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WCW: The land of treacherous dark matches, viagra and Yetis that aren't actually yetis.
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00:00I mean, death is worse, let's not pretend otherwise, but this is WCW that at one point was the land
00:05of no disqualification matches that ended in disqualifications and one-on-one bouts that would end with a random third
00:11person winning.
00:12Honestly, if you've never watched WCW in year 2000, you should change that today.
00:16So the promotion absolutely murdered a few stories and a few careers over its times.
00:19Hello, I'm the bald idiot, Simon Miller, and I thought today we could go through, well, some of the worst
00:24offenders and then cry,
00:26because WCW closed 24 years ago, and yet we're still talking about it.
00:31Let's go.
00:31Number 10, losing to Vince Russo.
00:33So I always enjoy this one because when Vince Russo did jump ship from the WWF to WCW in 1999,
00:38he made it very clear,
00:40listen, I don't want to be the center of tension, it's not going to have anything to do with me,
00:44I would just work diligently behind the scenes.
00:47And then within about eight seconds, he was an on-screen character and he was winning world title belts.
00:51And there were upsides to him joining because, of course, people like Booker T finally got their due, and he
00:56too won that world title.
00:57And that was at Bash at the Beach 2000, after all of that nonsense with Vince Russo, Hulk Hogan, and
01:01Jeff Jarrett.
01:02This is always the problem when it comes to WCW, you get excited about one thing, and then you're like,
01:07damn it, it happened after that.
01:09When we jump to the September after that pay-per-view, though, Vince Russo did indeed beat Booker T, not
01:14once, but twice.
01:15The first came when Scott Steiner essentially took Vince Russo's dead body and threw it over and destroyed Booker T
01:20to get the one, two, three.
01:21And then, yes, a week later, it was a steel cage match, and Vince Russo won the big gold belt
01:27after Goldberg speared him out of the steel.
01:29And as per WCW rules, whoever's feet hit the floor first was going to win.
01:34So Vince Russo was the WCW World Heavyweight Champion.
01:38Now, remember, this was done to win the WCW Hardcore fans back, because earlier in the year, David Arquette had
01:44also won this title.
01:46Surprise, surprise, everybody just turned off their TV, because they couldn't handle it anymore.
01:50Now, you're probably asking yourself, well, who did Vince Russo lose it to?
01:53No one. Nada. Zero.
01:55He just vacated it a week later, because I'm not a real wrestler.
01:59Then why the flub are you in wrestling matches?
02:01Now, all you really need to know is that Vince Russo essentially saw all championship belts as merely props.
02:05And, yes, they are storytelling devices, but if you're a proper nerd like me and you, you know, actually, they
02:11do have meaning attached to them.
02:12And if your favorite wrestler ever wins one, well, you have water coming at your steel devices.
02:16Just about a cherry on top as well.
02:17Do you know what Vince did to Booker T after this?
02:19He made him GI Bro.
02:22I mean, that one could be in this list, but it's not.
02:24Let's move on.
02:25Number nine. Insulting your own gimmick.
02:26Now, this happened actually during a brand new character's debut, too.
02:30So even though I stand here years later, I have no idea what WCW was thinking.
02:33Now, once again, it did happen after Vince Russo had jumped ship, and he called up Dusted Road and said,
02:37Oh, hi. I know your Goldust gimmick has kind of hit a wall, so why don't you come over to
02:42WCW and kind of become our version of The Undertaker, I suppose.
02:47Like, the character was called Seven, and in one of the first videos, Seven was hanging outside a kid's bedroom
02:53window at night saying some really weird things.
02:55Now, WCW didn't mean it to come across that way, but I've seen this video many a time, and it
03:00kind of comes across that way.
03:02On the 8th of November, Nitro, though, Seven then floated quite literally his way to the ring when Dustin kind
03:07of just got rid of all the pretense.
03:09Went, man, this gimmick absolutely sucks. I don't want to do this, and I have no idea what's going on.
03:14So it was like, well, one, why did you agree to this?
03:17And two, why are we putting this on TV? Just kill the whole thing.
03:20It just ruined any potential fresh start Dustin could have had.
03:23And my personal inkling, and I'm completely speculating here, is that the network, the Turner execs, had seen that original
03:29vignette and gone,
03:30I don't know what you're getting at here, but you cannot do anything with this character.
