5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (Sept 21)

5. WWE StarrCade

What an oxymoron that is. It just reads wrong, and that's probably because it is.

Of all the old WCW brand names to exhume, the über-patriotic WWE was always going to go with the Great American Bash - which they soon tired of. Since 2009's The Bash, in which an American was dropped harder than Lex Luger circa 1995, WWE has resisted overtures to "bring back!" the old WCW pay-per-view names, with the almost-exception of TV special Clash of the Champions. Those longing for the return of the brilliantly camp Halloween Havoc set design just had to realise that WCW sucked, it always sucked, and that's how WWE blew it out of the water.

Until it needed to borrow its legacy to prop up a house show faced with opposition from a convention. The stars aligned to make it so - the date and the venue may not be entirely accidental - but it feels like grave-robbing a corpse, all the same, purely to cash in on a strand of nostalgia the company actively raged against for years. It's a sad indictment of wrestling history, really; StarrCade was a revolution in pro wrestling, and WWE is sullying its good name - nay, it's legendary name - for a glorified b*stard house show with no immediate plans for even a Network broadcast.

Apparently, WWE plans to raid the intellectual property yet further. This isn't StarrCade. It's Greed, and empty nostalgia generated by company unable to get its New Blood Rising.