PPVs were $29.99 when I was growing up in the 90s and early 2000s and I was only able to order one a year for my bday, and if the PPV sucked, then tough luck. It didn’t help that they were always on Sunday nights and I had school the next day.
Yeah bro but that Monday was always amazing cause if you were like me going to school that morning me and my friends couldn’t wait to talk about the PPV and what could happen on Raw or Nitro Monday night. We were all pumped up cause you knew some shit was about to happen. Nowadays who fucking cares, it’s all horrible.
7:38 that match is also response for giving Davey Boy Smith major back problems from the trap door in the ring, That he and most of the other Wrestlers were not made aware of.
OK, my overall impression from this video is about the same as my feelings at the time. Hulk Hogan's "creative control" and Bischoff's unwillingness/inability to reign him in ruined WCW. Vince is not always right, but his willingness to cut ties with the Huckster in the early 90's was the right thing to do.
Nope, who killed WCW was not Hogan & Bischoff, it was Russo. VKM sent Russo in & had him destroy WCW from the inside.. You know it, I know it, & so does everyone else...
@@jordansdad1221 Check the numbers bro. Russo was a Hail Mary to try to save ratings and stories that were already in the crapper. Russo didn't help, but they were already way behind. Vince just isn't that smart, as you know, I know, and everybody knows, based on his current product.
Haha you’re extremely wrong. Vince Russo is the sole reason wcw died. After hogan and bitch off were gone it just became unwatchable. Just bagwell on a forklift, title changing hands every week, openly calling wrestling fans stupid for watching fake wrestling but then expecting and believing they should want to watch the backstage “real” shit. Russo is the reason wrestling has sucked ever since.
connor kinsman Goldberg? On roids?! Nah bro he’s all natural just like Hulk Hogan and John Cena all they do is take their vitamins and say their prayers
@@supersasukemaniac I think he even had those things as part of his attire for a few video games. Shut Your Mouth, SmackDown! Vs. RAW and SmackDown! Vs. RAW 2006, if I remember right.
“No one believed beefcake would beat hogan” did anyone believe anyone would beat hogan from 1985-2002 except for maybe the latter part of his career? Even goldberg and warrior beating him was a shock
The writing was on the wall. Russo was puppeting WCW like the courtiers of the deceased Chin Shi Huang Ti, surrounding its corpse with fish to obfuscate the source of the rotten stench.
@@DFloyd84 Russo's creative certainly didn't help, but he was far from the cause of the company's demise. I'd highly recommend you read Guy Evans' book "NITRO."
I'd love to see Halloween Havoc return in the WWE and make each match a gimmick match. But if you're gonna have an unrigged wheel pick the gimmick at random, then make each gimmick actually cool and not crappy like a coal miner's glove on a pole. Or y'know, don't have an unrigged wheel randomly decide the gimmick at all.
Halloween Havoc 98 should get an honourable mention. The main event wasn't shown as the PPV overran the time and the semi-main (which technically ended up being the main) was Hogan-Warrior which was somehow still worse than not getting a main event
Warrior and Hogan was not expected to be good, but Dear God was it awful. Still one of the very few -5 star matches. Page v Goldberg was Goldberg's best match, yet WCW finds a way to screw it up.
I was wishing at first that it landed on a Prince Of Darkness match so we could see what that is. Well about a min later it occurred to me that it's more than likely a blindfold match. So I'm glad we didn't have to witness that disaster.
Actually the real main event for Great American Bash 1991 was a 2 on 1 Handicap Match between Rick Steiner vs. Arn Anderson and Paul E. Dangerously (Paul Heyman). It was originally supposed to be Madusa vs Paul E. Dangerously, but the Maryland Athletic Commission (event was held in Baltimore) would not allow a man vs. woman match. Great American Bash 1991 is such a mess that it is no wonder it is considered one of the worst wrestling PPV's ever.
Back in the Portland Wrestling days, Dutch Savage vs Apache Bull Ramos in a Coal Miner's Glove match was all that and a bag of chips. Just because WCW had no idea how to work it doesn't mean it was a bad concept.
What? The cage match between Hogan and Piper doesn't belong on the list, let alone at the number one spot. It's unfair to base its position entirely around, "Hell in a Cell was much better."