03:34And they actually did pull the plug, which is when Vince Russo went into work shoot mode.
03:38Let's face it, that was one of his favorite things to do.
03:40It just meant we were in instant rebuilding mode, and the whole point of this gimmick was to rebuild somebody.
03:45So as ever, say it with me, my friends. It was totally stupid.
03:48Number eight, the other Judy Bagwell match.
03:51So understandably, when Judy Bagwell's name gets brought up, most of us remember when WCW suspended her on a forklift,
03:58and then had Buff Bagwell and Canyon fight over her honor.
04:02That's not true. They were fighting over the ownership of Judy Bagwell.
04:06Don't get mad at me, that's what they did.
04:08Actually, as it turned out for Judy, this wasn't going to be a one and done,
04:11because Rick Steiner was meant to team with Buff Bagwell in order to go after the tag team titles,
04:15when Buff Bagwell turned his back on Rick Steiner.
04:18So Rick was all like, well, what am I going to do now?
04:22Apparently, he had no options.
04:24Well, he came up with an ingenious plan.
04:26Did he ask Sting? Nope.
04:27Did he ask Lex Luger? Nope.
04:29Did he ask Kevin Nash? Nope.
04:30He decided, well, Buff, given that you do enjoy using your mother on these television tapings,
04:36I am going to team with her.
04:38That's right, Rick Steiner, to try and win the tag team championships,
04:41thought his best foot forward was teaming with an elderly lady.
04:45Got even more crazy, because at first, Rick did pick Kenny Chaos when he totally changed his mind,
04:49and the only reason this didn't happen is because Rick Steiner got injured and WCW scrapped the whole angle.
04:55Now, what I would have done is I would have sent Judy out,
04:57and I would have had her win tag team titles all by herself,
05:00and you're saying, Simon, nobody would ever have done that.
05:03Once again, go and watch WCW in the year 2000.
05:06Maybe we're going to do this today.
05:07It would be the equivalent of CM Punk and Roman Reigns feuding,
05:09and Punk going, ha ha, I'm going to team with your mum, Roman.
05:13Can you imagine? The internet, it literally would have melted down.
05:16Now, there were so many questions to this, but sadly, none of them got answered,
05:19because again, Judy Bagwell didn't get physical,
05:22and after this, she didn't really appear anymore.
05:25It's probably for the best.
05:26She likely didn't want to do it to begin with.
05:28Number seven, being injured for nothing.
05:30Bachelor of the Beach 1999.
05:31We all talk about Bachelor of the Beach 2000,
05:33but you should go 12 months prior,
05:35because WCW decided to book the Junkyard Invitational,
05:39which, yes, was going to be a brawl in a junkyard,
05:41and anybody could join in.
05:43Wonder how many people were injured during this?
05:45Absolutely loads of them,
05:46because WCW, in all their wisdom,
05:48booked it in an actual junkyard.
05:51Why?
05:52Now, all this got even worse,
05:53because one, none of this was planned,
05:54and they kind of just pulled it out of their ass at the last minute,
05:56but two, because they did shoot in a literal junkyard,
05:59they didn't have the right camera kit,
06:01they didn't have the right production lighting,
06:02so you can't actually see what's going on here,
06:05and Paul William Regal and Finley
06:07get absolutely destroyed during this thing,
06:09and for what?
06:10Nothing.
06:11Even if you want to check this out in 2025,
06:14you're essentially looking into the abyss.
06:15So it really is just a mess,
06:16both literally and figuratively,
06:18because it wasn't good,
06:19and yes, a load of people laughed,
06:21this was like,
06:21I'm going to have to rest,
06:22because I've been cut to shreds
06:24by all the crap that was on the floor.
06:26It wasn't even a good idea to begin with.
06:28This is why when you're going to do a street fight,
06:30you put it in inverted commas,
06:32and you just do it in the ring,
06:33and you tell the performers,
06:34wear jeans,
06:35because it will look like you're fighting outside.
06:38Don't actually fight outside.
06:40I mean, a kid could have worked that one out.
06:41Number five,
06:42getting stolen by the WWF.
06:44So this one is so funny,
06:45and I really would like somebody involved
06:46to talk about this,
06:47because I don't get it,
06:48but you'll remember in the mid-90s,
06:50Kevin Nash and Scott Hall
06:51jumped to WCW for major contracts,
06:53meaning the character of Razor Ramon and Diesel
06:55were essentially dead.
