10 Cringeworthy Worked Shoots In Wrestling History
9. Sid Doesn't Have Any Scissors
We could basically make an entire list of bad worked shoots from Russo-era WCW, but for the sake of yours our our sanity, let's just stick to the highlights, shall we?
In April of 2000, Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff united forces as the heads of WCW creative, and onscreen, they forged an alliance with several other talent named "The New Blood." As part of this new initiative, Russo declared that all the titles in WCW would be vacated and fought for in tournaments. Sid Vicious, who was the WCW World champion at the time, was cross about this, saying he would not relinquish his belt under the threat of violence. Eric Bischoff strolled down the aisle and said that Sid wouldn't do anything to him since "he didn't have any scissors."
Context: in the early '90s, in a heated argument, Sid and Arn Anderson got physical, with Sid stabbing Arn multiple times with a pair of scissors. The incident widely went hush outside of the wrestling world, and most fans wouldn't know aside from the hardcore fans on the internet who read about this kind of scuttlebutt.
Unfortunately, Russo's main source of feedback was that group of scuttlebutt-reading internet fans, and thus scripted Bischoff to say the aforementioned line. The commentators acted shocked at Bischoff's remarks, while everyone in attendance sat there in silence, completely unaware of why what he said was a big deal.