I would argue the worst bit of warrior creative was the trap door in the ring that injured Davey Boy Smith's back and basically made him a shell of the man he once was.
@@zigzzagz5732Um....right. Which all started after that injury. It fucked his back up royally...started taking pain meds....got majorly addicted to them....the rest is obvious.
A fact about that Finger Poke of Doom that gets left out of most retellings is that the Police Station they were using for the Goldberg segments was literally right across the street from the arena the show was being held at. So when Goldberg was released by the cops and started rushing back to the show, it somehow took him 30 minutes to cross the damn street
I believe that's since been proven to be a case of Tony Schiavone misspeaking, as there was never a police station located "across the street" from the Georgia Dome, or even the current Mercedes-Benz Stadium that's since replaced it. Rather, Tony should have said that the station was "down the street" from the Dome, as in at least a couple of miles or so, which would have explained why it took Goldberg a little bit of time to get back. However, just like when Tony would often call Booker T's spinebuster as "Sidewalk Slam" (seriously, he did this consistently for a while in 1997 and/or 1998 & no one ever corrected him), Tony said the wrong thing & made the entire situation sound even more ridiculous.
5:52 They're dressed like that because it's relevant to the origins of the phrase that this whole segment is referencing. So it's actually appropriate.
@mrbevelaqua8649 KISS is my favorite band so it's definitely not a hate comment, It was a financial and ratings disaster tho so I'm just surprised it wasn't here lol
The TV Title was VERY meaningful starting with its NWA legacy in the 70s and continuing into the 90s when it became the WCW World Television Title. It stayed pretty meaningful up until around 1998-1999. Flair, Rhodes, Arn, Tully, Mike Rotundo, both Steiners, Sting, Steve Austin, Nikita and Ivan Koloff, Mr. Wrestling, Greg Valentine, Ricky Steamboat, Jimmy Valiant, Roddy Piper, Baron Von Rashke, Lex Luger, Bobby Eaton, Barry Windham, Paul Orndorff, Zbysko all held it along with more modern people like Johnny B Badd (he was way more over than most people realize), DDP, Jericho, Ultimo Dragon, Booker T, Benoit, Fit Finlay etc...There was a long time where it lived up to it's name and was regularly the ONLY belt defended on regular television and was regularly featured on TV with the holder of the belt being one of the most prominent wrestlers featured on TV on a regular basis.
The character of Seven is a rip off of the strangers in the movie "Dark City". Coincidentally "Dark City" was directed by Alex Proyas who also directed "The Crow" - the inspiration for Sting. I'm surprised WCW didn't get sued for copyright infringement for both characters.
WrestlingBio’s Reliving the War series is only three months into 2000 and there’s already enough material from Nitro of that year alone to make three of these lists.
lol Seven aka Dustin Runnels ripping on management was awesome. Also, the little boy in the window he’s staring at in those vignettes? A young Cody Rhodes!
honestly, 'The Fingerpoke of Doom' would've worked (ok maybe not 'worked', but it wouldn't have been nearly as bad) if it wasn't the end of the show. if it happened at the start or halfway through and the night ended with Goldberg spearing everyone it would just go down as a weird story beat.
There was nothing wrong with the FPOD in itself. Sympathy on Goldberg, heat on Nash, NWO reformed as an elite crew for Goldberg to go through systematically. The problem was everybody got hurt and the fans babyfaced Hogan right after, thus ruining the payoff and rendering it pointless. Goldberg never did get to take em all out 1 by 1 and get a revenge win over Hogan. Heat with a payoff is what the business is about. Heat with no payoff is a waste of time.
The funniest thing about Jarrett having the opera singers for Hogan: Hulk actually did leave WCW at Bash at the Beach with the ladies singing in the promo package. Granted, it was because Hogan didn’t want to lose to Jeff. So Jeff laid down and a one foot pin from hogan. Russo pretty much says “fuck u” and makes Booker T vs Jarrett for the title that same night. I literally just watched the ppv last night.
