Phantasio.vs.Tony Devito

[realDeathcrash]

damn this is an awesome gimmick =O i love it... too sad that wwf didnt gave him a real chance, He did a better job in his match that tony devito xD

[mustangman6t9]

how can you not like this!

[KingFrankieD]

original sting custom lol

[KingFrankieD]

this guy is 1000000 better than john cena

[theresidentone]

I don't understand how this guy didn't make it.... ???

[alexangel3030]

Phantasio >> Brodus Clay and other comic crap of today

[Alleygreen2012]

Did something happen to Monsoon? Healthwise or whatever? His voice sounds dramatically different, more high pitched or something.

[draconian45]

Disgusting. Those streamers were in that dudes mouth and he hands it to that kid. I would have said "take that shit back".

[Fel98ix]

Today, He would build a tag team with Santino!

[MaskedLunatic]

I like it when Phantasio takes something out of his mouth then hands it over to a fan.

[FalconPunchO9000]

After this match he perfected his disappearing act.

[Beatnick79]

@FalconPunchO9000 LMFAO!

[Beatnick79]

@FalconPunchO9000 replace perfected with performed funnier yet

[MrThetjf]

Shame he had only 1 match

[ROMANTIKILLER2]

shame this guy is pretty old now, in current PG WwE he could have become a massive star.

[dreamslayer]

@ROMANTIKILLER2 He's younger than R-Truth/Rock/Regal/HHH/Jericho­/Tons of other big names in WWE (granted, Regal isn't a huge name anymore but still). He could easily come back in todays product and have a good 3-5 year long run.

[TheSWFuniverse]

You're here because of Are You Serious Bro on WWEFanNation

[brenton2929]

He would be Perfect for the PG Era. The kids would LOVE HIM!!! Smh

[TheSWFuniverse]

Phantasio 1-0!! Still undefeated to this day!

[DaveMcAllister]

@TheSWFuniverse Technically 2-0. He also beat Louie Spicolli (as Rad Radford) at a house show

[TheSWFuniverse]

@DaveMcAllister and truth be told.. Phantasio would've ended the Undertaker's WrestleMania streak

[KillWullie]

Phantasio > Cena

[Cartierbenjamin313]

Is this the same del rios that was in tna?

[DaveMcAllister]

@Cartierbenjamin313 Yes, on their first broadcast.

[cimalelu4ever]

UNA MIERDA!!

[PG19011975]

Too bad it was onla a one shot. I liked the gimmick. It was a lot better than some of the other ideas WWF came up with, like T.L. Hopper, the Evil Plumber; The Goon; Duke 'the Dumpster' Droese; Dean Douglas; Dr. Isaac Yankem; The Godwins, and all the other sh*t.

[largest85]

this guy was swell better than anyone in the roster today.

[powerplayers1]

Phantasio = Ron Simmons

[cimalelu4ever]

@powerplayers1 NOP IS Harry Del Rios

[chorse70]

He's better known as Spellbinder USWA and he was a good wrestler. I've always liked him.

[xWillBeEndx]

Hey, I do like this guy! Honestly, I think than keeping this guy as the "good clown" would have been much better than wasting an awesome gimmick as the evil doink by turning him into a babyface idiot. Think about a match between phantasio and the evil doink... would have been awesome.

[aaronchristianneff]

Gone both ways? Are you telling us something Gorilla?

[aaronchristianneff]

That mask has to be worth some coin you would think!

[eveihl]

I WANT THAT MASK!!!

[TheShockninja]

@eveihl whoever has that mask has a piece of history!

[smilerboyboy]

Can't see why this guy didn't make it when some fucking stupid gimmicks were given the all clear.

[SuperJuliusC]

@smilerboyboy Probably because he wasn`t able to blow Pat Patterson through this mask...

[SpaceMountainWOOOOOO]

@SuperJuliusC lol yep pat patterson only pushes people as far up the roster as they can take his dick in their down their throat

[MALANGA1]

I think the reason this guy wasn't around longer was because the outlandish gimmicks were usually given to the heels during this era and the suits therefore reconsidered. Be that as it may, I think this guy could have been big time over.

[kjackson2k1]

@ 0:09 lil girl's like, "dad, what the fuck did you bring me to?" Lol

[kjackson2k1]

Oh, my gosh...he's like Jesus, but can rassell. Not only is he a master illusionist, but also, his lust for underpants is insatiable Lol

[MissDeeCole]

time number 12892317892198129382198 where jim ross thought how the fuck am i supposed to sell this shit while working for McMahon

[tcapri]

"Here, kid. Have some crap that just came outta my mouth. Here's a mask too."

[Ryaan1205]

kind of a early goldust

[newagepun]

failed gimmick due to wrong presentation. A magician wrestler could fly in the WWE nowadays I guess if he was a high flyer and did shit like Chriss Angel or street magic. Plus they'd need to build him up so they don't exhaust the fact he's a magician. And don't make him a mime.

