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Worst in the World: The New Blood Gauntlet-WCW Monday Nitro (6/5/2000)

 (Special thanks to Frost for suggesting this match. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below.) WCW in the year 2000; the gift that keeps on giving. You would be seriously hard-pressed to find a single year for a single company that has gotten covered as much as 2000 WCW has. Even 1995, one of, if not the worst year for professional wrestling as a whole, hasn't had as many contributions to Worst in the World that just WCW has for just 2000. But so far, I've only ever looked at bad pay-per-view matches from WCW in 2000. Those are obviously worse, mostly in the sense that putting bad matches on free TV is far less egregious than putting on bad matches on a show that you're charging people money for. That being said, if you thought WCW had their shit together on the weekly shows then you are sorely mistaken. WCW Monday Nitro had plenty of stinkers grace TNT in 2000, and today, I'm taking a look at one of them with this ...

12 Terrible Things That Happened To The Intercontinental Championship (That Are Worse Than a Diva Winning It)

WWE.com On New Year's Day, WWE.com put up an article titled " 10 things we want to see in 2016 " with the above picture of Sasha Banks with the Intercontinental Championship as the picture on the first page. This goes with #9 on the list; "A Diva wins a male championship". While this would of course be impossible due to WWE's views on male-on-female violence, it would be cool to see someone like Banks win a male title, as she has shown to be a better wrestler than some of the men on the roster, and has experience with intergender matches (like this one, where she says her future fiancee has a tiny dick and gets kicked in the mouth by said future fiancee ). In an era where people like Candice LeRae can fight in hardcore matches with three other male wrestlers and we have independent pay-per-views where every match is intergender, it seems wrestling has grown to accept intergender wrestling as another kind of wrestling, instead of just "watch this g...