WOMEN WHO
1297
00:36:19,287 --> 00:36:22,790
WANT TO BE ME AND FOR THE MEN
1298
00:36:22,790 --> 00:36:24,592
WHO COME TO SEE ME.
1299
00:36:24,592 --> 00:36:25,526
[CROWD CHEERING]
1300
00:36:25,526 --> 00:36:26,694
WOHOO-HOO.
1301
00:36:26,694 --> 00:36:28,162
OH, BABY.
1302
00:36:28,162 --> 00:36:29,363
I'M WATCHING THIS.
1303
00:36:29,363 --> 00:36:30,531
I'M, WHAT, 18 OR SOMETHING.
1304
00:36:30,531 --> 00:36:31,732
LIKE, YEAH.
1305
00:36:31,732 --> 00:36:34,368
SEX SELLS AND WE WERE RIGHT
1306
00:36:34,368 --> 00:36:35,536
THERE WITH IT.
1307
00:36:35,536 --> 00:36:36,537
[CROWD CHEERING]
1308
00:36:36,537 --> 00:36:37,438
OH, NO.
1309
00:36:37,438 --> 00:36:38,773
MORE PANTIES.
1310
00:36:38,773 --> 00:36:39,640
[CROWD CHEERING]
1311
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:40,508
[INDISTINCT]
1312
00:36:40,508 --> 00:36:42,376
DISROBED DEBRA.
1313
00:36:42,376 --> 00:36:43,611
WE HAD THAT AUDIENCE, THOSE
1314
00:36:43,611 --> 00:36:44,979
YOUNG COLLEGE GUYS THAT WERE SO
1315
00:36:44,979 --> 00:36:47,982
INTO HOW SEXY OUR DIVAS WERE.
1316
00:36:47,982 --> 00:36:49,350
THEN THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW,
1317
00:36:49,350 --> 00:36:50,852
THERE'S SABLE IN PLAYBOY
1318
00:36:50,852 --> 00:36:52,186
MAGAZINE.
1319
00:36:52,186 --> 00:36:53,454
KING, ARE YOU GONNA DESCRIBE
1320
00:36:53,454 --> 00:36:54,622
IT OR WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?
1321
00:36:54,622 --> 00:36:55,590
ARE YOU JUST GONNA SIT HERE AND
1322
00:36:55,590 --> 00:36:57,091
LOOK?
1323
00:36:57,091 --> 00:36:58,226
SAY SOMETHING.
1324
00:36:58,226 --> 00:36:59,427
SHUT UP, I'M READING.
1325
00:36:59,427 --> 00:37:00,394
WHEN SABLE DID PLAYBOY,
1326
00:37:00,394 --> 00:37:01,529
SUDDENLY, WOW.
1327
00:37:01,529 --> 00:37:02,797
WE WERE MAINSTREAM.
1328
00:37:02,797 --> 00:37:04,765
IT BRINGS NEW EYEBALLS INTO OUR
1329
00:37:04,765 --> 00:37:06,701
PROGRAMMING, IT GETS PEOPLE
1330
00:37:06,701 --> 00:37:08,536
INTERESTED.
1331
00:37:08,536 --> 00:37:09,937
AND THERE IT IS, FOLKS.
1332
00:37:09,937 --> 00:37:11,772
THE HOTTEST SELLING PLAYBOY
1333
00:37:11,772 --> 00:37:14,007
ISSUE EVER.
1334
00:37:13,941 --> 00:37:16,042
PLAYBOY MAGAZINE, YOU DON'T
1335
00:37:16,042 --> 00:37:16,544
GET ANY BETTER THAT THAT.
1336
00:37:16,544 --> 00:37:17,645
IT WAS NOT ONLY GROUND-BREAKING,
1337
00:37:17,645 --> 00:37:18,646
THAT FEELS GREAT FOR THE
1338
00:37:18,646 --> 00:37:19,514
COMPANY.
1339
00:37:19,514 --> 00:37:20,615
WE WERE COMPETING IN THE
1340
00:37:20,615 --> 00:37:21,616
SPACE THAT WE HAVE NEVER BEEN IN
1341
00:37:21,616 --> 00:37:22,850
BEFORE.
1342
00:37:22,850 --> 00:37:24,118
IT DEFINITELY ELEVATED US TO A
1343
00:37:24,118 --> 00:37:26,120
WHOLE NEW PLACE.
1344
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,522
THE SABLE ISSUE OF PLAYBOY
1345
00:37:27,522 --> 00:37:28,890
BECAME ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING
1346
00:37:28,890 --> 00:37:30,291
COPIES IN THE MAGAZINE'S
1347
00:37:30,291 --> 00:37:31,359
HISTORY.
1348
00:37:31,359 --> 00:37:32,193
[CROWD CHEERING]
1349
00:37:32,193 --> 00:37:33,361
WOMEN IN SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT
1350
00:37:33,361 --> 00:37:35,363
HAD NEVER BEEN MORE POPULAR AS
1351
00:37:35,363 --> 00:37:37,365
WWE CONTINUED TO BREAK THROUGH
1352
00:37:37,365 --> 00:37:40,033
BOUNDARIES.
1353
00:37:40,033 --> 00:37:40,067
EVERYTHING IN THE ATTITUDE
1354
00:37:40,067 --> 00:37:41,169
ERA WAS KIND OF PUSHING THE
1355
00:37:41,169 --> 00:37:42,537
ENVELOPE.
1356
00:37:42,537 --> 00:37:43,804
HOW FAR CAN WE PUSH THIS?
1357
00:37:43,804 --> 00:37:45,139
[CROWD CHEERING]
1358
00:37:45,139 --> 00:37:46,274
WE PUSHED IT TO THE EDGE.
1359
00:37:46,274 --> 00:37:47,341
WELL, LET'S PUSH IT OVER THE
1360
00:37:47,341 --> 00:37:48,910
EDGE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
1361
00:37:48,910 --> 00:37:49,944
CHYNA WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO
1362
00:37:49,944 --> 00:37:50,778
WIN THE INTERCONTINENTAL
1363
00:37:50,778 --> 00:37:51,779
CHAMPIONSHIP.
1364
00:37:51,779 --> 00:37:52,880
CHYNA HAS MADE HISTORY.
1365
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:53,848
THAT'S SOMETHING I DON'T
1366
00:37:53,848 --> 00:37:54,715
THINK A WOMAN'S EVER GONNA DO
1367
00:37:54,715 --> 00:37:55,683
AGAIN.
1368
00:37:55,683 --> 00:37:56,784
YOU NEVER KNEW WHAT JACKIE
1369
00:37:56,784 --> 00:37:58,619
AND TERRI WERE GONNA DO.
1370
00:37:58,619 --> 00:37:59,654
YOU NEVER KNEW WHAT SABLE WAS
1371
00:37:59,654 --> 00:38:00,955
GONNA DO NEXT.
