10 Times WCW Broke With Reality
2. The Day The Titles Were All Vacated
Few acts of WCW's desperation in the final salvos of the Monday Night wars were as obvious as 10th April 2000, the night Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff stood in the ring and vacated every single title in WCW.
In Russo's on-camera WCW debut he began his career as a heel authority figure and worked shoot machine, claiming to be resetting the whole company to avoid the 'political BS' that was taking place in the back.
Russo's master plan was to strip every champion of his belt and vacate the lot of them. It was a moment that not only blurred the boundaries by moving backstage shenanigans into the realm of what was seen on-screen, it wiped the company's championships of all their meaning by turning them into disposable props to be bounced between characters as if the whole thing was a game of tag.
The vacating of every championship was sold as the start of a brand new WCW, a new form of professional wrestling. In all likelihood, it was more like the beginning of the end.