#10: No memory of that one. . And A #9: Bleh. #8: Not that ridiculous, just unusual. #7: Unless it's the Million Dollar Man, Rolls Royces don't exactly jive with a wrestling crowd. #6: What Scott said. #5: Same as 8, and considering where that WM was, actually fitting. #4: WHAT? Now THAT's what I call ri-goddamned-diculous. And awesome, granted. #3: Strange, but not ridiculous. #2: Yeah, that one's bad. But so were the hosts. #1: "Ridiculous: extremely silly or unreasonable." That intro fits the first one perfectly.
Sunny's hotness negates how awful #1 is. The list itself is ridiculous as most of them werent bad at all and were completely fitting with the times. Mania had that "Wacky" intro and host as it was aimed as a fun saturday morning show for kids
The Ultimate Warrior Superstars intro is and was pretty over the top. The Warrior is seen on his home planet of Parts Unknown, the Warrior logo magically appears on his bouncing pecs....then the laser beams from his eyes. I assume that he was the Reverse Superman, where he leaves his planet to come to Earth and loses all of those powers. He should've learned to speak better English while he was here on this plane.
Also, I always thought the WCW Saturday Night "Let's make a cyborg" intro was pretty stupid.
the only ones that were bad were 1, 2, and 4. The rest were fine and merely introduced the major players or in the case of the casino were just an interesting graphic.
I have no recollection of that Wrestling Spotlight intro. Everything else I've seen, though, and I don't understand putting Saturday Night's Main Event's intro on this list, either. It changed from episode to episode with the exception of highlighting the champion at the end. And it was awesome.
Man, I know what number one was going to be even before I watched the countdown. As a kid, it used to make me ashamed of being a wrestling fan.
Is there a list of awesome openings? WWF Superstars had some great ones like the backstage production montage. And RAW IS War's opening in the warehouse used to give me chills.
I'm with Scott, the SNME intro were great. I used to have to set the...wait for it...VCR to tape because it was on at 11:30 in place of SNL. When that music kicked in, I was ready to rock.
I'm sorry, but when the first clip of your intro is less than an inch from being a botch...that's funny. Still fine intros... just think a better Backlund shot could've been found.
Wow, the rare Spotlight Wrestling intro. I remember watching that show occasionally on a UHF channel on Friday night's -- it would often have content for the next day's Superstars of Wrestling on Saturday here.
WCW vs NWO World Tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNhusCmfYXo (Short) WCW vs NWO Revenge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxcigoGshcA (Long, too much NWO) Wrestlemania 2000: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmzV_wTj80 (This would fit in that Top 10 IMO, if it was an actual intro.) No Mercy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYMU7Ai3lw (My #1, but close)
I miss it too. I remember "discovering" it on an old TV as a kid that actually had a separate dial and built in antenna for UHF channels. There were several channels that didn't come in over our cable that were on the UHF, so I was awfully excited to find a new wrestling show too haha
Hogan and Warrior both got those custom Superstar intro changes, Warrior after he beat Hogan and then Hogan after he beat Slaughter. Warriors was way cooler though.
Of course the SNME intro was ridiculous. Everyone knows that all main events are made on the fly during the show due to the decision of the GM earlier in the night.
In the early 90s here in St. Louis we got a really weak USWA signal, probably from one of their stations in Arkansas. The picture was so bad I thought for the longest time Jerry Lawler was a physical specimen XD
Outside a few (like Livewire, WWF Mania, and Superstars), it would've been nice to have a host say WHY they are ridiculous. Summerslam 88 and Wrestlemania 4 I see zero reason to call them ridiculous.
These brought back some great memories. As a kid I literally had an overkill of sheer joy when I first saw that Warrior Superstars intro, I practised that pose in the mirror all the time pretending lasers were shooting out of my eyes! Surely that is ridiculous enough to be number one?
No way! I still love watching the old Nitro's when they do the "Coming up on Saturday Night!" and then show that clip of the arm and shit. Well, of course it's stupid, but my nostalgia love for wrestling is untouchable.
Every time I see Sunny from her glory days, it's fucking shocking how insanely hot she was. I mean, she was just about as perfect as a woman could look.
Plus, like Cornette said, she could work, and she could be a heel like crazy. It's a shame she had to fuck her shit up, because she could have been great for a really long time.
I feel bad now for my 13 year old self hitching aboard the Sable bandwagon, when in retrospect, Sunny was levels above her. It was those tits of Sable though, I couldn't help myself...
I hate what when WWE does this. Things like Are You Serious?, sure, that's pointing out very lame stuff. But this? I hate when they make fun of the old stuff that isn't bad, and act like we were all fools for watching it.
What's their reason for saying most of this shit is ridiculous? Because it's old? Hell, I thought #10 looked impressive as hell.
