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00:00So if you were brought up on a certain generation of professional wrestling,
00:03you would spend your Monday nights flipping from WWF to WCW
00:06before you went back to WWF and then checked out WCW.
00:09If you go back and watch that today though,
00:11the crazy thing is that World Championship Wrestling
00:13actually goes off the rails pretty damn early on
00:15as essentially the wrestlers become the inmates in the asylum
00:18that are running the place.
00:19Now it's totally fun to watch in 2025 because it is so nonsense.
00:23But yeah, in late 1999 when Vince Russo arrived,
00:26well, I'd love to tell you I understand, but I actually don't.
00:29What we can do though is we can sit down and make ourselves a cup of coffee
00:32with I, Simon Miller the bald idiot,
00:34and I will tell you 15 exact moments WCW booking stopped making sense.
00:38Number 15, the stretcher match that actually wasn't a stretcher match.
00:41So at Super Bowl 1 in May 1991,
00:43Big Sid Vicious was actually done with WCW
00:46because he was about to head to the WWF.
00:48That's not how contracts work though,
00:49because he had one last match he had to do.
00:51So WCW booked him in a stretcher match against Juan El Guiante,
00:55who of course would go on to be the Giant Gonzalez,
00:58just keeping you up to date.
00:59Now that looks pretty woeful on paper for reasons you'll understand if you were born back then,
01:03but in many ways this could have been the worst combination possible at the time.
01:06Because due to all of the abug,
01:08El Guiante beat Sid in just over two minutes in what was meant to be a gimmick bout.
01:12Again, it was a stretcher match.
01:14The thing is though, to make it even more tragic,
01:16and hold your hats for this one,
01:17Sid Vicious didn't even leave on a stretcher as planned.
01:20He simply marched out of the building because again,
01:23his WCW deal was done,
01:24or did he care that he'd still be able to come back in 1993.
01:28I guess if you'd asked somebody from WCW management,
01:31they would have given you those four annoying words,
01:33card subject to change.
01:34This also comes from a time where pro wrestling just saw two big guys and decided,
01:38well that's definitely going to draw.
01:39And hey look, I would have watched it,
01:41but if you have a gimmick called a stretcher match,
01:43and the person that loses doesn't leave on a stretcher,
01:45well what the flub are we even doing?
01:47I mean WCW also had no DQ matches that ended the disqualification,
01:51so maybe we're the fools,
01:52because some of us, myself included,
01:54watched all the way to the end.
01:55Also, I have a much better idea,
01:57why the flub didn't they just do,
01:59a loser leaves town match.
02:01Number 14,
02:02Lex Luger is a mind reader.
02:03Though yes,
02:04we're already at WCW in the year 2000,
02:06which in many ways could be the worst 12 months for any wrestling promotion ever,
02:10at least when it comes to the creative.
02:12It was the 15th of May episode of Nitro,
02:14when fans arrived for the show to see a steel cage dangling high above the ring.
02:19That was nothing new for the company,
02:20because they loved a steel cage,
02:21sometimes they called them standard steel cage matches,
02:24sometimes they were called cage heat,
02:26and on other times,
02:26they were called house of pain.
02:28Don't worry if you're crying into your cereal,
02:30I am doing the same.
02:31You don't have to imagine that the audience figured this would be for the main event,
02:34but no,
02:35instead in the very first match,
02:36Sting wrestled Vampiro in the cage.
02:39Then later,
02:39Vince Russo cornered Miss Elizabeth inside the thing,
02:42and threatened to have Medusa kick lumps out of her,
02:44if she didn't do what she was told.
02:47Then Lex Luger dropped him to the top of the cage to put a stop to Vince's plans,
02:50but just let that run through your brain for one second.
02:53This was meant to be an impromptu moment,
02:55so how the flub did Lex know about this in advance?