1372
00:38:00,955 --> 00:38:03,057
IT WAS JUST A REALLY EXCITING
1373
00:38:03,057 --> 00:38:04,592
TIME.
1374
00:38:04,592 --> 00:38:05,593
WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH IT OR YOU
1375
00:38:05,593 --> 00:38:08,229
DIDN'T, PEOPLE WATCHED.
1376
00:38:08,229 --> 00:38:09,697
DESPITE HOW FAR WWE PUSHED
1377
00:38:09,697 --> 00:38:12,600
THE PROGRAMMING ENVELOPE,
1378
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,036
RATINGS CONTINUED TO RISE AND
1379
00:38:16,036 --> 00:38:16,871
RAW BEGAN DOUBLING NITRO IN THE
1380
00:38:16,871 --> 00:38:19,707
RATINGS ON A CONSISTENT BASIS.
1381
00:38:19,707 --> 00:38:21,876
WCW UNDERESTIMATED THEIR
1382
00:38:21,876 --> 00:38:23,211
GIRLS, YOU KNOW, JUST TO HAVE
1383
00:38:23,211 --> 00:38:24,178
THEM BE DANCERS.
1384
00:38:24,178 --> 00:38:25,079
WOMEN CAN DO SO MUCH MORE THAN
1385
00:38:25,079 --> 00:38:26,047
JUST DANCE.
1386
00:38:26,047 --> 00:38:27,114
IF YOU WANNA SEE WOMEN DANCE, GO
1387
00:38:27,114 --> 00:38:28,683
WATCH A FOOTBALL GAME.
1388
00:38:28,683 --> 00:38:29,784
ALL OF A SUDDEN, EACH ONE OF
1389
00:38:29,784 --> 00:38:31,953
THESE NITRO GIRLS WOULD FIND A
1390
00:38:31,953 --> 00:38:35,356
LITTLE NICHE FOR HER IN WCW.
1391
00:38:35,356 --> 00:38:37,792
KEVIN.
1392
00:38:37,792 --> 00:38:38,859
YEAH, BABE.
1393
00:38:38,859 --> 00:38:39,760
WHAT ARE YOU--WHAT ARE YOU
1394
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:40,528
DOING?
1395
00:38:40,528 --> 00:38:41,295
WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?
1396
00:38:41,295 --> 00:38:43,029
NO ONE.
1397
00:38:42,830 --> 00:38:43,831
TO?
1398
00:38:43,831 --> 00:38:44,365
JUST GET OUT.
1399
00:38:44,365 --> 00:38:45,166
YOU KNOW WHAT...
1400
00:38:45,166 --> 00:38:46,234
COME ON, BABY.
1401
00:38:46,234 --> 00:38:48,034
...I'M SICK OF YOU.
1402
00:38:48,034 --> 00:38:48,135
HELLO, MY NAME IS STACY AND
1403
00:38:48,135 --> 00:38:49,303
I'M FROM BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.
1404
00:38:49,303 --> 00:38:50,438
STACY KEIBLER EVOLVED OUT OF
1405
00:38:50,438 --> 00:38:51,772
THE NITRO GIRLS AND THE REST WAS
1406
00:38:51,772 --> 00:38:52,707
HISTORY.
1407
00:38:52,707 --> 00:38:53,507
[CROWD CHEERING]
1408
00:38:53,507 --> 00:38:54,709
CODY, CALL THE MATCH.
1409
00:38:54,709 --> 00:38:55,710
I CAN'T CALL THE MATCH.
1410
00:38:55,710 --> 00:38:56,677
CODY, CALL THE MATCH.
1411
00:38:56,677 --> 00:38:58,079
I'M NOT LOOKING.
1412
00:38:58,079 --> 00:39:01,115
IF YOU REMEMBER STACY
1413
00:39:01,115 --> 00:39:03,684
KEIBLER, TORRIE WILSON, AND I'M
1414
00:39:03,684 --> 00:39:05,686
NOT TRYING TO SLIPE ANYBODY
1415
00:39:05,686 --> 00:39:08,389
ELSE, WHILE WE WERE TURNING THE
1416
00:39:08,389 --> 00:39:10,358
TIDE AND WINNING THE RATINGS
1417
00:39:10,358 --> 00:39:12,426
WAR, IT SEEMED LIKE WCW DID NOT
1418
00:39:12,426 --> 00:39:16,097
UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WERE
1419
00:39:16,097 --> 00:39:17,965
STARTING TO LOSE.
1420
00:39:17,965 --> 00:39:19,200
AND MEDUSA HAS COME BACK WITH
1421
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,602
A VENGEANCE.
1422
00:39:21,602 --> 00:39:22,870
I THINK WOMEN WERE AN
1423
00:39:22,870 --> 00:39:25,640
AFTERTHOUGHT FOR WCW.
1424
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:26,874
AND I THINK IT SHOWED IN THE
1425
00:39:26,874 --> 00:39:28,342
CREATIVE.
1426
00:39:28,342 --> 00:39:29,844
IT GOT TO THE POINT WHERE,
1427
00:39:29,844 --> 00:39:31,078
WELL, LET'S PUT THEM IN THE
1428
00:39:31,078 --> 00:39:32,680
LITTLE MATCHES AND, YOU KNOW,
1429
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,548
SOMEWHAT COMPETE.
1430
00:39:34,548 --> 00:39:35,850
BUT I THINK THEY TRIED TO KEEP
1431
00:39:35,850 --> 00:39:38,119
THEM EYE CANDY RATHER THAN
1432
00:39:38,119 --> 00:39:39,220
IN-RING COMPETITORS.
1433
00:39:39,220 --> 00:39:40,955
[MUSIC]
1434
00:39:40,955 --> 00:39:42,356
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE RATINGS.
1435
00:39:42,356 --> 00:39:44,425
AND RIGHT NOW, EVERY YOUNG MAN,
1436
00:39:44,425 --> 00:39:45,860
18 TO 34 IN [INDISTINCT]
1437
00:39:45,860 --> 00:39:48,296
HAS HAD A HEART ATTACK.
1438
00:39:48,296 --> 00:39:49,930
WCW, THEY JUST USED THEM AS
1439
00:39:49,930 --> 00:39:50,965
GARNISH.
1440
00:39:50,965 --> 00:39:52,233
THEY MIGHT AS WELL BEEN HOLDING
1441
00:39:52,233 --> 00:39:53,367
UP RING CARDS.
