15 Exact Moments WCW Booking Stopped Making Sense

Into the breach with WCW 2000 we go, at least for now.

On the 15 May episode of Nitro, fans arrived for the show to see a steel cage dangling high above the ring. That was nothing new for a company that had 3 different names for cage matches (yes, really - WCW called them standard steel cage matches, "Caged Heat" and "House Of Pain" at various different points in time), so everybody likely figured they were in for a nifty main event inside the structure.

Instead, Sting wrestled Vampiro in a brief caged opener. Later, Vince Russo cornered Miss. Elizabeth inside the thing and threatened to have Madusa kick lumps out of her if she didn't do as she was told. In fact, Russo set up that very match. Then, Lex Luger dropped in through the top of the cage to put a stop to Vince's plans. Plans that he...couldn't possibly have known about in advance.

Let's get this straight: Lex dressed up as a member of the ring crew putting the cage together for the night on the off chance that Vince would corner Liz and put her in a match? That's a tad far-fetched, isn't it? How in the name of 'Narcissususususus' could Luger have even known what Russo was plotting ahead of time?!

Being fair, WCW also booked handicap matches, an 'Ambulance' battle pitting Kevin Nash vs. Mike Awesome and a World Title change on this same episode, so logic and restraint went hand in hand as absentees in the creative process. Horace Hogan also beat his uncle Hulk and Billy Kidman in one of the weakest Triple Threats ever.

Luger's mind-reading took the cake though.