Adam Jones as TNA Tag champion was the #1 worst tag team champion in TNA history. He threw things and ran around the ring. I hated it then and still hate it now.
Braun Strowman winning the tag team titles with a 10 year old kid was the most absurd of them all. I wouldn’t be surprised if that kid became real popular at his school though. LOL
@@franklingoodwin In all fairness they are both ridiculous. However storyline-wise the Judy Bagwell angle at least made some level of sense, since it was part a feud that involved Buff Bagwell. Sort of a "I got your mom to come spank you boy" kind of moment, but shit like this has no business involving titles. The Strowman angle at best was just "I am such a beast I can win the titles with a child", i mean it could have been a celebrity, it could have been the biggest jobber in the company, it could have even been Braun winning it solo, it was a damn kid. Having said that, both made me want to puke.
I think we forget that when Russo worked for WWF, his ideas still went through Vince McMahon, who had the final say. In WCW, he had no filter. Moral of the story: don't hire Vince Russo
When Hornswaggle is option that is used to kill big time angles and titles. 1) cruiser weight title and division, Hornswaggle killed it. 2) Vince’s illegitimate sone angle, Horny killed it. 3) anonymous Raw GM, the lil guy killed that one too.
We all know Gillberg only held the Light Heavyweight Title like that, to help his Goldberg parody gimmick. Can’t be a “Goldberg”-mocking Jobber, without a title on his waist. It just helped the whole image.
Same. Of all the old WCW titles I thought it would be the one to survive the longest. As it turns out that is actually the US title, which is the last remaining title from WCW active in WWE today.
The WCW talent were jealous of the great Judy Bagwell. Her finisher the Arthritic Grip was inescapable. Men like Goldberg and Sting cowered in her presence
Sable helped revive the Women's Title because of her overwhelming hype, Debra won because WWF was desperate of stripping Sable of her title after she refused and wanted to leave with the title, and Kat won because yeah, the puppies hype was the rage. After the Hervina incident, idk what exactly happened but we had more and more serious champions sans Stephanie but she did help churn out very strong storylines out of the title, Jacqueline, Lita, Chyna and even Trish despite her limited abilities at the time really elevated the title.
I'm in the minority here but I liked Braun taking a "random kid" to beat Cesaro. He was booked as a monster already and beating the 2 by himself wasn't unthinkable, but him taking the piss out of the bar with a kid was anything but forgettable.
Hornswoggle being used to retire the original Cruiserweight Championship in retrospect was terrible. They could have just moved the Cruiserweight Division to the ECW brand! If it was still around in 2009 it would have been a great title for Evan Bourne or Yoshi Tatsu to defend
The simple truth is that Vince Russo is the kind of New Yorker even most New Yorkers hate. He is a Dark Triad personality with no self-awareness at all. He is the reason people cringe at the thought of the name.. and has ruined the lives of everyone named Vince and/or Russo for all time.
To be a bit fair to Arquette, he didn’t actually want to win the title. And he donated his earnings from that brief time to the families of Owen Hart, Brian Pillman and Droz. I got nothing for Russo
@@joshhale9355 Russo's one reign wasn't anywhere near as repugnant as McMahon's reigns as WWF and ECW champs. That's the only defence there is for Russo - the only thing worse than the booker giving themselves their own title is the owner of the damn company giving themselves not one but TWO reigns as world champ.
Man say what you will about the Braun picking a 10 year old for his tag team partner thing, that shit was hilarious. And like, Braun was already over as a monster that could kill 20 guys at once. So it didn't hurt anyone either lol
Jim cornette spitting in Ed Ferrara's Face was Rightfully deserved the Oklahoma Character in WCW Was absolutely disrespectful Jim cornette did the right thing props to him.
I love to watch old WWF-Shows from the 80ies. It is hillarious, when Jesse Ventura always mocked Vince McMahon for never been in the ring as a Wrestler. How could he know, that one day Vince will become winner of the Royal Rumble, ECW and WWF Champion - things Jesse never achieved.
Judy Bagwell being tag champ literally makes no sense 😂 I'm glad I didn't really watch WCW during this period. I pretty much stopped after 1997 so missed that stinker
The sad thing about Oklahoma is that the Deadlock Pro Wrestling Podcast doing a terrible impression of him is 10x funnier than anything Oklahoma ACTUALLY did.
