20 Worst Wrestling PPVs Of All Time
2. WCW New Blood Rising
As far as WCW PPVs go, there's bad, and then there's New Blood Rising bad. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Sharknado of professional wrestling: a show so poorly-conceived and executed that it's accidentally the most hilarious wrestling show you'll ever see.
Where better to start than the beginning? Three Count and The Jung Dragons actually worked fun little spotfest, but if the sight of Tank Abbott in a shirt with nipple holes cut out doesn't haunt you for life, nothing will. It was a six-man ladder match with a recording contract on the line, and who walked out with it? Former MMA badass Abbott, duh...
Buff Bagwell defeated Kanyon in a "Judy Bagwell on a Forklift" match that's every bit as stupid as you think it is, and well worth watching for that very reason. The Great Muta lost to Ernest "The Cat" Miller in five minutes, Major Gunns vs. Miss Hancock ended in a miscarriage angle (really...), and oh yeah, The KISS Demon was there too.
That's barely the tip of the iceberg, though. From the ridiculously contrived "Canadian Rules" match between Mike Awesome and Lance Storm to Goldberg openly shooting out of a finish, New Blood Rising went down like a dumpster fire in Garbagetown. The only match that was even close to being acceptable was the Jeff Jarrett vs. Booker T main event, but it was hard to take anything they were doing seriously after witnessing Goldberg walking out on Scott Steiner and Kevin Nash.
New Blood Rising is pure Bizarro World pro-wrestling. At a time when WWE were brimming with momentum, WCW couldn't afford to be producing such low-quality PPV's, and in their time of they need, they released their worst show of all-time.