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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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BATTLE FIELD THAT TRANSFORMED
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PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING INTO
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SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
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TED TURNER'S WCW TOOK ON VINCE
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MCMAHON'S WWE FOR RATING
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SUPREMACY AT THE RISK OF
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EXTENSION 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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ARE YOU READY?
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[MUSIC]
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WITH WWE ON THE LOSING END OF
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THE RATINGS, TWO SUPERSTARS
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STEPPED FORWARD TO CHALLENGE
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SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT TRADITIONS.
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WE ARE D-GENERATION X.
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YOU MAKE THE RULES AND WE WILL
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BREAK THEM.
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THE ATTITUDE ERA'S MOST
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NOTORIOUS FACTION WAS BORN AS
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D-GENERATION X DEFIED AUTHORITY
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AND LED MONDAY NIGHT RAW BACK
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INTO BATTLE.
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D-GENERATION X NOW CROSSES
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OVER INTO THE FRONTLINE OF WORLD
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CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING.
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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 IS HE DOING
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HERE?
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WELCOME, EVERYONE, TO MONDAY
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NIGHT RAW.
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MONDAY NITRO.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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WHAT IS--HE IS MOVING AT...
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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 THESE SUCKERS.
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WE ARE AT WAR.
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[MUSIC]
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YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE AS TNT
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AND WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
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PRESENT AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE
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PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING PROGRAM,
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IT IS MONDAY NITRO.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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IN THE LATTER MONTHS OF 1996,
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING'S
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MONDAY NITRO WAS DOMINATING
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WWE'S MONDAY NIGHT RAW IN THE
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CABLE TELEVISION RATINGS.
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THE NWO IS THE ONLY WAY TO
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GO.
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AND WHAT YOU'RE GONNA DO?
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SPURRED ON BY THE INNOVATIONS
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OF EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, ERIC
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BISCHOFF, AND THE REBELLIOUS NEW
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WORLD ORDER FACTION, TED
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TURNER'S WCW DETHRONED VINCE
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MCMAHON'S WWE TO BECOME SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT'S NUMBER ONE
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ORGANIZATION.
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PEOPLE REALLY IDENTIFIED WITH
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THE NWO.
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IT WAS SO DIFFERENT, BUT SO
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FRESH.
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AND WHEN YOU SEE THAT KIND OF
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CROWD ENERGY AS A FAN AT HOME
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WATCHING ON TV, THAT REALLY
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HOOKS YOU AS A VIEWER.
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WE WERE IN TROUBLE.
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THE WCW WAS KICKING OUR REAR
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ENDS EVERY MONDAY NIGHT.
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THEY WERE TAKING OUR STARS.
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THEY WERE DISHING OUT MONEY.
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THEY HAD BETTER RATINGS.
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AND WE WERE HANGING ON BY THE
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SKIN OF OUR TEETH.
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NWO IS THE GREATEST SHOW.
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POWERED BY AN EVERY GROWING
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ROSTER OF FORMER WWE TALENT, THE
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NWO'S REALITY BASED STORYLINES
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OFFERED VIEWERS AN EDGY
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ALTERNATIVE TO TRADITIONAL FORMS
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OF SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
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WCW DID SOME THINGS THAT WERE
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COMPLETELY OUTSIDE OF THE BOX IN
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TERMS OF WHAT WAS GOING ON IN
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THE--IN THE WRESTLING WORLD.
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THE PRODUCTS WERE IN TWO
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DIFFERENT WORLDS.
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I MEAN ONE WAS HIP, ONE WAS
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COOL, ONE WAS CUTTING EDGE, THE
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OTHER PRODUCT JUST WASN'T
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GETTING IT.
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ALTHOUGH WCW HAD RISER TO
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POWER ON THE BACK OF MORE
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CONTEMPORARY STORYLINES...
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[MUSIC]
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WWE WAS STILL STUCK IN THE
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PAST.
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MONDAY NIGHT RAW CONTINUED TO
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FEATURE THE SAME COLORFUL STEREO
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TYPICAL CHARACTERS THAT HAD BEEN
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A SUCCESSFUL FORMULA DURING THE
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1980S.
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HELLO, HUNTER HEARST HELMSLEY
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HERE.
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YOU KNOW, WHEN IT COMES TO RIFF
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RAFF, DELINQUENTS, AND
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HOOLIGANS, THE WORLD WRESTLING
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ENTERTAINMENT HAS MORE THAN ITS
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FAIR SHARE.
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I WAS DOING A CHARACTER THAT
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VINCE LIKED.
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HERE'S A GUY WITH SOME CLASS,
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MCMAHON.
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COMING IN AS HUNTER HEARST
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HELMSLEY AND THE BLUE BLOOD
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SNOB.
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HE THINKS HE'S A LITTLE BIT
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BETTER THAN MOST OTHER
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AMERICANS.
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YOU DO WHAT YOU DO TO GET
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YOUR FOOT IN THE DOOR.
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AND I ALWAYS KIND OF SAW MY
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CHARACTER BECOMING MORE OF JUST
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MYSELF.
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TIMES CHANGE, PEOPLE CHANGE AND
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PEOPLE GET TIRED OF WATCHING
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THAT SAME THING AFTER ALL, THEY
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WANT TO SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
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[MUSIC]
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THE WWE, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT
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POINT, GUYS WERE OCCUPATIONS.
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YOU WERE A PLUMBER, YOU WERE A
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PIG FARMER, YOU WERE A CLOWN.
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THERE THEY ARE, THE GODWINNS
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SLAP BETTING ALL IN THAT BUCKET.
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AND THEN THERE WERE THESE
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GUYS LIKE SHAWN MICHAELS--IT WAS
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SHAWN MICHAELS.
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SHAWN MICHAELS'S IN-RING
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ABILITY AND POPULARITY WITH THE
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FANS HAD PROPELLED HIM TO THE
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TOP OF WWE.
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BUT VINCE MCMAHON'S SMILING HERO
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WAS GROWING TIRED OF PLAYING THE
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PART.
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[MUSIC]
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FRIENDS BEHIND THE SCENES,
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SHAWN MICHAELS AND HUNTER HEARST
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HELMSLEY HAD WITNESSED THEIR
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COMRADES SCOTT HALL, KEVIN NASH
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AND SEAN WALTMAN EXIT WWE FOR
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GREENER PASTURES, LIFTING NITRO
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TO THE TOP OF THE RATINGS AS A
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PART OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
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BECAUSE EVERYBODY KNOWS THE
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NWO IS THE REASON FOR THE
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SUCCESS OF MONDAY NITRO.
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LEAVING MICHAELS AND HELMSLEY
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IN THEIR WAKE.
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OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT
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TO MISS YOUR BUDDY AND THINGS
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LIKE THAT, BUT WE'RE GETTING
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OUR--YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING OUR
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-- KICKED.
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LET'S DESTROY THE BROADCAST
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BOOTH.
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THEY WERE DOING SOME CUTTING
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EDGE STUFF THAT WE WEREN'T.
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SO SHAWN AND TRIPLE H
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REALIZED, "LISTEN, THIS KIDDY
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PROGRAM WE'RE PUTTING ON SUCKS
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COMPARED TO WHAT THEY'RE DOING."
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SHUT UP.
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THE WARS ARE GOING ON
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SIMULTANEOUSLY, REAL LIFE STUFFS
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GOING ON ALSO.
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FRUSTRATION WITH THE CREATIVE
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DIRECTS IN THE WWE AND PERSONAL
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DEMONS BEHIND THE SCENES WERE
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TAKING THEIR TOLL AND BEGAN TO
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MANIFEST THEMSELVES ON CAMERA
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FOR SHAWN MICHAELS.
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SHAWN WAS CHALLENGING TO WORK
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WITH.
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HE HAD SO MUCH PRIDE AND PASSION
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FOR THE PRODUCT THAT HE WAS SO
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FRUSTRATED.
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HE WAS LASHING OUT.
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MISTER, DO YOU WANNA --
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GET SUED HERE?
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YOU IDIOT.
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SHAWN'S STATE OF MIND WAS IN
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A--IN A STATE OF FLUX, SHALL WE
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SAY.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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HIS PERSONAL LIFE WAS
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CRUMBLING AND HIS PROFESSIONAL
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LIFE WAS CRUMBLING EVEN THOUGH
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HE WAS AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME.
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I'M THE GUY THAT--YOU KNOW,
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THAT WAS JUST SO OUT OF WHACK.
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THAT WAS MY RELEASE.
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SHAWN MICHAELS'S HOSTILITY
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BECAME MORE PROMINENT IN HIS
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ON-SCREEN PERSONALITY.
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MICHAELS, A--BOY, THAT'S A
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PROUD CHAMPION RIGHT THERE.
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DESPERATE TO TURN THEIR
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FORTUNES AROUND, WWE WOULD PAIR
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THE TWO DISGRUNTLED SUPERSTARS
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TOGETHER.
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THE DUO WOULD CHANNEL THEIR
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AGGRESSIONS TO FORGE A NEW
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DIRECTION.
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WHATEVER IT WAS VINCE
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CONVINCED HIMSELF WE WERE DOING
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WASN'T WORKING.
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IT'S LIKE, "LET US GO."
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WE WERE JUST TRYING TO BE
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OURSELVES WHICH IS WHAT WE'VE
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BEEN TRYING TO SAY TO VINCE
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LIKE, "LET GUYS BE THEMSELVES."
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WELL, VINCE DIDN'T WANNA DO
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IT TO START WITH.
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AND THEN FINALLY WE JUST
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BADGERED HIM INTO THE GROUND AND
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HE FINALLY ACQUIESCED TO LIKE,
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"ALL RIGHT, JUST DO IT.
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YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, YOU GUYS
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JUST GO, PLEASE JUST SHUT UP AND
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GO DO IT."
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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BUT THIS PARTNERSHIP WAS MORE
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THAN JUST A STANDARD TAG TEAM.
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HERE HE COMES, THE NEW
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EUROPEAN CHAMPION, THE ARROGANT
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SHAWN MICHAELS.
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A MORE BRASH VERSION OF THE
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ICONIC HEARTBREAK KID, SHAWN
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MICHAELS WAS PAIRED WITH AN
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EDGIER HUNTER HEARST HELMSLEY
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DUBBED TRIPLE H.
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GET YOUR FAT -- OUT HERE.
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WITH THESE TWO SUPERSTARS AT
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THE HELM, AN OMINOUS AMAZON
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WOULD JOIN THE COALITION.
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[MUSIC]
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CHYNA BROUGHT WITH HER A
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FOREBODING FEMININE TOUCH.
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CHYNA WAS JUST A SIGHT TO BE
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SEEN, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE FIRST
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TIME SHE CAME OUT, I WAS JUST
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LIKE, "WHO IS THIS PERSON?"
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SHE'S MASSIVE.
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SHE'S HUGE.
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SHE BROUGHT SUCH AN
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INTERESTING DYNAMIC TO THE
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GROUP.
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IT WASN'T JUST LIKE HAVING A
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NORMAL VALET SITTING OUT THERE
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THAT WASN'T GONNA DO YOU ANY
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DAMAGE, CHYNA COULD BEAT YOU UP.
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DID YOU SEE WHAT CHYNA JUST
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DID?
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YES.
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CHYNA GIVES NEW MEANING TO THE
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TERM FEMININE PROTECTION.
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HUNTER HEARST HELMSLEY,
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CHYNA, HBK.
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CHYNA WAS WITH US AND I DON'T
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EVEN RECALL ACTUALLY HOW SOMEHOW
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RICK RUDE WAS WITH US.
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I THINK JUST BECAUSE WE LIKED
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RICK AND WE'RE LIKE, "DO YOU
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WANNA DO THIS GROUP WITH US?"
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YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
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AND HE'S LIKE, "WHAT AM I GONNA
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DO?"
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AND, "I DON'T KNOW.
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JUST HANG OUT WITH US."
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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TRIPLE H AND MYSELF, OUR
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SENSE OF HUMOR, HE AND I BEING
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TOGETHER, US NOT BEING REAL
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HAPPY WAS WHERE WE WERE AT
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REALLY GAVE US AN AVENUE TO
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REALLY BRANCH OUT.
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MICHAELS AND TRIPLE H NEVER
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LOOKED BACK.
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AND LET'S GO TO THE WISE --
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OF THE WWE, PERHAPS...
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MONDAY NIGHT RAW WAS HIT WITH
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A DOSE OF REALITY AS THIS GROUP
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OF MISFITS PULLS BACK THE
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LOOK AT THOSE PUNKS.
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OH.
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AND USE THEIR BACKSTAGE
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PERSONALITIES TO HAVE FUN AT
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EVERYONE ELSE'S EXPENSE.
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MICHAELS AND HUNTER HEARST
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HELMSLEY.
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WE JUST WOULD DO THE CRAZIEST
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THING WE COULD THINK OF.
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AND WE WERE BOTH COMING AT IT
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FROM A DIFFERENT PLACE THAN WE
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ARE NOW.
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WE'RE BOTH ANGRY AND JUST TRYING
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TO MAKE A POINT.
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WE PULL YOUR STRING.
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WELL, I...
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AND I PULL YOUR STRING AND
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TELL YOU TO TALK.
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SHUT UP.
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SHAWN AND HUNTER HAVE THAT
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ATTITUDE.
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I MEAN THEY ARE THOSE GUYS.
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THEY'RE VERY SARCASTIC, YOU
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KNOW, ABRASIVE IN THEIR
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PERSONALITIES AT TIMES.
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AND THEN JUST SAY, "WE DO WHAT
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WE WANT TO ENTERTAIN OURSELVES
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AND IF PEOPLE LIKE IT, GREAT.
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IF THEY DON'T, WE'RE GONNA DO IT
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ANYWAYS."
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HUNTER COULD EVEN BREAK WIND
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WITH SGT.
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SLAUGHTER, THANK GOODNESS HE
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JUST FARTED, SO HE BROKE WIND
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NOW.
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THEY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT RULES.
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THEY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT
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BOUNDARIES OR ANYTHING LIKE
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THAT.
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THEY JUST KIND OF WENT BEYOND
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THEM.
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WAIT A MINUTE.
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THIS IS GOING ENTIRELY TOO FAR.
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THEY PUSHED THE ENVELOPE.
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AND I THINK WE ALL KNEW AT THE
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TIME THAT, "WOW, WE'RE ONTO
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SOMETHING HERE."
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WORKING TOGETHER, THESE
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SUPERSTARS WERE LOOKING TO
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IGNITE A COMPANY-WIDE EVOLUTION.
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AND IN AUGUST OF 1997, MONDAY
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NIGHT RAW'S RATINGS BEGAN TO
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RISE AS THEIR ANTICS CAUGHT ON
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WITH WWE'S AUDIENCE.
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TRIPLE H AND SHAWN MICHAELS,
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THEY MUST HAVE SPENT HOURS AND
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HOURS THINKING OF WAYS TO GET ON
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MY NERVES.
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WE NEVER KNEW WHAT WAS GONNA
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HAPPEN.
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YOU WANT KEN SHAMROCK IN A
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MATCH HERE NEXT WEEK ON RAW?
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ALL RIGHT.
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HOLD ON, HOLD ON.
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WHEN I YELL AND SCREAM, SPIT
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GOES EVERYWHERE.
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WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE?
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NEXT THING I KNOW, I SEE THEY
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HAVE TWO PAPER BAGS.
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WE'RE DOING LIVE TELEVISION HERE
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AND THEY'VE GOT THESE WELDER'S
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MASKS AND THEY HAD WINDSHIELD
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WIPERS ON THEM.
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OKAY.
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WE'RE READY.
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NOW, YOU CAN GO.
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WE'RE INTERVIEWING THE NIGHT
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BREAK GYM CLASS.
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THE COUNTRY IN ENOUGH ITSELF
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WAS SORT OF IN A REBELLIOUS
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STATE OF MIND.
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AND THAT'S HOW WE FELT AT THE
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TIME.
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I JUST REMEMBER THEM ACTING
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HOW I ACTED IN HIGH SCHOOL, YOU
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KNOW, LIKE I DON'T WANNA BE
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HERE.
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I DON'T WANNA DO WHAT YOU'RE
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TELLING ME TO DO.
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YOU GOT TO SIT IT ON TV AND
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YOU GOT TO LIVE VICARIOUSLY
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THROUGH THEM.
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ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT ATTITUDE
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AND REBELLIOUS PERSONALITY WOULD
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SOON BE EMBODIED IN A TWO-WORD
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MANTRA.
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OKAY, SERGE, WE'LL START
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SHOWING YOU SOME RESPECT.
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[MUSIC]
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SUCK IT.
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UNBELIEVABLE.
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OH, THAT'S CLASSY.
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ALL RIGHT.
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I CAN'T--BUT THIS IS GOING TOO
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FAR.
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THAT WAS HONESTLY SOMETHING
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THAT WE WERE SAYING TWO ONE
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ANOTHER IN REAL LIFE WHEN
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SOMEBODY DIDN'T AGREE WITH A
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TRAIN OF THOUGHT THAT WE WERE
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VERY MUCH BEHIND.
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AND IT DOESN'T LIVE A LOT TO THE
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IMAGINATION.
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YOU GOT MY ATTENTION.
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THOSE ON THE RECEIVING AND
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MAY NOT HAVE LIKED IT, BUT FANS
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HAD BEGAN TO EMBRACE IT.
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THERE WAS NO DENYING THE GROWING
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POPULARITY OF THESE DEFIANT
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SUPERSTARS.
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ONE, TWO, THREE, SUCK IT.
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[MUSIC]
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THIS HAS GOT--AND YOU GOT A
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SMILE ON YOUR FACE.
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SUCK IT CHANTS AND, YOU KNOW,
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THE GESTURES.
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THEY WERE RIGHT ON THE EDGE IN
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EVERYTHING THAT THEY WERE DOING,
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BUT YET SOMETIMES A LITTLE BIT
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OVER THE EDGE.
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THE STINTS OF THIS BEHAVIOR
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IS ABSOLUTELY NAUSEATING.
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WHAT'S THE MATTER, ROSS, DO
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YOU THINK THIS IS SICK IN THE
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NEW LOWS?
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I THINK IT'S HORRIBLE.
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PEOPLE WHO WERE MORE
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TRADITIONAL IN THE LOCKER ROOM
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WOULD BLANCH, "OH, WAIT A
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MINUTE, THEY CAN'T CROSS THAT
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LINE."
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OH, GOOD LORD.
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I
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APOLOGIZE.
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THE THINGS THAT WE DID AT
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THAT POINT IN TIME WERE SEEN US
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CROSSING THE LINE, SO I THINK A
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LOT OF IT WERE SEEN IN A LOT OF
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WAYS TO A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE
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BUSINESS, LIKE, "THESE GUYS ARE
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KILLING THE BUSINESS.
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WHAT ARE THEY DOING?"
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HE'S PICKING HIS NOSE...
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HELMSLEY IS...
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...WITH THAT CANADIAN FLAG,
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LOOK AT THIS.
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WHAT IS HE DO--THAT IS..
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OH, NO.
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...COMPLETELY IN UTTER
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DISREGARD.
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AND IT'S THAT FUNNY.
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YOU GOT TO ADMIT.
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IT AIN'T THAT FUNNY.
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I LOVE CANADA.
