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10 Times WWE LIED In Documentaries | partsFUNknown WWE don't like telling the truth. They're allergic to it or something. Here we break down 10 times the fed lied to its audience in documentaries but make sure you let us know the lie that baffled you the most in the comments!  00:00 - Start 00:54 - 10 01:50 - 9 03:00 - 8 04:45 - 7 05:46 - 6 06:51 - 5 08:32 - 4 10:15 - 3 11:29 - 2 12:29 - 1  SUBSCRIBE TO partsFUNknown: https://bit.ly/2J2Hl6q TWITTER: https://twitter.com/partsfunknown FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/partsfunknown/ Buy wrestling merchandise here: https://www.wrestleshop.com/ Read more Feature content here on WrestleTalk.com: https://wrestletalk.com/features/

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00:00 Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies, isn't just what we sing when we pop on Fleetwood

00:05 Mac's excellent Tango in the Night, but also what we say to ourselves any time we

00:09 press play on a WWE produced documentary. They say that history is written by the winners,

00:15 and because WWE always wins, they always get to write the history. Most of it is harmless

00:20 guff and something to poke fun at, "can't believe they said that in a documentary"

00:24 etc. but sometimes it's "I cannot believe they said that in a documentary, that's a

00:30 lie!" Most of the lies aren't even that hard to spot because we saw what actually

00:33 happened with our own eyes, but that won't stop WWE from telling us what really happened.

00:38 And since WWE stopped producing these documentary DVDs, they've just asked Bruce Prichard

00:42 to do it on his podcast lol. I'm Luke Owen, hailing from partsFUNknown, and these are

00:46 10 times that WWE lied to us in documentaries. And if you don't want to get caught out

00:51 in a lie, why not hit that subscribe button? Love you!

00:55 10. Hulk Hogan Didn't Know If Andre The Giant Would Co-operate At WrestleMania 3

01:00 This is one of the oldest lies ever told in wrestling, but it wasn't until the HBO documentary

01:04 centred on Andre the Giant that many fans learned of it from the mouth of one of wrestling's

01:08 biggest liars, Hulk Hogan. The story that Hogan told was that heading into his famous

01:13 match with Andre at WrestleMania 3, he was not sure that his opponent would follow the

01:18 script. On the day of the event, Andre just calmly played cards and told Hogan, "Don't

01:22 worry about it." But of course, the paranoid immortal one went into the biggest match of

01:26 his career not knowing if The Giant would let him slam The Big Man. The problem is here

01:31 is that only Hulk has ever told this story and provided the details, and it's Hulk Hogan,

01:36 so yeah. Remember that time that Hogan said he worked nearly 400 days a year, or that

01:42 he was supposed to be the face of the George Foreman grill, or that he was going to be

01:46 the bass player for Metallica? Hogan's full of shit sometimes.

01:51 9. Mania Attendance Figures

01:53 Speaking of WrestleMania 3, this one started WWE's greatest tradition, lying about Mania

01:58 Attendance Figures. And honestly, I'm not sure why. Have you heard Bruce Prichard defend

02:03 this on his podcast of bullshit? It's incredible. According to the company, 93,173 fans packed

02:10 the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit for the most attended event in wrestling history.

02:14 It wasn't. However, in actuality, 78,000 fans filled the stadium. That's still a really

02:19 good number, guys, but shh, don't let facts muddy the narrative you want to create. Since

02:24 then, WWE has consistently lied about the attendance figures for the showcase of the

02:28 immortals in several documentaries centred around the event. Whether it's counting every

02:32 single person in the building, including staff or backstage personnel, the promotion has

02:37 hit attendance records in somewhat dubious ways. One of the biggest lies came at WrestleMania

02:41 32 when they broke the Mania 3 record with 101,763 fans. The actual attendance was 93,730

02:49 fans, which is still a great number, guys. And even Vince McMahon would later on admit

02:55 that there was not 101,000 fans in the building who paid.

