10 Massively Dubious Wrestling Records

2. Sid's Millennium Man Streak

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When Sid returned to WCW for the umpteenth time, in 1999, he was billed as 'The Millennium Man", a gimmick blatantly inspired by Chris Jericho's Y2J schtick. It was designed as a counterpoint to Goldberg's undefeated streak - the number of which itself was doctored - even though that it had already been broken.

That's WCW logic for you.

To be fair, the character had legs. Sid then snapped one of them in half, mind, by senselessly jumping from the top rope - and that was after he started pretending to be really clever.

But while it lasted, it was a winning act in a sea of absolute dross. Sid rampaged to the ring, destroying a procession of jobbers and cruiserweights in his wake. He drafted in referee Charles Robinson to count these pretend victories, the storyline manner and actual number of which were completely made-up. But for once, that was by design. The dubiousness was half the point. It was somehow both good and so-bad-it's-good.

Hilariously, this being WCW, the cards Robinson held aloft, on which the phantom victories were counted, changed from one show to the next with no factual basis. Sid just sort of invented the numbers, and nobody was stupid enough to argue with him.

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