To be completely honest, when it came to Dustin Rhodes as the "wrestler" seven. There was a lot that snowballed downhill. Whether or not, it's Dustin Rhodes fault to begin with. I also feel, he had no right to complain. Based off of, I feel that was a Infinity things to stop it from happening.
TIL Ric Flair's heart attack was a work. I thought it was real and WCW worked it into the storyline. As I got older, I realized it could have been a work, but then realized it happened in late stage WCW and stopped caring either way.
"The hokiest thing in WCW history"? I don't know, that's a stiff competition. The concept of "the Shockmaster's" reveal, Seven, The electrocution of Abdullah the Butcher at Halloween Havoc, Robocop coming to Sting's aid...
The Finger Poke of Doom was the end of my WCW watching days. I left and never came back once Hogan pinned Nash. I didn't even watch the three count. I still remember turning the channel instantly.
Until this day, the Fingerpoke of Doom never bothered me. I liked the swerve and liked the NWO reforming. Had the storyline carried out, it would have been fun watching the chase again with Goldberg
To this very day...and countless more to come...I find the Fingerpoke of Doom to be wrestling's finest specimen of comedy gold. And who better to pull it off than Hulk Hogan & Kevin Nash?
I understand that the belts are essentially props used to drive feuds and stories, but they need to be treated like they are a big deal or they cease to useful props to dive feuds and stories.
As much as it is considered an iconic moment, Hogan's heel turn was executed so badly. Heenan tips it by saying 'but whose side is he on?', Hulk pushing the ref a bit and doing an uninspired leg drop on Savage is so weak, there's no sound of shock or pop from the crowd, just confusion until it slowly dawns on them. Then Hogan calls it the New World Organization, and Hall smiles and shrugs. Yeesh. Hogan turning heel was the biggest heel turn in the history of wrestling, and THAT is what creative comes up with? Compare that with Becky turning on Charlotte - the crowd went NUTS. WWE had set up that turn for so long, and they executed it perfectly. So much so that Becky became the face of the company. WWE are SO much better at telling a story and communicating it clearly to the audience. Bret Hart is right, WCW had no idea what they were doing. How you fumble the Hogan heel turn is beyond me.
The first PPV after the Hogan Turn was a FREE TO ATTEND Sturgis event where THE BIGGEST STORY OF THE YEAR DREW 0 DOLLARS They could have sold out ANY ARENA and charged ANY PRICE but they wanted to Party with as Bischoff calls them the "Upstanding citizens of sturgis" who are let me remind you Bikers white supremists and more
@chadalpha7983 Popularity and Quality often do not go hand in hand. The Kardashians and Jersey Shore were wildly popular. There are legions of people who love garbage tv, movies, books and music. Tons of great philosophers and musicians were barely recognized in their time. The excellence of anything is its inherent quality, not dependant on popular opinion.
I always thought raw would be gone but no i truly liked wcw better even sting said on tna that he tried to buy the company i wish he would have and fixed everything ❤wcw will always rule forever with me much love and respect to the brand and other fans❤😊
As crappy as the San Francisco 49ers Match was, I honestly would love to see NXT do one of those as an April Fools' Day gag, if only to pop the crowd, and I think with the right talent it could be fun; plus, I'd love to see someone like Trick Williams recreate Booker's legendary reaction to the framed Scott Hall photo. Speaking of which, April 1 this year is on a Tuesday...
The Halloween havoc match was horrible, but the crowd still blew up when he came back. Go back and watch it. His “rambling” promo everyone mentions went over with the crowd. His final in ring promo still got a positive reaction.
You didnt even mention that the 49ers match was the one where the title fell out of the box and Booker had to pick it up and pretend that he didnt always know it was in that specific box. Its hilarious.
I kind of liked the Piper segment where he chose members for his team. In the first match he did some pretty good take downs and won with a Kimura if Im not mistaken.
