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Worst in the World: Vince Russo Ruins Nitro

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(Special thanks to Frost for suggesting these matches. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below.)
Vince Russo. What can you really say about Vince Russo that hasn't already been said thousands of times online before? He's the man who headed up the WWF's creative team during the most successful period in the company's history, but was also the head of WCW's creative team during their complete collapse. Some people see him as a creative genius that wrote some of the highest-rated segments in WWF history. Others see him as a terrible writer whose ideas led to the death of WCW. He's easily one of, if not the most polarizing figures in the history of professional wrestling. But even the most adamant Vince Russo supporters have to agree on one thing...Vince Russo should never have stepped foot in a wrestling ring. Vince Russo began appearing on screen for WCW in April 2000, and while Russo as an on-screen character isn't exactly bad, his own writing did him no favors. This was around the same time he came up with That 70's Guy Mike Awesome and Hugh G. Rection, so even calling his writing "bad" is being too kind. And, as it tends to be with non-wrestling on-screen characters professional wrestling at the time, Vince Russo stepped in the ring on more than a few occasions for WCW. None of them are good. Now, non-wrestlers in non-wrestling matches are generally pretty bad. Hell, I've covered more than a few of them in this series. But it's not impossible for them to be good, or at the very least enjoyable. Just look at Russo's old boss, Vince McMahon. Yeah, he's had some duds, but he's also had the Steel Cage match with Steve Austin at St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the WrestleMania XIX match with Hulk Hogan, and even the WrestleMania X-7 match with son Shane. Are any of those matches technical masterpieces? Not by a long shot. But are they still memorable and far better than they have any business being? Absolutely. Some of Russo's matches are also memorable...just for the wrong reasons. Today, I'll be taking a look at the most infamous of Russo's matches. Thankfully, WCW never had the outright gull to put any of Russo's matches on pay-per-view and try to charge people money to watch them, so all three of these matches are from Nitro in 2000, the last full year Nitro was on the air. And considering WCW was putting matches like these on Nitro, that's not surprising.

Match #1

The first of Russo's matches I'll be covering comes from the June 6th episode of Nitro. If that date sounds familiar to you, that's because that is the same date that the match I covered last week, Kevin Nash running the "New Blood Gauntlet" took place on. WCW really loaded up this show with absolute shit. It's really not that surprising that the Monday Night RAW was doubling Nitro in the ratings around this time. Before Kevin Nash buried half the midcard six feet under, Vince Russo stepped into the ring for just the third time in his career, as he squared off with Ric Flair in a "Caged Heat" match. A Caged Heat match is just a Hell in a Cell match, only with Steel Cage rules. I don't know why they did it this way. As Russo was the leader of the New Blood and Flair was one of the top guys in the Millionaire's Club, the two crossed paths frequently during this time, in a feud that also saw Flair's son David turning on him and aligning with Russo, leading to this cage match. Let's get into this.
Russo is out first, followed by Flair along with his wife Beth and younger son Reid. The bell rings and the two lock up, with Russo taking control with a headlock. Russo follows up with a shoulder block and a celebration but flees into the ropes in a clunky manner when Flair recovers quickly. Russo low blows Flair with a mule kick before chopping him and mocking Flair's strut. Flair responds by ripping Russo's shirt off and chopping him before kicking him right in the balls. Flair follows up with a back body drop before dropping a knee, prompting Russo to scurry out of the ring. Flair follows him out of the ring, throwing him around and into the cage, adding in a few chops and punches for good measure. Suddenly, David Flair pops out from under the ring but immediately flees into the ring when his dad catches him. As Ric beats down David in the ring, Russo takes out the referee Charles Robinson and tries to leave through the cage door, only for Reid Flair to bite his fingers, prompting Russo to smack him through the fence. I'm not going to make a GIF of that because I have a strong feeling that Google is not a fan of child abuse on their site. I'm like 99.9% sure about that one.
Ric continues working over his son in the ring before tossing David over the top rope and out of the ring. As Ric continues to beat down David outside the ring, Russo grabs a ladder in an attempt to climb out through the hatch on top of the cage. Despite Flair's attempts to stop him, Russo makes it to the top of the cage, prompting Flair to follow him. Flair insinuates he's going to throw Russo off the cage before he chops him. Russo creates space by raking Flair's eyes and climbs back through the hole in the cage, but the ladder somehow got knocked over, leaving Russo hanging onto the roof. Flair stomps Russo's fingers, causing him to fall to the mat as Charles Robinson sets the ladder back up for Flair to climb down safely. Normally I'd say that that's biased refereeing, but since Lil' Naitch Charles Robinson has a pre-established history with Flair, I'll give it a pass. Ric beats down both Russo & David before locking in the Figure Four Leg Lock. Russo survives in the hold for OVER A MINUTE, far longer than a non-wrestler should be able to stay in a hold from an actual wrestler. Although, Russo probably only stayed in the hold for so long because someone might've missed their cue, because eventually, Flair gets hit with a BLOODBATH!
And no, Gangrel has not jumped ship to WCW. I guess because Russo's in the "New Blood" that it's only fitting that they would give people bloodbaths...I think. Actually, it's not a bloodbath, because Tony Schiavone calls it the "red of the New Blood" on commentary. It's so weird. You can show blood, groups can have "blood" in their name. Hell, Flair cut a promo earlier in this show where he says Russo is gonna bleed. You can do all that, but actually referring to blood as blood is too far? It makes no sense. David recovers and (because getting blood dropped on him completely incapacitates Ric for some reason) locks in Figure Four on his dad. Russo covers Flair as this happens and the referee counts the three to give the win to Russo.

