10 WCW Moments That Weren’t Supposed To Happen

[@rickytpb2164]

The #1 thing I miss about WCW. Is the sound the ring made when wrestlers took bumps.

[@LastsayianTTV]

You ain’t lie !

[@SpanishFly120]

Plus, I always thought the WCW ring ropes and turnbuckle bit looked better than WWE's, even if their ring was a little smaller.

[@killwalker]

Michael Buffer as Main Event Ring Announcer!!

[@cchisolm92cc]

That mat always seemed hard & stiff

[@rodneycosta1725]

Ye brother I agree between 1995 to 1999 I loved the sound

[@tylerrynes211]

Honestly 80's wcw is a gem unfortunately no one wants to acknowledge the good of wcw

[@gdn2705]

I always preferred WCW-JCP from about 1986 when they started showing it in the UK up until Hogan and them joined that was when I lost interest in WCW it became like a WWF copy to me then.

[@tylerrynes211]

@T G hey are you alright? I never said anything about the 90's are you on Crack or some shit? Unlike you I was suggesting people go watch some legends in their prime. But hey apparently I'm on something for liking something different from you.

[@Jay-we2ek]

@@tylerrynes211 Why do people get offended and jump straight to insults, over nothing.

[@ciaranmurren]

The whole year of it.

[@tylerrynes211]

@T G then don't sub comment without tagging anyone dumbass, did you not pay attention in elementary school? You didn't tag the other guy who commented prior I assumed it was for me. You know since I actually know how to speak basic English, oh and you know use a fucking basic comment feature to tag the right person.

[@TheRustedShackleford]

Jericho's list of 1001 moves was the best thing that ever appeared on WCW TV

[@andyhayward358]

1004

[@WhiskeyBrewer]

Arm Bar

[@Michael-wh1vs]

Arm hold

[@andyhayward358]

1st move/hold was Arm Drag

[@bbsy1]

ARM BAR!

[@SethColby69]

The entire existence of shockmaster and the judy bagwell on a forklift match, nuff said

[@aleiterful]

Shockmaster was dope

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Judy Bagwell She's a stunt granny.

[@MortonT1958]

I loved the Shockmaster. They missed the opportunity for him to make a major heel turn after his fiasco entrance. He seemed like a goof but they could have made Fred Othman (Tugboat/Shockmaster) a real machine of destruction.

[@andyhayward358]

Not giving the LWO a proper go was a mistake, those guys were fricken awesome to watch. Pity that during the majority of their matches, commentators wouldn't shut up about Hogan or NWO

[@michaelmercury1297]

I remember Scott Steiner's promos back then . They were pretty good .

[@DJDoubleCee]

I bet Goldberg was embarrassed when William Regal pretty much exposed him in the ring. Too bad Regal got fired because of that.

[@txcforever]

If you were a mechanic at BMW would you expose that the most anticipated model of the company will catch fire if you push it over 120mph? Wouldn't you get fired for that? Goldberg was a huge draw despite barely being a wrestler. Exposing him and damaging his image would of course lead to repercussions even if it was done accidentally.

[@guitarheroguy5]

Regal was fired for Pissing on a flight attendant, not this match.

[@Jay-we2ek]

@@txcforever Your analogy makes literally zero sense.

[@reggiefields6551]

@@txcforever the engineers should be getting fired for building a crap product.....

[@txcforever]

@@reggiefields6551 Maybe in an ideal world.

[@chrispswann6825]

The British Bulldog injuring his back on Warrior's trap door and then dying because of all the medications he was taking because of that injury

[@killwalker]

right

[@deadeyedarwin]

Well...he was already on quite a few "medications" long before that that also led to his eventual death.

[@westnile21]

@@deadeyedarwin - Cocaine, Steroids and pain pills, man what a time to be alive well, not in Bulldogs case tho.

[@My19812011]

Kind of think smoking crack and all the other recreational drugs Davey was taking from the 80’s onwards on top of steroids played a much bigger part

[@TimTE01]

He did lots of drugs, yes. That shortened his life- no question. The Trap Door bump, however, nearly ended it right there!

[@stevenwalters3962]

I will always believe regal over bischoff over being told to work a solid 6 minute match with Goldberg. Also dean melenko was the perfect midcarder.

[@guitarheroguy5]

They tried to take the piss out of Regal and it backfired.

