10 Times WCW Broke With Reality
1. Vince Russo, World Champion
David Arquette becoming World Champion is often pointed to as the nadir of WCW's creativity, but at least there was a sort-of reason for it to happen - it was to help hype the company's movie Ready to Rumble. Vince Russo's championship win in September 2000 doesn't even have that mask of sanity to defend it.
Russo won the title in a cage match, when Goldberg speared him through the side of the cage causing Russo to win by escape. He immediately vacated the title, but that just makes things weirder.
If the purpose was to just transition the title to another wrestler without one pinning the other, why did Russo have to be the transitional champion? Why not vacate it again, which is obnoxious but not as bad as the writer booking himself into the title? Or even - and this is pretty out there - use an actual wrestler to do it? Like the dozens WCW had signed?
To complete the symphony of weird, Russo sustained legitimate injuries when Goldberg barged him through the cage, and had to quit WCW while he healed. It was a weird confluence of reality and insane fakery that marked yet another signpost on the road towards WCW devouring itself.