The Verdict

You know, for a match with a Hell in a Cell cage, brawling on the roof, and a fucking BLOODBATH...this match is really dull. Russo's not good in the ring, obviously, and Flair really isn't doing anything all that good here. It's not even so beyond terrible, it's just boring. There's really no reason to watch this...at all.

The Rankings (Best to Worst)

  1. Tommy Dreamer vs Bully Ray-Victory Road 2011
  2. Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts-WrestleMania IV
  3. Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
  4. Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns-Greatest Royal Rumble
  5. Ernest Miller vs Norman Smiley-Fall Brawl 1998
  6. Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff-SummerSlam 2003
  7. The Tag Team Gauntlet-Extreme Rules 2010
  8. Hernandez vs Matt Morgan-Victory Road 2011
  9. Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 33
  10. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
  11. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
  12. The Women's Tag Team Turmoil-WrestleMania 37 (Night 1)
  13. Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
  14. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
  15. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
  16. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
  17. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
  18. Steve McMichael vs Reggie White-Slamboree 1997
  19. Lars Sullivan vs Lucha House Party-Super Showdown 2019
  20. Alexa Bliss vs Bayley-Extreme Rules 2017
  21. The Tag Team Fatal 4-Way Match-WrestleMania 13
  22. Tag Team Battle Royal-WrestleMania XIV
  23. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
  24. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
  25. Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
  26. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
  27. Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata vs Daniel & Rolles Gracie-Wrestle Kingdom 8
  28. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
  29. Giant Baba vs Bulldog Bob Brown-WrestleRock
  30. The Reverse Battle Royal-Impact! (10/26/2006)
  31. Jerry Blackwell vs Boris Zhukov-SuperClash II
  32. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  33. Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
  34. The Great Khali vs Kane-WrestleMania 23
  35. Savio Vega vs Crush vs Faarooq-Ground Zero: In Your House
  36. The Shockmaster vs Awesome/King Kong-Starrcade 1993
  37. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  38. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  39. Team RAW vs Team SmackDown Men's Elimination Match-Survivor Series 2017
  40. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  41. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
  42. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
  43. Konnan vs Scott Hall-Fall Brawl 1998
  44. Damian Priest vs The Miz-WrestleMania Backlash
  45. Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
  46. Kane vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2009
  47. Rick Steiner vs Scott Steiner-Fall Brawl 1998
  48. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  49. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
  50. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
  51. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
  52. Mr. Anderson vs Rob Van Dam-Victory Road 2011
  53. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  54. El Gigante vs Nailz-G1 Climax 1994 (Day 1)
  55. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
  56. Dusty Rhodes vs The Honky Tonk Man-SummerSlam 1989
  57. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
  58. The Hurt Business vs RETRIBUTION-WWE Monday Night RAW (10/26/2020)
  59. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
  60. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  61. Vince Russo vs Ric Flair-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
  62. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  63. Antonio Inoki vs The Great Antonio-NJPW Sumo Hall Show (12/8/1977)
  64. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  65. British Bulldog & Jim Neidhart vs The Dancing Fools-Fall Brawl 1998
  66. Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
  67. Vampiro vs The KISS Demon-Bash at the Beach 2000
  68. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
  69. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  70. Big Swole vs Penelope Ford, Rebel, and Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.-AEW Dynamite (8/27/2020)
  71. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
  72. Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton-Battleground 2017
  73. Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
  74. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  75. The New Blood Gauntlet-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
  76. Chris Jericho vs "Goldberg"-Fall Brawl 1998
  77. Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania 33
  78. The Undertaker vs Goldberg-Super ShowDown 2019
  79. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  80. Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
  81. Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
  82. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
  83. The Undertaker vs Giant González-WrestleMania IX
  84. Sting vs Tony Palmore-Battle 7
  85. D-Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction-Crown Jewel
  86. Wendi Richter vs Leilani Kai-WrestleMania
  87. Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar-WrestleMania XX
  88. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
  89. Rosita & Sarita vs Angelina Love & Winter-Victory Road 2011
  90. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  91. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  92. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
  93. Boris Zhukov vs Paul Samson-Beach Brawl
  94. Roddy Piper vs Hollywood Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1997
  95. Kane vs The Great Khali-Breaking Point
  96. Hollywood Hogan & Dennis Rodman vs Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone-Bash at the Beach 1998
  97. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
  98. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  99. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
  100. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
  101. Sting vs Hollywood Hogan-Starrcade 1997
  102.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  103. Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
  104. Brock Lesnar vs Cain Velasquez-Crown Jewel 2019
  105. King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
  106. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  107. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
  108. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
  109. The Knockouts Gauntlet-One Night Only: Live! 2016
  110. AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg-No Surrender 2008
  111. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
  112. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
  113. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
  114. Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
  115. The Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal-WrestleMania 25
  116. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
  117. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
  118. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
  119. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
  120. Daffney vs Miss Hancock-Bash at the Beach 2000
  121. The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
  122. Randy Orton vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 37 (Night 2)
  123. The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
  124. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
  125. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  126. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  127. Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
  128. Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-WWE Monday Night RAW (7/8/2002)
  129. Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
  130. Goldberg vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Super ShowDown 2020
  131. Santina Marella vs Vickie & Chavo Guerrero-Extreme Rules 2009
  132. Kevin Nash vs Scott Steiner vs Goldberg-New Blood Rising
  133. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  134. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
  135. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  136. The House of Horrors Match-Payback 2017
  137. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
  138. Team Dos Caras vs Team El Canek-Leyendas Mexicanas 2017
  139. Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
  140. The Wyatt Swamp Fight-The Horror Show at Extreme Rules
  141. The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
  142. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  143. Bret Hart vs Mr. McMahon-WrestleMania XVI
  144. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
  145. Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman-Crown Jewel 2018
  146. Brock Lesnar vs Ricochet-Super ShowDown 2020
  147. The Mighty Maccabee vs The Iron Sheik-Maccabiah Mania II: Shekel Slam
  148. Van Hammer vs Doug Somers-Halloween Havoc 1991
  149. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  150. Jeff Jarrett vs Sting-Halloween Havoc 2000
  151. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
  152. Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
  153. Rebel vs Shelly Martinez-One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown
  154. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/2010)
  155. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
  156. Seth Rollins vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Hell in a Cell 2019
  157. Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler-WrestleMania XXVII
  158. The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
  159. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  160. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
  161. Hulk Hogan vs The Giant-Halloween Havoc 1995
  162. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
  163. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
  164. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009