[@madmattgaming3951]

Although I wouldn't put it passed Regal to have worked stiff with Goldberg. Regal is a legend on the mic and between the ropes, if I were in his shoes I wouldn't have wanted to job for someone like Goldberg who had neither mic skills nor in-ring skills either.

[@Jay-we2ek]

@@madmattgaming3951 Each to their own but I never liked Regal. I thought he was boring, not very entertaining or skilled. Just my opinion though.

[@stevegallo8483]

Regal was a consumate professional in the ring. I would believe him over Bischoff on whether or not that match was to be a 6 minute match with Goldberg instead of the usual Goldberg squash match. The "problem" was it showed how green Goldberg was at the time.

[@Mia-dt3gl]

I have heard that the Goldberg vs Regal match wasn’t supposed to be a squash but a regular match as a change of pace for Goldberg’s squash matches, and to show that Goldberg wasn’t a one-trick pony. This is why the commentators in the build up to the match were talking about how difficult the match was going to be for Goldberg. The problem was that Goldberg hadn’t really done a match like this on TV before (this is why Goldberg looks nervous when he’s walking to the ring), and Regal unfortunately exposed Goldberg as being _really_ green in the ring when it came to the technical aspect of wrestling. That was the main problem; not that Regal pulled a shoot on Goldberg, but that his superior technical skills made Goldberg look bad.

[@BWMacky]

What about Steiner's Roid Rage promo that Buff kept trying to stop?

[@TimTE01]

You mean the one when they were feuding or together? Because Buff's promos against Steiner supposedly made him legit hate Bagwell and stiff him in their match.

[@marcespinoza6068]

Or almost every Scott Steiner promo in the 2000's

[@amaralabbas3048]

What about sid vicious breaking his leg ?

[@cryptozoomauler5505]

Really, it goes without saying. Nobody would plan for a real injury to put them out of work.

[@benjohnson5117]

That was kayfabe

[@mangler013junior4]

How?

[@KyleKnoblauch]

All I can think of here is Nash yelling, "NECK BROKEN!" 😂🤣😂😱😎

[@wozthescott2804]

I’m so confused as to why Luger beat Hogan for the belt on Nitro 5 days before Road Wild where Hogan would just win it back. Granted it was a great moment but still what was the point? Lmao

[@Biffo316]

Ratings boost. WCW used the PPV to hype nitro instead of the other way around.

[@Naruto0s44]

Ratings!!!!

[@IAmKingTony]

There’s an interview with Kevin Nash here on KZbin that explains it

[@wozthescott2804]

@@IAmKingTony Link?

[@jeffreymark475]

Wait so you're telling me Goldberg wasn't supposed to end Bret's career and have him get a stroke 2 years later. The more you know

[@stevegallo8483]

Bret wrestled a number of matches after that match with Goldberg, and tried to deliver a headbutt in at least one of them.

[@pimpdaddy9952]

My moment memory was when Sid Vicious broke his leg kicking Scott Steiner.

[@RichardWaters]

WhatCulture Wrestling: 10 Things Not Meant to Happen in WCW, know any more? Botchamania: Hold my beer.

[@benrichardson8099]

I felt bad for martel i heard he was supposed to have a long tv title reign...

[@Aragon23-p2k]

Unfortunately, Goldberg destroyed Bret Hart's carrer with that kick, if that not happened probably Bret Hart was in WWE or TNA in the 2000s

[@gdn2705]

No Bret would of retired when Vince bought WCW because Bret hated him back then.

[@Aragon23-p2k]

@Bry Robinson Good point

[@gdn2705]

@Bry Robinson probably but not certain Bret would of joined TNA considering he had issues with Jeff Jarrett dating back to the mid 90s.

[@coreymarch9428]

There were the indy scenes he could have joined if he wouldn't mind going to the minor leagues

[@chikish]

Late nineties WCW has enough of these moments to make two more lists.

[@ericarcieri3836]

How bout when Paul Orndorff suffered a injury inside the ring but the others wrestlers kept on wrestling for a few minutes afterward until they realized he was really hurt

[@Jay-we2ek]

1:45 Perry kinda looking like Bagwell there, but rough 😂

[@jonathandequatro9498]

You forgot one. You'll never forget the name of (Goldust) DUSTIN RHODES.

