10 Times WWE Was Literally As Stupid As WCW
6. "Killing" Wrestlers Off
Appearing to kill fictional characters off and simply having them return is a monumentally stupid thing to do, so of course WCW did it.
They did it, infamously, at Halloween Havoc 1995, at which The Giant plummeted off the side of the Cobo Hall building. After a five minute match between Randy Savage and Lex Luger, Giant simply returned unscathed to work what was technically his second match with Hulk Hogan on the night. This is how harebrained WCW was at the time: they booked a straight singles match after a bizarre gimmick attraction, destroying the rule of dramatic escalation, and nobody ever dwells on that because it was the least dumb thing about the whole farce.
Years later - during which interim period WWE frequently mocked "dubya see dubya" for this sort of inexplicable sh*t - Rey Mysterio was, at Money In The Bank 2020, thrown from the roof of Titan Towers. Even before it was quickly explained that Mysterio had clung to a window ledge or whatever b*llocks they came up with, this spot wasn't really sold as the ostensible death of a babyface legend. If Michael Cole didn't quite say "Rey Mysterio would fall off a very tall building," he might as well have. The winners of the match celebrated, to put the sham of a scene in an even dumber light.
"Shame about Rey, but do you see this? I can cash in at any time!"
Neither winner actually cashed the briefcase in, as it happens, because this company might even be more stupid than WCW.