02:58Because he would have had to address up as a member of the ring crew,
03:00which is what he did here,
03:02just in case Vince Russo was planning to corner Liz,
03:05who at the time,
03:05he was quite friendly with.
03:07And that is an absolute absurd decision process to go through.
03:10And why did none of his buddies say to Luger,
03:11uh,
03:12dude,
03:12this is probably not going to happen.
03:14Why don't you just have some more chicken?
03:15Just because WCW had no ideas,
03:17they also booked handicap matches on this episode of Nitro,
03:20and an ambulance match pitting Kevin Nash between Mike Orson.
03:23He also had a world title change,
03:25because that's the way to get more people in.
03:27Let's take all of our ideas,
03:29and get them done in two hours.
03:30Lex Luger wins though,
03:31because he red binds.
03:32Number 13,
03:33Abdullah the Butcher is electrocuted.
03:35So,
03:35Bro Wrestling has booked a number of stupid on-screen cave-a-deaths over the years,
03:39and actually,
03:39TNA and Lucha Underground are in for the winner of that crown.
03:42When they got it right,
03:43I tell you,
03:44it was laugh out loud funny in the best possible way.
03:46The opposite to this would be killing Vince McMahon's TV character on Raw in 2007,
03:50and that was embarrassing and incredibly ill-timed.
03:53Before all of this though,
03:54we go to WCW's Halloween Havoc 1991 pay-per-view,
03:58where the show opener was the Chamber of Horrors match.
04:01You've likely heard about this,
04:02because it often features on matches that are considered garbage.
04:05It also saw Sting,
04:06the Steiner brothers,
04:07and El Giante beat Cactus Jack,
04:09Big Van Vader,
04:10Abdullah the Butcher,
04:10and the Diamond Stud.
04:12And listen,
04:12whoever did get defeated,
04:13was going to have to be electrocuted and die.
04:17This isn't me saying that to you,
04:18that's what WCW said.
04:20Let's not forget,
04:21we had an entire card after this.
04:23Maybe it was just going to be one funeral.
04:25Sadly,
04:25pesky logic had to go and ruin all of this,
04:27because the WCW cameras clearly showed that the on-off switch,
04:31was set to on for most of the match.
04:33And therefore,
04:33if you had touched that chair,
04:35once again,
04:35you would have perished.
04:36Bless Cactus Jack as well,
04:37because he noticed this just before doing the finish.
04:39So he actually switched the switch to off.
04:42Good grief,
04:42do I love Mick Foley.
04:43The word has always been that Abdullah the Butcher didn't really want to do this,
04:46but went through with it anyway.
04:47And all I'm going to ask you to do is look at the image on the screen right now.
04:51That's literally as far as he went,
04:52in order to convey that he had been electrocuted.
04:54And when you watch it in real time,
04:56kind of looks like he just fell asleep.
04:59Again,
04:59this was 1991,
05:00my friends.
05:01I go four or five years before the big boom.
05:04WCW was already ridiculous.
05:06Number 12,
05:07non-cruiserweights are the cruiserweight champions.
05:09So the main selling point of TNA's X Division upon when it launched,
05:12is that you are going to see some of the best cruiserweight action you have ever seen in your life.
05:15But there's also no limits.
05:17Not really,
05:17it was lightweight dudes as AJ Styles,
05:19Jerry Lynn Lowkey,
05:20and The Amazing Red absolutely put that belt on the map.
05:22Thankfully,
05:23they didn't borrow what WCW had done.
05:25Because come 1999,
05:27after Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara had entered the company,
05:29they decided,
05:30well,
05:30nobody cares about the cruiserweight division.
05:33So let's make a joke of the title.
05:34So again,
05:351999 saw Medusa become the first female WCW cruiserweight champion.
05:39That would have been fine.
05:40But once again,
05:41you could just tell that WCW was leaning into this as a ha ha he he.
05:44If only that had been the bottom of the barrel though,
05:46because around about a year later,
05:48we decided to make Ed Ferrara,
05:50brand new WCW writer,
05:52the cruiserweight champion.
