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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 RATINGS
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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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[CROWD CHEERING]
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IN A ERA OF SHIFTING
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LOYALTIES, TWO SUPERSTARS
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EMERGED AS THEIR COMPANIES'
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CORNERSTONES.
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FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS.
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A SEVEN FOOT PHENOM FROM
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BEYOND THE GRAVE AND AN
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ENIGMATIC HERO SHROUDED IN
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MYSTERY.
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STING IS CHAMPION OF THE
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WORLD.
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THE NEW WORLD WRESTLING
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ENTERTAINMENT CHAMPION, THE
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UNDERTAKER.
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THROUGH VICTORY AND DEFEAT,
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SUCCESS AND FAILURE, THEIR
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DEVOTION NEVER WAVERED.
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THIS IS THE MONDAY NIGHT WAR.
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[MUSIC]
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HULK HOGAN HAS BETRAYED WCW.
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WHAT IN THE--WHAT'S 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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LOOK AT HIM, HE IS BROKEN IN
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HALF.
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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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LET'S GET READY TO SUCK IT.
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WE ARE AT WAR.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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BRET "THE HITMAN" HART HAS
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ARRIVED TO NITRO.
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THE MONDAY NIGHT WAR BETWEEN
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WWE AND WCW WAS DEFINED BY
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DEFECTIONS.
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HEADING TOWARDS THE NEW
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MILLENNIUM, MOMENTUM WOULD SHIFT
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BACK AND FORTH ALONG WITH THE
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SUPERSTARS FROM ONE COMPANY TO
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THE OTHER.
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THAT'S PAUL WIGHT.
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YES.
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OH, HOLY SMOKES.
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RICK RUDE.
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WE KNEW THEY WERE GOING HEAD
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TO HEAD, BUT YOU NEVER KNEW LIKE
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WHO'S GONNA SHOW UP WHERE AND
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YOU KNEW THAT THERE WAS A
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POSSIBILITY THAT PEOPLE WOULD
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JUMP FROM ONE BRAND TO THE
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OTHER.
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SO, THAT'S WHAT MADE IT
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EXCITING.
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OH, WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY
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MAKES.
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AS TED TURNER AND VINCE
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MCMAHON WENT HEAD TO HEAD, EACH
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ORGANIZATION WOULD HAVE TO LOOK
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TO THEIR MOST FAITHFUL
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SUPERSTARS IN ORDER TO BECOME
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SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT'S LAST MAN
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STANDING.
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THERE WAS VERY LITTLE LOYALTY
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IN THE DAYS OF THE MONDAY NIGHT
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WAR.
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YOU STILL NEED THE PEOPLE YOU
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CAN LEAN ON, VINCE MCMAHON GOT A
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FEW HE COULD DO THAT WITH.
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IT'S THE SAME THING ON THE WCW
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BRAND.
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THE QUEST TO REMAIN ATOP THE
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INDUSTRY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
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WOULD ONLY PROVE SUCCESSFUL BY
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BUILDING A STRONG EVER PRESENT
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FOUNDATION A DECADE EARLIER.
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING AND
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WWE HAD BOTH CULTIVATED THEIR
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OWN PIONEER, WHOSE PARALLEL
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JOURNEYS BEGAN AS EACH COMPANY
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HAD FOUND ITSELF MOCKED IN
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TRADITION.
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[MUSIC]
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SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT HAD
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RISEN TO NATIONAL PROMINENCE IN
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THE 1980S.
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ON THE BACK OF VINCE MCMAHON'S
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WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT,
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THE WWE ROSTER WAS BUILT ON
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COLORFUL OVER THE TOP
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CHARACTERS, A FORMULA THAT
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SOLIDIFIED THE COMPANY AS THE
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UNDISPUTED INDUSTRY LEADER.
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WRESTLING AS A WHOLE WAS
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BASED AROUND COMIC BOOK
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CHARACTERS.
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YOU HAD SUPERHEROES.
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[CROW CHEERING]
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HULKAMANIA IS HERE.
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SO SUPERHEROES NEED SUPER
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VILLAINS AND THAT'S WHY YOU HAD
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A LOT OF THESE KIND OF
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OUTLANDISH CHARACTERS.
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WHILE THE RICHTER SCALE REACH
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10, BOTH YOU AND YOUR WRESTLING
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CAREER WILL BE BURIED BENEATH A
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PILE OF RUBBLE.
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WRESTLERS HAD ALWAYS BEEN
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LARGER THAN LIFE CHARACTER.
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SO, BACK IN THE 80S, YOU DIDN'T
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HAVE TO HAVE A LOT OF TALENT
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REALLY.
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IF YOU COULD TALK AND SCREAM AND
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BEAT SOMEBODY UP, THEN THAT WAS
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ENOUGH TO GET YOU BY.
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OH.
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YEAH.
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WE'RE ON A ROLL COUSIN,
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BUTCH.
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IT'S 1990.
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HOGAN'S...
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YEAH, WE...
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BY THE EARLY 1990S, WWE'S
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TRADITIONAL RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
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HAD GROWN TIRED.
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I WON'T BACK DOWN FROM
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ANYONE, ANYTIME, ANY PLACE.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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PEOPLE GROW UP.
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THEY'VE GROWN OUT OF WATCHING
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THE SAME CHARACTERS, THEIR
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TASTES ARE CHANGING.
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IN RETURN, YOU HAVE TO DO THE
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SAME THING TO STAY RELEVANT.
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DEVELOPING AN ALTERNATIVE
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FROM THE LOUD BOISTEROUS
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PROTOTYPE THEY HAD RELIED UPON,
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WWE INTRODUCED SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT TO A UNIQUE
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CHARACTER WHO WAS ANYTHING BUT
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TRADITIONAL.
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TED DIBIASE, QUITE A CROWD
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HERE, BUT CONSPICUOUS BY HIS
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ABSENCE, YOUR MYSTERY TAG TEAM
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PARTNER.
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I REMEMBER IT WAS AT SURVIVOR
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SERIES AND THERE WAS A SECRET
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OPPONENT.
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WEIGHTING IN AT 320 POUNDS
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FROM DEATH VALLEY, I GIVE YOU
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THE UNDERTAKER.
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THE UNDERTAKER, THE MYSTERY
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OPPONENT NOW REVEALED.
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I NEVER HEARD OF...
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OH, TAKE A LOOK.
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WOW.
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LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT.
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DAMN HOT.
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THE FIRST TIME THAT THE
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UNDERTAKER WALKED INTO THE
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ARENA, A GASP WENT THROUGH THE
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CROWD, LIKE, "OH MY GOSH, LOOK
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AT THIS MONSTER."
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[MUSIC]
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HERE COMES THIS GUY, THIS
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DARK, EERIE, SCARY, LITTLE KID
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THAT LOOKS LIKE HE'S DEAD.
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HE'S DEATH.
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[MUSIC]
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OH, HIS POWER IS OVER
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EVERYONE.
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HE HAD SUCH A STRONG PRESENCE
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RIGHT FROM THE VERY FIRST DAY,
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YOU KNOW, IN THE MUSIC AND
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EVERYTHING, THE UNDERTAKER CAME
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OUT AND THIS WHOLE COMMANDED THE
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RING THAT DAY.
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YOU KNOW, I KNEW RIGHT AWAY,
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TALENT.
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AT THE TIME, IT SEEMED LIKE
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THERE WAS A LOT OF WRESTLERS.
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AND WHEN UNDERTAKER CAME OUT, HE
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WAS NOT A WRESTLER.
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HE WAS NOT AN ENTERTAINER.
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AWESOME IS THE ONLY WORD I
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COULD THINK TO DESCRIBE THIS
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UNDERTAKER.
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WHOA.
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HE WAS LEGITIMATELY THE
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UNDERTAKER.
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HE JUST GOT NAILED WITH A
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TOMBSTONE AND IT'S OVER.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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THE UNDERTAKER WAS A MARKED
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DEPARTURE FOR WWE.
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THERE WAS A LOT OF GUYS THAT
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WERE VERY SCARY AND VERY
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INTIMIDATING TO THE FANS, BUT
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THEY NEVER BEEN AN UNDERTAKER.
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THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE IT.
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UNDERTAKER'S EXPRESSION HAS
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NEVER CHANGED SINCE THE MATCH
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STARTED.
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UNLIKE MORE ANIMATED VILLAINS
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OF YEARS PAST, THIS CHARACTER
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WAS SILENT AND MYSTERIOUS.
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THE UNIQUENESS OF THE
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UNDERTAKER WAS DEFINITELY
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SOMETHING NEW.
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IT WAS DIFFERENT AT THE TIME.
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HE WAS SOMEBODY WHO WAS ABLE TO
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GET AWAY WITHOUT SAYING MANY
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WORDS.
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I MEAN, HE LET HIS ACTIONS DO
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THE TALKING FOR HIM.
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PAUL BEARER COMMANDING THE
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SPIRIT OF THE UNDERTAKER.
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YES, YES.
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THE CHEMISTRY WAS JUST
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PERFECT.
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AND IN THOSE DAYS, UNDERTAKER
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DIDN'T SAY NOTHING.
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HE JUST STOOD THERE, YOU KNOW,
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"OH, YES."
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I HAVE A BIGGER URN FOR YOU.
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[MUSIC]
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AND THEN HE MIGHT SAY REST IN
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PEACE OR SOMETHING.
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REST IN PEACE.
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I WAS BLOWN AWAY THAT I WAS
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SEEING THIS, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE
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WOULD EITHER BE PUT IN A CASKET
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OR A BODY BAG.
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AS A KID, I WAS HOOKED AND I
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KNOW IF I WAS HOOKED, MILLIONS
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OF KIDS WERE HOOKED TOO.
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THE UNDERTAKER'S INTRIGUING
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PERSONA PROVIDED A SPARK FOR
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WWE.
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[MUSIC]
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AT THE SAME TIME, MEDIA MOGUL
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TED TURNER HAD MADE HIS WAY INTO
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THE SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT
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BUSINESS BY PURCHASING A PIECE
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OF THE NATIONAL WRESTLING
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ALLIANCE, RE-BRANDING IT WORLD
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CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING.
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TURNER LOOKED TO CAPTURE THE
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SAME SUCCESS AS VINCE MCMAHON.
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AND I WANNA CONGRATULATE
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING FOR
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CONTINUING THE TRADITION OF
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BRINGING ACTION-PACKED WRESTLING
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EXCITEMENT TO TBS.
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A STAPLE OF TURNER
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BROADCASTING SYNDICATED
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PROGRAMMING, WCW'S ROSTER WAS
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COMPRISED OF TRADITIONAL IN-RING
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VETERANS HEADLINED BY INDUSTRY
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LEGEND, RIC FLAIR.
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THE ROSTER WAS DEEP AND IT
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WAS STRONG AND IT WAS VERY
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TALENTED.
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AND THE ASSOCIATION WITH TED
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TURNER AND THE CABLE NETWORK WAS
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HUGE.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THIS IS
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STING.
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ATTEMPTING TO SHED THEIR
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SOUTHERN BLUE-COLLAR LABEL, WCW
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PROMOTED A YOUNG FRESH FACE TO
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CAPTURE A NEW AUDIENCE.
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[MUSIC]
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RIC FLAIR WAS LOOKING FOR A
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NEW OPPONENT TO WORK WITH, AND
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STING WOULD SITTING THERE.
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AND RIC FLAIR SAID, "GIVE ME
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THAT KID, LET ME TRY HIM."
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THAT'S HOW STING GOT HIS BREAK.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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OH, FLAIR TO THE MIDDLE OF
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THE RING.
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WHAT POWER THE STINGER
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[INDISTINCT]
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ONCE HE GOT IN THE RING WITH
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THE NATURE BOY AND HELD HIS OWN,
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A STAR WAS BORN.
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STING QUICKLY ESTABLISHED
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HIMSELF AS THE TOP UP AND COMING
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STAR IN TED TURNER'S NEW WCW.
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I'VE WRESTLED ALL THE BEST
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HERE AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
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WRESTLING AND IT WILL NEVER
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CHANGE, BECAUSE THE STINGER WILL
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NEVER CHANGE.
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A YOUNGER TALENT IN THE MIDST
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OF EXPERIENCE VETERANS, STING
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WAS GROOMED AS THE FUTURE OF THE
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FRANCHISE.
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STING BROUGHT SOMETHING TO
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WCW THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE.
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HE WAS ROCK AND ROLL.
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HE WAS CALIFORNIA, HE WAS
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HOLLYWOOD, HE WAS LOUD IN COLORS
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WHERE EVERYONE ELSE WAS PRETTY
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MUCH TRADITIONAL.
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AND IT'S GONNA BE A
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SUBMISSION VICTORY FOR THE
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STINGER.
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[BELL RINGING]
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HERE'S YOUR WINNER...
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STING HAD A TREMENDOUS LOOK,
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THE GIRLS LOVED HIM.
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THE GUYS LIKED HIM TOO AND HE
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HAD THE CLASS AND THE GRAPHIC
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APPEAL.
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HE'S GOT UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF
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CHARISMA.
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THE EARLY STING, FACE
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PAINTED, BLOND HAIRED, FLATTOP,
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I JUST SAW THIS ENERGETIC
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SUPERHERO LOOKING CHARACTER
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KICKING PEOPLE'S -- .
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THE GOLDEN BOY OF WCW.
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EVERY TIME I GO OUT IN ANY
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ARENA, I SEE MORE AND MORE
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PAINTED FACES.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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MAN, HAS HE GOT A LEGION OF
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FANS.
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HE WAS KIND OF THAT FIRST
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REAL CHARACTER OF WCW, KIND OF
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NEW AGE, REVOLUTIONARY.
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THE STINGER, THE YOUNG MAN
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THAT PEOPLE SAY WILL DOMINATE
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THE 90S AGAINST THE MAN THAT HAS
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DOMINATED THE 80S, THE NATURE
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BOY.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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IN LATE 1991, FOLLOWING AN
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ACRIMONIOUS CONTRACT DISPUTE,
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RIC FLAIR DEFECTED AND SIGNED
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WITH WWE.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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WHAT BUSINESS DOES HE HAVE
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DOWN THERE?
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RIC FLAIR'S ARRIVAL HELPED
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PROPELLED THE UNDERTAKER TO THE
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WWE CHAMPIONSHIP.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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FLAIR WITH A CHAIR, A STEEL
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CHAIR.
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OH, HE GOT PILEDRIVED RIGHT INTO
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THE STEEL CHAIR.
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WAIT A MINUTE, ONE.
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COME ON.
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TWO.
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GET UP.
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WE GOT A NEW WORLD CHAMPION.
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[BELL RINGING]
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HE DID--HE BEAT HULK HOGAN.
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I MEAN, BECAUSE THAT DIDN'T
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HAPPEN IN THOSE DAYS.
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[MUSIC]
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HULKAMANIA IS DEAD, IT IS
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DEAD.
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LONG LIVE THE UNDERTAKER.
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AND FOR ME, IT WAS JUST...
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IN CREATING THE UNDERTAKER,
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VINCE MCMAHON HAD BROKEN THE
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MOLD OF TRADITIONAL CHARACTERS.
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BY JANUARY OF 1993, MCMAHON
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WOULD ONCE AGAIN ALTER THE
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SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT STATUS QUO
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LAUNCHING MONDAY NIGHT RAW IN
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PRIMETIME.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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WELCOME, EVERYONE, TO MONDAY
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NIGHT RAW.
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WE ARE LIVE FROM NEW YORK CITY.
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WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES, WE
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OWE IT TO OUR AUDIENCE TO BE
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INNOVATIVE.
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AND WHEN YOU HAVE EXTRAORDINARY
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PERSONALITIES, YOU KNOW WHAT,
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IT'S PRETTY EASY TO BE THAT WAY.
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AS THE COMPANY EMBARKED ON AN
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INNOVATIVE JOURNEY, IT WAS THE
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UNDERTAKER ENTRUSTED WITH
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HEADLINING THE SHOW'S INAUGURAL
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MAIN EVENT.
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THE UNDERTAKER EARNED HIS
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SPOT IN THE MAIN EVENT.
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OH, MY.
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WAY UP THERE.
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AND PAUL BEARER CERTAINLY LIKES
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WHAT HE'S SEEING.
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IT LET THE WORLD KNOW NOT
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ONLY IS THIS SHOW A TOTALLY
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DIFFERENT WRESTLING PRODUCT THAT
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THEY'RE USED TO, THIS GUY IS THE
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GUY.
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PLUS THE TOMBSTONE, THAT
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COULD BE IT.
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WHILE THE UNDERTAKER HAD BEEN
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RISING TO THE TOP OF WWE...
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[BELL RINGING]
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[MUSIC]
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WE GOT A NEW CHAMPION.
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STING HAD BECOME THE
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FRANCHISE IN WCW DURING RIC
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FLAIR'S ABSENCE.
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STING WAS ALREADY ON THE RISE
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BEFORE FLAIR EVEN TOOK THE WALL.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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[MUSIC]
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THE TORCH HAD BEEN PASSED.
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STING WAS THRIVING AS THE
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FAN-FRIENDLY MARQUEE SUPERSTAR
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IN WCW AS 1993 BEGAN.