Match #2

The second Russo match I'll be taking a look at happened three months after the Flair match on the September 4th episode of Nitro. This is the only non-singles match of Russo's I'll be taking a look at, as it's a four-on-four match, but don't worry, there's still plenty of shenanigans to be had in this match. Because this isn't a normal four-on-four match, it's, in my best William Regal voice...WARGAMES! To be fair, however, even calling this a WarGames match is pretty inaccurate. For starters, there's only one ring. Second, instead of the regular cage used for WarGames, WCW decided to bust out the old Ready to Rumble Triple Cage for this match. Because if they spent all that money to make it, you're damn sure they're going to use it as much as possible. And third, much like the OTHER worst WarGames match ever, this match as one singular prize in the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, which is hanging above the third and final cage. So it's a WarGames match, except it doesn't use two rings, it uses a different cage, and the prize can only be won by one person. This is a WarGames match in name only.
And to add to the confusion of this match, the line-up changes. The original match saw the team of Sting, Booker T, Goldberg, and Ernest "The Cat" Miller taking on the team of Kevin Nash, Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner, and Russo himself. However, every member of the first team was forced to qualify for the match earlier in the night, and Miller lost, which put in KroniK (Bryan Clarke & Brian Adams) in the match instead...and then Russo just added Ron & Don Harris to the match when he was supposed to enter. So I don't know who's actually in the match, because multiple different sites (Wikipedia, cagematch.net, and profightdb.com) have different combinations of participants. This is already chaos. Also, Nash is the reigning world champion. As I said last time, getting world title shots in WCW in 2000 was extremely easy. Let's get into this. This is WarGames 2000: Russo's Revenge...that is the official tagline by the way.
Jeff Jarrett and Sting start the match, with Sting taking the early advantage with punches, a dropkick, and a clothesline sending Jarrett over the top rope. Outside the ring, Sting throws Jarrett into the cage multiple times before throwing him into the ring steps. Sting throws a ladder back into the ring, but Jarrett recovers and takes the fight to Sting. Sting quickly regains control by throwing Jarrett into the ladder in the corner before the timer hits zero, sending Scott Steiner in a face mask to the ring.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think he's wearing it because Goldberg legitimately broke his orbital bone, an injury that Steiner apparently didn't miss any time because of according to Lance Storm. Scott Steiner is a crazy man and I love him with all my heart.
Steiner prevents Sting from climbing through the roof before he & Jarrett hit Sting with the ladder as he hangs from the roof, causing him to fall and crotch himself on the top rope. Steiner & Jarrett beat down Sting as the timer runs down, sending both members of KroniK down to the ring. Steiner takes the opportunity to climb to the second cage, which is full of weapons, leaving Jarrett to get beat down by KroniK in the ring. Steiner uses bolt cutters to break the lock on the second cage's door, but KroniK manages to get to the second cage before he can escape. KroniK double presses Steiner into the roof of the second cage before giving him the softest gutbuster I've ever seen because Steiner might be wild, but he's not wild enough to take anything resembling a bump on this piece of shit cage.
It literally looks like it's going to collapse just by having people walk on it.