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THEY REALLY DID SEEM TO RUB
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IN THE NOSES OF A LOT OF THE
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WRESTLERS ON THE--IN THE DRESSER
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ROOM AND SEEMED TO ENJOY DOING
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THAT.
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MAKING EVERYONE UNEASY, ROUGHING
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EVERYONE'S FEATHERS AND ALL THAT
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KIND OF STUFF.
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AND HOW MUCH OF THAT WAS ALL A
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THUMB IN THE EYE TO GUYS LIKE ME
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AND JUST TO SHOW ME THAT THEY
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COULD DO WHATEVER--I'LL NEVER
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REALLY KNOW.
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SHAWN MICHAELS, BOY TOY.
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YES, BRET HART.
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YOU'RE A DISGRACE TO
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PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING.
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YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A DEGENERATE.
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THAT'S HOW IT ALL STARTED.
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THEY WERE DEGENERATES IN BRET'S
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MIND.
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[MUSIC]
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YOU TALK ABOUT US BEING
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DEGENERATE, D-GENERATION X, IS
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THAT US?
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D-GENERATION X, TRIPLE H, HBK,
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CHYNA, "RAVISHING" RICK, WE ARE
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D-GENERATION X.
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YOU MAKE THE RULES AND WE WILL
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BREAK THEM, YEAH.
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FOLKS, WE PROMISE WE'RE GONNA
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GET AN INTERVIEW WITH SHAWN
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MICHAELS, HUNTER HEARST
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HELMSLEY, RICK RUDE, AND CHYNA,
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AND THE REST OF THE FOLKS.
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AND HERE THEY ARE.
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OH, COME ON, GUYS.
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GUYS, COME ON, GUYS.
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WITH THEIR SOPHOMORIC STYLE
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OF HUMOR AND HIJACKS,
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D-GENERATION X HAD SUCCESSFULLY
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BROKEN THE MOLD OF SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT SUPERSTARS.
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AS A PURIST, I HATED IT,
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BECAUSE LIKE THESE GUYS ARE JUST
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MAKING MOCKERY OF EVERYTHING.
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HEY, SHAWN, GUY, YOU WANNA DO
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AN INTERVIEW?
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COME HERE.
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BUT AS A FAN, I WAS LIKE,
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"THIS IS LIKE SO FUNNY."
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FORGET IT, RICK.
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THAT WATER MUST BE COLD.
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THAT THING SHRUNK RIGHT UP.
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OH.
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HEY, IT'S D-GENERATION X.
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THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE TELLING
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00:14:27,276 --> 00:14:28,844
YOU, IT WAS, YOU KNOW.
529
00:14:28,844 --> 00:14:31,914
[MUSIC]
530
00:14:31,914 --> 00:14:33,449
THESE DEGENERATES PROVIDED
531
00:14:33,449 --> 00:14:35,718
WWE FANS WITH A MORE TRUE TO
532
00:14:35,718 --> 00:14:38,621
LIFE BLEND OF VILLAIN AND HERO.
533
00:14:38,621 --> 00:14:44,560
[MUSIC]
534
00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:45,895
IT WAS REALISTIC, YOU KNOW.
535
00:14:45,895 --> 00:14:47,596
IT WAS VERY SHADES OF GRAY.
536
00:14:47,596 --> 00:14:49,064
IT WASN'T JUST LIKE, I'M A BAD
537
00:14:49,064 --> 00:14:51,567
GUY OR, HEY, I'M SMILING AND I
538
00:14:51,567 --> 00:14:52,535
GOT MY HANDS UP.
539
00:14:52,535 --> 00:14:54,270
[CROWD CHEERING]
540
00:14:54,270 --> 00:14:58,007
SUCK IT, SUCK IT.
541
00:14:58,007 --> 00:14:58,808
I THINK THAT WAS ONE OF THE
542
00:14:58,808 --> 00:14:59,875
FIRST BIG MOVES THAT THIS
543
00:14:59,875 --> 00:15:02,678
COMPANY MADE ACTUALLY TO REGAIN
544
00:15:02,678 --> 00:15:04,713
ITS POSITION, BUT IT LOOKED TO
545
00:15:04,713 --> 00:15:06,782
ME LIKE DX WAS NOTHING MORE THAN
546
00:15:06,782 --> 00:15:09,351
A RIP OFF OR AN EVOLUTION OF
547
00:15:09,351 --> 00:15:12,955
WHAT WE HAD CREATED WITH NWO.
548
00:15:12,955 --> 00:15:14,957
I DON'T SEE THE COMPARISON.
549
00:15:14,957 --> 00:15:17,993
OURS WAS MORE SEXUAL INNUENDO,
550
00:15:17,993 --> 00:15:19,762
THEIRS WAS ALMOST GANGSTER.
551
00:15:19,762 --> 00:15:23,499
THUG LIFE, BABY, THUG LIFE.
552
00:15:23,499 --> 00:15:24,567
I MEAN THEY'RE A BUNCH OF
553
00:15:24,567 --> 00:15:25,734
FRUSTRATED WHITE GUYS TRYING TO
554
00:15:25,734 --> 00:15:26,635
BE GANGSTER.
555
00:15:26,635 --> 00:15:27,770
[CROWD CHEERING]
556
00:15:27,770 --> 00:15:29,171
THEY BEAT EVERYBODY UP ALL
557
00:15:29,171 --> 00:15:29,839
THE TIME.
558
00:15:29,839 --> 00:15:33,576
WE GOT BEAT UP ALL THE TIME.
559
00:15:33,576 --> 00:15:36,212
THIS NWO IS OUT TO DOMINATE
560
00:15:36,212 --> 00:15:37,379
AND DESTROY.
561
00:15:37,379 --> 00:15:39,381
NWO, THEY WERE A HOSTILE
562
00:15:39,381 --> 00:15:40,282
TAKEOVER.
563
00:15:40,282 --> 00:15:41,650
THEY WANTED TO TAKEOVER THE
564
00:15:41,650 --> 00:15:42,685
COMPANY AND TAKE OVER THE
565
00:15:42,685 --> 00:15:44,253
BUSINESS.
566
00:15:44,253 --> 00:15:45,521
DX WAS DIFFERENT BECAUSE DX
567
00:15:45,521 --> 00:15:47,523
WAS MORE, "LET'S ENTERTAIN,
568
00:15:47,523 --> 00:15:49,325
LET'S CREATE CONTROVERSY, LET'S
569
00:15:49,325 --> 00:15:51,193
GET PEOPLE AT THE WATER COOLER
570
00:15:51,193 --> 00:15:52,661
THE NEXT DAY AT WORK TALK ABOUT
571
00:15:52,661 --> 00:15:54,263
WHAT WE DID LAST NIGHT."
572
00:15:54,263 --> 00:15:56,999
THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS GONNA
573
00:15:56,999 --> 00:15:58,634
LEAVE A MARK.
574
00:15:58,634 --> 00:16:00,669
GUYS IN THE NWO WERE TRYING TO
575
00:16:00,669 --> 00:16:01,770
BE COOL.
576
00:16:01,770 --> 00:16:03,072
WE WEREN'T TRYING TO BE COOL.
577
00:16:03,072 --> 00:16:04,373
WE JUST ENDED UP BEING COOL,
578
00:16:04,373 --> 00:16:05,407
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE WERE SO
579
00:16:05,407 --> 00:16:06,775
STUPID.
580
00:16:06,775 --> 00:16:07,476
WHAT--WAIT A MINUTE.
581
00:16:07,476 --> 00:16:08,110
WAIT.
582
00:16:08,110 --> 00:16:08,978
WHOA, WHOA, WAIT A MINUTE.
583
00:16:08,978 --> 00:16:11,113
HOW DARE YOU?
584
00:16:11,113 --> 00:16:12,381
ONE OF US IS STILL LIKE THAT.
585
00:16:12,381 --> 00:16:14,717
HE IS--I MEAN, I'M--YOU KNOW,
586
00:16:14,717 --> 00:16:15,584
I'M A LITTLE LESS SO.
587
00:16:15,584 --> 00:16:17,853
I'M PRACTICALLY A REAL PERSON
588
00:16:17,853 --> 00:16:19,188
NOW.
589
00:16:19,188 --> 00:16:21,624
IT'S MY BUTT, MCMAHON.
590
00:16:21,624 --> 00:16:24,627
X MARKS THIS BUTT.
591
00:16:24,627 --> 00:16:26,395
BUT WE WERE IN A WAR AND
592
00:16:26,395 --> 00:16:27,329
WE'LL MAKE PEOPLE LOOK AT US ONE
593
00:16:27,329 --> 00:16:28,297
WAY OR THE OTHER.
594
00:16:28,297 --> 00:16:29,131
I DON'T CARE WHAT WE GOT TO DO,
595
00:16:29,131 --> 00:16:30,633
BUT SOMEHOW EVEN IF IT'S
596
00:16:30,633 --> 00:16:31,901
HORRIBLE, PEOPLE ARE GONNA LOOK
597
00:16:31,901 --> 00:16:34,035
AT IT AND GO, "JESUS, YOU GOT TO
598
00:16:34,035 --> 00:16:37,106
WATCH THAT, IT'S JUST CRAZY."
599
00:16:37,106 --> 00:16:39,174
FANS WEREN'T THE ONLY ONES
600
00:16:39,174 --> 00:16:40,643
TAKING NOTICE.
601
00:16:40,643 --> 00:16:42,344
WITH THE MOMENTUM OF DX ON THE
602
00:16:42,344 --> 00:16:44,680
RISE, WCW ONCE AGAIN USED TED
603
00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:48,417
TURNER'S FINANCES TO LURE AWAY A
604
00:16:48,417 --> 00:16:51,520
WWE SUPERSTAR.
605
00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,056
CUT THE MUSIC.
606
00:16:54,056 --> 00:16:54,857
THAT'S RICK RUDE.
607
00:16:54,857 --> 00:16:56,759
IT'S TIME FOR THE
608
00:16:56,759 --> 00:16:59,028
GENERATION X.
609
00:16:59,028 --> 00:17:00,963
HIT THE MUSIC.
610
00:17:00,963 --> 00:17:03,232
RICK RUDE HAD PERFORMED ON A
611
00:17:03,232 --> 00:17:05,100
TAPED EPISODE OF MONDAY NIGHT
612
00:17:05,100 --> 00:17:07,770
RAW, BUT WOULD SECRETLY SIGN
613
00:17:07,770 --> 00:17:09,238
WITH WCW.
614
00:17:09,238 --> 00:17:11,140
[MUSIC]
615
00:17:11,140 --> 00:17:12,274
AND IN A SPORTS ENTERTAIN
616
00:17:12,274 --> 00:17:15,177
FIRST, ONE TALENT WOULD APPEAR
617
00:17:15,177 --> 00:17:19,348
ON BOTH RAW AND NITRO.
618
00:17:19,348 --> 00:17:21,684
OH, HOLY SMOKES.
619
00:17:21,684 --> 00:17:22,551
RICK RUDE.
620
00:17:22,551 --> 00:17:24,053
RICK RUDE?
621
00:17:24,053 --> 00:17:25,888
WHEN RUDE, YOU KNOW, JUMP
622
00:17:25,888 --> 00:17:26,855
SHIPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
623
00:17:26,855 --> 00:17:28,057
NIGHT, IT'S FUNNY, BECAUSE IT'S
624
00:17:28,057 --> 00:17:29,391
LIKE HE'S GONNA BE ON BOTH
625
00:17:29,391 --> 00:17:30,826
SHOWS.
626
00:17:30,826 --> 00:17:32,094
BECAUSE OUR SHOW WAS TAPED AND
627
00:17:32,094 --> 00:17:33,362
WORD IS HE'S GONNA SHOW UP LIVE
628
00:17:33,362 --> 00:17:35,164
ON THEIR SHOW TONIGHT.
629
00:17:35,164 --> 00:17:39,435
RICK RUDE WALKS INTO NITRO.
630
00:17:39,435 --> 00:17:40,402
TIMING IS EVERYTHING, ISN'T
631
00:17:40,402 --> 00:17:41,704
IT?
632
00:17:41,704 --> 00:17:42,571
YOU KNOW, A SITUATION WHERE
633
00:17:42,571 --> 00:17:44,707
WE COULD JUST DRIVE HOME THE
634
00:17:44,707 --> 00:17:47,276
POINT ONE MORE TIME THAT NITRO
635
00:17:47,276 --> 00:17:49,278
WAS HAPPENING NOW, IT WAS LIVE,
636
00:17:49,278 --> 00:17:50,412
IT WAS CURRENT.
637
00:17:50,412 --> 00:17:53,082
AND WHAT WAS GOING ON ON RAW WAS
638
00:17:53,082 --> 00:17:55,718
OLD, YOU KNOW, HISTORY.
639
00:17:55,718 --> 00:17:58,087
OH, WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY
640
00:17:58,087 --> 00:18:00,823
MAKES.
641
00:18:00,823 --> 00:18:01,557
YOU KNOW, LIKE, WE'RE
642
00:18:01,557 --> 00:18:02,624
SCREAMING LIKE, "OH, WHAT'S HE
643
00:18:02,624 --> 00:18:03,192
GONNA DO?"
644
00:18:03,192 --> 00:18:04,293
I MEAN, I'M LIKE--I MEAN, WHO
645
00:18:04,293 --> 00:18:04,860
CARES?
646
00:18:04,860 --> 00:18:07,028
I MEAN JUST--I MEAN WHAT DO
647
00:18:07,028 --> 00:18:07,096
WE--AND AGAIN, THAT WAS--THAT--I
648
00:18:07,096 --> 00:18:07,930
MEAN--AND THAT WAS THE THING, DX
649
00:18:07,930 --> 00:18:10,065
WAS REAL LIFE DON'T--WHO CARES?
650
00:18:10,065 --> 00:18:11,233
[MUSIC]
651
00:18:11,233 --> 00:18:13,268
MY GOD, RUDE SHRUNK.
652
00:18:13,268 --> 00:18:14,536
THEY HAD ME WALKED OUT THE
653
00:18:14,536 --> 00:18:16,405
NEXT WEEK WITH A SUIT LIKE HIM
654
00:18:16,405 --> 00:18:20,008
AND A SUITCASE LIKE HIM PROBABLY
655
00:18:20,008 --> 00:18:20,309
LIKE A LITTLE, "DIG IT RUDE,
656
00:18:20,309 --> 00:18:21,677
LIKE LOOK HOW EASILY WE REPLACED
657
00:18:21,677 --> 00:18:24,012
YOUR CHARACTER, RICK."
658
00:18:24,012 --> 00:18:24,313
AND DX BEAT ME UP AND THREW ME
659
00:18:24,313 --> 00:18:25,681
OUT OF THE RING.
660
00:18:25,681 --> 00:18:29,685
LORD KNOWS THAT WAS A TOUGH
661
00:18:29,685 --> 00:18:32,121
SPOT TO FILL.
662
00:18:32,121 --> 00:18:33,322
OH, AND LOOK.
663
00:18:33,322 --> 00:18:33,989
[CROWD CHEERING]
664
00:18:33,989 --> 00:18:34,857
WELL, THERE GOES HANDSOME
665
00:18:34,857 --> 00:18:36,058
HARVEY.
666
00:18:36,058 --> 00:18:37,259
HE WASN'T THE FOUNDATION OF
667
00:18:37,259 --> 00:18:37,993
IT.
668
00:18:37,993 --> 00:18:39,194
THERE'S ONLY TWO GUYS THAT NEED
669
00:18:39,194 --> 00:18:40,195
TO BE THERE ALL THE TIME, THAT'S
670
00:18:40,195 --> 00:18:41,363
ME AND HUNTER.
671
00:18:41,363 --> 00:18:43,599
AND THAT WAS NEVER GONNA CHANGE.
672
00:18:43,599 --> 00:18:44,900
IT WAS SHAWN MICHAELS AND
673
00:18:44,900 --> 00:18:47,369
TRIPLE H WHO MADE THE DIFFERENCE
674
00:18:47,369 --> 00:18:52,207
IN DX.
675
00:18:52,207 --> 00:18:53,242
THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THESE TWO
676
00:18:53,242 --> 00:18:55,477
BEST FRIENDS PROVIDED A NEW
677
00:18:55,477 --> 00:18:57,479
SENSE OF HUMOR IN SPORTS
678
00:18:57,479 --> 00:18:58,947
ENTERTAINMENT.
679
00:18:58,947 --> 00:18:59,915
[MUSIC]
680
00:18:59,915 --> 00:19:00,582
I'M JUST ABOUT REACHING MY
681
00:19:00,582 --> 00:19:01,917
PAIN THRESHOLD.
682
00:19:01,917 --> 00:19:03,786
IT WASN'T TWO GUYS THAT WERE
683
00:19:03,786 --> 00:19:05,087
TOLD GO OUT THERE AND TRY AND BE
684
00:19:05,087 --> 00:19:06,789
ENTERTAINING.
685
00:19:06,789 --> 00:19:07,856
YOU COULD SEE IT WAS VERY
686
00:19:07,856 --> 00:19:08,857
ORGANIC.
687
00:19:08,857 --> 00:19:12,861
MAN, DO YOU HAVE TWO NIPPLES
688
00:19:12,861 --> 00:19:15,330
FOR A DIME?
689
00:19:15,330 --> 00:19:16,131
WELL, THAT'S REALLY FUNNY,
690
00:19:16,131 --> 00:19:16,899
KING.
691
00:19:16,899 --> 00:19:17,733
I MEAN WE'RE JUST DOING
692
00:19:17,733 --> 00:19:19,935
WHATEVER WE WANT AND SAYING
693
00:19:19,935 --> 00:19:21,837
WHATEVER WE WANT, A LOT SEXUAL
694
00:19:21,837 --> 00:19:23,572
INNUENDO.
695
00:19:23,572 --> 00:19:24,807
YOUR WIFE, YOUR OLD LADY IS
696
00:19:24,807 --> 00:19:27,176
NOT TOO THRILLED WITH YOU
697
00:19:27,176 --> 00:19:29,211
PRIVATES.
698
00:19:29,211 --> 00:19:30,479
THEY WERE TWO GUYS WHO ACTING
699
00:19:30,479 --> 00:19:31,914
PRETTY MUCH ALL I THINK EVERY
700
00:19:31,914 --> 00:19:33,649
MALE AT THE TIME ACTED.
701
00:19:33,649 --> 00:19:34,817
IT WAS BRILLIANT.
702
00:19:34,817 --> 00:19:36,919
DX IS ON ITS WAY TO STATE
703
00:19:36,919 --> 00:19:37,653
COLLEGE.
704
00:19:37,653 --> 00:19:39,421
AND IN PENNSYLVANIA TONIGHT, IT
705
00:19:39,421 --> 00:19:42,091
LOOKS LIKE IT'S GONNA BE A FULL
706
00:19:42,091 --> 00:19:44,460
MOON.
707
00:19:44,460 --> 00:19:45,694
[MUSIC]
708
00:19:45,694 --> 00:19:47,830
D-GENERATION X ALONG WITH A
709
00:19:47,830 --> 00:19:49,264
FRESH CRIP OF EXCITING
710
00:19:49,264 --> 00:19:50,866
CHARACTERS WAS SPEARHEADING A
711
00:19:50,866 --> 00:19:53,635
COMPANY-WIDE CHANGE IN DIRECTION
712
00:19:53,635 --> 00:19:55,604
IN WHAT WOULD BECOME KNOWN AS
713
00:19:55,604 --> 00:19:58,373
THE ATTITUDE ERA.
