9 Worst WCW Pay-Per-Views Of All Time

9. Slamboree 2000

...Or the one where David Arquette ruined everything just by being there.

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Heading into Slamboree 2000, David Arquette was the WCW World Heavyweight Champion. Just let that sink in for a moment. The 5' 10", 160 pound actor won the title and held it long enough to walk into a WCW PPV still wearing it around his waist.

So...strike one, Slamboree.

Everything leading up to that was pretty much standard, mixed bag stuff for WCW. The opening match was a botch fest, and then there was a hot mess of a hardcore match between the usually reliable Terry Funk and Norman Smiley.

But then Scott Steiner actually put on a match with Hugh Morris - excuse me, Hugh G. Rection...ugh - that was worth watching! And both Mike Awesome and Chris Kanyon looked pretty solid in their match, too.

Then, just when it looks like this turn out to be a halfway decent event, the ridiculous amount of interference starts to set in.

Roughly two-thirds of the matches had at least one person interfering. One of the few clean finishes, thankfully, was in the Sting vs. Vampiro match, which was the standout of the night. So, naturally, it was also the shortest of the night.

As for the actual main event, the triple threat cage match was honestly much better than it had any right to. Of course, a lot of that has to do with the fact that Arquette pretty much just stayed out of the way and let Jeff Jarrett and DDP go at it.

But then why involve that little bastard at all? Clearly the cross-promotional funding didn't help the company much in the long run.

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