05:53Although it wasn't Ed,
05:54it was his alter ego,
05:55Oklahoma,
05:56who was a very offensive parody of Jim Ross.
05:59Ferrara also thought he would mock JR's Bell's palsy.
06:02And if you think that's funny,
06:03you can stop listening right now.
06:05I want nothing to do with you.
06:06He didn't even lose that belt because he just vacated the thing a few days later on Thunder,
06:10mostly because he was a coward.
06:12And if we are taking wrestling as real,
06:14why the flub with the WCW board agreed to this to begin with,
06:18not trying to throw shade at Ed Ferrara here,
06:20but he ain't no cruiserweight.
06:21If nothing else,
06:22when you watch it,
06:22it is just awful.
06:24And an insult to Rey Mysterio,
06:25Chris Jericho,
06:26Eddie Guerrero,
06:26Dean Malenko,
06:27and others,
06:28who had gone out of their way to make that division mean something.
06:31Let's not pretend they weren't a massive draw when the main event scene was a mess.
06:34Everybody involved in this should be ashamed.
06:36Number 11,
06:37Ric Flair's elaborate black scorpion scheme.
06:39Who is the black scorpion?
06:41Was the question that Sting was asking and the audience as we headed into Starrcade 1990.
06:46Because yes,
06:46we had booked a mystery figure to enter the ring.
06:49Though I will tell you right now that when WCW decided to do this,
06:52they had no end chapter.
06:53They had no finish.
06:54They had no idea who was going to be under this mask.
06:56And if you actually watch the black scorpion,
06:58he changes over time because different individuals were under the hood.
07:02If we focus on this pay-per-view though,
07:03every single fan under the sun realize,
07:06wait a minute,
07:06that dude is most definitely Ric Flair.
07:09That's because it was the nature boy.
07:10He had assumed the character.
07:11Shout out to Flair as well,
07:13because he thought this story was so stupid.
07:14He didn't even try to hide his wrestling style.
07:16And he just went through all his signature moves.
07:19Nobody could have been confused.
07:20The world champs at wrestling only did this because Ric Flair and Sting had such good chemistry,
07:25which you could actually see at the Great American Bash of 1990.
07:28That match is super awesome
07:29and absolutely baffling that this monstrosity would come a few months later.
07:34Also,
07:34you need to go and see the black scorpion's ring entrance and whatever else came along with that.
07:38We kind of treated it like he was from out of space.
07:41I guess the best way to sum it up would be to call it cheap.
07:44Nobody came up with an idea that they thought would be interesting
07:46and then never bothered to finish it.
07:48Number 10,
07:49Dustin Rhodes,
07:50Dustin Rhodes shocked the world by going all in on the controversial Goldust character in 1995.
07:56Hard to get across these days because so much has changed,
07:58but it was radically different for the WWF at the time.
08:01If they'd actually leant into it and pushed it the right way,
08:04it could have actually torn down boundaries.
08:06Instead,
08:06after a while,
08:07it became absolutely ludicrous,
08:08but it's a different video for a different day.
08:10By 1999,
08:11we'd moved all that to one side,
08:12and Dustin himself was struggling with personal issues
08:14that were as affecting his in-ring career.
08:16So he left the WWF to return to WCW,
08:19which is where he'd been beforehand.
08:21He also wanted to try a brand new gimmick that he dubbed Seven,
08:24which was essentially Goldust,
08:26but with a much more supernatural kick to it.
08:28It meant that we got weeks of creepy vignettes,
08:30and this was the first issue.
08:31I implore you once you're done with this video to Google that and watch it for yourself.
08:36I don't really know how to put this,
08:38but it made the fans go,
08:39why is Seven really interested in little kids?
08:42Let's just leave it there.
08:43Coming 8th of November 1999 Nitro,
08:45he was quite literally floating to the ring,
08:47which was interesting,
08:48and told us what he hoped to achieve in WCW.
