So people like to yell at me about this all the time and more power to you, but no, I don't think the Adjutor was the worst time in professional wrestling. Look how popular it is. I mean, WW2K26 just announced, oh, we're going to have a cover, but the focus is on this time period, because people still do love it. But that doesn't mean certain segments were totally bizarre and didn't make you go, what the flub are we doing? I mean, that happens today as well. So rather than just yell at you on the internet, I have arrived with evidence. In a lot of this you wouldn't explain to your mother, right? You wouldn't go, oh, hi, mommy, listen to what happened to my wrestling program last night, because especially if you were of a certain age, your parents would have told you you're not allowed to watch that anymore. So let's not pretend that a lot of the Agedgerjudge era wasn't brilliant and let's not pretend a lot of it wasn't absolutely bizarre, which is what we're going to focus on today because it's just more interesting. I am Simon Miller. I know I'm annoying. Let's go. Now, we have talked about this before and look, fair play to Dennis Knight. He was straddled with this gimmick and he could have whined andaned and complained, but he went, all right, if you want me to run out during people's matches and streak, which, by the way, new wrestling fans, is exactly what he did do. Well, I am going to be as good a naked Midian as I possibly can. There's a sentence that nobody has ever said. Believe you and me, there are a lot of characters from this time period that everybody has forgotten,

so at least he remains in your brain, mostly because you have to get into the law of this. Because let's not forget, Dennis Knight became Midian after he was indoctrinated into the Ministry of Darkness. Like we even had that weird segment when the undertaker cut him open, whatever the flub he did. and then as soon as that group was done, he became a guy that ran around with no clothes on.

I mean, I'll give you a few seconds to think about it. Come up with another character that had such a 180, I don't think you're going to be able to do it. I mean, this was essentially like unlocking something in a video game. Like you completed and it goes, woohoo, you've unlocked a naked version, you'd be like, I'm not sure I want to play that.

And listen, it was just one big joke. I'm sure Vincent Mann found it very funny. As always, do you know who sold this the best after Naked Midian had interrupted one of their matches, William Regal? If you are a wrestler who is about to get started, just watch every single thing that William Regal does. That man just gets it. And if you need a modern day comparison, I guess it would be like J.C. Mateo, all of Sunda signing.

You know what? I really want to get naked right now. And then running in and interrupting a Damian Priest match, Damien Priest would probably look at him and go, man, I used to be the world champion. And now I got to deal with this. So it is kind of funny, in a weird way. It's also totally nuts. Number nine, the Vince McMahon Kiss My Ass Club.

So we would just keep it focused on the storyline here because I fear if we do go off peace, it's going to make us feel sad in our tum-tums. So we are keeping this one-dimensional. But yeah, it is really flubbed up for the boss of the company, both in real life and in the story to say, if you cross me or do something that I determined to be bad, you have to pucker up and kiss my ass. I mean, what? I'm sure one of the reasons he did do this was to try and increase ratings, but if the kind of people that are tuning in are into this kind of stuff, I want to be that guy, but I don't think that the kind of individuals you want to attract.

Once again, we go to William Regal who had to do this, and again, he just totally understood how to sell this. And also, what a connection? Because we're talking about a butt-naked guy, and now we're talking about a literal butt. So even when William Regal was presented with ass, he knew what to do. Look into my eyes, I desperately regret saying that.

Oh yes, some of these got way out of line as we have talked about before, but at least Vincent Mann got some comeuppance here, because one day the rock grabbed Vince McMahon's face and he stuck it into Rikishi's ass. Now, listen, the good part of this is it teaches you a valuable lesson that bully shouldn't be tolerated, and they will get their downfall at the same time. This is my entertainment hours we're talking about. And no, I never wanted to see Vince McMahon's nose be stuck into Rikishi's ass. Now to his credit, Vince McMahon did sell that like death, but also let's remove that credit because this should not be something we are able to talk about. And I will present you with my favorite exercise to do today. Go and find someone you really care about who doesn't watch wrestling and I dare you to explain this to them. I tell you what will happen if you act like you enjoyed it even 1%. They will look at you and say, hello Tim, I never want to talk to you again. Now Tim, you're one lonely guy. Number eight, May Young. Now, don't get me wrong, May Young was a badass.

When she was running wide in the adjudy,

where she was like 80 plus years old,

and she was still being thrown through tables by Bubba Ray Dudley, and if you did have a spot with her and you didn't hit her hard enough, you get backstage, and May Young would be like, what are you doing? Don't treat me like a child. You're going to hit me. Hit me.

Now that doesn't mean that WW didn't put her in some weird-ass stories.