714
00:19:58,373 --> 00:20:00,509
WWE'S NEW ATTITUDE BROUGHT IN
715
00:20:00,509 --> 00:20:02,845
MORE VIEWERS AND WAS CLOSING THE
716
00:20:02,845 --> 00:20:05,214
RATINGS GAP WITH MONDAY NITRO IN
717
00:20:05,214 --> 00:20:07,149
DECEMBER OF 1997.
718
00:20:07,149 --> 00:20:10,686
[MUSIC]
719
00:20:10,686 --> 00:20:11,720
BUT AS POPULAR AS THEIR
720
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,089
ANTICS HAD BECOME, IT WAS ONLY A
721
00:20:14,089 --> 00:20:17,126
MATTER OF TIME BEFORE DX WOULD
722
00:20:17,126 --> 00:20:19,461
GO TOO FAR.
723
00:20:19,461 --> 00:20:20,295
WRESTLING HAD SUCH A
724
00:20:20,295 --> 00:20:21,997
TRADITION OF BEING A FAMILY
725
00:20:21,997 --> 00:20:22,998
FRIENDLY SPORTING EVENT THAT
726
00:20:22,998 --> 00:20:25,033
PEOPLE STARTED TO GET UPSET
727
00:20:25,033 --> 00:20:26,635
ABOUT THE CONTENT.
728
00:20:26,635 --> 00:20:28,337
[CROWD CHEERING]
729
00:20:28,337 --> 00:20:30,105
MERRY KISS MY -- .
730
00:20:30,105 --> 00:20:31,640
[CROWD CHEERING]
731
00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:32,674
SHAWN AND I WERE COMING UP
732
00:20:32,674 --> 00:20:33,442
WITH ALL OF THIS STUFF.
733
00:20:33,442 --> 00:20:34,543
AND ON LIKE A WEEKLY BASIS, WE
734
00:20:34,543 --> 00:20:36,979
WERE JUST GETTING SCREAMED AT
735
00:20:36,979 --> 00:20:38,480
UNMERCIFULLY BY VINCE.
736
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:39,748
PUT THAT YULETIDE LOG IN YOUR
737
00:20:39,748 --> 00:20:41,583
FIREPLACE.
738
00:20:41,583 --> 00:20:42,151
ALL RIGHT.
739
00:20:42,151 --> 00:20:43,685
IT WAS FUNNY, BUT, YOU KNOW, THE
740
00:20:43,685 --> 00:20:44,920
CROWD LOVES IT, BUT VINCE WAS
741
00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:46,221
PULLING HIS HAIR OUT.
742
00:20:46,055 --> 00:20:48,223
TIME WE COME BACK, "WHAT ARE YOU
743
00:20:48,223 --> 00:20:48,824
DOING?"
744
00:20:48,824 --> 00:20:49,391
"IT'S FUNNY.
745
00:20:49,058 --> 00:20:50,993
BLAH, WE'RE SORRY."
746
00:20:50,993 --> 00:20:51,927
THE RATINGS HAD STARTED TO
747
00:20:51,927 --> 00:20:53,128
TICK UP A BIT FROM WHEN WE WERE
748
00:20:53,128 --> 00:20:54,630
ON, SO I THINK THERE WAS PART OF
749
00:20:54,630 --> 00:20:55,064
HIM WHILE HE WAS YELLING AT US
750
00:20:55,064 --> 00:20:57,132
WAS LIKE, "KEEP THIS, KEEP DOING
751
00:20:57,132 --> 00:20:59,134
IT", YOU KNOW.
752
00:20:59,134 --> 00:21:01,870
DID YOU SEE THAT DEGENERATE?
753
00:21:01,870 --> 00:21:02,604
WELL, I WAS ALWAYS
754
00:21:02,604 --> 00:21:04,206
ENTERTAINED PERSONALLY SPEAKING,
755
00:21:04,206 --> 00:21:05,274
YOU KNOW, WITH EVERYTHING THAT
756
00:21:05,274 --> 00:21:06,441
THEY DID.
757
00:21:06,441 --> 00:21:07,476
BUT PROFESSIONALLY, I THOUGHT
758
00:21:07,476 --> 00:21:10,445
THEY'D CROSSED A LOT OF LINES.
759
00:21:10,445 --> 00:21:11,780
VINCE WAS GETTING CALLS FROM
760
00:21:11,780 --> 00:21:13,815
USA COMPLAINING ABOUT US.
761
00:21:13,815 --> 00:21:15,984
THE AUDACITY OF D-GENERATION
762
00:21:15,984 --> 00:21:17,119
X.
763
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,154
USA NETWORK FINALLY SENDS
764
00:21:19,154 --> 00:21:21,857
THIS LETTER TO VINCE.
765
00:21:21,857 --> 00:21:23,425
AND HE GOES, "YOU TWO GET IN
766
00:21:23,425 --> 00:21:24,560
HERE."
767
00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,062
SHAWN, DAMN IT, HOW MANY
768
00:21:27,062 --> 00:21:28,230
TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU?
769
00:21:28,230 --> 00:21:28,864
WHAT...
770
00:21:28,864 --> 00:21:30,899
WE GOT ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP.
771
00:21:30,899 --> 00:21:31,633
OH, HERE WE GO.
772
00:21:31,633 --> 00:21:32,334
HE'S...
773
00:21:32,334 --> 00:21:33,235
HE MIGHT FIRE US.
774
00:21:33,235 --> 00:21:33,969
THEY'D HAD IT AND THIS WAS
775
00:21:33,969 --> 00:21:34,536
IT.
776
00:21:34,536 --> 00:21:35,237
VINCE BROUGHT IT TO US AND I
777
00:21:35,237 --> 00:21:36,371
REMEMBER HIM, HE'S LIKE, "HEY,
778
00:21:36,371 --> 00:21:37,472
YOU GUYS DONE IT NOW."
779
00:21:37,472 --> 00:21:38,507
"SO LET'S SEE THIS LETTER."
780
00:21:38,507 --> 00:21:39,608
"LIKE, THEY'RE SAYING IF YOU
781
00:21:39,608 --> 00:21:40,475
GUYS DO THIS, THEY'RE PULLING US
782
00:21:40,475 --> 00:21:41,343
OFF THE AIR, SO WHAT ARE WE
783
00:21:41,343 --> 00:21:42,811
GONNA DO?"
784
00:21:42,811 --> 00:21:44,813
WE'RE GONNA READ THE LETTER.
785
00:21:44,813 --> 00:21:46,815
AND ALL THE STUFF THAT THEY SAY
786
00:21:46,815 --> 00:21:48,550
WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO.
787
00:21:48,550 --> 00:21:49,751
YOU CAN'T USE THIS WORD WE'RE
788
00:21:49,751 --> 00:21:50,485
SAYING...
789
00:21:50,485 --> 00:21:51,587
[CROWD CHEERING]
790
00:21:51,587 --> 00:21:52,487
THEY HAD LIKE A LIST OF
791
00:21:52,487 --> 00:21:53,956
BANNED WORDS THAT WE COULDN'T
792
00:21:53,956 --> 00:21:55,023
SAY.
793
00:21:55,023 --> 00:21:56,425
AND THEY'RE CENSORING US AND,
794
00:21:56,425 --> 00:21:58,393
YOU KNOW, BASICALLY, IF THESE
795
00:21:58,393 --> 00:21:59,861
ARE THE RULES AND WE'RE THE GUYS
796
00:21:59,861 --> 00:22:01,063
THAT BREAK THEM, LET'S BREAK
797
00:22:01,063 --> 00:22:05,801
THEM.
798
00:22:05,801 --> 00:22:06,568
WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY
799
00:22:06,568 --> 00:22:08,070
SCHEDULED PROGRAM FOR THIS
800
00:22:08,070 --> 00:22:09,538
SPECIAL REPORT.
801
00:22:09,538 --> 00:22:10,639
GOOD EVENING, MY FELLOW
802
00:22:10,639 --> 00:22:12,107
AMERICANS.
803
00:22:12,107 --> 00:22:13,609
THIS PAST WEEK, D-GENERATION X
804
00:22:13,609 --> 00:22:17,479
WAS INFORMED THAT TSN, STAR TV,
805
00:22:17,479 --> 00:22:20,482
SKY SPORTS AND USA NETWORK IS
806
00:22:20,482 --> 00:22:22,251
DRAWING THE LINE--THEN, MAN, WE
807
00:22:22,251 --> 00:22:23,452
GO OUT THERE AND WE READ THEIR
808
00:22:23,452 --> 00:22:25,354
LETTER AND USING ONLY THEIR
809
00:22:25,354 --> 00:22:26,521
STANDARDS AND PRACTICES.
810
00:22:26,521 --> 00:22:28,557
IT'S THE STANDARD AND PRACTICES
811
00:22:28,557 --> 00:22:30,993
THAT DX PROMISES TO ADHERE TO.
812
00:22:30,993 --> 00:22:31,927
HIT OR MISS AT THIS POINT,
813
00:22:31,927 --> 00:22:32,961
WE'RE EITHER GONNA HIT A GOOD
814
00:22:32,961 --> 00:22:33,962
ONE AND FANS ARE GONNA DIG THIS
815
00:22:33,962 --> 00:22:34,796
OR WE'RE GONNA GET TAKEN OFF THE
816
00:22:34,796 --> 00:22:36,665
AIR.
817
00:22:36,665 --> 00:22:38,800
FROM THE HOURS OF 9:00 TO
818
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,537
10:00 PM, WE WILL ONLY USE THE
819
00:22:42,537 --> 00:22:46,942
WORDS, -- , DAMN AND HELP.
820
00:22:46,942 --> 00:22:48,210
FROM 9:00 TO 10:00, THEY'RE
821
00:22:48,210 --> 00:22:49,678
ALLOWED TO SAY THESE WORDS, BUT
822
00:22:49,678 --> 00:22:51,413
THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY...
823
00:22:51,413 --> 00:22:54,950
--.
824
00:22:54,950 --> 00:22:56,385
THEY BEAT US OUT, BUT WE SAID
825
00:22:56,385 --> 00:22:57,486
EVERY SINGLE WORD THAT WAS ON IT
826
00:22:57,486 --> 00:22:59,288
THAT WE WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO SAY
827
00:22:59,288 --> 00:23:00,956
AND DID ALL OF IT.
828
00:23:00,956 --> 00:23:01,957
--
829
00:23:01,957 --> 00:23:03,292
YOU CANNOT SAY THE WORD BEEP,
830
00:23:03,292 --> 00:23:04,559
YOU CANNOT SAY--YOU KNOW WHAT I
831
00:23:04,559 --> 00:23:05,661
MEAN, WE'RE GOING THROUGH ALL--I
832
00:23:05,661 --> 00:23:07,162
MEAN THIS LITANY OF CURSE WORDS.
833
00:23:07,162 --> 00:23:08,664
WE PROMISE THERE WILL BE LESS
834
00:23:08,664 --> 00:23:10,332
-- REFERENCES.
835
00:23:10,332 --> 00:23:11,266
--
836
00:23:11,266 --> 00:23:12,834
WATCH YOUR -- MOUTH.
837
00:23:12,834 --> 00:23:13,735
OH.
838
00:23:13,735 --> 00:23:14,536
--
839
00:23:14,536 --> 00:23:15,537
--
840
00:23:15,537 --> 00:23:16,872
, --
841
00:23:16,872 --> 00:23:18,774
AND THEN LIKE NO REFERENCING
842
00:23:18,774 --> 00:23:20,642
THE GENITALIA, NO POINTING AT
843
00:23:20,642 --> 00:23:23,211
THE GENITALIA, NO MOONING, YOU
844
00:23:23,211 --> 00:23:25,013
KNOW, NO ANYTHING.
845
00:23:25,013 --> 00:23:27,149
OH, AND ONE LAST THING, EVEN
846
00:23:27,149 --> 00:23:29,184
THOUGH MANY OF YOU BELIEVE THAT
847
00:23:29,184 --> 00:23:31,386
CURRENTLY THE FAVORITE PAST TIME
848
00:23:31,386 --> 00:23:32,754
IN THE ORAL OFFICE...
849
00:23:32,754 --> 00:23:33,722
AND YOU SEE HUNTER...
850
00:23:33,722 --> 00:23:34,756
SWALLOW THE LEADER.
851
00:23:34,756 --> 00:23:35,590
...DOING HIS BEST NOT TO
852
00:23:35,590 --> 00:23:37,059
LAUGH.
853
00:23:37,059 --> 00:23:38,860
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, AND, YOU
854
00:23:38,860 --> 00:23:40,095
KNOW, AND FINALLY I ENDED UP
855
00:23:40,095 --> 00:23:41,330
WITH THE GUILT, WITH THE BILL
856
00:23:41,330 --> 00:23:43,065
CLINTON, YOU KNOW, AND I DID NOT
857
00:23:43,065 --> 00:23:44,966
SLEEP WITHOUT GETTING INJURED.
858
00:23:44,966 --> 00:23:47,569
AS A MATTER OF FACT, I WAS UP
859
00:23:47,569 --> 00:23:50,272
ALL NIGHT.
860
00:23:50,272 --> 00:23:51,673
OH, MY GOODNESS, VINCE WAS LIKE,
861
00:23:51,673 --> 00:23:52,541
"SORRY."
862
00:23:52,541 --> 00:23:53,575
OH, MY GOODNESS, HE GOES
863
00:23:53,575 --> 00:23:54,676
BALLISTIC.
864
00:23:54,676 --> 00:23:56,445
"YOU TWO"--YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T
865
00:23:56,445 --> 00:23:58,647
VERY FLATTERING WHAT HE REFERRED
866
00:23:58,647 --> 00:24:02,184
TO US THEN, "GET IN HERE!"
867
00:24:02,184 --> 00:24:03,885
WE GET IN THERE LIKE, "OH, MY
868
00:24:03,885 --> 00:24:04,820
GOODNESS, THIS IS THE ONE WE'RE
869
00:24:04,820 --> 00:24:06,321
GONNA GET FIRED FOR SURE."
870
00:24:06,321 --> 00:24:07,889
WE'VE PUSHED HIM TOO FAR, YOU
871
00:24:07,889 --> 00:24:12,461
KNOW, AND HE WAS, "YOU WON'T
872
00:24:12,461 --> 00:24:15,297
BELIEVE THIS.
873
00:24:15,297 --> 00:24:17,065
THAT'S GOOD YOU DID LAST WEEK,
874
00:24:17,065 --> 00:24:19,668
THE USA NETWORK, THEY LOVED IT.
875
00:24:19,668 --> 00:24:21,269
THEY THOUGHT IT WAS HILARIOUS."
876
00:24:21,269 --> 00:24:22,804
THEY LOVE THE FACT THAT WE
877
00:24:22,804 --> 00:24:24,139
USED OUR OWN STUFF AGAINST THEM
878
00:24:24,139 --> 00:24:25,407
AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY.
879
00:24:25,407 --> 00:24:26,641
THE RATINGS WERE HIGH FOR THAT
880
00:24:26,641 --> 00:24:27,709
SEGMENT, THEY GOT A LOT OF BUZZ
881
00:24:27,709 --> 00:24:28,710
ON THE SEGMENT.
882
00:24:28,710 --> 00:24:30,579
I REMEMBER SHAWN AND I BOTH
883
00:24:30,579 --> 00:24:32,748
LEAVING THERE AND BEING LIKE,
884
00:24:32,748 --> 00:24:35,951
"SO LIKE WE'RE OKAY NOW?
885
00:24:35,951 --> 00:24:37,452
SO WE CAN DO MORE OF THAT?"
886
00:24:37,452 --> 00:24:38,253
[CROWD CHEERING]
887
00:24:38,253 --> 00:24:41,189
DISCRETION IS ADVISED, BUT
888
00:24:41,189 --> 00:24:48,530
WILL BE COMPLETELY IGNORED.
889
00:24:48,530 --> 00:24:50,098
D-GENERATION X HAD SHATTERED
890
00:24:50,098 --> 00:24:51,767
THROUGH SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT
891
00:24:51,767 --> 00:24:53,468
TRADITIONS.
892
00:24:53,468 --> 00:24:54,569
NOW, WITH VINCE MCMAHON'S
893
00:24:54,569 --> 00:24:57,439
BLESSING, THERE WAS NO FILTER
894
00:24:57,439 --> 00:24:59,474
FOR THESE RAUNCHY REBELS.
895
00:24:59,474 --> 00:25:02,377
THE AUDIENCE WAS LOVING DX,
896
00:25:02,377 --> 00:25:05,781
SO I WAS GOING TO LOVE DX.
897
00:25:05,781 --> 00:25:06,548
THAT WAS IT.
898
00:25:06,548 --> 00:25:07,983
I MEAN HE TOLD US RIGHT THERE,
899
00:25:07,983 --> 00:25:09,418
"BECAUSE I'M CUTTING YOU LOOSE."
900
00:25:09,418 --> 00:25:10,919
IT'S A BIG MOMENT.
901
00:25:10,919 --> 00:25:12,854
I WAS A BIG DX FAN.
902
00:25:12,854 --> 00:25:15,123
THESE GUYS ARE FUNNY AND COOL
903
00:25:15,123 --> 00:25:16,591
AND HIP JUST BECAUSE YOU NEVER
904
00:25:16,591 --> 00:25:18,627
KNEW WHAT THEY WERE GONNA DO.
905
00:25:18,627 --> 00:25:20,562
DX, THERE'S NO TELLING WHAT'S
906
00:25:20,562 --> 00:25:23,999
GONNA BE SAID OR SHOWN NEXT.
907
00:25:23,999 --> 00:25:24,833
THE MACHINE WAS JUST STARTING
908
00:25:24,833 --> 00:25:25,500
TO BUILD.
909
00:25:25,500 --> 00:25:26,401
IT WAS ANYTHING GOES, ANYTHING
910
00:25:26,401 --> 00:25:27,202
CAN HAPPEN.
911
00:25:27,202 --> 00:25:30,172
AND SO IT WAS--IT WAS PARTY
912
00:25:30,172 --> 00:25:31,006
TIME.
913
00:25:31,006 --> 00:25:33,308
WE STARTED DOING THE SKITS.
914
00:25:33,308 --> 00:25:34,676
WE'RE DOING THE BARBECUE WITH
915
00:25:34,676 --> 00:25:36,077
THE BIG SAUSAGES.
916
00:25:36,077 --> 00:25:37,879
SHAWN AND I BOTH GOT JUMBO
917
00:25:37,879 --> 00:25:41,016
WEENIES.
918
00:25:41,016 --> 00:25:44,619
BUT, CHYNA, SHOW US WHAT YOU'RE
919
00:25:44,619 --> 00:25:47,189
BRINGING TO THE BARBECUE, GIRL.
920
00:25:47,189 --> 00:25:50,358
THAT IS THE BIG STICK.
921
00:25:50,358 --> 00:25:51,626
EVEN I REMEMBER WATCHING AND
922
00:25:51,626 --> 00:25:52,894
THINKING LIKE, "WHAT ARE THEY
923
00:25:52,894 --> 00:25:53,528
DOING?