08:51This is when it fell off the rails again,
08:52because Dustin Rhodes in this outfit said,
08:55I don't like the way I look,
08:56and I really just want to be myself.
08:59Turned out this was Vince Russo leaning into the whole work shoot nonsense,
09:02and my gosh, do I hate that.
09:04It just became bottom of the barrel stuff.
09:06Actually, I would imagine that Dustin Rhodes felt the same way about this,
09:09and it was WCW creative that ruined it,
09:12but just imagine watching all of this build,
09:14at least being a little bit intrigued about what the character would be,
09:17and then them coming out and looking at you going,
09:19nah, we made a mistake.
09:20I mean, it was Emmalina before Emmalina,
09:22and even then it was bad.
09:23For goodness sake, if you're going to do something, just do it.
09:26Number 9, Hulk Hogan has superhuman vision.
09:29So if you are looking for something to watch today,
09:30I would go to Nitro on the 27th of March 2000,
09:34and get to the segment when Hulk Hogan sees the wall.
09:37It is genuinely hilarious.
09:38Because halfway through a Hulk promo,
09:40he realizes that somebody is looking at him,
09:42when he drops the now infamous line,
09:44that's the wall, brother, it's the wall.
09:46Now, Mean Jin Oakland, who was in charge of this interview,
09:49looks completely baffled,
09:50because he couldn't see the wall,
09:52the fans couldn't see the wall,
09:53nobody could see the wall,
09:54because the wall was probably around about 10,000 miles
09:57in the opposite direction,
09:59and the only way Hogan would have known
10:00is if somebody had told him beforehand.
10:02Even the poor WCW production team
10:04aren't able to find him with the cameras,
10:06because he's just so flubbing far away,
10:08hanging out on top of a building.
10:09It meant that when we finally saw the man,
10:11he just looked like a speck of dust,
10:13like he's so far in the distance.
10:15I do not know what WCW was thinking.
10:18There is absolutely no way anybody could have spotted him.
10:20Hulk also sold this like the wall was about to come
10:22and give him a new haircut,
10:23but it also begged the question,
10:25how do you know this is the wall,
10:27Mr. Hogan?
10:28Maybe it's your mother.
10:29I mean, there's literally no way to tell.
10:30You will not be shocked to hear
10:31that this feud was an absolute disaster
10:33and dropped in about a week anyway,
10:35but yeah.
10:35This is what WCW decided to do in the year 2000.
10:39Hulk Hogan versus the wall?
10:41Don't want to be that guy,
10:42but a literal wall would have been better.
10:43Number 8.
10:44David Flair's SKU DNA test logic.
10:46The 9th of October 2000 Nitro took place in Australia,
10:50so that made it quite exciting.
10:51Back home in the USA,
10:53well, things weren't going very well.
10:54Fans in Brisbane were also excited
10:56to see World Championship Wrestling
10:57because the product rarely went there,
10:59and I can vouch for this too.
11:00In the same year,
11:01WCW came to the UK,
11:03and I was the most pumped up man ever.
11:05Halfway through the show,
11:05we did have a segment between
11:06David Flair and Stacey Keebler too,
11:08and this was absolutely ridiculous.
11:11It started when David hit the ring
11:12to demand that Stacey gave him a blood sample
11:14so they could take a TNA test.
11:16This was part of an ongoing storyline with Keebler,
11:19as everybody was trying to find out
11:20who the father of her unborn child was.
11:23Welcome to WCW.
11:24Welcome to Vince Russo Wrestling.
11:25Of course,
11:25Vince himself was in the running to be the dad,
11:27as was Ric Flair.
11:29Let's not get into that.
11:30And thankfully,
11:31WCW didn't pull the trigger on either of those.
11:33In turn,
11:33it was announcer Mark Madden who interrupted this,
11:36and he was the only one that saw sense.