I LOVED Livewire as a kid, because that shit was legit live, if I recall. It had to be, because at one point someone called in and said "Are you worried about Hollywood Hogan & the nWo coming over and taking out WWE?" and Todd got PISSED. It was awesome.
They show old Mania's on Classics, and yeah, they're as bad as you remember.
Holy crap, Sunny was amazingly gorgeous and sexy back when I was a teenager. I still get a little sad when I see what's become of her. Not just her looks - she'd still be somewhat attractive for a non-WWE Diva - but her craziness is just off the charts.
Don't get me wrong, I've dated some nuttier-than-a-fruitcake women before, but I can't say that any of them were arrested multiple times in the same day/week.
The criteria WWE used: would it make Vince, Stephanie, and Kevin Dunn ashamed to show these intros to the executives at USA, who produce hour-long shows featuring immaculately waifish people acting self-important?
I'm sick of people blindly bashing Thunder. Back in 99 that's the show where Eddie, Benoit, Raven, Rey, Saturn and Malenko played. I'd rather watch a Thunder from that era over Raw any day. Even during the Russo era Thunder had all the stars back on it, and random things like Macho returning for the 40-man battle royal.
Fuck off WWE, seriously. There was nothing wrong with these at the time. I hate how slick they try to make the shows now while still playing shit music on the openers. The pay-per-view and SNME videos got the card and participants across concisely, with graphics that didn't look that bad at the time. I really hate their "Are You Serious?" bullshit.
What is "ridiculous" about the SNME intro was that it was not the original AWESOME version with the instrumental start of Obsession as the music (and then Take me Home to close the show)- I think the only intro close to bringing me as much joy was the old NWA World Championship Wrestling (Saturday Night) intro-
The WrestleMania 4 music was seriously badass. I'm surprised they never used it again but it was definitely a trillion times better than the awful mid-90's WrestleMania theme that was later given to Linda McMahon. Sidenote: I've been recording most of the Gorilla/Bobby episodes of Prime Time Wrestling lately and that intro is definitely the kind of intro that makes you pumped up for a wrestling show. All of the big names, their finishers, a shot of the biggest crowd in history and the single funniest Gorilla/Bobby moment in the history of the show. Now THAT'S how you do an intro.
Used to love Dusty Rhodes doing commentary on Saturday Night. When they would go to a replay with the cyborg arm moving, Dusty would seriously freak out at the graphic, it was always funny.
I remember #10 and it struck me as a pretty good intro, graphics-wise [albeit it looked like a ripoff of the third American Gladiators intro]. The only problem with that intro was the music. It sounded like it came from an ice cream truck, way too upbeat for a wrestling show. The 1989 and 1992 Wrestling Challenge intros however were fan-freaking-tastic. Really, the only two intros that belonged on the list were #1 and #2. Seriously, where is the Nickelback RAW intro? Or the ECW intro that prominently featured Hornswoggle? Hell, the current RAW intro is worse than ALL of the intros on this list.
The Ultimate Warrior Superstars intro is the greatest thing I've ever laid eyes on.
ReplyDelete#10: No memory of that one.
ReplyDelete. And A
#9: Bleh.
#8: Not that ridiculous, just unusual.
#7: Unless it's the Million Dollar Man, Rolls Royces don't exactly jive with a wrestling crowd.
#6: What Scott said.
#5: Same as 8, and considering where that WM was, actually fitting.
#4: WHAT? Now THAT's what I call ri-goddamned-diculous. And awesome, granted.
#3: Strange, but not ridiculous.
#2: Yeah, that one's bad. But so were the hosts.
#1: "Ridiculous: extremely silly or unreasonable." That intro fits the first one perfectly.
Sunny's hotness negates how awful #1 is. The list itself is ridiculous as most of them werent bad at all and were completely fitting with the times. Mania had that "Wacky" intro and host as it was aimed as a fun saturday morning show for kids
ReplyDeleteThe Ultimate Warrior Superstars intro is and was pretty over the top. The Warrior is seen on his home planet of Parts Unknown, the Warrior logo magically appears on his bouncing pecs....then the laser beams from his eyes. I assume that he was the Reverse Superman, where he leaves his planet to come to Earth and loses all of those powers. He should've learned to speak better English while he was here on this plane.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I always thought the WCW Saturday Night "Let's make a cyborg" intro was pretty stupid.
Cyborg Saturday Night was awesome.
ReplyDeletethe only ones that were bad were 1, 2, and 4. The rest were fine and merely introduced the major players or in the case of the casino were just an interesting graphic.
ReplyDeleteThat topic, MAYBE if you use every wrestling organization that's ever existed, could produce a Top Ten. Going WWE alone? Nah...