[@CodyIgor]

Bobby Heenan had a legit neck injury that Brian Pillman knew about it wasnt from the shock of a fan it was cause brian rattled him

[@stevegallo8483]

What about Ric Flair leaving WCW for WWF in 1991 and taking the World Heavyweight Championship with him? Pretty sure THAT wasn't supposed to happen.

[@JGreen-le8xx]

That time Booker T called Hulk Hogan the N-word during a promo..

[@KyleKnoblauch]

Wow..... I forgot about Martel's run in Dubya Cee Dubya

[@antoniocaballero3976]

Chris Jericho was Perfect for the bon jovi/Axel rose time period

[@tonythomas2391]

Maybe Steiner wanted to get fired.

[@1krani]

Why does no one remember that part in Steiner's WCW rant where he puts over the nWo?

[@RetroRuss]

Pillman was a mad genius.

[@chrisp679]

WWE Raw 2 for XBox shows how slow Patrick is as a counter. You can choose between him, Mike Chioda, Hebner, and Tim White in exhibition matches, but if you have Smackdown matches you either get him or Chioda and no choices. Chioda will do a quick count, but Patrick has the slowest count EVER. You basically have to pin a guy for ten seconds for him to reach three and even then you’re lucky if he gets to three. So yeah, I totally believe he was counting fast. For him.

[@OzzyBen07]

I'm reading The Death of WCW again, and it's so frustrating to see the continual backstage and sometimes onscreen arrogance of Hogan, Nash, Bischoff and of course Russo.

[@wykeham]

How many more times will the shockmaster incident be featured in a top 10 countdown?

[@AngryitNerd]

the dean malenko goof was the funniest shit i had seen in awhile when wcw was on tv

[@tinotica]

You forgot a big one. Tony Schiavone pretty much telling everyone to turn to Raw to see Foley when the championship ultimately causing Nitro to lose the ratings war and never beat Raw again

[@meirnissim5927]

Bischoff told him to say that

[@tinotica]

@@meirnissim5927 okay but that should still be on this list since it was to keep people from turning but ultimately it made everyone turn over lol

[@jeffreymark475]

@@tinotica yeah but again he was told to say it meaning it was meant to happen.

[@tinotica]

@@jeffreymark475 umm Bischoff didn’t mean for everyone to turn their channels from Nitro so it was a backfire to the company

[@tinotica]

@@jeffreymark475 in the same way Goldberg was supposed to kick Bret but he mistimed it

[@kdxtreme7479]

7:54 I mean I wouldn't blame goldberg for Bret having cancer more than a decade later

[@VeryStupid4547]

Jericho: ARM DRAG!

[@Kleetus_Van_Damm]

Lol Festus is a quite the silly sausage

[@thomasedge8438]

1990: Sting's knee injury at Clash of the Champions, when they were trying to set up the program with Flair.

[@HeroSword_P]

LOL the thought of a bunch of faces arguing over a legitimate 3 count and demanding the match to be restarted to get the desired outcome does make them sound like "bellends" (me not Brithsh)

[@Uun11]

Isnt there gazillion interviews with Regal saying that this was not him being stiff, but he was told to wrestle longer match with Goldberg? Which turned out to look like Regal was stiffing Goldie, because Goldberg didnt know what to do.

[@DamanKingBear]

What Regal did to Goldberg someone should have done to Hulk Hogan

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

Bringing The Ultimate Warrior back. Dear God, what an astonishing dumpster fire.

[@mangler013junior4]

Goldberg vs ddp Halloween havoc the light's didn't go out in the middle of the match it went out in the beginning they tie up in the middle of the ring there tie they both fell out of the ring then the light's go out i guess u can say the fall was so scary the PvP left never to be seen again until monday

[@elmonionugenio9735]

There's a video of Patrice Oneal breaking down the shockmaster video I highly recommend it

[@joshuagrosvenor9837]

Scott Steiner is a god damn hero and the wrestling world doesn't deserve him.

[@dieseltyme]

In the award for most appearances goes to Bill Goldberg. The same Bill Goldberg that dropped the undertaker on his head, that sonuvabich

[@Cwilley0624]

This list makes as much sense as Steiner math

[@j.w.s.toland931]

I think I read Steiner's math actually adds up.