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BUT JUST AS HE WAS GROWING INTO
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HIS ROLE, STING'S SPOT WAS
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THREATENED BY THE RETURN OF HIS
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FORMER MENTOR.
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[MUSIC]
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A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME,
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WCW'S MAIN EVENT PICTURE WAS
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ABOUT TO BECOME VERY CROWDED.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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RIC FLAIR WAS THRUST BACK
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INTO POSITION AS THE TOP STAR IN
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WCW WINNING THE WORLD
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CHAMPIONSHIP AT THE STARRCADE
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PAY-PER-VIEW EVENT.
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HE WON IT.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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[BELL RINGING]
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THE RETURN OF RIC FLAIR
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ELEVATED WCW STATUS WITH ADDED
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STAR POWER.
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FOR STING, THIS WOULD MEAN
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STEPPING DOWN FROM THE TOP SPOT
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FOR THE SAKE OF THE COMPANY'S
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PROSPERITY.
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WELL, I SAID IT BEFORE ON
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LIVE TV, IT WAS A PAY-PER-VIEW,
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I SAID HE WAS THE GREATEST WORLD
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CHAMPION OF ALL TIME AND IT'S
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OBVIOUS.
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I MEAN, I'M ABOUT REALLY GETTING
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EMOTIONAL JUST LIKE HIM, YOU ARE
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AMAZING, RIC, TRULY AMAZING.
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THANKS A LOT.
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CONGRATULATIONS, YOU DESERVE
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IT EVERY BIT OF IT.
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[MUSIC]
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STING DID EVERYTHING FOR THE
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COMPANY.
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WHAT WAS BEST FOR THAT NIGHT OR
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BEST FOR THE STORY, HE WAS A
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COMPANY GUY.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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WELCOME, HULK HOGAN.
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IN JUNE OF 1994, WCW SIGNED
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THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE FACE IN
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THE HISTORY OF SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT, HULK HOGAN.
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THE MOVE WOULD BRING WORLD
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CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING NATIONAL
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RECOGNITION, BUT IT WAS THE
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BEGINNING OF WHAT WOULD BECOME A
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SERIOUS OF OBSTACLES FOR WCW'S
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HOMEGROWN TALENT.
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THIS HULKAMANIA THING HAD
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NEVER BEEN IN THAT SOUTHERN BELT
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SOUTHERN SWING TERRITORY OF TED
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TURNER WRESTLING COMPANY, YOU
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KNOW, NO DISRESPECT.
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THEY HAD HAD STING AND THEY HAD
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HAD RIC FLAIR, AND ALSO THIS BIG
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MAIN EVENT TYPE WRESTLER CAME
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DOWN AND THEY OPENED THE DOORS
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TO ME.
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THIS IS THE NUMBER ONE WRESTLING
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ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD,
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BROTHER, AND ALL OF THE MANIACS
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KNOW THAT, DUDE.
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[MUSIC]
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HULK HOGAN WAS WWE.
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HE WAS ONE OF THE GUYS THAT YOU
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NEVER THOUGHT WOULD LEAVE.
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AND WHEN HE GOES, IT WAS THE
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BEGINNING OF THE WCW REVOLUTION.
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HULKAMANIA LIVES IN WORLD
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CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING.
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HULK HOGAN IMMEDIATELY BECAME
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WCW'S STAR ATTRACTION.
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NO LONGER THE NEW FACE OF THE
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FRANCHISE, STING WAS FORCED TO
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THE BACKGROUND.
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WHEN HULK HOGAN MOVED OVER TO
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WCW, HE BECAME THE FOCUS.
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STING BECAME THE BACK STORY
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BECAUSE HULK HOGAN WAS BIGGER
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THAN WRESTLING.
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WITH TED TURNER'S CHECKBOOK,
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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, ERIC
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BISCHOFF, QUICKLY LURED "MACHO
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MAN" RANDY SAVAGE FROM WWE.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
527
00:15:22,498 --> 00:15:24,166
THIS ISN'T A GUY THAT'S GONNA
528
00:15:24,166 --> 00:15:25,467
KIND OF TIPTOE HIS WAY THROUGH
529
00:15:25,467 --> 00:15:27,503
WCW QUIETLY, HE'S GONNA MAKE A
530
00:15:27,503 --> 00:15:28,804
LOT OF NOISE.
531
00:15:28,804 --> 00:15:29,972
HE'S GONNA LOCK--KNOCK A LOT OF
532
00:15:29,972 --> 00:15:31,540
PEOPLE DOWN ON THE WAY.
533
00:15:31,540 --> 00:15:32,408
HERE'S A GUY WHO'S BEEN LOYAL
534
00:15:32,408 --> 00:15:34,743
TO WCW AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED,
535
00:15:34,743 --> 00:15:36,278
JUST STAR BRINGING THESE OTHER
536
00:15:36,278 --> 00:15:37,880
GUYS FROM WWE AND STING STARTS
537
00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:39,849
GETTING LOST IN THE SHUFFLE.
538
00:15:39,849 --> 00:15:41,550
THE INFLUX OF MARQUEE FORMER
539
00:15:41,550 --> 00:15:44,153
WWE TALENT PUSHED STING FURTHER
540
00:15:44,153 --> 00:15:46,121
OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT, BUT HE
541
00:15:46,121 --> 00:15:48,591
REMAINED A LOYAL COMPANY MAN
542
00:15:48,591 --> 00:15:51,493
AMIDST WCW'S RISING POPULARITY.
543
00:15:51,493 --> 00:15:52,661
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE KEEP
544
00:15:52,661 --> 00:15:54,063
TRYING TO PUT AND DIVIDE US,
545
00:15:54,063 --> 00:15:55,431
STAKE IN BETWEEN US, BUT IT'S
546
00:15:55,431 --> 00:15:56,532
NEVER GONNA HAPPEN, YOU KNOW
547
00:15:56,532 --> 00:15:57,366
WHY?
548
00:15:57,366 --> 00:15:58,100
WHY?
549
00:15:58,100 --> 00:15:58,934
HONOR AMONGST THIEVES,
550
00:15:58,934 --> 00:15:59,835
BROTHER.
551
00:15:59,835 --> 00:16:00,502
YOU GOT IT.
552
00:16:00,502 --> 00:16:01,170
[MUSIC]
553
00:16:01,170 --> 00:16:03,037
STING IS A VERY TALENTED AND
554
00:16:03,037 --> 00:16:04,005
VERY SECURE GUY.
555
00:16:04,005 --> 00:16:04,340
AND I KNOW STING FELT, "WOW,
556
00:16:04,340 --> 00:16:06,909
MAYBE THIS IS A TURNING POINT
557
00:16:06,909 --> 00:16:10,479
FOR WCW TO GET A MACHO MAN RANDY
558
00:16:10,479 --> 00:16:13,582
SAVAGE AND A HULK HOGAN,
559
00:16:13,582 --> 00:16:14,850
HOPEFULLY NOT ALWAYS LIKE A
560
00:16:14,850 --> 00:16:17,253
STEPCHILD OF WWE, MAYBE TO RISE
561
00:16:17,253 --> 00:16:19,655
UP THE RANKS AND CHALLENGE THEM
562
00:16:19,655 --> 00:16:21,290
A LITTLE BIT.
563
00:16:21,290 --> 00:16:23,926
WELCOME TO MONDAY NIGHT RAW.
564
00:16:23,926 --> 00:16:24,760
[BELL RINGING]
565
00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:26,729
AND HERE COMES THE MAN, HERE
566
00:16:26,729 --> 00:16:28,364
COMES LEX LUGER.
567
00:16:28,364 --> 00:16:29,798
YOU KNOW, WWE HAD BEEN SO
568
00:16:29,798 --> 00:16:31,767
SUCCESSFUL WITH RAW AND WCW WAS
569
00:16:31,767 --> 00:16:35,271
ALWAYS REALLY A DISTANT SECOND,
570
00:16:35,271 --> 00:16:38,641
NEVER NEAR THE LEVEL THAT WWE
571
00:16:38,641 --> 00:16:40,709
WAS AT IN MOST ANYTHING THEY
572
00:16:40,709 --> 00:16:42,044
EVER DID BEFORE.
573
00:16:42,044 --> 00:16:43,145
WE GOT SOME NITRO POWER
574
00:16:43,145 --> 00:16:44,346
KICKED IN RIGHT NOW.
575
00:16:44,346 --> 00:16:45,581
THE MAIN EVENT ACQUISITIONS
576
00:16:45,581 --> 00:16:47,650
PROPELLED WCW INTO THE
577
00:16:47,650 --> 00:16:48,884
LIMELIGHT.
578
00:16:48,884 --> 00:16:50,319
AND THE COMPANY WASTED NO TIME
579
00:16:50,319 --> 00:16:51,820
IN CAPITALIZING ON THEIR
580
00:16:51,820 --> 00:16:53,956
NEWFOUND CREDIBILITY.
581
00:16:53,956 --> 00:16:55,724
NO ONE EVER BELIEVED THAT TED
582
00:16:55,724 --> 00:16:57,092
WOULD PUT WRESTLING ON TNT
583
00:16:57,092 --> 00:16:59,028
ESPECIALLY IN PRIMETIME.
584
00:16:59,028 --> 00:17:00,329
TNT AT THE TIME WAS LIKE THE
585
00:17:00,329 --> 00:17:01,697
FLAGSHIP NETWORK OF TURNER
586
00:17:01,697 --> 00:17:02,798
BROADCASTING.
587
00:17:02,798 --> 00:17:03,933
I MEAN, THAT WAS TED'S WAY OF
588
00:17:03,933 --> 00:17:06,000
SAYING, "WE'RE GOING TO BE
589
00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:06,735
COMPETITIVE WITH THE WWE AND NO
590
00:17:06,735 --> 00:17:09,371
ONE CAN CHANGE MY MIND."
591
00:17:09,371 --> 00:17:11,140
WCW IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS THAT I
592
00:17:11,140 --> 00:17:12,875
SAT, THE TRADITION OF HULK HOGAN
593
00:17:12,875 --> 00:17:14,677
AND RANDY SAVAGE IS REALLY
594
00:17:14,677 --> 00:17:15,811
CLOSING THE GAP WHEN WE GOT A
595
00:17:15,811 --> 00:17:17,079
LOT OF MOMENTUM.
596
00:17:17,079 --> 00:17:18,881
AND WE WANT TO GIVE VIEWERS A
597
00:17:18,881 --> 00:17:20,182
CHOICE.
598
00:17:20,182 --> 00:17:22,885
MONDAY NITRO, YOU GOT TO BE
599
00:17:22,885 --> 00:17:24,687
EXPECTING THE BIGGEST, THE BEST,
600
00:17:24,687 --> 00:17:26,855
THE MOST UNBELIEVABLE, WOO,
601
00:17:26,855 --> 00:17:28,357
WRESTLING YOU'VE EVER SEEN IN
602
00:17:28,357 --> 00:17:29,692
YOUR LIFE AND ALL I GOT TO SAY
603
00:17:29,692 --> 00:17:31,393
IS TO SUM IT UP, SOMEBODY'S IN
604
00:17:31,393 --> 00:17:35,497
FOR A RAW DEAL.
605
00:17:35,497 --> 00:17:37,132
ARMED WITH A ROSTER OF HIGH
606
00:17:37,132 --> 00:17:39,668
PROFILED STARS, WCW LAUNCHED
607
00:17:39,668 --> 00:17:41,704
MONDAY NITRO IN SEPTEMBER OF
608
00:17:41,704 --> 00:17:44,173
1995 IN DIRECT COMPETITION WITH
609
00:17:44,173 --> 00:17:46,942
WWE'S FLAGSHIP SHOW, MONDAY
610
00:17:46,942 --> 00:17:48,043
NIGHT RAW.
611
00:17:48,043 --> 00:17:51,313
THE DEBUT EDITION OF WCW
612
00:17:51,313 --> 00:17:54,883
MONDAY NITRO.
613
00:17:54,883 --> 00:17:56,218
THE INAUGURAL NITRO FEATURED
614
00:17:56,218 --> 00:17:58,354
A MATCH BETWEEN WCW'S TWO MOST
615
00:17:58,354 --> 00:18:01,357
IDENTIFIABLE SUPERSTARS, BUT
616
00:18:01,357 --> 00:18:03,892
ONCE AGAIN, THE ATTENTION WAS
617
00:18:03,892 --> 00:18:06,528
SHIFTED TO A FORMER WWE STAR.
618
00:18:06,528 --> 00:18:08,664
LEX LUGER, WHAT IN THE HELL
619
00:18:08,664 --> 00:18:10,065
IS HE DOING HERE?
620
00:18:10,065 --> 00:18:11,433
IT WAS STING WHO BROUGHT LEX
621
00:18:11,433 --> 00:18:13,969
LUGER TO MONDAY NITRO CONTINUING
622
00:18:13,969 --> 00:18:17,005
TO PUT THE COMPANY'S SUCCESS
623
00:18:17,005 --> 00:18:18,240
AHEAD OF HIS OWN PERSONAL GAME.
624
00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:19,875
HE WAS A PRIMARY FACILITATOR
625
00:18:19,875 --> 00:18:21,610
THAT GOT ME TOGETHER WITH ERIC
626
00:18:21,610 --> 00:18:22,444
BISCHOFF.
627
00:18:22,444 --> 00:18:23,612
AND I DECIDED TO GO AHEAD AND
628
00:18:23,612 --> 00:18:25,047
MAKE THE MOVE BACK TO WCW AT
629
00:18:25,047 --> 00:18:26,315
THAT TIME AFTER TALKING TO ERIC
630
00:18:26,315 --> 00:18:27,383
BISCHOFF.
631
00:18:27,383 --> 00:18:30,018
HE WAS ACTUALLY AT STING'S HOUSE
632
00:18:29,718 --> 00:18:30,586
[MUSIC]
633
00:18:30,586 --> 00:18:32,855
WCW NITRO WAS AN IMMEDIATE
634
00:18:32,855 --> 00:18:35,524
THREAT TO WWE DEFEATING MONDAY
635
00:18:35,524 --> 00:18:37,459
NIGHT RAW IN THE RATINGS ON
636
00:18:37,459 --> 00:18:40,028
SEVERAL OCCASIONS WITHIN THE
637
00:18:40,028 --> 00:18:40,629
FIRST MONTHS OF ITS LAUNCH.
638
00:18:40,629 --> 00:18:43,732
[MUSIC]
639
00:18:43,732 --> 00:18:46,268
STING REMAINED A BEACON FOR
640
00:18:46,268 --> 00:18:48,437
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING IN
641
00:18:48,437 --> 00:18:49,471
THE WAKE OF THE COMPANY'S
642
00:18:49,471 --> 00:18:50,906
SUCCESS.
643
00:18:50,906 --> 00:18:55,044
MEANWHILE, AS WWE PROMOTED A NEW
644
00:18:55,044 --> 00:18:56,478
GENERATION OF SUPERSTARS TO
645
00:18:56,478 --> 00:18:58,547
STEADY THE COURSE, THE
646
00:18:58,547 --> 00:18:59,815
UNDERTAKER'S DEPENDABILITY AND
647
00:18:59,815 --> 00:19:02,451
VERSATILITY ANCHORED HIM AS
648
00:19:02,451 --> 00:19:04,953
WWE'S CORNERSTONE.
649
00:19:04,953 --> 00:19:06,688
PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA
650
00:19:06,688 --> 00:19:09,058
UNDERTAKER WOULD GO OUT AND WORK
651
00:19:09,058 --> 00:19:10,325
WITH BROKEN RIBS.
652
00:19:10,325 --> 00:19:12,394
HE HAD A CRUSHED EYE SOCKET.
653
00:19:12,394 --> 00:19:13,929
THE PHENOM, THE UNDERTAKER
654
00:19:13,929 --> 00:19:15,697
BACK IN ACTION.
655
00:19:15,697 --> 00:19:16,565
[CROWD CHEERING]
656
00:19:16,565 --> 00:19:17,633
ANYBODY ELSE WOULD HAVE BEEN
657
00:19:17,633 --> 00:19:18,967
OUT OF COMMISSION.
658
00:19:18,967 --> 00:19:20,936
HE WAS THE GUY WE DEPENDED ON.
659
00:19:20,936 --> 00:19:22,604
[CROWD CHEERING]
660
00:19:22,604 --> 00:19:23,906
I WATCHED HIM TAPE A FLAG
661
00:19:23,906 --> 00:19:25,107
JACKET TO HIMSELF BECAUSE HIS
662
00:19:25,107 --> 00:19:26,308
RIBS WERE BROKEN AND HE'S GOING
663
00:19:26,308 --> 00:19:27,476
TO THE RING, BECAUSE HIS NAME
664
00:19:27,476 --> 00:19:28,510
WAS ON THE MARQUEE, YOU KNOW
665
00:19:28,510 --> 00:19:29,278
WHAT I MEAN?
666
00:19:29,278 --> 00:19:31,012
HE'S ONE OF TOUGHEST GUYS I'VE
667
00:19:31,012 --> 00:19:32,013
EVER MET.
668
00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:33,649
THE UNDERTAKER LIVE IN GREEN
669
00:19:33,649 --> 00:19:35,317
BAY, WISCONSIN.
