10 Worst Possible Fates To Suffer In WCW

I mean, death is worse. Let's not pretend otherwise, but this is WCW that at one point was the land of no disqualification matches that ended in disqualifications and one-on-one bouts that would end with a random third person winning

Honestly, if you've never watched WCW in the year 2000, you should change that today. So the promotion absolutely murdered a few stories and a few careers over its times

Hello, I'm the bald idiot, Simon Miller, and I thought today we could go through some of the worst offenders and then cry because WCW closed 24 years ago

and yet we're still talking about it. Let's go. Number 10, losing to Vince Russo

So I always enjoy this one because when Vince Russo did jump ship from the WWF to WCW in 1999

he made it very clear, listen, I don't want to be the center of tension. It's not going to have anything to do with me

I would just work diligently behind the scenes. And then within about eight seconds

he was an on-screen character and he was winning world title belts. Now there were upsides to him joining

because of course people like Booker T finally got their due and he too won that world title

And that was at Bash at the Beach 2000, after all of that nonsense with Vince Russo, Hulk Hogan and Jeff Jarrett

This is always the problem when it comes to WCW. You get excited about one thing, and then you're like, damn it, it happened after that

When we jump to the September after that pay-per-view though, Vince Russo did indeed beat Booker T

Not once, but twice. The first came when Scott Steiner essentially took Vince Russo's dead body and threw it over and destroyed Booker T to get the 1-2-3

And then yes, a week later, it was a steel cage match. And Vince Russo won the big gold belt after Goldberg speared him out of the steel

And as per WCW rules, whoever's feet hit the floor first was going to win

So Vince Russo was the WCW World Heavyweight Champion. Now remember this was done to win the WCW Hardcore Fans Back

because earlier in the year, David Arquette had also won this title

Surprise, surprise, everybody just turned off their TV because they couldn't handle it anymore

Now you'll probably ask yourself, well, who did Vince Russo lose it to? no one nada zero he just vacated it a week later because i'm not a real wrestler then why the flub

are you in wrestling matches now all you really need to know is that vince russo essentially saw all championship belts as merely props and yes they are storytelling devices but if you're a

proper nerd like me and you you know actually they do have meaning attached to them and if your

favorite wrestler ever wins one well you have water coming out your seeing devices just about a cherry on top as well do you know what vince did to pukety after this he made him gi bro i mean

That one could be in this list, but it's not. Let's move on. Number nine, insulting your own gimmick

And this happened actually during a brand new character's debut too. So even though I stand here years later, I have no idea what WCW was thinking

Now, once again, it did happen after Vince Russo had jumped ship and he called up Dusty Rhodes and said

Oh, hi, I know your Goldust gimmick has kind of hit a wall. So why don't you come over to WCW and kind of become our version of The Undertaker, I suppose

Like the character was called Seven. and one of the first videos, Seven was hanging outside a kid's bedroom window at night

saying some really weird things. Now, WCW didn't mean it to come across that way

but I've seen this video many a time and it kind of comes across that way. On the 8th of November Nitro, though, Seven then floated quite literally his way to the ring

when Dustin kind of just got rid of all the pretense. He went, man, this gimmick absolutely sucks

I don't want to do this and I have no idea what's going on. So it was like, well, one, why did you agree to this

and two, why are we putting this on TV? Just kill the whole thing

It just ruined any potential fresh start Dustin could have had, and my personal inkling, and I'm completely speculating here

is that the network, the Turner execs, had seen that original vignette and gone

I don't know what you're getting at here, but you cannot do anything with this character, and they actually did pull the plug

which is when Vince Russo went into work shoot mode, let's face it, that was one of his favorite things to do

It just meant we were in instant rebuilding mode and the whole point of this gimmick was to rebuild somebody So as ever say it with me my friends It was totally stupid Number eight the other Judy Bagwell match

So understandably, when Judy Bagwell's name gets brought up, most of us remember when WCW suspended her on a forklift

and then had Buff, Bagwell, and Canyon fight over her honor. That's not true

They were fighting over the ownership of Judy Bagwell. Don't get mad at me

That's what they did. As it turned out for Judy, this wasn't going to be a one and done because Rick Steiner was meant to team with Buff Bagwell

in order to go after the tag team titles when Buff Bagwell turned his back on Rick Steiner

So Rick was all like, well, what am I going to do now? Apparently he had no options

But he came up with an ingenious plan. Did he ask Sting? Nope. Did he ask Lex Luger? Nope

Did he ask Kevin Nash? Nope. He decided, well, Buff, given that you do enjoy using your mother on these television tapings

I am going to team with her. That's right, Rick Steiner, to try and win the Tag Team Championships

thought his best foot forward was teaming with an elderly lady. It got even more crazy, because at first, Rick did pick Kenny Chaos

when he totally changed his mind. And the only reason this didn't happen is because Rick Steiner got injured

and WCW scrapped the whole angle. Now, what I would have done is I would have sent Judy out

and I would have had her win Tag Team titles all by herself. And you're saying, Simon, nobody would ever have done that

