8 Awesome WCW Ideas That Didn't Last

8. Spin The Wheel, Make The Deal

Imagine a Mad Max version of Wheel of Fortune, in which instead of winning fabulous cash prizes or a trip to Italy, you're forced into a barbaric, depraved deathmatch (John Leslie could still host). That was basically the idea behind WCW's Halloween Havoc '92 gimmick, 'Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal', in which Sting and Jake Roberts spun, well, a big wheel, contesting whatever match the needle landed on.

In theory, this was a rad idea, selling the pay-per-view on the strength of the unknown quantity, as opposed to say, promoting tired stipulations for no reason besides the calendar demanding it. Unfortunately, WCW being WCW didn't think to rig this 'unknown quantity', resulting in the worst possible main event: a coal miner's glove match.

What's a coal miner's glove match? Good question. Effectively, it was your standard 'thing-on-a-pole' affair, that thing being, erm, a coal miner's glove. Just a big ol' glove. This sucked in practice - though WCW did at least give the novel wheel concept another spin the next year before binning it off.