ReplyDeleteI have no recollection of that Wrestling Spotlight intro. Everything else I've seen, though, and I don't understand putting Saturday Night's Main Event's intro on this list, either. It changed from episode to episode with the exception of highlighting the champion at the end. And it was awesome.
ReplyDeleteMan, I know what number one was going to be even before I watched the countdown. As a kid, it used to make me ashamed of being a wrestling fan.
ReplyDeleteIs there a list of awesome openings? WWF Superstars had some great ones like the backstage production montage. And RAW IS War's opening in the warehouse used to give me chills.
5-10 are awesome. I'm old.
ReplyDeleteBad Superstars themes?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHS1IsGefbQ
Similar to #1, but somehow worse IMO.
I'm with Scott, the SNME intro were great. I used to have to set the...wait for it...VCR to tape because it was on at 11:30 in place of SNL. When that music kicked in, I was ready to rock.
ReplyDeleteAlso, even though this isn't WWF:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkABhCygzfE&list=PLABEC5AA308124023
(Even if the theme was "good", the show qualified as ridiculous almost any week...)
#1 was obvious and it was sad as a WWF fan those days because they constantly had to change it because WCW was signing away those.
ReplyDeleteFor me, still my favorite because this is when I first started watching as a kid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxWu8Dw1T7w
I'm sorry, but when the first clip of your intro is less than an inch from being a botch...that's funny. Still fine intros... just think a better Backlund shot could've been found.
ReplyDeleteThey need to make a list for WCW.
ReplyDeleteWow, the rare Spotlight Wrestling intro. I remember watching that show occasionally on a UHF channel on Friday night's -- it would often have content for the next day's Superstars of Wrestling on Saturday here.
ReplyDeleteAwww, the days of UHF. I used to watch Florida Championship Wrestling here in South Florida on UHF in the mid-to late 80s.
ReplyDeleteOkay, sidewinder here:
ReplyDeleteBest THQ Wrestling intro?
WCW vs NWO World Tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNhusCmfYXo (Short)
WCW vs NWO Revenge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxcigoGshcA (Long, too much NWO)
Wrestlemania 2000: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmzV_wTj80 (This would fit in that Top 10 IMO, if it was an actual intro.)
No Mercy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYMU7Ai3lw (My #1, but close)
(My order: No Mercy, Revenge, WM2000, World Tour)
I miss it too. I remember "discovering" it on an old TV as a kid that actually had a separate dial and built in antenna for UHF channels. There were several channels that didn't come in over our cable that were on the UHF, so I was awfully excited to find a new wrestling show too haha
ReplyDeletehaha yeah I remember when they switched to that.
ReplyDeleteHogan and Warrior both got those custom Superstar intro changes, Warrior after he beat Hogan and then Hogan after he beat Slaughter. Warriors was way cooler though.
I assume most of these were considered ridiculous because they feature wrestling instead of storyline recaps.
ReplyDeleteOf course the SNME intro was ridiculous. Everyone knows that all main events are made on the fly during the show due to the decision of the GM earlier in the night.
ReplyDeleteAhhh yes...Wrestling Spotlight. You could see it on WHLL (now WUNI) Channel 27 here in the Boston (Go Bruins) area.
ReplyDeleteThis was a couple of years before the station went to Univision and an all-Spanish format.
In the early 90s here in St. Louis we got a really weak USWA signal, probably from one of their stations in Arkansas. The picture was so bad I thought for the longest time Jerry Lawler was a physical specimen XD
ReplyDeleteThe shot of the kid going up and down on the springy horse in time with the music always made me laugh.
ReplyDeleteOutside a few (like Livewire, WWF Mania, and Superstars), it would've been nice to have a host say WHY they are ridiculous. Summerslam 88 and Wrestlemania 4 I see zero reason to call them ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteBecause the stuff they did back then was hokey and corny, nothing like the highbrow content they're putting out today ;)
ReplyDeleteNone of these have a goddamn Nickelback song, so they don't seem all that ridiculous to me.
ReplyDeleteThese brought back some great memories. As a kid I literally had an overkill of sheer joy when I first saw that Warrior Superstars intro, I practised that pose in the mirror all the time pretending lasers were shooting out of my eyes! Surely that is ridiculous enough to be number one?
ReplyDelete#1 still makes me cringe. "BULL DOG ENGLISHMAN!!!" .... Shawn doing the singing bit... so bad
ReplyDeleteNo way! I still love watching the old Nitro's when they do the "Coming up on Saturday Night!" and then show that clip of the arm and shit. Well, of course it's stupid, but my nostalgia love for wrestling is untouchable.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see Sunny from her glory days, it's fucking shocking how insanely hot she was. I mean, she was just about as perfect as a woman could look.