The timer hits zero again, bringing out Vince Russo accompanied by the Harris Brothers. Russo enters the cage as Ron & Don climb the outside of the cage. Sting locks in the Scorpion Death Lock on Jarrett as Steiner escapes back to the first cage while the KroniK brawls with the Harris Brothers in the second cage. This is already incomprehensible and there are still two more people who have yet to enter the match. Sting powerbomb Steiner as he hangs from the roof before hitting Russo with a Stiner Splash and locking in the Scorpion Death Lock on him. The Harris Brothers and KroniK continue to brawl in the second cage as the timer runs out and Kevin Nash makes his way down to the ring. I'd don't know why the heel team gets two people in a row. I'd say it goes against the rules, but this match is an absolute clusterfuck, so I don't know. 
Nash picks up Steiner, but Sting quickly catches both men with a Stinger Splash. Nash & Steiner both dodge the follow-up attempt, allowing Nash to chokeslam Sting. Nash then teases chokeslamming Russo, Jarrett, and Steiner as KroniK and the Harris Brothers brawl out of the cage and into the crowd. In all this commotion, the timer hits zero as  Booker T makes his entrance. Booker gives Jarrett, Steiner, and Russo a scissor kick each but is quickly taken out with a big boot from Nash. Nash once again teases attacking Russo, this time with a Jackknife Powerbomb, before the final entrant Goldberg enters. Nash quickly leaves the ring as Goldberg runs through Jarrett & Steiner, who saved Russo from a beatdown. Russo floors Goldberg with a baseball bat before he, Jarrett, and Steiner handcuff Goldberg to the ropes. Meanwhile, Booker climbs up to the second cage, followed by Steiner, Sting, Jarrett, and Russo. Meanwhile, Kevin Nash is the smartest person in the match, not bothering with any kind of climbing or bumping, as he just chills in the first cage. He's too good for this shit and he knows it.
Booker grabs the title, fending off Jarrett before striking him with the belt. Booker does the same to Steiner before re-entering the second cage. Also, at this time, we see Sting has been handcuffed to the cage, which is something the commentators didn't even know happened. If so much is happening in a match at once that the commentators can't keep track of everything happening, then you're doing too much. 
Jarrett & Steiner recover as they beat down Booker, with Jarrett breaking a guitar over his head. Steiner drops the world title down into the first cage, where Russo picks it up and taunts Goldberg with it. Suddenly, Ernest Miller runs down and kicks Russo in the head. Fairplay to Russo, he sells this like a champ. Miller celebrates with the title, only for Kevin Nash to enter the ring and immediately Jackknife him. Goldberg manages to break the handcuffs and mule kicks Nash, which is the first actual move Nash takes in this match. Goldberg runs through all the heels, even blocking a bat shot from Russo before flooring him and grabbing the title. Goldberg starts to leave the cage, only for Bret Hart to pop up out of the crowd and slam the door in his face. Steiner floors Goldberg with a pipe (which the camera misses) as Russo regains the title. Nash teases hitting Russo again...but SWERVE! Nash hugs Russo before Russo hands Nash the title and the entire group leaves the cage, giving Nash the win and the successful title defense.

The Verdict

Oh my god, fuck this match. It's completely incomprehensible. You cannot follow this match at all. Add on the order of entrances making no sense and people just making random appearances. I know I said that this match is barely even a WarGames match, but this is still far worse than the WarGames match at Fall Brawl '98. At least at Fall Brawl, you can understand what's going on. This is a mess and by far the worst WarGames match I've ever seen.

