10 Most Gloriously Overbooked Matches In Wrestling History
6. Vince Russo Puts On His Madcap Masterpiece
It should be noted that were it not for an interest in diversity, this entire list could have been filled with WCW matches from the Vince Russo era. It had long been suspected that Russo worked best under some restraint, and sure enough, the moment he was given full control of WCW booking he proceeded to unleash some of the most nonsensical wrestling based entertainment the world has ever seen. Yet he would reserve his finest piece of work for his own match. In what is perhaps the perfect time-capsule match of the Russo WCW era; the man himself took on Booker T for the WCW heavyweight championship in a steel cage match. Decked out in full New York Giants regalia the not in any way a professional athlete writer would proceed to spend much of the match beating down the world champion thanks to foreign objects and a healthy amount of interference from heels all too eager to expose the ineffective steel cage confines. Now, if youre saying to yourself that surely the only way that the companys world wrestling champion could defeat its head writer is for Ric Flair disguised as an EMT to lend a hand and for Bill Goldberg to lazily get his revenge on Russo, then you are just as loveably crazy as the people responsible for that exact series of events. Of course, the night wouldnt be complete until Bill Goldberg speared Vince Russo out of the cage ahead of Booker T escaping; leaving announcer Tony Schiavone to speculate just who won and what happened as the pay-per-view went off the air as quickly as the producers could pull the plug. Dont worry Tony: No one else is quite sure of the answers even to this day.