[MinorSexualAssault]

weird only lasted one match, a lot worse gimmicks have lasted a lot longer.

[MinorSexualAssault]

so he basically just covered that kid in his saliva

[HellishWolf]

1:12

Here kid, I just pulled this out of my mouth. Enjoy being covered in it. 

[SinCity2100]

Phantasio for Hall of Fame

[phREaker419]

I always wondered what happened to this guy, thanks for the memories!

[21richkid]

Sting in TNA is a reminiscent of this Phantasio gimmick with his jokes and laughs.

[21richkid]

Phantasio is one of the worst gimmicks, but he could be brought back to the WWE and put over the likes of Sheamus, Drew McEntyre, Sin Cara, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger, Alberto Del Rio, Wade Barrett, Cody Rhodes, Kofi Kingston, or The Miz.

[marzykjones]

This dude performed under the name "Spellbinder" in the Memphis territory before and after his WWE shot... He was the sameguy except for without the magic tricks and he wasn't whimsical... he was just this big mysterious dude with all white face paint, who could very well destroy you... he also got over really well in that Memphis territory, which was not exactly easy in those days... you can probably find a Spellbinder match if you look for it...

[squeezetoy1984]

Phantasio vs Papa Shango would have been an interesting match.

[LamentedxSoul]

It sucks this guy only had one match :| He was an amusing wrestler.

[HellishWolf]

I love how they are trying so hard to sell this. 

[ruiner0907]

'lets see if he can wrestle'....guarantee you will never hear that on a WWE broadcast again

[MrNiceDude89]

this would work nowadays wwe era, 

[SuperNuela]

hahaha this is kinda gay, white paint, leather tank top, muscular guy, magic...GAY

[sadetwizelve]

I don't get it,wwf was full of cartoon then,he woulda gotten over easily and he could work? Must've been politics,hbk telling vince to release him because he's scared his heat would be stolen.

[warated]

OMD Phantasio is a Legend!

[flinstonesrule5]

I'm surprised he didn't make it far. This match wasn't even bad... The crowd seemed into it?

[IndyTinTin85]

This was hilarious. He should be brought back!

[DemiGod410]

the mid 90s SMH, alot of this stuff I mentally blocked out lol

[PogoDogg]

What a career... Hall of famer!! =P

[McLovin6n9]

I bet if this guy started in this era he would've had a good run. Well cause it's the PG era and soon it will be the G era....Oh GOD let's hope not. I wonder how wrestling would be if it was even TV-MA!

[00ghostcobra]

@McLovin6n9 It would be like the old ECW... They basically had no restrictions.

[Slave2thedrago]

hey, I like this guy. I think he had some potential tbqh

[peterp21]

I would have been angry if I was the father of that kid who got Phantasio's mask. The paper he pulled out of his mouth was covered in saliva and germs and stuff, and Phantasio put the thing right on the kid's face.

[peterp21]

Always fun to see these obscure gimmicks from yesteryear. This is a pretty cool gimmick and he was a good worker. Like someone else posted, how could this have been worse than the wrestling garbageman or the wrestling plumber. Granted, this is a pure gimmick during a WWF era where characters were tightly (and boringly) written, so I don't know if we'd have seen Phantasio moving high up the card or anything.

[newagepun]

@peterp21 or an angry monk, or a guy who cosplays as a wooly bull, or a guy who looks like a fat slob named after a piece of snot matter in your nostril, or a guy dressed up in BD/SM gear, or a dude who wears a bandana with eyeholes and claims to 'repossess' items, or a nightmare dentist, or a dude who crashes through walls wears a cape and a painted storm trooper helmet, or a guy who is infatuated with the vampire the masquerade, or a fat puerto rican ninja and many more.

[Harlement]

thaaaaat was weird

[KangaroosLoveJesus]

This just proves that wizards have no place in decent society.

[4Horseman100]

I thought this gimmick had legs. It was better than a plumber or a bin man or whatever rubbish was around at the time

[JBull4]

He can wrestle, he can entertain. Man this guy is good.

[Narcopendragon]

It sucks that he did not make it. I would pay money to watch this guy. He is funny as hell. Just imagine if he took on the rock and stole his underwear. It would be classic.

[jovanbkt]

how did this guy not get brought back by vince russo to face the undertaker?

[theELVISdoctors]

A Puerto Rican magician who can Belly to Back suplex....he's a keeper

[CrotchBlaster]

That's Sting WOOOO!!!

[EpiquestGame]

Papa Shongo, the Boogie Man. What's with the WWE and black magic?

[KickboxingKangeroo]

he wouldve made a wonderfully entertaining jobber at least

[JHJARAUB]

I actually thought that was pretty funny.