@@alastair852 hey man, no need to compare the two in such a clear show of disrespect. That poor trash bin deserves a lot better than to be compared to Joey Ryan
I worked with Kenny chaos after Vince bought the dubya. He's a pretty good dude. He, Bagwell and the steiners are all great friends. I've actually worked for Scott steiner, met Rick several times and done county jail time with Bagwell. Good ol Georgia
Gillberg would be a main event star in the midst of a record setting world title run if he was on the roster today ... Hes the same size as all of them.
If I owned and booked my own wrestling promotion, yes I'd probably book myself to win the world title to fulfill a bucket-list dream. However, I'd do it in a storyline the likes of me doing my best to keep the gold from the biggest babyface. Then after being annoying for a month-ish with "how great I am" he'd beat the snot out of me and get the title anyways.
David Arquette's run in WCW is like a Mandela effect, he was by far the most entertaining person on the show at that point, would have been a wasted opportunity if they hadn't created any interest at all with it. His OTT heel work and backstage bits with Courteney Cox and Kurt Russell were genuinely funny. Okay, giving him the big belt was perhaps a step too far, but completely writing off his stint as an example of WCW's failure as a company is definitely a revised version of this period.
Russo killed WCW when he put the belt on David Arquette. You can get away with that for a lesser title. You absolutely CANNOT do that with your highest prize. It completely devalues your entire show.
Honestly I really don’t think disco inferno was really that bad, he was a memorable Midcard wrestler and If he did his gimmick these days he would of been over as heck on the indies, and him being crusierweight champion was honestly decent
@@rayg6497 Where exactly did I say he was? My point was that it's professional wrestling and the so-called divisions and weight limits have been played with since the beginning. Chyna wasn't exactly a heavyweight nor is Rey Mysterio and they both have held heavyweight championships.
I am one of the few wrestling fans who loved the angle when David Arquette won the WCW title. It was a good example of something wrestling seem to forget sometimes, that anything can happen in sports and in wrestling. Its very important to surprise once in a while so the shows dont get stale.
WTH WCW? If Kenny Kaos's injury allowed Rick Steiner to choose a replacement, why wouldn't Rick's injury do the same for Judy? That's the problem, lack of consistency in following the rules.
Don't bother trying to make sense out of anything that happened during the last 18 months of WCW. Even though I was pretty much only watching WWF at the time I would occasionally still check out Nitro because it was so surreal and awful.
Fun fact: Gillberg's Light Heavyweight Championship reign was longer than all of Bill Goldberg's Championship reigns....
.... *COMBINED!!!*
Further proof that Gillberg > Goldberg
LOOOOOOOOL
GILLBERG! GILLBERG! GILLBERG! GILLBERG!
@@jerwwilliams Alongside "Gillberg's last match had more viewers than Goldberg's last match".
Omg
Vince Deciding to wear a Durag will never cease to crack me up
its so odd isnt it
Adam Jones as TNA Tag champion was the #1 worst tag team champion in TNA history. He threw things and ran around the ring. I hated it then and still hate it now.
They weren't able to have him wrestle so he just did all of that while Truth beat up every team they faced. Still dumb and shit. l
I really love the picture where Nicholas is holding the belt facing him, he wanted to see what he earned. Such a once in a lifetime thing
How did Pacman Jones not make this list?
Man I forgot he won the tag titles
Yeah, that was a joke
Braun Strowman winning the tag team titles with a 10 year old kid was the most absurd of them all. I wouldn’t be surprised if that kid became real popular at his school though. LOL
More absurd than a middle aged woman becoming tag champ against her own son? Nah, that it's on a whole new level
@@franklingoodwin That’s entertaining bro, Braun and a 10 year is not.
@@franklingoodwin In all fairness they are both ridiculous. However storyline-wise the Judy Bagwell angle at least made some level of sense, since it was part a feud that involved Buff Bagwell. Sort of a "I got your mom to come spank you boy" kind of moment, but shit like this has no business involving titles. The Strowman angle at best was just "I am such a beast I can win the titles with a child", i mean it could have been a celebrity, it could have been the biggest jobber in the company, it could have even been Braun winning it solo, it was a damn kid. Having said that, both made me want to puke.
@@Frank-ex9cd WCW was at least entertained it was bad, wwe is awful and un entertaining..
Or, since kids seem to hate WWE now, he became the school's resident bullying victim...
Bless Jim Cornette for spitting in Ed Ferraras face! We all wanted too!
I didn't.