03:00 8. The Montreal Screwjob

03:02 One of the most controversial talking points of WWE over the years has been the Montreal

03:06 Screwjob. It's been discussed and covered ad nauseum in various documentaries, whether

03:10 it was Bret 'The Hitman' Hart, The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There

03:13 Ever Will Be or The Shawn Michaels Story, Heartbreak and Triumph, or let's be honest,

03:18 30 billion other documentaries made by WWE. Now I'm not going to talk about Scott Hall

03:23 or Kevin Nash thinking the whole thing was a work, brother. I'm instead going to look

03:26 at the biggest lie WWE has ever told about the Screwjob. That Bret Hart was going to

03:32 appear on WCW Nitro the night after Survivor Series, so Vince had no other choice but to

03:37 get the belt off of him in order to protect the WWF Championship. This is a lie. Do you

03:43 know how it's a lie? Bret didn't show up on Nitro the day after Survivor Series!

03:49 And that is because, dear viewer, Bret's contract with the WWF wasn't up until a

03:53 few weeks after Survivor Series. It didn't expire until the middle of December. This

03:58 is why Bret maintained that he would drop the gold to anyone but Shawn Michaels after

04:02 Survivor Series. He even said he would surrender the title to Vince the next night on Raw.

04:07 But you know, Bret Screw Bret everyone, nothing to see here. This lie has become ingrained

04:13 in the company. Fun fact, when WWE didn't put out the self-destruction of the Hitman

04:18 DVD that they did have planned, and instead put out the more favourable one with Bret

04:22 involved, Shane McMahon told Bret's assistant at the time that he was glad they could work

04:26 together but noted that his father had no other option but to screw Bret because he'd

04:30 be on Nitro the following day. That's not a DVD thing, that's just what Shane has

04:34 been told and therefore believes. Even when the assistant corrected him and told him the

04:39 truth, Shane was far too indoctrinated into WWE's religion and their version of events.

04:45 7. Kurt Angle's WWE Departure Was All On Him And Not On The Company

04:50 Kurt Angle is one of the greatest in-ring performers to ever step foot in a WWE ring.

04:54 Olympic gold medalist, multi-time world champion, countless classic matches. However, in 2006,

04:59 Angle's body was starting to fall apart, thanks in part to the rigorous WWE touring

05:04 schedule and he broke his neck on a few occasions and became addicted to painkillers in a bid

05:08 to continue wrestling. The real story here is that WWE wanted the Olympic gold medalist

05:12 to enter rehab for his painkiller addiction but Angle refused, being angry at himself

05:16 and with the company for his booking being shifted to WWE ECW to be that brand's frontman

05:22 which led to his release. Many thought he would go to UFC and start his MMA career but

05:26 instead Angle made the jump to TNA in one of the most shocking defections in wrestling

05:30 history. In WWE's revisionist history however, it was 100% on Kurt Angle leaving the promotion

05:36 with no fault on them at all. Of course, Angle has since taken some responsibility for where

05:41 the addiction took him but WWE's general lack of accountability is questionable.

05:46 6. WrestleMania 7 Moved Because Of Bomb Threats

05:49 Another entry to file under the most notorious lies about WrestleMania is the story behind

05:53 the 7th edition of the event. Mania 7 was supposed to be the huge rematch between Hulk

05:57 Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior after the historic Ultimate Clash Challenge at WrestleMania 6

06:01 in Toronto's Skydome. The two top stars were expected to pack the Los Angeles Memorial

06:05 Coliseum which holds over 100,000 fans. However, Warrior failed to fill the big shoes of the

06:11 Hulkster as a top babyface for the company and he was shifted into a program with matchman

06:15 Randy Savage. In a reactionary move, the company turned career babyface Sgt. Slaughter into

06:20 a dastardly Iraqi sympathiser at the time of the Gulf War to face the all-American hero

06:25 Hulk Hogan. This wasn't what fans expected or wanted so as a result ticket sales for

06:29 the event were extremely poor and caused WWE to move the event to the smaller LA Memorial

06:34 Sports Arena holding just 16,000 seats. Instead of shooting commercials to talk about the

06:39 move to a more intimate setting for the show, WWE said that "bomb threats due to Slaughter's

06:45 gimmick forced the move". This lie can be seen on the story of WrestleMania documentary

06:49 and others throughout the years.