924
00:25:53,528 --> 00:25:54,162
THEY'RE PLAYING STRIP POKER IN
925
00:25:54,162 --> 00:25:54,930
THE RING."
926
00:25:54,930 --> 00:25:56,097
IN ALL OF MY YEARS, I'VE
927
00:25:56,097 --> 00:25:57,899
NEVER SEEN A STRIP POKER GAME,
928
00:25:57,899 --> 00:26:00,469
UNBELIEVABLE.
929
00:26:00,469 --> 00:26:01,503
WELL, I THOUGHT I'VE SEEN IT
930
00:26:01,503 --> 00:26:02,571
ALL.
931
00:26:02,571 --> 00:26:04,072
BUT I'M WATCHING, BECAUSE YOU
932
00:26:04,072 --> 00:26:06,006
DON'T KNOW WHAT DX WAS GOING TO
933
00:26:06,006 --> 00:26:06,241
DO NEXT.
934
00:26:06,241 --> 00:26:07,442
WHOA, HE'S GOING ALL THE WAY
935
00:26:07,442 --> 00:26:09,044
HERE.
936
00:26:09,044 --> 00:26:10,178
WE WOULD JUST TAKE WHATEVER
937
00:26:10,178 --> 00:26:11,446
WE WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TALK
938
00:26:11,446 --> 00:26:13,215
ABOUT AND LIKE I REMEMBER WHEN,
939
00:26:13,215 --> 00:26:14,516
YOU KNOW, CHYNA GOT BOOBS.
940
00:26:14,516 --> 00:26:19,019
THE TWO NEWEST MEMBERS OF
941
00:26:19,019 --> 00:26:20,689
D-GENERATION X.
942
00:26:20,689 --> 00:26:21,723
WHAT?
943
00:26:21,723 --> 00:26:22,958
A MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT PERHAPS.
944
00:26:22,958 --> 00:26:27,963
AND THEY ARE RIGHT HERE.
945
00:26:27,963 --> 00:26:28,897
SHE WENT FROM BEING
946
00:26:28,897 --> 00:26:31,166
FLAT-CHESTED TO LIKE DOUBLE DS.
947
00:26:31,166 --> 00:26:32,200
BUT I THINK WE MIGHT HAVE TO
948
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,637
CHANGE OUR NAME TO DOUBLE
949
00:26:35,637 --> 00:26:40,108
D-GENERATION X.
950
00:26:40,108 --> 00:26:41,510
THEY WERE LIKE, YOU KNOW, "OH MY
951
00:26:41,510 --> 00:26:42,043
GOD.
952
00:26:42,043 --> 00:26:42,811
WELL, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?"
953
00:26:42,811 --> 00:26:43,612
"WELL, DON'T MENTION IT.
954
00:26:43,612 --> 00:26:44,479
JESUS, DON'T LOOK AT THEM.
955
00:26:44,479 --> 00:26:46,481
DON'T SAY ANYTHING."
956
00:26:46,481 --> 00:26:47,249
LIKE, "WHY?
957
00:26:47,249 --> 00:26:48,316
LIKE WHAT?
958
00:26:48,316 --> 00:26:49,484
NO ONE'S GONNA NOTICE THEM?"
959
00:26:49,484 --> 00:26:50,519
SO SHAWN AND I WENT OUT, WE WERE
960
00:26:50,519 --> 00:26:53,388
LIKE LEANING ON THEM.
961
00:26:53,388 --> 00:26:54,289
AND SO WE TALK ABOUT THE WHOLE
962
00:26:54,289 --> 00:26:54,990
PROMO.
963
00:26:54,990 --> 00:26:57,025
HI, MOM.
964
00:26:57,025 --> 00:26:57,759
I COULDN'T WAIT FOR THEIR
965
00:26:57,759 --> 00:26:58,827
SEGMENTS.
966
00:26:58,827 --> 00:26:59,594
ARE THESE THINGS ON?
967
00:26:59,594 --> 00:27:00,428
BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH THEY
968
00:27:00,428 --> 00:27:01,196
THINK WE'RE TRYING TO DO
969
00:27:01,196 --> 00:27:02,564
SOMETHING THAT WAS GOING TO BE
970
00:27:02,564 --> 00:27:03,732
INFLAMMATORY, IT WAS STILL
971
00:27:03,732 --> 00:27:05,400
ENTERTAINING AS HELL.
972
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,302
BECAUSE REMEMBER THIS, TRIPLE
973
00:27:07,302 --> 00:27:09,804
H HAS GOT THE HEAD IF YOU GOT
974
00:27:09,804 --> 00:27:10,705
THE CLASS.
975
00:27:10,705 --> 00:27:13,408
[CROWD CHEERING]
976
00:27:13,408 --> 00:27:14,609
THEY HELPED THE WWE'S SUCCESS
977
00:27:14,609 --> 00:27:17,045
AT THAT POINT IN TIME, YOU KNOW,
978
00:27:17,045 --> 00:27:18,780
IN A MAJOR WAY.
979
00:27:18,780 --> 00:27:20,348
AS MONDAY NIGHT RAW CONTINUE
980
00:27:20,348 --> 00:27:22,284
TO BUILD MOMENTUM...
981
00:27:22,284 --> 00:27:23,118
LOOK OUT.
982
00:27:23,118 --> 00:27:25,186
OH, NO.
983
00:27:25,186 --> 00:27:26,855
...THE REBELLIOUS FORMULA WAS
984
00:27:26,855 --> 00:27:28,123
SPREADING THROUGHOUT THE WWE
985
00:27:28,123 --> 00:27:30,292
LOCKER ROOM.
986
00:27:30,292 --> 00:27:37,599
[MUSIC]
987
00:27:37,599 --> 00:27:38,300
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...
988
00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:39,301
LIKE SHAWN MICHAELS AND
989
00:27:39,301 --> 00:27:41,269
TRIPLE H, TWO OTHER SUPERSTARS
990
00:27:41,269 --> 00:27:44,038
HAD FORMED A TAG TEAM TO DEVELOP
991
00:27:44,038 --> 00:27:47,108
MORE CONTEMPORARY CHARACTERS.
992
00:27:47,108 --> 00:27:49,711
THE ROAD DOGG, JESSIE JAMES
993
00:27:49,711 --> 00:27:53,615
AND THE BAD ASS, BILLY GUNN.
994
00:27:53,615 --> 00:27:54,583
RIGHT WHEN WE GOT PUT
995
00:27:54,583 --> 00:27:55,483
TOGETHER, WE DIDN'T CHANGE
996
00:27:55,483 --> 00:27:56,484
EVERYTHING, BUT WE GOT TO BRING
997
00:27:56,484 --> 00:27:57,852
OUT A LITTLE OF WHAT WAS INSIDE
998
00:27:57,852 --> 00:27:59,187
OF US.
999
00:27:59,187 --> 00:28:00,055
LOOK OUT, LOOK OUT, LOOK OUT.
1000
00:28:00,055 --> 00:28:00,922
OH.
1001
00:28:00,922 --> 00:28:03,058
MY GOD, MAN.
1002
00:28:03,058 --> 00:28:04,192
WE JUST STARTED CAUSING
1003
00:28:04,192 --> 00:28:06,026
TROUBLE.
1004
00:28:06,026 --> 00:28:06,861
AND IT CAUGHT ON WITH THE FANS.
1005
00:28:06,861 --> 00:28:09,029
THE NEW AGE OUTLAWS ARE
1006
00:28:09,029 --> 00:28:10,265
SHAVING HAWK'S MOHAWK.
1007
00:28:10,265 --> 00:28:13,568
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY UNHEARD OF.
1008
00:28:13,568 --> 00:28:14,803
WE LIKED ROAD DOGG AND BILLY
1009
00:28:14,803 --> 00:28:15,570
GUNN.
1010
00:28:15,570 --> 00:28:16,538
AND THE WHOLE IDEA WAS TO PUT
1011
00:28:16,538 --> 00:28:19,039
THEM WITH US.
1012
00:28:19,039 --> 00:28:19,307
SO THEY CAME TO US BEHIND THE
1013
00:28:19,307 --> 00:28:20,709
SCENES AND THEY SAID, "HEY,
1014
00:28:20,709 --> 00:28:21,810
WOULD YOU GUYS LIKE TO BE IN
1015
00:28:21,810 --> 00:28:23,678
D-GENERATION X?"
1016
00:28:23,678 --> 00:28:25,180
PUSH THE ENVELOPE, RAISE THE
1017
00:28:25,180 --> 00:28:26,681
BAR, GET THOSE RATINGS.
1018
00:28:26,681 --> 00:28:27,716
I GOT NEWS FOR YOU, THAT'S
1019
00:28:27,716 --> 00:28:29,684
EXACTLY--HEY, THAT'S EXACTLY
1020
00:28:29,684 --> 00:28:30,986
WHAT D-GENERATION X DOES, BUT I
1021
00:28:30,986 --> 00:28:32,253
KNOW QUESTION IS...
1022
00:28:32,253 --> 00:28:32,921
WELL, WE GOT TO CHECK OUR
1023
00:28:32,921 --> 00:28:34,089
CALENDAR AND SEE WHAT WE HAD
1024
00:28:34,089 --> 00:28:35,390
COMING UP.
1025
00:28:35,390 --> 00:28:36,791
OF COURSE WE ACTED PLAY HARD
1026
00:28:36,791 --> 00:28:38,059
TO GET, YOU KNOW, LET US--GIVE
1027
00:28:38,059 --> 00:28:39,327
US SOME TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT.
1028
00:28:39,327 --> 00:28:40,495
AND WE WALKED AWAY AND JUST
1029
00:28:40,495 --> 00:28:41,997
SAID, "HOLY CRAP, MAN, THEY
1030
00:28:41,997 --> 00:28:43,765
WANT--THEY WANT US TO BE IN DX."
1031
00:28:43,765 --> 00:28:46,134
OH, NO, DOGG, DON'T DO THAT.
1032
00:28:46,134 --> 00:28:49,036
OH, GOD, THERE'S PEOPLE IN
1033
00:28:48,870 --> 00:28:51,206
THERE'S PEOPLE IN THERE.
1034
00:28:51,206 --> 00:28:53,040
BUT THEN THEY STARTED TO GET
1035
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:53,108
HOT ENOUGH WHERE THEY DIDN'T
1036
00:28:53,108 --> 00:28:54,442
NEED US, SO WE WERE LIKE, "WE'LL
1037
00:28:54,442 --> 00:28:55,644
JUST LET THEM DO THEIR OWN THING
1038
00:28:55,644 --> 00:28:56,578
RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT'S WORKING
1039
00:28:56,578 --> 00:28:57,979
FOR THEM."
1040
00:28:57,979 --> 00:28:59,914
D-GENERATION X WAS AT THE
1041
00:28:59,914 --> 00:29:02,951
FOREFRONT OF WWE STORYLINE AND
1042
00:29:02,951 --> 00:29:04,786
THEIR INFLUENCE WAS LIFTING
1043
00:29:04,786 --> 00:29:07,922
MONDAY NIGHT RAW IN THE RATINGS.
1044
00:29:07,922 --> 00:29:10,659
WHEN MAINSTREAM ICON MIKE TYSON
1045
00:29:10,659 --> 00:29:12,794
WAS INCORPORATED INTO WWE
1046
00:29:12,794 --> 00:29:15,996
PROGRAMMING, THE BADDEST MAN ON
1047
00:29:15,996 --> 00:29:16,631
THE PLANET EMBODIED THE
1048
00:29:16,631 --> 00:29:18,500
COMPANY'S NEW ATTITUDE.
1049
00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:20,568
[CROWD CHEERING]
1050
00:29:20,568 --> 00:29:21,536
[MUSIC]
1051
00:29:21,536 --> 00:29:23,071
WAIT A MINUTE.
1052
00:29:23,071 --> 00:29:23,772
WHAT?
1053
00:29:23,772 --> 00:29:24,906
WHAT THE HELL?
1054
00:29:24,906 --> 00:29:26,508
WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT?
1055
00:29:26,508 --> 00:29:28,109
LOOK AT THAT.
1056
00:29:28,109 --> 00:29:31,146
MIKE TYSON IS THE NEWEST MEMBER
1057
00:29:31,146 --> 00:29:34,382
OF D-GENERATION X, IT APPEARS.
1058
00:29:34,382 --> 00:29:36,117
THAT'S WHO MIKE WAS.
1059
00:29:36,117 --> 00:29:37,585
YOU KNOW, MIKE WAS A DEGENERATE.
1060
00:29:37,585 --> 00:29:38,553
LOOK AT THE STUFF THAT MIKE HAD
1061
00:29:38,553 --> 00:29:39,721
GONE THROUGH IN HIS CAREER AND
1062
00:29:39,721 --> 00:29:40,822
ALL THE PUBLICITY THAT HE HAD
1063
00:29:40,822 --> 00:29:42,157
MADE BECAUSE OF SOME OF HIS
1064
00:29:42,157 --> 00:29:42,924
ANTICS.
1065
00:29:42,924 --> 00:29:44,526
HE FIT RIGHT IN WITH THIS GROUP.
1066
00:29:44,526 --> 00:29:46,428
AND IT WAS FANTASTIC TO BE
1067
00:29:46,428 --> 00:29:48,163
INVOLVED WITH D-GENERATION X.
1068
00:29:48,163 --> 00:29:51,766
OH, MAN, I WAS JUST SO HAPPY.
1069
00:29:51,766 --> 00:29:53,268
ALTHOUGH NITRO WAS STILL
1070
00:29:53,268 --> 00:29:57,037
AHEAD IN THE RATINGS, DX HAD
1071
00:29:57,037 --> 00:29:58,940
HELPED EXPAND THE WWE AUDIENCE
1072
00:29:58,940 --> 00:30:03,545
ON THE ROAD TO WRESTLEMANIA XIV.
1073
00:30:03,545 --> 00:30:04,946
BUT AS THE STAGE WAS SET FOR
1074
00:30:04,946 --> 00:30:07,615
SHAWN MICHAELS TO LEAD WWE BACK
1075
00:30:07,615 --> 00:30:08,817
TO THE TOP OF SPORTS
1076
00:30:08,817 --> 00:30:11,519
ENTERTAINMENT, THE YEARS OF PAIN
1077
00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:13,388
AND PERSEVERANCE HAD TAKEN THEIR
1078
00:30:13,388 --> 00:30:15,123
TOLL ON THE COMPANY'S TROUBLED
1079
00:30:15,123 --> 00:30:20,328
CHAMPION.
1080
00:30:20,328 --> 00:30:22,330
MICHAELS BACKDROPPED ON THAT
1081
00:30:22,330 --> 00:30:25,133
BIG OLD WOODEN CASKET.
1082
00:30:25,133 --> 00:30:26,034
IT WAS YEARS AND YEARS OF
1083
00:30:26,034 --> 00:30:29,637
ABUSE ON MY BODY, EVEN IF I WAS
1084
00:30:29,637 --> 00:30:31,606
IN PAIN BACK THEN, MY BODY MIGHT
1085
00:30:31,606 --> 00:30:32,741
NOT HAVE BEEN AWARE OF IT,
1086
00:30:32,741 --> 00:30:34,576
BECAUSE I'M SURE I WAS
1087
00:30:34,576 --> 00:30:36,478
MEDICATING MYSELF, IN SOME WAY,
1088
00:30:36,478 --> 00:30:37,846
SHAPE, OR FORM.
1089
00:30:37,846 --> 00:30:39,080
MY LIFE WAS A CAR WRECK.
1090
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:40,482
I WAS KILLING MYSELF BOTH
1091
00:30:40,482 --> 00:30:42,917
PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY.
1092
00:30:42,917 --> 00:30:44,119
OBVIOUSLY, OUR FOCUS AT THAT
1093
00:30:44,119 --> 00:30:45,386
TIME WAS OKAY.
1094
00:30:45,386 --> 00:30:46,187
WELL, I KNEW I WAS GOING TO
1095
00:30:46,187 --> 00:30:47,422
WRESTLEMANIA WITH STEVE.
1096
00:30:47,422 --> 00:30:49,457
I GOT TO GET THERE, GET THAT
1097
00:30:49,457 --> 00:30:54,429
DONE, AND THEN WE GO FROM THERE.
1098
00:30:54,429 --> 00:30:55,497
DESPITE THE DEBILITATING
1099
00:30:55,497 --> 00:30:58,299
INJURY, SHAWN MICHAELS WAS SET
1100
00:30:58,299 --> 00:31:01,302
TO DEFEND HIS WWE CHAMPIONSHIP
1101
00:31:01,302 --> 00:31:04,037
IN THE MAIN EVENT AT THE
1102
00:31:04,037 --> 00:31:05,373
COMPANY'S BIGGEST EVENT.
1103
00:31:05,373 --> 00:31:06,841
HE'S COMING UP TO THE BIGGEST
1104
00:31:06,841 --> 00:31:10,745
SHOW OF OUR COMPANY'S HISTORY
1105
00:31:10,745 --> 00:31:13,047
AND HE HAD A BROKEN BACK.
1106
00:31:13,047 --> 00:31:16,384
[MUSIC]
1107
00:31:16,384 --> 00:31:17,352
HE WAS THE CHAMPION AND IT'S
1108
00:31:17,352 --> 00:31:18,386
HIS RESPONSIBILITY TO CARRY THE
1109
00:31:18,386 --> 00:31:20,455
COMPANY ON HIS SHOULDERS.
1110
00:31:20,455 --> 00:31:22,023
AT ANY POINT IN TIME, YOU CAN
1111
00:31:22,023 --> 00:31:24,125
GO DOWN AND HAVE SERIOUS
1112
00:31:24,125 --> 00:31:25,126
REPERCUSSIONS FOR THE REST OF
1113
00:31:25,126 --> 00:31:26,094
YOUR LIFE.
1114
00:31:26,094 --> 00:31:27,529
AND HE WAS WILLING TO PUT THAT
1115
00:31:27,529 --> 00:31:30,098
ALL ON THE LINE FOR THE SAKE OF
1116
00:31:30,098 --> 00:31:32,433
NOT ONLY WWE, BUT FOR ALL THE
1117
00:31:32,433 --> 00:31:34,502
PEOPLE WATCHING, BECAUSE OF
1118
00:31:34,502 --> 00:31:36,871
WHERE WE WERE IN THAT CRUCIAL
1119
00:31:36,871 --> 00:31:39,407
BATTLE WITH WCW.
1120
00:31:39,407 --> 00:31:43,178
[CROWD CHEERING]
1121
00:31:43,178 --> 00:31:44,279
SHAWN MICHAELS PERFORMED
1122
00:31:44,279 --> 00:31:47,849
THROUGH EXCRUCIATING PAIN.
1123
00:31:47,849 --> 00:31:50,118
AND THE WWE CHAMPION
1124
00:31:50,118 --> 00:31:52,620
OBVIOUSLY IN PAIN, USING EVERY
1125
00:31:52,620 --> 00:31:54,389
OUNCE OF STRENGTH AND ENERGY
1126
00:31:54,389 --> 00:31:56,357
THAT HE'S GOT.
