10 Opening Wrestling PPV Matches Better Than The Main Event

10. Billy Kidman Vs. Rey Mysterio Vs. Juventud Guerrera (Starrcade 1998)

Main Event: Kevin Nash vs. Goldberg

Here's a booking formula that often plagued WCW's later years: Open the show with your very best cruiserweights giving it their all, close it out with your most overpaid egomaniacs delivering a lukewarm pile of garbage. Repeat until someone is fired.

Despite the cruiserweight division being shoved to the background and left to its own devices -- or possibly because of that -- the high-flyers would frequently outshine the big stars. Starrcade '98 was no exception. Kidman, Mysterio, and Juvy put on a gravity-defying spectacle that, wonderfully enough, wasn't anything out of the ordinary.

No, this wasn't the highlight of anyone's career. But there was rarely a moment that somebody wasn't flying through the air to perform a jaw-dropping "how do they do that?" type of moment.

The main event between Nash and Goldberg, however, had more "why did they do that?" moments than anything else. Why did they try to stretch the match time beyond ten minutes -- overstuffing it with corner work and pseudo-submission maneuvers -- when both men excelled in short burst situations? Why did Eric Bischoff allow Nash to become head booker? Why did Nash use that newfound power to create such an ungodly misguided finish?

Sadly, the answers to those questions don't ease the pain of seeing Goldberg's streak end at the hands of a damn stun gun.