 The Rankings (Best to Worst)

  1. Tommy Dreamer vs Bully Ray-Victory Road 2011
  2. Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts-WrestleMania IV
  3. Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
  4. Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns-Greatest Royal Rumble
  5. Ernest Miller vs Norman Smiley-Fall Brawl 1998
  6. Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff-SummerSlam 2003
  7. The Tag Team Gauntlet-Extreme Rules 2010
  8. Hernandez vs Matt Morgan-Victory Road 2011
  9. Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 33
  10. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
  11. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
  12. The Women's Tag Team Turmoil-WrestleMania 37 (Night 1)
  13. Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
  14. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
  15. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
  16. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
  17. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
  18. Steve McMichael vs Reggie White-Slamboree 1997
  19. Lars Sullivan vs Lucha House Party-Super Showdown 2019
  20. Alexa Bliss vs Bayley-Extreme Rules 2017
  21. The Tag Team Fatal 4-Way Match-WrestleMania 13
  22. Tag Team Battle Royal-WrestleMania XIV
  23. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
  24. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
  25. Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
  26. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
  27. Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata vs Daniel & Rolles Gracie-Wrestle Kingdom 8
  28. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
  29. Giant Baba vs Bulldog Bob Brown-WrestleRock
  30. The Reverse Battle Royal-Impact! (10/26/2006)
  31. Jerry Blackwell vs Boris Zhukov-SuperClash II
  32. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  33. Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
  34. The Great Khali vs Kane-WrestleMania 23
  35. Savio Vega vs Crush vs Faarooq-Ground Zero: In Your House
  36. The Shockmaster vs Awesome/King Kong-Starrcade 1993
  37. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  38. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  39. Team RAW vs Team SmackDown Men's Elimination Match-Survivor Series 2017
  40. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  41. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
  42. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
  43. Konnan vs Scott Hall-Fall Brawl 1998
  44. Damian Priest vs The Miz-WrestleMania Backlash
  45. Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
  46. Kane vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2009
  47. Rick Steiner vs Scott Steiner-Fall Brawl 1998
  48. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  49. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
  50. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
  51. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
  52. Mr. Anderson vs Rob Van Dam-Victory Road 2011
  53. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  54. El Gigante vs Nailz-G1 Climax 1994 (Day 1)
  55. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
  56. Dusty Rhodes vs The Honky Tonk Man-SummerSlam 1989
  57. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
  58. The Hurt Business vs RETRIBUTION-WWE Monday Night RAW (10/26/2020)
  59. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
  60. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  61. Vince Russo vs Ric Flair-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
  62. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  63. Antonio Inoki vs The Great Antonio-NJPW Sumo Hall Show (12/8/1977)
  64. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  65. British Bulldog & Jim Neidhart vs The Dancing Fools-Fall Brawl 1998
  66. Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
  67. Vampiro vs The KISS Demon-Bash at the Beach 2000
  68. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
  69. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  70. Big Swole vs Penelope Ford, Rebel, and Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.-AEW Dynamite (8/27/2020)
  71. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
  72. Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton-Battleground 2017
  73. Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
  74. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  75. The New Blood Gauntlet-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
  76. Chris Jericho vs "Goldberg"-Fall Brawl 1998
  77. Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania 33
  78. The Undertaker vs Goldberg-Super ShowDown 2019
  79. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  80. Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
  81. Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
  82. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
  83. The Undertaker vs Giant González-WrestleMania IX
  84. Sting vs Tony Palmore-Battle 7
  85. D-Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction-Crown Jewel
  86. Wendi Richter vs Leilani Kai-WrestleMania
  87. Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar-WrestleMania XX
  88. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
  89. Rosita & Sarita vs Angelina Love & Winter-Victory Road 2011
  90. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  91. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  92. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
  93. Boris Zhukov vs Paul Samson-Beach Brawl
  94. Roddy Piper vs Hollywood Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1997
  95. Kane vs The Great Khali-Breaking Point
  96. Hollywood Hogan & Dennis Rodman vs Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone-Bash at the Beach 1998
  97. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
  98. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  99. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
  100. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
  101. Sting vs Hollywood Hogan-Starrcade 1997
  102.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  103. Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
  104. Brock Lesnar vs Cain Velasquez-Crown Jewel 2019
  105. King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
  106. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  107. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
  108. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
  109. The Knockouts Gauntlet-One Night Only: Live! 2016
  110. AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg-No Surrender 2008
  111. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
  112. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
  113. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
  114. Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
  115. The Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal-WrestleMania 25
  116. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
  117. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
  118. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
  119. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
  120. Daffney vs Miss Hancock-Bash at the Beach 2000
  121. The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
  122. Randy Orton vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 37 (Night 2)
  123. The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
  124. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
  125. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  126. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  127. Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
  128. Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-WWE Monday Night RAW (7/8/2002)
  129. Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
  130. Goldberg vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Super ShowDown 2020
  131. Santina Marella vs Vickie & Chavo Guerrero-Extreme Rules 2009
  132. Kevin Nash vs Scott Steiner vs Goldberg-New Blood Rising
  133. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  134. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
  135. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  136. The House of Horrors Match-Payback 2017
  137. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
  138. Team Dos Caras vs Team El Canek-Leyendas Mexicanas 2017
  139. Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
  140. The Wyatt Swamp Fight-The Horror Show at Extreme Rules
  141. The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
  142. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  143. Bret Hart vs Mr. McMahon-WrestleMania XVI
  144. WarGames 2000: Russo's Revenge-WCW Monday Nitro (9/4/2000)
  145. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
  146. Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman-Crown Jewel 2018
  147. Brock Lesnar vs Ricochet-Super ShowDown 2020
  148. The Mighty Maccabee vs The Iron Sheik-Maccabiah Mania II: Shekel Slam
  149. Van Hammer vs Doug Somers-Halloween Havoc 1991
  150. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  151. Jeff Jarrett vs Sting-Halloween Havoc 2000
  152. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
  153. Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
  154. Rebel vs Shelly Martinez-One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown
  155. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/2010)
  156. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
  157. Seth Rollins vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Hell in a Cell 2019
  158. Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler-WrestleMania XXVII
  159. The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
  160. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  161. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
  162. Hulk Hogan vs The Giant-Halloween Havoc 1995
  163. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
  164. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
  165. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009