War Games 1998 was really painful to watch, especially with a stipulation like this.. WCW died becasue of the Wrestlers Ego.. WWE morally died because of a Grumpy Old Man's ego..
4:52 leads me to include an honorable mention involving the World Heavyweight Championship and killing it's value : DDP VS Jeff Jarrett VS David Arquette. White Arquette, the lead role for Ready To Rumble, War booked to win said match, he didn't agree to a reign, feeling fans wouldn't think of him as a credible champion.
Fall Brawl 1995 was really bad too. Hogan, Savage, Luger and Sting vs. The Dungeon of Doom in a double cage match. Problem is "hell in a cell" style WCW cages at that time had a incredibly low roof, so it was impossible to pull off a lot of moves without someone hitting the top of the cage. So the match is just a bunch of brawling and it gets old really quickly. Then the Giant appears at the end and does a ridiculous fake neck snap on Hogan.
That's how Wargames matches were. The '91 incarnation had Sid accidentally slamming Pillman neck-first into the matt with a powerbomb due to the roof (the 2nd PB went better due to it being modified abit).
I forgot how dreadful some of those wcw main event matches were watching them as a kid. The worse was wcw uncensored steel cage match between Randy savage and hulk Hogan one of their worse matches together with a bad finish as both guys ended up beating up sting and savage just walked out of the ring.
Wait... did he say the Goldberg vs Kronik match wouldn't happen today? Has he seen the current WWE product? Everything about that is in Vince's playbook.
Vince would never push those two tho. He didn’t while he was there. Vince does dumb shit but pushing people like swagger or del rio is better than this.
You can say Halloween Havoc is cursed, but it just needs the right person to run the event (**cough** Triple H). Plus going back to giving PPVs unique names rather than just naming them after a match type could be refreshing. And who wouldn't want to watch a show named after the most ghoulish time of year headlined by a bout named Hell in a Cell?
WCW Superbrawl 2000, the whole PPV was a dud. I was there and didn’t remember anything about it, except that James Brown was there. Even after watching it again on the network (for only $9.99), I still don’t remember anything about it.
No no, no fairness here, WCW never did anything right, WWF/E is always flawless, they never made mistakes like WCW especially during the attitude era, not at all. Mark Henry getting mae young pregnant and then actually building it for months just so she can give birth to a hand? Flawless.
Actually a lot of Halloween Havocs had pretty good and stacked cards so although you may of not liked the mains as clearly pointed out I would argue that overall some of those shows were pretty rememberable
Well what made the Fall Brawl 98 main event so bad,in retrospect,was the teams were in name only. In actuality,it was a 9 way dance with every man for himself.
It wasn't Bischoff who wanted Butcher to main event, it was Hogan. They were trying to win Hogan over because his contract was coming up and they wanted him to resign. That's why Butcher and not top heel Vader faced Hogan in the biggest PPV of the year
WrestleWar 89 doesn’t have Flair/Steamboat in the Main Event. Not even LoD vs the Varsity Club for the World Tag Titles. It has Rick Steiner/Eddie Gilbert vs Sullivan/Spivey for the US Tag Titles. No, really.
I feel bischoff gets more tip than he should. Russo was the issue with wcw. And whoever ran it before. Bischoff literally put them on the map. The issue was his friendship with hogan and letting him run things too.
Wcw was bad but it was still entertaining till the end, it had a anything can happen vibe and everybody was talking crazy every week at the end, wrestling is kinda boring these days, too many bland good wrestler characters, just my opinion tho
Ah, WCW in 2000. Who thought it was a good idea to have 25 title changes in the same year?
Vince Russo, apparently.
Bro, there is only one person on this planet who can come up with that idea, bro!
Still, at least Vacant got several more reigns.
Bro I booked the attitude era bro hulk hogan you son of a bitch (bro)
Even tho wcw 2000 wasn't great I'd still rather watch it than the boring wwf 2000! Rock vs hhh 100 times!...yawn
PPVs were $29.99 when I was growing up in the 90s and early 2000s and I was only able to order one a year for my bday, and if the PPV sucked, then tough luck. It didn’t help that they were always on Sunday nights and I had school the next day.