Fuck Ferrara and Russo they literally killed wcw all by themselves
Spitting in someone’s face is less scummy than mocking someone’s disability
He definitely deserved it.
Vince McMahon in the durag was hilarious 😂😂😂
I want to see the "I picked your momma as my tag partner" storyline for one of the women's tag team championships. That shit funny as hell. 🤣🤣🤣☠️☠️☠️
I think we forget that when Russo worked for WWF, his ideas still went through Vince McMahon, who had the final say. In WCW, he had no filter.
Moral of the story: don't hire Vince Russo
When Hornswaggle is option that is used to kill big time angles and titles.
1) cruiser weight title and division, Hornswaggle killed it.
2) Vince’s illegitimate sone angle, Horny killed it.
3) anonymous Raw GM, the lil guy killed that one too.
Also DX in 2009-2010
Anonymous raw gm was more of a mercy kill where the mercy was us being freed of that bloody laptop.
@@sebastianb.3978 Then they brought it back for one more night two years later.
We all know Gillberg only held the Light Heavyweight Title like that, to help his Goldberg parody gimmick. Can’t be a “Goldberg”-mocking Jobber, without a title on his waist. It just helped the whole image.
The demise of the WCW Cruiserweight title really pissed me off.
Same. Of all the old WCW titles I thought it would be the one to survive the longest. As it turns out that is actually the US title, which is the last remaining title from WCW active in WWE today.
I would've also said Stephanie McMahon as Women's Champion.
I still hate Jacqueline had to job to her
I made a similar comment about an hour after yours not copying just coincidence .
Atleast Stephanie is a McMahon and McMahon’s (if Shane and Vince are anything to go by…) are fucking insane
I believe this is a WWE fan club channel, so there's no way that would happen.
@@davidmoriarty3606 Ofc not. You might wanna watch more if you think this channel is aligned with any promotion.
At least Gilberg was a hilarious champion
"Evening gown pool match" sounds like a fever dream
I can't wait to see Nicholas on here!
The WCW talent were jealous of the great Judy Bagwell. Her finisher the Arthritic Grip was inescapable. Men like Goldberg and Sting cowered in her presence
DDP was the only one who could stop her
Sable helped revive the Women's Title because of her overwhelming hype, Debra won because WWF was desperate of stripping Sable of her title after she refused and wanted to leave with the title, and Kat won because yeah, the puppies hype was the rage.
After the Hervina incident, idk what exactly happened but we had more and more serious champions sans Stephanie but she did help churn out very strong storylines out of the title, Jacqueline, Lita, Chyna and even Trish despite her limited abilities at the time really elevated the title.
Bischoff may not be ripped, but he could take McMahon out to the woodshed anytime. Dude is an accomplished martial artist...
Eric Bischoff was a legit kickboxer though.
I think he also had some sort of belt in some form of karate
So no ground game
@@joelthorpe4170 he was karate black belt
@@silver47official this may be one of the worst insults I’ve ever seen
Lol. Ya ok
Say what you will about Arquette, but he was hilarious. “Don’t you know not to trust anybody from Hollywood?!”
I'm in the minority here but I liked Braun taking a "random kid" to beat Cesaro. He was booked as a monster already and beating the 2 by himself wasn't unthinkable, but him taking the piss out of the bar with a kid was anything but forgettable.
Hornswoggle being used to retire the original Cruiserweight Championship in retrospect was terrible.
They could have just moved the Cruiserweight Division to the ECW brand! If it was still around in 2009 it would have been a great title for Evan Bourne or Yoshi Tatsu to defend
Honestly I'm surprised when Strowman won the tag belts the kid as his partner wasn't a Make A Wish kid.
Loved the Cruiserweight Championship in both WCW And WWE they literally gave up too soon on the title
Forgot to mention, after getting speared though the cage, Russo's entire boy (including his feet) was lying on the cage wall he went through.
The simple truth is that Vince Russo is the kind of New Yorker even most New Yorkers hate. He is a Dark Triad personality with no self-awareness at all. He is the reason people cringe at the thought of the name.. and has ruined the lives of everyone named Vince and/or Russo for all time.
I Think You Meant the DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship
Vince Russo & David Arquette as WCW World Champions killed WCW
No wcw killed wcw by bad management
To be a bit fair to Arquette, he didn’t actually want to win the title. And he donated his earnings from that brief time to the families of Owen Hart, Brian Pillman and Droz.
