11 Terrible Fourth Wall Breaking Wrestling Moments

1. Goldberg Refuses To Job

Back to reality to finish this off.

One of the most absurd booking ideas ever was the story leading into New Blood Rising in 2000. Just giving us Kevin Nash vs. Scott Steiner vs. Bill Goldberg wasn’t good enough. No. Nobody would have believed that those three could have a regular wrestling match! So a Vince Russo led WCW ran a series of promos featuring the competitors claiming they weren’t going to be doing the job in that match. Basically, we were supposed to believe that every match on the show was fake, EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE!

The actual match made things 10 times worse. At one point, Kevin Nash was about to give Goldberg the Jackknife Powerbomb, except that Berg wouldn't cooperate. He easily took his head out from beneath Big Sexy’s legs, and then pushed him off and walked away...though he was still selling a taped rib injury. Russo then came out to confront him, as the idea was that Goldberg wouldn't go along with his planned finish. S**t just got real! Or s**t just got stupid.

Scott Hudson told us that Goldberg “was supposed to go up for the Jackknife” and that “Kevin Nash tried to talk him into it and he said no.” Nash had to talk his opponent into taking a move? Shouldn’t he be beating him up to the point where he can hit his finisher? Tony Schiavone then wondered if the wrestlers were now going to have to “improvise.” Viewers wondered why they spent their money on this.

Nothing after that nonsense mattered, because Russo exposed everything as fake. Soon after, Steiner picked up Nash for a move, but we can only assume within the narrative that he cooperated.

As much crap as Russo gets for David Arquette, this was even worse, because Arquette winning could conceivably happen in within the context of the narrative. He pinned Eric Bischoff per the stipulations and won. It’s dumb, but it COULD HAVE happened. New Blood Rising was a slap in the face to everyone who ordered the show, by making them feel like idiots for buying into a single thing that happened before the main event.