[@patrickomalley3402]

I remember years ago watching Halloween havoc 98 and thinking to myself what the hell this has ended to soon and I realized wcw botched there own ppv what idiots

[@derrickhaggard]

The ending to Starrcade 97 world title match is an infamous one. Basically what was supposed to happen was Hogan would seemingly get the win and retain the title via fast count and a debuting Bret Hart would take over as ref insuring another screwjob wouldn't happen and Sting wins the title cleanly what actually happened was the ref didn't do the fast count, but Bret jumped in anyway and restarted the match and took over as ref which did result in Sting winning the title but not in the way it was supposed to go.

[@stevegallo8483]

Wouldn't be surprising if egomaniac Hogan had Nick Patrick do a regular count on that pin to make himself look better and make Sting and Bret look weak.

[@derrickhaggard]

@@stevegallo8483 A lot of fans including me suspect that Sting's recounting of the infamous world title match which states that Hogan via backstage politics had Nick do the regular count instead of the planned fast count to make himself look better is the accurate recounting of the match.

[@jermaineboyd6594]

#10 my favorite moment there but I already switched from wcw to then wwf long before he scott said it.😁

[@benpezzot8805]

How about buff bagwells injury one of the worst injuries in wrestling history

[@Rab_Daddy]

Goldberg was an unsafe wrestler period - Hart’s career wasn’t the only one ended.

[@Rab_Daddy]

Andy give us a wave, Andy Andy gives us a wave 👋

[@jordanjohnson7285]

Regal was fired 6 months after but I guess The Oxford English Dictionary can change the definition of soon after to mean 6 months.

[@johnstanko898]

Jericho was and is the best!!!

[@darth-severus]

0:23 I still say this was good

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

11. Nexus getting buried by Super Cena.

[@whitemamba24xe98]

Vince Russo in his wrestling career is UNDEFEATED!!!! With one world title win!! Clearly his WCWs unsung hero!!

[@ryanbacher2455]

In all fairness, Judy Bagwell on a Forklift was actually a decently wrestled match. Go back and watch it.

[@jDORK707]

Big boot? He standing side kicked his brain out.

[@c0pyimitati0n]

I don't understand how they kick is solely blamed for Brett's retirement... He took multiple chair shots to the head in his career. MMA fighters get kicked in the head WAY harder and end up getting knocked out, and still have 10+ year careers doing so.

[@philipwaller9477]

The damage to his neck caused Brett to have the stroke..

[@paulcarpenter7844]

Man i hated the way the refs counted 3 when pining

[@mjstory1976]

WCW was absolutely terrible the last couple of years

[@wozthescott2804]

Ya think?

[@benrichardson8099]

O.m.g yes it got to the point i couldnt watch it.when russo won the title in sept 2000 i was done.

[@sneakez9644]

What Culture Wrestling.. WCW

[@brucelucasjr5856]

Simon has too much class to ever be WCW champion friggen David Arquette.........

[@theMRWASKO]

It's not humanly possible to describe the absolute cringey, awkward brilliance of watching that Regal/Goldberg match when it first aired. It was a perfect combination of Goldberg's rising, unearned popularity + his inability to work an actual match + Regal refusing to job + live television. You can find that match and watch it anywhere, but NOTHING was more hilarious than seeing a flabby Regal make Goldberg look like a confused 7 year-old stumbling onstage in his first school play.

[@c0pyimitati0n]

I've said it a million times, but the *finger poke of doom* made all the sense in the world. Why in the hell would Nash actually fight Hogan? They were friends. What they did was such a heel move that you're still talking about it 20+ years later 😂

[@Jay-we2ek]

The move if him laying down for Hogan made sense. But it was just badly, badly done.

[@mateo7650]

So walk me through the logic... When was there an instance of a legitimate injury that WAS supposed to happen

[@CaptnMasm]

How does "Hulk Hogan, we comin fo you n***a"!" not make the list?!

[@ajourneysaved4311]

Goldberg didn't end Brets career. He just put the final bump in his career.

[@phillbarlow8912]

No he end it there no if or butts about it

[@ajourneysaved4311]

@@phillbarlow8912 no Brett screwed Brett.

[@Jay-we2ek]

I get what you meant. But Goldberg hit Hart with a super kick, not a big boot.

[@Cobane823]

That booker t saturn match was really good 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️" nothing you should go out of your way to see " who writes this shit?????

[@burt66669999]

Watch the shockmaster video...where did the piece of wood go ?

[@mCo1895]

Still think that Malenko did it on purpose. Just a last FU to the WCW before leaving. Too bad it kind of screwed up Kidman’s chance to shine as one of the top guys this ppv (he had three matches that night).

