20 Secret Highlights Of WCW That WWE Won't Tell You About

WWE is king of the half-hearted theme events. Like, they'll do a show called Fastlane and it'll just be a regular card, or they'll go to London and just park a bus on the stage and call it good. WCW, on the other hand, was 100% committed to their theme events, even if they were painfully cheesy. Every year they ran an event called Halloween Havoc, and they'd go all the way: giant inflatable pumpkins, styrofoam tombstones, Eric Bischoff in a low-rent Dracula costume.

For Bash at the Beach, they'd bring sand dunes and palm trees into the arena, and Spring Stampede normally involved guys getting hit with wagon wheels and hay bales. The spring break Nitros were a personal favorite, when the ring floated on pontoons inside a giant swimming pool. Although sometimes it backfired: Instead of an arena, Hog Wild 1996 was held inside a throng of hateful bikers in Sturgis, South Dakota, with the lowlight of the proceedings being the alleged fans getting super racist all over Harlem Heat.