670
00:19:35,317 --> 00:19:36,518
THEY HAVE JAM PACKED THIS ARENA,
671
00:19:36,518 --> 00:19:38,153
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YES.
672
00:19:38,153 --> 00:19:39,555
[MUSIC]
673
00:19:39,555 --> 00:19:40,622
AND I HEARD THE UNDERTAKER
674
00:19:40,622 --> 00:19:42,257
HAS A CRACKED RIB.
675
00:19:42,257 --> 00:19:43,425
IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT NOW.
676
00:19:43,425 --> 00:19:45,394
[MUSIC]
677
00:19:45,394 --> 00:19:47,596
HE CAN GO TOO.
678
00:19:47,596 --> 00:19:48,897
AND THAT WAS THE THING, LIKE HE
679
00:19:48,897 --> 00:19:50,833
WAS THE GUY WHO WAS BEATING SOME
680
00:19:50,833 --> 00:19:53,302
VERY RECOGNIZABLE PEOPLE AND WAS
681
00:19:53,302 --> 00:19:54,203
REALLY GOOD.
682
00:19:54,203 --> 00:19:56,538
[CROWD CHEERING]
683
00:19:56,538 --> 00:19:59,074
HE'S A VERY ATHLETIC BIG MAN.
684
00:19:59,074 --> 00:20:00,642
I HATED WORKING WITH MOST BIG
685
00:20:00,642 --> 00:20:02,911
GUYS, BECAUSE YOU USUALLY LOOK
686
00:20:02,911 --> 00:20:05,814
LIKE TWO ABRAMS TANKS.
687
00:20:05,814 --> 00:20:07,483
WITH TAKER, YOU KNOW, WE COULD
688
00:20:07,483 --> 00:20:09,118
ACTUALLY HAVE A MATCH.
689
00:20:09,118 --> 00:20:11,820
[CROWD CHEERING]
690
00:20:11,820 --> 00:20:14,590
HE WAS A GREAT PERFORMER.
691
00:20:14,590 --> 00:20:16,325
AND I THINK PEOPLE REALIZE,
692
00:20:16,325 --> 00:20:18,127
"HEY, THIS IS A GUY WHO CAN
693
00:20:18,127 --> 00:20:19,628
STEAL THE SHOW WITH A VARIETY OF
694
00:20:19,628 --> 00:20:20,829
OPPONENTS."
695
00:20:20,829 --> 00:20:23,031
OH, MY GOODNESS.
696
00:20:23,031 --> 00:20:25,134
THE UNDERTAKER HELPED WWE
697
00:20:25,134 --> 00:20:27,169
MAINTAIN ITS RATINGS LEAD IN THE
698
00:20:27,169 --> 00:20:30,506
FACE OF WCW'S RISING MOMENTUM,
699
00:20:30,506 --> 00:20:32,674
BUT JUST AS WWE SEEM TO ACHIEVE
700
00:20:32,674 --> 00:20:35,677
STABILITY, TED TURNER AND ERIC
701
00:20:35,677 --> 00:20:39,281
BISCHOFF WOULD STRIKE AGAIN.
702
00:20:39,281 --> 00:20:40,549
NITRO AT THE TIME WAS
703
00:20:40,549 --> 00:20:41,984
BEGINNING TO GET SOME TRACTION
704
00:20:41,984 --> 00:20:43,619
AND THE NUMBERS WERE GROWING,
705
00:20:43,619 --> 00:20:44,820
THE REVENUE WAS GROWING, THE
706
00:20:44,820 --> 00:20:45,721
COMPANY WAS GROWING.
707
00:20:45,721 --> 00:20:46,622
WE'RE DOING MORE HOUSE SHOWS,
708
00:20:46,622 --> 00:20:47,956
YOU KNOW, WE NEEDED SOME FRESH
709
00:20:47,956 --> 00:20:48,957
FACES.
710
00:20:48,957 --> 00:20:49,058
AND I THOUGHT, "WHAT THE HELL?"
711
00:20:49,058 --> 00:20:51,160
SO I'D CONTACTED SCOTT HALL AND
712
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,729
KEVIN NASH.
713
00:20:53,729 --> 00:20:55,164
YOU KNOW, IN THIS BUSINESS,
714
00:20:55,164 --> 00:20:56,865
YOU CAN MAKE FRIENDS OR YOU CAN
715
00:20:56,865 --> 00:20:58,233
MAKE MONEY.
716
00:20:58,233 --> 00:20:59,434
AND I REMEMBER LOOKING AT KEV
717
00:20:59,434 --> 00:21:01,470
AND GOING, "I'VE ALREADY GOT
718
00:21:01,470 --> 00:21:02,337
SOME FRIENDS.
719
00:21:02,337 --> 00:21:04,773
I'D LIKE THE MONEY."
720
00:21:04,773 --> 00:21:06,441
AND NOW THE OUTSIDERS IN THE
721
00:21:06,441 --> 00:21:07,242
RING.
722
00:21:07,242 --> 00:21:08,010
HERE WE GO.
723
00:21:08,010 --> 00:21:09,378
THE OUTSIDERS IN THE RING AND
724
00:21:09,378 --> 00:21:10,979
THEY ARE HAMMERING AWAY.
725
00:21:10,979 --> 00:21:14,183
BY JUNE OF 1996, WITH THE
726
00:21:14,183 --> 00:21:15,584
AUDITIONS OF SCOTT HALL AND
727
00:21:15,584 --> 00:21:16,685
KEVIN NASH...
728
00:21:16,685 --> 00:21:17,653
UH-OH.
729
00:21:17,653 --> 00:21:18,720
HERE THEY COME.
730
00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:19,888
...WWE FANS WERE TUNING IN TO
731
00:21:19,888 --> 00:21:22,958
SEE THEIR FAVORITE STARS IN WCW.
732
00:21:22,958 --> 00:21:25,260
AND THE SURGING NITRO REGAINED
733
00:21:25,260 --> 00:21:26,728
CONTROLLED OF THE MONDAY NIGHT
734
00:21:26,728 --> 00:21:27,763
RATINGS WAR.
735
00:21:27,763 --> 00:21:28,697
[BELL RINGING]
736
00:21:28,697 --> 00:21:29,765
LOOK AT THIS RIGHT NOW, THOSE
737
00:21:29,765 --> 00:21:30,599
TWO MEN STANDING THERE MEAN
738
00:21:30,599 --> 00:21:31,733
BUSINESS.
739
00:21:31,733 --> 00:21:33,335
WE ARE AT WAR.
740
00:21:33,335 --> 00:21:35,337
THE PERCEPTION WAS THAT IT
741
00:21:35,337 --> 00:21:37,139
WAS TWO WWE GUYS COMING IN,
742
00:21:37,139 --> 00:21:38,740
TAKING OVER THEIR COMPANY.
743
00:21:38,740 --> 00:21:41,109
THAT WAS THE SUCCESS OF IT.
744
00:21:41,109 --> 00:21:42,377
WWE WAS NUMBER ONE, WCW WAS
745
00:21:42,377 --> 00:21:43,845
NUMBER TWO.
746
00:21:43,845 --> 00:21:44,947
BUT WHEN YOU GET THE WWE GUYS
747
00:21:44,947 --> 00:21:46,049
GOING TO WCW, I WAS, "THERE YOU
748
00:21:46,049 --> 00:21:48,450
GO, WAIT A MINUTE.
749
00:21:48,450 --> 00:21:49,685
I SAW THESE GUYS ON MONDAY NIGHT
750
00:21:49,685 --> 00:21:50,919
RAW AND NOW I'M SEEING THEM ON
751
00:21:50,919 --> 00:21:51,720
MONDAY NITRO.
752
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:52,487
THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON THIS
753
00:21:52,487 --> 00:21:53,388
SIDE, SO LET ME SEE WHAT'S GOING
754
00:21:53,388 --> 00:21:55,524
ON."
755
00:21:55,524 --> 00:21:57,359
BUT NITRO'S IMPROVED RATINGS
756
00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,428
WOULD COME AT A PRICE.
757
00:21:59,428 --> 00:22:01,863
THE IDENTITY OF WCW WAS CHANGING
758
00:22:01,863 --> 00:22:04,666
AND ITS FRANCHISE WAS BEING CAST
759
00:22:04,666 --> 00:22:07,569
ASIDE AS THE COMPANY EMBARKED ON
760
00:22:07,569 --> 00:22:10,205
A NEW INITIATIVE.
761
00:22:10,205 --> 00:22:11,540
HALL AND NASH WANTED TO TAKE
762
00:22:11,540 --> 00:22:12,808
OVER THE WHOLE COMPANY.
763
00:22:12,808 --> 00:22:14,009
AND IF NOT, JUST TRY AND MESS
764
00:22:14,009 --> 00:22:15,344
WITH IT AS MUCH AS THEY COULD.
765
00:22:15,344 --> 00:22:17,212
THEY DIDN'T REALLY RESPECT WCW.
766
00:22:17,212 --> 00:22:19,715
THIS IS WHERE THE BIG BOYS
767
00:22:19,715 --> 00:22:21,717
PLAY?
768
00:22:21,717 --> 00:22:23,819
WHAT A JOKE.
769
00:22:23,819 --> 00:22:25,687
STING WAS THREATENED BY THAT,
770
00:22:25,687 --> 00:22:26,822
BECAUSE THEY WERE COMING IN JUST
771
00:22:26,822 --> 00:22:28,156
TAKING OVER.
772
00:22:28,156 --> 00:22:29,124
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE
773
00:22:29,124 --> 00:22:30,125
YOU ARE?
774
00:22:30,125 --> 00:22:32,294
YOU'RE IN THE JUNGLE, BABY.
775
00:22:32,294 --> 00:22:34,630
THIS IS WCW.
776
00:22:34,630 --> 00:22:35,998
GUYS COMING INTO HIS HOUSE
777
00:22:35,998 --> 00:22:37,899
AND TAKING THE COMPANY IN A
778
00:22:37,899 --> 00:22:39,401
DIFFERENT AVENUE THAN WHAT HE
779
00:22:39,401 --> 00:22:41,136
HAD PRIOR TO THAT DIDN'T SIT
780
00:22:41,136 --> 00:22:42,871
WELL WITH HIM.
781
00:22:42,871 --> 00:22:43,872
NOW, THERE'S CONFLICT WITH
782
00:22:43,872 --> 00:22:45,007
EACH GUYS.
783
00:22:45,007 --> 00:22:46,275
WE HAVE FOUGHT THEM FOREVER AND
784
00:22:46,275 --> 00:22:48,310
HERE THEY ARE ON OUR
785
00:22:48,310 --> 00:22:49,344
TURF--ACTUALLY TOOK OVER OUR
786
00:22:49,344 --> 00:22:50,946
TURF.
787
00:22:50,946 --> 00:22:52,681
[CROWD CHEERING]
788
00:22:52,681 --> 00:22:53,982
IT WAS MORE THAN WHAT MET THE
789
00:22:53,982 --> 00:22:56,018
EYE.
790
00:22:56,018 --> 00:22:57,286
WAIT A MINUTE.
791
00:22:57,286 --> 00:22:58,553
A KEY ELEMENT OF NITRO'S
792
00:22:58,553 --> 00:23:00,188
SUCCESS WAS THE UNPREDICTABLE
793
00:23:00,188 --> 00:23:02,524
NATURE OF ITS PROGRAMMING.
794
00:23:02,524 --> 00:23:04,092
AS THE OUTSIDERS TEASED THE
795
00:23:04,092 --> 00:23:06,061
ADDITION OF A THIRD MAN, ERIC
796
00:23:06,061 --> 00:23:07,796
BISCHOFF WAS LOOKING FOR
797
00:23:07,796 --> 00:23:10,766
SOMETHING NO ONE WOULD EXPECT.
798
00:23:10,766 --> 00:23:13,034
ORIGINALLY, THE THIRD PERSON
799
00:23:13,034 --> 00:23:15,137
WAS SUPPOSED TO BE STING, BUT HE
800
00:23:15,137 --> 00:23:16,938
DIDN'T WANNA BE ON THE DARK
801
00:23:16,938 --> 00:23:18,373
SIDE.
802
00:23:18,373 --> 00:23:19,541
AND I TELL YOU WHAT, YOU'VE
803
00:23:19,541 --> 00:23:20,609
GOT TO WONDER WHAT IS GOING
804
00:23:20,609 --> 00:23:21,710
THROUGH STING'S MIND.
805
00:23:21,710 --> 00:23:23,211
IT'S A DIFFERENT STING.
806
00:23:23,211 --> 00:23:25,013
STING BEING THE THIRD MAN, IT
807
00:23:25,013 --> 00:23:26,581
WAS TALKED ABOUT A LOT.
808
00:23:26,581 --> 00:23:27,849
HE DIDN'T WANNA DO IT AND HE
809
00:23:27,849 --> 00:23:28,684
DIDN'T DO IT.
810
00:23:28,684 --> 00:23:30,886
SO HE STUCK BY HIS GUNS.
811
00:23:30,886 --> 00:23:32,621
WITH STING UNWILLING TO ALTER
812
00:23:32,621 --> 00:23:35,324
HIS CHARACTER, WCW WOULD TURN TO
813
00:23:35,324 --> 00:23:37,326
THE BIGGEST ICON IN SPORTS
814
00:23:37,326 --> 00:23:38,226
ENTERTAINMENT.
815
00:23:38,226 --> 00:23:39,127
[CROWD CHEERING]
816
00:23:39,127 --> 00:23:39,928
WHAT IS HE DOING?
817
00:23:39,928 --> 00:23:40,762
OH, MY GOD.
818
00:23:40,762 --> 00:23:41,830
IS HE THE THIRD MAN?
819
00:23:41,830 --> 00:23:42,764
HE'S THE THIRD MAN.
820
00:23:42,764 --> 00:23:43,765
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON
821
00:23:43,765 --> 00:23:44,599
HERE?
822
00:23:44,599 --> 00:23:47,836
HULK HOGAN HAS BETRAYED WCW.
823
00:23:47,836 --> 00:23:49,371
HE IS THE THIRD MAN...
824
00:23:49,371 --> 00:23:50,138
LOOK AT THIS.
825
00:23:50,138 --> 00:23:50,939
...IN THIS PICTURE.
826
00:23:50,939 --> 00:23:52,307
OH, MY GOD.
827
00:23:52,307 --> 00:23:54,109
THERE WERE KIDS AND THE
828
00:23:54,109 --> 00:23:55,477
NATION AND THE WORLD BELIEVING
829
00:23:55,477 --> 00:23:57,412
IN THE TRAINING AND THE PRAYERS
830
00:23:57,412 --> 00:23:59,681
AND VITAMINS IN A BAD GUY.
831
00:23:59,681 --> 00:24:01,950
OH, IT MIGHT WORK.
832
00:24:01,950 --> 00:24:05,019
SO I WENT TO THE RING AND BECAME
833
00:24:05,019 --> 00:24:05,587
THE LEADER OF THE NWO.
834
00:24:05,587 --> 00:24:08,490
THIS RIGHT HERE IS THE FUTURE OF
835
00:24:08,490 --> 00:24:09,825
WRESTLING.
836
00:24:09,825 --> 00:24:13,595
YOU CAN CALL THIS THE NEW WORLD
837
00:24:13,595 --> 00:24:17,466
ORDER OF WRESTLING, BROTHER.
838
00:24:17,466 --> 00:24:18,867
UNBELIEVABLE SITUATION RIGHT
839
00:24:18,867 --> 00:24:20,302
HERE AT BASH AT THE BEACH.
840
00:24:20,302 --> 00:24:23,338
[CROWD CHEERING]
841
00:24:23,338 --> 00:24:24,373
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, OUR
842
00:24:24,373 --> 00:24:25,440
NUMBERS TOOK OFF AND WE REIGNED
843
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:27,609
AND WE RULED THE WRESTLING WORLD
844
00:24:27,609 --> 00:24:28,744
IN THE RATINGS.
845
00:24:28,744 --> 00:24:30,379
MONDAY NITRO CONTINUES TO BE
846
00:24:30,379 --> 00:24:32,247
THE STANDARD LEADER IN
847
00:24:32,247 --> 00:24:33,815
PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING AROUND
848
00:24:33,815 --> 00:24:35,484
THE WORLD AS YOU CAN SEE.
849
00:24:35,484 --> 00:24:37,819
AS WCW DISTANCED ITSELF FROM
850
00:24:37,819 --> 00:24:41,189
WWE IN THE RATINGS, EVEN MORE OF
851
00:24:41,189 --> 00:24:42,958
VINCE MCMAHON'S TALENT ABANDONED
852
00:24:42,958 --> 00:24:45,394
MONDAY NIGHT RAW FOR THE BRIGHT
853
00:24:45,394 --> 00:24:47,496
LIGHTS OF NITRO.
854
00:24:47,496 --> 00:24:48,563
THE MAN YOU'RE LOOKING AT
855
00:24:48,563 --> 00:24:50,232
RIGHT NOW, HE WAS--OH MY GOD,
856
00:24:50,232 --> 00:24:51,933
THE 1-2-3 KID, BUT WHAT IN THE
857
00:24:51,933 --> 00:24:54,269
WORLD IS HE DOING HERE?