Match #3

And our final match on this post happened just three weeks after the clusterfuck WarGames match. It was during that match that we got plenty of shots of Vince Russo holding the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. But those were just teasing something that would never, ever happen. WCW would never actually put their top title on someone like Vince Russo right...is what I would say if they hadn't put that same world title on David fucking Arquette five months earlier on Thunder. So yes, WCW absolutely would put the world title on Vince Russo. And on the September 25, 2000 episode of Nitro, WCW had the opportunity to put the title on an untrained writer when Booker T defended his newly won title against Russo in another steel cage match. I have no idea why Russo worked so many cage matches in 2000. Also, even though they use the Caged Heat cage, this is still just called a steel cage match. I don't know. As far as I know, the reason Russo got a title shot is that...he wanted one and because he's an authority figure, he can give himself one. Makes sense. He also said he deserved a title shot because he's undefeated...That's right, Vince Russo has never lost in WCW. What a company. Let's get into this.
Russo is out first, decked out in full New York Giants football gear.
Given that the Giants are currently 1-5 on the year and at the bottom of the NFL's biggest punching bag of a division as I'm writing this, a bad football team's jersey being involved in Russo's bad writing is very fitting. Jeremy Borash on commentary hypes up Russo's 9-0 undefeated streak, which is not real. Russo is undefeated in the eight matches he's had in WCW, but two of them have been no contests, and the majority of them are multi-man matches. After Booker enters the cage, a portion of the locker room comes out and surrounds the cage. As Booker plays up the crowd, Russo pulls a baseball bat out of his pants and beats down Booker with the bat. Russo tries to make an early exit, but the cage door is held shut by Mike Awesome & Chavo Guerrero Jr. Russo beats Booker with the bat some more before grabbing a ladder from under the ring. Russo gives Booker another bat shot for good measure before climbing the ladder and getting on top of the cage through the natch. However, he is stopped by Mike Awesome climbing up the cage and Sting repelling down from the rafters, forcing Russo to drop back down into the ring.
After Russo falls, he gives Booker nothing on a bodyslam, but Booker still gets him up and slams him. Booker rips off Russo's helmet. Booker beats down on Russo before hitting a Harlem Side Kick and rolling Russo out of the ring. Booker throws Russo around the cage before beating him down some more. Suddenly, Lex Luger pops out of the crowd and slides a pole to Russo through the cage. Russo beats down Booker with the pole before putting his helmet back on and knocking out the referee for no reason. Russo continues beating down Booker as more referees & EMTs come out to attend to the original referee. Russo also assaults them for no reason until one of them reveals himself as Ric Flair in disguise.
Flair beats down Russo before throwing him in the ring and locking in the Figure Four on him, which Russo immediately breaks for some reason. Suddenly, the Natural Born Thrillers (all the young guys Russo tried to push) all run down and brawl with everyone at ringside, brawling to the back as Booker hits a scissor kick on Russo. Booker follows up with a Harlem Side Kick before grabbing a mic and telling Russo not to hate the player, but to hate the game. It's a lot cooler when he says it. And now we get one of the stupidest endings I've ever seen in wrestling.
Booker is about to leave the cage when Goldberg's music hits. Goldberg runs down and Booker, who is STANDING RIGHT AT THE DOOR, opens it and lets Goldberg in without leaving the cage.
Goldberg high-fives Booker before Scott Steiner runs down and slams the door in Booker's face. Booker responds by kicking the door into Steiner. Meanwhile, Russo has rolled out of the ring and charges at Booker. Goldberg intercepts Russo with a spear and...it happens.
As Booker is stepping out, Goldberg spears Russo through the cage. Goldberg & Booker celebrate as the commentators wonder who actually won the match. But...
Yep...Vince Russo did in fact win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. If Arquette winning the title didn't completely kill its credibility, then this did. And to make it even worse, the person that beat Russo for it was...nobody. Presumably, because he hit his head very hard on the guard rail after that spear, Russo vacated the belt the next week on Nitro. So this was all a gigantic waste of time.