06:56Then Vince McMahon woke up one day
06:58and said,
06:59we don't need human beings
07:00to play these guys.
07:01We can just bring back anybody
07:03as Razor Ramon and Diesel,
07:04and that's what they told the fans
07:06and the wrestling world
07:07they are going to return.
07:08And yet,
07:09it was Glenn,
07:10I'm soon to be Cain Jacobs,
07:11and Rick Bogner,
07:12and the whole thing was terrible.
07:13It was awful.
07:14We've talked about it time and time again.
07:15The buzz got so loud, though,
07:16even WCW got drawn in by this.
07:18So despite the fact
07:19that Scott Hall and Kevin Nash
07:20were under contract,
07:22WCW improved the terms
07:24of their deal.
07:25Now listen,
07:25maybe this is an old wives' tale
07:27and somebody can confirm,
07:28but if you know
07:30they've legally signed a document,
07:32why would you care
07:33about the outside noise?
07:34They wouldn't be allowed to leave,
07:36but apparently,
07:37WCW decided that they were
07:39and they gave them
07:40a bunch more cash.
07:41Can you imagine
07:42Kevin Nash and Scott Hall's face
07:43when they got this?
07:44They must have been like,
07:45bro, this is the best.
07:46Just imagine how
07:47WCW management felt too
07:48when they saw these two idiots
07:50walk out on WWF Raw instead.
07:53This was embarrassing, man.
07:54I still don't understand
07:56what happened.
07:56Number five,
07:57the Viagra match.
07:57So on the off chance
07:58you don't know about this,
07:59I will fill you in
08:00like Craig David,
08:01but genuinely,
08:02you do want to rank
08:03some of the worst moments
08:04in WCW,
08:05especially because once again
08:06they were meant to be
08:07appealing to a hardcore audience.
08:09It's right up there.
08:10But Vince Russo just went mad
08:11during the year 2000.
08:12On the July 31st Nitro,
08:14he had Shane Douglas
08:15and Billy Kidman
08:16have a Viagra on a pole match.
08:19Now you'll be saying,
08:19Simon,
08:20why didn't they just go
08:20to a local pharmacy?
08:21It's a great question,
08:23but we had told
08:24that Billy Kidman
08:24had lost Tory Wilson
08:26because he wasn't able
08:27to get it up
08:27and that Shane Douglas
08:28would like the extra power.
08:30So yeah,
08:30they fought over this medicine
08:32with the winner
08:33essentially being allowed
08:35to date Tory Wilson.
08:36And if you don't think
08:37that's offensive,
08:38my gosh,
08:38you need to go look
08:39in the mirror.
08:39Let's not forget either
08:40that Billy was meant
08:41to be the baby face here.
08:42So we were meant
08:43to feel sympathy for him
08:44for having erectile dysfunction.
08:46And again,
08:47don't get mad at me.
08:48This was the story
08:49that was playing it
08:49on television
08:50and what everybody thought
08:52would increase the ratings.
08:53Let me just check.
08:54It didn't.
08:55Even the bottle of pills
08:56itself was totally embarrassing
08:57because it was just
08:58this massive jar
08:59that said Viagra
09:00in a huge font
09:01because of course
09:02wrestling companies
09:03think we're stupid
09:04and we couldn't possibly
09:05have a real bottle
09:06of Viagra there.
09:07We'd never be able
09:08to figure it out.
09:09It was really bad
09:09all things considered
09:10and it did nothing
09:11with Shane Douglas
09:11or Billy Kidman.
09:13In fact,
09:13they had to recover
09:14from this
09:14and yes,
09:15there was no upside
09:16because we didn't
09:17create any new fans.
09:18Instead,
09:19you just get me
09:19in 2025
09:21telling you how dumb it was.
09:22Number four,
09:23the Yeti.
09:23Look at this picture,
09:24right?
09:24Look at it.
09:25We can leave it right there
09:26but we won't
09:26and this is from
09:27October 1995.
09:28This isn't the year 2000
09:30because sometimes
09:31people like to go,
09:31oh, WCW
09:32used to be such
09:33a serious wrestling company.
09:35No, they didn't.
09:36The Yeti was indeed
09:37revealed as the
09:37Dungeon of Doom
09:38secret weapon
09:39as the DoD
09:40tried to take down
09:41Hulk Hogan
09:42and it walked out
09:44during a match
09:44between the Giant
09:45and the Hulkster
09:47and again,
09:47that's a mummy.
