10 Wildest Wrestling Hoaxes Fans Actually Fell For

10. The WCW Reboot

How did this rumour make it as far as it did?

How, for that matter, did this rumour make it past one person? 

If it wasn’t clear enough, WWE has owned the WCW intellectual property since 2001. When they bought it. And, while WWE has tended to treat WCW as toilet paper, it is ultimately theirs to do with it as they wish. 

In December 2020 - a time when a lot of people were desperate for good news - a total fantasist going by @WCW_2021 claimed that, with the backing of ‘SkyStorm Productions’, the long-defunct league was set for a “Rebirth”. The scam artist even went as far to claim that the promotion would be taping out of Florida from October 2021. Great job, genius: pretend you’re running the one state that had had its fill of pro wrestling at a time when nobody else had the opportunity to go out and watch it. 

Then again…is that not the very, impossibly dumb spirit with which WCW was founded?

A lot of people will believe anything, provided it’s what they want to hear.