Video summary
Ross discusses the absurd and terrifying myths he genuinely believed as a child while growing up during WWE's Attitude Era. He explains that young fans often take the dramatic storytelling of wrestling literally, leading to fears that supernatural figures like The Undertaker were truly undead zombies capable of controlling lightning, or that Kane could command fire. These misconceptions were fueled by the intense atmosphere of the era and the fact that children at the time had no way to distinguish between scripted entertainment and reality, causing them to accept rumors from friends and older kids as absolute facts.
One of the most significant myths Ross describes involves believing that Jeff Hardy had died after falling off a ladder, a rumor he accepted because his older cousins confirmed it and Jeff disappeared from television for a while. This belief persisted until he saw Jeff return in TNA years later, only to be further confused when a volunteer coach at soccer practice claimed the Undertaker on TV was a fake clone replacing the "real" satanic version that sacrificed people. Ross also recalls being devastated by John Cena's transition into a Marine-themed character, fearing the wrestler was actually preparing for deployment rather than just changing his gimmick, and even believing a young friend's story that X (X-Pac) had been murdered by The Rock because he simply wasn't appearing on TV anymore.
The narrator shares additional childhood delusions, such as thinking Edge was a local resident of Toronto who could be found walking the streets to fight him in real life, and believing that Randy Orton had killed his own father after suffering a mental breakdown. He notes that even though adults constantly told kids that wrestling was fake, the elaborate lore, special effects, and dramatic storylines made it feel incredibly real to them. Eventually, Ross realized that while the matches were scripted, the emotional impact of these stories and the sheer volume of unbelievable lies accepted as truth created a unique form of childhood mythology that is specific to the world of professional wrestling.
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What's good y'all? It's your boy Ross
back at again with another video. So,
check out ridiculous WWE myths I
believed as a kid. Now, growing up,
especially like in an attitude era for
me, there were certain things that I
truly did believe were just certainties
of life, like facts of life. One of
those things was the Undertaker was
truly an undead man. Like, he was dead,
but he really wasn't dead. And he scared
the hell out of me. Like, how do you
beat someone that's supposedly dead, but
they're not really dead? They're like a
zombie, but they're not. How do you How
do you beat someone like that? And he
can control lightning. H he's OP. As a
kid, I was like, bro, he's unstoppable
and all he wants to do is win
championships.
He could be taking over the world.
Another person, Kane, as a kid, I used
to be afraid of him. I was like, the
Undertaker was bad, but Kane was worse.
and he can control fire. What is going
on?
There was another myth I believe um when
um I think Stone Cold was feuding with
Triple H and he had Triple H up on like
this crane and Triple H was in the like
the car and he flipped them over and it
fell like upside down smooshing the car.
I thought Triple H was dead
and then come to find out he's he's
fine. He comes back like the next week.
Like some of these things are like a
they they murdered him and then THEY
BACK LIKE HOW THEY'RE SUPER HUMAN.
So we're gonna check this out, man.
Should be an interesting one. Appreciate
all love and support. Let's get right
into it, man.
Being a wrestling fan as a kid is one of
the funniest things that can happen to
you in your childhood. While everyone
else is living a normal childhood,
playing with cars and watching movies
and just being a kid, you're just
casually obsessed with this weird ass
industry. Everyone tells you what you're
watching is fake, but it it looks real
to you. And before you know it, you're
like 7 years old getting exposed to some
crazy things that other kids could never
imagine. Little Timmy was watching Kung
Fu Panda. Yeah, I was watching Jeff
Hardy get slimed out by his own brother.
And at that age, you genuinely have no
idea what the hell's going on, what's
real, what's not. you naturally end up
believing some absolutely ridiculous
things about this weird world of
wrestling. Yo, I'm talking about the
things you just heard from the most
random sources, the rumors you heard
from your friends, the the weird kid at
the park, things you completely
misunderstood as a kid and somehow just
accepted as fact. One of the wildest
ones I remember that I've shared on this
channel before is I genuinely believe
that Jeff Hardy died back in the day.
Whenever I would play Smackdown shut
your mouth or see old Jeff Hardy clips
instantly I was like, "Yo, that's my
guy." But it would be so confusing
because once I started watching in '04,
I had never seen the man on television.
I would see his dumbass brother all the
time. But they never even mentioned
Jeff. So when I asked my older cousins
what happened to Jeff Hardy, they would
just straight up tell me, "Yeah, he's
dead. You jumped off a ladder and died."
And I just believed it cuz it's like,
"Yeah, makes sense. It's Jeff Hardy. If
anyone's going to die falling off a
ladder, it's this guy." And they were
older. I trusted him. I believed him.
