10 Times WCW Purposefully Lied To The Fans
4. We Drew A Lousy House? No!
The thing about lying is that it's addictive. If you do it once and get away with it, you're likely to do it again. Eventually a few lies turn into a big web of lies. Soon, you're lying about everything -- including, if you're WCW, things that might actually be impressive. From the August 23, 1999 Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
Miller beat Enos in 2:12. Miller asked how much time this took and Dave Penzer said 3:39. Even when there is no point in lying and where the truth is more impressive, WCW lies. Kind of like that night in San Antonio at the Alamodome when they had 20,000 or so fans and Schiavone talked about this great crowd of 12,000 fansWrestling promotions -- WWE chief amongst them -- have long fudged facts and figures in order embellish the truth -- look no further than King Kong Bundy's "eight second" victory over Special Delivery Jones at WrestleMania I, or WrestleMania III's "record crowd" of 93,173. It takes a unique creativity to push things in the opposite direction with a lie. Next week on Nitro -- Eric Bischoff understates his own penis size!