[SATAN1KO]

This guy is awesme

[PerryTheEntertainer]

why did wwe fire this guy?

[bobkool]

I had seen the intro before. Now Ive seen the finish. *facepalms*

[UvayBowl]

0:25 is the most mind-blowing part.

[Cinj216]

What the hell? That guy was pretty damn entertaining, I don't see why they didn't keep him. He would made a fantastic early-show jobber at least.

[SomethingQuiteDevine]

Shame it was he's only night in the WF, man he would've made one heck of a wrestler.

[warner022474]

Speelbinder at his best...

[antikreist]

Looks like ron simmons lol DAMN!

[rockinwiththerhinos]

looks like sting

[MaeganG1803]

I think this Phantasio guy is genius. I like the gimmick. It might be kind of cheesy to some people, but I think his tactics of using magic tricks in matches is entertaining.

Whatever happened to him?

[Uratnik]

@MaeganG1803 he was never seen again. ever.

[gumdo666]

BIG COCK!

[YungArsine]

LMAO@ GORILLA "NOW LETS FIND OUT IF HE CAN WRESTLE"

[MegaThriller2009]

the only part of this match i didn't like was the end

[Argee11]

wow, he actually pulled all of that crap from his mouth and then decided to casually lay it down on some kid!

[Mr20024]

1:15 bad touch

[creerulz]

lmao wtf i hav never seen this guy before

[AMQ82]

Phantasio > Rey Mysterio

[Mbk606]

Why do I have the feeling that this gimmick woulda been a smash hit if he had debuted in the early '80's?

[ajax420336]

Phantasio should have been arrested for sexual assault. If only WWF had done background checks on their employees back then.

[zZHighTimeZz]

lol the nutcracker suit

[HAHAYERFACEBROKE]

like getting  frightening mask attatched to 9 feet of silver tape coated in spit is a real fucking prize. kid probably wanted bret harts glasses, but no, phantasio had to claim him as his own. poor little bastard probably got eye herpes and shit. fuck you, phantasio.

[KevDoFresh]

This gimmick is kinda cool but he needed some mysterious music

[Neanderthal78]

I kinda liked this gimmick.

[justiceify]

they shoulda kept em

[barbarash]

Am I the only one who thinks this gimmick is kinda cool with the potential of being quite dark and evil? Yep I think I'm on my own! xD

[elc1960]

Wrestlecrap called his finisher "The Atomic Wedgie"!

[elc1960]

0:56 - "Where's that coming from?" I don't know, JR - out of his mouth? Ya think? And notice how that little kid was too frightened to tell Phantasio he didn't want all those saliva-coated streamers; scared shitless, the poor little tyke. One of the worst gimmicks WWWF/WWF/WWE ever had.

[xhemexx]

I never heard of this guy, but he seems pretty cool. This was his only match in the WWF/WWE.

[zuneloader]

I have absolutely NO recollection of this. And I've been watching wrestling for all 26 years I've been living.

[avikbanerjee007]

He's better than John Cena word trash!!! ROFL

[NeroShrinker]

I understand he also wrestled under the name "Spellbinder".

Vince McMahon didn't come up with his gimmick- Harry del Rio owns the "Phantasio" gimmick. He wouldn't sell it, so Vinnie Mac kicked him out.

Del Rio is a trained illusionist; I think his gimmick is classic!

The most unique tag team that could be used today would be Phantasio & Eugene.

[TZehr2]

Holy crap his finisher was tearing a dudes boxers off and rolling him up?

[elc1960]

@TZehr2 Yep - that finisher was called "the Atomic Depantser"!

[thegamez83]

@ 1:59 some guy yelled Where did that web come from?

[ModelJames13]

Anyone know why he only had one match?

[thegamez83]

Phantasio debut on July 16,1995 right on my birthday I was 12 years old.

[King2123]

"wait a minute here...did I see what I thought I saw?!" "Smoke came right outta his hat there." HAHA wtf marijuana? 

[wrestlingluva]

The kid who got that mask from Phantasio should sell it, it is ONE OF A KIND.

[elc1960]

@wrestlingluva Yeah, except the foil streamers are all covered with saliva (yuccchh)! Like the mask, the match was one of a kind - Phantasio only wrestled one match in WWF, and this was it.

[m2diggs]

Dream match!

Phantasio vs. Braden Walker

[EmperorFour]

omg guys did you see how that wand turned into a walking stick lol

[MephProduction]

@goodlookin41  they did, this however is pretty cool

[wwfClassicRewinds]

Phantasio and the evil Doink (Matt Bourne) would've made a GREAT feud.

[metalbornmetalbred]

looks like wcw ripped off phantasio's ring gear (sting)

[King2123]

@metalbornmetalbred this was before Sting made the change...

