11 Terrible Fourth Wall Breaking Wrestling Moments

6. Bash At The Beach 2000

Bash at the Beach 2000 was the last time that Hulk Hogan appeared in a WCW ring. What a hell of a way to go out. It’s been over 16 years, and still no one seems to know exactly what went down that night.

Apparently in real life, Hulk Hogan was playing politics and wanted to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship from Jeff Jarrett, because Hogan Knows Best. Vince Russo was tired of this nonsense, and floated the idea that they do a worked shoot that would make it look like Hogan was actually playing politics (which he was), and then Jarrett would essentially be a pawn in the feud and let himself be pinned.

However, after this master plan went down, Russo came out later in the night and buried Hogan to the extreme on-air; it got to the point that Hogan was pissed off, and really did end up leaving the company and suing them over the situation.

The incredibly idiotic thing about this all was even if Hogan and Jarrett did have their big worked-shoot feud, their matches would still have looked exactly like a wrestling match! Hogan wasn’t going to do anything MMA-like, he was still going to dish out atomic drops, some back rakes, a Big Boot, and the legdrop, which would somehow mean those moves were real, but not any other move in the other matches.

So not only did the angle make no sense within the narrative, as it exposed that someone backstage picks all the winners and losers, but it forced one of the company’s top stars to leave, and brought forth a lawsuit. As far as attempts to break the fourth wall went, this was a really expensive one.