It Came From YouTube

WCW and WWE star Goldberg shows us the right way to celebrate Hanukkah with The Man Show. Joining him are future late night show host Jimmy Kimmel and future crank Adam Carolla. The former champ makes his own menorah, plays the dreidel, and even gives Hulk Hogan a special gift. L’chaim!

Before he was R-Truth in WWE, but after he was K-Kwik, uh, also in WWE, he was Ron Killings in TNA. While he may have not been Oscar, he at least beat out P.N. News in the rapping department.

One year during the holiday season, Ron Killings did a Christmas rap that ranged from talking about Spike TV to how hard it is to quit smoking. What really sells it though is Lance Hoyt (aka Lance Archer) busting out some sick dance moves.

I know it’s been kind of a stop-and-start run for him in AEW, but if Lance busted out these grooves during, say, a Max Caster rap, he’d be a mega star.

I have no idea what’s going on. Much like RD, I am aged-out of modern pop culture and I am more than okay with it. I do not have a TikTok and never will. That’s fine. It’s not for me, but apparently it’s for AEW because QT Marshall just had to take on whatever a “Big Boom AJ” and “Big Justice” is at Full Gear. All I know is that they’ll probably end up on future Vice show “The Dark Side Of TikTok” in a few years.

No, no. Don’t try to tell me what this is all about. I don’t need to know. Instead, I’ll just stare slack-jawed at QT Marshall dropping a diss track on them. It’s not “WrestleRock Rumble“. That much I do know.

Before he became LA Knight (or *shudder* Max Dupri), he was Eli Drake in Impact Wrestling. Eli and Chris Adonis (aka Chris Masters!) interrupt Jeremy Borash’s Turkey Bowl drawing. There’s plenty of food, though, reportedly made by Mr. Gail Kim himself, Robert Irvine, though it’s not exactly clear why. Did they just wander over into catering for the shot?

Does Eli eat some mashed potatoes? Yeah! Does he eat dinner rolls? Yeah! Does he say Yeah? Probably.

We’ll never know now because TNA took the video down right before this went up, but, hey, at least the preview hyping up the Turkey Trot is still on Youtube!

Regis Philbin has been a longtime wrestling fan, often having wrestlers on his shows with, um, mixed results.

For “WWF Cooking Week” on Live with Regis, future COO Paul “Triple H” Levesque stopped by to cook up some swordfish a la Helmsley. That’s one way to advertise Can You Take The Heat. I guess Triple H’s etiquette lessons were still intact after his dinner date with Mantaur, although I don’t think spitting water on a daytime talk show is very proper.

I wonder what Kurt “Engle” cooked.

The WWE Vault on Youtube has been pulling out some great, unseen footage lately. Long-rumored events and footage has resurfaced much to the joy of longtime curious fans. Recently, the dug up Yokozuna’s debut. While that might not sound impressive at first, it’s actually his debut before becoming Yokozuna.

Before he was Yoko, he was The Great Kokina. Joined by Wild Samoan Afa, the two are interviewed by “Mean” Gene Okerlund. As an aside, I miss those live interviews with the wide shot of the crowd behind them. It looks like the place is packed and shows the wrestlers and the company as a big deal.

Although he never wrestled on WWF television as The Great Kokina, it’s super cool to see this rare footage. It’s also incredible to hear Afa introduce him as a “big, big, volcano” and Gene stating “His name can’t be volcano,” as if there wasn’t an Earthquake and a Typhoon on the roster.

If Vince was quick enough, he could have renamed him Volcano, teamed him up with the Natural Disasters, and made the biggest three-man team of all time.