858
00:24:54,269 --> 00:24:55,904
FANS AND SUPERSTARS ALIKE
859
00:24:55,904 --> 00:24:59,441
WERE LEAVING FOR WCW.
860
00:24:59,441 --> 00:25:01,376
BUT AS WWE'S FUTURE LOOKED
861
00:25:01,376 --> 00:25:02,677
BLEAK...
862
00:25:02,677 --> 00:25:03,678
AND HERE HE COMES, THE MAN
863
00:25:03,678 --> 00:25:05,680
WITH A BIRD'S EYE.
864
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,416
...VINCE MCMAHON COULD STILL
865
00:25:07,416 --> 00:25:08,784
LEAN ON ONE PERSON TO STABILIZE
866
00:25:08,784 --> 00:25:12,019
HIS COMPANY.
867
00:25:12,019 --> 00:25:12,854
UNDERTAKER IS THE MOST LOYAL
868
00:25:12,854 --> 00:25:15,223
PERFORMER I'VE EVER DEALT WITH.
869
00:25:15,223 --> 00:25:16,958
HE HAD ENOUGH FAITH AND HE WOULD
870
00:25:16,958 --> 00:25:18,226
BE TREATED WELL FOR THAT
871
00:25:18,226 --> 00:25:19,327
LOYALTY.
872
00:25:19,327 --> 00:25:20,929
HE IS THE KIND OF MAN THAT YOU
873
00:25:20,929 --> 00:25:22,764
WOULD WANT LITERALLY AND
874
00:25:22,764 --> 00:25:23,832
FIGURATIVELY IN THE FOX HOLE
875
00:25:23,832 --> 00:25:25,133
WITH YOU.
876
00:25:25,133 --> 00:25:27,102
DO YOU IMAGINE HOW MUCH MONEY
877
00:25:27,102 --> 00:25:29,337
ERIC BISCHOFF COULD HAVE GOTTEN
878
00:25:29,337 --> 00:25:30,872
TED TURNER TO WRITE A CHECK FOR
879
00:25:30,872 --> 00:25:33,608
JUST TO GET THE UNDERTAKER AWAY
880
00:25:33,608 --> 00:25:35,444
FROM WWE?
881
00:25:35,444 --> 00:25:36,678
NOTHING WILL STOP THE
882
00:25:36,678 --> 00:25:38,613
UNDERTAKER.
883
00:25:38,613 --> 00:25:40,315
TAKER WAS NOT GONNA TURN HIS
884
00:25:40,315 --> 00:25:42,484
BACK ON VINCE WHEN VINCE NEEDED
885
00:25:42,484 --> 00:25:44,319
HIM MOST.
886
00:25:44,319 --> 00:25:46,555
WCW WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE
887
00:25:46,555 --> 00:25:47,823
HAD THE UNDERTAKER, THAT MIGHT
888
00:25:47,823 --> 00:25:49,124
HAVE BEEN A NAIL ON OUR COFFIN
889
00:25:49,124 --> 00:25:52,928
RIGHT THERE IF HE LEFT.
890
00:25:52,928 --> 00:25:54,196
THE UNDERTAKER IS, YOU
891
00:25:54,196 --> 00:25:57,833
KNOW--THERE IS STABILITY IN HIM,
892
00:25:57,833 --> 00:26:00,268
YOU KNOW, AS AN INDIVIDUAL.
893
00:26:00,268 --> 00:26:01,570
AND THAT'S WHAT [INDISTINCT]
894
00:26:01,570 --> 00:26:02,971
THROUGHOUT THE COMPANY.
895
00:26:02,971 --> 00:26:04,239
YOU JUST HAD A FEW GUYS THAT
896
00:26:04,239 --> 00:26:05,507
WERE LIFELONG WWE GUYS AND
897
00:26:05,507 --> 00:26:09,009
DECIDED, "WE'RE NOT GONNA LEAVE.
898
00:26:09,009 --> 00:26:09,077
WE'RE GONNA STAY HERE AND WE'RE
899
00:26:09,077 --> 00:26:10,345
GONNA WEATHER THE STORM AND
900
00:26:10,345 --> 00:26:11,446
WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO BATTLE
901
00:26:11,446 --> 00:26:12,514
WCW."
902
00:26:12,514 --> 00:26:13,782
AND WE THINK IN THE END WILL BE
903
00:26:13,782 --> 00:26:14,783
SUCCESSFUL.
904
00:26:14,783 --> 00:26:17,085
[CROWD CHEERING]
905
00:26:17,085 --> 00:26:17,919
OH, NO.
906
00:26:17,919 --> 00:26:18,787
PICKS HIM UP.
907
00:26:18,787 --> 00:26:19,488
WHOA.
908
00:26:19,488 --> 00:26:20,489
AND DOWN, A CHOKESLAM WITH
909
00:26:20,489 --> 00:26:21,456
AUTHORITY.
910
00:26:21,456 --> 00:26:22,224
[CROWD CHEERING]
911
00:26:22,224 --> 00:26:24,125
UNBELIEVABLE IMPACT FROM THE
912
00:26:24,125 --> 00:26:25,627
UNDERTAKER.
913
00:26:25,627 --> 00:26:26,928
THE UNDERTAKER'S EVERLASTING
914
00:26:26,928 --> 00:26:31,366
PRESENCE HELPED KEEP WWE AFLOAT.
915
00:26:31,366 --> 00:26:32,701
[MUSIC]
916
00:26:32,701 --> 00:26:34,669
HOWEVER, MONDAY NITRO WAS
917
00:26:34,669 --> 00:26:36,738
STILL RATINGS KING AS THE NEW
918
00:26:36,738 --> 00:26:38,540
WORLD ORDER TOOK OVER ALL OF
919
00:26:38,540 --> 00:26:41,243
SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
920
00:26:41,243 --> 00:26:42,744
THE RAIN IS COMING DOWN LIVE
921
00:26:42,744 --> 00:26:44,012
HERE ON NITRO, BUT THEY ARE--YOU
922
00:26:44,012 --> 00:26:45,680
SEE THAT FLYERS ARE BEING
923
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,115
DISTRIBUTED RIGHT NOW.
924
00:26:47,115 --> 00:26:48,583
AND THOSE ARE--THOSE ARE--THAT'S
925
00:26:48,583 --> 00:26:50,552
HULK HOGAN AND THE OUTSIDERS IN
926
00:26:50,552 --> 00:26:52,120
THE RING PUTTING FLYERS ON THE
927
00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:54,890
CARS HERE AT THE ARENA.
928
00:26:54,890 --> 00:26:57,692
IN ORDER TO BUILD SOME REALLY
929
00:26:57,692 --> 00:26:59,995
STRONG GOOD GUY CHARACTERS, I
930
00:26:59,995 --> 00:27:01,463
HAD TO HAD A LOT OF REALLY
931
00:27:01,463 --> 00:27:03,365
STRONG BAD GUYS FOR THEM TO BE
932
00:27:03,365 --> 00:27:05,300
IN THE STORYLINE WITH.
933
00:27:05,300 --> 00:27:06,668
AND LET THE HEELS JUST HAVE
934
00:27:06,668 --> 00:27:08,537
THEIR WAY FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS
935
00:27:08,537 --> 00:27:09,971
AND MONTHS.
936
00:27:09,971 --> 00:27:11,540
[MUSIC]
937
00:27:11,540 --> 00:27:13,241
STING, EVERY TIME I TALKED TO
938
00:27:13,241 --> 00:27:15,443
HIM, HE WOULD TELL ME, "THIS IS
939
00:27:15,443 --> 00:27:17,412
WRONG, I DON'T LIKE IT, I'M NOT
940
00:27:17,412 --> 00:27:18,880
COMFORTABLE WITH IT, IT'S NOT
941
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,615
GONNA WORK, IT'S KILLING MY
942
00:27:20,615 --> 00:27:21,583
CHARACTER."
943
00:27:21,583 --> 00:27:23,451
HE'S GIVEN ME 15 REASONS EVERY
944
00:27:23,451 --> 00:27:25,320
TIME I SAW WHY I SHOULDN'T BE
945
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,088
DOING WHAT I WAS DOING.
946
00:27:27,088 --> 00:27:28,390
ATTACKING STING AS HE WAS
947
00:27:28,390 --> 00:27:30,292
TRYING TO LOAD UP THE CAR.
948
00:27:30,292 --> 00:27:31,493
I THINK THE HARDEST THING IN
949
00:27:31,493 --> 00:27:33,828
THIS INDUSTRY WAS ALWAYS TO BE
950
00:27:33,828 --> 00:27:36,097
THAT PURE GOOD GUY.
951
00:27:36,097 --> 00:27:37,265
THE GUY THAT COULD SPIT IN THE
952
00:27:37,265 --> 00:27:38,667
FACE AND, YOU KNOW, WIPES IT
953
00:27:38,667 --> 00:27:40,001
OFF, GETS SMACKED AND HE TURNS
954
00:27:40,001 --> 00:27:41,469
UP WITH YOU.
955
00:27:41,469 --> 00:27:42,237
STING IS ON HIS WAY TO THE
956
00:27:42,237 --> 00:27:43,138
RING.
957
00:27:43,138 --> 00:27:44,973
WITH THE COMPANY CHANGING,
958
00:27:44,973 --> 00:27:47,709
WCW'S FLAG BEARER WOULD FINALLY
959
00:27:47,709 --> 00:27:50,312
BE FORCED TO DO THE SAME.
960
00:27:50,312 --> 00:27:52,714
IF YOU DON'T EVOLVE, YOU DIE.
961
00:27:52,714 --> 00:27:54,316
EVERYBODY IMPROVES ON THAT
962
00:27:54,316 --> 00:27:56,217
LEVEL, IT HAS TO CHANGE, IT HAS
963
00:27:56,217 --> 00:27:57,218
TO EVOLVE.
964
00:27:57,218 --> 00:27:58,053
THEY HAVE TO GET BETTER SO THEY
965
00:27:58,053 --> 00:27:59,354
CAN TAKE IT HOME.
966
00:27:59,354 --> 00:28:01,989
AND I HAVE GIVEN MY BLOOD, MY
967
00:28:01,989 --> 00:28:05,961
SWEAT, AND MY TEARS FOR WCW.
968
00:28:05,961 --> 00:28:07,862
I THINK HE WAS DONE BEING THE
969
00:28:07,862 --> 00:28:09,798
STING THAT GOT WALKED ALL OVER.
970
00:28:09,798 --> 00:28:11,533
AND IT WAS TIME TO TAKE HIS
971
00:28:11,533 --> 00:28:12,601
CHARACTER IN A DIFFERENT
972
00:28:12,601 --> 00:28:13,735
DIRECTION.
973
00:28:13,735 --> 00:28:16,738
THAT'S STING.
974
00:28:16,738 --> 00:28:18,139
HE WAS THE FLAGSHIP ALL THOSE
975
00:28:18,139 --> 00:28:21,142
YEARS AND HE FELT THAT WCW WAS
976
00:28:21,142 --> 00:28:22,510
NEVER GONNA BE THE SAME BECAUSE
977
00:28:22,510 --> 00:28:24,479
OF THE NWO AND THE INVASION, SO
978
00:28:24,479 --> 00:28:26,047
IT WAS ALMOST LIKE HIS CHARACTER
979
00:28:26,047 --> 00:28:28,850
WAS IN MOURNING FOR WCW AND ALL
980
00:28:28,850 --> 00:28:29,751
OF THEIR FANS.
981
00:28:29,751 --> 00:28:31,720
THEY'RE JUST STANDING AROUND
982
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,089
WATCHING STINGER.
983
00:28:34,089 --> 00:28:35,690
ABANDONING THE CHARACTER THAT
984
00:28:35,690 --> 00:28:37,192
ONCE CATAPULTED HIM TO THE TOP
985
00:28:37,192 --> 00:28:39,294
OF THE COMPANY, VIEWERS WERE
986
00:28:39,294 --> 00:28:42,029
LEFT IN THE DARK AS TO THE NEW
987
00:28:42,029 --> 00:28:43,665
DIRECTION OF WCW'S FRANCHISE
988
00:28:43,665 --> 00:28:46,033
SUPERSTAR.
989
00:28:46,033 --> 00:28:46,334
AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS
990
00:28:46,334 --> 00:28:48,103
ACTUALLY A PRETTY BRILLIANT
991
00:28:48,103 --> 00:28:49,471
TWIST OF HIS CHARACTER.
992
00:28:49,471 --> 00:28:50,972
BUT THE ONLY THING IS FOR
993
00:28:50,972 --> 00:28:54,376
SURE ABOUT STING IS NOTHING'S
994
00:28:54,376 --> 00:28:57,445
FOR SURE.
995
00:28:57,445 --> 00:29:02,183
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
996
00:29:02,183 --> 00:29:05,186
[MUSIC]
997
00:29:05,186 --> 00:29:07,656
BY THE BEGINNING OF 1997,
998
00:29:07,656 --> 00:29:09,257
STING HAD TRANSFORMED FROM THE
999
00:29:09,257 --> 00:29:12,727
FLAMBOYANT FACE OF WCW...
1000
00:29:12,727 --> 00:29:14,696
IN A FEW MOMENTS, HOPEFULLY
1001
00:29:14,696 --> 00:29:18,199
STING WILL MAKE HIS APPEARANCE.
1002
00:29:18,199 --> 00:29:19,334
...TO A SILENT, STALKING
1003
00:29:19,334 --> 00:29:21,536
ENIGMA LURKING IN THE RAFTERS OF
1004
00:29:21,536 --> 00:29:23,571
MONDAY NITRO.
1005
00:29:23,571 --> 00:29:26,341
THERE HE IS.
1006
00:29:26,341 --> 00:29:28,743
LISTEN TO THE ROAR OF THE CROWD.
1007
00:29:28,743 --> 00:29:30,445
[CROWD CHEERING]
1008
00:29:30,445 --> 00:29:34,382
HE WANTED TO CHANGE AND GROW
1009
00:29:34,382 --> 00:29:36,751
AND REINVENT HIMSELF.
1010
00:29:36,751 --> 00:29:37,819
HE TOOK SOMETHING OUT OF THAT
1011
00:29:37,819 --> 00:29:39,621
MOVIE, THE CROW.
1012
00:29:39,621 --> 00:29:40,755
HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IF IT WAS
1013
00:29:40,755 --> 00:29:43,023
GONNA BE SUCCESSFUL.
1014
00:29:43,023 --> 00:29:43,692
HE KNEW THAT IT WOULD TAKE A
1015
00:29:43,692 --> 00:29:44,993
WHILE AND HE KNEW THAT HE WAS
1016
00:29:44,993 --> 00:29:46,661
THE FRANCHISE.
1017
00:29:46,661 --> 00:29:48,063
HE WAS ALWAYS SUCH A LIKE
1018
00:29:48,063 --> 00:29:51,232
OVER THE TOP SPEAKER.
1019
00:29:51,232 --> 00:29:52,300
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, NOW THIS
1020
00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:53,568
GUY IS COMPLETELY QUITE AND
1021
00:29:53,568 --> 00:29:57,037
STARK AND IT'S BROODING AND IT'S
1022
00:29:57,037 --> 00:29:57,539
MYSTERIOUS.
1023
00:29:57,539 --> 00:29:58,640
I'M NOT SURE WHAT'S GOING ON
1024
00:29:58,640 --> 00:29:59,374
HERE.
1025
00:29:59,374 --> 00:30:00,975
AND THAT MYSTERY NOT BEING TOLD
1026
00:30:00,975 --> 00:30:03,344
EXACTLY WHAT'S HAPPENING, AS A
1027
00:30:03,344 --> 00:30:05,447
FAN, WAS JUST VERY INTRIGUING.
1028
00:30:05,447 --> 00:30:06,514
[MUSIC]
1029
00:30:06,514 --> 00:30:08,683
THAT'S STING.
1030
00:30:08,683 --> 00:30:09,818
THAT IS STING
1031
00:30:09,818 --> 00:30:12,287
OCCUPYING--WHERE IS HE ANYWAY?
1032
00:30:12,287 --> 00:30:13,855
WAY HIGH UP ABOVE THE FANS,
1033
00:30:13,855 --> 00:30:14,789
ALMOST LIKE ONE OF THE LUXURY
1034
00:30:14,789 --> 00:30:17,258
BOXES UP THERE.
1035
00:30:17,258 --> 00:30:18,660
STING WAS KIND OF THE
1036
00:30:18,660 --> 00:30:20,195
POLICEMAN, THE ENFORCER FOR THE
1037
00:30:20,195 --> 00:30:22,430
GOOD AGAINST THE EVIL WHICH WAS
1038
00:30:22,430 --> 00:30:25,767
THE NWO.
1039
00:30:25,767 --> 00:30:27,102
STING EVOLVED.
1040
00:30:27,102 --> 00:30:28,269
BOY, TALK ABOUT A GAME OF
1041
00:30:28,269 --> 00:30:29,838
CHESS.
1042
00:30:29,838 --> 00:30:30,972
STING NEEDED TO GO THAT
1043
00:30:30,972 --> 00:30:31,706
DIRECTION.