11:38Why are you asking Stacey Keebler for a DNA test?
11:41She's the mother.
11:42We know she's the mother,
11:43because she's the one holding the baby.
11:44So why the flub are we wasting present TV time?
11:46This went on forever as well,
11:48which probably left the Australian fans
11:49wondering why they spent their cash.
11:51And later on,
11:51Ric Flair and Mike also made a hardcore match.
11:53Once again,
11:54don't ask me why.
11:55I do not know.
11:56And this is the equivalent of the tutorial
11:58in Far Cry Blood Dragon.
11:59That whole thing is like,
12:00ha ha,
12:00we don't have a tutorial,
12:02when it has a tutorial.
12:03And this thing here,
12:04WCW knew this was stupid,
12:05but they booked it anyway.
12:06Number seven,
12:07Sting is fast counted,
12:08but he's not.
12:09Starrcade 1997 was meant to be it.
12:12Sting had been hanging out for the rosters for a year
12:14and absolutely terrified the NWO.
12:17But for at this pay-per-view,
12:18he was going to get his main event against Hulk Hogan.
12:21He should have become the WCW champion.
12:23The New World Order should have broken up.
12:25WCW should have moved on to round two.
12:27Do you know how many of those things happened?
12:29Absolutely zero.
12:30It absolutely ruined a lot of love
12:32that people had for world champs at wrestling,
12:33because this was meant to be so obvious.
12:35And it began backstage
12:36when Hulk Hogan saw the real life Steve Borden
12:38and said to Eric Bischoff,
12:39he doesn't look like he's into this
12:41and he doesn't have a good tan
12:43and therefore all the plans had to go out the window
12:45or that doesn't work for me, brother.
12:48The decision was still made
12:49that Sting had to win the world championship
12:50for obvious reasons
12:51and that Nick Patrick would do a fast count
12:54so at least Hulk Hogan got a visual pinfall.
12:56It's utterly ridiculous,
12:57but welcome to wrestling,
12:58when magically after the fact Nick said,
13:00no, that's not the case,
13:02Hulk Hogan came to me
13:03and said,
13:03we're not doing the fast count anymore,
13:05meaning when he did go down to make this cover,
13:07we just got a regular count,
13:09but given that the story was a fast count,
13:11everybody around this match have to act surprised.
13:14I mean, it was absolute garbage.
13:16It's also basically when Bret Hart made his debut
13:18because he came down to say,
13:20that was a fast count
13:21when he had to start the match again
13:22and have a guess what everybody in the venue was thinking.
13:25It wasn't a fast count, Bret.
13:27What the flub are you doing?
13:28And yes, moments after this Sting
13:29did win the WCW title,
13:31but it meant nothing because the damage had been done.
13:34Don't want to be that guy,
13:35but quite clearly that was Hogan's plan as well.
13:37Nobody that wanted to make Sting
13:38would have gone to these lengths.
13:40It was utterly ludicrous.
13:41I mean, everybody knew the one job was
13:43make Sting look unstoppable
13:44because he'd looked unstoppable for a year,
13:47and by the end of it,
13:47he was like a cat.
13:48That's all that means.
13:49I just don't think a cat
13:50could win a professional wrestling match.
13:52Number six, it's not hot.
13:53So this one is absolutely awesome
13:55and came when Hulk Hogan was feuding
13:56with the Dungeon of Doom.
13:57And I actually saw this clip on social media
14:00the other day,
14:00so it is out there.
14:01And it all comes down to a moment
14:03when Hulk Hogan decided to touch a fountain.
14:05WCW was nuts.
14:07The Dungeon of Doom in 1995
14:08had also said they were now the alliance
14:10to end Hulkamania,
14:11which you can easily work out,
14:13but it genuinely is unintentional comedy
14:15at its finest.
