10 Times WWE Was Literally As Stupid As WCW
1. Gary 'The GOAT' Garbutt
There's no specific parallel to a WCW moment here, but the very existence of the Gary the GOAT Garbutt angle of 2019 might just definitively the answer posed in the introduction.
If the worst of WCW can be summarised most succinctly as "the most baffling sh*t that ever masqueraded as professional wrestling television", then Gary the GOAT Garbutt has it beat. This was truly inexplicable. There is no possible attempt at logic to parse.
On the July 8, 2019 RAW, Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre, in a bid to weaken Roman Reigns ahead of their clash with the Graveyard Dogs at Extreme Rules, ordered him to work a match alongside an opponent of their choosing. They convinced a janitor to do it. WWE is so 50/50 that they could have simply selected any midcard act that had won the prior week with the knowledge that, statistically, they were all but certain to take the fall.
Instead, Cedric Alexander posed as "Gary Garbutt" in an enterprising bid to get over. The issue is that he lost.
And yet he removed the mask afterwards to reveal the masterplan, and was scripted to wear a "Got 'em!" expression. Reigns reacted with a "You sly bugger" face.
He didn't get 'em.
He lost the match.
He celebrated a loss and thought he was clever.
Vince Russo never wrote anything as dumb as that.