The Verdict

On paper, this is exactly what you'd expect. A heel authority figure using underhanded tactics while the babyface champion defends his title against the odds. If Booker had actually won this match, it wouldn't be that bad. But of course, Booker did not win, and what would've been a random match is now one of the worst booking decisions in wrestling history. And for what? A .15 rise in the ratings for this show followed by a .3 drop the next week. What a terrible idea from a terrible creative team.

The Rankings (Best to Worst)

  1. Tommy Dreamer vs Bully Ray-Victory Road 2011
  2. Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts-WrestleMania IV
  3. Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
  4. Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns-Greatest Royal Rumble
  5. Ernest Miller vs Norman Smiley-Fall Brawl 1998
  6. Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff-SummerSlam 2003
  7. The Tag Team Gauntlet-Extreme Rules 2010
  8. Hernandez vs Matt Morgan-Victory Road 2011
  9. Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 33
  10. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
  11. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
  12. The Women's Tag Team Turmoil-WrestleMania 37 (Night 1)
  13. Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
  14. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
  15. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
  16. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
  17. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
  18. Steve McMichael vs Reggie White-Slamboree 1997
  19. Lars Sullivan vs Lucha House Party-Super Showdown 2019
  20. Alexa Bliss vs Bayley-Extreme Rules 2017
  21. The Tag Team Fatal 4-Way Match-WrestleMania 13
  22. Tag Team Battle Royal-WrestleMania XIV
  23. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
  24. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
  25. Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
  26. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
  27. Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata vs Daniel & Rolles Gracie-Wrestle Kingdom 8
  28. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
  29. Giant Baba vs Bulldog Bob Brown-WrestleRock
  30. The Reverse Battle Royal-Impact! (10/26/2006)
  31. Jerry Blackwell vs Boris Zhukov-SuperClash II
  32. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
  33. Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
  34. The Great Khali vs Kane-WrestleMania 23
  35. Savio Vega vs Crush vs Faarooq-Ground Zero: In Your House
  36. The Shockmaster vs Awesome/King Kong-Starrcade 1993
  37. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
  38. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
  39. Team RAW vs Team SmackDown Men's Elimination Match-Survivor Series 2017
  40. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
  41. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
  42. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
  43. Konnan vs Scott Hall-Fall Brawl 1998
  44. Damian Priest vs The Miz-WrestleMania Backlash
  45. Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
  46. Kane vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2009
  47. Rick Steiner vs Scott Steiner-Fall Brawl 1998
  48. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
  49. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
  50. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
  51. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
  52. Mr. Anderson vs Rob Van Dam-Victory Road 2011
  53. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
  54. El Gigante vs Nailz-G1 Climax 1994 (Day 1)
  55. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
  56. Dusty Rhodes vs The Honky Tonk Man-SummerSlam 1989
  57. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
  58. The Hurt Business vs RETRIBUTION-WWE Monday Night RAW (10/26/2020)
  59. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
  60. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
  61. Vince Russo vs Ric Flair-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
  62. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
  63. Antonio Inoki vs The Great Antonio-NJPW Sumo Hall Show (12/8/1977)
  64. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
  65. British Bulldog & Jim Neidhart vs The Dancing Fools-Fall Brawl 1998
  66. Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
  67. Vampiro vs The KISS Demon-Bash at the Beach 2000
  68. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
  69. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
  70. Big Swole vs Penelope Ford, Rebel, and Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.-AEW Dynamite (8/27/2020)
  71. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
  72. Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton-Battleground 2017
  73. Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
  74. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
  75. The New Blood Gauntlet-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)
  76. Chris Jericho vs "Goldberg"-Fall Brawl 1998
  77. Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker-WrestleMania 33
  78. The Undertaker vs Goldberg-Super ShowDown 2019
  79. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
  80. Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
  81. Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
  82. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
  83. The Undertaker vs Giant González-WrestleMania IX
  84. Sting vs Tony Palmore-Battle 7
  85. D-Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction-Crown Jewel
  86. Wendi Richter vs Leilani Kai-WrestleMania
  87. Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar-WrestleMania XX
  88. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
  89. Rosita & Sarita vs Angelina Love & Winter-Victory Road 2011
  90. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
  91. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
  92. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
  93. Boris Zhukov vs Paul Samson-Beach Brawl
  94. Roddy Piper vs Hollywood Hogan-Halloween Havoc 1997
  95. Kane vs The Great Khali-Breaking Point