14:16They also had superpowers,
14:17so they somehow teleported Hogan
14:19into this weird layer domain thingamajig,
14:21where he spewed nonsensical lines such as,
14:24there are no Hulkamaniacs here,
14:26I've never been him before.
14:27And when he did see this found him,
14:29he touched it and said,
14:31it's not hot.
14:32As if any time he'd ever touch water,
14:34it was hot.
14:35I mean, I had so many questions
14:36and they'd never been answered.
14:38You also had Kevin Sullivan
14:39and the master giggling like schoolchildren,
14:41absolutely perplexed
14:42that they had made the biggest star
14:44of the 1980s do this.
14:46Once again,
14:47they had told us they were gonna kill Hulk
14:48and then they were going teehee ha ha.
14:50Of course, it was all totally bonkers
14:52and probably was looking over
14:53what the WWF was doing
14:54and decided they need to be more cartoony,
14:57which is the last thing the fans wanted.
14:59They just wanted WCW to be WCW.
15:02Make sure you watch the cage match
15:03that came after this too.
15:05My gosh,
15:05just when you think it can't get any worse,
15:08well, WCW found a new flaw.
15:10Number five,
15:11the announcers are hyped
15:12for brand new writers.
15:13So let's say that I'm some hotshot writer
15:15and that the WWE picks me up tomorrow.
15:17Now, no, I'm not this.
15:18I'm an absolute idiot.
15:19We don't need to debate that.
15:20But can you imagine tuning into Raw
15:22and Michael Cole telling you,
15:24wow, we just hired this brand new creative writer
15:26who's really gonna help our storylines
15:28and his name is Simon Miller.
15:30I mean, you may as well look down the lens
15:31and go,
15:32ha ha,
15:32wrestling is totally fake.
15:34Of course,
15:34on the 18th of October,
15:351999,
15:36Nitro,
15:37poor Tony Schiavone
15:38and Bobby the Brain Heenan
15:39were meant to do this
15:40because, yep,
15:41Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara
15:42had arrived
15:42to save WCW's product.
15:45And even though they'd said
15:45they wanted a little hoopla,
15:47amazingly,
15:48we had to promote them on TV.
15:49They even got a script that read,
15:51almost word for word,
15:52look,
15:53we know Nitro and Thunder
15:54have been a little worse for wear in 1999,
15:57but now the guys responsible
15:58for Raw's success are on our team,
16:00so things will definitely turn around soon.
16:02So even before they had put pen to paper,
16:05the whole message was,
16:06do not believe in what you're seeing,
16:08it's just a bunch of stupid storylines.
16:10It's also incredibly big-headed,
16:11there's no two ways to talk about it,
16:13because the best writers
16:14do not get heard about
16:15because they're just writing stories.
16:17I've now said that three times.
16:19It's why I would never get mad
16:20at WWE doing the Unreal series,
16:22because one,
16:23kayfabe is broken anyway,
16:24and two,
16:25if this is the way they want to talk about it,
16:27excellent,
16:27it's a unique show
16:28you can totally ignore.
16:29I guess the only thing
16:30you could compare it to
16:31is like you were watching a movie,
16:33and halfway through,
16:34Brad Pitt paused it
16:35to tell you
16:35how the whole thing came together.
16:37Sounds ridiculous, right?
16:38That's because it would be.
16:40Number four,
16:40The Giant's Big Fall.
16:41So in 1995,
16:42when Paul White,
16:43then known as a giant,
16:44walked into WCW,
16:45people got damn excited
16:47because he was massive
16:48and he could move.
16:49The promotion also had the idea
16:50to tell the fans
16:51that he was Andre the Giant's son,
16:53but that quickly faded away
16:54because nobody was going to believe it.
16:56Nothing will be as surreal
16:57as what went down
16:58at Halloween Havoc 1995,
17:00however,
17:00because there,
17:01the giant survived a fall
17:02off the top of a nearby building
17:04and wrestled in the main event
17:06on the same night.