That segment was done more for shock value since she had been the WWE Women's Champion less than a week before she joined WCW and was stripped of the title but still had the belt. She later expressed regret at being involved in the segment since it led to her being blacklisted from WWE for twenty years but at the time felt as though she couldn't tell Bischoff she wouldn't do it.
5:53 they’re dressed as Valkyries. Surely you ought to have a basic grasp of 19th century Germanic opera if you’re going to run a TH-cam wrestling channel.
In retrospect I think the moment Bischoff and Russo stripped all the champions of their belts and "reset" the company is one of the worst moments. At the time it felt like maybe it would work but now it's easy to see how it really didn't change much. Also it gives us the Bischoff interaction with Sid that references an incident most people don't even know about.
I miss the way things were staged back then. The names are another subject, but they were mostly interchangeable in the way it was all put together. That was the entertainment of it. It should still be that way.
I actually think the worst Nitro moment was any time that the Harris Brothers were featured. :P The Piper segment is very deserving of being #1 considering how much time it took up and how painfully bad it was from the start. Not to downplay the terribleness of the Fingerpoke of Doom, but the segment itself wasn't terrible, it was the ripple effect caused by it.
So, does that mean warrior was a ghost only to Eric Bischoff? Or a ghost to everyone but eric? I wont be able to sleep tonight until i figure this creative genius out.
If #2 was just a Coal Miners Glove Match, it’d be better. For those that don’t know, it’s another of those “whoever gets it off the pole can use it as a weapon” match. It was a match that was very popular in Portland Wrestling.
Feels like this list gets made once or twice every year on repeat from the 3 wrestling channels I follow That may not be the case! I may be wrong! But it certainly feels that way!
Nitro and Raw combined made the perfect show the first hour of Nito was awesome cruiserweights and Luchas putting on clinics, Eddie, Rey, Kidman, Alex Wright, Juvie, Psychosis, La parka, The filthy animals, misfits in action, three count, the Yung dragons, it was awesome until the midcard started with the exception of Benoit, Booker T, Jericho, Malenko and Saturn who were seriously under used it rapidly turned to shit with Mongo, Buff, Kanyon (who was amazing but miss booked) David flair, Mike awesome (again an amazing talent but miss booked) Hogan's friends such as the nasty boys, Brutus, Horace etc stinking up the screen, and then came the main event, Hogan, Nash, Flair, DDP ( the one highlight) Steiner, Goldberg, Brett (another wasted talent) etc, Then you had Raw the first hour of which was boring extended promos and forgettable undercard matches until the midcard arrived followed by the main event and we were getting DX, Taker, Foley, The rock, Austin, Kane, HBK, Shamrock etc I always watched WCW for the undercard and WWF for the upper card!
It isn't a "Nitro moment" but one of the absolute worst WCW moment ever conceived was when they had the storyline where Goldberg refused to followed the script that was written for him, and that Big Poppa Pump was gonna beat him up in the ring, and they were gonna wrestling without a script.
I am shocked you didn't mention David Arquette winning the WCW World Championship angle as one of the top 10. I'd say that was probably way worse than the Seven Angle at least.
@@hecksters423 I'm aware but it was a decision by the guys in charge who convinced David Arquette to be the champion for a bit as a publicity stunt and it bombed hard and hurt the company. David went for it cuz he wanted to help the business and I heard he donated the money he made from it to the families of Owen Hart, Bryan Pillman, and Droz.
I would argue the worst bit of warrior creative was the trap door in the ring that injured Davey Boy Smith's back and basically made him a shell of the man he once was.
Wcw never bothered telling him about that trap door they were negligent
That wasn’t on nitro though
the trap door in the ring that led to him developing a prescription pill problem and dxxing prematurely.*
That's not why Davy Boy died. Davey Boy actually died from a heroin overdose.
