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  • back when title changes were a big deal. I wish championships had that kind of meaning nowadays.

  • Early 90s Pre Hogan WCW was underrated.

  • LMAO at that black dude in the crowd 

  • @TheDonovanViper yep, guess they must've read that comment :)

  • @BlakAttk yep I sure did :)

  • @ysoljers as it should be :)

  • Put this man in the Hall of Fame!!

  • First black NWA Heavyweight Champion.DAMN!

  • Mick Foley said that people actually cried when Ron Simmons won the belt.

  • What event was this? Was it a Clash of Champions?

  • @soloatl137 -Just a house show

  • @soloatl137 It was a TV taping.

  • DAMN!!!!!!

  • @WWEFan7786 Very true.Just look at R-Truth's character or Booker T's burial for years in mid card.

  • 0:16 look at the guy in the blue shirt. Just comes outta nowhere.

  • @THES3XYMAN101 Probably a plant who forgot the match was close to ending.

  • R-Truth forgot that Ron Simmons was champ!

  • stone cold at the beginning...

  • JR is gold.....Ron SImmons had an awesome look

    

  • Pro Wrestling's very first Black Heavyweight World's champion of any nationality - not only that, but he was apart of a great tag team (The APA) and was a truly great WWE wrestler for many years. He HAS to go into the WWE Hall of Fame.

  • @matrix4022

    Don't sleep on Doom either...they were pretty freakin' solid. World champs as well.

  • @cbaldwinjr you aint lyin, I watched them destroy the Steiners on more than one occasion, when they were wearing the masks. They even took it the LOD. But the Steiners were there bitch for a little while till they lost those masks

  • Being a star on the football field isn't exactly the ghetto.

  • First black man to win the title, enough said.

  • Wat A Celebration

  • DAMN

  • this moment should have happened 3 or 4 more times in his career

  • Ron Simmons DESERVES to be in the HoF. He's more than his catch phrase. He really is a legend of the highest order.

  • DAMN!

  • This was a great moment Ron Simmons had an great career. He should be in the HOF not jokes like Drew Carey. It's too bad that now a days he's been reduced to a simple catchphrase....DAMN!!!

  • @ChiGuy251 You sir, have your wish!

  • @ChiGuy251 You got your wish!

  • @ChiGuy251 and now hes in the HOF!!!

  • How come Ron Simmons' last gimmick in WWE was so tacky and one-dimensional? He was WCW champion, and he wasn't a world champion in the WWF, but he was still the NOD leader and did promos.

  • @spinemelter2000 I agree, he should of been pushed way more then wwf pushed him. The 1st black champ, he made history!

  • Nice!.... I saw the Vader powerslam and said: "DAMN!!!"

  • do you have footage of simmons loosing the title?

  • racism will never die...what a shame.

  • i wouldn't step to ron. heres to you ron simmons, one of my favorite wrestlers of all time i hope they come calling soon for the hof.

  • I agree that Vince has always been racist towards Black wrestlers. I'm Latino and I always liked the way he portrayed Latino wrestlers, but the way he treated Black wrestlers was just horrible. Honestly, when Big Ron won the WCW title I was happier than when Eddie Guerrero won the WWE title at WM 20. Black folks always got it worse than Latinos in wrestling, and so did every else. Just look at Masa Chono, Taka Michinoku, the Jung Dragons, the Samoans, etc. Wrestling is RACIST all the way!

  • @feydivan98 yeah Vince hates blacks, everyone happy bout Rtruth, but watch what happens once he starts outshining Cena Vince is gonna bury him. Fact: No black person has ever won the WWE world heavyweight title(THE BELT ON RAW) NOT THE WCW BELT ON SD. The Rock won the WWE title , but he is not fully black, as much as i love him i hate to say it.

  • @Palsharpton Look at Kofi Kingston, Shelton Benjamin, Chad Gaspard, and Truth. All those guys are AMAZINGLY talented but will never get to the upper echelons of the wrestling business just because they are Black. I like Sin Cara and Alberto Del Rio, but they're practically being forced on TV and the WWE wants to endear them to the fans but they have little natural charisma, they're just way too foreign for the American audience.

  • @Palsharpton The only 2 Black wrestlers who ever got any sort of respect were Big Ron and Booker T, but they were the cream of the crop. Kofi Kingston and R-Truth are right up there with them, but Vince doesn't want the Black man to get too big. With his son-in-law Trips running the show and protecting his legacy, the racism in the business is still as rampant as it always has been.

  • @feydivan98 I made a video on wwe racist towards blacks, check out my uploads, I also have some of R-truth old Tna footage  when he was heel and world champ there

  • @WWEFan7786 JYD should have been the IC champion at Wrestlemania 1. Kamala could have been a champion. eg. tag champ with Seeka or even have a singles title. I never liked Bad News Brown, but he was a great wrestler and he should ahve been given a title reign, any title reign. Tony Atlas was not used properly as well. he was a tag champ with Rocky Johnson ONCE. Vince McMahon doesn't use his talent wisely.

  • DONT STEP TO RON

  • simmons was the shit when he beat vader i cried when he won.