I got nothing for Russo
@@joshhale9355 Russo's one reign wasn't anywhere near as repugnant as McMahon's reigns as WWF and ECW champs. That's the only defence there is for Russo - the only thing worse than the booker giving themselves their own title is the owner of the damn company giving themselves not one but TWO reigns as world champ.
That frowning Rene Dupree is going to haunt my nightmares
Man say what you will about the Braun picking a 10 year old for his tag team partner thing, that shit was hilarious. And like, Braun was already over as a monster that could kill 20 guys at once. So it didn't hurt anyone either lol
Thank Goodness Sharkboy Didn't Become a champion given how outlandish TNA had gotten on par with WCW
Jim cornette spitting in Ed Ferrara's Face was Rightfully deserved the Oklahoma Character in WCW Was absolutely disrespectful Jim cornette did the right thing props to him.
@@JacksonOwex good Point
I love to watch old WWF-Shows from the 80ies. It is hillarious, when Jesse Ventura always mocked Vince McMahon for never been in the ring as a Wrestler. How could he know, that one day Vince will become winner of the Royal Rumble, ECW and WWF Champion - things Jesse never achieved.
I mean, it makes it easy to do so when you're in charge of the company and can book yourself to win them
I will never forgive hornswoggle for ruining the cruiserweight title
I loved the the idea of Jackie as the cruiser weight champion!
Judy Bagwell being tag champ literally makes no sense 😂 I'm glad I didn't really watch WCW during this period. I pretty much stopped after 1997 so missed that stinker
When Oklahoma came out I thought it was so disrespectful and tasteless that I stopped watching WCW after that.
Love your lists
The 24/7 title is basically the Hardcore title where Jack the Jobber can still win it.
The sad thing about Oklahoma is that the Deadlock Pro Wrestling Podcast doing a terrible impression of him is 10x funnier than anything Oklahoma ACTUALLY did.
Woah what's with that little Disco Inferno bash
His not a nice person in real life
And he was a terrible character!!!
I like how the Jack the Jobber thing seems like a joke if you don't know he was genuinely Ironman Heavymetalweight champion
Hey, that's *multiple* Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion Jack the Jobber!
@@doviuslastname2244 he won it from garbage both times.
@@alastair852 hey man, no need to compare the two in such a clear show of disrespect. That poor trash bin deserves a lot better than to be compared to Joey Ryan
Every time I hear about Russo all I can think is how anybody kept him employed as a writer, like holy fucking shit has he ever had a good idea?
Deadly games ss98 that's about it
yea if youre wanting a belt to have credibility at all, you dont want to have old men, midgets, women, and ceos winning it really
I worked with Kenny chaos after Vince bought the dubya. He's a pretty good dude. He, Bagwell and the steiners are all great friends. I've actually worked for Scott steiner, met Rick several times and done county jail time with Bagwell. Good ol Georgia
Speaking of Braun, his Brains Strowman gimmick was great while it lasted
Eric Bischof would kick Vince McMahon's ass. Bischof fought his ass off against Funk.
Almost forgot Jack won the Ironman belt.
You forgot to mention Booker T won the title back in the San Francisco 49ers match
@MR.CLAW1997 I'm not saying he was
@MR.CLAW1997 I was mentioned how stupid the match was because Russo
…. I feel Arquette might be somewhere… As well as Vince Russo. If not, they should.
Anyone knows the name of the theme song of Harvey wippleman
Screamin’ Norman Smiley is one of my favorite characters of all time.
I hope I never run into Ed Ferrara because I'll go to jail
Anger issues?
I still defend Nicholas being champ. Every 10 year old fan probably begged to go to the next PPV just in case they were chosen to wrestle in a match.
WCW’s Hardcore belt was beautiful, but it’s division was shit.
#1 is Vince Russo isnt it?
Yes, yes it was. It was Russo.
Didn’t watch the video yet but I’m assuming Judy Bagwell and David Arquette are on this list... possibly Jinder Mahal
With how many absurd champions there's been Jinder is ok in comparison
Jinder was a good choice to be champ
The reason why Harvey won the Women's title from The Kat was because WWE didn't want The Kat to get hurt by Jacqueline.
Jinder mahal better make the list
Dude Disco Inferno was a good Cruiserweight Champion! Now Oklahoma that was some bullcrap!
Yeah Disco was a highlight of WCW and also Alex Wright
How did you miss Santina Morella as WWE Women's Champion?