WoW you yanks got ripped off. In the UK PPV were free. Well mostly
Yeah bro but that Monday was always amazing cause if you were like me going to school that morning me and my friends couldn’t wait to talk about the PPV and what could happen on Raw or Nitro Monday night. We were all pumped up cause you knew some shit was about to happen. Nowadays who fucking cares, it’s all horrible.
Me and my friends would all pay 5-10 bucks each and order pizzas. So great.
Did your grandparents sleep in the same bed? Did one of the ppvs have a golden buy that you luckily won and now you own wrestling?
@@DeanMoxley87 if it’s free it is by definition not a ppv.
7:38 that match is also response for giving Davey Boy Smith major back problems from the trap door in the ring, That he and most of the other Wrestlers were not made aware of.
Well that and all the drugs he was on before the match even started
OK, my overall impression from this video is about the same as my feelings at the time. Hulk Hogan's "creative control" and Bischoff's unwillingness/inability to reign him in ruined WCW. Vince is not always right, but his willingness to cut ties with the Huckster in the early 90's was the right thing to do.
Yup
Nope, who killed WCW was not Hogan & Bischoff, it was Russo. VKM sent Russo in & had him destroy WCW from the inside.. You know it, I know it, & so does everyone else...
@@jordansdad1221 I bet you also believe that the chemicals are turning the frogs gay lol
@@jordansdad1221 Check the numbers bro. Russo was a Hail Mary to try to save ratings and stories that were already in the crapper. Russo didn't help, but they were already way behind. Vince just isn't that smart, as you know, I know, and everybody knows, based on his current product.
Haha you’re extremely wrong. Vince Russo is the sole reason wcw died. After hogan and bitch off were gone it just became unwatchable. Just bagwell on a forklift, title changing hands every week, openly calling wrestling fans stupid for watching fake wrestling but then expecting and believing they should want to watch the backstage “real” shit. Russo is the reason wrestling has sucked ever since.
Why does it look like Goldberg has two left shoulders on top of each other in the thumbnail?
That Brian Adams' hand.
Roids
@@connorkinsman3164 You need to re-educate what someone on roids might actually look like.
connor kinsman Goldberg? On roids?! Nah bro he’s all natural just like Hulk Hogan and John Cena all they do is take their vitamins and say their prayers
@@trynamakegainz pray to the God of Big Pharma :)
What about a video on _'Worst Wrestling Attire'_ 🤷♂️
(you could do entrance and ring gear)
@GBProductions84 his gear is 'mind bottling' 😆
@@c0pyimitati0n It came straight from "Cirque De So Lame".
Scotty 2 Hotty would be on there. Probably for the times he just wore non-gimmicked Fox-branded Motocross pants.
@@supersasukemaniac I think he even had those things as part of his attire for a few video games. Shut Your Mouth, SmackDown! Vs. RAW and SmackDown! Vs. RAW 2006, if I remember right.
WCW Wrath
“No one believed beefcake would beat hogan” did anyone believe anyone would beat hogan from 1985-2002 except for maybe the latter part of his career? Even goldberg and warrior beating him was a shock
Luger beating Hogan was more shocking than Goldberg
Agreed. Anyone beating Hogan was a shock.
I could never believe Hogan could win with that shit finish. The leg drop is a joke.
Oh Lord these matches are gonna be real rough. All those kids thinking WWE is no good. You ain't seen nothing until you see some WCW storylines
Haha almost makes me glad I was an attitude band wagoner as a kid
If you watch wwe in the 2010s then honestly you do understand
At this point, I would rather watch WCW from 1999-2000 over the current "wwe" storylines.
@@theinfamousmrsleep That being said, not everything in the Attitude/Ruthless Aggression was a home run.
Lol a glove on pole classic
WCW might have believe as Vince Russo has same first name with Vince McMahon, that he would have his intelligents too
@@anncanoville473 the Coal Miners Glove match wasnt a Russo idea. It was in like 1992.
@@anncanoville473 Well before Russo.
😂😂😂 they did so much stuuuuuuuuuuipd shit🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🙄
3:50 Who is the big guy on the left
Is anyone else genuinely curious what Sting vs Roberts in a barbed-wire match would've looked like?
