15 Exact Moments WCW Booking Stopped Making Sense
WWE could have Roman Reigns reprise Bastion Booger and it still wouldn't be as illogical as WCW.
Insert jokes about WCW never making sense from the off here.
In truth, the promotion was a barrel of laughs even at its worst. There are loads of misconceptions about what World Championship Wrestling had to offer, and a lot of that thinking was caused by relentless WWE propaganda over the years since WCW's 2001 demise. If Vince McMahon wanted to trade barbs and rewrite history, then someone needed to have a "propaganda" at the tripe he was peddling on occasion pre-'Attitude'.
There is merit to the chuckles at WCW's expense though. They booked some content so illogical, lifeless and spotty it'd make Tony Khan's treatment of the whole Devil storyline with Adam Cole and MJF over in AEW look world class by comparison. A lot of that came once Vince Russo took the helm in 1999, but not all of it. Russo should never be single-handedly raked over hot coals for everything.
He wasn't there for roughly half of the barmy shenanigans detailed in this collection. Bro was too busy feeding the WWF powerhouse as head writer and getting mentally fatigued at the mere mention of the word SmackDown. However, Russo did pack in his fair whack of ridiculousness once he joined WCW as an apparent new saviour in late-'99.
Anyone enjoying then-recent PS1 release Silent Hill had zero clue they were in for a pro wrestling-themed hellish landscape to rival it on episodes of Nitro and Thunder that same year. Not even Harry Mason could've survived into 2000! WCW's booking was sporadically all over the bloody place.
Here's exactly when some of the biggest creative culprits stopped making any sense whatsoever.
15. The Stretcher Match That Wasn’t
Big Sid Vicious couldn't wait to be shot of WCW come SuperBrawl 1 in May 1991. The WWF beckoned, but Vicious had one more contractual obligation to see out on WCW's new pay-per-view. They'd booked him in a 'Stretcher Match' against El Gigante. It looked woeful on paper, and it'd wind up being even worse in execution live on air. Honestly, this might've been the worst combination possible at the time.
Get this: Gigante beat Sid in just over 2 minutes in the gimmick bout. To make things even funnier/more tragic, Vicious didn't even leave on the stretcher as planned. He simply marched out of the building and out of WCW until 1993. Work that one out. Bet the 'Card Subject To Change' small print on tickets came in handy on that occasion, because people didn't really get what was advertised.
This was so typically clumsy of the haphazard promotion.
Firstly, even putting El Gigante vs. Sid Vicious down on format sheets should've got somebody slapped. That was never going to be a winning combo, largely because Gigante couldn't work a lick, and an unmotivated, ready to leave Sid was never going to be the right guy to pull a decent match out of him.
Second, they didn't honour the stipulation. Looking back, this should've been booked as a simple 'Loser Leaves Town' match instead of the half-baked stretcher idea that Vicious clearly wasn't keen on anyway. The only thing needing hospitalised here was WCW's logic. They didn't really show any, and that hurt SuperBrawl's midcard.
Sid didn't care - he was off to the fed for money spinning matches with Hulk Hogan.