06:51 5. The Self-Destruction of The Ultimate Warrior - The Whole Thing

06:56 The Self-Destruction of The Ultimate Warrior is one of the most fascinating DVDs ever released

07:00 by WWE. I've watched it hundreds of times and find something new in it in each and every

07:05 watch. But no mistaking, this is not a documentary. This is a smear campaign against Warrior and

07:12 an example of WWE using revisionist history to lessen contributions of people they don't

07:16 like. Every scene, every interview, every clip chosen is designed to make Ultimate Warrior

07:21 look like an ignorant, talentless hack who didn't do anything for WWF. Hogan at one

07:27 point says that at the end of Mania 6, no one was looking at Warrior in the ring, they

07:31 were watching Hogan leave. This simply isn't true. I've got eyes and I can see the place

07:36 come unglued when Warrior wins. The interesting thing is that, what the documentary does get

07:41 right, is that Warrior was not a perfect human being who said some pretty controversial and

07:45 outrageous things. But after he came back into the company shortly before his death,

07:50 WWE swept all of that under the rug and pretended he was a perfect human being who didn't say

07:54 outrageous shit all the time.

07:56 The biggest case of this being a hit piece as opposed to the truth is that WWE had planned

08:01 to do the exact same thing to Bret Hart. In 2005, they had planned to release the Self-Destruction

08:06 of the Hitman and even film Talking Heads burying Bret, including Hulk Hogan of course

08:11 and Roddy Piper, but changed their mind when Bret approached them to negotiate a different

08:16 DVD, which resulted in the release of the praising "Bret the Hitman Hart, the best

08:20 there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be". The moral of this story is

08:23 that if WWE don't like you, you'll be buried and downplayed and outright lied about, but

08:28 if you come back into the fold, you're a prodigal son that has returned. Right Cody?

08:32 4. DX's role in the Monday Night War

08:35 I'm not going to downplay the popularity of D-Generation X as they are one of the most

08:39 important stables in WWE, but their legacy in the Attitude Era is slightly overplayed.

08:45 In the Monday Night War documentary series, for example, DX is talked about in glowing

08:49 light for their entertainment factor and placed them on the same level, if not greater, than

08:53 the New World Order in WCW. The company always brings up the "invasion of WCW" as this

08:59 groundbreaking segment that shifted the fans in WWE's direction and helped them win the

09:04 war. However, those who actually lived through the era will tell you it was "just a cool

09:08 segment on Raw". Steve Austin and his feud with Vince McMahon, combined with the rise

09:12 of Rock and the guys like Mankind and Undertaker being on top, Mankind winning the title in

09:16 1999 being an actual example of viewers switching over to WWF from WCW, were actual pivotal

09:23 parts of the Attitude Era. Triple H and HBK have even said in documentaries and in books

09:29 that the Attitude Era was their idea. It should be noted that Shawn Michaels was not present

09:34 for most of the Attitude Era, and Triple H's time on top, during that period, was away

09:39 from DX and in the McMahon-Helmsley regime, which just so happened to have DX members

09:44 in it. This narrative that DX were "the architects of the Attitude Era" when they weren't,

09:50 perhaps coincidentally started to be parroted by the company in 2006 when, oh yeah, DX reformed

09:55 as a tag team. Wasn't Steve Austin, it wasn't The Rock, it wasn't Mankind, it wasn't

10:00 Undertaker, it was Triple H and Shawn Michaels. A team that were together for less than a

10:05 year. No really, they formed in August '97 and Michaels was gone by March of '98. The

10:10 second iteration didn't last much longer, the NWO, they were not.