Yep
"...and the company was dead within 6 months." I didn't realize 6 months after October 1999 was March 2001.
The writing was on the wall. Russo was puppeting WCW like the courtiers of the deceased Chin Shi Huang Ti, surrounding its corpse with fish to obfuscate the source of the rotten stench.
@@DFloyd84 Russo's creative certainly didn't help, but he was far from the cause of the company's demise. I'd highly recommend you read Guy Evans' book "NITRO."
It was dead loooong before it closed.
I was at that Coal Miners Glove match 😅
And? How was it?
You’re old
Damn this list makes it look like Hogan wasn't a good wrestler lol
Thats because he wasn't
Never thought he was
@@havelthedeadinside1799 lol
@@davidkoester258 lol
This dude is a Hogan hater it gets tiring.
I'd love to see Halloween Havoc return in the WWE and make each match a gimmick match. But if you're gonna have an unrigged wheel pick the gimmick at random, then make each gimmick actually cool and not crappy like a coal miner's glove on a pole. Or y'know, don't have an unrigged wheel randomly decide the gimmick at all.
Do Top 10 Worst New Japan Main Events
oh, that's easy. anything from the days of inokism.
Halloween Havoc 98 should get an honourable mention.
The main event wasn't shown as the PPV overran the time and the semi-main (which technically ended up being the main) was Hogan-Warrior which was somehow still worse than not getting a main event
Warrior and Hogan was not expected to be good, but Dear God was it awful. Still one of the very few -5 star matches. Page v Goldberg was Goldberg's best match, yet WCW finds a way to screw it up.
I was wishing at first that it landed on a Prince Of Darkness match so we could see what that is. Well about a min later it occurred to me that it's more than likely a blindfold match. So I'm glad we didn't have to witness that disaster.
1:07 hmmm that is not quite correct
Actually the real main event for Great American Bash 1991 was a 2 on 1 Handicap Match between Rick Steiner vs. Arn Anderson and Paul E. Dangerously (Paul Heyman). It was originally supposed to be Madusa vs Paul E. Dangerously, but the Maryland Athletic Commission (event was held in Baltimore) would not allow a man vs. woman match. Great American Bash 1991 is such a mess that it is no wonder it is considered one of the worst wrestling PPV's ever.
Madusa? I thought it was Missy Hyatt. I'm sure it was supposed to be Missy teaming up with Rick.
Love the editing of the vídeo, a breeze of fresh air
anyone else notice the
ROGERS SPORTSNET graphic between each entry?
Back in the Portland Wrestling days, Dutch Savage vs Apache Bull Ramos in a Coal Miner's Glove match was all that and a bag of chips. Just because WCW had no idea how to work it doesn't mean it was a bad concept.
10 times Whatculture wrestling became the watch mojo of wrestling channels
3:54 was that spelling of "HULKIMANIA" intentional?
I love me some WhatCulture, but god damn you guys need to get your facts straight
What? The cage match between Hogan and Piper doesn't belong on the list, let alone at the number one spot. It's unfair to base its position entirely around, "Hell in a Cell was much better."
3:58 Hulkamania
Any worst matches in WCW is better than future greatest wrestling match of all time lol
✋ High Five.
War Games 1998 was really painful to watch, especially with a stipulation like this..
WCW died becasue of the Wrestlers Ego..
WWE morally died because of a Grumpy Old Man's ego..
Only Simon should do DubyaCDubya videos
All of them I bet
4:52 leads me to include an honorable mention involving the World Heavyweight Championship and killing it's value : DDP VS Jeff Jarrett VS David Arquette. White Arquette, the lead role for Ready To Rumble, War booked to win said match, he didn't agree to a reign, feeling fans wouldn't think of him as a credible champion.
Not sure if it was mentioned yet but let us not forget the actual last match on GAB 91.. thought for sure it would be be on the list
Fall Brawl 1995 was really bad too. Hogan, Savage, Luger and Sting vs. The Dungeon of Doom in a double cage match.
Problem is "hell in a cell" style WCW cages at that time had a incredibly low roof, so it was impossible to pull off a lot of moves without someone hitting the top of the cage. So the match is just a bunch of brawling and it gets old really quickly.
Then the Giant appears at the end and does a ridiculous fake neck snap on Hogan.