@@zigzzagz5732Um....right. Which all started after that injury. It fucked his back up royally...started taking pain meds....got majorly addicted to them....the rest is obvious.
This could be an 8 hour video lol
The 49ers match did give that awesome Booker T hilarious face when holding the Scott Hall pic to the hard cam
A fact about that Finger Poke of Doom that gets left out of most retellings is that the Police Station they were using for the Goldberg segments was literally right across the street from the arena the show was being held at.
So when Goldberg was released by the cops and started rushing back to the show, it somehow took him 30 minutes to cross the damn street
Obviously a lot of traffic that night.
@alastair852 someone needs to make a fan hack of Frogger to detail Billy's travels to the arena after being released from police custody!
I believe that's since been proven to be a case of Tony Schiavone misspeaking, as there was never a police station located "across the street" from the Georgia Dome, or even the current Mercedes-Benz Stadium that's since replaced it. Rather, Tony should have said that the station was "down the street" from the Dome, as in at least a couple of miles or so, which would have explained why it took Goldberg a little bit of time to get back.
However, just like when Tony would often call Booker T's spinebuster as "Sidewalk Slam" (seriously, he did this consistently for a while in 1997 and/or 1998 & no one ever corrected him), Tony said the wrong thing & made the entire situation sound even more ridiculous.
Because Zoro was giving him directions lol
@@michaelpeacock4228 I love the idea!
5:52 They're dressed like that because it's relevant to the origins of the phrase that this whole segment is referencing. So it's actually appropriate.
David Arquette avoided this video by a miracle
Only because THAT happened on Thunder.
@@michaelbreen7865that why!
Can we please let this go? David didn't want to do it! He was forced into it!
@@gordonjamescowiest classic Russo
@@gordonjamescowiest He wasn't "forced" into anything.
The "Hogan sees Warrior's ghost" stuff was glorious...pro wrestling at its ridiculous best
I'm shocked that KISS didn't make the list
Probably be in a part 2 through 30
That could be a good moment. But the Kiss Demon was very bad
Because KISS rules
@mrbevelaqua8649 KISS is my favorite band so it's definitely not a hate comment, It was a financial and ratings disaster tho so I'm just surprised it wasn't here lol
The TV Title was VERY meaningful starting with its NWA legacy in the 70s and continuing into the 90s when it became the WCW World Television Title. It stayed pretty meaningful up until around 1998-1999. Flair, Rhodes, Arn, Tully, Mike Rotundo, both Steiners, Sting, Steve Austin, Nikita and Ivan Koloff, Mr. Wrestling, Greg Valentine, Ricky Steamboat, Jimmy Valiant, Roddy Piper, Baron Von Rashke, Lex Luger, Bobby Eaton, Barry Windham, Paul Orndorff, Zbysko all held it along with more modern people like Johnny B Badd (he was way more over than most people realize), DDP, Jericho, Ultimo Dragon, Booker T, Benoit, Fit Finlay etc...There was a long time where it lived up to it's name and was regularly the ONLY belt defended on regular television and was regularly featured on TV with the holder of the belt being one of the most prominent wrestlers featured on TV on a regular basis.
Kinda surprised the infamous "that'll put butts in seats" moment about mankind winning the WWF title didnt make it
The character of Seven is a rip off of the strangers in the movie "Dark City". Coincidentally "Dark City" was directed by Alex Proyas who also directed "The Crow" - the inspiration for Sting. I'm surprised WCW didn't get sued for copyright infringement for both characters.
Sting's makeup/outfit post, he was wrestling as sting prior to 94
Wcw loved stealing pop culture characters. Sting as the crow actually worked because he made it his own thing
@@anthonybatissa1417But he started wearing the black-and-white paint and outfit in 1996.
And just like that, I understand jim cornette
Jim Cornette is just as bad. You should hear Kevin Owen’s talking about him trying to do week soap opera story lines.
