20 Most Horrifically Stupid Things That Ever Happened In WCW

8. Goldberg Goes Off-Script

One of Vince Russo's go-to angles was always the worked shoot - the insinuation (or outright statement) that something is being presented as "real", even though wrestling, on the whole, is "fake". He had toyed with a worked shoot angle involving Buff Bagwell when he first took over booking duties for WCW in October 1999, but the best was yet to come.

By the New Blood Rising pay-per-view event in August 2000, Eric Bischoff was gone from WCW and Russo was once again the lone man on top. At the show, new heel Goldberg, Scott Steiner, and Kevin Nash would collide in a triple threat match, with the winner being named number one contender to the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. As the match sped toward its conclusion, Nash set a vulnerable Goldberg up for his signature Jackknife Powerbomb. Rather than take the move, though, Goldberg shoved Nash away and angrily stormed out of the ring.

While the announcers started to scream that Goldberg had gone "off-script", Vince Russo came out to talk some sense into the star. Goldberg got in Russo's face (and the faces of all of the fans watching on television), flipped him off, and shouted the title of Cee Lo Green's biggest hit. The next night on Nitro, the show opened with a furious Vince Russo demanding the production truck cut to a brawl between a now-babyface Goldberg and Tank Abbott. Despite his legitimate fighting background and UFC experience, Abbott had most recently been playing the role of a groupie for wrestling boy band Three Count - but no more.

Russo had sicced the tough guy on Goldberg, later explaining, "Bill Goldberg thinks if this business were 'real,' he could kick anyone's ass - well, he couldn't kick your ass, Tank!" The Goldberg-Abbott feud never went anywhere, but Vince Russo had made a powerful enemy - and that enemy's name was logic.