Birth of DX

[SuperOutsider92]

The Clique was the true birth of DX and The Outsiders

[HalloweenSnowglobe]

Jesus...they weren't even just hinting...just straight out promoting their pay-per-view...and with HBK on screen?!

[hovik96ers]

Best Part is when you hearing Undertaker's gongs at the end.

[DMERRITT7]

4:56 = table fail

[ecrtr3004]

I was there for this one.. good times.

[jokerjoe110]

this was my favorite Shawn Michaels entrance! nothing like the pyro going off behind the trademark side lunge and flex

[MZITinfo]

mankind will be returning at wrestlemania 28 so vince can break the little record of masked wrestlers

[MrMikehunt87]

@MZITinfo

I didnt hear nothing about mankind returning, but i heard about the mask thing at WM28

[thehigh2can]

he almost spoiled it :54

[21richkid]

If they reform DX as heels it would be: Shawn Michaels (Leader), Triple H (Co-Leader), Kevin Nash, Wade Barrett, and Heath Slater. Barrett and Slater would like to have 3 greats to take them to the top. Nash took Samoa Joe under his wing, Triple H took Batista and Randy Orton into greater heights, HBK not sure about him.

[MistahBatchar]

@21richkid HBK took HHH to the top

[QuackMamba34]

Was Shawn Michaels a heel here?

[diptendukbiswas]

hk hhhhh  hbk hhhhh

[werter1999]

even without all the DX stuff, this was one hell of a match

[TelleyECW]

@kob2fly TRU! NO QUESTION!

[smdownh9]

i miss vince as a commentator he was the best one ever

[athf11]

@smdownh9 and heel jerry lawler

[kob2fly]

The kliq is The most power stable in wrestling. DX and Nwo

[86thatlady]

this wen it at least looked real lol

[2truryda3]

this was when wrestling was entertaining 

[xAlan714x]

and let the attitude era begin :)

[burchnall1]

those were the days

[MrPimpdaddy156]

shawn micheals wasnt the only person with thriple h cause there was also chyna and Road dog

[KeNt949477]

I miss WWF.. thumbs up if u do

[harshnovember]

Stupid person in 9:45 Suck U

[HITSONERR]

@harshnovember how is that a stupid person

[MrEJR26]

Remember when the tables only broke of jumps on it from the top rope? Remember Hulk Hogan VS. Andre the Giant at WM 3? I dont cuz I'm 13 lol. But I've ordered some of the old match's and this is wrestling.

[jawad9289]

This isnt the birth of DX. Uploader is a DUMBASS!!!!

:D

[bohammed08]

what the hell dont say BIRTH OF DX IF IT AINT TRUE

[jokerisscary]

if you notice every wrestler that has wrestled with mankind, dude love, or micky foley has become a legend. this is because micky foley real put his body on the line.

[rankalot]

Dude that superkick was EPIC!

[ehbischat69]

Great match

[Aleksofly]

This was a pretty good match actually

[1Webbman9]

1:59 OUCH!!!

[Mrlmnwest]

soooo much better than wwe!!!!

[frosty14wwe]

I didn't know they were allowed to promote other promotions back then.

[1MoreRoundbrother]

I want to see the video where the real birth began. I remember HBK confronting HHH and telling him they need to join together and be the initial outlaws of the wwf.

[TheodoreMcFail]

@1MoreRoundbrother Is the video you're talking about take place before or after the date of this match?

[terran0860]

@TOMGPII can't expect a product from the 90's to still thrive today...

[RyanteraForsch]

i knew about wwe promoting ecw back then but when you watch a vid like this that i havent seen before you dont realise how much they promoted ecw they would never do that again, vince is alot smarter/eviler now

[startingQB]

@RyanteraForsch if you watch the rise and fall of ecw vince says it himself. he like the company and saw it as a worth opponent. and he even admits to stealing some of there wrestlers, i guess so he figured if he kept it alive he could steal more in the future

[andycf87]

@RyanteraForsch .....Vince mentioning ECW was just basically reparations for taking their best talent and making their product very similar to ECW's

[TherealRNO]

@andycf87: Plus, Vince FUNDED ECW, too. Heyman was too poor to support the struggling bingo hall promotion by himself. It explains WHY we actually had an 80s invasion of the WWF by the original ECW.

[andycf87]

@TherealRNO ... dude ECW didn't exist in the 80's, the ECW invasion was in 97 ish... it was to promote their first ppv and the episode was awesome

[TherealRNO]

@andycf87: At any rate, it explains why things were as they were, with WWF & ECW seemingly allying to remove WCW as competition, then both WCW & ECW wind being bought out by the renamed WWE in 2001-2022.