1044
00:30:31,706 --> 00:30:33,341
THE STORY WAS SO JUST
1045
00:30:33,341 --> 00:30:34,676
MASTERFULLY TOLD.
1046
00:30:34,676 --> 00:30:36,578
HE WAS THE PERFECT PIECE ON THE
1047
00:30:36,578 --> 00:30:37,779
CHESSBOARD FOR THE NWO TO PLAY
1048
00:30:37,779 --> 00:30:39,314
WITH.
1049
00:30:39,314 --> 00:30:41,082
HE WAS AS IMPRESSIVE THEN AS
1050
00:30:41,082 --> 00:30:42,684
HE WAS BACK IN THE 80S.
1051
00:30:42,684 --> 00:30:44,552
SO FROM ONE SPECTRUM TO THE
1052
00:30:44,552 --> 00:30:45,587
OTHER...
1053
00:30:45,587 --> 00:30:47,388
[CROWD CHEERING]
1054
00:30:47,388 --> 00:30:48,423
...HE STILL WAS ABLE TO
1055
00:30:48,423 --> 00:30:50,692
MAINTAIN HIS POPULARITY.
1056
00:30:50,692 --> 00:30:52,994
THAT WAS EXTREMELY CREATIVE, NOT
1057
00:30:52,994 --> 00:30:54,496
TO MENTION, HE NEVER SAID A
1058
00:30:54,496 --> 00:30:55,864
WORD.
1059
00:30:55,864 --> 00:30:58,266
IT GOES TO SHOW JUST HOW MUCH
1060
00:30:58,266 --> 00:31:00,869
OF A PRESENCE HE HAD VERY
1061
00:31:00,869 --> 00:31:02,270
SIMILAR TO UNDERTAKER.
1062
00:31:02,270 --> 00:31:03,171
[MUSIC]
1063
00:31:03,171 --> 00:31:03,938
WELL...
1064
00:31:03,938 --> 00:31:04,606
YEAH.
1065
00:31:04,606 --> 00:31:05,373
YOU WANNA SEE THAT TOO, WOULDN'T
1066
00:31:05,373 --> 00:31:06,274
YOU?
1067
00:31:06,274 --> 00:31:07,175
WHAT A TRANSFORMATION, ONE
1068
00:31:07,175 --> 00:31:08,276
THE BETTER TRANSFORMATIONS IN
1069
00:31:08,276 --> 00:31:09,611
THE HISTORY OF OUR BUSINESS.
1070
00:31:09,611 --> 00:31:11,079
STING DIDN'T NEED TO TALK.
1071
00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:12,881
HIS ACTIONS SPOKE FOR HIM.
1072
00:31:12,881 --> 00:31:14,449
AND THIS WAS DURING AN AGE WERE
1073
00:31:14,449 --> 00:31:16,017
EVERYBODY COULD TALK.
1074
00:31:16,017 --> 00:31:16,751
WHY TALK?
1075
00:31:16,751 --> 00:31:17,685
STAND OUT.
1076
00:31:17,685 --> 00:31:18,653
OH.
1077
00:31:18,653 --> 00:31:20,221
HE DIDN'T EVEN SAY ANYTHING.
1078
00:31:20,221 --> 00:31:21,422
HE COULD SAY MORE WITH A LOOK
1079
00:31:21,422 --> 00:31:22,657
THAN PEOPLE COULD SAY IN A 10
1080
00:31:22,657 --> 00:31:24,826
MINUTE INTERVIEW.
1081
00:31:24,826 --> 00:31:27,028
STING COMING DOWN FROM THE
1082
00:31:27,028 --> 00:31:28,296
HEAVENS AGAIN.
1083
00:31:28,296 --> 00:31:29,764
THOUGH HE REMAINED SHROUDED
1084
00:31:29,764 --> 00:31:33,101
IN MYSTERY, BOTH WCW AND STING
1085
00:31:33,101 --> 00:31:34,803
MAINTAINED THEIR BOOMING
1086
00:31:34,803 --> 00:31:35,703
POPULARITY.
1087
00:31:35,703 --> 00:31:36,304
[CROWD CHEERING]
1088
00:31:36,304 --> 00:31:37,639
BATTLE WITH SUPERMAN AND
1089
00:31:37,639 --> 00:31:40,375
STING.
1090
00:31:40,375 --> 00:31:43,077
VINCE MCMAHON WOULD RESPOND.
1091
00:31:43,077 --> 00:31:44,779
WWE'S PROGRAMMING BEGAN TO
1092
00:31:44,779 --> 00:31:47,382
CHANGE INCORPORATING EDGIER
1093
00:31:47,382 --> 00:31:49,117
STORYLINES AND MORE DYNAMIC
1094
00:31:49,117 --> 00:31:50,185
CHARACTERS.
1095
00:31:50,185 --> 00:31:54,355
THE HELL, YOU CAN KISS MY --.
1096
00:31:54,355 --> 00:31:55,290
WOW.
1097
00:31:55,290 --> 00:31:57,792
[CROWD CHEERING]
1098
00:31:57,792 --> 00:32:00,028
THE PERCEPTION OF THE WAY
1099
00:32:00,028 --> 00:32:02,263
CHARACTERS SHOULD BE PRESENTED
1100
00:32:02,263 --> 00:32:03,631
HAD CHANGED.
1101
00:32:03,631 --> 00:32:07,702
AND NONE WERE ANY MORE SUITED
1102
00:32:07,702 --> 00:32:11,038
FOR THE ENVIRONMENT OF WWE THAN
1103
00:32:11,038 --> 00:32:11,906
THE UNDERTAKER.
1104
00:32:11,906 --> 00:32:13,107
THAT IS ANOTHER SIGN OF THE
1105
00:32:13,107 --> 00:32:14,108
UNDERTAKER.
1106
00:32:14,108 --> 00:32:15,443
AND WE REALLY, I DON'T THINK,
1107
00:32:15,443 --> 00:32:17,111
WANT TO EXPLORE.
1108
00:32:17,111 --> 00:32:18,813
THE UNDERTAKER CHARACTER WAS
1109
00:32:18,813 --> 00:32:21,015
REALLY HUGE AS THE SILENT, BUT
1110
00:32:21,015 --> 00:32:22,817
DEADLY TYPE.
1111
00:32:22,817 --> 00:32:24,018
WHEN THE UNDERTAKER STARTED
1112
00:32:24,018 --> 00:32:26,020
TALKING, IT WOKE A LOT OF GUYS
1113
00:32:26,020 --> 00:32:28,189
UP.
1114
00:32:28,189 --> 00:32:33,361
MICHAELS, THERE'S NO WAY OUT.
1115
00:32:33,361 --> 00:32:36,231
SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS YOU LOOK
1116
00:32:36,231 --> 00:32:39,267
INTO THE EYES OF THE REAPER AND
1117
00:32:39,267 --> 00:32:43,338
YOU PAY FOR YOUR PRIZE.
1118
00:32:43,338 --> 00:32:45,139
[CROWD CHEERING]
1119
00:32:45,139 --> 00:32:46,908
WWE WAS REVEALING ADDITIONAL
1120
00:32:46,908 --> 00:32:49,110
LAYERS TO THE UNDERTAKER'S MORE
1121
00:32:49,110 --> 00:32:52,413
COMPLEX CHARACTER.
1122
00:32:52,413 --> 00:32:54,749
THE PHENOM'S SORT OF PAST WOULD
1123
00:32:54,749 --> 00:32:57,552
FURTHER ENHANCE HIS INTRIGUE.
1124
00:32:57,552 --> 00:32:58,853
THE STORYLINE WAS THAT THERE
1125
00:32:58,853 --> 00:33:00,455
WAS A FIRE AT THE FAMILY FUNERAL
1126
00:33:00,455 --> 00:33:02,123
HOME WHERE I WORKED FOR THE
1127
00:33:02,123 --> 00:33:03,658
UNDERTAKER'S PARENTS.
1128
00:33:03,658 --> 00:33:04,926
I WOULD SAY THAT THERE WAS A
1129
00:33:04,926 --> 00:33:06,160
BROTHER THAT GOT BURNT UP AND
1130
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,695
KILLED IN THE FIRE WHICH WAS
1131
00:33:07,695 --> 00:33:11,031
KANE.
1132
00:33:11,031 --> 00:33:11,666
I KEPT INSISTING THAT KANE WAS
1133
00:33:11,666 --> 00:33:13,001
ALIVE.
1134
00:33:13,001 --> 00:33:14,435
THAT'S GOT TO BE KANE.
1135
00:33:14,435 --> 00:33:16,504
THAT'S GOT TO BE KANE.
1136
00:33:16,504 --> 00:33:17,972
HERE COMES KANE, GRABBED THE
1137
00:33:17,972 --> 00:33:19,474
DOOR, RIPPED THE DOOR OFF THE
1138
00:33:19,474 --> 00:33:21,342
CAGE AND THERE HE WAS.
1139
00:33:21,342 --> 00:33:24,412
[CROWD CHEERING]
1140
00:33:24,412 --> 00:33:25,380
OH, MY GOSH.
1141
00:33:25,380 --> 00:33:26,915
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK.
1142
00:33:26,915 --> 00:33:28,549
AND HE GETS IN THERE AND YOU
1143
00:33:28,549 --> 00:33:30,051
COULD ACTUALLY SEE THE
1144
00:33:30,051 --> 00:33:32,754
UNDERTAKER KIND OF SCARED.
1145
00:33:32,754 --> 00:33:34,122
YOU WOULD NEVER SEE THAT BEFORE
1146
00:33:34,122 --> 00:33:34,856
EVER.
1147
00:33:34,856 --> 00:33:36,024
AND SO THAT WAS A BIG DEAL IN
1148
00:33:36,024 --> 00:33:37,558
AND OF ITSELF.
1149
00:33:37,558 --> 00:33:40,028
[CROWD CHEERING]
1150
00:33:40,028 --> 00:33:41,329
WHAT'S THIS?
1151
00:33:41,329 --> 00:33:46,935
[CROWD CHEERING]
1152
00:33:46,935 --> 00:33:48,636
THE UNDERTAKER'S RIVALRY WITH
1153
00:33:48,636 --> 00:33:51,439
KANE HELPED WWE CONTINUE TO GROW
1154
00:33:51,439 --> 00:33:54,208
THEIR AUDIENCE.
1155
00:33:54,208 --> 00:33:55,543
AND THE DEADMAN REMAINED AT THE
1156
00:33:55,543 --> 00:33:57,378
MAIN EVENT LEVEL THROUGHOUT THE
1157
00:33:57,378 --> 00:33:59,514
REST OF 1997.
1158
00:33:59,514 --> 00:34:00,782
I THINK THE KANE-UNDERTAKER
1159
00:34:00,782 --> 00:34:03,184
SAGA WAS THE BEST BIT OF
1160
00:34:03,184 --> 00:34:06,888
STORYTELLING WWE HAS EVER DONE.
1161
00:34:06,888 --> 00:34:09,824
SOMEWHERE BEHIND THAT MASK OF
1162
00:34:09,824 --> 00:34:13,328
EVIL IS MY LITTLE BROTHER.
1163
00:34:13,328 --> 00:34:14,996
HE WAS TRYING TO KEEP FAMILY
1164
00:34:14,996 --> 00:34:17,030
COHESION.
1165
00:34:17,030 --> 00:34:17,398
HE JUST DISCOVERED THAT HIS
1166
00:34:17,398 --> 00:34:18,967
LITTLE BROTHER WAS STILL ALIVE
1167
00:34:18,967 --> 00:34:20,301
AND HE WANTED TO TAKE HIM UNDER
1168
00:34:20,301 --> 00:34:22,303
HIS WING, BUT LITTLE BROTHERS
1169
00:34:22,303 --> 00:34:26,541
HAVE AN INNATE DESIRE TO MAKE
1170
00:34:26,541 --> 00:34:28,176
THEIR OWN WAY.
1171
00:34:28,176 --> 00:34:29,143
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY
1172
00:34:29,143 --> 00:34:31,279
CAN RELATE TO.
1173
00:34:31,279 --> 00:34:33,114
OH, MAN.
1174
00:34:33,114 --> 00:34:35,516
YOU MUST FACE YOUR BROTHER.
1175
00:34:35,516 --> 00:34:39,220
YES, YOU MUST FACE HIM.
1176
00:34:39,220 --> 00:34:40,855
WWE WAS CULTIVATING A
1177
00:34:40,855 --> 00:34:44,625
SUCCESSFUL FORMAT, BUT STING'S
1178
00:34:44,625 --> 00:34:46,828
COMPELLING STORYLINE HELPED
1179
00:34:46,828 --> 00:34:49,130
NITRO EXTEND ITS LEAD OVER RAW
1180
00:34:49,130 --> 00:34:52,500
THROUGHOUT 1997.
1181
00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:54,502
WHERE IS HE?
1182
00:34:54,502 --> 00:34:58,172
WHERE IS HE AT?
1183
00:34:58,172 --> 00:35:00,441
COME ON, STING.
1184
00:35:00,441 --> 00:35:02,677
GET IN HERE, STING.
1185
00:35:02,677 --> 00:35:05,079
THE TIME WAS RIGHT FOR WCW TO
1186
00:35:05,079 --> 00:35:06,647
THRUST THE FRANCHISE PLAYER BACK
1187
00:35:06,647 --> 00:35:08,483
INTO THE MAIN EVENT PICTURE
1188
00:35:08,483 --> 00:35:10,885
AGAINST THE NWO AND THE MAN WHO
1189
00:35:10,885 --> 00:35:13,354
HAD STOLEN HIS SPOTLIGHT.
1190
00:35:13,354 --> 00:35:14,655
YOUR HERO IS ONLY DEFINED BY
1191
00:35:14,655 --> 00:35:16,491
THE SIZE OF YOUR OPPONENT.
1192
00:35:16,491 --> 00:35:18,826
HERE COMES STING JUST DROPPING
1193
00:35:18,826 --> 00:35:19,994
EVERYBODY.
1194
00:35:19,994 --> 00:35:21,496
HE HAD THE GREATEST PUSH OF ALL
1195
00:35:21,496 --> 00:35:23,498
TIME AS FAR AS THAT'S CONCERNED
1196
00:35:23,498 --> 00:35:26,501
AND I THINK HE EARNED IT.
1197
00:35:26,501 --> 00:35:28,469
AND WE SPENT ALMOST A YEAR
1198
00:35:28,469 --> 00:35:30,505
BUILDING THE ANTICIPATION FOR
1199
00:35:30,505 --> 00:35:32,140
STING AND HOGAN.
1200
00:35:32,140 --> 00:35:33,708
AND STING DIDN'T SAY A WORD,
1201
00:35:33,708 --> 00:35:35,743
DIDN'T OPEN HIS MOUTH.
1202
00:35:35,743 --> 00:35:37,545
AND THE AUDIENCE JUST SHOOK AND
1203
00:35:37,545 --> 00:35:39,180
WE JUST KEPT BUILDING AND
1204
00:35:39,180 --> 00:35:40,748
NURTURING THEIR ANTICIPATION, SO
1205
00:35:40,748 --> 00:35:42,683
WE KNEW WE WOULD HAVE A MONSTER
1206
00:35:42,683 --> 00:35:47,021
ON OUR HANDS.
1207
00:35:47,021 --> 00:35:49,724
WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT?
1208
00:35:49,724 --> 00:35:50,858
WHY DO YOU LOSE THAT--WHY
1209
00:35:50,858 --> 00:35:52,326
DOES HE ALWAYS GOT THE BAT?
1210
00:35:52,326 --> 00:35:54,262
THAT WAS THE HOTTING THING.
1211
00:35:54,262 --> 00:35:55,930
YOU HAD A GUY WHO COMPLETELY
1212
00:35:55,930 --> 00:35:57,532
EVOLVED THAT CHANGES CHARACTER
1213
00:35:57,532 --> 00:35:58,733
AND HIDE IN THE RAFTERS AND HE
1214
00:35:58,733 --> 00:36:00,334
SUDDENLY BECAME THE COOLEST GUY
1215
00:36:00,334 --> 00:36:02,103
WITHOUT DOING A THING.
1216
00:36:02,103 --> 00:36:03,738
HE DIDN'T SAY A WORD, HOW
1217
00:36:03,738 --> 00:36:04,806
POWERFUL IS THAT?
1218
00:36:04,806 --> 00:36:05,840
HE WOULDN'T SAY A WORD.
1219
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:07,175
FANS WOULD HAVE SIGNS, YOU KNOW,
1220
00:36:07,175 --> 00:36:08,609
STING WANTS HOGAN.
1221
00:36:08,609 --> 00:36:11,011
AND THEN THEY FINALLY BOOK THAT
1222
00:36:11,011 --> 00:36:11,345
MATCH FOR STARRCADE AND IT WAS
1223
00:36:11,345 --> 00:36:14,849
JUST POOF.
1224
00:36:14,849 --> 00:36:16,384
IN WHAT WAS THE BIGGEST
1225
00:36:16,384 --> 00:36:17,819
PAY-PER-VIEW BY RATE IN WWC'S
1226
00:36:17,819 --> 00:36:20,555
HISTORY, STING FACED OFF AGAINST
1227
00:36:20,555 --> 00:36:23,991
HOLLYWOOD HOGAN AT STARRCADE IN
1228
00:36:23,991 --> 00:36:26,627
DECEMBER OF 1997.