1442
00:39:53,367 --> 00:39:54,302
[MUSIC]
1443
00:39:54,302 --> 00:39:56,137
WITH WCW FLOUNDERING, WWE
1444
00:39:56,137 --> 00:39:58,539
INTRODUCED ITS NEWEST DIVA, A
1445
00:39:58,539 --> 00:40:00,474
WOMAN WHO HAD SEX APPEAL AND
1446
00:40:00,474 --> 00:40:03,010
ALSO SHOWCASED ATHLETICISM NEVER
1447
00:40:03,010 --> 00:40:05,346
BEFORE SEEN IN A FEMALE
1448
00:40:05,346 --> 00:40:07,148
COMPETITOR AND REPRESENTED THE
1449
00:40:07,148 --> 00:40:09,183
NEXT STEP IN THE EVOLUTION OF
1450
00:40:09,183 --> 00:40:11,218
WOMEN IN SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
1451
00:40:11,218 --> 00:40:12,086
[CROWD CHEERING]
1452
00:40:12,086 --> 00:40:13,354
WHAT'S LITA DOING?
1453
00:40:13,354 --> 00:40:15,056
WHAT THE WORLD?
1454
00:40:15,056 --> 00:40:16,290
[CROWD CHEERING]
1455
00:40:16,290 --> 00:40:17,391
OH, MY.
1456
00:40:17,391 --> 00:40:18,326
WOW.
1457
00:40:18,326 --> 00:40:20,861
LITA JUST MIMICKED ESSA RIOS.
1458
00:40:20,861 --> 00:40:22,930
SHE CAME INTO A TRAINING CAMP
1459
00:40:22,930 --> 00:40:25,266
WITH 17 MEN.
1460
00:40:25,266 --> 00:40:27,034
AND WHEN IT CAME IN TIME TO POUR
1461
00:40:27,034 --> 00:40:28,302
IN THE RAIN TO SHOW WHAT SHE
1462
00:40:28,302 --> 00:40:31,038
COULD DO, SHE WRESTLED THE GUYS.
1463
00:40:31,038 --> 00:40:32,940
[CROWD CHEERING]
1464
00:40:32,940 --> 00:40:34,642
WHEN I CAME INTO THE WWE, I
1465
00:40:34,642 --> 00:40:35,710
DIDN'T EXACTLY KNOW WHAT MY ROLE
1466
00:40:35,710 --> 00:40:37,278
WOULD BE.
1467
00:40:37,278 --> 00:40:38,746
AND TO BE ABLE TO BE EXPANDED
1468
00:40:38,746 --> 00:40:40,548
INTO SOMETHING WHERE I WAS IN
1469
00:40:40,548 --> 00:40:42,550
THE MIX AND IN THE ACTION, THE
1470
00:40:42,550 --> 00:40:43,784
CROWD DICTATED THAT THAT'S--THEY
1471
00:40:43,784 --> 00:40:45,119
WERE LIKE, "WE'RE TOTALLY OKAY
1472
00:40:45,119 --> 00:40:46,354
WITH THIS."
1473
00:40:46,354 --> 00:40:47,688
AND I GOT TO RUN WITH IT.
1474
00:40:47,688 --> 00:40:49,623
[CROWD CHEERING]
1475
00:40:49,623 --> 00:40:51,525
SHE CAME IN AND WAS LIKE,
1476
00:40:51,525 --> 00:40:52,693
"THIS IS ME."
1477
00:40:52,693 --> 00:40:54,362
AND SHE COULD BACK IT UP WITH
1478
00:40:54,362 --> 00:40:55,429
HER IN-RING SKILLS.
1479
00:40:55,429 --> 00:40:56,831
IT SHOWED A WHOLE DIFFERENT
1480
00:40:56,831 --> 00:40:59,367
CHARACTER TO WHAT WE'RE USED TO.
1481
00:40:59,367 --> 00:41:00,768
SEEING LITA HEADSCISSORS
1482
00:41:00,768 --> 00:41:02,636
SOMEBODY OFF THE TOP ROPE...
1483
00:41:02,636 --> 00:41:03,871
OH, LITA OFF THE TOP ROPE.
1484
00:41:03,871 --> 00:41:05,206
HURRICANRANA.
1485
00:41:05,206 --> 00:41:06,173
[CROWD CHEERING]
1486
00:41:06,173 --> 00:41:07,575
...THAT'S SO COOL --
1487
00:41:07,575 --> 00:41:09,009
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
1488
00:41:09,009 --> 00:41:10,344
LITA APPEALED TO A LOT OF THE
1489
00:41:10,344 --> 00:41:12,046
YOUNG AUDIENCE WATCHING.
1490
00:41:12,046 --> 00:41:13,814
SHE HAD THE TATTOOS, SHE
1491
00:41:13,814 --> 00:41:15,516
LISTENED TO THE GRUNGE MUSIC,
1492
00:41:15,516 --> 00:41:17,551
SHE DID FACING THE RING THAT NO
1493
00:41:17,551 --> 00:41:20,154
DIVA HAD EVER DONE BEFORE.
1494
00:41:20,154 --> 00:41:22,990
[MUSIC]
1495
00:41:22,990 --> 00:41:24,925
BY THE YEAR 2000, MONDAY
1496
00:41:24,925 --> 00:41:26,927
NIGHT RAW HAD FIRMLY ESTABLISHED
1497
00:41:26,927 --> 00:41:29,597
ITSELF AS THE NUMBER ONE SHOW IN
1498
00:41:29,597 --> 00:41:31,399
SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
1499
00:41:31,399 --> 00:41:34,235
MALE SUPERSTARS LED THE CHARGE,
1500
00:41:34,235 --> 00:41:36,070
BUT THE DIVAS PLAYED NO SMALL
1501
00:41:36,070 --> 00:41:38,906
PART IN CHANGING THE FORTUNE OF
1502
00:41:38,906 --> 00:41:40,207
WWE.
1503
00:41:40,207 --> 00:41:41,575
[CROWD CHEERING]
1504
00:41:41,575 --> 00:41:42,510
HEY, WAIT A MINUTE.
1505
00:41:42,510 --> 00:41:43,411
WHAT IS THIS?
1506
00:41:43,411 --> 00:41:44,178
IT'S LITA.
1507
00:41:44,178 --> 00:41:45,579
IT'S LITA.
1508
00:41:45,579 --> 00:41:46,680
LOOK AT THIS.
1509
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:47,748
AND LITA...
1510
00:41:47,748 --> 00:41:49,750
[CROWD CHEERING]
1511
00:41:49,750 --> 00:41:51,585
THE DIVAS DIVISION WAS MADE
1512
00:41:51,585 --> 00:41:53,354
UP OF WOMEN OF UNPARALLELED
1513
00:41:53,354 --> 00:41:55,156
BEAUTY, STRENGTH, AND
1514
00:41:55,156 --> 00:41:56,257
ATHLETICISM.
1515
00:41:56,257 --> 00:41:57,491
[CROWD CHEERING]
1516
00:41:57,491 --> 00:41:58,426
OH.