09:49It's not a Yeti.
09:50It's also been made
09:51by a child
09:52but the really bad thing here
09:54is that as the Giant
09:55and the Yeti
09:56team up Hulk Hogan
09:56to give him
09:57a double bear hug,
09:58well, listen,
09:59you're going to have
09:59to go watch the footage
10:00because you think
10:00I'm joking,
10:01I'm not.
10:01It looks like
10:02they're humping Hulk Hogan.
10:04Okay, I'm sorry
10:05but it's true.
10:05Now, in case you need
10:06some trivia,
10:06it was actually
10:07Rhys who played
10:08this thing
10:08who would go on
10:09to be a part
10:10of Raven's flock
10:11and if you ever
10:12looked at a window
10:12and pondered to yourself,
10:13I wonder why Hulk Hogan
10:14did have to turn heel
10:16a year after this.
10:17Well, now you know
10:17it's because his babyface
10:19run was terrible.
10:19I guess it works
10:20and it put Hulk
10:20in the position
10:21where he did have
10:21to reinvent himself.
10:23Maybe he wouldn't
10:23have been as appealed
10:24to the NWO
10:25but I actually will tell you
10:27to watch this later on
10:28if you do have the time
10:29and remember
10:30it's meant to be a Yeti
10:32that is not a Yeti
10:33so somebody could
10:34fill me in there as well
10:36and massively appreciate it.
10:37Number three,
10:37the personal demons.
10:39So I'm certainly not
10:39just specifically
10:40pointing the finger
10:40at WCW here
10:41because all wrestling
10:42promotions are terrible
10:43at this
10:44but yes,
10:44in the late 90s
10:45somebody went
10:46listen,
10:46Scott Hall never comes
10:47to work
10:48because he's dealing
10:48with personal issues
10:49so do you know
10:50what we should do?
10:51We should turn it
10:52into a story
10:53on Nitro.
10:54It was offensive,
10:54it was awful
10:55and we never should have
10:56done it.
10:56Because yes,
10:56we actually had people
10:57coming out and saying
10:58oh poor Scott
10:58how are you going
10:59to be able to perform
11:00in any matches
11:00because you're essentially
11:01drunk right now
11:02meaning Hall then
11:03had to pretend
11:04he was drunk
11:05and how is anybody
11:06meant to get better
11:07if you're dealing
11:07with this in reality
11:08off cameras
11:09but then on cameras
11:10you kind of have to
11:11bring that into
11:11your performance
11:12I mean you were
11:13never giving him
11:14a chance.
11:14He had to do this
11:15during matches too
11:16and listen,
11:16it would have been
11:16bad enough
11:17if we had included
11:18this after Scott
11:19Hall got clean
11:19but as we know
11:20in the modern day
11:21Scott essentially
11:22struggled throughout
11:23his WCW run
11:25and it's one of the
11:25reasons he didn't
11:26actually become
11:26a world champion
11:27because management
11:28didn't trust him.
11:29Really what Hall
11:29needed was time off
11:30here and professional
11:31help so he could
11:32get back to balance
11:33and let's not pretend
11:34that Scott Hall
11:34wasn't an incredible
11:35pro wrestler he was
11:36and if he could
11:37just got his head
11:38in the right place
11:39man the ceiling
11:39would have been
11:40super duper huge
11:41but no instead
11:42of like offering
11:43a hand and saying
11:44we can assist you
11:44Scott we did
11:45this instead
11:46and while the other
11:47ones are quite funny
11:48this one is just
11:49so damn low
11:50and yeah I know
11:51I get it
11:51it's not just WCW
11:53let's never do it
11:54again.