Because Santino never won the women's championship he won the miss WrestleMania Battle Royal
No Pacman Jones being a TNA Tag Team champion with R-Truth for not even wrestling?
Gillberg would be a main event star in the midst of a record setting world title run if he was on the roster today ... Hes the same size as all of them.
I guess Sydney Prescott and Gail Weathers were excited when Dewey Riley won the WCW title XD
I think that movie was in theaters and at Blockbuster in the same month.
Vince as ecw champ was awesome
Disco Inferno was actually talented. He should have gotten a US title run at some point.
If I owned and booked my own wrestling promotion, yes I'd probably book myself to win the world title to fulfill a bucket-list dream. However, I'd do it in a storyline the likes of me doing my best to keep the gold from the biggest babyface. Then after being annoying for a month-ish with "how great I am" he'd beat the snot out of me and get the title anyways.
Something tells me that they did not know what would happen to Daffny in less than a month
David Arquette's run in WCW is like a Mandela effect, he was by far the most entertaining person on the show at that point, would have been a wasted opportunity if they hadn't created any interest at all with it. His OTT heel work and backstage bits with Courteney Cox and Kurt Russell were genuinely funny. Okay, giving him the big belt was perhaps a step too far, but completely writing off his stint as an example of WCW's failure as a company is definitely a revised version of this period.
ECW Championship gave us Durag Vince so it was worth it
I was certain David Arquette would have the top spot, but nope there was one that was worse.
Tyler Bate was the youngest champion when Nicholas won
Jinder Mahal, David Flair (Us champ) Gillberg, Vince Russo, & David Arquette just for starters
Vince Russo is the bane of wrestling. I really wish people would stop giving him jobs in the business.
Number 1 gotta be Vince Russo
Lol
Russo killed WCW when he put the belt on David Arquette. You can get away with that for a lesser title. You absolutely CANNOT do that with your highest prize. It completely devalues your entire show.
One of the Godfathers Hos briefly held the hardcore belt in 2000
That Oklahoma bit was disgusting. Jr is a better man than me for making peace with ed over it..
let's be honest, when Nicholas was chosen nobody thought he was a boy
First female wwe tag team champion
Gilberg was the bomb
is there no news on sundays
Say what you will but I miss wcw
3 legged man? Ive heard those stories about Batista 🤣🤣🤣🤣jk jk
I feel a little bad for 2000's WCW Fans.
"Mr. Courtney Cox" lol
At least Eric Bischoff is a real life badass.
Is he?
His blackbelt is legit
Bischoff wrestling was ridiculous
The abortion known as Enzo Amor-on as Cruiserweight Champion
Much better than the iron grip that the Crybaby he took the belt from had done.
Tony shivolnie is the guy that pitched Mr Courtney cox winning the title not Russo surprisingly
Don't do my man Jack dirty like that.
If I don’t see jack and his belt I’m gonna be sad
*watches video*
Edit: boo and yay
good video
Honestly I really don’t think disco inferno was really that bad, he was a memorable Midcard wrestler and If he did his gimmick these days he would of been over as heck on the indies, and him being crusierweight champion was honestly decent
Except he wasn't a cruiserweight.
@@rayg6497 Under WCW's rules for it, he was. They set a max weight of 225 and there was some playroom there. Jericho held the belt at 230.
@@RichWhiteUM No way was Disco anywhere close to 225 nor 230.
@@rayg6497 Where exactly did I say he was? My point was that it's professional wrestling and the so-called divisions and weight limits have been played with since the beginning. Chyna wasn't exactly a heavyweight nor is Rey Mysterio and they both have held heavyweight championships.
I am one of the few wrestling fans who loved the angle when David Arquette won the WCW title. It was a good example of something wrestling seem to forget sometimes, that anything can happen in sports and in wrestling. Its very important to surprise once in a while so the shows dont get stale.
Bummer, I totally was betting that Carmella was #1.
WTH WCW? If Kenny Kaos's injury allowed Rick Steiner to choose a replacement, why wouldn't Rick's injury do the same for Judy? That's the problem, lack of consistency in following the rules.
Don't bother trying to make sense out of anything that happened during the last 18 months of WCW. Even though I was pretty much only watching WWF at the time I would occasionally still check out Nitro because it was so surreal and awful.
Y'know, I'm kinda getting the notion that folks don't cotton to ol' Vince Russo.