You had to know this one was coming. Many people might think this entry is even ranked too low! There's no doubt that having David Arquette as your world champion is a bad, bad idea. Ever since Vince Russo had taken over WCW, he traded the belt around from one wrestler to the next without any long term plan. So to him, putting it on a C-level movie star didn't seem like a big deal. But boy was it ever. When Arquette was around WCW promoting Ready to Rumble, someone had the idea to make him the champion to create some publicity. According to Russo, Tony Schiavone came up with the idea (Eric Bischoff said he'd never heard that until years after), but it shouldn't matter since Russo approved it! In a match on Thunder, Arquette pinned Bischoff to win the belt (Jeff Jarrett was the champ, but the rules stipulated any pinfall counted). The new face of WCW was a man who had never wrestled before, and was most famous for being Courtney Cox's husband. Sadly, it wasn't just a one and done either. Arquette even defeated UFC fighter Tank Abbott in a match! It was all a ruse, though. Arquette and Jarrett were aligned all along...which makes absolutely no sense. Don't even try to think about it. It will only hurt.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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