10. The Minnesota Massacre Match - 1st January 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cmkSoxtYgo See if youre able to make any sense of this. The Minnesota Massacre match was a variation on the Last Man Standing format, put together by the WCW Commissioner and leader of the Natural Born Thrillers stable, Mike Sanders. Seeking revenge against opponents Big Vito and Kwee Wee, Sanders staged a raffle in the middle of the ring to determine the matchs participants and rig the deck in his favour, while maintaining a paper-thin illusion of fair play. He was thwarted (it was never really explained how, given that he was in charge of the thing) and instead of his intended victims, he and his cronies were face to face with Diamond Dallas Page and Kevin Nash. With the match underway, it soon became apparent that no one really understood the rules, least of all the announcers, who spent half their time speculating as to how the match was supposed to be won. Eventually, after the traditional WCW run-in interference, DDP and Nash had their hands raised in victory as the last men standing although the referee hadnt actually counted their opponents out. No one knows how it is that they won, or that the Natural Born Thrillers lost, and the Minnesota Massacre was never spoken of in professional wrestling circles again.
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