17:07I guess he must be immortal,
17:09he's Highlander.
17:09There's so much to explain here
17:11because WCW,
17:12but they were promoting
17:13a monster truck battle
17:14between vehicles,
17:15one that was going to represent
17:16Hulk Hogan
17:17and the other
17:17that would represent the giant.
17:19It took place
17:20atop the nearby Cobo Hall
17:21and it was Hogan's truck
17:23that took the W.
17:24And if you didn't laugh at that,
17:25you can't know the history.
17:26The giant was so damn mad,
17:27he started feuding with Hulk,
17:29maybe he had a bet on.
17:30And yes,
17:31that is when Paul White
17:32fell to his doom
17:33off a flipping building
17:35and then turned up
17:36an hour later
17:36to work a 15-minute
17:37WCW world title bout.
17:39Of course,
17:39he won that by disqualification,
17:41but listen,
17:42by this stage,
17:42at least he won.
17:43Hulk Hogan wouldn't even
17:45lose the monster truck battle.
17:46That kind of sums it up.
17:47And did WCW ever explain
17:49to us how he was able
17:50to survive this?
17:51I'll give you three seconds.
17:52Three, two, one.
17:53No, no, they did not.
17:55Number three,
17:56Goldberg won't take
17:57his scripted move.
17:58So this,
17:58as far as I'm concerned,
17:59is the worst moment
18:00within professional wrestling,
18:02real life moments aside.
18:03It went down
18:04to the new Blood Rising 2000
18:05pay-per-view,
18:06which is an absolute
18:07abomination of a show,
18:08and saw a match
18:09between Goldberg,
18:10Kevin Nash,
18:10and Scott Steiner
18:11go completely off the rails.
18:12This is because
18:13halfway through,
18:14Kevin Nash was going
18:15to powerbomb Goldberg.
18:16Bill decided
18:17he didn't want to do that.
18:18He stormed off
18:19when he bumped into
18:20Vince Bruce
18:20at the top of the stage
18:21where he said to Vince,
18:23I am not going
18:24to follow your script.
18:25I do not want to do this.
18:27The commentators
18:28also doubled down
18:29and said,
18:29yep, that's Bill Goldberg
18:30not doing as he was instructed.
18:32What an unprofessional person.
18:34You should follow the script.
18:36You can't see it right now,
18:37but once again,
18:37I'm crying.
18:38They even went as far
18:39as to tell us
18:39that Nash was going
18:40to have to improvise
18:41the finish
18:41to this triple threat match.
18:43And I ask you
18:44the question, my friends,
18:45what was Vince Russo thinking
18:46and who was this for?
18:48We use wrestling
18:49as a distraction
18:50to all of our problems,
18:51so we pretend
18:52that it's real.
18:53That's half the flipping fun.
18:54It didn't work either
18:55because so many people
18:56tuned off after this
18:57and basically decided
18:58never to buy
18:58a WCW pay-per-view again
19:00because they felt like
19:01their intelligence
19:02had been insulted.
19:03You can imagine
19:03the commentary team
19:04didn't like this either
19:05because they were basically
19:06made of old-school bones.
19:08And finally,
19:09how was this meant
19:10to draw TV ratings?
19:11Who was going to tune in
19:12going, well,
19:13what if Goldberg
19:14follows the script tonight?
19:15Please forgive my language, kids,
19:16but it was shite.
19:17Number two,
19:18the blood misses Kevin Nash.
19:20So Kevin Nash
19:20has talked about this today
19:21and he always laughs his ass off,
19:22which makes it
19:23way more entertaining.
19:24But given everything
19:25that was happening
19:26with WCW around this,
19:27well, it just felt like
19:28another kick in the shit.
19:29It was also around the same time
19:31that WWF has started doing
19:32the bloodbath gimmick
19:33with Gangrel and the Brood.
19:35So as always,
19:35WCW decided,
19:36well, we'll do it
19:37from the ceiling as well
19:38and we shall drop
19:40fake blood onto people.