1517
00:41:58,426 --> 00:41:59,527
[MUSIC]
1518
00:41:59,527 --> 00:42:01,095
WITH AN ALL READY TALENTED
1519
00:42:01,095 --> 00:42:03,230
WRESTLER, WWE WOULD SOON FEATURE
1520
00:42:03,230 --> 00:42:05,666
A FEMALE TALENT THAT COMBINED
1521
00:42:05,666 --> 00:42:09,203
ALL THREE INTO ONE UNBELIEVABLE
1522
00:42:09,203 --> 00:42:10,738
PACKAGE.
1523
00:42:10,738 --> 00:42:12,106
[MUSIC]
1524
00:42:12,106 --> 00:42:13,574
T & A MANAGED BY TRISH
1525
00:42:13,574 --> 00:42:16,343
STRATUS, A FORMER FITNESS MODEL.
1526
00:42:16,343 --> 00:42:17,478
SHE PUT T & A TOGETHER,
1527
00:42:17,478 --> 00:42:18,312
DIDN'T SHE?
1528
00:42:18,312 --> 00:42:19,246
SHE CERTAINLY DID.
1529
00:42:19,246 --> 00:42:20,347
OH.
1530
00:42:20,347 --> 00:42:21,482
TRISH STRATUS CAME IN AS A
1531
00:42:21,482 --> 00:42:22,750
MODEL AND AS A VALET AND KIND OF
1532
00:42:22,750 --> 00:42:25,286
CHARACTERED THAT--WAS SEXUALIZED
1533
00:42:25,286 --> 00:42:26,153
A LITTLE BIT, YET, HAD THE
1534
00:42:26,153 --> 00:42:27,421
TRAINING AND THE DRIVE TO BECOME
1535
00:42:27,421 --> 00:42:28,589
ONE OF THE TOP DIVAS IN THIS
1536
00:42:28,589 --> 00:42:29,990
COMPANY.
1537
00:42:29,990 --> 00:42:32,660
WHEN I FIRST CAME INTO THE
1538
00:42:32,660 --> 00:42:34,662
WWE, I DEFINITELY KNEW I WANTED
1539
00:42:34,662 --> 00:42:35,996
TO BE ATHLETIC AND I WANTED TO
1540
00:42:35,996 --> 00:42:38,265
DO WHAT THE GUYS DO IN THE RING.
1541
00:42:38,265 --> 00:42:39,500
THE COMBINATION OF COMING IN AND
1542
00:42:39,500 --> 00:42:41,268
BEING A PERFORMER, BEING AN
1543
00:42:41,268 --> 00:42:42,636
ENTERTAINER BUT ALSO AN ATHLETE
1544
00:42:42,636 --> 00:42:44,505
IS VERY APPEALING TO ME.
1545
00:42:44,505 --> 00:42:45,406
YEAH, WHAT THE HELL?
1546
00:42:45,406 --> 00:42:46,240
LOOK.
1547
00:42:46,240 --> 00:42:47,708
I SEE [INDISTINCT]
1548
00:42:47,708 --> 00:42:48,843
IF I GOT TO BE IN A BRA AND
1549
00:42:48,843 --> 00:42:50,144
PANTIES TO GET YOUR ATTENTION,
1550
00:42:50,144 --> 00:42:51,345
WELL GUESS WHAT, AND NOW THAT I
1551
00:42:51,345 --> 00:42:52,480
HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, WATCH THIS.
1552
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:53,414
[CROWD CHEERING]
1553
00:42:53,414 --> 00:42:54,348
LOOK OUT.
1554
00:42:54,348 --> 00:42:55,182
OH, MAN.
1555
00:42:55,182 --> 00:42:56,350
SHE IS VERY PHYSICAL.
1556
00:42:56,350 --> 00:42:57,585
SHE TAKES BUMPS LIKE NO OTHER
1557
00:42:57,585 --> 00:42:58,686
WOMAN I'VE EVER SEEN.
1558
00:42:58,686 --> 00:43:00,688
[CROWD CHEERING]
1559
00:43:00,688 --> 00:43:04,158
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, TRISH
1560
00:43:04,158 --> 00:43:06,327
JUST EXPLODED IN THE TABLE.
1561
00:43:06,327 --> 00:43:08,462
[CROWD CHEERING]
1562
00:43:08,462 --> 00:43:09,463
AND SHE HAS THE ABILITY TO
1563
00:43:09,463 --> 00:43:10,865
ELEVATE THE OTHER GIRLS THAT SHE
1564
00:43:10,865 --> 00:43:12,867
WORKS WITH.
1565
00:43:12,867 --> 00:43:13,701
[MUSIC]
1566
00:43:13,701 --> 00:43:14,735
ALL OF A SUDDEN, THERE WAS
1567
00:43:14,735 --> 00:43:15,903
THIS DIVISION THAT HAD THESE
1568
00:43:15,903 --> 00:43:17,004
WOMEN.
1569
00:43:17,004 --> 00:43:17,972
THERE WAS SOMETHING FOR
1570
00:43:17,972 --> 00:43:18,839
EVERYONE.
1571
00:43:18,839 --> 00:43:19,840
THEY BROUGHT A SENSE OF
1572
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:20,908
BEAUTY, NOT ONLY FROM THE LOOKS,
1573
00:43:20,908 --> 00:43:23,042
BUT WITH THEIR MOVES.
1574
00:43:23,042 --> 00:43:24,011
[CROWD CHEERING]
1575
00:43:24,011 --> 00:43:25,012
WAIT A MINUTE.
1576
00:43:25,012 --> 00:43:26,180
NOW, LITA'S GOING UP TOP.
1577
00:43:26,180 --> 00:43:27,281
SHE HITS AND IT'S OVER.
1578
00:43:27,281 --> 00:43:30,017
THE MOONSAULT, LITA HIT IT.
1579
00:43:30,017 --> 00:43:31,752
[BELL RINGING]
1580
00:43:31,752 --> 00:43:33,087
IT WAS FUN TO WATCH.
1581
00:43:33,087 --> 00:43:34,855
[MUSIC]
1582
00:43:34,855 --> 00:43:36,323
WHILE WWE WAS BREAKING NEW
1583
00:43:36,323 --> 00:43:37,491
GROUND IN THE SPORTS
1584
00:43:37,491 --> 00:43:42,096
ENTERTAINMENT WORLD, WCW WAS
1585
00:43:42,096 --> 00:43:44,164
FALLING FURTHER BEHIND THE
1586
00:43:44,164 --> 00:43:45,533
CURVE.
1587
00:43:45,533 --> 00:43:47,268
WE HAD A FEW OTHER GIRLS WHO
1588
00:43:47,268 --> 00:43:48,569
ACTUALLY WENT OUT THERE, BUT
1589
00:43:48,569 --> 00:43:49,837
THEY WERE--THEY NEVER COULD
1590
00:43:49,837 --> 00:43:51,572
REALLY GET AS RACY.