1127
00:31:56,357 --> 00:31:58,259
AND BY THE END OF THE MATCH,
1128
00:31:58,259 --> 00:32:00,028
THE HEARTBREAK KID'S TIME IN THE
1129
00:32:00,028 --> 00:32:02,897
WWE SPOTLIGHT WOULD COME TO AN
1130
00:32:02,897 --> 00:32:05,867
END.
1131
00:32:05,867 --> 00:32:06,534
NOW, HE'S GOING FOR ANOTHER
1132
00:32:06,534 --> 00:32:07,368
CHAMP.
1133
00:32:07,368 --> 00:32:08,903
AUSTIN, HE GOT HIM.
1134
00:32:08,903 --> 00:32:10,772
THE STUNNER, THERE GOES
1135
00:32:10,772 --> 00:32:12,440
MICHAELS.
1136
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,309
EVERYONE KNEW GOING INTO
1137
00:32:14,309 --> 00:32:15,310
WRESTLEMANIA THAT THAT WAS MY
1138
00:32:15,310 --> 00:32:16,578
LAST RUN.
1139
00:32:16,578 --> 00:32:18,246
AND I WAS SPIRALING DOWNWARD AT
1140
00:32:18,246 --> 00:32:19,447
THAT TIME.
1141
00:32:19,447 --> 00:32:21,049
MY CAREER WAS OVER, YOU KNOW, I
1142
00:32:21,049 --> 00:32:22,517
WAS APPARENTLY NEVER GOING TO
1143
00:32:22,517 --> 00:32:24,285
WRESTLE AGAIN.
1144
00:32:24,285 --> 00:32:26,187
WWE HAD CROWNED A NEW
1145
00:32:26,187 --> 00:32:28,056
CHAMPION IN STONE COLD STEVE
1146
00:32:28,056 --> 00:32:30,925
AUSTIN TO LEAD MONDAY NIGHT RAW
1147
00:32:30,925 --> 00:32:33,761
IN THE FIGHT AGAINST WCW.
1148
00:32:33,761 --> 00:32:34,963
BUT WITH THE CORNERSTONE MEMBER
1149
00:32:34,963 --> 00:32:36,865
OF D-GENERATION X OUT OF ACTION
1150
00:32:36,865 --> 00:32:39,300
INDEFINITELY, THE FUTURE OF
1151
00:32:39,300 --> 00:32:41,836
WWE'S MOST POPULAR FACTION WAS
1152
00:32:41,836 --> 00:32:43,538
IN DOUBT.
1153
00:32:43,538 --> 00:32:44,606
THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE AT
1154
00:32:44,606 --> 00:32:45,740
THAT TIME THAT JUST SAW ME AS A
1155
00:32:45,740 --> 00:32:47,442
GUY THAT WAS, "OH, HE'S JUST A
1156
00:32:47,442 --> 00:32:48,142
SIDEKICK.
1157
00:32:48,142 --> 00:32:49,878
AND NOW THAT SHAWN'S GONE, THAT
1158
00:32:49,878 --> 00:32:51,312
THING WILL DIE.
1159
00:32:51,312 --> 00:32:52,313
THAT WAS THE THOUGHT.
1160
00:32:52,313 --> 00:32:53,314
THERE'S NO SHAWN MICHAELS, NO
1161
00:32:53,314 --> 00:32:54,315
D-GENERATION X.
1162
00:32:54,315 --> 00:32:57,452
[CROWD CHEERING]
1163
00:32:57,452 --> 00:32:58,386
HELLO AGAIN, LADIES AND
1164
00:32:58,386 --> 00:32:59,220
GENTLEMEN.
1165
00:32:59,220 --> 00:33:02,457
AND WELCOME TO WWE RAW.
1166
00:33:02,457 --> 00:33:04,959
WE ARE SOLD OUT IN THE PEPSI
1167
00:33:04,959 --> 00:33:08,563
ARENA HERE IN ALBANY, NEW YORK.
1168
00:33:08,563 --> 00:33:12,032
TRIPLE H AND DX IS GONNA MAKE A
1169
00:33:12,032 --> 00:33:13,401
MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT HERE TONIGHT.
1170
00:33:13,401 --> 00:33:14,469
AND THERE'S SOME RUMBLINGS THAT
1171
00:33:14,469 --> 00:33:19,207
THERE HAS BEEN A RIFT IN DX.
1172
00:33:19,207 --> 00:33:20,909
THEY WERE SETTING UP THE POST
1173
00:33:20,909 --> 00:33:23,044
SHAWN ERA WITH DX.
1174
00:33:23,044 --> 00:33:23,912
HUNTER AND I TOGETHER
1175
00:33:23,912 --> 00:33:24,946
HAVING--WE'RE HAVING
1176
00:33:24,946 --> 00:33:25,847
CONVERSATIONS.
1177
00:33:25,847 --> 00:33:27,081
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS
1178
00:33:27,081 --> 00:33:28,716
IS THAT NEXT DAY.
1179
00:33:28,716 --> 00:33:29,984
"THE NIGHT AFTER I LEAVE, YOU
1180
00:33:29,984 --> 00:33:31,619
GOT TO TAKE IT OVER FROM THERE."
1181
00:33:31,619 --> 00:33:33,221
WELL, TONIGHT, TRIPLE H IS
1182
00:33:33,221 --> 00:33:34,923
GONNA DROP THE HAMMER, THE WORLD
1183
00:33:34,923 --> 00:33:37,292
WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT, AS YOU
1184
00:33:37,292 --> 00:33:39,994
KNOW IT, COMES TO AN X-RATED END
1185
00:33:39,994 --> 00:33:41,162
TONIGHT.
1186
00:33:41,162 --> 00:33:42,230
I KNEW THAT NEXT NIGHT I HAD TO
1187
00:33:42,230 --> 00:33:43,231
COME OUT AND HIT ONE OUT OF THE
1188
00:33:43,231 --> 00:33:44,299
PARK IF I WAS--IF THAT WAS GONNA
1189
00:33:44,299 --> 00:33:46,301
LIVE AND I WAS GONNA CONTINUE.
1190
00:33:46,301 --> 00:33:48,670
[MUSIC]
1191
00:33:48,670 --> 00:33:50,571
WELL, WE ARE WONDERING WHAT
1192
00:33:50,571 --> 00:33:53,508
BIG NEWS TRIPLE H HAS FOR US.
1193
00:33:53,508 --> 00:33:54,043
APPARENTLY, WE'RE GONNA FIND OUT
1194
00:33:54,043 --> 00:33:58,846
RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW ON THE WAR
1195
00:33:58,846 --> 00:34:00,148
ZONE.
1196
00:34:00,148 --> 00:34:01,516
FOR D-GENERATION X TO
1197
00:34:01,516 --> 00:34:03,952
SURVIVE, TRIPLE H WOULD HAVE TO
1198
00:34:03,952 --> 00:34:05,920
STEP OUT OF THE BACKGROUND AND
1199
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,222
INTO THE SPOTLIGHT.
1200
00:34:08,222 --> 00:34:12,727
LET ME MAKE THE DECISIONS.
1201
00:34:12,727 --> 00:34:17,565
HBK, YOU DROPPED THE BALL.
1202
00:34:17,565 --> 00:34:18,700
VINCE TOLD HIM, "YOU COME OUT
1203
00:34:18,700 --> 00:34:19,667
THE NEXT NIGHT, YOU GOT TO TAKE
1204
00:34:19,667 --> 00:34:20,401
HOLD OF THIS.
1205
00:34:20,401 --> 00:34:21,336
YOU GOT TO SORT OF KICK SHAWN ON
1206
00:34:21,336 --> 00:34:22,837
THE NUTS, THAT'S BUSINESS."
1207
00:34:22,837 --> 00:34:26,307
TRIPLE H PICKED IT UP AND NOW
1208
00:34:26,307 --> 00:34:29,610
THE BALL IS IN MY COURT.
1209
00:34:29,610 --> 00:34:30,511
AND HE WENT OUT AND HE TOOK
1210
00:34:30,511 --> 00:34:32,914
OVER DX AND HE DID A GREAT JOB.
1211
00:34:32,914 --> 00:34:36,851
THIS IS THE GENESIS OF
1212
00:34:36,851 --> 00:34:39,754
D-GENERATION X.
1213
00:34:39,754 --> 00:34:42,156
TONIGHT, LIVE IN FRONT OF THE
1214
00:34:42,156 --> 00:34:46,127
WORLD, I FORM THE DX ARMY.
1215
00:34:46,127 --> 00:34:48,963
AND WHEN YOU START AN ARMY, YOU
1216
00:34:48,963 --> 00:34:54,969
LOOK TO YOUR FRIENDS, YOU LOOK
1217
00:34:54,969 --> 00:34:57,071
TO THE KLIQ.
1218
00:34:57,071 --> 00:34:58,740
WHAT?
1219
00:34:58,740 --> 00:35:03,878
[MUSIC]
1220
00:35:03,878 --> 00:35:05,546
YEAH.
1221
00:35:05,546 --> 00:35:07,815
WELL, LOOK WHO IS BACK.
1222
00:35:07,815 --> 00:35:08,649
FORTIFYING THE NEXT
1223
00:35:08,649 --> 00:35:11,352
INCARNATION OF D-GENERATION X,
1224
00:35:11,352 --> 00:35:13,254
TRIPLE H WOULD INTERCHANGE ONE
1225
00:35:13,254 --> 00:35:14,789
FRIEND FOR ANOTHER.
1226
00:35:14,789 --> 00:35:16,657
[CROWD CHEERING]
1227
00:35:16,657 --> 00:35:17,392
WHAT A COUP HAD BEEN CALLED
1228
00:35:17,392 --> 00:35:18,659
UP HERE, JR.
1229
00:35:18,659 --> 00:35:22,096
A NEW DAY IS DAWNING FOR DX.
1230
00:35:22,096 --> 00:35:23,664
AND SEAN WALTMAN MADE A
1231
00:35:23,664 --> 00:35:25,400
SURPRISING DEFECTION FROM WORLD
1232
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,735
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING TO RETURN
1233
00:35:27,735 --> 00:35:29,670
TO WWE.
1234
00:35:29,670 --> 00:35:30,638
ALL THE TIMING JUST WORKED
1235
00:35:30,638 --> 00:35:31,272
OUT.
1236
00:35:31,272 --> 00:35:32,273
AND SEAN WALTMAN CAME OVER WHICH
1237
00:35:32,273 --> 00:35:33,441
EVERYBODY KNEW I HAD A PERSONAL
1238
00:35:33,441 --> 00:35:34,409
RELATIONSHIP ANYWAYS BEHIND THE
1239
00:35:34,409 --> 00:35:36,778
SCENES.
1240
00:35:36,778 --> 00:35:38,179
IT WAS A LITTLE VINDICATION
1241
00:35:38,179 --> 00:35:39,447
ON OUR PART THAT WE COULD DO THE
1242
00:35:39,447 --> 00:35:41,015
SAME THAT THEY'RE DOING.
1243
00:35:41,015 --> 00:35:41,616
OKAY.
1244
00:35:41,616 --> 00:35:42,350
YOU GRABBED OURS.
1245
00:35:42,350 --> 00:35:43,851
WE CAN GRAB SOME OF YOURS TOO.
1246
00:35:43,851 --> 00:35:47,221
SO IT BECAME THE FIRST STAR THAT
1247
00:35:47,221 --> 00:35:49,724
WWE GRABBED.
1248
00:35:49,724 --> 00:35:51,826
ARRIVING IN WWE WITH AN EDGY
1249
00:35:51,826 --> 00:35:54,629
X-PAC ALIAS, WALTMAN'S TENURE IN
1250
00:35:54,629 --> 00:35:57,198
WCW HAD COME TO A DISCOURAGING
1251
00:35:57,198 --> 00:36:00,301
END IN EARLY 1998.
1252
00:36:00,301 --> 00:36:02,370
AS FAR AS YOUR LITTLE TEENY
1253
00:36:02,370 --> 00:36:05,840
BUDDY, SYXX-PAC GOES, IT'S NOT
1254
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,443
MY FAULT THAT HE CAN'T CUT THE
1255
00:36:08,443 --> 00:36:11,079
MUSTARD AND RUN WITH THE REST OF
1256
00:36:11,079 --> 00:36:13,614
THE NWO.
1257
00:36:13,614 --> 00:36:14,749
I WAS PRETTY MISERABLE.
1258
00:36:14,749 --> 00:36:17,752
I WAS KIND OF GETTING BURIED.
1259
00:36:17,752 --> 00:36:19,654
ERIC BASICALLY FIRED ME BY
1260
00:36:19,654 --> 00:36:21,122
FEDEX.
1261
00:36:21,122 --> 00:36:25,193
SOMETIMES, HE WAS A REAL DICK.
1262
00:36:25,193 --> 00:36:26,227
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'VE BEEN IN
1263
00:36:26,227 --> 00:36:30,731
A DUNGEON SERVING FOR TWO YEARS,
1264
00:36:30,731 --> 00:36:32,400
YOU RUN UP A LOT OF FEELINGS,
1265
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,635
TALK TO THEM, KID.
1266
00:36:34,635 --> 00:36:36,003
I WAS GIVEN THE GREEN LIGHT
1267
00:36:36,003 --> 00:36:37,071
TO GO OUT THERE AND JUST GIVE
1268
00:36:37,071 --> 00:36:38,172
WHATEVER YOU WANT TO OFF OF YOUR
1269
00:36:38,172 --> 00:36:39,340
CHEST.
1270
00:36:39,340 --> 00:36:43,211
I HEARD HULK HOGAN COME OUT ON
1271
00:36:43,211 --> 00:36:45,880
TELEVISION SAYING I COULDN'T CUT
1272
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,282
THE MUSTARD.
1273
00:36:48,282 --> 00:36:51,652
WELL, HULK HOGAN, YOU SUCK, PAL.
1274
00:36:51,652 --> 00:36:53,654
[CROWD CHEERING]
1275
00:36:53,654 --> 00:36:55,857
BRINGING X-PAC BACK OUT JUST,
1276
00:36:55,857 --> 00:36:56,791
WAIT A SECOND, THAT GUY IS
1277
00:36:56,791 --> 00:36:57,658
SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE OTHER
1278
00:36:57,658 --> 00:36:58,359
CHANNEL.
1279
00:36:58,359 --> 00:36:59,293
NOW, HE'S HERE AND HE'S TALKING
1280
00:36:59,293 --> 00:37:00,795
TRASH ON THE OTHER.
1281
00:37:00,795 --> 00:37:02,563
IT JUST MADE IT THAT TORNADO OF
1282
00:37:02,563 --> 00:37:03,865
CONTROVERSY THAT EVERYBODY JUST
1283
00:37:03,865 --> 00:37:07,068
LIKES TO SINK THEIR TEETH INTO.
1284
00:37:07,068 --> 00:37:09,070
AND, HULK, I GOT--I GOT SOME
1285
00:37:09,070 --> 00:37:11,439
MORE ADVICE FOR YOU.
1286
00:37:11,439 --> 00:37:13,875
YOU BETTER NOT STEP SHORT OR
1287
00:37:13,875 --> 00:37:16,444
ERIC BISCHOFF WILL GO SO FAR UP
1288
00:37:16,444 --> 00:37:18,379
YOUR -- , HE'LL KNOW WHAT YOU
1289
00:37:18,379 --> 00:37:19,580
HAD FOR BREAKFAST.
1290
00:37:19,580 --> 00:37:21,782
[CROWD CHEERING]
1291
00:37:21,782 --> 00:37:23,151
WHEN HE SPOKE, IT WAS JUST
1292
00:37:23,151 --> 00:37:24,485
HIM TALKING AND GETTING HIS
1293
00:37:24,485 --> 00:37:25,753
FEELINGS OUT AND YOU KNOW THAT
1294
00:37:25,753 --> 00:37:26,521
WAS REAL.
1295
00:37:26,521 --> 00:37:27,522
HE WAS THE FIRST HIGH PROFILE
1296
00:37:27,522 --> 00:37:30,758
GUY THAT JUMPED FROM WCW TO WWE
1297
00:37:30,758 --> 00:37:32,560
WHICH KIND OF SHOWED YOU THAT
1298
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,495
THE MOMENTUM WAS SHIFTING BACK
1299
00:37:34,495 --> 00:37:35,696
IN WWE'S FAVOR.
1300
00:37:35,696 --> 00:37:38,065
OH, YEAH, BY THE WAY, I GOT
1301
00:37:38,065 --> 00:37:41,034
TWO WORDS FOR YOU.
1302
00:37:41,034 --> 00:37:41,302
SUCK IT.
1303
00:37:41,302 --> 00:37:43,838
YEAH.
1304
00:37:43,838 --> 00:37:44,805
TRIPLE H WAS NOT DONE
1305
00:37:44,805 --> 00:37:46,674
RECRUITING DISGRUNTLED
1306
00:37:46,674 --> 00:37:48,442
SUPERSTARS LOOKING TO LET OUT
1307
00:37:48,442 --> 00:37:49,577
THEIR AGGRESSION.
1308
00:37:49,577 --> 00:37:51,379
OH, MY.
1309
00:37:51,379 --> 00:37:53,181
MAN.
1310
00:37:53,181 --> 00:37:54,615
WITH STABILITY RESTORED UNDER
1311
00:37:54,615 --> 00:37:56,984
NEW LEADERSHIP, THE NEXT
1312
00:37:56,984 --> 00:37:58,686
EVOLUTION OF D-GENERATION X WAS
1313
00:37:58,686 --> 00:38:00,321
TAKING SHAPE.
1314
00:38:00,321 --> 00:38:01,455
THE GROUP WOULD CONTINUE TO
1315
00:38:01,455 --> 00:38:03,591
EXPAND THAT EVENING BY ADDING
1316
00:38:03,591 --> 00:38:05,693
TWO SUPERSTARS NOW READY TO RUN
1317
00:38:05,693 --> 00:38:07,895
WITH DX, COMPLETING THE
1318
00:38:07,895 --> 00:38:09,397
REFORMATION OF TRIPLE H'S
1319
00:38:09,397 --> 00:38:11,332
REBELLIOUS FACTION.
1320
00:38:11,332 --> 00:38:13,367
DX AND THE OUTLAWS ARE TAKING
1321
00:38:13,367 --> 00:38:15,336
APART CACTUS JACK.
1322
00:38:15,336 --> 00:38:17,371
YOU'RE SEEING A NEW DX.
1323
00:38:17,371 --> 00:38:19,407
WELL, IF THIS IS A NEW DX,
1324
00:38:19,407 --> 00:38:20,641
WE'RE DAMN SURE IN FOR SOME
1325
00:38:20,641 --> 00:38:21,742
TROUBLE.
1326
00:38:21,742 --> 00:38:22,944
ROAD DOGG AND BILLY AND
1327
00:38:22,944 --> 00:38:24,879
X-PAC, THE NEW GUYS WERE
1328
00:38:24,879 --> 00:38:25,613
DEGENERATES.
1329
00:38:25,613 --> 00:38:26,981
THERE WAS NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.
1330
00:38:26,981 --> 00:38:29,784
THIS IS MY DX, MY ARMY.
1331
00:38:29,784 --> 00:38:35,089
THE WWE, GET A GOOD LOOK.