Why else would he not be on TV? It was
sad. I became a Matt Hardy fan because I
thought his brother died. But when I saw
Jeff on TNA in late 2005, not only was I
happy that, hey, I can finally watch
Jeff wrestle, it was like, yo,
>> he's alive. I remember when I went to
soccer practice in like 2006, I would
talk about wrestling with all the other
kids. And I remember one of the
volunteer coaches who was probably in
high school, he heard us talking about
wrestling and we were talking about the
Undertaker versus the Great Khali.
amazing feud to talk about, right? And
I'll never forget him just coming up and
going off. Undertaker sucks now. He's
trash now. And what really messed me up
was the Undertaker you guys have. He's
not even the real Undertaker. He's fake.
Back in my day, the Undertaker was
satanic. He was worshiping the devil,
sacrificing people. That's the real
Undertaker. I don't know.
>> Yeah, bro. This is the Undertaker I grew
up on, and he scared the [ __ ] out of me,
bro.
This guy is supposed to be un a dead
man. He's undead. But he's dead.
>> Why, what, where, or how? But I heard
that and I jumped to the conclusion that
the Undertaker that was on my TV was now
a fake. That the Undertaker has replaced
or cloned or something. Something went
down. Coach was right. This guy on TV
isn't sacrificing anyone. He's losing to
the great Khali. So for months after
this, I legit thought that the
Undertaker on television was some next
bum. Every week I'm like, "Maybe this is
the week where the Undertaker from
Wrestlemania 2000's going to pull up."
The Undertaker was cloned. Yeah, I I
wasn't the brightest of the bunch. No,
no, no. You know what really messed me
up? When John Cena transitioned from
being a rapper to a regular tough guy to
a marine and people want to talk about
confusing the children these days, bro,
I was confused when Cena started wearing
the camo merch and started saluting all
over the damn place. I remember one of
my friends told me, "Yeah, I heard he's
going to go join the US Marines." Dog,
my heart sank. Yo, it's a little me.
This wasn't a gimmick change. I thought
they were preparing this man for
deployment. And it was funny because I
was already sad he wasn't the rapper
anymore, but now I was worried that the
US government was about to take him away
from me entirely. The marine was
>> they were going to call John Cena to the
front lines. Hey, Mr. Cena, we need your
help.
>> Supposed to be a movie. I thought it was
about to be a documentary. And you
better believe when I saw him at Tribute
to the Troops in ' 06, I thought he was
compromised. I was watching praying,
"Please come back, John. Please come
back." Oh, and by the way, Jeff Hardy
wasn't the only wrestler who was dead in
my universe growing up. This one goes
way back. I had to be around 6 years
old, and I was at a Punjabi wedding. And
as a kid, at those weddings, you just
end up making friends with some random
little kid that you're never ever going
to see again. And of course, me and this
8-year-old kid started talking about
wrestling. This was the summer of '06,
and this was when DX just came back. And
somehow, XO came up. I knew who X was
because once again, shout out to
Wrestlemania 2000. So, I'm sitting there
like, "Yeah, I wonder if X is coming
back. He He invented the crotch chop."
And yo, this kid just straight up tells
me, "Nah, he's not going to be there.
Xbox's dead. The the the Rock his head
off." I'm sorry. What? I don't know to
this day what made this kid say this. I
don't know where he got this information
from. I don't know what
>> what makes this funny is when as kids
you didn't see like in their mind they
didn't see these characters on
television so they just assumed they
were dead.
That's funny bro. Yep. I don't see X. I
don't see uh Jeff Hardy. They got to be
dead. No, they just either back in Cater
and was let go.
>> He had against X but this kid had the
whole story ready. He tells me that,
"Yeah, back in the day X was going to
hit the Rock with the X Factor. The Rock
got up and he just chopped his head off
and now he's dead." And somehow I
believed him because in my mind, it's
like, "This kid is 8 years old. I'm six.
Obviously, he knows more about wrestling
than me. He knows what the X factor is.
He clearly has ball knowledge. Why would
I question this man's sources?" And once
again, just like Jeff Hardy, I had never
seen XO on TV. So, in my little brain,
it all checked out. Of course, XO isn't
on TV and he's not in DX again. The Rock
chopped his head off. And wait, maybe
that's why The Rock doesn't wrestle
anymore. I saw two disappearances with
one murder. Rest in peace, Xbox, man. By
the way, the Undertaker contributed to
so much childhood lore, more than just
him being cloned. Do you guys remember
when the Undertaker used to have that
giant Sarah tattoo on his neck? That was
when I first started watching wrestling.
And I remember asking my mom, "Mom, what
does the Undertaker's neck tattoo mean?"
I remember to this day she was just
like, "Oh, it says Sarah." And instantly
I'm like, "Nah, there's no way. Come on.
There's no way. That's the Undertaker.