1591
00:43:51,572 --> 00:43:52,706
[MUSIC]
1592
00:43:52,706 --> 00:43:55,109
IN JANUARY OF 2001, THE
1593
00:43:55,109 --> 00:43:56,744
CORPORATE MERGER BETWEEN AMERICA
1594
00:43:56,744 --> 00:43:59,613
ONLINE AND TIME WARNER LEFT THE
1595
00:43:59,613 --> 00:44:02,550
CONGLOMERATE AS THE NEW OWNERS
1596
00:44:02,550 --> 00:44:05,686
OF WCW, WHO MANDATED A REDUCTION
1597
00:44:05,686 --> 00:44:07,187
IN RACY PROGRAMMING.
1598
00:44:07,187 --> 00:44:08,589
LISTEN, WE REALLY APPRECIATE
1599
00:44:08,589 --> 00:44:10,124
ALL FAN MAILS FROM ALL THE
1600
00:44:10,124 --> 00:44:11,325
LADIES OUT HERE.
1601
00:44:11,325 --> 00:44:13,460
GOD, IS THIS LAME.
1602
00:44:13,460 --> 00:44:14,461
THERE WERE A LOT OF BAD
1603
00:44:14,461 --> 00:44:16,263
THINGS GOING ON IN WCW
1604
00:44:16,263 --> 00:44:17,865
FINANCIALLY, A LOT OF MONEY
1605
00:44:17,865 --> 00:44:18,899
BEING SPENT THAT DIDN'T NEED TO
1606
00:44:18,899 --> 00:44:20,134
BE SPENT.
1607
00:44:20,134 --> 00:44:21,235
AND WHEN THE MERGER HAPPENED,
1608
00:44:21,235 --> 00:44:22,603
THEY JUST WANTED TO STOP THE
1609
00:44:22,603 --> 00:44:24,171
BLEEDING THAT PUT THE KIBOSH ON
1610
00:44:24,171 --> 00:44:26,440
EVERYTHING.
1611
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,075
THAT'S WHEN VINCE GOT THE UPPER
1612
00:44:28,075 --> 00:44:29,009
HAND.
1613
00:44:29,009 --> 00:44:30,177
HE WAS WILLING TO DO THINGS THAT
1614
00:44:30,177 --> 00:44:32,780
THOSE AT WCW, THEY WEREN'T
1615
00:44:32,780 --> 00:44:34,014
WILLING TO DO.
1616
00:44:34,014 --> 00:44:35,849
OH, GOD.
1617
00:44:35,849 --> 00:44:37,184
[BELL RINGING]
1618
00:44:37,184 --> 00:44:38,519
WHERE IS STANDARDS AND
1619
00:44:38,519 --> 00:44:40,020
PRACTICES WHEN WE NEED THEM?
1620
00:44:40,020 --> 00:44:41,288
WE GOT A STANDARDS AND
1621
00:44:41,288 --> 00:44:42,957
PRACTICE GUY IN OUR CREATIVE
1622
00:44:42,957 --> 00:44:44,091
ROOM.
1623
00:44:44,091 --> 00:44:45,192
AND THEN WE GOT VAL VENIS WITH
1624
00:44:45,192 --> 00:44:48,329
JENNA JAMESON.
1625
00:44:48,329 --> 00:44:49,730
SIZE DOES MATTER.
1626
00:44:49,730 --> 00:44:52,333
WHATEVER, DEMOGRAPHICS IS
1627
00:44:52,333 --> 00:44:54,268
GONNA GO.
1628
00:44:54,268 --> 00:44:55,402
[MUSIC]
1629
00:44:55,402 --> 00:44:56,937
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
1630
00:44:56,937 --> 00:44:58,305
WAS CREATIVELY STIFLED BY
1631
00:44:58,305 --> 00:45:00,674
THEY'RE CORPORATE BANKRUPTCY.
1632
00:45:00,674 --> 00:45:02,443
BUT VINCE MCMAHON'S WIN AT ALL
1633
00:45:02,443 --> 00:45:04,345
COSTS ATTITUDE WAS EMBODIED BY
1634
00:45:04,345 --> 00:45:05,913
THE INCORPORATION OF HIS OWN
1635
00:45:05,913 --> 00:45:09,116
DAUGHTER INTO WWE PROGRAMMING
1636
00:45:09,116 --> 00:45:10,918
WHERE SHE WOULD'VE MERGE AS AN
1637
00:45:10,918 --> 00:45:12,853
INTEGRAL PART OF THE DIVA
1638
00:45:12,853 --> 00:45:14,188
LANDSCAPE.
1639
00:45:14,188 --> 00:45:16,590
VINCE WENT SO FAR AS TO BRING
1640
00:45:16,590 --> 00:45:18,492
IN HIS DAUGHTER TO BE A MAJOR
1641
00:45:18,492 --> 00:45:20,427
PLAYER IN THIS BUSINESS AS A
1642
00:45:20,427 --> 00:45:23,430
STRONG, EVEN ROLE MODEL TO WOMEN
1643
00:45:23,430 --> 00:45:25,165
EVERYWHERE.
1644
00:45:25,165 --> 00:45:26,600
IT JUST SHOWED HOW MUCH VINCE
1645
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:28,202
BELIEVED IN THE PRODUCT AND HOW
1646
00:45:28,202 --> 00:45:29,703
MUCH HE WANTED TO SHOW THE WORLD
1647
00:45:29,703 --> 00:45:31,271
THAT THIS IS THE BEST COMPANY.
1648
00:45:31,271 --> 00:45:32,506
[CROWD CHEERING]
1649
00:45:32,506 --> 00:45:33,707
STEPHANIE MCMAHON.
1650
00:45:33,707 --> 00:45:37,144
[MUSIC]
1651
00:45:37,144 --> 00:45:38,278
SHE TURNED HER BACK FROM HER
1652
00:45:38,278 --> 00:45:39,580
FATHER.
1653
00:45:39,580 --> 00:45:41,849
I THINK WWE JUST WANTED TO
1654
00:45:41,849 --> 00:45:43,817
MOVE FORWARD.
1655
00:45:43,817 --> 00:45:46,520
AND THE MCMAHONS ARE ALWAYS,
1656
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,255
ALWAYS A GREAT STORY.
1657
00:45:48,255 --> 00:45:49,823
AND THOSE CROWDS LOVED EVERY
1658
00:45:49,823 --> 00:45:51,091
SECOND OF IT.
1659
00:45:51,091 --> 00:45:52,259
STEPHANIE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT
1660
00:45:52,259 --> 00:45:53,027
TO DO.
1661
00:45:53,027 --> 00:45:54,061
HAS THE MATCH STARTED?