11:54Number two
11:55the shock master
11:55so of course
11:56we have to throw
11:56this one in there
11:57although I will
11:58debate this
11:59till the cows
11:59come home
12:00Fred Ottman
12:01had to use
12:02a voice box
12:02and was wearing
12:03a sparkly
12:04stormtrooper helmet
12:05even if he hadn't
12:06tripped over that
12:07wall when he did
12:08debut
12:08this wouldn't
12:09have worked
12:10I mean surely
12:11Lucasfilm would have
12:12rang up and said
12:13excuse me
12:13that's our
12:14intellectual property
12:15stop putting
12:16sparkles on it
12:16of course WCW
12:17would have preferred
12:18this did go off
12:19without a hitch
12:19just to see
12:20because not only
12:21did it affect
12:21the shock master
12:22the Ric Flair
12:23was involved
12:23in that opening
12:24segment
12:24the British Bulldog
12:25Sting was there
12:26Psycho Sid
12:27and Harlem Heat
12:28and because the
12:29British Bulldog
12:29just bursts out loud
12:30this is essentially
12:31the most famous
12:32blooper in
12:33professional wrestling
12:34history
12:34so actually
12:35all had to recover
12:36because whatever
12:37this story was meant
12:38to be
12:38it was instantly
12:39in the floor
12:39now I do feel
12:40sorry for Fred Ottman
12:41because I bet
12:41he was mortified
12:42after this
12:43imagine that
12:43feeling in your
12:44tum tum
12:44but actually today
12:45it's a great story
12:46because he still
12:46goes to conventions
12:47with the shock master
12:49gear
12:49and apparently
12:50he makes a lot
12:51of money
12:51so listen
12:52mistakes are always
12:52going to happen
12:53in life
12:53but you can benefit
12:54from it
12:55well then you should
12:55take advantage
12:56so actually
12:57the craziest story
12:58in all of wrestling
12:59ends with a good
13:00feeling in your
13:01tootsie toes
13:01it is true though
13:02he was never
13:03really given
13:03another property
13:04in all of
13:04professional wrestling
13:05because everybody
13:06was always going
13:07to reference this
13:08it's a bit like
13:08Titus O'Neil
13:09falling under the ring
13:10you essentially
13:11have to make that
13:12your gimmick
13:12till the end of time
13:13number one
13:13being fired instantly
13:15so the Raw Nitro
13:16Simular cast
13:16back in March 2001
13:18is still one of the
13:19most historical events
13:19in all of pro wrestling
13:20like if you were
13:21into sports entertainment
13:22back then
13:23you couldn't believe it
13:24you could put on
13:25two channels
13:25and there was Raw
13:26and there was Nitro
13:27and who was on both
13:28screens at one point
13:29it was Vince McMahon
13:30you kind of looked
13:32around and thought
13:32to yourself
13:33we are not in
13:33Toto anymore Kansas
13:34that was the 26th of
13:35March and Vince
13:36didn't pull any
13:37punches
13:37because almost instantly
13:38he said
13:39ha ha ha
13:39I have bought my
13:41competition
13:41so let's
13:42I don't know
13:42clean the books
13:43because Jeff Jarrett
13:44he actually spouted
13:45his name
13:46you're gone
13:46you're fired
13:47no job for you
13:48goodbye
13:49this wasn't a
13:50storyline either
13:50Double J was gone
13:52now apparently this
13:52came down to the fact
13:53that when Jeff was
13:54still hired by the
13:54WWF in 1999
13:56he had essentially
13:57held them up for ransom
13:58at the No Mercy
13:59pay-per-view
13:59where he said
14:00I will not go out
14:01there and lose to China
14:02unless you pay me
14:03the money I owe
14:04now fair play to Jeff Jarrett
14:05he has always said
14:06this didn't happen
14:07but quite clearly
14:08there was an impasse
14:09between him and management
14:10and Vince McMahon
14:11hadn't forgotten
14:12two years later
14:13so yeah
14:14Jeff was gone
14:14just like that
14:15it also meant the rest
14:16of the WCW roster
14:17was sweating over their future
14:18because if it was that easy
14:19what the flub are they
14:20gonna do
14:20and if you ever wondered
14:22why Jeff Jarrett
14:22went and helped start TNA
14:23that's why
14:24he knew from day dot
14:26well I'm never going back
14:27to WWF
14:28so I may as well try
14:29and build a brand new competition
14:30it was the worst possible outcome
14:32though
14:32and listen
14:32nobody clued Jeff Jarrett
14:33before this
14:34so he experienced it
14:35the same time we were
14:37so sure
14:37I'm pretty sure
14:38he's happy
14:39that he's still alive
14:40but that is terrible news
14:42but in that moment
14:43he was like
14:43man
14:44just bury me now
14:45there's gonna be loads of these
14:46but there's no other
14:47awful WCW moments
14:49that figuratively were
14:50worse than death
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14:57but those are my friends
14:58have a terrific day
15:00see you soon
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