@@Shintaylor450Kevin Owens is just salty that Jim wanted him to take time off to lose some weight and get a tan.
I’m sure there’s definitely more, most of them in the year 2000. But I don’t think there’s enough Tylenol in the world to deal with that headache.
WrestlingBio’s Reliving the War series is only three months into 2000 and there’s already enough material from Nitro of that year alone to make three of these lists.
@@QuoththeRavenRequiem oh I can imagine. 🤕
When Chucky showed up on Nitro was when the tides shifted for the great WCW to rule as the powerhouse company it is today, wait wrong universe lmao
lol Seven aka Dustin Runnels ripping on management was awesome. Also, the little boy in the window he’s staring at in those vignettes? A young Cody Rhodes!
*A rainbow with The More You Know underneath it appears*
No it’s not
@@elisamaria3628 yes it is other people have confirmed it was.
Cody would have been 14 when these vignettes aired. The boy is clearly between 7 and 10.
@@Trekapedia Other people said so so it must be true.
honestly, 'The Fingerpoke of Doom' would've worked (ok maybe not 'worked', but it wouldn't have been nearly as bad) if it wasn't the end of the show. if it happened at the start or halfway through and the night ended with Goldberg spearing everyone it would just go down as a weird story beat.
Vince Russo needs to be tried at The Hague.
The Kiss performance didn't make the list? That was probably one of the most changed channel moments in WCW history.
Lol They still have a lot of fans out there. Just not in wrestling
Don't forget the title fell out of the box when Booker went to grab it in the 49ers match
If we went by the rules of the match (first to grab the belt is the winner), technically ring announcer David Penzer should have been WCW Champion!
@@TheBrianJ Can't tell if that would have made the match better or wrose.
Chuckly was stupid but at least NXT mentioned and acknowledged it. Honestly loved Chucky in NXT!
There was nothing wrong with the FPOD in itself. Sympathy on Goldberg, heat on Nash, NWO reformed as an elite crew for Goldberg to go through systematically. The problem was everybody got hurt and the fans babyfaced Hogan right after, thus ruining the payoff and rendering it pointless. Goldberg never did get to take em all out 1 by 1 and get a revenge win over Hogan. Heat with a payoff is what the business is about. Heat with no payoff is a waste of time.
The NWO thing went into decline after the bull at starcade and the finger poke of doom.
i wonder if in hindsight it also cops a lot of heat because it was the same night mick foley won the wwf title
Heat with no payoff feels like the Vince Russo way.
You leave ready 2 rumble out of this! It was a masterpiece!!!! 6:29
Ready to Rumble is the reason I tried a Butterfinger when I went to America. Pretty good stuff I know why Jimmy likes them
😂😂😂😂 i cant believe I forgot about chucky talking smack to Rick Steiner. I think 🤔 I need to watch that again.
8:27 Appretiation ?
The funniest thing about Jarrett having the opera singers for Hogan:
Hulk actually did leave WCW at Bash at the Beach with the ladies singing in the promo package. Granted, it was because Hogan didn’t want to lose to Jeff. So Jeff laid down and a one foot pin from hogan. Russo pretty much says “fuck u” and makes Booker T vs Jarrett for the title that same night.
I literally just watched the ppv last night.
Nah the Seven moment was actually gold, in fact you could say it was *sharp inhale* Gooooldussst...
I'll admit, I liked Se7en's entrance music.
WCW's last days were cringe. Russo was one of the main reasons for WCW's downfall.
TNA did the Warrior in the mirror storyline, with Winter. Everyone hated that storyline, but I liked it. Angelina could see her but Velvet couldn't.
To be completely honest, when it came to Dustin Rhodes as the "wrestler" seven. There was a lot that snowballed downhill. Whether or not, it's Dustin Rhodes fault to begin with. I also feel, he had no right to complain. Based off of, I feel that was a Infinity things to stop it from happening.
