9 Worst WCW Pay-Per-Views Of All Time
5. SuperBrawl 2000
...Or the one where James Brown stole the show.
You know how, at the height of the Monday Night Wars, Eric Bischoff was so obsessed with beating Vince McMahon that he gave away a lot of his most entertaining matches for free on episodes of Nitro, and oftentimes the pay-per-views suffered for it?
Well, leading up to SuperBrawl 2000 - nay, SuperBrawl X -there was almost nothing happening on Nitro. So you might assume they were just holding everything back for their big, monthly spectacle. And you would be wrong.
Just about every match at SuperBrawl felt like it was ripped from a bad episode of Nitro or, at best, a better-than-average episode of Thunder. Without a reliable undercard to make up for the WCW's often lacklustre main events, they were left forcing matches like The Demon vs. The Wall down our throats.
We can't even blame Vince Russo for the terrible booking on this one, either - even though the Something on a Pole match still shows up in the worst match of the night between Tank Abbott and some random guy they call Big Al.
This was the look of a company desperate for table scraps, which they proved by putting Hulk Hogan and Lex Luger together again for another punk-kick-choke match in the pre-main event.
And Russo's influence still loomed large, with 6 different referees showing up in the WCW Championship match between three guys who can't wait to get out of this company.
It's not an overstatement to say that a 12-minute segment involving Ernest Miller, a fake James Brown, and the real James Brown was the highlight of the evening.