10 Cringeworthy Worked Shoots In Wrestling History

Vince Russo is very much into reminding you over and over again that wrestling is fake.

One of his favorite ways of doing that is to point out how matches have predetermined winners and losers. An infamous example came in a backstage segment early in his WCW where two wrestlers were openly debating the finish to a match. However, the most egregious example of this trope came at New Blood Rising in August of 2000.

During a Triple Threat between Goldberg, Kevin Nash, and Scott Steiner, Nash was seemingly ready to pick up the victory when he set up Goldberg for the jack knife powerbomb. However, Goldberg simply stood up, shoved away Nash, who sold confusion, and walked out after a verbal barb with Russo. The commentators made it explicit that Goldberg refused to take the powerbomb, insinuating that he didn't want lose to Nash.

While it's true Goldberg and Russo often butted heads over the former's reluctance to do the job, your average fan in 2000 wasn't gonna know about that. So to turn it into an angle is just confusing for the audience, and any fan who would happen to be in the know is just annoyed by how obviously fake the whole affair is.

But hey, it's not like WCW didn't do terrible worked shoot angles until Russo came around...