And of course, the first one that will come to mind is when she gave birth to her hand. But we do not talk about the preamble enough because the reason she was pregnant in the first place is because she was having a relationship with Mark Henry, and often during episodes of Raw, we cut to them after they just had sex. Now we have to bring in the fact that she was most definitely an elderly lady, so how the flub was she getting pregnant to begin with? It's just absolutely hilarious because, of course, people today will say, well, in the past, wrestling was far more realistic. I don't know what you were watching. And let's also not forget that sometimes May Young was booked to appear on pay-per-view and try and get naked, which is the third time we've kind of talked about nakedness. Vince McMahon's ass, naked minion, and now this. You see, the iTunes era had problems. And listen, if you're into old people exposing themselves, I'm not going to judge you, it's perfectly legal, and you can be into whatever the flub you want to be into. But once again, when I go, woo-hoo, let's watch some wrestling television. Not something I necessarily want to see. Number seven, Terry Reynolds, fake pregnancy. So there's so much wrong with this one, and as I always talk about when I do bring it up. One of the reasons you don't want to do this in pro wrestling is because a large part of the human race that does tune in is watching for a distraction. So if all of a sudden you take a very real life problem and you reflect it back out at them and they've just been through that in their own reality, that's not fun for anyone. I started after Terry Reynolds had left Goldust to start hanging about with Valvenus instead, and this obviously was very overtly sexual, when Terry told Valvinus, oh my gosh, you're not going to believe I am pregnant. And because Valvinus was just a massive asshole, I suppose, he was like, ha ha, well, you may be pregnant, but we're not pregnant. And he basically decided he was going to have nothing to do with that child. Excellent. Now, Val did say there was no way he could be the dad because he had a vasectomy when Terry Reynolds tried to go back to Gold Dust when during an episode of Roar, she was accidentally knocked to the floor by Dulo Brown and we acted like she had a miscarriage. And I have to face palm and close my eyes because I can't believe I have to tell this story. Now, of course, the twist was Terry was never pregnant to begin with and she was just doing this as a ruse to try and manipulate some men on the roster. That just goes to show how WW was booking the female talent back in the late 90s and yes, it is totally shallow, totally stupid and if you want to be insulted by this, I would not blame you at all, it's rubbish, it sucked, and it's why sometimes when you do go through Vince Russo booking, you're allowed to go, well, that's a pile of shit. Number six, the big show's funeral.

So basically during this time period, there were some things if you wrote them down on a piece of paper would sound absolutely abhorrent, but then you watch them, and because the people involved just decided, you know what we're going to do our best, well, they actually became quite funny. Now, a lot of this has to go to the big boss man who just decided to play this

character as an over-the-top loon, but yes, during the big show's dad's funeral, which for some reason it did air on raw. And by the way, his real-life father had passed away, so this is totally dark. The boss man decided he was going to crash it and he tried to steal the casket. I'm not kidding. And if you've never seen this, you'll be like Simon, why are you giggling at this?

You have to go and watch it with your own eyes. It is just so absurd. That's because the big boss man has decided to play it like he's a looney tool. He also had a comedy large megaphone attached to the top of his vehicle, and he was just chatting the most ridiculous things. and yes, the big show then drops onto the casket to try and save it, for the whole thing just turns into a mess as the big boss man zooms off, laughing his ass off. Like, you honestly would see this in something like Family Guy. I genuinely still can't believe that WWE did it. I wouldn't say that you have to watch this. It's not really going to increase your fandom. But if you are intrigued, you will be surprised in the sense it does make you giggle. I don't know. I guess they just thought we can't play this seriously because it is so utterly insane. So I'm going to give a salute to the big boss man and the big show. Because once again, if we sit down to watch wrestling, we just want to have a good time, somehow, and I'll never understand it, they made it click. Number five, Mark Henry has a sex addiction. Now, one of the reasons we don't get into the Mark Henry character during this time is because the payoff was him getting with May Young, who then gave birth to a hand. But do you know where all this started with Mark Henry admitting on television to his partner, Delo Brown, I've got some bad news, I'm a sex pest. Well, he said sex addiction, which Benny had to go sit down with a bunch of counsellors. And I think the joke here is that every week the person he was telling these stories to was even more appropriate. Like at one point it was an elderly gentleman, or maybe it was an elderly lady. The point was it's not somebody you want to tell these tells to. And Mark Henry even admitted that he'd lost his

virginity when he was a child to his sister. So that's insinuous, which means in Canyon, Mark

Henry is an incestuous person. What? I'm going to have to read the payoff because it gets so

damn confusing and I've tried this three times and I get it wrong.

But essentially, Mark Henry turned to the godfather to help when Mark turned on him, because that would mean that Visser could become a pimp instead, and Visser had told Mark Henry he could now have free access to these women on the night, meaning Mark had learned absolutely no lessons. And once again, just to tie this round, guess what, put a stop to all this canoodling, his relationship with May Young? Good grief. Number four, Hawk jumps from the Titan Trun. Now it's a good thing these days that wrestlers mostly play video games backstage, because we've all heard the stories from yesteryear, when there was an alcohol culture or a drug culture that was ruining people's lives.

Wrestling is meant to be fun, man. You don't want people dying before they're 45. Mike Heggstrom was one of these people, also known as Hawke from the Road Warriors. And even though he was dealing with this stuff in his very real life, for some reason, WW decided to make it part of the storyline, especially when we did have the brand new version of LOD, when Animal was teasing with Droz, and Hawke couldn't handle this because he felt like he was on the outs. The writing team then, for some bizarre reason, pushed their hands together because, yes, Hawke was in such a distraught state. He climbed to the top of the Titan Tron when Droz, who was the brand new member of LOD, climbed up there as well. It looked like he was trying to help him when you saw a silhouette fall from there. Raw ended on a cliffhanger that maybe Hawke had died and maybe dun dun dun dun. Droz had pushed him. Let's just rewind to what we said earlier. That's not entertaining, man. I mean, at best it's a bad soap opera. At worst, it's just a little bit dumb. It got worse because it was then insinuated that Droz had actually been given the booze and the alcohol too hawk in order to get him to do this, or he wanted him to die so he could be in a tag team. I mean, how are you meant to get behind that? And listen, it didn't help the real life Mike Hedstrom at all, because if people are going through stuff you should give them them some time, you should give them the space because they need assistance, man, not to have their actual problems dragged through the mud on TV. So this had Vince Russo written all over it again because he loved this work, shoot stuff or taking reality and tying it into storyline. And that's why in some corners he does have a bad representation today. I don't think this was respectful at all.

In fact, I think it was pretty damn bad. Number three, beaver cleavage. So let's just keep up this energy because listen, if you rep for a company today, be it new Japan, WW or AWRW, and you want to defend them to the hilt, I think it's a bit weird, but you do whatever does make you happy. But if you hear this about beaver cleavage and you still want to do it you my friend have problems

...