1662
00:45:54,061 --> 00:45:54,895
TRIPLE H TOLD HER TO COVER
1663
00:45:54,895 --> 00:45:55,696
JACQUELINE.
1664
00:45:55,696 --> 00:45:56,463
WHAT?
1665
00:45:56,463 --> 00:45:57,164
WAIT A MINUTE.
1666
00:45:57,164 --> 00:45:57,931
LOOK AT THIS.
1667
00:45:57,931 --> 00:45:58,766
[BELL RINGING]
1668
00:45:58,766 --> 00:45:59,500
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.
1669
00:45:59,500 --> 00:46:00,167
YOU'VE GOT BE KIDDING.
1670
00:46:00,167 --> 00:46:00,934
[MUSIC]
1671
00:46:00,934 --> 00:46:01,835
SHE DID IT.
1672
00:46:01,835 --> 00:46:02,836
THE NEW WORLD WRESTLING
1673
00:46:02,836 --> 00:46:04,171
ENTERTAINMENT WOMAN'S CHAMPION,
1674
00:46:04,171 --> 00:46:09,843
STEPHANIE MCMAHON-HELMSLEY.
1675
00:46:09,843 --> 00:46:10,911
WHAT AN ATHLETE, MICHAEL.
1676
00:46:10,911 --> 00:46:11,945
SHE DID IT.
1677
00:46:11,945 --> 00:46:12,913
WHAT AN ATHLETE?
1678
00:46:12,913 --> 00:46:14,248
IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY.
1679
00:46:14,248 --> 00:46:15,349
SHE'S JUST LIKE HER DAD.
1680
00:46:15,349 --> 00:46:16,417
ALL SHE WANTED TO DO WAS SUCCEED
1681
00:46:16,417 --> 00:46:17,851
AND SHE DID.
1682
00:46:17,851 --> 00:46:18,986
[MUSIC]
1683
00:46:18,986 --> 00:46:20,087
BEING ABLE TO ACTUALLY BE A
1684
00:46:20,087 --> 00:46:21,355
PART OF THE PRODUCT THAT WE
1685
00:46:21,355 --> 00:46:22,790
WORKED SO HARD TO PRODUCE
1686
00:46:22,790 --> 00:46:25,426
EVERYDAY IS REALLY AN HONOR.
1687
00:46:25,426 --> 00:46:27,895
AND TO A 21-YEAR-OLD KID, IT WAS
1688
00:46:27,895 --> 00:46:29,430
INCREDIBLE.
1689
00:46:29,430 --> 00:46:32,266
I'M DOING THINGS MY WAY AND
1690
00:46:32,266 --> 00:46:34,001
IT FEELS DAMN GOOD.
1691
00:46:34,001 --> 00:46:37,004
[CROWD CHEERING]
1692
00:46:37,004 --> 00:46:38,172
AND SHE REALLY GOT IT, YOU
1693
00:46:38,172 --> 00:46:39,006
KNOW.
1694
00:46:39,006 --> 00:46:40,007
OBVIOUSLY GROWING UP IN THE
1695
00:46:40,007 --> 00:46:41,175
FAMILY, SHE KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO
1696
00:46:41,175 --> 00:46:42,776
PLAY A CHARACTER AND SHE HAD NO
1697
00:46:42,776 --> 00:46:44,778
ISSUES AT ALL WITH ANYTHING THAT
1698
00:46:44,778 --> 00:46:45,846
WE WANTED TO SAY.
1699
00:46:45,846 --> 00:46:47,281
[CROWD CHEERING]
1700
00:46:47,281 --> 00:46:50,751
STEPHANIE IS VERY DELICATE.
1701
00:46:50,751 --> 00:46:53,654
SHE'S LIKE A LITTLE FLOWER.
1702
00:46:53,654 --> 00:46:55,689
FLOWER?
1703
00:46:55,689 --> 00:46:56,924
I'LL HAVE TO SAY THAT LITTLE
1704
00:46:56,924 --> 00:46:59,426
STEPHIE BABY LOST HER FLOWER A
1705
00:46:59,426 --> 00:47:00,761
LONG TIME AGO.
1706
00:47:00,761 --> 00:47:03,530
[CROWD CHEERING]
1707
00:47:03,530 --> 00:47:05,499
SHE REALLY HELPED DEFINE AN
1708
00:47:05,499 --> 00:47:08,702
ERA OF WWE DIVAS BECAUSE SHE WAS
1709
00:47:08,702 --> 00:47:12,004
THE FIRST THAT REALLY EXUDED
1710
00:47:12,004 --> 00:47:15,007
THIS SENSE OF POWER AND THAT
1711
00:47:15,007 --> 00:47:15,576
KIND OF POWER THAT A WOMAN CAN
1712
00:47:15,576 --> 00:47:16,977
HAVE.
1713
00:47:16,977 --> 00:47:18,112
FOR WOMEN THAT ARE MAKING IT
1714
00:47:18,112 --> 00:47:19,646
IN A MALE-DOMINATE WORLD, THAT'S
1715
00:47:19,646 --> 00:47:20,981
AWESOME TO ME AND IT'S SO
1716
00:47:20,981 --> 00:47:21,915
POWERFUL.
1717
00:47:21,915 --> 00:47:22,916
AND I THINK WHEN WE CAN PROJECT
1718
00:47:22,916 --> 00:47:23,851
AND HAVE THESE WOMEN YOUNGER
1719
00:47:23,851 --> 00:47:24,752
GIRLS CAN LOOK UP TO, I THINK
1720
00:47:24,752 --> 00:47:25,619
IT'S AMAZING ESPECIALLY IN THIS
1721
00:47:25,619 --> 00:47:26,687
WORLD.
1722
00:47:26,687 --> 00:47:27,921
[MUSIC]
1723
00:47:27,921 --> 00:47:30,157
VINCE MCMAHON'S VISION TO
1724
00:47:30,157 --> 00:47:32,092
CONSTANTLY EVOLVE HIS FEMALE
1725
00:47:32,092 --> 00:47:33,994
SUPERSTARS HAD ESTABLISHED A
1726
00:47:33,994 --> 00:47:36,597
ROSTER OF SUCCESSFUL DIVAS,
1727
00:47:36,597 --> 00:47:39,566
ULTIMATELY HELPING WWE EMERGE
1728
00:47:39,566 --> 00:47:41,769
VICTORIOUS IN THE MONDAY NIGHT
1729
00:47:41,769 --> 00:47:42,936
WAR.
1730
00:47:42,936 --> 00:47:43,837
[MUSIC]
1731
00:47:43,837 --> 00:47:45,839
ON MARCH 23RD, 2001, HE
1732
00:47:45,839 --> 00:47:47,341
PURCHASED WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
1733
00:47:47,341 --> 00:47:48,342
WRESTLING.