[andycf87]

@TherealRNO ... what you have to understand is that it was an uphill battle for the WWF for most of the 1990's and they really weren't the top dog until 2000. If ECW had gotten a decent TV deal in 1996 the entire scene would have been different, that is the real shame. Look back at WWF in 1997-1998 compared to ECW or WCW.... it was a crap product next to both in terms of in ring talent but yet WWF was the most successful bc they had the best businessman at the helm, Vince

[TherealRNO]

@andycf87: Actually, the moment SCSA started fueding with McMahon, DX began acting raunchier than its nWo counterpart, & Foley became WWE champ (thank you Tony for spoiling it on Nitro), WWF started its climb to success.

[andycf87]

@TherealRNO ... hang on though, DX in its beginning was really more of just a jumping off point, it wasn't exactly thought of as the nWo of WWF until the DX Army was in full effect (mostly when Syxx jumped from nWo to DX)

[TherealRNO]

@andycf87: Yeah, but most insiders--or fans present at MSG during the Curtain Call incident--knew that the Kliq ran things, whether they be called nWo or DX. The infamous Montreal Screwjob from HBK to Hart was proof of that in the WWF (for recently, Vince tried it again with Cena vs Punk, except in reverse), as was the Curtain Call itself all the way to Nash & Hall basically seizing control of WCW through Bischoff.

[andycf87]

@TherealRNO ... nah man the Screwjob was simply vince reacting to brett being a whiny bitch and not wanting to lose his title in Canada... Hulk Hogan had all the real stroke in WCW, Hall and Nash were just secondary offenders

[TherealRNO]

@andycf87: Hogan's move to WCW was just one of the catalysts to other stars--like Bret and Nash & Hall--later doing the same. I mean, Nash & Hall started the nWo movement as simply the Outsiders before Hogan made his turn, because when he first appeared in WCW, Hogan kept his Hulkamania gimmick (complete with Real American knock-off song, American Made) until he opted for a change, siding with Nash & Hall to form the nWo's original incarnation.

[GaDawgs15818]

@andycf87 1997 was when WWF was back to being competitive. 1992-95 was when WCW and ECW's product was better than the WWF.

[andycf87]

@GaDawgs15818 ... WWF was just begining to become competitive in 1997, but nWo was just starting then and ECW was just starting to get some traction following Barely Legal (the greatest ppv ever)... i would say WWF was damn near bottom of the barrel in terms of product until at least 1998 when HBK went out on injury. HBK/ Hitman carried WWF through their worst years but they weren't the guys that made WWF the best, it was HHH/Angle/Austin/Rock all the way

[GaDawgs15818]

@andycf87 Bret basically drove WWF into the ground during that time. 1996-97 WWF was starting to gain traction to make a run at Nitro with HBK's insurance policy that became DX in 1997. Also the Nation of Domination, Mankind/Dude Love, the Undertaker/Kane's debut and Stone Cold Steve Austin made some segments barible to watch. In late 97 Raw started to threaten Nitro, then on April 6, 1998 Raw is War finally beat Nitro with Stone Cold's 1st night as champ and X-Pac returning to join the DX Army

[andycf87]

@GaDawgs15818 ... yea and the ironic thing is most wrestling fans hate Xpac even though he was one of the guys who had a major impact whenever he switched companies. I think Big Show gets a lot less credit than he deserves too, same with Jericho but in my opinon Xpac may be the most underrated player in the Monday Night Wars

[GaDawgs15818]

@andycf87 If you think about it, not just his redebut in the WWF. A week earlier Kevin Nash comes out and asks Bischoff and Hogan why Syxx isn't in the WCW anymore and Hogan told him that syxx "couldn't cut the mustard" turned a lot of people against Nitro. It also helped start WCW's answer to the DX Army and everything else that put Raw on top when the nWo Wolfpack split from nWo Hollywood. That of course ended the night of the "Finger Poke of Doom" on Nitro and Mankind beating the Rock on RAW

[kedordu]

@GaDawgs15818

i dunno what u talking about bret, undertaker, stonecold, shawn saved the company during a time when vince was soo out of touch with what was going on outside wwe.and wwes product was always great . but scott hall uber coolness and hogan trynna outdo superstar billy graham put nwo soo over.i can speak for myself and say i switched to wwe when the nwo story got stale. wasnt march1998 the time when hall wasnt on tv ?

[GaDawgs15818]

@kedordu We're talking abt what brought the WWF back in 1997, not how it was saved throughout the early-mid 90's. Those guys absolutely carried the company while Vince was out of touch with the outside world. The product was great, but only up top and in a few other places. a young Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Goldust, Double J, and a few others held the product down. You were better off watching the top guys promos then watching the last 45 minutes for the upper card matches on RAW.

[andycf87]

@RyanteraForsch ... promoting ECW helped bring WCW to its heels