ReplyDeletePlus, like Cornette said, she could work, and she could be a heel like crazy. It's a shame she had to fuck her shit up, because she could have been great for a really long time.
I feel bad now for my 13 year old self hitching aboard the Sable bandwagon, when in retrospect, Sunny was levels above her. It was those tits of Sable though, I couldn't help myself...
I hate what when WWE does this. Things like Are You Serious?, sure, that's pointing out very lame stuff. But this? I hate when they make fun of the old stuff that isn't bad, and act like we were all fools for watching it.
ReplyDeleteWhat's their reason for saying most of this shit is ridiculous? Because it's old? Hell, I thought #10 looked impressive as hell.
I LOVED Livewire as a kid, because that shit was legit live, if I recall. It had to be, because at one point someone called in and said "Are you worried about Hollywood Hogan & the nWo coming over and taking out WWE?" and Todd got PISSED. It was awesome.
They show old Mania's on Classics, and yeah, they're as bad as you remember.
Like others have said, most of these aren't ridiculous at all.
ReplyDeleteMost of these are really good. The music in the last one aged badly, but New Country was big at the time, and they were right to use it...
ReplyDeleteAnd all Warrior stuff is inherently cornball, but that's its charm. No losers here.
What a sick-looking boot from Andre.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap, Sunny was amazingly gorgeous and sexy back when I was a teenager. I still get a little sad when I see what's become of her. Not just her looks - she'd still be somewhat attractive for a non-WWE Diva - but her craziness is just off the charts.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong, I've dated some nuttier-than-a-fruitcake women before, but I can't say that any of them were arrested multiple times in the same day/week.
Didn't they get rid of the Nickelback song?
ReplyDeleteThe criteria WWE used: would it make Vince, Stephanie, and Kevin Dunn ashamed to show these intros to the executives at USA, who produce hour-long shows featuring immaculately waifish people acting self-important?
ReplyDeleteI'm sick of people blindly bashing Thunder. Back in 99 that's the show where Eddie, Benoit, Raven, Rey, Saturn and Malenko played. I'd rather watch a Thunder from that era over Raw any day. Even during the Russo era Thunder had all the stars back on it, and random things like Macho returning for the 40-man battle royal.
ReplyDeleteFuck off WWE, seriously. There was nothing wrong with these at the time. I hate how slick they try to make the shows now while still playing shit music on the openers. The pay-per-view and SNME videos got the card and participants across concisely, with graphics that didn't look that bad at the time. I really hate their "Are You Serious?" bullshit.
ReplyDeleteWhat is "ridiculous" about the SNME intro was that it was not the original AWESOME version with the instrumental start of Obsession as the music (and then Take me Home to close the show)- I think the only intro close to bringing me as much joy was the old NWA World Championship Wrestling (Saturday Night) intro-
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4N5yHChD14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMHDpSlVngk
The WrestleMania 4 music was seriously badass. I'm surprised they never used it again but it was definitely a trillion times better than the awful mid-90's WrestleMania theme that was later given to Linda McMahon.
ReplyDeleteSidenote: I've been recording most of the Gorilla/Bobby episodes of Prime Time Wrestling lately and that intro is definitely the kind of intro that makes you pumped up for a wrestling show. All of the big names, their finishers, a shot of the biggest crowd in history and the single funniest Gorilla/Bobby moment in the history of the show. Now THAT'S how you do an intro.
Yes, the PTW intro is my favorite of all of them.
ReplyDeleteUsed to love Dusty Rhodes doing commentary on Saturday Night. When they would go to a replay with the cyborg arm moving, Dusty would seriously freak out at the graphic, it was always funny.
ReplyDeleteI remember #10 and it struck me as a pretty good intro, graphics-wise [albeit it looked like a ripoff of the third American Gladiators intro]. The only problem with that intro was the music. It sounded like it came from an ice cream truck, way too upbeat for a wrestling show. The 1989 and 1992 Wrestling Challenge intros however were fan-freaking-tastic.
ReplyDeleteReally, the only two intros that belonged on the list were #1 and #2.
Seriously, where is the Nickelback RAW intro? Or the ECW intro that prominently featured Hornswoggle?
Hell, the current RAW intro is worse than ALL of the intros on this list.
The only thing that was ridiculous was Hogan looking like he was 90 years old when he was posing in the SNME intro.
ReplyDeleteNone of these are ridiculous, except the ultimate warrior one.
ReplyDelete#1 and #2 were pretty goofy.
ReplyDeleteHow about maybe the worst PPV commercial of them all? http://youtu.be/E3TVjVXYxBI
ReplyDelete"Revenge". I just love Sting standing in front of the truck in Atlanta.
ReplyDelete*sees Sting*
Driver: WHAT?!
What this has to do with the game proper, I dunno. But it's awesome.