1332
00:38:35,089 --> 00:38:36,757
WWE'S MOMENTUM CONTINUED TO
1333
00:38:36,757 --> 00:38:39,260
BUILD IN THE WEEKS THAT FOLLOWED
1334
00:38:39,260 --> 00:38:41,262
AS THE NEW LOOK DEGENERATES HELP
1335
00:38:41,262 --> 00:38:43,164
SPUR MONDAY NIGHT RAW TO ITS
1336
00:38:43,164 --> 00:38:45,066
FIRST WIN OVER NITRO IN THE
1337
00:38:45,066 --> 00:38:48,536
RATINGS IN NEARLY TWO YEARS.
1338
00:38:48,536 --> 00:38:50,271
AS WWE CONTINUE TO PUSH THE
1339
00:38:50,271 --> 00:38:52,940
ENVELOPE, TRIPLE H ONCE AGAIN
1340
00:38:52,940 --> 00:38:55,543
SEIZED AN OPPORTUNITY AND WOULD
1341
00:38:55,543 --> 00:38:58,012
LEAD DX TO THE FRONT LINES OF
1342
00:38:58,012 --> 00:39:00,648
THE MONDAY NIGHT WAR.
1343
00:39:00,648 --> 00:39:01,482
SO THEY STARTED RUNNING
1344
00:39:01,482 --> 00:39:02,149
SHOWS.
1345
00:39:02,149 --> 00:39:03,150
WHEREVER WE WOULD GO, THEY WOULD
1346
00:39:03,150 --> 00:39:05,753
BRING IN NITRO LIKE RIGHT NEXT
1347
00:39:05,753 --> 00:39:06,921
DOOR TO US.
1348
00:39:06,921 --> 00:39:08,089
HELLO AGAIN, EVERYBODY, AND
1349
00:39:08,089 --> 00:39:11,158
WELCOME TO WWE RAW HERE IN THE
1350
00:39:11,158 --> 00:39:14,662
HAMPTON, VIRGINIA COLISEUM.
1351
00:39:14,662 --> 00:39:16,831
MONDAY NITRO AS WE COME TO
1352
00:39:16,831 --> 00:39:19,233
YOU FOR THE SCOPE IN DOWNTOWN
1353
00:39:19,233 --> 00:39:21,269
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.
1354
00:39:21,269 --> 00:39:22,436
AND THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE
1355
00:39:22,436 --> 00:39:24,805
MONEY, SO THEY'LL JUST GIVE AWAY
1356
00:39:24,805 --> 00:39:27,007
THE TICKETS AND THEY'LL KILL THE
1357
00:39:27,007 --> 00:39:27,308
MARKET, BECAUSE EVERYBODY WILL
1358
00:39:27,308 --> 00:39:28,175
GO ON THE FREE SHOW AND THEY'RE
1359
00:39:28,175 --> 00:39:29,543
NOT GONNA PAY US.
1360
00:39:29,543 --> 00:39:30,278
WE GOT TO GET PAID.
1361
00:39:30,278 --> 00:39:30,945
I THINK I MIGHT HAVE SAID
1362
00:39:30,945 --> 00:39:31,712
SOMETHING--LIKE I SAID, I'D LIKE
1363
00:39:31,712 --> 00:39:32,446
TO ROLL A TANK UP TO THEM AND
1364
00:39:32,446 --> 00:39:33,347
BLOW THE BUILDING UP WHILE
1365
00:39:33,347 --> 00:39:34,081
THEY'RE ALL ON IT OR SOMETHING
1366
00:39:34,081 --> 00:39:34,715
LIKE THAT.
1367
00:39:34,715 --> 00:39:37,318
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, LOOKED IN
1368
00:39:37,318 --> 00:39:38,152
SILENCE FOR A SECOND.
1369
00:39:38,152 --> 00:39:39,654
AND THEN, LIKE, WE DID EXACTLY
1370
00:39:39,654 --> 00:39:41,355
THAT.
1371
00:39:41,355 --> 00:39:42,657
WE DECIDED IT WAS A GREAT IDEA.
1372
00:39:42,657 --> 00:39:44,325
WE KIND OF HASHED IT OUT.
1373
00:39:44,325 --> 00:39:47,261
VINCE WAS LIKE, "SO NOBODY KNOWS
1374
00:39:47,261 --> 00:39:49,029
ABOUT THIS.
1375
00:39:48,929 --> 00:39:49,897
ABOUT THIS, THIS IS GONNA GET
1376
00:39:49,897 --> 00:39:51,098
EVERYWHERE AND IT WON'T WORK."
1377
00:39:51,098 --> 00:39:52,333
NOW, ROAD DOGG AND KID AND
1378
00:39:52,333 --> 00:39:53,301
BILLY GOT TO THE BUILDING AND
1379
00:39:53,301 --> 00:39:54,201
THEY SEE ALL THIS MILITARY
1380
00:39:54,201 --> 00:39:55,169
STUFF.
1381
00:39:55,169 --> 00:39:57,672
AND THEY'RE LIKE, "WHAT'S GOING
1382
00:39:57,672 --> 00:39:58,472
ON?"
1383
00:39:58,472 --> 00:39:59,507
FINALLY VINCE WAS LIKE, "GO
1384
00:39:59,507 --> 00:40:00,641
AHEAD AND TELL THEM."
1385
00:40:00,641 --> 00:40:01,442
SO I GO WHERE I, "GUYS, WE WANT
1386
00:40:01,442 --> 00:40:02,343
YOU TO KNOW, WE'RE DOING THIS."
1387
00:40:02,343 --> 00:40:03,577
YEAH, I SAID, "WE'RE GONNA GET
1388
00:40:03,577 --> 00:40:04,378
IN THAT TANK.
1389
00:40:04,378 --> 00:40:05,246
WE'RE GONNA DRIVE OVER TO
1390
00:40:05,246 --> 00:40:07,248
NORFOLK SCOPE, DRIVE RIGHT UP TO
1391
00:40:07,248 --> 00:40:09,016
WCW AND HOPE--AND DRIVE THAT
1392
00:40:09,016 --> 00:40:10,618
TANK RIGHT IN THE BUILDING."
1393
00:40:10,618 --> 00:40:11,686
AND THEY WERE LIKE, "OH, REALLY?
1394
00:40:11,686 --> 00:40:13,387
WHAT ARE WE DOING?"
1395
00:40:13,387 --> 00:40:14,088
I'M LIKE, "THAT'S WHAT WE'RE
1396
00:40:14,088 --> 00:40:14,989
DOING."
1397
00:40:14,989 --> 00:40:15,890
[MUSIC]
1398
00:40:15,890 --> 00:40:18,192
ATTENTION.
1399
00:40:18,192 --> 00:40:20,361
OH.
1400
00:40:20,361 --> 00:40:23,564
AT EASE, MEN.
1401
00:40:23,564 --> 00:40:26,701
I SAID AT EASE.
1402
00:40:26,701 --> 00:40:28,636
THAT'S BETTER.
1403
00:40:28,636 --> 00:40:29,637
WELL, TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH,
1404
00:40:29,637 --> 00:40:31,005
WE COULD NOT BELIEVE WE WERE
1405
00:40:31,005 --> 00:40:32,440
GONNA DO THAT.
1406
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:36,610
THIS MISSION WILL START AT
1407
00:40:36,610 --> 00:40:41,115
THE NORFOLK SCOPE WITH WCW
1408
00:40:41,115 --> 00:40:42,283
WRESTLING.
1409
00:40:42,283 --> 00:40:43,317
OH, YEAH.
1410
00:40:43,317 --> 00:40:45,553
AND IT WILL END RIGHT HERE
1411
00:40:45,553 --> 00:40:47,722
TONIGHT AT THE HAMPTON ROADS
1412
00:40:47,722 --> 00:40:52,426
COLISEUM FOR RAW IS WAR.
1413
00:40:52,426 --> 00:40:53,928
WE JUST GET IN THE TANK AND
1414
00:40:53,928 --> 00:40:55,596
LITERALLY GO TO THEIR SHOW, LIKE
1415
00:40:55,596 --> 00:40:57,732
THIS IS JUST EVERY DAY STUFF FOR
1416
00:40:57,732 --> 00:40:58,899
US.
1417
00:40:58,899 --> 00:41:02,670
LET'S GO.
1418
00:41:02,670 --> 00:41:03,504
THE WHOLE TIME WE WERE
1419
00:41:03,504 --> 00:41:04,472
DRIVING OVER THERE DOING IT,
1420
00:41:04,472 --> 00:41:05,906
EVERYBODY WAS, "I CAN'T BELIEVE
1421
00:41:05,906 --> 00:41:07,241
WE'RE DOING THIS, THIS IS THE
1422
00:41:07,241 --> 00:41:09,043
CRAZIEST THING EVER."
1423
00:41:09,043 --> 00:41:10,644
D-GENERATION X OF THE WORLD
1424
00:41:10,644 --> 00:41:12,446
WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT ALREADY
1425
00:41:12,446 --> 00:41:15,716
CALL TO CHANGE THE FACE OF
1426
00:41:15,716 --> 00:41:17,985
PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING AS YOU
1427
00:41:17,985 --> 00:41:19,286
KNOW IT.
1428
00:41:19,286 --> 00:41:21,255
THIS IS RIDICULOUS.
1429
00:41:21,255 --> 00:41:22,356
SO WE DRIVE DOWN THERE, WE GET
1430
00:41:22,356 --> 00:41:23,691
OUT, START TALKING TO PEOPLE.
1431
00:41:23,691 --> 00:41:26,293
WHO RULES PROFESSIONAL
1432
00:41:26,293 --> 00:41:27,161
WRESTLING?
1433
00:41:27,161 --> 00:41:27,828
DX.
1434
00:41:27,828 --> 00:41:28,362
YEAH.
1435
00:41:28,362 --> 00:41:32,299
DX, DX, DX.
1436
00:41:32,299 --> 00:41:33,734
THAT WAS AS REAL AS IT GETS.
1437
00:41:33,734 --> 00:41:35,269
LET'S TAKE A TANK AND LET'S
1438
00:41:35,269 --> 00:41:37,471
DRIVE ACROSS THE STREET AND
1439
00:41:37,471 --> 00:41:39,340
WE'RE GONNA--WE'RE GONNA INVADE
1440
00:41:39,340 --> 00:41:40,975
NITRO LIKE, THIS IS JUST MIND
1441
00:41:40,975 --> 00:41:41,776
BOGGLING.
1442
00:41:41,776 --> 00:41:43,878
THIS IS D-GENERATION X AND WE
1443
00:41:43,878 --> 00:41:45,546
ARE CALLING THE FIGHT TO THE
1444
00:41:45,546 --> 00:41:48,682
FRONT ROW AGAINST WCW.
1445
00:41:48,682 --> 00:41:50,418
TONIGHT, WE HAVE FIRED THE FIRST
1446
00:41:50,418 --> 00:41:52,520
SHOT IN THE WORLD.
1447
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:53,587
I REMEMBER KEVIN NASH CALLING
1448
00:41:53,587 --> 00:41:54,955
ME LATER AND HE WAS DRIVING--HE
1449
00:41:54,955 --> 00:41:55,856
HAD GONE TO THE GYM WITH LEX
1450
00:41:55,856 --> 00:41:56,791
LUGER AND THEY WERE PULLING BACK
1451
00:41:56,791 --> 00:41:57,725
INTO THE BUILDING THAT THEY WERE
1452
00:41:57,725 --> 00:41:58,325
DRIVING.
1453
00:41:58,325 --> 00:41:59,493
AND KEVIN WAS LIKE, "WHAT'S
1454
00:41:59,493 --> 00:42:00,161
GOING ON DOWN THERE?"
1455
00:42:00,161 --> 00:42:01,061
YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE THIS BIG MOB
1456
00:42:01,061 --> 00:42:01,662
SCENE.
1457
00:42:01,662 --> 00:42:02,363
AND THEN LUGER'S LIKE, "I DON'T
1458
00:42:02,363 --> 00:42:02,997
KNOW.
1459
00:42:02,997 --> 00:42:03,631
IT LOOKS LIKE AN ARMY THING.
1460
00:42:03,631 --> 00:42:04,265
IT MUST BE NATIONAL GUARD OR
1461
00:42:04,265 --> 00:42:04,865
SOMETHING."
1462
00:42:04,865 --> 00:42:05,666
HE WAS LIKE, "NO, HOLD ON A
1463
00:42:05,666 --> 00:42:06,367
SECOND."
1464
00:42:06,367 --> 00:42:09,103
DX, DX, DX, DX.
1465
00:42:09,103 --> 00:42:10,304
IT'S DX.
1466
00:42:10,304 --> 00:42:11,205
SO THEY DROVE DOWN INTO THE
1467
00:42:11,205 --> 00:42:12,206
BUILDING AND THEY'RE ALL SITTING
1468
00:42:12,206 --> 00:42:13,007
THERE.
1469
00:42:13,007 --> 00:42:14,508
AND HE'S LIKE, "GUYS, I'M
1470
00:42:14,508 --> 00:42:15,643
CONCERNED ABOUT DX BEING OUT
1471
00:42:15,643 --> 00:42:16,911
FRONT, THE TANK SHOOTING AT THE
1472
00:42:16,911 --> 00:42:17,912
BUILDING WITH LIKE 10, 000 FANS
1473
00:42:17,912 --> 00:42:19,547
AROUND THEM."
1474
00:42:19,547 --> 00:42:20,915
AND THEY WERE LIKE, "WHAT?"
1475
00:42:20,915 --> 00:42:22,349
THEY LIKE FREAKED OUT, YOU KNOW.
1476
00:42:22,349 --> 00:42:23,150
[MUSIC]
1477
00:42:23,150 --> 00:42:24,084
"WELL, DX IS OUTSIDE."
1478
00:42:24,084 --> 00:42:24,785
"WHAT?
1479
00:42:24,785 --> 00:42:26,821
THEY'RE OUTSIDE LIKE WHY?
1480
00:42:26,821 --> 00:42:27,822
ARE THEY COMING--ARE THEY
1481
00:42:27,822 --> 00:42:28,689
WORKING FOR US?"
1482
00:42:28,689 --> 00:42:29,657
"NO, THEY'RE OUTSIDE, LIKE
1483
00:42:29,657 --> 00:42:30,925
THEY'RE PULLING A RIOT OR AN
1484
00:42:30,925 --> 00:42:32,493
ATTACK, WHATEVER IT WAS."
1485
00:42:32,493 --> 00:42:35,296
D-GENERATION X PROUDLY
1486
00:42:35,296 --> 00:42:37,698
INVADES WCW.
1487
00:42:37,698 --> 00:42:38,866
AND WE WERE STANDING NEXT TO
1488
00:42:38,866 --> 00:42:40,868
THE DOOR LIKE LOOKING OUT AT
1489
00:42:40,868 --> 00:42:42,236
THIS LITTLE WINDOW LIKE, "YEAH,
1490
00:42:42,236 --> 00:42:43,037
THEY'RE OUT THERE."
1491
00:42:43,037 --> 00:42:45,639
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, DO YOU
1492
00:42:45,639 --> 00:42:47,908
THINK ERIC BISCHOFF SUCKS?
1493
00:42:47,908 --> 00:42:49,610
YEAH.
1494
00:42:49,610 --> 00:42:50,211
[CROWD CHEERING]
1495
00:42:50,211 --> 00:42:51,111
AND I REMEMBER BISCHOFF
1496
00:42:51,111 --> 00:42:51,912
COMING AND GO, "GO BACK TO WORK,
1497
00:42:51,912 --> 00:42:53,347
THERE'S NOTHING TO LOOK AT, GET
1498
00:42:53,347 --> 00:42:53,981
OUT OF HERE."
1499
00:42:53,981 --> 00:42:54,782
SO WE ALL KIND OF HAD TO SCOFF
1500
00:42:54,782 --> 00:42:56,450
OFF AND LIKE, "I HOPE THEY GET
1501
00:42:56,450 --> 00:42:58,552
IN, LIKE WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN?"
1502
00:42:58,552 --> 00:43:01,088
WHEN DX SHOWED UP, IT WAS A
1503
00:43:01,088 --> 00:43:02,223
BRILLIANT MOVE.
1504
00:43:02,223 --> 00:43:03,224
AS MUCH AS I HATED TO SEE IT
1505
00:43:03,224 --> 00:43:05,759
HAPPEN, I WENT, "OH, THEY'RE
1506
00:43:05,759 --> 00:43:06,727
FIGURING IT OUT."
1507
00:43:06,727 --> 00:43:08,829
D-GENERATION X NOW CROSSES
1508
00:43:08,829 --> 00:43:10,731
OVER INTO THE FRONTLINE OF WORLD
1509
00:43:10,731 --> 00:43:13,234
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING TO TAKE
1510
00:43:13,234 --> 00:43:14,101
THE WORLD--I'M GONNA TRY TO
1511
00:43:14,101 --> 00:43:14,869
DRIVE THAT TANK RIGHT IN THE
1512
00:43:14,869 --> 00:43:15,803
BUILDING.
1513
00:43:15,803 --> 00:43:16,537
BUT I GUARANTEE YOU, THEY WON'T
1514
00:43:16,537 --> 00:43:17,238
OPEN THE DOORS.
1515
00:43:17,238 --> 00:43:17,938
THEY'LL BLOCK US FROM ENTERING
1516
00:43:17,938 --> 00:43:18,806
AND STUFF LIKE THAT, BUT IT'LL
1517
00:43:18,806 --> 00:43:19,773
BE GOOD TV AND THEY'LL LOOK LIKE
1518
00:43:19,773 --> 00:43:21,008
A BUNCH OF COWARDS.
1519
00:43:21,008 --> 00:43:22,643
LET IT BEGIN, BUT THE COWARDS
1520
00:43:22,643 --> 00:43:24,144
ARE [INDISTINCT]
1521
00:43:24,144 --> 00:43:28,549
WCW IS A BUNCH OF COWARDS.
1522
00:43:28,549 --> 00:43:29,550
I COULD SEE THESE GUYS WERE
1523
00:43:29,550 --> 00:43:31,318
SERIOUS ABOUT THE WAR.
1524
00:43:31,318 --> 00:43:33,254
WWE WAS ALWAYS ABOUT TAKING THE
1525
00:43:33,254 --> 00:43:35,022
FIGHT, YOU KNOW, THEN TAKING IT
1526
00:43:35,022 --> 00:43:36,490
TO THE FULLEST.
1527
00:43:36,490 --> 00:43:38,092
I WAS STANDING ON THE OTHER
1528
00:43:38,092 --> 00:43:40,427
SIDE OF THAT STEEL DOOR AND I
1529
00:43:40,427 --> 00:43:42,630
COULDN'T GET THIS OLD MAN TO
1530
00:43:42,630 --> 00:43:43,864
OPEN THE DOOR.
1531
00:43:43,864 --> 00:43:46,000
HEY, WE JUST WANT TO TALK.
1532
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:47,067
YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO TALK TO
1533
00:43:47,067 --> 00:43:48,636
MR. BISCHOFF.
1534
00:43:48,636 --> 00:43:49,370
IF THEY'D LET US IN THE
1535
00:43:49,370 --> 00:43:51,038
BUILDING, WE WOULD HAVE BEEN
1536
00:43:51,038 --> 00:43:52,273
LIKE, "ALL RIGHT."
