9 Worst WCW Pay-Per-Views Of All Time

...Or the one named after a stable that didn't even exist by the time this aired.

If you were to look only at the title of this Pay-Per-View and ignore literally everything else about it, you might be able to convince yourself that WCW, in its waining months, was actually trying to rebuild itself into a more youthful company.

But that would be incredibly misleading. Laughably so.

The real thesis statement of 2000's horrendous New Blood Rising PPV is about rebranding all of Vince Russo's old tricks in the hope that someone - anyone - would be gullible enough to sit through an entire show of ripoffs, imitations, and worthless stipulations.

So we get a watered down tag team ladder match. We get The Great Muta being thrown to the wolves and getting wiped out by Ernest Miller. We get the infamous Judy Bagwell on a forklift match. We get another appearance by David Arquette. We get four special guest referees in one match. We get mud wrestling for 7-minutes, while we only get Sting for 52 seconds - in a squash match with The Kiss Demon, no less.

But somehow worse than all that, we're treated to one last death rattle of Vince Russo's version of edginess. In the main event between Goldberg, Kevin Nash, and Scott Steiner, a storyline is introduced where Goldberg refuses to take the pre-planned Jackknife Powerbomb from Nash and walks out of the match.

All three commentators freely opine about Goldberg refusing to do business, while the match is still going on.

WHAT?

They straight-up destroyed all sense of kayfabe on the air, in the middle of a match, but then continue calling said match's spots as if they mean something. And they expected their viewers to care about their scripted main event after that?

Boo, Vince Russo. Booooo!