That's how Wargames matches were. The '91 incarnation had Sid accidentally slamming Pillman neck-first into the matt with a powerbomb due to the roof (the 2nd PB went better due to it being modified abit).
3:58..... *Hulkimania's* running wild brother
I forgot how dreadful some of those wcw main event matches were watching them as a kid. The worse was wcw uncensored steel cage match between Randy savage and hulk Hogan one of their worse matches together with a bad finish as both guys ended up beating up sting and savage just walked out of the ring.
I'd still prefer WCW
Halloween Havoc 1997, Piper vs. Hogan drew a phoenominal PPV buyrate.
Sting vs. Hogan, Starrcade 97
Terrible match and all of that build up just have a botched finish.
Wait... did he say the Goldberg vs Kronik match wouldn't happen today?
Has he seen the current WWE product?
Everything about that is in Vince's playbook.
Vince would never push those two tho. He didn’t while he was there. Vince does dumb shit but pushing people like swagger or del rio is better than this.
I love the juxtapositions between the WCW events and the next wwf event.
You can say Halloween Havoc is cursed, but it just needs the right person to run the event (**cough** Triple H).
Plus going back to giving PPVs unique names rather than just naming them after a match type could be refreshing. And who wouldn't want to watch a show named after the most ghoulish time of year headlined by a bout named Hell in a Cell?
WCW Superbrawl 2000, the whole PPV was a dud. I was there and didn’t remember anything about it, except that James Brown was there. Even after watching it again on the network (for only $9.99), I still don’t remember anything about it.
Sounds like you have PTSD from being there and even watching it again causes a black whole to appear in your mind
In the interest of fairness, that War Games Match led to DDP Vs. Goldberg at Halloween Havoc.
No no, no fairness here, WCW never did anything right, WWF/E is always flawless, they never made mistakes like WCW especially during the attitude era, not at all. Mark Henry getting mae young pregnant and then actually building it for months just so she can give birth to a hand? Flawless.
@@thehorrorhound6575 Absolutely. It was an instrumental and integral piece of his Hall of Pain Run years later.
Coal miners glove..that's where 80s mania wrestling got that from
Actually a lot of Halloween Havocs had pretty good and stacked cards so although you may of not liked the mains as clearly pointed out I would argue that overall some of those shows were pretty rememberable
very memorable shows for the set (the tombstones, giant pumpkin) and for how cheesy and/or bad a lot of the shows were
You forgot one... "Yetaaaaaay"
"they coudlent plan anything in advance"
"Hall wasn't a super worker"
Tell someone you're a mark for modern tumbling without telling them
Picking just 10 must be hard
When WCW died, you were not even born.
Whatculture is simply full of wits and entertainment. The Best. Period.
Well what made the Fall Brawl 98 main event so bad,in retrospect,was the teams were in name only.
In actuality,it was a 9 way dance with every man for himself.
It wasn't Bischoff who wanted Butcher to main event, it was Hogan. They were trying to win Hogan over because his contract was coming up and they wanted him to resign. That's why Butcher and not top heel Vader faced Hogan in the biggest PPV of the year
1. Hulk Hogan vs Sting (Starcade 97)
2. DDP and David Arquette vs Jeff Jarrett and Eric Bischoff (WCW Thunder 2000)
I sense a pattern of prejudice against Hogan here. Lol
#8, #7, #6, #3 and #1!
He's in half the matches on the list.😂👍
"prejudice against Hogan"
They're not pre-judging, Hogan. They're judging him.
Just here? How about in most everything in life short of him putting over the Rock.
Considering how bad his matches tended to be, are you really surprised? :P
Future reference for @1:06 - > means greater than, < means less than
Pretty sure without even watching this whole vid that it's going to be mostly WCW 2000 matches
That Doomsday Cage match was absolutely awful. It's impossible to even describe.
Honestly after looking up what a Prince of Darkness match really was... i think the coal miner's glove match is a 10x better option
Basically a blindfold match isn't it?
@@davidmc5762 yessir, and we all know how great those are
@@RhinoGore38 The name makes it sound far more exciting.
Bring back russo...