1229
00:36:26,627 --> 00:36:28,329
STING HAS RETURNED TO THE
1230
00:36:28,329 --> 00:36:32,333
WRESTLING RING TO RECLAIM WWC'S
1231
00:36:32,333 --> 00:36:35,636
TITLE FROM THE NWO.
1232
00:36:35,636 --> 00:36:37,305
STARRCADE '97 WAS HUGE FOR
1233
00:36:37,305 --> 00:36:39,507
WCW, BECAUSE WE KNEW SOMEHOW,
1234
00:36:39,507 --> 00:36:41,075
SOMEWHERE AT THE END OF THIS
1235
00:36:41,075 --> 00:36:43,811
MOVIE, HE WAS GONNA SAVE US ALL.
1236
00:36:43,811 --> 00:36:46,647
[CROWD CHEERING]
1237
00:36:46,647 --> 00:36:47,648
A BIGGER SPLASH OUT TO THE
1238
00:36:47,648 --> 00:36:48,783
TOP.
1239
00:36:48,783 --> 00:36:49,984
CAN HE PUT IT ON HIM?
1240
00:36:49,984 --> 00:36:53,287
CAN HE PUT IT ON HIM, GUYS?
1241
00:36:53,287 --> 00:36:57,758
IT WAS A HUGE MOMENT FOR WCW.
1242
00:36:57,758 --> 00:36:59,026
AFTER EVERYTHING HE WENT THROUGH
1243
00:36:59,026 --> 00:37:00,962
AND BEING GONE AND COMING BACK
1244
00:37:00,962 --> 00:37:02,497
WITH THE NWO DOING EVERYTHING
1245
00:37:02,497 --> 00:37:03,698
THEY WERE DOING, FOR STING TO
1246
00:37:03,698 --> 00:37:05,066
COME OUT VICTORIOUS, IT WAS VERY
1247
00:37:05,066 --> 00:37:06,534
INSTRUMENTAL IN HIS CAREER.
1248
00:37:06,534 --> 00:37:07,468
HART'S RIGHT IN HOGAN...
1249
00:37:07,468 --> 00:37:08,236
HE'S GOTTEN HIM.
1250
00:37:08,236 --> 00:37:10,036
[BELL RINGING]
1251
00:37:09,737 --> 00:37:10,872
[MUSIC]
1252
00:37:10,872 --> 00:37:12,773
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, STING
1253
00:37:12,773 --> 00:37:15,776
HAS BROUGHT IT BACK WHERE IT
1254
00:37:15,776 --> 00:37:18,980
BELONGS, THE CROWNING JEWEL FOR
1255
00:37:18,980 --> 00:37:20,081
WCW.
1256
00:37:20,081 --> 00:37:22,350
LEX LUGER ON THE STAGE.
1257
00:37:22,350 --> 00:37:23,918
IT'S CELEBRATION TIME.
1258
00:37:23,918 --> 00:37:26,387
HE WAS THE MONUMENT OF WCW.
1259
00:37:26,387 --> 00:37:27,989
IT WAS A HUGE NIGHT AS A FAN, IT
1260
00:37:27,989 --> 00:37:29,223
WAS A HUGE NIGHT FOR THE
1261
00:37:29,223 --> 00:37:30,124
COMPANY.
1262
00:37:30,124 --> 00:37:31,092
THAT WAS AWESOME.
1263
00:37:31,092 --> 00:37:31,826
[CROWD CHEERING]
1264
00:37:31,826 --> 00:37:32,894
LOOK AT THAT FACE, SO MUCH
1265
00:37:32,894 --> 00:37:34,262
EMOTION.
1266
00:37:34,262 --> 00:37:38,299
TONIGHT IS OUR NIGHT.
1267
00:37:38,299 --> 00:37:41,002
STING IS THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT
1268
00:37:41,002 --> 00:37:42,803
CHAMPION.
1269
00:37:42,803 --> 00:37:44,438
STING'S RETURN TO PROMINENCE
1270
00:37:44,438 --> 00:37:46,641
WAS A MAJOR BOOM FOR WCW.
1271
00:37:46,641 --> 00:37:47,675
[MUSIC]
1272
00:37:47,675 --> 00:37:48,409
[CROWD CHEERING]
1273
00:37:48,409 --> 00:37:49,844
THE LONG WAIT WAS WORTH IT,
1274
00:37:49,844 --> 00:37:52,780
THE CROWNING JEWEL STING,
1275
00:37:52,780 --> 00:37:54,048
WORLD'S HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION.
1276
00:37:54,048 --> 00:37:55,049
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, IT'S
1277
00:37:55,049 --> 00:37:58,286
BREATHTAKING IN HERE, GUYS.
1278
00:37:58,286 --> 00:37:59,620
BUT AS THE CALENDAR TURNED TO
1279
00:37:59,620 --> 00:38:02,823
1998, WWE WAS GAINING GROUND IN
1280
00:38:02,823 --> 00:38:04,959
THE RATINGS BATTLE.
1281
00:38:04,959 --> 00:38:06,594
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
1282
00:38:06,594 --> 00:38:09,130
WOULD NEED THEIR HERO NOW MORE
1283
00:38:09,130 --> 00:38:10,131
THAN EVER.
1284
00:38:10,131 --> 00:38:13,033
[CROWD CHEERING]
1285
00:38:13,033 --> 00:38:14,969
[MUSIC]
1286
00:38:14,969 --> 00:38:17,037
IT'S STING.
1287
00:38:17,037 --> 00:38:19,106
IT'S THE WORLD CHAMPION.
1288
00:38:19,106 --> 00:38:22,008
BY EARLY 1998, STING'S
1289
00:38:22,008 --> 00:38:22,944
DRASTIC CHARACTER TRANSFORMATION
1290
00:38:22,944 --> 00:38:25,246
HAD PAID OFF.
1291
00:38:25,246 --> 00:38:27,081
WCW EXPERIENCED THEIR LARGEST
1292
00:38:27,081 --> 00:38:29,483
RATINGS TO DATE WITH STORYLINES
1293
00:38:29,483 --> 00:38:31,819
CENTERED AROUND THE COMPANY'S
1294
00:38:31,819 --> 00:38:34,222
NEW CHAMPION.
1295
00:38:34,222 --> 00:38:35,723
FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR, STING
1296
00:38:35,723 --> 00:38:38,192
NEVER SAID A WORD AND HE WAS A
1297
00:38:38,192 --> 00:38:39,961
BIGGER CHARACTER AT THE END OF
1298
00:38:39,961 --> 00:38:41,562
THAT THAN HE WAS BEFORE HE
1299
00:38:41,562 --> 00:38:42,697
STARTED.
1300
00:38:42,697 --> 00:38:44,732
AND THE TOP GUY IN WCW HAD
1301
00:38:44,732 --> 00:38:47,735
BECOME A MAN OF TOTAL MYSTERY.
1302
00:38:47,735 --> 00:38:49,670
AND THAT'S A HOOK THAT PEOPLE
1303
00:38:49,670 --> 00:38:51,372
WILL COME BACK AND COME BACK AND
1304
00:38:51,372 --> 00:38:53,207
COME BACK FOR MORE.
1305
00:38:53,207 --> 00:38:54,008
[CROWD CHEERING]
1306
00:38:54,008 --> 00:38:55,009
THE CROW CHARACTER RESONATED
1307
00:38:55,009 --> 00:38:56,177
WITH MYSELF AND A LOT OF OTHER
1308
00:38:56,177 --> 00:38:57,311
KIDS MY AGE.
1309
00:38:57,311 --> 00:38:58,679
LIKE THE MYSTIQUE WAS SO BIG AND
1310
00:38:58,679 --> 00:39:02,083
SO BROODY AND IT WAS SO AWESOME.
1311
00:39:02,083 --> 00:39:03,417
WOULD YOU LOOK FROM THE
1312
00:39:03,417 --> 00:39:04,418
HEAVENS?
1313
00:39:04,418 --> 00:39:06,187
IF IT'S NOT STING, WE'RE AT
1314
00:39:06,187 --> 00:39:07,288
WAR.
1315
00:39:07,288 --> 00:39:08,489
AND THERE WERE ALL OF THESE
1316
00:39:08,489 --> 00:39:09,857
BAD -- CHARACTERS WHO WERE
1317
00:39:09,857 --> 00:39:11,425
CUTTING EDGE AND COOL, BUT STING
1318
00:39:11,425 --> 00:39:13,728
WAS A VERY INTERESTING PART OF
1319
00:39:13,728 --> 00:39:14,595
THAT WHOLE THING.
1320
00:39:14,595 --> 00:39:16,197
IT'S LIKE, WHOA, STINGS UP IN
1321
00:39:16,197 --> 00:39:17,198
THE RAFTERS.
1322
00:39:17,198 --> 00:39:18,833
HE'S HITTING PEOPLE WITH A BAT,
1323
00:39:18,833 --> 00:39:20,801
BECAUSE HE WAS VERY, VERY COOL.
1324
00:39:20,801 --> 00:39:21,836
STING WITH THE BAT.
1325
00:39:21,836 --> 00:39:22,536
OH.
1326
00:39:22,536 --> 00:39:23,404
HE'S GOT EVERYBODY.
1327
00:39:23,404 --> 00:39:24,705
YES.
1328
00:39:24,705 --> 00:39:26,674
[MUSIC]
1329
00:39:26,674 --> 00:39:27,441
[CROWD CHEERING]
1330
00:39:27,441 --> 00:39:29,610
I WILL WALK STRAIGHT THROUGH
1331
00:39:29,610 --> 00:39:31,879
THE FIRES OF HELL TO FACE YOU,
1332
00:39:31,879 --> 00:39:33,214
KANE.
1333
00:39:33,214 --> 00:39:34,282
AND YOU GET THE UNDERTAKER
1334
00:39:34,282 --> 00:39:35,816
WHO'S GOT THAT PRESENCE ABOUT
1335
00:39:35,816 --> 00:39:37,218
HIM AND THAT AURA, AND THE
1336
00:39:37,218 --> 00:39:39,353
FEELING THAT HE'S UNBEATABLE,
1337
00:39:39,353 --> 00:39:40,588
THAT'S WHEN YOU GET SOMETHING
1338
00:39:40,588 --> 00:39:41,489
SPECIAL.
1339
00:39:41,489 --> 00:39:42,323
[CROWD CHEERING]
1340
00:39:42,323 --> 00:39:43,591
THE UNDERTAKER AND STING WERE
1341
00:39:43,591 --> 00:39:46,060
BOTH HEROES WITH AN EDGE.
1342
00:39:46,060 --> 00:39:47,695
THE AUDIENCE WAS DRAWN TO THESE
1343
00:39:47,695 --> 00:39:49,497
MORE COMPELLING PROTAGONISTS AND
1344
00:39:49,497 --> 00:39:50,998
TUNED INTO BOTH MONDAY NIGHT
1345
00:39:50,998 --> 00:39:53,200
PROGRAMS IN RECORD NUMBERS.
1346
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:54,468
UNDERTAKER AND STING KEPT
1347
00:39:54,468 --> 00:39:55,870
REINVENTING THEMSELVES.
1348
00:39:55,870 --> 00:39:59,440
AND THEY NEVER BETRAYED THE CORE
1349
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,242
OF THEIR OWN PERSONA, BUT THEY
1350
00:40:01,242 --> 00:40:04,712
ADDED LAYERS TO THAT CORE THAT
1351
00:40:04,712 --> 00:40:06,013
MADE THEIR CHARACTERS MORE
1352
00:40:06,013 --> 00:40:08,316
RIVETING AND COMPELLING TO
1353
00:40:08,316 --> 00:40:09,717
WATCH.
1354
00:40:09,717 --> 00:40:10,851
IT WAS JUST LIKE A RACE FOR
1355
00:40:10,851 --> 00:40:12,053
ARMS IN WAR.
1356
00:40:12,053 --> 00:40:13,654
WCW VERSUS WWE IN THE RATINGS
1357
00:40:13,654 --> 00:40:17,158
WARS, THOSE ARE HUGE NUMBERS OF
1358
00:40:17,158 --> 00:40:18,659
FANS THAT HAVE TURNED ONTO
1359
00:40:18,659 --> 00:40:20,127
WRESTLING, WHETHER YOU LIKE WWE
1360
00:40:20,127 --> 00:40:21,829
OR YOU LIKE WCW, WE GOT PEOPLE
1361
00:40:21,829 --> 00:40:22,797
TO WATCH.
1362
00:40:22,797 --> 00:40:23,531
[CROWD CHEERING]
1363
00:40:23,531 --> 00:40:24,665
THE PHENOM IS HERE.
1364
00:40:24,665 --> 00:40:25,866
WHAT A REACTION.
1365
00:40:25,866 --> 00:40:28,235
[CROWD CHEERING]
1366
00:40:28,235 --> 00:40:30,438
BY APRIL OF 1998, THE RAPID
1367
00:40:30,438 --> 00:40:33,541
MOMENTUM OF WWE'S ATTITUDE ERA
1368
00:40:33,541 --> 00:40:35,843
HELPED RAW OVERTAKE NITRO IN THE
1369
00:40:35,843 --> 00:40:37,578
WEEKLY RATINGS BATTLES.
1370
00:40:37,578 --> 00:40:39,947
[MUSIC]
1371
00:40:39,947 --> 00:40:41,382
[CROWD CHEERING]
1372
00:40:41,382 --> 00:40:42,850
BUILDING ON THIS MOMENTUM,
1373
00:40:42,850 --> 00:40:44,752
THE UNDERTAKER'S CHARACTER
1374
00:40:44,752 --> 00:40:46,354
CONTINUED TO EVOLVE INTO A MORE
1375
00:40:46,354 --> 00:40:47,055
DYNAMIC PERSONA.
1376
00:40:47,055 --> 00:40:49,523
AND VINCE MCMAHON DID JUST
1377
00:40:49,523 --> 00:40:50,658
THAT.
1378
00:40:50,658 --> 00:40:54,362
HE GAVE ME THE CHANCE TO BE
1379
00:40:54,362 --> 00:41:00,668
MYSELF, TO BE THE UNDERTAKER.
1380
00:41:00,668 --> 00:41:05,072
I STAYED BY HIS SIDE EVEN AFTER
1381
00:41:05,072 --> 00:41:07,875
ALL HIS HAND CHOSEN FAVORITES
1382
00:41:07,875 --> 00:41:11,645
LEFT TOWN FOR GREENER PASTURES,
1383
00:41:11,645 --> 00:41:15,716
MORE MONEY, I STAYED HERE.
1384
00:41:15,716 --> 00:41:17,084
[MUSIC]
1385
00:41:17,084 --> 00:41:18,919
HAVING HELPED TO TURN THE
1386
00:41:18,919 --> 00:41:20,287
TIDE, THE UNDERTAKER WAS
1387
00:41:20,287 --> 00:41:21,322
JUSTIFIED IN DEMANDING THE
1388
00:41:21,322 --> 00:41:22,556
SPOTLIGHT.
1389
00:41:22,556 --> 00:41:24,558
HOWEVER, THE PHENOM WOULD
1390
00:41:24,558 --> 00:41:26,260
INSTEAD PREFER TO SHARE THE
1391
00:41:26,260 --> 00:41:27,561
WEALTH WITH THE REST OF THE
1392
00:41:27,561 --> 00:41:29,864
WWE'S LOCKER ROOM.
1393
00:41:29,864 --> 00:41:31,866
THIS UNSELFISHNESS HELPED MONDAY
1394
00:41:31,866 --> 00:41:34,168
NIGHT RAW MAINTAIN ITS RATINGS
1395
00:41:34,168 --> 00:41:35,503
LEAD.
1396
00:41:35,503 --> 00:41:36,871
UNDERTAKER IS DEFINITELY THE
1397
00:41:36,871 --> 00:41:38,439
LOCKER ROOM LEADER, BECAUSE HIS
1398
00:41:38,439 --> 00:41:40,541
PHILOSOPHY ISN'T ABOUT WHAT'S IN
1399
00:41:40,541 --> 00:41:42,843
IT FOR UNDERTAKER, HIS
1400
00:41:42,843 --> 00:41:44,645
PHILOSOPHY IS WHAT'S IN IT FOR
1401
00:41:44,645 --> 00:41:46,680
EVERYBODY IN THE LOCKER ROOM OR
1402
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:51,018
WHICH MAKES THE COMPANY STRONGER
1403
00:41:51,018 --> 00:41:52,553
THE UNDERTAKER DID THINGS FOR
1404
00:41:52,553 --> 00:41:54,088
THE COMPANY BECAUSE IT WAS THE
1405
00:41:54,088 --> 00:41:55,122
RIGHT THING TO DO.
1406
00:41:55,122 --> 00:41:55,890
[CROWD CHEERING]
1407
00:41:55,890 --> 00:41:57,324
THAT TAKES A HELL OF A LOT OF
1408
00:41:57,324 --> 00:41:58,092
GUTS.