10:15 3. WCW Folded Because WWF Beat Them

10:19 Speaking of WCW and WWE's retelling of their demise, if you purely got your history from

10:23 Vince and co, you'd be convinced that WCW folded solely due to WWF's Attitude Era and

10:29 their dominance in the ratings. However, the truth goes well beyond WWF beating them in

10:34 quality or television viewership. Of course, WWF was a huge factor, but the company has

10:39 made fans believe that the merger of AOL and Time Warner had absolutely nothing to do with

10:44 WCW closing. However, the merger played a large part, if not the biggest part, in leading

10:49 to the sale of the promotion. Ted Turner was a big supporter of professional wrestling

10:53 on Turner Television, and the America Online merger with Time Warner led to those in power,

10:58 namely Jamie Kellner, deeming WCW to not be in line with the television division's image.

11:04 Kellner felt that wrestling in general was not favourable enough to get the right advertisers

11:08 to buy airtime, and so he cancelled it. This is documented, correctly, in Bryan Alvarez's

11:14 brilliant Death of WCW book. The cancellation of WCW programming left the WWE free to acquire

11:20 the trademarks, video libraries and some contracts for a total of $4.2 million. None of this

11:26 would have been possible without that merger.

11:29 2. 316 sparked the rise of Stone Cold Steve Austin

11:33 There are dozens and dozens and hundreds of documentaries that have claimed this. The

11:37 Austin 316 promo at King of the Ring '96 was one of the defining moments that helped

11:41 launch the career of Stone Cold Steve Austin and the attitude era in general. In actuality,

11:45 no. Despite the promo being incredibly important to Stone Cold's rise, it did take Vince McMahon

11:50 quite some time to realise that he had a star on his hands. There was no immediate 316 merchandise

11:56 in the summer of '96, nor was Stone Cold viewed as 'the guy' following his win at

12:00 the tournament. Steve Austin wasn't even on the main card for Summerslam that was just

12:03 two months later. It wasn't until Steve Austin was put into a program with Bret Hart leading

12:08 into Survivor Series that Austin's rise truly began. Of course, that would paint Hart in

12:13 a light that shows he helped elevate this leading force that sparked the attitude era,

12:17 and WWE simply cannot have that, you understand.

12:20 And while I'm here, Bret Hart vs Austin at WrestleMania is not a double turn. Bret was

12:24 already cutting heel promos before that match and the fans had decided that Austin was a

12:27 babyface. Let's stop peddling that lie.

12:30 1. Getting the F Out

12:32 WWE had an impossible task on their hands with the Ruthless Aggression series. They

12:37 had to present a huge downturn in business and ratings as a positive and good thing that

12:41 was great for business and ratings. The whole series is littered with lies, whether it being

12:45 Bruce Prichard blaming fans for not being patient enough, the diminishing of Chris Jericho's

12:50 involvement because he'd just signed with AEW, the whole "took his ball and went home"

12:54 schtick, the belief that it was actually WCW's fault that the WCW invasion didn't work because

12:58 those pesky contracts were too expensive to buy out, they don't even mention ECW in all

13:02 of this, the whole thing just stinks of revisionist history written by petty people.

13:08 The biggest lie told in the series, though, is that WWF changing their name to WWE was

13:13 a Vince McMahon choice because he wanted to move the brand in a new direction. Of course,

13:18 it had nothing to do with the fact they had been sued and lost to the World Wildlife Fund,

13:22 the WWF here in the UK, which was a lawsuit that had been going on for years. The WWF,

13:28 Panda Ones that is, won their case against Vince and co and because WWE had fought it

13:32 for so long, they had less than a week to implement all the changes. If you want to

13:37 hear some truth about the name change, when Vince said that the WWF, the Panda Ones that

13:41 is, suit was without merit, the judge called WWE's legal arguments "hopeless" and "astonishingly

13:49 poor". When they argued that it was going to cost them over $50 million to make all

13:53 the changes, the judge said, and I quote, "The costs of rebranding now, after some

13:57 five years of development, are entirely attributable to WWE's own decision to take that risk."

14:03 So yeah, go back and watch that documentary and watch Bruce Prichard fall over himself

14:07 to tell you that it was nothing but Vince McMahon genius. Absolute twaddle.

14:11 And that's our list, no lies were found here, and no lies are found on our other list, which

14:15 you can go and watch by clicking them on screen right now. I've been Luke Owen, Jam That

14:19 Jam.

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