1537
00:43:52,273 --> 00:43:53,841
BECAUSE WE'D HAD NO PLAN FOR IF
1538
00:43:53,841 --> 00:43:55,142
WE GOT IN.
1539
00:43:55,142 --> 00:43:57,211
I BEG YOUR PARDON.
1540
00:43:57,211 --> 00:43:58,679
TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON.
1541
00:43:58,679 --> 00:43:59,480
HEY, ERIC BISCHOFF, IF YOU
1542
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:00,714
GOT A MINUTE, LIKE COME OUT.
1543
00:44:00,714 --> 00:44:01,348
I JUST WANNA HAVE A WORD WITH
1544
00:44:01,348 --> 00:44:02,249
YOU.
1545
00:44:02,249 --> 00:44:03,317
YOU WANNA FIGHT SOMEBODY AND
1546
00:44:03,317 --> 00:44:04,418
YOU GO TO THEIR HOUSE AND YOU
1547
00:44:04,418 --> 00:44:07,020
START BANGING ON THEIR DOOR AND
1548
00:44:07,020 --> 00:44:07,121
YOU TELL THEM, "ALL RIGHT, COME
1549
00:44:07,121 --> 00:44:08,088
OUT, LET'S FIGHT."
1550
00:44:08,088 --> 00:44:08,923
AND THEY DON'T EVEN COME TO THE
1551
00:44:08,923 --> 00:44:09,657
DOOR.
1552
00:44:09,657 --> 00:44:12,793
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, WCW.
1553
00:44:12,793 --> 00:44:15,028
WHO KNOWS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
1554
00:44:15,028 --> 00:44:16,597
HAD THEY ACTUALLY GOTTEN IN.
1555
00:44:16,597 --> 00:44:18,632
D-GENERATION X WOULD LIKE TO
1556
00:44:18,632 --> 00:44:21,068
SAY GOODBYE TO THE SCOPE AND TO
1557
00:44:21,068 --> 00:44:23,137
THE LOSERS OF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
1558
00:44:23,137 --> 00:44:25,105
WRESTLING AS WE HEAD BACK TO THE
1559
00:44:25,105 --> 00:44:26,941
WORLD OF REAL PROFESSIONAL
1560
00:44:26,941 --> 00:44:30,210
WRESTLING IN THE WWE MONDAY
1561
00:44:30,210 --> 00:44:32,313
NIGHT RAW.
1562
00:44:32,313 --> 00:44:34,081
WHEN YOU GUYS LEAVE, IF THEY'RE
1563
00:44:34,081 --> 00:44:35,549
SMART ENOUGH TO GET A GROUP OF
1564
00:44:35,549 --> 00:44:37,718
10 GUYS TOGETHER AND COME DOWN
1565
00:44:37,718 --> 00:44:39,987
HERE AND POUND ON OUR DOORS AND
1566
00:44:39,987 --> 00:44:42,056
PUT IT BACK ON US.
1567
00:44:42,056 --> 00:44:44,325
AND VINCE GOES, "GREAT, OPEN UP
1568
00:44:44,325 --> 00:44:45,459
THE DOORS AND LET THEM IN.
1569
00:44:45,459 --> 00:44:46,327
WHAT WRESTLING SHOW ARE YOU
1570
00:44:46,327 --> 00:44:47,127
GONNA WATCH, THE ONE WITH NOBODY
1571
00:44:47,127 --> 00:44:47,928
ON IT, THE ONE WITH EVERYBODY ON
1572
00:44:47,928 --> 00:44:48,729
IT?"
1573
00:44:48,729 --> 00:44:50,297
[MUSIC]
1574
00:44:50,297 --> 00:44:51,765
VINCE WAS, YOU KNOW, HE WAS
1575
00:44:51,765 --> 00:44:52,833
AHEAD OF THE CURVE IN ALL OF
1576
00:44:52,833 --> 00:44:54,234
THAT STUFF AND IT WOULD
1577
00:44:54,234 --> 00:44:55,169
HAVE--YOU KNOW, I WISH THEY
1578
00:44:55,169 --> 00:44:56,570
WOULD HAVE COME.
1579
00:44:56,570 --> 00:44:58,572
ONCE AGAIN, D-GENERATION X
1580
00:44:58,572 --> 00:45:00,374
HAD HELPED WWE BREAK NEW GROUND
1581
00:45:00,374 --> 00:45:02,843
IN SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
1582
00:45:02,843 --> 00:45:03,744
IT WAS REALLY CROSSING THE
1583
00:45:03,744 --> 00:45:04,478
LINE.
1584
00:45:04,478 --> 00:45:05,946
AND THAT'S WHAT DX WAS SO FAMOUS
1585
00:45:05,946 --> 00:45:06,814
FOR.
1586
00:45:06,814 --> 00:45:07,915
THEY DID THINGS THAT HADN'T BEEN
1587
00:45:07,915 --> 00:45:09,149
DONE BEFORE, THINGS THAT THE
1588
00:45:09,149 --> 00:45:10,618
OTHER PEOPLE WERE AFRAID TO DO.
1589
00:45:10,618 --> 00:45:11,986
SO IF YOU COULD PLEASE MOVE
1590
00:45:11,986 --> 00:45:13,654
YOUR TYRANNOSAURUS OUT OF THE
1591
00:45:13,654 --> 00:45:14,922
WAY, WE WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE
1592
00:45:14,922 --> 00:45:15,856
IT.
1593
00:45:15,856 --> 00:45:16,857
THIS WAS LIKE A MOMENT FOR ME
1594
00:45:16,857 --> 00:45:18,859
WHERE I THOUGHT THIS IS WHY
1595
00:45:18,859 --> 00:45:22,997
WE'RE GONNA WIN.
1596
00:45:22,997 --> 00:45:23,998
BUT ERIC BISCHOFF WASN'T
1597
00:45:23,998 --> 00:45:26,500
ABOUT TO SIGNAL HIS SURRENDER.
1598
00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:28,168
IN FACT, HE WOULD RAISE THE
1599
00:45:28,168 --> 00:45:29,470
STAKES.
1600
00:45:29,470 --> 00:45:30,638
WHEN DX SHOWED UP, I HAD TO
1601
00:45:30,638 --> 00:45:32,406
COUNTER WITH SOMETHING.
1602
00:45:32,406 --> 00:45:35,376
I'LL TAKE THE FOCUS OFF OF DX.
1603
00:45:35,376 --> 00:45:36,243
SO, VINCE MCMAHON, IF YOU WANT
1604
00:45:36,243 --> 00:45:38,445
TO CALL ME OUT, DO IT YOURSELF.
1605
00:45:38,445 --> 00:45:39,480
THIS ISN'T ABOUT DX.
1606
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,548
VINCE, THIS IS ABOUT YOU AND ME.
1607
00:45:41,548 --> 00:45:43,717
YOU WANT ME?
1608
00:45:43,717 --> 00:45:46,520
I'M GONNA BE IN YOUR BACKYARD.
1609
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:47,988
CONSIDER THIS AN OPEN
1610
00:45:47,988 --> 00:45:51,058
INVITATION, VINCE MCMAHON.
1611
00:45:51,058 --> 00:45:54,461
YOU SHOW UP, IT'LL BE ME AND YOU
1612
00:45:54,461 --> 00:45:56,363
MCMAHON IN THE RING.
1613
00:45:56,363 --> 00:45:58,799
[CROWD CHEERING]
1614
00:45:58,799 --> 00:45:59,667
WELL, HE'S GOT ME WITH THAT
1615
00:45:59,667 --> 00:46:00,367
ONE.
1616
00:46:00,367 --> 00:46:03,002
I'LL BUY A TICKET.
1617
00:46:03,002 --> 00:46:03,170
BISCHOFF GOING ON AIR AND
1618
00:46:03,170 --> 00:46:05,773
CHALLENGING VINCE MCMAHON.
1619
00:46:05,773 --> 00:46:06,874
I MEAN THAT WAS LIKE, "IS HE
1620
00:46:06,874 --> 00:46:08,242
REALLY SAYING THAT?
1621
00:46:08,242 --> 00:46:09,109
WOW."
1622
00:46:09,109 --> 00:46:10,077
[MUSIC]
1623
00:46:10,077 --> 00:46:11,612
HE WAS IN IT TO WIN IT.
1624
00:46:11,612 --> 00:46:12,746
GOING ON TV AND CALLING VINCE
1625
00:46:12,746 --> 00:46:14,915
MCMAHON OUT AND, YOU KNOW, I
1626
00:46:14,915 --> 00:46:15,849
TOLD ERIC, "BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU
1627
00:46:15,849 --> 00:46:17,484
WISH FOR.
1628
00:46:17,484 --> 00:46:19,353
HE MIGHT SHOW UP AND HE MIGHT
1629
00:46:19,353 --> 00:46:21,188
NOT BE A HAPPY CAMPER."
1630
00:46:21,188 --> 00:46:21,755
YEAH.
1631
00:46:21,755 --> 00:46:22,389
IT'S PRETTY OBVIOUS, THERE IS
1632
00:46:22,389 --> 00:46:25,024
NOBODY HERE.
1633
00:46:24,892 --> 00:46:27,026
FIGHT.
1634
00:46:27,026 --> 00:46:27,494
HULK HOGAN SAID, "ERIC, YOU
1635
00:46:27,494 --> 00:46:29,296
MIGHT NOT WANT TO DO THIS."
1636
00:46:29,296 --> 00:46:30,197
I SAID, "I DON'T CARE IF HE
1637
00:46:30,197 --> 00:46:31,198
SHOWS UP."
1638
00:46:31,198 --> 00:46:32,199
THIS GUY SHOWS UP AND KICKS MY
1639
00:46:32,199 --> 00:46:34,334
-- , I'M PRINTING MONEY.
1640
00:46:34,334 --> 00:46:35,669
WHAT DO I CARE?
1641
00:46:35,669 --> 00:46:37,871
[BELL RINGING]
1642
00:46:37,871 --> 00:46:39,573
VINCE MCMAHON WOULD NEVER
1643
00:46:39,573 --> 00:46:40,874
ANSWER ERIC BISCHOFF'S
1644
00:46:40,874 --> 00:46:42,810
CHALLENGE, BUT AS BISCHOFF
1645
00:46:42,810 --> 00:46:45,112
REVELED IN HIS RIVAL'S FAILURE
1646
00:46:45,112 --> 00:46:47,948
TO APPEAR ON WCW PROGRAMMING,
1647
00:46:47,948 --> 00:46:49,349
THE MOMENTUM OF THE MONDAY NIGHT
1648
00:46:49,349 --> 00:46:52,486
WAR HAD ALREADY SHIFTED IN WWE'S
1649
00:46:52,486 --> 00:46:53,454
FAVOR.
1650
00:46:53,454 --> 00:46:54,188
[MUSIC]
1651
00:46:54,188 --> 00:46:55,289
WE HAD WWE IN THE ROPES FOR A
1652
00:46:55,289 --> 00:46:56,690
LONG TIME.
1653
00:46:56,690 --> 00:46:58,325
AND I THINK IT JUST INFLATED
1654
00:46:58,325 --> 00:46:59,893
SOME EGOS THAT LIKE WCW WAS
1655
00:46:59,893 --> 00:47:00,694
UNTOUCHABLE.
1656
00:47:00,694 --> 00:47:02,963
I HAVE DEFEATED VINCE
1657
00:47:02,963 --> 00:47:03,964
MCMAHON.
1658
00:47:03,964 --> 00:47:09,236
[CROWD CHEERING]
1659
00:47:09,236 --> 00:47:14,341
IT IS SO GOOD TO BE KING.
1660
00:47:14,341 --> 00:47:15,809
WCW WAS ABLE TO LAST A COUPLE
1661
00:47:15,809 --> 00:47:17,044
OF EXTRA MONTHS ON TOP BECAUSE
1662
00:47:17,044 --> 00:47:18,345
IT WAS JUST A HABIT.
1663
00:47:18,345 --> 00:47:19,513
AND THEN WHEN THE HABIT STARTED
1664
00:47:19,513 --> 00:47:22,014
DYING OFF, THAT'S WHEN PEOPLE
1665
00:47:22,014 --> 00:47:22,349
JUST LEAVING IN ROWS, COMING
1666
00:47:22,349 --> 00:47:26,754
OVER TO WATCH RAW.
1667
00:47:26,754 --> 00:47:28,622
MONDAY NIGHT RAW'S RATINGS
1668
00:47:28,622 --> 00:47:30,157
WOULD INCREASE THROUGHOUT THE
1669
00:47:30,157 --> 00:47:33,427
SUMMER OF 1998 AS WWE'S ATTITUDE
1670
00:47:33,427 --> 00:47:36,764
ERA WAS IN FULL SWING.
1671
00:47:36,764 --> 00:47:38,165
THE COMPANY'S CREATIVE DIRECTION
1672
00:47:38,165 --> 00:47:40,234
MIRRORED SOCIETY'S EVOLVING
1673
00:47:40,234 --> 00:47:43,035
COUNTERCULTURE.
1674
00:47:43,035 --> 00:47:43,637
AND LIKE D-GENERATION X HAD
1675
00:47:43,637 --> 00:47:45,305
HELPED TURN THE TIDE IN THE
1676
00:47:45,305 --> 00:47:48,442
MONDAY NIGHT WAR, WWE'S ENTIRE
1677
00:47:48,442 --> 00:47:50,611
LOCKER ROOM WOULD EMBRACE RAW'S
1678
00:47:50,611 --> 00:47:52,846
ARTISTIC FREEDOMS IN ORDER TO
1679
00:47:52,846 --> 00:47:54,581
SHINE IN THE PRIMETIME
1680
00:47:54,581 --> 00:47:56,450
SPOTLIGHT.
1681
00:47:56,450 --> 00:47:58,919
COMPETITION DROVE BUSINESS,
1682
00:47:58,919 --> 00:48:00,754
NOT ONLY ON TELEVISION BUT IN
1683
00:48:00,754 --> 00:48:02,556
THE LOCKER ROOM, GUYS WERE
1684
00:48:02,556 --> 00:48:04,358
TRYING TO OUTDO EACH OTHER.
1685
00:48:04,358 --> 00:48:07,261
AND IT ELEVATED EVERYBODY.
1686
00:48:07,261 --> 00:48:08,095
[MUSIC]
1687
00:48:08,095 --> 00:48:09,062
THAT'S WHEN PEOPLE WERE
1688
00:48:09,062 --> 00:48:10,697
PUSHING EACH OTHER TO LITERALLY
1689
00:48:10,697 --> 00:48:11,965
GO OUT THERE AND GO, "PLEASE
1690
00:48:11,965 --> 00:48:13,367
FOLLOW THAT."
1691
00:48:13,367 --> 00:48:15,169
SO IT MAKES THE PROGRAMMING AND
1692
00:48:15,169 --> 00:48:17,571
MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER.
1693
00:48:17,571 --> 00:48:18,906
CREATIVELY SPEAKING, I'VE
1694
00:48:18,906 --> 00:48:21,408
EXPANDED THE BOX QUITE A BIT.
1695
00:48:21,408 --> 00:48:23,577
NOW, WWE WAS EXPANDING IT EVEN
1696
00:48:23,577 --> 00:48:25,579
MORE.
1697
00:48:25,579 --> 00:48:27,481
IT WAS SUCH A UNIQUE TIME.
1698
00:48:27,481 --> 00:48:28,849
WE ALL HAD A PLATFORM TO BE
1699
00:48:28,849 --> 00:48:33,053
CREATIVE, GO OUT AND ENGAGE
1700
00:48:33,053 --> 00:48:34,688
AUDIENCES AND GO OUT THERE AND
1701
00:48:34,688 --> 00:48:39,025
DO AND SAY ANYTHING I WANTED TO.
1702
00:48:39,025 --> 00:48:39,226
YOU KNOW, TRIPLE H, IF YOU
1703
00:48:39,226 --> 00:48:41,161
AND THE REST OF YOUR DX
1704
00:48:41,161 --> 00:48:42,496
JABRONIES GOT ANY TESTICULAR
1705
00:48:42,496 --> 00:48:46,032
FORTITUDE, YOU'LL COME OUT HERE,
1706
00:48:46,032 --> 00:48:46,567
SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING,
1707
00:48:46,567 --> 00:48:48,101
GET IT ON WITH THE NATION RIGHT
1708
00:48:48,101 --> 00:48:49,603
HERE IN AUSTIN, TEXAS.
1709
00:48:49,603 --> 00:48:51,071
[CROWD CHEERING]
1710
00:48:51,071 --> 00:48:52,439
THE NATION OF DOMINATION WAS
1711
00:48:52,439 --> 00:48:53,874
A BIG DEAL AT THE TIME.
1712
00:48:53,874 --> 00:48:54,808
WE WERE KIND OF FEUDING WITH
1713
00:48:54,808 --> 00:48:55,642
THEM.
1714
00:48:55,642 --> 00:48:56,743
WE WERE THE DEGENERATES AND
1715
00:48:56,743 --> 00:48:58,712
THEY WERE THE DOMINANT MILITANT
1716
00:48:58,712 --> 00:49:00,647
FORCE THAT THEY WERE AND SO IT
1717
00:49:00,647 --> 00:49:02,950
JUST MADE SENSE THAT WE WOULD GO
1718
00:49:02,950 --> 00:49:03,884
AT EACH OTHER.
1719
00:49:03,884 --> 00:49:05,719
THIS IS A WAR BETWEEN THE
1720
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:07,421
NATION AND DX.
1721
00:49:07,421 --> 00:49:09,122
I THOROUGHLY ENJOY THEM.
1722
00:49:09,122 --> 00:49:10,424
THERE'S AN ARGUMENT THAT CAN BE
1723
00:49:10,424 --> 00:49:12,059
MADE THAT THAT DX WAS BETTER
1724
00:49:12,059 --> 00:49:13,894
THAN ME AND HUNTER'S.
1725
00:49:13,894 --> 00:49:15,429
ARE YOU READY?
1726
00:49:15,429 --> 00:49:18,065
[CROWD CHEERING]
1727
00:49:18,065 --> 00:49:19,333
TRIPLE H MADE D-GENERATION X
1728
00:49:19,333 --> 00:49:20,467
SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
1729
00:49:20,467 --> 00:49:21,335
IN MY OPINION.
1730
00:49:21,335 --> 00:49:22,336
HE MADE IT HIS OWN.
1731
00:49:22,336 --> 00:49:23,270
AND I THINK CROWD PARTICIPATION
1732
00:49:23,270 --> 00:49:24,805
WAS A HUGE PART OF IT.
1733
00:49:24,805 --> 00:49:26,173
I MEAN TRIPLE H ASKING THE
1734
00:49:26,173 --> 00:49:27,608
AUDIENCE, "ARE YOU READY?"
1735
00:49:27,608 --> 00:49:32,512
I SAID, ARE YOU READY?
1736
00:49:32,512 --> 00:49:33,413
[CROWD CHEERING]
1737
00:49:33,413 --> 00:49:35,749
[MUSIC]
1738
00:49:35,749 --> 00:49:37,351
THE FANS WANNA BE A PART OF
1739
00:49:37,351 --> 00:49:37,885
THAT.
1740
00:49:37,885 --> 00:49:38,685
THEY WANT THEIR VOICE TO BE
1741
00:49:38,685 --> 00:49:39,286
HEARD.