1409
00:41:58,092 --> 00:41:59,593
THAT'S A MAN'S MAN RIGHT THERE.
1410
00:41:59,593 --> 00:42:00,928
[MUSIC]
1411
00:42:00,928 --> 00:42:02,463
WHEREAS IN WCW, EVERYBODY A
1412
00:42:02,463 --> 00:42:04,131
LOT OF TIMES WAS IN THERE FOR
1413
00:42:04,131 --> 00:42:05,433
THEMSELVES.
1414
00:42:05,433 --> 00:42:06,567
AND THEY WEREN'T LOOKING AT THE
1415
00:42:06,567 --> 00:42:08,836
BIG PICTURE LIKE HOW CAN WE MAKE
1416
00:42:08,836 --> 00:42:10,204
A BETTER--THAT'S TWO DIFFERENT
1417
00:42:10,204 --> 00:42:11,439
PHILOSOPHIES.
1418
00:42:11,439 --> 00:42:12,640
UNDERTAKER WAS ONE OF THOSE
1419
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:13,908
GUYS WHO WAS ALWAYS SO STEADY,
1420
00:42:13,908 --> 00:42:15,810
TELLING ME, "DON'T WORRY ABOUT
1421
00:42:15,810 --> 00:42:16,710
IT, KID.
1422
00:42:16,710 --> 00:42:17,645
YOU JUST GO OUT AND KEEP DOING
1423
00:42:17,645 --> 00:42:18,479
YOUR THING.
1424
00:42:18,479 --> 00:42:20,047
YOU GOT A HELL OF A FUTURE."
1425
00:42:20,047 --> 00:42:21,248
SPOKE VOLUMES ABOUT HIS
1426
00:42:21,248 --> 00:42:22,550
INTEGRITY AND HIS LOVE FOR THE
1427
00:42:22,550 --> 00:42:23,651
BUSINESS.
1428
00:42:23,651 --> 00:42:26,821
AND I'LL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL FOR
1429
00:42:26,821 --> 00:42:28,189
THAT.
1430
00:42:28,189 --> 00:42:29,356
[CROWD CHEERING]
1431
00:42:29,356 --> 00:42:30,458
WE HAD THE ROCK AND THE
1432
00:42:30,458 --> 00:42:31,625
UNDERTAKER WHO HAVE BEEN WITH US
1433
00:42:31,625 --> 00:42:32,793
FROM DAY ONE.
1434
00:42:32,793 --> 00:42:34,795
WE HAD STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN.
1435
00:42:34,795 --> 00:42:36,263
SO, YOU HAD, YOU KNOW, A
1436
00:42:36,263 --> 00:42:37,465
COMBINATION OF THESE EMERGING
1437
00:42:37,465 --> 00:42:38,999
STARS PLUS THE LOYALISTS WHO
1438
00:42:38,999 --> 00:42:40,401
REMAINED HERE.
1439
00:42:40,401 --> 00:42:41,969
AND IT WAS A TREMENDOUS MIX AT
1440
00:42:41,969 --> 00:42:43,270
THAT TIME.
1441
00:42:43,270 --> 00:42:44,839
THE UNDERTAKER HAD REDEFINED
1442
00:42:44,839 --> 00:42:46,540
HIS CHARACTER WITHOUT
1443
00:42:46,540 --> 00:42:48,075
SACRIFICING THE ORIGINAL ESSENCE
1444
00:42:48,075 --> 00:42:49,310
OF HIS PERSONA.
1445
00:42:49,310 --> 00:42:51,212
[MUSIC]
1446
00:42:51,212 --> 00:42:51,912
[CROWD CHEERING]
1447
00:42:51,912 --> 00:42:53,314
BUT BY JUNE OF 1998, THE SAME
1448
00:42:53,314 --> 00:42:54,849
COULD NOT BE SAID FOR WORLD
1449
00:42:54,849 --> 00:42:56,383
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING'S MAN OF
1450
00:42:56,383 --> 00:42:57,718
MYSTERY.
1451
00:42:57,718 --> 00:42:59,320
IN HOPES OF REGAINING THEIR
1452
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,856
MOMENTUM, WCW LOOKED TO THE NEW
1453
00:43:01,856 --> 00:43:03,190
WORLD ORDER.
1454
00:43:03,190 --> 00:43:04,325
[CROWD CHEERING]
1455
00:43:04,325 --> 00:43:06,093
THE NWO SPLIT RIGHT AT THE
1456
00:43:06,093 --> 00:43:07,161
TOP.
1457
00:43:07,161 --> 00:43:08,362
NOW, IT LOOKS LIKE THE BATTLE
1458
00:43:08,362 --> 00:43:09,797
LINES ARE GOING TO BE DRAWN.
1459
00:43:09,797 --> 00:43:11,065
LET'S GET OUT OUR PAPERS AND
1460
00:43:11,065 --> 00:43:13,000
KEEP TRACK OF THE DIFFERENT
1461
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,368
ROSTERS WITHIN THE NEW WORLD
1462
00:43:14,368 --> 00:43:16,070
ORDER.
1463
00:43:16,070 --> 00:43:18,439
THE NWO HAD SEPARATED INTO
1464
00:43:18,439 --> 00:43:20,074
TWO WARRING FACTIONS.
1465
00:43:20,074 --> 00:43:23,042
CAN I SAY MORE?
1466
00:43:23,042 --> 00:43:24,078
BOTH SEEKING THE ALLEGIANCE
1467
00:43:24,078 --> 00:43:27,615
OF WCW'S FLAG BEARER.
1468
00:43:27,615 --> 00:43:30,184
THE NWO WOLFPAC, NWO
1469
00:43:30,184 --> 00:43:31,452
HOLLYWOOD.
1470
00:43:31,452 --> 00:43:33,053
AND LOOK UP ABOVE, WHAT'S THIS
1471
00:43:33,053 --> 00:43:34,455
MAN THINKING?
1472
00:43:34,455 --> 00:43:39,827
WHERE DOES STING STAND?
1473
00:43:39,827 --> 00:43:41,862
HE'S GOT A NWO--HE'S GONE TO THE
1474
00:43:41,862 --> 00:43:43,097
BLACK AND THE WHITE.
1475
00:43:43,097 --> 00:43:43,931
OH.
1476
00:43:43,931 --> 00:43:44,698
OH, MY GOD.
1477
00:43:44,698 --> 00:43:45,499
HE'S GONE TO THE BLACK AND THE
1478
00:43:45,499 --> 00:43:47,468
WHITE.
1479
00:43:47,468 --> 00:43:48,869
AND LOOK AT HOGAN CELEBRATE.
1480
00:43:48,869 --> 00:43:49,904
OH, I THOUGHT I'D NEVER SEE
1481
00:43:49,904 --> 00:43:50,938
THIS.
1482
00:43:50,938 --> 00:43:52,873
STING HUGGING HOGAN--NO, HE
1483
00:43:52,873 --> 00:43:54,208
DOESN'T.
1484
00:43:54,208 --> 00:43:55,910
[CROWD CHEERING]
1485
00:43:55,910 --> 00:43:58,312
STING DECKED HOGAN.
1486
00:43:58,312 --> 00:43:59,513
STING IS GONNA SLAM THE GIANT.
1487
00:43:59,513 --> 00:44:00,548
WHOA.
1488
00:44:00,548 --> 00:44:03,016
HE HAS SLAMMED THE GIANT.
1489
00:44:03,016 --> 00:44:04,618
STING'S GOT--HE'S GOT THE RED
1490
00:44:04,618 --> 00:44:05,920
AND THE BLACK.
1491
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:07,187
[MUSIC]
1492
00:44:07,187 --> 00:44:08,722
THE NWO WOLFPAC WAS A NEW
1493
00:44:08,722 --> 00:44:10,991
TWIST FOR STING AS HE SHED HIS
1494
00:44:10,991 --> 00:44:13,127
INDIVIDUALISM TO JOIN HIS FORMER
1495
00:44:13,127 --> 00:44:14,828
RIVALS.
1496
00:44:14,828 --> 00:44:16,230
BUT THIS LATEST CHARACTER
1497
00:44:16,230 --> 00:44:18,232
DEVELOPMENT WOULD SOON DO MORE
1498
00:44:18,232 --> 00:44:20,067
HARM THAN GOOD.
1499
00:44:20,067 --> 00:44:20,935
[MUSIC]
1500
00:44:20,935 --> 00:44:22,069
WE ALL THOUGHT STING WAS THE
1501
00:44:22,069 --> 00:44:23,571
SAVIOR OF WCW, THE ONE GUY WHO
1502
00:44:23,571 --> 00:44:25,072
WAS GONNA BE ABLE TO VANQUISH
1503
00:44:25,072 --> 00:44:26,140
THE NWO.
1504
00:44:26,140 --> 00:44:27,641
BUT IT WAS KIND OF HARD TO THINK
1505
00:44:27,641 --> 00:44:29,743
THAT IN THE YEARS, STING
1506
00:44:29,743 --> 00:44:31,111
WOULDN'T BE A PART OF THE NWO
1507
00:44:31,111 --> 00:44:32,813
BECAUSE EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE
1508
00:44:32,813 --> 00:44:37,017
COMPANY PUT THE FLAG OF THE NWO.
1509
00:44:37,017 --> 00:44:38,352
HE WAS THE LAST ONE THAT THEY
1510
00:44:38,352 --> 00:44:42,489
COULD FLIP TO JOIN THE NWO
1511
00:44:42,489 --> 00:44:44,358
BECAUSE IF YOU GET STING TO
1512
00:44:44,358 --> 00:44:45,960
FLIP, YOU'VE GOT THE PEOPLE
1513
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:47,027
AGAIN.
1514
00:44:47,027 --> 00:44:48,062
IT JUST WAS LESS IMPACTFUL,
1515
00:44:48,062 --> 00:44:48,996
BECAUSE NOW EVERYBODY WAS NWO.
1516
00:44:48,996 --> 00:44:50,965
STING GOT LOST IN THE
1517
00:44:50,965 --> 00:44:51,865
SHUFFLE.
1518
00:44:51,865 --> 00:44:52,967
STING USED TO BE A GUY THAT
1519
00:44:52,967 --> 00:44:54,401
STOOD OUT ON HIS OWN.
1520
00:44:54,401 --> 00:44:55,836
AND NOW, HE'S JUST IN THIS LARGE
1521
00:44:55,836 --> 00:44:57,338
GROUP.
1522
00:44:57,338 --> 00:44:59,039
WHOLE LOT OF RED AND BLACK
1523
00:44:59,039 --> 00:45:01,609
GOING ON TONIGHT.
1524
00:45:01,609 --> 00:45:02,376
[MUSIC]
1525
00:45:02,376 --> 00:45:03,544
THE SUCCESS OF STING'S
1526
00:45:03,544 --> 00:45:06,012
INITIAL TRANSFORMATION HAD BEEN
1527
00:45:06,012 --> 00:45:07,147
COMPROMISED BY HIS IMMERSION IN
1528
00:45:07,147 --> 00:45:08,882
THE NWO.
1529
00:45:08,882 --> 00:45:11,151
BUT AS WWE BEGAN TO DISTANCE
1530
00:45:11,151 --> 00:45:13,387
THEMSELVES FROM WCW IN THE
1531
00:45:13,387 --> 00:45:15,422
RATINGS, THE UNDERTAKER WAS
1532
00:45:15,422 --> 00:45:17,057
EMBARKING ON A RISKY CHARACTER
1533
00:45:17,057 --> 00:45:19,093
METAMORPHOSIS OF HIS OWN.
1534
00:45:19,093 --> 00:45:21,362
ACCEPT THE LORD OF DARKNESS
1535
00:45:21,362 --> 00:45:24,565
AS YOUR SAVIOR.
1536
00:45:24,565 --> 00:45:28,068
ALLOW THE PURITY OF EVIL TO
1537
00:45:28,068 --> 00:45:29,303
GUIDE YOU.
1538
00:45:29,303 --> 00:45:30,938
[MUSIC]
1539
00:45:30,938 --> 00:45:32,840
AS THE ATTITUDE ERA PUSHED
1540
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:34,174
THE LIMITS OF SPORTS
1541
00:45:34,174 --> 00:45:35,743
ENTERTAINMENT, THE UNDERTAKER
1542
00:45:35,743 --> 00:45:37,378
INTENSIFIED HIS CHARACTER'S
1543
00:45:37,378 --> 00:45:39,413
CRYPTIC ROOTS AND EVOLVED INTO
1544
00:45:39,413 --> 00:45:41,515
THE VILLAINOUS LEADER OF THE
1545
00:45:41,515 --> 00:45:43,450
MINISTRY OF DARKNESS.
1546
00:45:43,450 --> 00:45:46,186
I HAVE AMASSED AN ARMY.
1547
00:45:46,186 --> 00:45:47,788
[MUSIC]
1548
00:45:47,788 --> 00:45:49,490
UNDERTAKER HAS REINVENTED
1549
00:45:49,490 --> 00:45:51,425
HIMSELF MANY TIMES WHICH SHOWS
1550
00:45:51,425 --> 00:45:52,693
YOU HOW GREAT A TALENT HE IS.
1551
00:45:52,693 --> 00:45:54,094
AND DURING THAT TIME, HE WANNA
1552
00:45:54,094 --> 00:45:57,564
REINVENT HIMSELF TO A REAL DARK
1553
00:45:57,564 --> 00:45:59,299
SIDE CHARACTER TO TAKE ALL OF
1554
00:45:59,299 --> 00:46:01,268
THE GOOD OUT OF IT.
1555
00:46:01,268 --> 00:46:02,736
AND MAKING AN EVIL CHARACTER WHO
1556
00:46:02,736 --> 00:46:04,238
WAS PRETTY TOUGH TO DO, BUT HE
1557
00:46:04,238 --> 00:46:09,143
DID A REALLY GOOD JOB OF IT.
1558
00:46:09,143 --> 00:46:10,444
IT WAS COOL TO SEE A
1559
00:46:10,444 --> 00:46:11,512
DIFFERENT SIDE TO THE UNDERTAKER
1560
00:46:11,512 --> 00:46:12,680
WHICH WASN'T TOTALLY DIFFERENT
1561
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:14,281
FROM WHAT HE WAS.
1562
00:46:14,281 --> 00:46:16,917
IT WAS JUST THIS NEW PHASE OF
1563
00:46:16,917 --> 00:46:18,719
THE UNDERTAKER.
1564
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:20,220
WHEN HE DECIDED TO MORPH INTO
1565
00:46:20,220 --> 00:46:23,424
THE MINISTRY OF DARKNESS AND DO
1566
00:46:23,424 --> 00:46:24,958
A [INDISTINCT]
1567
00:46:24,958 --> 00:46:25,826
IN LATIN.
1568
00:46:25,826 --> 00:46:28,228
[MUSIC]
1569
00:46:28,228 --> 00:46:29,863
IT JUST SHOWED EVERYBODY THAT
1570
00:46:29,863 --> 00:46:31,799
IF YOU WANNA BE ON YOUR GAME,
1571
00:46:31,799 --> 00:46:33,333
WELL, YOU'VE ALWAYS GOT TO BE
1572
00:46:33,333 --> 00:46:35,736
ABLE TO UPGRADE AND ADJUST AND
1573
00:46:35,736 --> 00:46:37,371
MAKE IT BETTER.
1574
00:46:37,371 --> 00:46:38,739
AND IF THE UNDERTAKER CAN DO
1575
00:46:38,739 --> 00:46:40,774
THAT, THEN I DAMN SURE SHOULD BE
1576
00:46:40,774 --> 00:46:42,109
THINKING ABOUT DOING SOMETHING
1577
00:46:42,109 --> 00:46:43,210
LIKE THAT.
1578
00:46:43,210 --> 00:46:44,011
[MUSIC]
1579
00:46:44,011 --> 00:46:45,579
IT GOES BACK TO THE RESPECT
1580
00:46:45,579 --> 00:46:49,550
THAT THE AUDIENCE HAS FOR HIM
1581
00:46:49,550 --> 00:46:51,185
AND KNOWING THAT WHEN HE STEPS
1582
00:46:51,185 --> 00:46:53,087
INTO THAT RING, HE'S GONNA GIVE
1583
00:46:53,087 --> 00:46:54,655
A HUNDRED PERCENT OF WHAT THEY
1584
00:46:54,655 --> 00:46:55,856
CAME TO SEE.
1585
00:46:55,856 --> 00:46:57,357
NO MATTER IF HE'S BETRAYING A
1586
00:46:57,357 --> 00:47:00,427
GOOD GUY, BAD GUY, THEY KNOW
1587
00:47:00,427 --> 00:47:02,096
HE'S GONNA GIVE THEM WHAT THEY
1588
00:47:02,096 --> 00:47:05,866
CAME TO SEE.
1589
00:47:05,866 --> 00:47:08,902
BY THE SPRING OF 1999, THE
1590
00:47:08,902 --> 00:47:10,471
UNDERTAKER WAS PART OF A
1591
00:47:10,471 --> 00:47:12,439
STAR-STUDDED ROSTER THAT WAS
1592
00:47:12,439 --> 00:47:13,841
DOMINATING THE MONDAY NIGHT
1593
00:47:13,841 --> 00:47:14,975
RATINGS.
