10 WCW Fates Worse Than Death

Bash At The Beach 1999’s ‘Junkyard Invitational’ saw a whole gang of misfit wrestlers scrap hardcore match style in a literal junkyard. At least the promotion couldn't be done for false advertising, unlike WWE when they promote 'Street Fights' that never take to the streets. Lawyers shall be in touch, guys! Seriously though, WCW were coming through on their promise if nothing else.

Promises are one thing, production quality and safety is another. Obviously, it’s never good when workers get injured, but at least they normally get hurt because they were trying to do something flashy for the cameras. On this stinky mess of a pay-per-view, numerous wrestlers got physically battered and the cams didn’t even capture any of it.

The match took place at night, and the lighting was poor, so WCW’s producers failed to even catch much of the violence. Thus, several midcarders got all banged up and didn't even have anything to show for it. Picture Fit Finlay's face when he watched the brawl back and found out that his war wounds didn't even make the cut. The same could be said for Steven/William Regal.

This was a total mess from start to finish. It didn't seem like the roster had been given any instructions or proper layout at all. Instead, they were just fighting and making things up as they went along, and the camera crew just had to wing it by filming whatever they found interesting.

Again, nobody's celebrating workers going down to injury in front of millions watching, but there's a special place in hell reserved for promoters who put everyone in danger then say: 'Oops! Didn't catch that, dudes!'.