[metalbornmetalbred]

@King2123 I know, that was my point.

[jmpowers83]

why did this guy never come back?

[MistaNomak]

@jmpowers83 came back in tna his name Del rio(Harry)but was not used by TNA after the initial broadcast..:)

[Aznar245]

Sting stole his look from this guy.. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT! Then again nothing WCW ever did was original

[mrmagoolash]

@Aznar245 Sting didn't to pretend to be a illusionist/magician did he.

A man with white face paint hardly is the same,Sting copied The Crow movie on recommendation from Scott Hall,unless your joking thats pretty stupid.

[UnoriginalName]

"Oh! He turned that candle into a walking stick!"

The way he delivered that line makes me lol instantly. R.I.P. Gorilla Monsoon.

[nastynoah]

Phantasio is back wrestling for the HNiD.

[shawdawg28]

Hey, that one kid got a collectors item....

The only Phantasio mask to be given away on TV. LOL

[Mikels023]

@shawdawg28

Hope for him he don't throw it in the trash

[GamingPalooza]

this guy looks like Sting or Vampiro almost lol he is pretty cool

[khmerwarfreak]

he would own cena if he came back. make him disappear

[GamingPalooza]

@khmerwarfreak

that would be great lol

[Drinkman7]

Vince McMahon is a jerk Phantasio is far more exciting than wrestlers like John Cena lol

[RubberClits]

He'd be better suited as a heel.

[garymaster42]

These kinds of gimmicks can get over if they do them right and the worker is talented enough. Just look at Goldust.

[olbaid99]

Dont see why they canned him, Seems to know what he is doing.

[landrykkb]

Vince would have never been able to convince us that he was going to copete head-to-head with WCW with characters or gimmicks such as Phantasio!

[toemasie]

That ref's a magician too!  He did and Elmsley 2 for 3 count.

[tbb033]

He went back to the USWA and joined their branch of the Nation of Domination

[GlitchMasta]

This isn't his last match. He had 1 or 2 house shows after this

[PRETTYBOYDHON]

@smudgeVIW ur right men.. very unique similar to undertaker`s unique persona.. do u know why this guy kick out in the wwf? cause i really dont know men!!

[cenazap02]

acctually he just dissaperd whtout a tracr u no like mgic

[hazza3]

What a cool Gimmick! And a Good wrestler. He should do well in modern WWE.

Imagine him as WWE Champ.

[mikelwithachance]

y did he have only 1 match?

[Arcavian]

WOW

[youngmurk26]

wow did u see that ( jr voice)

[NeptuneNetwork]

Tony Devito should have gotten Angel and Grimes to come interfere for him.

[newjack187]

Tony DeVito one of the most underrated talents in wrestling

[junglebreeze]

I mustve switched to WCW when this guy started wrestling. I dont remember him.

[JeremyPJackson7]

This guy is BADASS!!!

WHY THE FUCK DID WWE DID NOT PUT HIM IN THE SHOW!!

RATINGS WOULD BE BIG WITH THIS GUY

[coventry87]

removing peoples underwear? i wonder if phantasio got fired cause he refused to remove pattersons

[whiteboy1815]

@coventry87 Probably got fired for choking the ring announcer with them. /snark

[coventry87]

the fat kid didnt even get out of his seat, so phantasio just shoves the mask in his face, btw now i know where sting got the look for his gimmick

[bigbassluna]

who is this really / any one know?

[dennisbergkamp17]

Man this gimmick would be great for today's WWE since most of it's audience is young children.

[UnoriginalName]

Yeah, but look at the audience in this video, 97 percent of the audience have to be eight year olds. He couldn't get over then, he certainly wouldn't now. Unless he went heel, then he'd be creepy. The late nineties WWF had some weird gimmicks back then, there was this, TL Hopper, Issac Yankem, Xanta Claus, Rad Radford, Duke the Dumpster Droese, Mantaur Tekno Team 2000, along with a couple other names I'm probably forgetting. Waylon Mercy was fucking badass though.

[elc1960]

@UnoriginalName Don't forget Steve Lombardi as Abe (Knuckleball) Schwartz in 1994. Xanta Klaus was really Balls Mahoney, Isaac Yankem was Kane, and Waylon Mercy was Danny Spivey (for those who didn't know). This match was a couple of years before the "Attitude" era, when WWF was all about appealing to little kids and Vince was trying to keep his own ass out of prison. No wonder WCW was able to steamroll over them so easily.

[elc1960]

@UnoriginalName And I almost forgot the immortal Mike Shaw (RIP) as Bastion Booger during that same era.

[Amurpo]

nah hes better than i expected XD

[Amurpo]

Sting s lame brother?

[rcr1025]

1:14 eww that was in his mouth

[swiftonik]

I remember this match. haha