Wow, these were horrible. Thank God I wasn't born around this time
The Attitude Era was mostly awesome
The Sevens entrance was amazing though.
The TV title getting thrown into the trash was lame but the rest were pretty priceless
Cultaholic Where The Big Boys Play
look at the adjective: play
TIL Ric Flair's heart attack was a work. I thought it was real and WCW worked it into the storyline. As I got older, I realized it could have been a work, but then realized it happened in late stage WCW and stopped caring either way.
I miss wcw 😔
Dustin watched the movie Powder and thought "bet"
"The hokiest thing in WCW history"? I don't know, that's a stiff competition. The concept of "the Shockmaster's" reveal, Seven, The electrocution of Abdullah the Butcher at Halloween Havoc, Robocop coming to Sting's aid...
The 1/4/99 edition of Nitro also had the Mick Foley incident
The Finger Poke of Doom was the end of my WCW watching days. I left and never came back once Hogan pinned Nash. I didn't even watch the three count. I still remember turning the channel instantly.
I also love WCW Monday Nitro. It was a great time in wrestling. My all time favorite wrestling show.
The low blow Beetlejuice gave Jarrett was brutal. It wasn't the kayfabe low blow. They were full punches to the balls.
I Got One Jeff Jarrett Mocking Dusty Rhodes Nitro Feb 2001 And Vince Russo, Daffney And David Flair Break Into Ric Flair's House On Nitro In 2000.
Until this day, the Fingerpoke of Doom never bothered me. I liked the swerve and liked the NWO reforming. Had the storyline carried out, it would have been fun watching the chase again with Goldberg
Russo's ideas are..scary and you wonder why Tony Khan doesn't take the hint.
To this very day...and countless more to come...I find the Fingerpoke of Doom to be wrestling's finest specimen of comedy gold. And who better to pull it off than Hulk Hogan & Kevin Nash?
8:28 appretiation night
Tag team tournament? That Piper segment was for his War Games team
No it was for WCW Uncensored not WCW Fall Brawl.
Wcw= wild corny wrestling
Looks like the grim reaper/Death from BILL & TEDS BOGUS JOURNEY!
Hard to believe at point they were the best wrestling company with an absolute stacked roster
I'd love to see Cultaholic Wrestling do two episodes; The Top 10 Best Moments of WCW Thunder and the Top 10 Worst Moments of WCW Thunder.
I was the kid from the seven vignettes
Shout out to the Hacksaw making sure that WCW could not get out of his contract!
I understand that the belts are essentially props used to drive feuds and stories, but they need to be treated like they are a big deal or they cease to useful props to dive feuds and stories.
As much as it is considered an iconic moment, Hogan's heel turn was executed so badly. Heenan tips it by saying 'but whose side is he on?', Hulk pushing the ref a bit and doing an uninspired leg drop on Savage is so weak, there's no sound of shock or pop from the crowd, just confusion until it slowly dawns on them. Then Hogan calls it the New World Organization, and Hall smiles and shrugs. Yeesh. Hogan turning heel was the biggest heel turn in the history of wrestling, and THAT is what creative comes up with? Compare that with Becky turning on Charlotte - the crowd went NUTS. WWE had set up that turn for so long, and they executed it perfectly. So much so that Becky became the face of the company. WWE are SO much better at telling a story and communicating it clearly to the audience. Bret Hart is right, WCW had no idea what they were doing. How you fumble the Hogan heel turn is beyond me.
Remember. This is the same company that gave us the Shockmaster, the Yeh-Tay and had Jay Leno in a main event.....
The first PPV after the Hogan Turn was a FREE TO ATTEND Sturgis event where THE BIGGEST STORY OF THE YEAR DREW 0 DOLLARS
They could have sold out ANY ARENA and charged ANY PRICE but they wanted to Party with as Bischoff calls them the "Upstanding citizens of sturgis" who are let me remind you Bikers white supremists and more
Yeah it was handled so poorly WCW became the top wrestling company for two years
@@defblinders9585 if my memory serves correctly, the yeh-tay was the moment I gave up on WCW entirely. That was so beyond cringe.
