It Came From YouTube: page 7

NWA Wildside was a small independent federation affiliated with the NWA based out of Georgia. You can find a number of matches on Youtube, but I’m more interested in this commercial for their website. With enough cuts to make Kevin Dunn blush, the ad promotes the old nwa-wildside.com website. And hey! There’s AJ Styles.

What really gets me going, though, it the music. The unrelenting blast of nu metal makes me feel like I’m 16 years old again, spiking my hair up, wearing baggy pants, and going to local weekend shows. That brand of mall metal in the late 90’s/early 00’s fit in so well with the extreme style of wrestling, it was like chocolate and peanut butter.

It’s a shame we never got Slipknot performing at Wrestlemania. Or competing in the Royal Rumble.

“This is what the world has been waiting for!” says Tony Schiavone about the Rock and Roll Express Fan Club. Seems like a bit of a stretch, but maybe the world really wanted four newsletters a year, life-size standees, membership cards, and a copy of Ricky’s single. I’m sure those would all go for a pretty penny on eBay today.

Some older wrestling fans may be more familiar with Pierre Carl Ouellet’s run as Jean-Pierre Lafitte, evil, jacket-stealing pirate or from his run as one-half of The Quebecers. In recent years, PCO remade himself on the indies as a wild and violent madman, doing all sorts of stuff.

At a Beyond Wrestling show, PCO was taking on MJF and required a little bit of help from D. Destro. Namely, 10,000 volts of help.

We’ve seen car batteries used in wrestling before, but using a battery to help a wrestler “hulk up” is definitely a new one for me. Don’t forget to check his oil and change his air filter, Destro.

Like many retired wrestlers, Jake The Snake Roberts has his own podcast. But do those shows have their legendary hosts watch honest-to-goodness Wrestlecrap? No, they do not (unless they do, then please send it to us!).

Join Jake, along with his co-host Marcus DeAngelo, as he experiences the wonders of the Chamber of Horrors, The Yeti, the Monster Truck Sumo Match, and so much more. It’s a snake pit full of laughs to relive some of this craptacular nonsense.

Need to spice up the Toronto Indycar race in the early 2000’s? Who ya gonna call?

Val Venis, Rhyno, and Scotty 2 Hotty!

Bob Holly must’ve been busy that day. Or maybe he wasn’t Canadian enough.

The Doctor of Style Slick wanted to be Andre the Giant’s manager so bad and Andre was having none of it. Maybe a parking lot ceremony would have worked instead.

If managers still got stuffed into car trunks, Raw and Smackdown ratings would be through the roof.

When aliens invade the planet, who are you going to call to save the day? The Avengers? The Avengers Of Justice?

No!

You call retired wrestlers! With former grapplers like Glacier, Larry Zbyszko, Ron Reis, and Ernest “The Cat” Miller, The Unbreakable Bunch and Earth just may have a fighting chance.

Wait, Haku and Stan Hansen are here too?

Alright, we’ve got nothing to worry about. We’ll be fine. To Haku!