  • @realtalkscrewed08 YOU WEREN'T THE ONLY ONE. 

  • naw his greatest achievement comes at the hall of fame he deserves it

  • Cool tribute idea. I remember seeing the report on this from the weekend he won it back in the day. This may be the most exciting result in wrestling history.

  • The WWE game Simmons two pretty good runs with the Nation and the Acolyte angle...I don't really think that's too bad for a guy who was semi-limited in the ring.

  • @NJPlayer79 Semi limited? What type of crack are you smoking? I bet you have Cena posters in your bedroom wall huh?

  • @taekwon3000 What? I was telling the truth, I didn't say that he sucks or anything, I'm just saying he wasn't exactly a masterful tecnician in the ring...he was just a strong brute...what's wrong with that?

  • I still feel like Simmons should have been a wrestling icon. There is something about him that I've always liked. Unique and very good mic style, hard worker, and a damn good wrestler. He should have been huge.

  • His WWF/E tenure wasn't as memorable as this other than those DAMN segments...

  • I have watched Flair since the late 70's. If he's anything, he's not overrated. The 16 World Championships (and all of the other titles), the promos, the wrestling skills, the mic skills, the selling (ok, a lot of overselling sometimes), the thousand dollar robes, the leer jet, the limos, the women, the horsemen, the 30 and 60 minute battles with Sting. Hogan was overrated, not Flair!

  • Flair was the BEST WCW champion of all time but Ron Simmons was the most DOMINATING WCW Champion of all time; both singles and tag-team!

  • @usacyrano flair is overrated

  • Some good footage here.

  • damn i was in jobcorp when this happened lol!!

  • I think this is the greatest moment in wcw histroy and almost all of wrestling history.

  • The All American American Ja.....Ron Simmons!!

  • One of the greatest days in wrestling history... I saw the whole entire match on the WCW Saturday morning program. All of the faces came out and congratulated him in the end. WIndham, Rhodes... awesome. What a great wrestler!

  • Ron Simmons was the 1st African American world champion.

  • @patsman191 DAAAMN!

  • @patsman191 no he wasn't. Bobo Brazil won the JWA International heavyweight Title (which was recogised by the NWA and the biggst promotion in Japan, the JWA, as a world title) in 1965 in Yokohama Japan and held it for 3-day before loosing it back to Giant Shohei Baba.

  • And notice that black guy in the front row. Fucking nuts. This was a great mement and kudos to WCW for this. Still, as a wrestler Booker T >>> Simmons although he owes everything to him.

  • @SignGuyDino That guy ran from close to 4 or 5 rows toward the back to the front as soon as the ref counted 1.

  • Before Simmons had challenged Lugar for the title and at the contract signing Lugar incited Simmons by saying he'd make a good limo driver. Great moment here. And to comment on the earlier comments about Chavo, yeah, he's so screwed over in WWE it's nuts.  At least he was ECW champ for a while. He would have been awesome in the old, REAL ECW given the chance.

  • DAMN!

  • DAMN!

  • It made no sence to put the belt on Simmons at this point. Vader was so over and destroying everybody. Simmons was just another mid-carder. The only reason the crowd popped like that was because Vader was such a great heel. That reaction was made by Vader not Simmons,

  • I believe I read that Vader was going to take some time off for knee surgery, or something like that. That's why he dropped the belt.

    I agree100% otherwise though. Vader is the sole reason why this moment was big. Simmons was the first black world champ in wrestling history BECAUSE of Vader.

    Big Van Vader, champion of racial equality. MLK, Harriet Tubman, BIg Van Vader, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X.

    In that order. People most important to the civil rights movement.

  • I know you're being funny, but still...wow. You didn't put Vader above Harriet Tubman??? Man, better get back on that list before February ends!

  • lmao ur retarded. maybe JYD or Iceman PARSONS would hadbena better choice for first black champ tho.

  • @DingusStudley LMAO Big Van Vader champion of racial equality HAHAHAHA that was great, I literally loved that.

  • @DingusStudley Actually Simmons was the first black world champ in wrestling because of WCW's creative team. Remember, they could've easily just put the belt back on Sting, or any number of other guys

  • @DingusStudley smh...so ignorant and rude of you to say. Black Pioneers and Activist are not to be taken lightly Big Van Vader didn't risk his life or well being like all of the other individuals you listed

  • @jumar05

    Have you seen how Vader wrestles? The man does moonsaults at 500 pounds. If that's not putting your life at risk, I don't know what is.

    FACT, Vader single handely broke down the racial barrier in professional wrestling. The black pioneers and activists you're referring to would embrace him as one of their own, for sure.

  • @DingusStudley Vader never had a problem with the flow of the business. You can ask Ron and Ahmed Johnson. Vader would sell like no ones business.

  • @QuotetheRaven1 You are a retard to say such stupid shit like that. I remember watching this, Simmons was very loved by WCW fans especially in that Southern region. His College Football fame had plenty to do with it but also he was a charasmtic guy people respected. Also he had a major push before but did not win the title from Luger. What was shocking here is that it came out of nowhere since Sting was hurt by Jake Roberts that nite n Simmons got the shot from picking his name off a hat.