1734
00:47:48,342 --> 00:47:50,010
AND ONCE AGAIN, BECAME THE
1735
00:47:50,010 --> 00:47:51,578
UNDISPUTED KING OF SPORTS
1736
00:47:51,578 --> 00:47:53,347
ENTERTAINMENT.
1737
00:47:53,347 --> 00:47:57,251
AND HERE, WE HAVE THE OWNER
1738
00:47:57,251 --> 00:47:58,252
OF THE WORLD WRESTLING
1739
00:47:58,252 --> 00:48:03,090
ENTERTAINMENT AND NOW THE OWNER
1740
00:48:03,090 --> 00:48:05,159
OF WCW.
1741
00:48:05,159 --> 00:48:06,260
[CROWD CHEERING]
1742
00:48:06,260 --> 00:48:07,694
THERE'S NO DENYING THAT THE
1743
00:48:07,694 --> 00:48:10,197
REASON WWE WON THE MONDAY NIGHT
1744
00:48:10,197 --> 00:48:12,566
WAR WAS BECAUSE OF STONE COLD
1745
00:48:12,566 --> 00:48:15,669
STEVE AUSTIN, AND THE ROCK, AND
1746
00:48:15,669 --> 00:48:16,870
D-GENERATION X.
1747
00:48:16,870 --> 00:48:19,173
BUT THE DIVAS WERE A HUMONGOUS
1748
00:48:19,173 --> 00:48:21,007
PART OF THAT.
1749
00:48:20,941 --> 00:48:23,009
IMPORTANCE THAT THEY HAD IN THE
1750
00:48:23,009 --> 00:48:23,677
ATTITUDE ERA.
1751
00:48:23,677 --> 00:48:24,611
[MUSIC]
1752
00:48:24,611 --> 00:48:25,746
IN THE WAKE OF VINCE
1753
00:48:25,746 --> 00:48:27,314
MCMAHON'S CONQUEST, WCW'S
1754
00:48:27,314 --> 00:48:30,083
UNDERUTILIZED FEMALE TALENT WENT
1755
00:48:30,083 --> 00:48:33,887
ON TO FIND SUCCESS IN WWE.
1756
00:48:33,887 --> 00:48:36,022
YOU DON'T REMEMBER MISS
1757
00:48:36,022 --> 00:48:36,089
HANCOCK, BUT YOU REMEMBER STACY
1758
00:48:36,089 --> 00:48:38,091
KEIBLER.
1759
00:48:38,091 --> 00:48:41,128
WWE MADE THEIR FEMALE STARS,
1760
00:48:41,128 --> 00:48:42,062
STARS.
1761
00:48:42,062 --> 00:48:43,597
THEY WERE WWE SUPERSTARS.
1762
00:48:43,597 --> 00:48:45,199
THEY WEREN'T JUST, YOU KNOW,
1763
00:48:45,199 --> 00:48:46,433
PART OF THE CARD.
1764
00:48:46,433 --> 00:48:47,901
THE ROLE OF WOMEN CHANGED
1765
00:48:47,901 --> 00:48:49,236
DURING THE MONDAY NIGHT WARS
1766
00:48:49,236 --> 00:48:50,671
JUST BECAUSE EVERYTHING CHANGED
1767
00:48:50,671 --> 00:48:52,406
DURING THE MONDAY NIGHT WARS.
1768
00:48:52,406 --> 00:48:53,340
NO.
1769
00:48:53,340 --> 00:48:54,274
OH, MY GOD.
1770
00:48:54,274 --> 00:48:55,342
WHAT A MOONSAULT.
1771
00:48:55,342 --> 00:48:56,343
THE WOMEN ENDED UP GETTING AN
1772
00:48:56,343 --> 00:48:57,744
OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HADN'T HAD
1773
00:48:57,744 --> 00:48:58,745
PRIOR TO THAT.
1774
00:48:58,745 --> 00:48:59,580
[MUSIC]
1775
00:48:59,580 --> 00:49:00,647
THROUGHOUT THE MONDAY NIGHT
1776
00:49:00,647 --> 00:49:02,783
WAR, FEMALE SUPERSTARS EVOLVED
1777
00:49:02,783 --> 00:49:05,352
TO BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF
1778
00:49:05,352 --> 00:49:07,421
SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
1779
00:49:07,421 --> 00:49:10,591
AND ON DECEMBER 6TH, 2004,
1780
00:49:10,591 --> 00:49:13,993
HISTORY WOULD BE MADE AS TWO
1781
00:49:13,993 --> 00:49:14,695
WOMEN SHARED THE STAGE FOR THE
1782
00:49:14,695 --> 00:49:17,097
FIRST TIME IN THE MAIN EVENT OF
1783
00:49:17,097 --> 00:49:18,498
MONDAY NIGHT RAW.
1784
00:49:18,498 --> 00:49:20,667
[MUSIC]
1785
00:49:20,667 --> 00:49:21,668
I REMEMBER THE MAIN EVENT
1786
00:49:21,668 --> 00:49:23,070
THAT TRISH STRATUS AND LITA HAD
1787
00:49:23,070 --> 00:49:24,838
ON RAW, WHICH IS UNHEARD OF TO
1788
00:49:24,838 --> 00:49:26,740
HAVE DIVAS IN A MAIN EVENT ON
1789
00:49:26,740 --> 00:49:28,675
RAW.
1790
00:49:28,675 --> 00:49:29,743
YOU'VE GOT THE ROCK, AND STEVE
1791
00:49:29,743 --> 00:49:31,511
AUSTIN, AND CHRIS JERICHO, AND
1792
00:49:31,511 --> 00:49:32,512
THESE DIVAS ARE MAIN EVENTING
1793
00:49:32,512 --> 00:49:33,747
RAW?
1794
00:49:33,747 --> 00:49:34,781
WALING INTO TELEVISION THAT
1795
00:49:34,781 --> 00:49:37,016
DAY, I WAS TOLD WE WOULD BE THE
1796
00:49:37,016 --> 00:49:37,150
MAIN EVENT OF RAW, IT WAS PRETTY
1797
00:49:37,150 --> 00:49:38,685
SPECIAL.
1798
00:49:38,685 --> 00:49:39,853
LITA IS LOOKING TO WIN THE
1799
00:49:39,853 --> 00:49:42,456
WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP RIGHT HERE
1800
00:49:42,456 --> 00:49:43,523
TONIGHT.
1801
00:49:43,523 --> 00:49:46,025
IT'S NOT LIKE A LITTLE GIRL
1802
00:49:46,025 --> 00:49:46,460
OPENING UP A CHRISTMAS PRESENT.
1803
00:49:46,460 --> 00:49:47,761
IT WAS LIKE ALL RIGHT, IT'S ON.
1804
00:49:47,761 --> 00:49:49,763
LOOK OUT, LOOK OUT.
1805
00:49:49,763 --> 00:49:50,831
OH, LOOK AT THIS.
