10 Times WCW Broke With Reality
8. New Blood Rising Pretends To Be Real
Vince Russo's writing style frequently included elements of the 'worked shoot', where events were depicted as being real - that is, outside the normal pre-determined outcomes of wrestling. One particularly stark example is from New Blood Rising in 2000, where Scott Steiner, Bill Goldberg and Kevin Nash duked it out.
The commentators sold how Nash and Steiner both had the 'political stroke' to determine the match's outcome, and wondered whether the match would be a 'shoot fight from start to finish'. Then Goldberg turned up and the commentators speculated whether Goldberg was going to cooperate with the booked ending or 'go into business' for himself. This all played out in front of a Vancouver crowd who had no idea any of this was supposed to be going on.
The story was that three men were pretending to fight, except they were also pretending to fight for real over who got to win their pretend fight except we weren't supposed to think that part was pretend, it was supposed to be real even though the whole thing was pretend and oh god WCW why are you like this, why?