10 WCW Moments You Totally Don’t Remember
Two Warrior Nation, baby!
'World Championship Wrestling' conjures up so many images. Ric Flair leading The Four Horsemen into battle, the rise of the nWo, Starrcade, Nitro, those amazing Cruiserweight matches, and Goldberg casually refusing to do the job for Kevin Nash's Powerbomb. Wait, what?
No need to read that last one again. It actually happened, and it was a storyline. In a company where so much was good, the bad usually took centre stage and left a sour taste in everyone's mouths. Moments like that reside in the part of your brain reserved for junk you've forgotten, but it's time to relive them.
Think you remember everything about WCW? Think again, because so many weird and wonderful moments happened down in Atlanta. And by 'wonderful', we actually mean, 'what the hell were they smoking?'. Probably the same as The Giant...
10. Jimmy Hart Wrestling A DJ On Pay-Per-View (Twice)
So successful was Jimmy Hart rolling around with shock-jock Mancow at Spring Stampede 2000 that WCW's brain trust decided to do it all over again seven months later at Mayhem. We're kidding (but not about the rematch), of course, because the first Hart vs. 'Cow match made Tank Abbott vs. Jerry Flynn look like a surefire Wrestling Observer award winner.
You've probably blocked this from memory, but legendary manager Jimmy Hart did actually wrestle Chicago-based radio host Mancow Muller on two separate WCW pay-per-views. Yes, people were expected to pay for this rubbish more than once. Welcome to WCW in the year 2000, a 12-month span that is forever immortalised on the WWE Network.
There's no point comparing the Spring Stampede and Mayhem matches: they were both horrendous examples of crossover 'celebrity' appearances. Nobody wanted to see Mancow effectively have a catfight with one of wrestling's greatest ever managers. Nobody.