Once again, go and watch WCW in the year 2000. Maybe we're going to do this today. it'd be the equivalent of CM Punk and Roman Reigns feuding

and Punk going, I'm going to team with your mum, Roman. Can you imagine the internet

It literally would have melted down. Now, there were so many questions to this, but sadly, none of them got answered

because again, Judy Bagwell didn't get physical, and after this, she didn't really appear anymore

It's probably for the best. She likely didn't want to do it to begin with. Number seven, being injured for nothing

Bachelor of the Beats 1999. We all talk about Bachelor of the Beats 2000, but you should go 12 months prior

because WCW decided to book the Junkyard Invitational, which, yes, was going to be a brawl in a junkyard

and anybody could join in. Wonder how many people got injured during this? Absolutely loads of them

because WCW, in all their wisdom, booked it in an actual junkyard

Why? Now, all this got even worse because, one, none of this was planned, and they kind of just pulled it out of their ass

at the last minute, but, two, because they did shoot it in a literal junkyard

they didn't have the right camera kit, they didn't have the right production lighting, so you can't actually see what's going on here

And Paul William Regal and Finlay get absolutely destroyed during this thing

And for what? Nothing. Even if you want to check this out in 2025

you're essentially looking into the abyss. So it really is just a mess, both literally and figuratively

because it wasn't good. Yes, a load of people laughed. This was like, I'm going to have to rest

because I've been cut to shreds by all the crap that was on the floor

It wasn't even a good idea to begin with. This is why when you're going to do a street fight

you put it in inverted commas and you just do it in the ring and you tell the performers wear jeans

because it will look like you're fighting outside. Don't actually fight outside

I mean, a kid could have worked that one out. Number five, getting stolen by the WWF

So this one is so funny, and I really would like somebody involved to talk about this because I don't get it

But you all remember in the mid 90s, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall jumped to WCW for major contracts

meaning the character of Razor Ramon and Diesel were essentially dead. Then Vince McMahon woke up one day and said

we don't need human beings to play these guys. we can just bring back anybody as Ray's Ramona Diesel

And that's what they told the fans and the wrestling world they are going to return

It was Glenn, I'm soon to be Kane Jacobs, and Rick Bogner

The whole thing was terrible. It was awful. We've talked about it time and time again. The buzz got so loud, though

even WCW got drawn in by this. So despite the fact that Scott Hall and Kevin Ash

were under contract, WCW improved the terms of their deal. Now listen maybe this is an old wives tale and somebody can confirm But if you know they legally signed a document why would you care about the outside noise They wouldn be allowed to leave

But apparently WCW decided that they were and they gave them a bunch more cash

Can you imagine Kevin Nash and Scott Hall's face when they got this? They must have been like, bro, this is the best

Just imagine how WCW management felt too when they saw these two idiots walk out on WWF Raw instead

This was embarrassing, man. and I still don't understand what happened. Number five, the Viagra match

So on the off chance you don't know about this, I will fill you in like Craig David, but genuinely, you do want to rank

some of the worst moments in WCW, especially because once again, they were meant to be appealing to a hardcore audience

It's right up there. But Vince Russo just went mad during the year 2000. On the July 31st Nitro

he had Shane Douglas and Billy Kidman have a Viagra on a pole match

Now you'll be saying, Simon, why didn't they just go to a local pharmacy? It's a great question

but we had told that Billy Kidman had lost Tory Wilson because he wasn't able to get it up

and that Shane Douglas would like the extra power. So, yep, they fought over this medicine

with the winner essentially being allowed to date Tory Wilson. And if you don't think that's offensive

my gosh, you need to go look in the mirror. Let's not forget either that Billy was meant to be the babyface here

so we were meant to feel sympathy for him for having erectile dysfunction. And again, don't get mad at me

this was the story that was playing on television and what everybody thought would increase the ratings

Let me just check. It didn't. Even the bottle of pills itself was totally embarrassing

because it was just this massive jar that said Viagra in huge font

because, of course, wrestling companies think we're stupid and we couldn't possibly have a real bottle of Viagra there

We'd never be able to figure it out. It was really bad, all things considered, and it did nothing with Shane Douglas or Billy Kidman

In fact, they had to recover from this. And yes, there was no upside because we didn't create any new fans

Instead, you just get me in 2025 telling you how dumb it was

Number four, the Yeti. Look at this picture, right? Look at it. We can leave it right there, but we won't

And this is from October 1995. This isn't the year 2000. Because sometimes people like to go, oh, WCW used to be such a serious wrestling company

No, they didn't. The Yeti was indeed revealed as the Dungeon of Doom's secret weapon

as the DOD tried to take down Hulk Hogan. And it walked out during a match between the Giant and the Hulkster

And again, that's a mummy. It's not a Yeti. It's also been made by a child

But the really bad thing here is that as the Giant and the Yeti team up Hulk Hogan

to give him a double bear hug. Well, listen, you're going to have to go watch the footage because you think I'm joking

