During the course of the Monster Jam World Finals throughout history, several trucks have had footage of their freestyles cut from the recording of DVDs, televised broadcasts, and even pay-per-view broadcasts for various reasons. The freestyle footage for several of these competitors has been considered "Lost Media" by many, although the raw footage is most likely still in Monster Jam's posession. However, many edited fragments, or even entire pieces of non-televised pieces of footage, have been found of some of the freestyles. Most of the freestyles can now be seen on YouTube via Monster Jam's membership.
Monster Jam World Finals 1[]
At Monster Jam World Finals 1, three trucks had their freestyles removed from the DVD recordings, the TV recordings, and oddly enough, the Pay-Per-View broadcast. The trucks were Prowler, Reptoid, and WCW Nitro Machine.
Prowler, driven by Dave Pezo, was the first truck out for freestyle, and was the first truck to ever perform a scored freestyle in the main World Finals competition. The run was short lived and consisted of one move. Prowler hit the right lane's line of cars, doing a sky wheelie before landing on the center obstacle, where he would get stuck. Prowler would score a 16.
Reptoid, driven by Jim Jack would be the 2nd truck to freestyle right after Prowler. Unfortunately, Reptoid's motor would blow out as it traveled down Thunder Alley, before the truck fully shut down in the middle of the turn before hitting any obstacles. Reptoid would score a 4, despite not hitting a single obstacle on the track.
The replay for WCW Nitro Machine's unseen freestyle and the immediate aftermath.
WCW Nitro Machine, driven by Charlie Pauken, would be the 12th truck out for freestyle, after Wrenchead.com, and just before Goldberg. Currently no known footage has been found or released, but according to Charlie's son and Charlie himself, he did the same move Prowler did except he bounced off the middle ramp and endoed, bending the left front wheel in the process. Nitro Machine would score a 19. No footage of this run has been released to the public.
Monster Jam World Finals 2[]
At Monster Jam World Finals 2, two trucks had their freestyles removed from TV and home releases, although excerpts from their runs were shown briefly on TV. Their runs however were shown on the Pay-Per-View broadcast. The trucks were Sudden Impact and The Destroyer. Sudden Impact, driven by John Seasock was the 2nd truck out for freestyle. After a single hit on the cars, the truck slowed down before shutting itself off. As Seasock tried to drive the truck off the track, the truck made a loud pop noise. It can even be heard on the Pay-Per-View broadcast as they were showing a replay of the truck's hit on the cars. As it turned out, he lost the blower on the truck and blew an engine due to a malfunction from the RII. Sudden Impact would score a 19.
Monster Jam World Finals 2 II Sudden Impact John Seasock Freestyle 2001
Pop sound can be heard at 1:58
The Destroyer, under Dan Evans, would come out directly after Sudden Impact. The Destroyer would go over the cars, before going for the box van stack on the course. Evans would proceed to hit the cars 2 more times, before the truck would shut off after a sky wheelie damaged the battery. The Destroyer would score a 23.
Monster Jam World Finals 3[]
At Monster Jam World Finals 3, Bulldozer's freestyle and the post-show encore would be removed from TV and home releases. Bulldozer's freestyle however, was included on the Pay-Per-View. Bulldozer was the 7th truck out for freestyle. He hit the crush cars in Thunder Alley, performing a slap wheelie that rode across the stadium floor. Just as the truck touched down though, it clipped a van, flipping the truck onto its lid immediately. Bulldozer would score an 8. However, Avenger's run would not be removed from TV or home releases despite also scoring an 8. This is most likely due to the announcers still preparing to commentate Guy Wood's run as the truck rolled over.
The encore as well was not included in any DVD, TV, or the Pay-Per-View broadcasts. Grave Digger, Team Meents, Wolverine, Bulldozer, and Blacksmith all came out for a tandem freestyle. Blacksmith and Grave Digger drove down the left side of the track while Wolverine, Bulldozer and Team Meents took the right side. The 5 trucks all took the turn, and switched sides of the stadium. Bulldozer would jump an obstacle, breaking off a wheel, moments before Wolverine would follow it, breaking a wheel off as well. Barthel floored the broken truck forward before it flipped over onto its side. The other 3 trucks were shut down soon afterwards at that time. The entire encore lasted under one minute and took place after the Pay Per View had gone off the air.
Monster Jam World Finals 5[]
Monster Jam World Finals 5 did show all of the freestyles for each of the competitors. However, two trucks had sections of their freestyles removed from the TV broadcast and home releases. These trucks were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Team Suzuki.
The aftermath of TMNT's run
TMNT was flipped back onto its wheels after its initial roll-over due to the 30 second rule in place at that year's event. The truck immediately drove at the bus stack on the left side of the course, where it stood straight up and down, launching the body off of the truck. It tipped back onto its wheels, where Paul Cohen attempted to climb up the bus stack once more. The truck however slid to the side of the stack and rolled over.
Team Suzuki, under Kathy Winston, had a move from her freestyle removed as well. The footage cuts off after the truck comes to a stop at the entrance to the stadium after the truck's steering breaks. However, Team Suzuki would hit the van stack one more time, before finally stopping at the end of the stadium due to a loss of front steering.
Monster Jam World Finals 8[]
At Monster Jam World Finals 8, the half-time encore that took place at the event was removed.
In the half-time encore halfway through freestyle, two Grave Diggers raced onto the course and performed a donut competition. Dennis, winning, did victory donuts, only for George Balhan in An Escalade to race out onto the track show off a bit himself. This encore wasn't shown on the TV broadcasts, nor the DVD release.
Monster Jam World Finals 9[]
The encore to Monster Jam World Finals 9 was not televised, most likely due to issues over the trademark to the name Spitfire. Because of this, the full encore would not be televised. Spitfire and Backwards Bob debuted by exploding out of 2 containers hidden at the entrance to the track. Both freestyled, before Spitfire would roll over after bumping against the parked Maximum Destruction (Max-D). Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would race back onto the course and join with Backwards Bob, before Backwards Bob broke a wheel off on a jump. Finally, a second Maximum Destruction would come out, before breaking a wheel on the first jump, crashing in a very similar manner to his earlier competitive freestyle.