His worst stuff was more memorable than cedrick alexander vs autin theory for example. Go praise heyman for the dull shows now.
sting/ roberts match stipulation was still nowhere near as ridiculous as the Judy Bagwell on a forklift match.
Best part of the video was the end actually had that Disney adventure magazine
Those ppv were 49.99$ here in Canada. My parents watched Wwf so I didn't see much of this stuff. Only watched Thunder sometimes
I would have took out the Leno tag match for Hogan/Giant at Souled Out
Technically the Main Event of the Great American Bash '91 was Rick Steiner and Missy Hyatt vs. Arn Anderson and Paul E. Dangerously.
Wasn't No. 1 a non-title match at Piper's insistence -- and he didn't have the belt?
In conclusion late wcw tought current wwe everything they know.
sorry but wwe today is no were near as bad as wcw 2000-2001
How is there no Warrior vs. Hogan? That was a complete disaster, right up to Hogan burning himself with his own fireball.
Because that was not the main event. That would be Goldberg vs Diamond Dallas Page, even though those who bought the PPV didn't see it.
No mention of Hogan vs Vader where neither wanted to do the job so Flair came out in drag and he did the job despite not even being in the match.
I'm senseing a theme here...a certain -mania theme.
6:40 I see what you did there 😆
WrestleWar 89 doesn’t have Flair/Steamboat in the Main Event.
Not even LoD vs the Varsity Club for the World Tag Titles.
It has Rick Steiner/Eddie Gilbert vs Sullivan/Spivey for the US Tag Titles.
No, really.
What ever happened to defiant wrestling? I’m sure they have Meltzer ‘s 890 stars main events every week
You forgot Hogan vs Flair at Uncensored ‘95 (I think) which was a first blood.. ended up in a PINFALL!
99
Hey Jeff Jarrett believe it or not is actually a pretty good wrestler
So is Roman but both are booked poorly
Hulkimania... seems fitting on a video about WCW's worst PPV matches. 🤦♂️
Me and my Halloween havoc shirt are insulated.
The great American bash was main event was a 2 on 1 cage match: Rick Steiner vs. Paul e. dangerously and arn anderson
Hogan vs Butcher at Starrcade HAS to be no. 1
I'm kinda shocked the infamous "Fingerpoke of Doom" didn't make it on here.
It was on a Nitro, not PPV.
@@Jffeeney3rd it was still a main event.
The worst in my opinion is Warrior vs Hogan at Halloween Havoc....still proving it is cursed lol
If Hogan Vs Warrior part 2 isn't #1 I will riot
No Hogan/Warrior? That was legendarily bad.
Just so everyone is clear Bischoff wasn’t in charge of WCW booking in 94 so Hogan vs butcher wasn’t up to him.
I feel bischoff gets more tip than he should. Russo was the issue with wcw. And whoever ran it before. Bischoff literally put them on the map. The issue was his friendship with hogan and letting him run things too.
Halloween Havoc is back, Btw.
FALL BRAWL 98's main event was picture-perfect! Yeah...I said it. All star power, get over it
Not guna lie that Prince of Darkness match sounds perfect for Finn Balor now..
Hogan was beyond terrible and definitely helped sink WCW. Boreberg was way over hyped and got more wins than his lack of talent earned him.
Wcw was bad but it was still entertaining till the end, it had a anything can happen vibe and everybody was talking crazy every week at the end, wrestling is kinda boring these days, too many bland good wrestler characters, just my opinion tho
WCW’s worst match was better than WWFs best match!
😊😊
Just 10? That is a tough one
Coal miners glove match wasn’t random. Do some research.
Why not just change the title to 10 times Hogan’s ego got in the way 😎😎
IDK what would be worst to make a wrestling fan irritated wwe matches now or any of these
Didn't David Arquette win the World Championship at a pay per view main event? How can that not be #1?
David won the world title ( reluctantly) on a Thunder episode
How is the 8 on 2 Tower of Doom match not #1?
Anyone else surprised a pole on a pole never happened
Bash at the beach 1999 was dreadful
Eric Bischoff never wanted Hogan Vs Beefcake 🤦
7:41 I remember seeing this on ppv. When I saw the lineup, I thought "Yep, Stevie Ray is the one getting pinned." Called it.
I was at 3 of the Halloween havoc matches on this list and they were worse live