When news spread that Vince McMahon had purchased World Championship Wrestling on Friday, March 23rd, 2001, it sent shockwaves through the professional wrestling world. In truth, a lot of fans were fully aware that WCW was floundering badly behind the scenes, just as they had been in front of the cameras for a few years. It seemed for all the world that AOL/Time Warner simply wanted rid of the company, and couldn't wait to ship it, which is exactly why McMahon was able to acquire his competition for as little as $2.5 million. Some further expense would see him grab the entire WCW tape library, which - let's face it - is what he was really after. Generally, people are right when they say the last year of WCW sucked, but there were some small chinks of light in amongst all the darkness. The last ever WCW Pay-Per-View, Greed, played before a crowd of roughly 5,000 fans - even though the building was nowhere close to selling out that evening, that's still a much larger crowd than TNA pull nowadays. Fans were still there, not as many, but some. In addition, some of the talent still gave enough of a damn to go out and entertain the fans. This list looks at 10 examples of this, proving that it wasn't all horrible right before the hammer fell. These matches all took place between March, 2000-March, 2001.
Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.