1594
00:47:14,975 --> 00:47:18,479
[CROWD CHEERING]
1595
00:47:18,479 --> 00:47:20,481
A SCORPION DEATH DROP.
1596
00:47:20,481 --> 00:47:21,448
THAT COULD BE IT.
1597
00:47:21,448 --> 00:47:23,817
ONE, TWO, THREE.
1598
00:47:23,817 --> 00:47:25,452
NEW CHAMPION, NEW CHAMPION.
1599
00:47:25,452 --> 00:47:26,353
HE DID IT.
1600
00:47:26,353 --> 00:47:27,187
[BELL RINGING]
1601
00:47:27,187 --> 00:47:27,888
[MUSIC]
1602
00:47:27,888 --> 00:47:30,022
MEANWHILE, IN WORLD
1603
00:47:30,022 --> 00:47:30,791
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING, STING
1604
00:47:30,791 --> 00:47:32,259
HAD LEFT THE NWO WOLFPAC AND WAS
1605
00:47:32,259 --> 00:47:34,261
BACK ON HIS OWN.
1606
00:47:34,261 --> 00:47:35,729
BUT EVEN THE RETURN TO HIS MOST
1607
00:47:35,729 --> 00:47:37,564
SUCCESSFUL PERSONA WAS NOT
1608
00:47:37,564 --> 00:47:40,768
ENOUGH TO OVERCOME WCW'S LACK OF
1609
00:47:40,768 --> 00:47:42,336
DIRECTION.
1610
00:47:42,336 --> 00:47:44,638
DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE IN ONE
1611
00:47:44,638 --> 00:47:48,909
NIGHT LOST AND HAS WON BACK THE
1612
00:47:48,909 --> 00:47:50,110
WORLD TITLE.
1613
00:47:50,110 --> 00:47:50,778
[BELL RINGING]
1614
00:47:50,778 --> 00:47:51,612
THE WCW'S FAMOUS ARE
1615
00:47:51,612 --> 00:47:52,379
MISMANAGED.
1616
00:47:52,379 --> 00:47:53,380
THE RIGHT HAND DIDN'T EVEN KNOW
1617
00:47:53,380 --> 00:47:54,681
THE LEFT HAND EXISTED.
1618
00:47:54,681 --> 00:47:55,749
AND THAT'S KIND OF LIKE THE
1619
00:47:55,749 --> 00:47:57,317
WHOLE WCW ATTITUDE TOWARDS AND
1620
00:47:57,317 --> 00:47:58,786
VERY JUST LACKADAISICAL AND
1621
00:47:58,786 --> 00:48:00,721
NONCHALANT, AND DIDN'T REALLY
1622
00:48:00,721 --> 00:48:01,655
CARE.
1623
00:48:01,655 --> 00:48:03,624
IT WAS ALMOST LIKE THE THREE
1624
00:48:03,624 --> 00:48:05,626
STOOGES OF WRESTLING, JUST THESE
1625
00:48:05,626 --> 00:48:07,928
SIMPLETONS RUNNING THIS
1626
00:48:07,928 --> 00:48:10,264
MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY.
1627
00:48:10,264 --> 00:48:11,298
AND LOOKING BACK ON IT, IT'S
1628
00:48:11,298 --> 00:48:15,001
ABSOLUTELY INSANE THAT THAT WAS
1629
00:48:15,001 --> 00:48:15,302
THE WAY IT WAS, BUT THAT REALLY
1630
00:48:15,302 --> 00:48:18,138
LITERALLY WAS THE WAY IT WAS.
1631
00:48:18,138 --> 00:48:19,339
BIG POPPA PUMP TURNED THE DOG
1632
00:48:19,339 --> 00:48:21,208
LOOSE ON STING.
1633
00:48:21,208 --> 00:48:22,643
IT WAS BAD AND THEY HAD THE
1634
00:48:22,643 --> 00:48:23,944
MONEY, THEY HAD THE TELEVISION,
1635
00:48:23,944 --> 00:48:25,078
THEY HAD THE NETWORKS, THEY HAD
1636
00:48:25,078 --> 00:48:26,413
EVERYTHING THEY NEEDED, BUT
1637
00:48:26,413 --> 00:48:28,582
JUST, YOU KNOW, NOBODY WITH A
1638
00:48:28,582 --> 00:48:31,251
CLEAR VISION OR CONTROL.
1639
00:48:31,251 --> 00:48:33,387
SEVERAL OF WCW'S SUPERSTARS
1640
00:48:33,387 --> 00:48:34,855
GREW TIRED OF THE COMPANY'S
1641
00:48:34,855 --> 00:48:39,092
MISMANAGEMENT AND LEFT FOR WWE.
1642
00:48:39,092 --> 00:48:40,828
THE FLOODGATES JUST OPENED.
1643
00:48:40,828 --> 00:48:42,529
AND IT BROUGHT A LOT OF PEOPLE
1644
00:48:42,529 --> 00:48:45,165
FROM WCW TO THE WWE WHO ACTUALLY
1645
00:48:45,165 --> 00:48:51,004
BECAME HUGE STARS IN THE WWE.
1646
00:48:51,004 --> 00:48:55,041
WCW WAS SINKING, BUT STING
1647
00:48:55,041 --> 00:48:55,742
REFUSED TO ABANDON THE COMPANY
1648
00:48:55,742 --> 00:48:58,011
HE HAD HELPED BUILD.
1649
00:48:58,011 --> 00:48:59,847
I'VE BEEN HERE THROUGH THICK
1650
00:48:59,847 --> 00:49:01,648
AND THIN, THE ONLY GUY NEVER TO
1651
00:49:01,648 --> 00:49:04,451
LEAVE, THE ONLY GUY TO CARRY THE
1652
00:49:04,451 --> 00:49:06,687
WCW BANNER ALWAYS.
1653
00:49:06,687 --> 00:49:08,755
[MUSIC]
1654
00:49:08,755 --> 00:49:10,457
I ASKED STING WHY HE NEVER
1655
00:49:10,457 --> 00:49:11,425
LEFT.
1656
00:49:11,425 --> 00:49:13,694
AND HE SAID HE WAS ALWAYS AFRAID
1657
00:49:13,694 --> 00:49:17,064
THEY WOULD NEVER MAKE HIM STING.
1658
00:49:17,064 --> 00:49:19,199
AND I GOT THAT AND I SAW THAT.
1659
00:49:19,199 --> 00:49:21,335
AND I DON'T THINK STING WOULD
1660
00:49:21,335 --> 00:49:23,570
HAVE BEEN STING IN THE WWE.
1661
00:49:23,570 --> 00:49:26,005
[CROWD CHEERING]
1662
00:49:26,005 --> 00:49:26,974
MY GREATEST REGRET FOR STING
1663
00:49:26,974 --> 00:49:28,075
IS THAT HE NEVER CAME TO THE
1664
00:49:28,075 --> 00:49:29,076
WWE.
1665
00:49:29,076 --> 00:49:31,144
I TOLD HIM FOR YEARS, "GET OUT
1666
00:49:31,144 --> 00:49:32,512
OF THIS PLACE, MAN, YOU ARE SO
1667
00:49:32,512 --> 00:49:33,413
GOOD."
1668
00:49:33,413 --> 00:49:34,615
BUT HE WAS MAKING SO MUCH MONEY
1669
00:49:34,615 --> 00:49:36,116
AND HAD A LEVEL OF COMFORT.
1670
00:49:36,116 --> 00:49:37,084
I WANTED TO GIVE EVERYONE TO
1671
00:49:37,084 --> 00:49:38,585
GIVE IT A TRY.
1672
00:49:38,585 --> 00:49:40,754
WHEN IT WAS IN VOGUE TO JUMP
1673
00:49:40,754 --> 00:49:42,322
FROM WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
1674
00:49:42,322 --> 00:49:44,124
WRESTLING TO THE WORLD WRESTLING
1675
00:49:44,124 --> 00:49:46,226
ENTERTAINMENT, THIS MAN WAS
1676
00:49:46,226 --> 00:49:47,527
LOYAL.
1677
00:49:47,527 --> 00:49:50,297
HE BLED WCW.
1678
00:49:50,297 --> 00:49:53,433
THIS MAN PROVED NIGHT AFTER
1679
00:49:53,433 --> 00:49:57,170
NIGHT WHAT LOYALTY MEANT.
1680
00:49:57,170 --> 00:49:58,839
LOYALTY IN THIS BUSINESS IS A
1681
00:49:58,839 --> 00:50:00,641
WORD THAT YOU DON'T HEAR OFTEN,
1682
00:50:00,641 --> 00:50:02,809
BECAUSE BUSINESS IS BUSINESS AND
1683
00:50:02,809 --> 00:50:04,177
PEOPLE WILL JUMP.
1684
00:50:04,177 --> 00:50:05,679
BUT STING STAYING THERE THE
1685
00:50:05,679 --> 00:50:07,114
ENTIRE TIME THROUGH THICK AND
1686
00:50:07,114 --> 00:50:10,684
THIN MEANS A LOT TO OTHER
1687
00:50:10,684 --> 00:50:11,852
PERFORMERS, I THINK, JUST TO SEE
1688
00:50:11,852 --> 00:50:13,320
THAT IT CAN BE DONE.
1689
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:14,121
[CROWD CHEERING]
1690
00:50:14,121 --> 00:50:16,023
STING REMAINED WITH WCW UNTIL
1691
00:50:16,023 --> 00:50:17,791
THE COMPANY CLOSED ITS DOORS IN
1692
00:50:17,791 --> 00:50:20,794
2001, FITTINGLY PERFORMING IN
1693
00:50:20,794 --> 00:50:22,696
THE FINAL MATCH IN NITRO
1694
00:50:22,696 --> 00:50:23,797
HISTORY.
1695
00:50:23,797 --> 00:50:25,265
STING WAS THE COMPANY, NO
1696
00:50:25,265 --> 00:50:26,266
QUESTION ABOUT IT.
1697
00:50:26,266 --> 00:50:28,035
HE WAS THE--HE WAS THE FLAGSHIP.
1698
00:50:28,035 --> 00:50:28,902
[CROWD CHEERING]
1699
00:50:28,902 --> 00:50:31,004
STING, A SEVEN-TIME WORLD
1700
00:50:31,004 --> 00:50:33,273
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION.
1701
00:50:33,273 --> 00:50:34,841
HE WAS A STAR.
1702
00:50:34,841 --> 00:50:36,443
HE REALLY WAS A STAR BUT WHAT
1703
00:50:36,443 --> 00:50:38,378
WAS RIGHT FOR BUSINESS IS WHAT
1704
00:50:38,378 --> 00:50:39,713
STING DID.
1705
00:50:39,713 --> 00:50:40,981
I ALWAYS THINK HE'D BE THEIR
1706
00:50:40,981 --> 00:50:42,783
FLAGSHIP, THEIR [INDISTINCT]
1707
00:50:42,783 --> 00:50:44,351
HE WAS THE ONLY GUY THAT WAS
1708
00:50:44,351 --> 00:50:45,919
WITH THEM BEFORE, DURING, AND
1709
00:50:45,919 --> 00:50:47,487
AFTER NITRO.
1710
00:50:47,487 --> 00:50:49,589
AND HE REALLY REPRESENTED THE
1711
00:50:49,589 --> 00:50:51,425
WCW FRANCHISE AND HE ALWAYS
1712
00:50:51,425 --> 00:50:52,693
WILL.
1713
00:50:52,693 --> 00:50:55,395
STING'S LOYALTY TO WCW COULD
1714
00:50:55,395 --> 00:50:57,331
ONLY BE MATCHED BY THE
1715
00:50:57,331 --> 00:51:00,801
UNDERTAKER'S TO WWE.
1716
00:51:00,801 --> 00:51:04,036
TOGETHER, THEIR PARALLEL
1717
00:51:04,036 --> 00:51:05,372
LEGACIES ARE OF TWO SUPERSTARS
1718
00:51:05,372 --> 00:51:06,707
WHO CARRIED THEIR COMPANY'S
1719
00:51:06,707 --> 00:51:08,241
BANNER WITH HONOR AND COMMITMENT
1720
00:51:08,241 --> 00:51:10,711
DURING SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT'S
1721
00:51:10,711 --> 00:51:13,046
MOST COMPETITIVE AND CHAOTIC
1722
00:51:13,046 --> 00:51:13,914
ERA.
1723
00:51:13,914 --> 00:51:15,115
[MUSIC]
1724
00:51:15,115 --> 00:51:16,383
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR EACH
1725
00:51:16,383 --> 00:51:17,651
COMPANY TO HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE
1726
00:51:17,651 --> 00:51:18,919
STAR LIKE THE UNDERTAKER IN WWE
1727
00:51:18,919 --> 00:51:21,054
AND STING IN WCW, BECAUSE THOSE
1728
00:51:21,054 --> 00:51:22,823
GUYS ARE THE LEADERS.
1729
00:51:22,823 --> 00:51:25,459
EVERYBODY REVOLVED AROUND THEM.
1730
00:51:25,459 --> 00:51:26,760
TWO THINGS IN THE MONDAY
1731
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:30,097
NIGHT WARS WERE PRETTY MUCH NOT
1732
00:51:30,097 --> 00:51:31,398
GONNA CHANGE.
1733
00:51:31,398 --> 00:51:33,033
AND THAT WAS UNDERTAKER WASN'T
1734
00:51:33,033 --> 00:51:36,003
LEAVING WWE AND STING WASN'T
1735
00:51:36,003 --> 00:51:38,138
COMING TO WWE.
1736
00:51:38,138 --> 00:51:40,474
THE UNDERTAKER, HE'S A RARITY
1737
00:51:40,474 --> 00:51:41,441
IN OUR BUSINESS.
1738
00:51:41,441 --> 00:51:44,511
WHEN YOU LOOK AT LONGEVITY, NO
1739
00:51:44,511 --> 00:51:49,050
ONE--NO ONE HAS PERFORMED AT A
1740
00:51:49,050 --> 00:51:51,752
GREATER LEVEL FOR THAT AMOUNT OF
1741
00:51:51,752 --> 00:51:53,220
TIME.
1742
00:51:53,220 --> 00:51:54,654
THE UNDERTAKER'S SOMBER
1743
00:51:54,654 --> 00:51:56,556
PERSONA HAS BEEN A TERRIFYING
1744
00:51:56,556 --> 00:51:58,525
TRADEMARK IN THE WWE FOR TWO
1745
00:51:58,525 --> 00:52:02,028
DECADES.
1746
00:52:02,028 --> 00:52:02,162
EVERYBODY ELSE MAY LEAVE THE
1747
00:52:02,162 --> 00:52:03,697
FOX HOLE FOR A REASON, NOT THE
1748
00:52:03,697 --> 00:52:05,932
UNDERTAKER, HE'S GONNA BE THERE.
1749
00:52:05,932 --> 00:52:07,100
AND HIS LOYALTY HAS BEEN
1750
00:52:07,100 --> 00:52:08,602
REWARDED AND SHOULD BE.
1751
00:52:08,602 --> 00:52:09,870
IF YOU'RE EVER FORTUNATE ENOUGH
1752
00:52:09,870 --> 00:52:11,238
TO BE AROUND ANYONE WHO IS TRULY
1753
00:52:11,238 --> 00:52:13,507
LOYAL, THEY NEED TO BE REWARDED.
1754
00:52:13,507 --> 00:52:14,541
[MUSIC]
1755
00:52:14,541 --> 00:52:15,742
THROUGHOUT THE MONDAY NIGHT
1756
00:52:15,742 --> 00:52:18,945
WAR, ALLEGIANCE WAS FORSAKEN FOR
1757
00:52:18,945 --> 00:52:20,981
MONEY AND POWER, BUT THE
1758
00:52:20,981 --> 00:52:22,482
UNDERTAKER AND STING NEVER
1759
00:52:22,482 --> 00:52:24,384
WAVERED FROM THEIR COMPANIES'
1760
00:52:24,384 --> 00:52:26,086
SIDE AND WERE REWARDED WITH
1761
00:52:26,086 --> 00:52:28,021
CHAMPIONSHIPS, THE ADMIRATION OF
1762
00:52:28,021 --> 00:52:30,023
THEIR PEERS, AND UNMATCHED
1763
00:52:30,023 --> 00:52:32,993
LEGACIES OF LOYALTY AND RESPECT.
1764
00:52:32,993 --> 00:52:33,727
[CROWD CHEERING]
1765
00:52:33,727 --> 00:52:34,561
IT IS STING.
1766
00:52:34,561 --> 00:52:35,595
AND WHAT LIVED IN HIS HEART HAS
1767
00:52:35,595 --> 00:52:37,431
ALWAYS BEEN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
1768
00:52:37,431 --> 00:52:39,366
WRESTLING.
1769
00:52:39,366 --> 00:52:40,700
THE UNDERTAKER WAS HERE FOR
1770
00:52:40,700 --> 00:52:44,104
THE VERY FIRST MONDAY NIGHT RAW.
1771
00:52:44,104 --> 00:52:47,074
AND HERE HE IS ON THE 1000TH
1772
00:52:47,074 --> 00:52:54,414
EPISODE.
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