@chadalpha7983 Popularity and Quality often do not go hand in hand. The Kardashians and Jersey Shore were wildly popular. There are legions of people who love garbage tv, movies, books and music. Tons of great philosophers and musicians were barely recognized in their time. The excellence of anything is its inherent quality, not dependant on popular opinion.
I remember watching that 49er match and enjoying it lol Cuz Booker became champ again
I always thought raw would be gone but no i truly liked wcw better even sting said on tna that he tried to buy the company i wish he would have and fixed everything ❤wcw will always rule forever with me much love and respect to the brand and other fans❤😊
As crappy as the San Francisco 49ers Match was, I honestly would love to see NXT do one of those as an April Fools' Day gag, if only to pop the crowd, and I think with the right talent it could be fun; plus, I'd love to see someone like Trick Williams recreate Booker's legendary reaction to the framed Scott Hall photo. Speaking of which, April 1 this year is on a Tuesday...
Better yet, have it be a picture of Booker T holding the Scott Hall photo.
@@stosh5082 Might be a step too far but ... what if Booker leaves commentary during the match, opens one of the boxes, and its the picture again.
The Halloween havoc match was horrible, but the crowd still blew up when he came back. Go back and watch it. His “rambling” promo everyone mentions went over with the crowd. His final in ring promo still got a positive reaction.
Oddly enough, they'd probably have been very confused if he gave a concise, coherent promo.
You didnt even mention that the 49ers match was the one where the title fell out of the box and Booker had to pick it up and pretend that he didnt always know it was in that specific box. Its hilarious.
Don't you dare badmouth chucky sir
I kind of liked the Piper segment where he chose members for his team. In the first match he did some pretty good take downs and won with a Kimura if Im not mistaken.
Torrie. Enough said. Wowzer.
Seemed like a bigger deal when Alundra Blayze a.k.a. Medusa threw that WWE Women's Title in the trash can on WCW Nitro
That segment was done more for shock value since she had been the WWE Women's Champion less than a week before she joined WCW and was stripped of the title but still had the belt. She later expressed regret at being involved in the segment since it led to her being blacklisted from WWE for twenty years but at the time felt as though she couldn't tell Bischoff she wouldn't do it.
5:53 they’re dressed as Valkyries. Surely you ought to have a basic grasp of 19th century Germanic opera if you’re going to run a TH-cam wrestling channel.
Did.....did you guys just crap on John Tenta? Ya know, Earthquake?
In retrospect I think the moment Bischoff and Russo stripped all the champions of their belts and "reset" the company is one of the worst moments. At the time it felt like maybe it would work but now it's easy to see how it really didn't change much.
Also it gives us the Bischoff interaction with Sid that references an incident most people don't even know about.
Dvds are the best to have when you cant no longer access it on demand
I miss the way things were staged back then. The names are another subject, but they were mostly interchangeable in the way it was all put together. That was the entertainment of it. It should still be that way.
I actually think the worst Nitro moment was any time that the Harris Brothers were featured. :P
The Piper segment is very deserving of being #1 considering how much time it took up and how painfully bad it was from the start.
Not to downplay the terribleness of the Fingerpoke of Doom, but the segment itself wasn't terrible, it was the ripple effect caused by it.
The fingerpoke of doom was great in the moment. If they had followed up on it well, I wonder what might have been.
So, does that mean warrior was a ghost only to Eric Bischoff? Or a ghost to everyone but eric? I wont be able to sleep tonight until i figure this creative genius out.
Macho’s on air domestic abuse and slapping Torrie should definitely be near the top of this list.
i think that was on Thunder
Shut up. Are we all equal or not?
Send for the man!
How did Judy Bagwell on a pole match not get on the list.😮
Not a Nitro moment. It was at New Blood Rising.