I'm not. It looks like they're humping Hulk Hogan. Okay, I'm sorry, but it's true

Now, in case you need some trivia, it was actually Rhys who played this thing, who would go on to be a part of Raven's flock

And if you ever looked at a window and pondered to yourself, I wonder why Hulk Hogan did have to turn heel a year after this

Well, now you know it's because his babyface run was terrible. I guess it works. He did put Colt in the position where he did have to reinvent himself

Maybe he wouldn't have been as appealed to the NWO. But I actually will tell you to watch this later on if you do have the time

And remember, it's meant to be a Yeti. That is not a Yeti

So somebody could fill me in there as well. I'd massively appreciate it

Number three, the personal demons. So I'm certainly not just specifically pointing the finger at WCW here

because all wrestling promotions are terrible at this. But yes, in the late 90s, somebody went

But listen, Scott Hall never comes to work because he's dealing with personal issues. So do you know what we should do

We should turn it into a story on Nitro. It was offensive, it was awful, and we never should have done it

Because yes, we actually had people coming out and saying, oh, poor Scott, how are you going to be able to perform in any matches

Because you're essentially drunk right now. Meaning Hall then had to pretend he was drunk

And how is anybody meant to get better if you're dealing with this in reality off cameras

But then on cameras you kind of have to bring that into your performance I mean you were never giving him a chance He had to do this during matches too And listen it would have been bad enough if we had included this after Scott Hall got clean But as we know in the modern day Scott essentially struggled throughout his WCW run

It's one of the reasons he didn't actually become a world champion, because management didn't trust him. Really, what Hall needed was time off here and professional help so he could get back to

balance. Let's not pretend that Scott Hall wasn't an incredible pro wrestler he was. And if he could

just got his head in the right place man the ceiling would have been super duper huge but no

instead of like offering a hand and saying we can assist you scott we did this instead and while the

other ones are quite funny this one is just so damn low and yeah i know i get it it's not just wcw

let's never do it again number two the shock master so of course we have to throw this one

in there although i will debate this to the cows come home fred ottman had to use a voice box and

was wearing a sparkly stormtrooper helmet, even if he hadn't tripped over that wall

when he did debut, this wouldn't have worked. I mean, surely Lucasfilm would have rang up and said

excuse me, that's our intellectual property. Stop putting sparkles on it. Of course, WCW would have preferred

this did go off without a hitch just to see. Because not only did it affect the Shockmaster

but Ric Flair was involved in that opening segment, the British Bulldog, Sting was there, Psycho Sid

and Harlem Heat. And because the British Bulldog just bursts out loud, this is essentially the most famous blooper

in professional wrestling history. So actually, they all had to recover because whatever this story was meant to be

it was instantly in the floor. Now, I do feel sorry for Fred Ottman because I bet he was mortified after this

Imagine that feeling in your tum-tum. But actually, today, it's a great story because he still goes to conventions

with the Shockmaster gear and apparently, he makes a lot of money

So listen, mistakes are always going to happen in life, but you can benefit from it. Well, then you should take advantage

So actually, the craziest story in all of wrestling ends with a good feeling in your tootsie-toes

It is true, though. he was never really given another property in all of professional wrestling because everybody was

always going to reference this it's a bit like tice o'neill falling under the ring you essentially

have to make that your gimmick till the end of time number one being fired instantly so the raw

nitro similar cast back in march 2001 is still one of the most historical events in all of pro

wrestling like if you were into sports entertainment back then you couldn't believe it you could put on

two channels and there was raw and there was nitro and who was on both screens at one point it was

Vince McMahon, you kind of looked around and thought to yourself, we are not in Toto anymore

Kansas. That was the 26th of March and Vince didn't pull any punches because almost instantly

he said, ha ha ha, I have bought my competition. So let's, I don't know, clean the books because

Jeff Jarrett, he actually spouted his name. You're gone. You're fired. No job for you. Goodbye

This wasn't a storyline either. Double J was gone. Now, apparently this came down to the fact that

when Jeff was still hired by the WWF in 1999, he had essentially held them up for ransom at the

no mercy pay-per-view where he said i will not go out there and lose to china unless you pay me the

money i owe now fair play to jeff jarrett he has always said this didn't happen but quite clearly

there wasn't impasse between him and management and vince mcmahon hadn't forgotten two years later

so yeah jeff was gone just like that it also meant the rest of the wcw roster was sweating over their

future because it was that easy what the flub are they gonna do and if you ever wondered why jeff

jarrett went and helped start tna that's why he knew from day dot well i'm never going back to

WWF, so I may as well try and build a brand new competition. It was the worst possible

outcome though, and listen, nobody clued Jeff Jarrar before this, so he experienced

it the same time we were. So sure, I'm pretty sure he's happy

that he's still alive, but that is terrible news. But in that moment

he was like, man, just bury me now. There's going to be loads of these, but let's know

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