Justin wants YOU to pick the Five Best Heat Moments Ever from his 60 nominees.
- 1998: Mankind (with Kane) challenges the Undertaker to a match. Undertaker doesn’t come out, but Kane attacks Mankind and unmasks to reveal himself as … the Undertaker.
- 1998: Terri Runnels announces that she’s pregnant with Val Venis’ baby.
- 1998: with the help of the Blue Meanie, Duane Gill defeats Christian for the Light Heavyweight Title.
- 1998: George “The Animal” Steele joins The Oddities.
- 1999: Mr. McMahon, Pat Patterson, and Gerald Brisco beat up Jose Lothario in San Antonio.
- 1999: Owen Hart vs. Steve Blackman in a Lion’s Den Match.
- 1999: Chyna and Vince McMahon have an arm wrestling match.
- 1999: prior to the Royal Rumble, Mabel returns under a mask to wrestle Mankind.
- 1999: on Halftime Heat, Mankind defeats Rock for the WWF Title in an Empty Arena Match.
- 1999: prior to St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Bob Backlund, the Iron Sheik, and Dominic DeNucci help Mankind prepare for his match with the Rock, suggest dropkicks.
- 1999: Mankind congratulates Al Snow on his new job with La-Z-Boy, which he finds surprising since Al doesn’t sell chairs.
- 1999: the video feed goes out; Kevin Kelly and Michael Cole host an historic radio broadcast of Sunday Night Heat.
- 1999: Ed Ferrara does a Jim Ross impression for Tiger Ali Singh; “Dr. Death” Steve Williams throws him on his head.
- 1999: Prince Albert debuts, attacking the Big Boss Man and joining up with Droz.
- 1999: Dok Hendrix aligns with the Hardy Boyz and returns to being Michael Hayes.
- 1999: upset about the identity of the Higher Power, Steve Austin stuns every wrestler on the show.
- 1999: tired of suckas and friggidy frontas thinking they cool, Too Much is reborn as Too Cool, the innovators, the originators, the mastur…percolators, of cool.
- 1999: The Rock tells a story about when Billy Gunn prays to God and asks why everyone still thinks he absolutely sucks. God addresses him as Bob, “but my name’s Billy” “IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS.”
- 1999: Terri secretly slips Sean Stasiak viagra; he wrestles the Big Boss Man with an erection.
- 1999: while asking for information about his missing dog Pepper, Al Snow gives out Val Venis’ cell phone number.
- 2000: in an exclusive Halftime Heat interview, Steve Austin publicly reveals his marriage to Debra.
- 2000: Essa Rios, with the debuting Lita, beats Gillberg for the Light Heavyweight Title.
- 2000: the first appearance of Trish Stratus, scouting Test.
- 2000: Chris Benoit kicks a car door on Tazz’s arm.
- 2000: Hardcore Holly eats all the fruit in Triple H’s dressing room; HHH calls him “Mr. Can’t Catch Any Fruit.”
- 2000: Edge & Christian have a dream of double gold; Mick Foley forces Christian to lose weight by wearing Kurt Angle’s chicken suit.
- 2000: Dean Malenko vs. Just Joe and Just Joe’s TitanTron video, which features shots of Just Joe with speech bubbles saying things like “Word in the back …”
- 2000: at WWF New York, musical guest Pat Patterson sings “It’s A Wonderful World.”
- 2000: T&A and Trish Stratus play strip poker with the APA and lose.
- 2000: prior to No Mercy, Kurt Angle conducts an exclusive interview with video clips of the Rock, threatens to “end this interview right now, mister.”
- 2000: Jerry Lawler paints Rebecca Budig in the nude.
- 2000: Road Dogg and K-Kwik perform “Gettin’ Rowdy” at WWF New York.
- 2000: Kaientai debut their new ability to speak in English voiceovers, “in-DEED.”
- 2001: Kaientai challenge the APA, lose in seconds, challenge them to a rematch, lose in seconds, challenge them to a third match, and lose in seconds.
- 2001: Molly Holly unmasks Raven’s ninja bodyguard to reveal none other than, yes, Tori.
- 2001: master sensei Raven teaches the Germ how to be hardcore.
- 2001: Lita beats Spike Dudley.
- 2001: Jerry Lynn debuts and defeats Crash Holly for the Light Heavyweight Title.
- 2001: Bradshaw calls Ed Ferrara a “fat redheaded troll;” Sean O’Haire and Chuck Palumbo attack the APA at WWF New York.
- 2001: Palumbo & O’Haire vs. Sean Stasiak & Kanyon in an historic WCW Tag Title match.
- 2001: Tazz and Al Snow have a heated confrontation about Tough Enough and the Alliance which leads to fisticuffs.
- 2001: Billy Gunn saves Chuck Palumbo from a 2-on-1 attack and they hit it off instantly.
- 2001: on New Year’s Eve eve, new Undisputed Champion Chris Jericho sends in an interview from poolside in which he flicks imaginary wrestlers off his hand, saying ‘bink, boop.’
- 2002: D’Lo Brown returns to WWF television and wrestles Eddie Guerrero.
- 2002: exiled from Raw, Raven declares Heat his own personal playground.
- 2002: following loss to Steven Richards, Matt Hardy declares self Matt Hardy Version One, debuts the V1 hand signal.
- 2002: after weeks of games and manipulations, D’Lo Brown finally gets Raven in the ring.
- 2002: Raven paints his Seven Deadly Sins masterpiece by making a guy eat food that he stepped on.
- 2002: Raven abandons his masterpiece and defeats Tomy Dreamer to return to Raw for two weeks until his release.
- 2003: prior to Wrestlemania 19, John Cena battleraps cardboard cutouts of Jay-Z and Fabolous, tells them that even if they lived in a sperm bank, they couldn’t get their comeback.
- 2003: Steven Richards announces the concept of Stevie Night Heat and becomes Heat General Manager.
- 2003: world champion Triple H slums on Heat to wrestle Maven.
- 2003: Victoria and Stevie interrupt Al Stone’s lunch; Victoria stomps around on the table in fuzzy slippers claiming to be Godzilla; Tommy Dreamer ruins Stevie’s hat (“my gift I gave you!” – Victoria)
- 2004: the Dudleys defeat Lance Storm and Val Venis to earn a tag title shot at Wrestlemania 20.
- 2004: prior to Wrestlemania 20, Josh Mathews and Rue de Bona take hansom cab ride in Central Park.
- 2004: a mysterious woman who is surely not Steven Richards helps Victoria beat Gail Kim.
- 2004: Maven rescues Nidia from Trish Stratus and Tyson Tomko.
- 2005: William Regal and Tajiri beat La Resistance in their last ever chance at the tag titles, a stipulation that lasts a single week.
- 2005: Maria meets the Heart Throbs, whoa whoa whoa, no no no, oh oh oh.
- 2005: Rob Conway reveals that the two years he spent in La Resistance were all an elaborate con, explains that he is, in actuality, the Con Man and does things the Con Way.
I can’t decide on which five. It’s an agonzing decision
Cool.
Kurt Angle tooling about town with his limo driver was snubbed.
Oh man, somebody should set something similar up for Velocity, though it obviously has a lot less to choose from. I nominate Michael Cole mooing.
Any such list for Velocity would have to include the time when Josh and Cat pulled up at the arena arguing with each other, only to have Spanky enter the scene via pogo stick and have Josh say to him “What do you want, wankster?”
Could that possibly have actually existed? It sounds far too good to be true.
p.s. thanks for listing this Cubs! oops, the song is actually “What a Wonderful World.” I guess I conflated it with “It’s a Small World.”