1742
00:49:39,286 --> 00:49:39,987
AND THAT'S WHY THESE GUYS ARE
1743
00:49:39,987 --> 00:49:40,754
SUCCESSFUL.
1744
00:49:40,754 --> 00:49:42,055
THEY UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANCE
1745
00:49:42,055 --> 00:49:44,491
OF INVOLVING THE WWE UNIVERSE IN
1746
00:49:44,491 --> 00:49:45,392
THE PRODUCT.
1747
00:49:45,392 --> 00:49:47,628
AND, OF COURSE, IF YOU'RE NOT
1748
00:49:47,628 --> 00:49:49,830
DOWN WITH THAT, WE GOT TWO WORDS
1749
00:49:49,830 --> 00:49:51,465
FOR YOU.
1750
00:49:51,465 --> 00:49:53,500
SUCK IT.
1751
00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:55,135
WHEN I SAID THOSE TWO WORDS,
1752
00:49:55,135 --> 00:49:56,403
I BROUGHT EVERYTHING I HAD, I
1753
00:49:56,403 --> 00:49:58,272
BROUGHT IT ALL, BECAUSE I KNEW
1754
00:49:58,272 --> 00:50:00,140
EVERYBODY IN THE WHOLE BUILDING
1755
00:50:00,140 --> 00:50:01,108
WAS GONNA BLOW THE ROOF OFF THE
1756
00:50:01,108 --> 00:50:01,975
JOINT.
1757
00:50:01,975 --> 00:50:04,344
WE GOT TWO WORDS FOR YOU.
1758
00:50:04,344 --> 00:50:06,013
[CROWD CHEERING]
1759
00:50:06,013 --> 00:50:07,981
I WAS WATCHING A RELATIVELY
1760
00:50:07,981 --> 00:50:10,517
RAPID EROSION OF MY AUDIENCE, MY
1761
00:50:10,517 --> 00:50:12,486
18 TO 34 YEAR OLD DEMO THAT I
1762
00:50:12,486 --> 00:50:14,354
PRETTY MUCH OWN UP UNTIL THAT
1763
00:50:14,354 --> 00:50:16,223
POINT GOING OVER TO THE WWE.
1764
00:50:16,223 --> 00:50:18,125
IF YOU CAME TO SEE THE GRUMPY
1765
00:50:18,125 --> 00:50:20,827
OLD MEN STINKING THE JOINT UP,
1766
00:50:20,827 --> 00:50:22,229
YOU CAME TO THE WRONG PLACE.
1767
00:50:22,229 --> 00:50:23,730
[CROWD CHEERING]
1768
00:50:23,730 --> 00:50:24,798
THEY WERE YOUNGER, THEY WERE
1769
00:50:24,798 --> 00:50:27,200
HIPPER, THEY HAD--YOU KNOW, THEY
1770
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:28,402
HAD WAY MORE LEEWAY.
1771
00:50:28,402 --> 00:50:30,137
[CROWD CHEERING]
1772
00:50:30,137 --> 00:50:32,506
DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU GUYS
1773
00:50:32,506 --> 00:50:34,241
THAT PEOPLE ARE SICK AND TIRED
1774
00:50:34,241 --> 00:50:35,776
OF LOOKING AT YOUR -- EVERY
1775
00:50:35,776 --> 00:50:36,044
WEEK?
1776
00:50:36,044 --> 00:50:38,779
YOU KNOW, DX WAS HUGE.
1777
00:50:38,779 --> 00:50:40,380
[CROWD CHEERING]
1778
00:50:40,380 --> 00:50:42,716
WHOO, OH MY!
1779
00:50:42,716 --> 00:50:44,318
[MUSIC]
1780
00:50:44,318 --> 00:50:46,853
ONCE THE AUDIENCE VOTES, ONCE
1781
00:50:46,853 --> 00:50:48,889
THEY MAKE UP THEIR MIND, IT'S
1782
00:50:48,889 --> 00:50:50,691
ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET THEM
1783
00:50:50,691 --> 00:50:54,561
BACK.
1784
00:50:54,561 --> 00:50:56,663
SINCE ITS INCEPTION, THE
1785
00:50:56,663 --> 00:50:58,765
SUCCESS OF D-GENERATION X WAS
1786
00:50:58,765 --> 00:51:00,901
ROOTED IN REAL LIFE CHEMISTRY
1787
00:51:00,901 --> 00:51:03,437
BEHIND THE SCENES, A FORMULA
1788
00:51:03,437 --> 00:51:05,072
THAT CONTINUE TO RING THROUGH
1789
00:51:05,072 --> 00:51:08,075
FOR DX AS WWE DISTANCED
1790
00:51:08,075 --> 00:51:09,443
THEMSELVES FROM WORLD
1791
00:51:09,443 --> 00:51:10,978
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING IN THE
1792
00:51:10,978 --> 00:51:12,612
RATINGS.
1793
00:51:12,612 --> 00:51:13,880
WHEN THAT RED LIGHT CAME OFF,
1794
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:15,282
WE ALL JUST CAME TOGETHER.
1795
00:51:15,282 --> 00:51:16,316
MAN, IT WAS MAGIC.
1796
00:51:16,316 --> 00:51:17,284
IT WAS MAGIC AND IT WASN'T JUST
1797
00:51:17,284 --> 00:51:19,486
MAGIC FOR US PERSONALLY, THAT
1798
00:51:19,486 --> 00:51:26,593
CAME ACROSS ON CAMERA.
1799
00:51:26,593 --> 00:51:27,327
THEY'RE PUTTING ON A GREAT
1800
00:51:27,327 --> 00:51:29,029
SHOW, PUTTING -- IN THE SEATS.
1801
00:51:29,029 --> 00:51:30,564
THESE GUYS COMPLEMENTED EACH
1802
00:51:30,564 --> 00:51:31,565
OTHER PERFECTLY.
1803
00:51:31,565 --> 00:51:35,035
WE GOT TWO WORDS FOR YOU.
1804
00:51:35,035 --> 00:51:36,837
SUCK IT.
1805
00:51:36,837 --> 00:51:38,338
EVERYBODY IN D-GENERATION X
1806
00:51:38,338 --> 00:51:39,806
FIT.
1807
00:51:39,806 --> 00:51:41,942
I MEAN THEY ALL HAD THEIR ROLE
1808
00:51:41,942 --> 00:51:42,809
AND IT WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, THEY
1809
00:51:42,809 --> 00:51:43,810
ALL KNOW YOUR ROLE.
1810
00:51:43,810 --> 00:51:44,678
WELL, THEY DID AND THEY ALL JUST
1811
00:51:44,678 --> 00:51:45,946
JELL TOGETHER.
1812
00:51:45,946 --> 00:51:46,747
WELL, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, THE
1813
00:51:46,747 --> 00:51:49,549
POPULARITY OF D-GENERATION X IS
1814
00:51:49,549 --> 00:51:51,752
AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH.
1815
00:51:51,752 --> 00:51:52,619
WE HAD A SYNERGY ABOUT US,
1816
00:51:52,619 --> 00:51:53,820
THE SUM...
1817
00:51:53,820 --> 00:51:54,388
[BELL RINGING]
1818
00:51:54,388 --> 00:51:55,088
...WAS GREATER THAN ITS
1819
00:51:55,088 --> 00:51:55,822
PARTS.
1820
00:51:55,822 --> 00:51:57,691
DX.
1821
00:51:57,691 --> 00:51:58,959
THE CAMARADERIE BETWEEN ITS
1822
00:51:58,959 --> 00:52:00,827
MEMBERS NOT ONLY ELEVATED THE
1823
00:52:00,827 --> 00:52:02,362
GROUP AS A WHOLE, BUT BROUGHT
1824
00:52:02,362 --> 00:52:04,698
EACH DX SUPERSTAR CHAMPIONSHIP
1825
00:52:04,698 --> 00:52:08,068
SUCCESS IN THE YEARS TO COME.
1826
00:52:08,068 --> 00:52:11,338
WE CAME, WE SAW, AND WE
1827
00:52:11,338 --> 00:52:12,873
KICKED THEIR -- .
1828
00:52:12,873 --> 00:52:15,242
[CROWD CHEERING]
1829
00:52:15,242 --> 00:52:16,176
ANYTIME YOU'RE DEALING WITH
1830
00:52:16,176 --> 00:52:18,011
THE GROUP AND THE SUCCESS OF THE
1831
00:52:18,011 --> 00:52:20,414
GROUP, IT STARTS TO EXPAND.
1832
00:52:20,414 --> 00:52:21,348
PERSONALITIES HAVE REALLY
1833
00:52:21,348 --> 00:52:23,283
HIGHLIGHTED THAT WAKE.
1834
00:52:23,283 --> 00:52:25,719
D-GENERATION X PROUDLY BRINGS
1835
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:27,554
TO YOU ITS WORLD WRESTLING
1836
00:52:27,554 --> 00:52:30,357
ENTERTAINMENT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS
1837
00:52:30,357 --> 00:52:34,094
OF THE WORLD.
1838
00:52:34,094 --> 00:52:34,895
THEY WERE ALL CHAMPIONS AT
1839
00:52:34,895 --> 00:52:36,496
ONE POINT.
1840
00:52:36,496 --> 00:52:39,099
HUNTER HAD THE HEAVYWEIGHT,
1841
00:52:39,099 --> 00:52:41,368
X-PAC, THE LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT,
1842
00:52:41,368 --> 00:52:42,536
CHYNA HAD THE INTERCONTINENTAL.
1843
00:52:42,536 --> 00:52:44,037
[MUSIC]
1844
00:52:44,037 --> 00:52:45,205
IT WAS A REALLY GOOD MIX.
1845
00:52:45,205 --> 00:52:46,173
IT WAS THE TYPE OF MIX THAT YOU
1846
00:52:46,173 --> 00:52:47,274
COULD MAKE EACH ONE OF THOSE
1847
00:52:47,274 --> 00:52:48,341
GUYS A CHAMPION AND PEOPLE WOULD
1848
00:52:48,341 --> 00:52:50,377
BUY IT.
1849
00:52:50,377 --> 00:52:51,344
FOR THE THOUSANDS IN
1850
00:52:51,344 --> 00:52:53,213
ATTENDANCE, FOR THE MILLIONS
1851
00:52:53,213 --> 00:52:55,816
WATCHING AT HOME AND JUST
1852
00:52:55,816 --> 00:53:00,153
BECAUSE DX IS COVERED IN GOLD,
1853
00:53:00,153 --> 00:53:04,558
LET'S GET READY TO SUCK IT.
1854
00:53:04,558 --> 00:53:08,462
[CROWD CHEERING]
1855
00:53:08,462 --> 00:53:09,563
THROUGHOUT THE MONDAY NIGHT
1856
00:53:09,563 --> 00:53:11,932
WAR, D-GENERATION X REMAINED A
1857
00:53:11,932 --> 00:53:16,103
CATALYST ULTIMATELY HELPING WWE
1858
00:53:16,103 --> 00:53:18,138
DECLARE VICTORY AND USHERING A
1859
00:53:18,138 --> 00:53:22,008
NEW ERA OF SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
1860
00:53:22,008 --> 00:53:22,809
THE YOUNG ADULTS ARE COMING
1861
00:53:22,809 --> 00:53:24,244
TO THEIR OWN, WANT TO BE
1862
00:53:24,244 --> 00:53:25,545
INDEPENDENT AND EXPRESS
1863
00:53:25,545 --> 00:53:27,047
THEMSELVES, SO THE TIMING WAS
1864
00:53:27,047 --> 00:53:27,814
PERFECT.
1865
00:53:27,814 --> 00:53:29,149
AND IT WAS REALLY GOOD TO SEE
1866
00:53:29,149 --> 00:53:31,384
HOW THEY EVOLVE.
1867
00:53:31,384 --> 00:53:33,053
DX WAS A HUGE FACTOR IN
1868
00:53:33,053 --> 00:53:35,655
CHANGING THE TIDE, BECAUSE YOU
1869
00:53:35,655 --> 00:53:36,857
ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE WHAT THEY
1870
00:53:36,857 --> 00:53:37,724
WERE GONNA DO.
1871
00:53:37,724 --> 00:53:38,358
[MUSIC]
1872
00:53:38,358 --> 00:53:40,127
I TRIPLED--THERE YOU, GUYS.
1873
00:53:40,127 --> 00:53:41,027
WHO IS ON THOSE...
1874
00:53:41,027 --> 00:53:42,863
OH, YEAH.
1875
00:53:42,863 --> 00:53:44,164
THESE GUYS ARE COOL AND THEY
1876
00:53:44,164 --> 00:53:45,332
DO WHATEVER THEY WANT WHENEVER
1877
00:53:45,332 --> 00:53:47,667
THEY WANT AND I LOVE IT.
1878
00:53:47,667 --> 00:53:49,402
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, JR, THEY
1879
00:53:49,402 --> 00:53:51,004
GOT MY ATTENTION.
1880
00:53:51,004 --> 00:53:52,339
PEOPLE WERE LOOKING FOR
1881
00:53:52,339 --> 00:53:54,274
SOMETHING THAT THEY COULD LATCH
1882
00:53:54,274 --> 00:53:56,143
ONTO THAT WAS
1883
00:53:56,143 --> 00:53:57,611
ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT.
1884
00:53:57,611 --> 00:53:59,679
IT WAS A TIME FOR THE YOUTH
1885
00:53:59,679 --> 00:54:01,414
OF AMERICA TO BE DEGENERATES.
1886
00:54:01,414 --> 00:54:03,717
THEY'VE DONE IT AGAIN, GOOD
1887
00:54:03,717 --> 00:54:05,285
OLD DX.
1888
00:54:05,285 --> 00:54:06,186
AND IT JUST SO HAPPENED THAT
1889
00:54:06,186 --> 00:54:08,522
WE FIT THE BILL.
1890
00:54:08,522 --> 00:54:09,823
WE JUST LOOKED AT IT AS, "FANS,
1891
00:54:09,823 --> 00:54:11,191
YOU MAKE THE DECISION, YOU CAN
1892
00:54:11,191 --> 00:54:13,593
WATCH THEIR SHOW AND HAVE A
1893
00:54:13,593 --> 00:54:15,061
BUNCH OF HIGH PAID SUPERSTARS
1894
00:54:15,061 --> 00:54:16,463
SHOVED DOWN YOUR THROAT OR YOU
1895
00:54:16,463 --> 00:54:17,664
CAN WATCH US YOUNG BUCKS HAVING
1896
00:54:17,664 --> 00:54:18,899
A BLAST."
1897
00:54:18,899 --> 00:54:22,936
[CROWD CHEERING]
1898
00:54:22,936 --> 00:54:24,204
ENTERTAINMENT IS WHAT THEY
1899
00:54:24,204 --> 00:54:25,305
BROUGHT TO THE FOLD.
1900
00:54:25,305 --> 00:54:26,439
AND THE ENTERTAINMENT THAT HAD
1901
00:54:26,439 --> 00:54:27,908
NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE IN THIS
1902
00:54:27,908 --> 00:54:28,975
BUSINESS AND I DON'T THINK IT'S
1903
00:54:28,975 --> 00:54:30,777
BEEN SEEN SINCE.
1904
00:54:30,777 --> 00:54:31,645
PEOPLE WERE STICKING WITH
1905
00:54:31,645 --> 00:54:32,913
WCW.
1906
00:54:32,913 --> 00:54:34,581
IT TOOK DX, YOU KNOW, REALLY AT
1907
00:54:34,581 --> 00:54:37,384
ITS BEST TO BEAT WCW IN THE
1908
00:54:37,384 --> 00:54:38,451
RATINGS.
1909
00:54:38,451 --> 00:54:40,120
YOU SAW THAT AND YOU REALIZE
1910
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:41,721
WHAT THE FUTURE HELD IN STORE
1911
00:54:41,721 --> 00:54:45,325
FOR WWE.
1912
00:54:45,325 --> 00:54:46,893
WHAT BEGAN AS TWO FRIENDS IN
1913
00:54:46,893 --> 00:54:50,363
SEARCH OF CHANGE, D-GENERATION X
1914
00:54:50,363 --> 00:54:52,232
WOULD CONTINUE TO REFORM AND
1915
00:54:52,232 --> 00:54:55,101
REGROUP ON WWE PROGRAMMING FOR
1916
00:54:55,101 --> 00:54:57,170
OVER A DECADE, FOREVER
1917
00:54:57,170 --> 00:54:58,371
REPRESENTING THE COMPANY'S
1918
00:54:58,371 --> 00:55:01,308
ABILITY TO EVOLVE AND CONTINUING
1919
00:55:01,308 --> 00:55:02,976
TO EMBODY THE SPIRIT AND
1920
00:55:02,976 --> 00:55:04,844
CREATIVITY OF SPORTS
1921
00:55:04,844 --> 00:55:07,714
ENTERTAINMENT'S GREATEST ERA.
1922
00:55:07,714 --> 00:55:08,782
WHEN YOU LOOK AT DX EVEN OVER
1923
00:55:08,782 --> 00:55:10,083
THE YEARS FROM WHAT WE DID THEN
1924
00:55:10,083 --> 00:55:12,319
TO WHAT WE DID LATER, WE WERE
1925
00:55:12,319 --> 00:55:13,486
JUST HAVING FUN.
1926
00:55:13,486 --> 00:55:14,287
THOSE ARE THE KIND OF CHICKS
1927
00:55:14,287 --> 00:55:15,188
HE GETS.
1928
00:55:15,188 --> 00:55:16,156
WE DID WHATEVER WE THOUGHT
1929
00:55:16,156 --> 00:55:17,991
WAS FUNNY OR DUMB.
1930
00:55:17,991 --> 00:55:19,192
BRET COMING UP A LITTLE BIT
1931
00:55:19,192 --> 00:55:20,694
SHORT ON THE OFFENSE.
1932
00:55:20,694 --> 00:55:22,362
AND DIDN'T GIVE A -- .
1933
00:55:22,362 --> 00:55:23,430
AND I THINK FANS COULD SEE HOW
1934
00:55:23,430 --> 00:55:24,898
MUCH FUN WE WERE HAVING.
1935
00:55:24,898 --> 00:55:25,799
AND WHETHER YOU LIKED US OR
1936
00:55:25,799 --> 00:55:26,800
HATED US, WHEN WE CAME OUT, IT
1937
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:28,134
GOT EXCITING ON THE SHOW.
1938
00:55:28,134 --> 00:55:29,135
NOW, THE BAND IS BACK
1939
00:55:29,135 --> 00:55:30,370
TOGETHER AGAIN.
1940
00:55:30,370 --> 00:55:31,538
IT LOOKS LIKE THEY COULD START
1941
00:55:31,538 --> 00:55:33,373
ANOTHER ATTITUDE ERA TOMORROW.
1942
00:55:33,373 --> 00:55:34,841
IT WAS JUST OUTRAGEOUS, YOU
1943
00:55:34,841 --> 00:55:37,110
KNOW, BUT I THINK THOSE ARE
1944
00:55:37,110 --> 00:55:38,311
MOMENTS THAT CHANGED THE
1945
00:55:38,311 --> 00:55:39,212
BUSINESS.
1946
00:55:39,212 --> 00:55:45,085
[CROWD CHEERING]
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