1806
00:49:50,831 --> 00:49:51,832
OH, MY GOSH.
1807
00:49:51,832 --> 00:49:54,568
THAT HEAD-FIRST DIVE.
1808
00:49:54,568 --> 00:49:55,802
TRISH AND LITA WERE FRONT AND
1809
00:49:55,802 --> 00:49:57,170
CENTER IN THE MAIN EVENT.
1810
00:49:57,170 --> 00:49:58,939
THAT'S HOW IMPORTANT THE WWE
1811
00:49:58,939 --> 00:50:00,173
DIVAS WERE.
1812
00:50:00,173 --> 00:50:02,409
[MUSIC]
1813
00:50:02,409 --> 00:50:03,343
WHAT AT A COVER UP.
1814
00:50:03,343 --> 00:50:04,244
WELL, THAT WAS AMAZING.
1815
00:50:04,244 --> 00:50:05,112
[INDISTINCT]
1816
00:50:05,112 --> 00:50:06,013
COULD BE--WILL BE--NO, IT'S
1817
00:50:06,013 --> 00:50:07,080
NOT.
1818
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:08,682
[MUSIC]
1819
00:50:08,682 --> 00:50:09,783
I REALLY FEEL LIKE US GOING
1820
00:50:09,783 --> 00:50:10,884
OUT THERE WITH THESE DRIVEN
1821
00:50:10,884 --> 00:50:11,919
PERSONALITIES, DISTINCT
1822
00:50:11,919 --> 00:50:13,153
PERSONALITIES, STRONG
1823
00:50:13,153 --> 00:50:15,322
PERSONALITIES, ALLOWED THE
1824
00:50:15,322 --> 00:50:16,490
WOMEN'S DIVISION TO BE TAKEN
1825
00:50:16,490 --> 00:50:19,059
SERIOUS.
1826
00:50:19,059 --> 00:50:19,960
AND WHEN WE WERE OUT THERE AND
1827
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:21,094
DELIVERED SOLID ACTION,
1828
00:50:21,094 --> 00:50:21,762
OBVIOUSLY, THAT JUST BACKED IT
1829
00:50:21,762 --> 00:50:22,496
UP AS WELL.
1830
00:50:22,496 --> 00:50:23,263
TRISH IS NOW IN A MOUNTED
1831
00:50:23,263 --> 00:50:24,097
POSITION.
1832
00:50:24,097 --> 00:50:24,932
LOOK OUT, LOOK OUT, TRISH.
1833
00:50:24,932 --> 00:50:26,500
OH, NO.
1834
00:50:26,500 --> 00:50:27,668
OH, A POWER BOMB.
1835
00:50:27,668 --> 00:50:28,702
IT'S DEFINITELY THE MATCH
1836
00:50:28,702 --> 00:50:30,103
THAT I COULD SAY I'M MOST PROUD
1837
00:50:30,103 --> 00:50:30,837
OF.
1838
00:50:30,837 --> 00:50:32,439
FOR BEING GIVEN THE SPOT AND
1839
00:50:32,439 --> 00:50:34,174
PROVIDING THE CROWD WITH WHAT
1840
00:50:34,174 --> 00:50:35,676
THEY WANTED TO SEE, IT WAS A
1841
00:50:35,676 --> 00:50:37,010
SPECIAL MOMENT FOR ME.
1842
00:50:37,010 --> 00:50:37,911
LITA HAS [INDISTINCT]
1843
00:50:37,911 --> 00:50:38,946
ALL OR NOTHING.
1844
00:50:38,946 --> 00:50:40,080
OH.
1845
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:41,014
ALL OR NOTHING WITH THE
1846
00:50:41,014 --> 00:50:41,915
MOONSAULT.
1847
00:50:41,915 --> 00:50:42,683
[CROWD CHEERING]
1848
00:50:42,683 --> 00:50:43,450
THE MOONSAULT.
1849
00:50:43,450 --> 00:50:44,151
[CROWD CHEERING]
1850
00:50:44,151 --> 00:50:44,918
[BELL RINGING]
1851
00:50:44,918 --> 00:50:45,919
MY GOD, LITA DID IT.
1852
00:50:45,919 --> 00:50:48,989
LITA DID IT, KING.
1853
00:50:48,989 --> 00:50:50,090
THE MONDAY NIGHT WARS
1854
00:50:50,090 --> 00:50:51,758
CERTAINLY BEGAN A MOVEMENT FOR
1855
00:50:51,758 --> 00:50:53,694
THE DIVAS TO EVOLVE INTO
1856
00:50:53,694 --> 00:50:55,595
SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT JUST
1857
00:50:55,595 --> 00:50:58,098
WRESTLERS AND NOT JUST MODELS.
1858
00:50:58,098 --> 00:50:59,266
IT WAS LIKE THE PERFECT MELDING
1859
00:50:59,266 --> 00:51:00,500
OF BOTH.
1860
00:51:00,500 --> 00:51:01,668
EVEN THOUGH WE'RE WOMEN IN
1861
00:51:01,668 --> 00:51:02,936
WRESTLING, WE'RE JUST AS CAPABLE
1862
00:51:02,936 --> 00:51:04,705
TO ENTERTAIN AND TO REALLY
1863
00:51:04,705 --> 00:51:07,674
IMPRESS PEOPLE OUT THERE.
1864
00:51:07,674 --> 00:51:09,676
I REMEMBER BEING LIKE JUST A
1865
00:51:09,676 --> 00:51:11,578
12, 13-YEAR-OLD LITTLE GIRL AND
1866
00:51:11,578 --> 00:51:13,080
WATCHING THEM.
1867
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:13,914
AND THEY GAVE ME THE CONFIDENCE
1868
00:51:13,914 --> 00:51:14,848
TO THINK LIKE, YOU CAN DO THAT
1869
00:51:14,848 --> 00:51:15,849
TOO ONE DAY.
1870
00:51:15,849 --> 00:51:17,351
TO SEE THE DIVAS TODAY AND
1871
00:51:17,351 --> 00:51:18,352
THEY TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE
1872
00:51:18,352 --> 00:51:19,419
MOMENTS THAT THEY WATCHED, I'M
1873
00:51:19,419 --> 00:51:20,587
HONORED TO BE LOOKED UP IN THAT
1874
00:51:20,587 --> 00:51:21,922
REGARD, TO SEE THAT RESPECT.
1875
00:51:21,922 --> 00:51:22,956
IT'S JUST A TESTAMENT TO THE
1876
00:51:22,956 --> 00:51:24,124
HARD WORK OF, NOT ONLY MYSELF,
1877
00:51:24,124 --> 00:51:25,092
BUT OF COURSE THE WHOLE WOMEN'S
1878
00:51:25,092 --> 00:51:28,195
DIVISION AT THAT TIME.
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