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17. December 1999 | Demolition 2000?

KroniK Brian Adams Bryan Clark
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WCW fans had very little to shout about in 2000. 

Their promotion was a laughing stock inching closer to death on a weekly basis. Everything they once loved about it was abandoned for a Fed-lite tribute as nonsensical as it was rinky-dink. It was so infamously terrible that it became shorthand for bad; every awful wrestling product thereafter was compared unfavourably to it. But! 

WCW had Daffney and Kronik. It was not entirely, irredeemably unwatchable. Nobody told Daffney that the company was doomed and rigged, and that she need not bother trying. She threw herself into everything. Kronik meanwhile were deeply limited, but their numbskull power game got over, and it helped that, in 2000, smoking weed was somewhat transgressive and “cool”. Combine cannabis with a nu-metal stylisation, and you got over to an extent. Those were the rulez back then. The act almost never happened. Well… 

Per the December 27 Observer, Meltzer shot down rumours that the WWF was bringing in Bryan Clark and Brian Adams as a rebooted Demolition. This wasn’t quite completely fabricated, in a way that was shockingly easy for fans to get away with back then - remember Jake Roberts: Higher Power? - because Adams had visited the December 13 Raw taping looking for work. (As Crush, Adams quit in late 1997, partly because he felt Kane had been reckless with him - which makes the Unforgiven 2001 debacle even funnier in retrospect). 

Vince’s response was a polite “no” - but it’s funny that they became a tag team a few months later, isn’t it?

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Michael Sidgwick (Creative Writing BA Hons) is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over a decade of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential UK institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!