19:41And even saying that out loud
19:42sounds absolutely insane.
19:44It meant numerous episodes
19:45of Nitro and Thunder
19:46throughout the second half 2000
19:47had this going down
19:48and of course
19:49they would hit various wrestlers.
19:51For some reason,
19:51it also made these individuals
19:53fall on the floor
19:53that they were about to die.
19:55I guess wrestling blood
19:56is more powerful
19:57than normal blood.
19:57You'd think they would have
19:58stopped doing this
19:59after WCW's production team
20:00actually started missing wrestlers.
20:02But nope,
20:03they continued to do it
20:04and they continued to miss.
20:06Russo at his new blood stable
20:07also tried this
20:08on Kevin Nash several times.
20:10And yes,
20:10this goes back
20:10to what we just talked about.
20:12Kevin Nash wouldn't move
20:13and the blood would miss him
20:14by about two feet.
20:16He would then start laughing
20:17because Kevin Nash is the best.
20:19It also meant
20:19the poor people
20:20that did get covered
20:20in the red stuff
20:21were the front row.
20:22Although I'd imagine
20:23they probably enjoyed that.
20:24And yes,
20:25somebody then had to run in
20:26and clean this off the mat
20:27as the wrestler in question
20:28skipped away
20:29like nothing had happened
20:30and that's because it didn't.
20:32To make matters even more OTT,
20:33if you weren't in the main event scene
20:35and the blood missed,
20:36you were still told to sell it
20:37like it was skin melting acids.
20:39Now actually,
20:39I found this one very funny,
20:41but it was also really,
20:42really dumb.
20:43Number one,
20:44Hulk Hogan
20:44can see the ultimate warrior.
20:46So we talk about this
20:47a lot on ups and downs
20:48and it is actually
20:49a logic faux pas
20:50that wrestling still falls into,
20:52but nothing will be worse than this.
20:54Mostly because the Hulk Hogan
20:55versus the ultimate warrior
20:56in 1998 was absolutely dreadful.
20:58It was on the 5th of October,
21:001998 Nitro.
21:01And yes,
21:01during that episode,
21:02Hulk Hogan totally freaked out
21:04because he looked in the mirror
21:05and who did he see
21:06staring back at him?
21:07It was the ultimate warrior.
21:09Eric Bischoff was there too
21:10and he started saying,
21:11Hulk,
21:11what's wrong with you?
21:12I can't see what you're seeing.
21:14But do you know who could see?
21:15Us,
21:16the fans.
21:17Because the ultimate warrior
21:17was being broadcast
21:18on the mirror for television.
21:20So actually,
21:21if you were going to talk
21:21about bonkers people,
21:23there was only one individual
21:23and his name was Eric Bischoff.
21:25It was just one of those things
21:26that WCW came up with
21:28in about eight seconds
21:29and never actually took
21:29an extra minute to go,
21:30uh,
21:31should we be doing this?
21:32And actually,
21:32all of the ultimate warrior's tricks
21:34would come back to bite WCW too.
21:36Everybody has always said
21:37that Davey Boy Smith
21:38was seriously injured
21:39when he landed on a trap door
21:40that,
21:41yes,
21:41was reserved for a warrior entrance
21:43later in the night.
21:44Do not forget as well
21:44that soon after
21:45that Halloween Havoc match,
21:46the ultimate warrior
21:47just disappeared.
21:48And if you don't know,
21:49the only reason
21:50this was signed to begin with
21:51is because Hulk wanted
21:53his WrestleMania win back.
21:54It was an absolute disaster,
21:56but actually,
21:56now that WCW has been dead
21:57for almost three decades,
21:59I would tell you to go
22:00and watch it,
22:00especially the match.
22:01It is laugh out loud funny.
22:03It does not go well at all.
22:05Nor of any other moments
22:06WCW booking stopped making sense.
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