That's the big bad demon. He can't have
Sarah tattooed on his neck." In my head
I was like, "No, that had to be some
demonic spell or something. And maybe
it's pronounced Sara. There has to be
some dead man [ __ ] involved." Uh, no. He
He actually had Sarah tattooed on his
neck. I told you he was cloned. It's
interesting because growing up in the
era that I did, as I got older, the
source for these myths also changed
because once I discovered the internet,
yeah, your boy was on wrestling forms as
a 10-year-old, like it was my job. And
when I tell you that at first I believed
everything, I believed everything. It's
on a website. They wouldn't lie on the
internet. They could have posted
anything in 2008, 9, and 10, and I would
have believed it all. Cena's going to
TNA. Yeah, he he 100% is. The Illuminati
runs wrestling. 100% they do. All the
wrestling matches are scripted. Yeah, I
know that. Undertaker's Wrestlemania
matches. No, no, no. The streak is real.
He's really 16 and0. Yo, like that.
Yeah, that's the one shoot fight of the
year, right, little Pav? Yeah, I I
believed everything and anything. But to
wrap this up, let me share my favorite
one. As you guys know, I hated Edge as a
kid. This man ruined my life on a weekly
basis. But was always funny was every
time he came out, every single week,
they would announce him as from Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. Now, guess who was also
from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the
suburbs, but it's fine. And as a kid, I
didn't really understood what that
meant. In my head, that meant Edge was
from here. He was born here. And when he
wasn't on Raw, and when he wasn't on
Smackdown, he was just somewhere in
Toronto walking around the city doing
his thing. And in my little head, I was
like, "Yeah, eventually our paths were
going to cross." And I wasn't thinking,
"Oh, I I might meet Edge one day. I can
get an auto." No, no. I was preparing
for an altercation. If I knew I was
going to like a Raptors game or
something on the weekend, I would be
sitting in class thinking like, "Yo, I'm
going to be downtown and if I see this
slimy guy, what do I do? Am I going to
punch him? Do I fight him? Do I spit on
him? I got to do something." Mind you, I
was like 8 years old. I didn't care.
This man had been ruining Cena's life
for years and then Batistas and then
Takers. Other kids heard Edges from
Toronto and thought, "Oh, that's cool.
Hometown hero." I heard Edges from
Toronto and thought, "Good. That means I
can find him." And looking back at it,
it's so funny because it's like, of
course, my biggest op just happened to
be from here. It's so funny when you're
a wrestling fan as a kid and everyone
tells you, "Yeah, wrestling's fake.
Wrestling."
>> That's so funny. Oh, he's from here. Say
less.
>> It's fake. So, you kind of start to
believe it, but then deep down you also
don't cuz you'll be watching like,
"Yeah, that doesn't look fake to me."
But you'll still tell everyone, "Yeah, I
know it's fake. I'm not some stupid
kid." I do remember though eventually it
got to the point where I'm like, "Yeah,
yeah, wrestling's fake. All the moves
are fake." But hey, that Randy, you're
in a punt. That that looks real to me.
It took me a long time to admit, yeah,
maybe Randy wasn't punting all of his
ops. I still remember there was a rumor
back in like 09 when Randy truly lost
his mind and he had IED and everything.
It was like, yeah, Randy snapped and he
killed his dad. That's why we haven't
seen Cowboy Bob in years.
>> What?
>> Yeah, makes sense. Why did I just assume
everyone was dying as a kid? And don't
worry, I was just like you guys, too. I
also definitely believe that all the
wrestlers sang their own theme songs. I
mean, it made sense. That was Triple H
and that was Big Show going well in the
studio. Hell, a lot of people thought it
was Shane McMahon who sung Vince's
theme. Yeah, as you can see, I used to
believe some weird things back in the
day, but honestly, what what other hobby
or passion will ever give you this much
fodder? You don't know what's real. You
don't know what's fake. Everybody's
constantly telling you different things.
There's so much lore, so much mythology,
and before you know it, you're just
accepting the most unbelievable lies as
facts.
>> And the thing is, it's wrestling.
Everything is built on a lie, and
anything can happen, and anything does
feel possible. You know what? Maybe Xbox
did get his head chopped off. I don't
know. I wasn't there. Well, in the
comments down below, let me know what
this was a dope one, bro.
>> This is This is what wrestling is about
right here. just especially as a kid
growing up watching this and letting
your imagination take over you with the
stories that's being presented to you,
you start to believe, oh man, damn, the
Undertaker really does have special
spooky powers, you know. But hey,
comment down below and let me know what
was a wrestler or a situation that you
watched as a kid or whether it was WCW
or WWF at the time where you believed it
was real, like you thought someone got
murdered, you thought someone had
powers, whatever the case, let me know
that specific scenario, man. Cuz I know
some of y'all got some stories like,
"Yeah, I believe uh this person was, you
know, was truly undead and they couldn't
be murdered." You know, let me know down
below. But I appreciate all love,
support, road to 200K. Appreciate y'all
kicking with me. See you on next one.
Peace.