  96. Hollywood Hogan & Dennis Rodman vs Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone-Bash at the Beach 1998
  97. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
  98. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
  99. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
  100. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
  101. Sting vs Hollywood Hogan-Starrcade 1997
  102.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
  103. Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
  104. Brock Lesnar vs Cain Velasquez-Crown Jewel 2019
  105. King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
  106. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
  107. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
  108. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
  109. The Knockouts Gauntlet-One Night Only: Live! 2016
  110. AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg-No Surrender 2008
  111. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
  112. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
  113. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
  114. Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
  115. The Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal-WrestleMania 25
  116. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
  117. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
  118. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
  119. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
  120. Daffney vs Miss Hancock-Bash at the Beach 2000
  121. The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
  122. Randy Orton vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 37 (Night 2)
  123. The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
  124. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
  125. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
  126. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
  127. Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
  128. Vince Russo vs Booker T-WCW Monday Nitro (9/25/2000)
  129. Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-WWE Monday Night RAW (7/8/2002)
  130. Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
  131. Goldberg vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Super ShowDown 2020
  132. Santina Marella vs Vickie & Chavo Guerrero-Extreme Rules 2009
  133. Kevin Nash vs Scott Steiner vs Goldberg-New Blood Rising
  134. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
  135. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
  136. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
  137. The House of Horrors Match-Payback 2017
  138. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
  139. Team Dos Caras vs Team El Canek-Leyendas Mexicanas 2017
  140. Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
  141. The Wyatt Swamp Fight-The Horror Show at Extreme Rules
  142. The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
  143. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
  144. Bret Hart vs Mr. McMahon-WrestleMania XVI
  145. WarGames 2000: Russo's Revenge-WCW Monday Nitro (9/4/2000)
  146. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
  147. Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman-Crown Jewel 2018
  148. Brock Lesnar vs Ricochet-Super ShowDown 2020
  149. The Mighty Maccabee vs The Iron Sheik-Maccabiah Mania II: Shekel Slam
  150. Van Hammer vs Doug Somers-Halloween Havoc 1991
  151. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
  152. Jeff Jarrett vs Sting-Halloween Havoc 2000
  153. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
  154. Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
  155. Rebel vs Shelly Martinez-One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown
  156. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/2010)
  157. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
  158. Seth Rollins vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Hell in a Cell 2019
  159. Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler-WrestleMania XXVII
  160. The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
  161. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
  162. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
  163. Hulk Hogan vs The Giant-Halloween Havoc 1995
  164. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
  165. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
  166. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009
Thanks for reading! Be sure to share if you enjoy and leave any suggestions for matches you'd like to see covered in the Worst in the World in the comments. Next time, I'll be heading to the pre-show of Money in the Bank 2016 and looking at a match that should've been fine on paper, but ended up burning everyone involved. Well...some of them, anyway. Until then
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  1. FrostOctober 24, 2021 at 7:42 PM

    Thank you for doing this one! I know you said you wanted to do some of the matches that killed WCW, and maybe more specifically the ones that killed the World Title's credibility. The Fingerpoke and Arquette definitely warrant an entry there, but I was also thinking Bash at the Beach would be another fine addition to your collection.

    Oh, and another idea I had: while we have our list of some of the worst matches in the history of professional wrestling, why not take a look at some of the worst promos as well? Or maybe not promos, but crappy booking decisions, bad gimmicks, storylines, etc. Because some good/decent matches have definitely been soured by awful booking decisions...looking at you, Black v Rhodes III

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    1. CJ BiddleNovember 2, 2021 at 12:20 AM

      The Bash at the Beach match definitely fits the bill for matches that killed WCW, I'll be sure to add that to the list.
      As for a worst promos series, I've considered doing it in the past. However, I've recently started attending film school, and my schedule is a lot different than it has been the last few years. Maybe one day depending on how I balance my time between this blog and school, but for right now, I'm just going to focus on the matches here.

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