The Wrestling Section

It's October 1996, and WCW is thriving. With the New World Order forming three months prior at Bash at the Beach, the now-Hollywood Hulk Hogan reclaiming the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and spray painting "nWo" on it the following month at Hog Wild, and Sting walking out on WCW the following month at Fall Brawl, the product is unbelievably hot. So much so that Monday Nitro was 17 weeks deep into their legendary 83-week winning streak in the ratings battle with the WWF's Monday Night Raw. This storyline was hitting, and WCW was looking to continue that hot streak with the main event of Halloween Havoc, with Hogan defending his World Heavyweight Championship against his former tag partner and longtime rival Randy Savage. Would this match create another iconic, memorable moment like the previous three pay-per-views?...Not really. This match, the first time Hogan and Savage would face off in a singles match since the WWF's "The Main Event III" in 1990...

In total, I have covered six different matches from WCW's Fall Brawl '98 pay-per-view on the Worst in the World. That led me to call it "quite possibly the worst top-to-bottom wrestling show that has ever been put on by a major company" nearly two years ago. Well, to close out A Very WCW October, I'd like to present another WCW pay-per-view that could easily take that title; Halloween Havoc 2000. While it doesn't have quite as bad of an average star rating as Fall Brawl did, the sheer amount of bad matches on the card has to put it into consideration. Halloween Havoc 2000 featured 11 matches. Only three have a rating from Dave Meltzer higher than a single star. That's eight one-star or lower matches. I've already looked at Mike Awesome vs Vampiro and Jeff Jarrett vs Sting, so let's finish off the rest of Halloween Havoc 2000's horrifyingly bad matches. Match #1: Cajun & Loco vs The Perfect Event Our first match from Halloween Havoc 2000 is...