  • @taekwon3000 People can say what they want about the south being racist, but I know watching WCW, that southern fans loved them some Ron Simmons and Booker T. Now can you dig that sucka?!!

  • I remember this like it was yesterday this was something special. I love his powerslam version and delivery.

  • I agree with Kristian2006 and Janayla94

  • Nice tribute. This is one of the great wrestling moments in my memory. Even though wrestling's spilled the beans or whatever, there's still an genuine feel to this. It's great

  • this was a biggest moment in ron simmons's wrestling career... he should have competed individually in WWE rather than teaming up with Bradshaw...

  • He did compete individually. He competed individually before Nation of Domination, and during NOD he was a singles wrestler as well. He was awesome as the NOD leader, and teaming with Bradshaw was a huge waste of his talents

  • this is a standing achievement for african americans...

  • This was no doubt one of my personal greatest moments ever in wrestling, crowd went nuts!

  • God..............DAMN! 10 of me couldn't take on half of a Ron Simmons, that power slam is no joke!

  • That's a badass powerslam!

  • Ron Simmons power totally reach the top of AWESOMENESS!

  • Ladies & gentlemen, boys & girls, children of all ages, the WWE proudly brings to you the best the WWE world heavyweight championship matches on DVD on 12/1/09 and yes sir and ma'am this classic match between Ron Simmons and Big Van Vader for the WCW world heavyweight championship is on this DVD! The fan's have been screaming for this match to be perserved on DVD for "YEARS" now!

  • don't mess with ron!

  • It's because of his ground-breaking World Title win that Ron Simmons deserves a WWE Hall of Fame induction

  • Amen to that comment!

  • @Kristian2006

    I agree 100%!

  • Big Van Vader deserves full credit for this ground breaking title win though.

    HE should get into the hall of fame cuz of it.

  • @Kristian2006

    His WCW Title reign puts him in the WWE Hall of Fame? That makes no sense, much like the WWE HOF itself.

  • @RyanIsOffended I dont think Ron Simmons gives a fuck either way ... he's in the College Football Hall of Fame.

  • @Kristian2006 He and Hacksaw Butch Reed were the first NWA/WCW African American World Tag Team Champions also.

  • @Kristian2006 HELLS YEAH

  • @Kristian2006 i agree with you but i have a feeling jbl will go in before he does... unfortunate... simmons actually, deserves to go before A LOT of people that are already in there... koko b ware anyone? jyd? bob euker????

  • @Kristian2006 And it wasnt until WCW did it again with Booker T did a black man win the title again. While guys like Hunter and HBK made the matches in WWE to cover their own asses

  • @thebigjoekrash

    The rock predated Booker in 1998

  • thanks for showing this

  • So do I. When he hit the power slam...I was like...WOW!

  • i remember that match i was 10 yrs old when he beat vader for the title

  • Actually, he lost the title to Vader on December 30th, 1992.

  • remember how he went to the wwe and vince put him in a powder blue s and m gladiator outfit, and almost ruined is career?

    gawd vince had some awful ideas around that time, he wanted to call mic foley the mutilator..(read that in his book)

  • As silly as the Gladiator was, just remember that in 1990 some dick called Jim Herd wanted Ric Flair to cut his hair, sport an ear ring and be reborn as Spartacus.

    And it wasn't just Mutilator; it was Mason the Mutilator.

    Also Vince still has awful ideas; a fucking leprechaun that beats guys three times his size with flying splashes.

  • I know right? wtf? anyway these classics are good

  • You are correct WardenGordon Vince and the WWE should have been fired Hornswoggle's ass a long fucking time ago and Chavo Guerrero should just fucking quit! Him and MVP are two highly talented wrestler's that are made to look like dog shit!!

  • totally, I think MVP is doing ok in WWE, but Chavo should quit WWE an start in TNA Wrestling!

  • He really should.

  • Why start in TNA wrestling? So he can get paid less than half the amount he does now and job every week to Kurt Angle, Kevin Nash and the Nasty Boys?

  • @Hexy69sCHILDREN because it's better then just walking around and saying damn all the time and if they first give him a match they make him a jobber.

  • I was talking about Chavo. And he'd still be jobbed out in TNA

  • @Hexy69sCHILDREN oh, yeah you're probally right on that now. but if Chavo went to TNA for about 5 years ago he might even be a X-Division Champion. but now since TNA got so many well known big stars I bet you're right.

  • @1MrTomebest he maybe can team up with hector guerrero....

  • @topdinero he could at least show us one more fight, if he is good, he could wrestle part time.

  • @1MrTomebest agreed....

  • @bettydaw1970 thats what vince does man . its like fox and comic book movies , always end up being the worst peice of shit ive ever seen

  • @bettydaw1970 Vince made him a clown from day one. Total disrespect. Ron should've told him to go screw himself.

  • @don417 Yeah, so he could work on the indy circuit and make 500 bucks a week for the rest of his life? Yeah, great advice. Wake up, sissy. This is the real world. We all have to bend over and get fucked to survive. Deal with it.

  • @don417 he shold've went back to either WCW or ECW

  • @bettydaw1970 and mason

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