Poor Chucky, he doesn't deserve the hate. Only the tv show version does
I remember most of these except the opera singers and Dustin Rhodes's
character Seven.
I'm still wondering what Billy Kidman had to keep Torrie all those years.
I loved the finger poke of doom. Loved that Nash and Hogan were realigning. I was 12 and stupid, sure. But I loved it.
If #2 was just a Coal Miners Glove Match, it’d be better.
For those that don’t know, it’s another of those “whoever gets it off the pole can use it as a weapon” match. It was a match that was very popular in Portland Wrestling.
The TV title was once one of the most important titles in WCW to me if you look at some of the wrestlers who've held it.
Feels like this list gets made once or twice every year on repeat from the 3 wrestling channels I follow
That may not be the case! I may be wrong! But it certainly feels that way!
I still don't get why the match was called the San Francisco 49ers match?? 😂😂
It took place in SF
@skorpiontamer Okay, but that still doesn't explain the four wooden boxes and all that
This is a stretch (it's a Russo idea after all) but the real 49s were looking for gold... and in one of the boxes was the big gold belt.
Lets be real, the Mirror bit was epic and would be epic today too.
On tnt❤😊
Some of those were dumb. But the finger poke of doom was the stupidest idea ever
I remember watching the Piper thing, thinking weird.
Thanks 🎉
Nitro and Raw combined made the perfect show the first hour of Nito was awesome cruiserweights and Luchas putting on clinics, Eddie, Rey, Kidman, Alex Wright, Juvie, Psychosis, La parka, The filthy animals, misfits in action, three count, the Yung dragons, it was awesome until the midcard started with the exception of Benoit, Booker T, Jericho, Malenko and Saturn who were seriously under used it rapidly turned to shit with Mongo, Buff, Kanyon (who was amazing but miss booked) David flair, Mike awesome (again an amazing talent but miss booked) Hogan's friends such as the nasty boys, Brutus, Horace etc stinking up the screen, and then came the main event, Hogan, Nash, Flair, DDP ( the one highlight) Steiner, Goldberg, Brett (another wasted talent) etc, Then you had Raw the first hour of which was boring extended promos and forgettable undercard matches until the midcard arrived followed by the main event and we were getting DX, Taker, Foley, The rock, Austin, Kane, HBK, Shamrock etc I always watched WCW for the undercard and WWF for the upper card!
It isn't a "Nitro moment" but one of the absolute worst WCW moment ever conceived was when they had the storyline where Goldberg refused to followed the script that was written for him, and that Big Poppa Pump was gonna beat him up in the ring, and they were gonna wrestling without a script.
Must have been hard to narrow this down to just 10.
The fingerpoke of doom no question about it was the worst for me.
What is the Coal Miners Glove Reference ?
I am shocked you didn't mention David Arquette winning the WCW World Championship angle as one of the top 10. I'd say that was probably way worse than the Seven Angle at least.
This happened on Thunder
@FabianZettl Dammit you're right lmao
And Arquette never directly asked himself to BE WCW World Heavyweight champion.
@@hecksters423 I'm aware but it was a decision by the guys in charge who convinced David Arquette to be the champion for a bit as a publicity stunt and it bombed hard and hurt the company. David went for it cuz he wanted to help the business and I heard he donated the money he made from it to the families of Owen Hart, Bryan Pillman, and Droz.
...7:48...yo, the Ric Flair heart attack was a work!?...wtf!?...no way, bruh!...lol...always thought it was real!...lol...
Appretiation night?? Appreciation. Like the thing I don’t have for the editor
The Torrie Wilson segment shouldn't be on top 10 in my opinion
There was also that time Billy Kidman basically showed revenge porn of Torrie.
Again, he was supposed to be the good guy.
That background music was so good it distracted me from the video so maybe a bad choice just saying
I'd fighting Booker for that picture. With frame?? Are you kidding?