[@c0pyimitati0n]

3:53 *Capers?* 🤷‍♂️

[@ih8gnos]

Goldberg ended a few wrestlers careers

[@dannyhartshorne6300]

Think the biggest one, would be when they spoiled Mankind's title win. The whole audience switching over, was not meant to happen!

[@jarrodhen8063]

Hmmm. Shinee of these are not incredibly accurate. Mostly i have heard from different wrestlers both ways on the Regal Goldberg but i have to believe (although they match turned out horrible 😒🥴) that it wasn't planned as a "squash match" . Eric Bishoff, Regal and Goldberg a long as a few others have cited that it's want and they wanted to see 🙈 how Goldberg could do in longer matches. Over heard it more than once from Eric bischoff and Goldberg on various documentaries.

[@kekehilo1169]

100% believe regal over bischoff

[@deadwafflez9685]

Goldberg didn't end Bret's career. Bret kept wrestling after the match with Goldberg instead of taking time off to heal. It's more on Bret.

[@1krani]

"Bret screwed Bret."

[@Ykwhat75]

Goldberg is in a lot of these 😐

[@jerryjanik480]

Vince Russo and Bill Goldberg are the reason why Bret Hart injury happened to him same thing with Owens. Vince Russo and Vince McMahonfor Owen Hart falls

[@1krani]

If a stuntman suffers a horrific injury during a movie stunt, do you blame the stunt coordinator or the guy who wrote the scene?

[@3rdward199]

I really dont understand wats da big deal aboit Nick Patrick slow count instead of da fast one so wat he mess dat up thats not a reason too put da belt back on Hogan if anyone read this could you please explain to me wats da problem wit dat

[@IFLDook]

Heenan had a back or neck operation. He lost it due to telling people not to touch him. Do the research

[@carybeweary7209]

Brian Pillman still did what he wanted and it wasn't scripted

[@nightwingjonny7144]

ECW

[@nsyeah]

hi

[@danielsmith7084]

Was that a Dean Malenko error though? Or really had wcw booking?

[@stevewalters9823]

I always got the sense that it was intended, Kidman had to wrestle 3 times that night in gimmick matches so it makes sense they'd book one of them in such a way as to give him an "easy" win. Sure it made Malenko look like an idiot, but this was only a month before he, Benoit, Guerrero and Saturn jumped to the WWF anyway so neither party probably cared at that point.

[@Paulafan5]

Wrestling was better when it wasn't so scripted. Scripted = stiff. Yeah, you have to have some things scripted and planned out, but sometimes letting the talent just wing it gives you some of the best stuff.

[@danielsmith7084]

Again... Goldbergs kick was bad... bit does it help that Bret being Bret carried on wrestling for a few weeks? That couldn't have helped him at all...

[@Grassyknolldallas]

WCW got really weird after 99

[@Jay-we2ek]

Because Vince Russo + desperation to be "different" to grab attention. It did, but in the wrong way

[@lordjoker1369]

What isna squash match

[@ssnadera6498]

Clearly sid breaking his leg should be number one but this channel hates sid and likes to put ric flair in every video, clearly sid was the guy who made the shockmaster clip memorable, flair ran away,yet somehow he becomes part of the clip.

[@11jasey]

That coupled with his ability to actually wrestle nowadays, is why I could never see Goldberg again, and be happy. I'm just done with him. Him coming to the Rumble is a reason NOT to watch for me.

[@tamzidmohsinkhan3333]

Imagine if Goldberg would've never injured Bret Hart , then Bret would've wrestled longer

[@rex788]

NO WAY!!!!!

[@MikeG82]

imagine if owen would've never got on those rafters, then owen would've lived longer

[@colegilliland2378]

2000

[@WarrenSummerlin]

Steven Regal???

[@stevegallo8483]

Yeah, he was Steven Regal in WCW and William Regal in WWF/WWE.

[@brucelucasjr5856]

Lord Steven Regal was like the snobby Hunter Hearst Helmsley thing. He was WCW for a long time. I was kinda surprised when he made the jump, took a minute to get used to seeing him in a WWF ring

[@BusStopProductions.]

XPW! XPW!! XPW!!!

[@ssnadera6498]

What about that murderer leaving after getting handed the belt? That wasnt supposed to happen, and just making up any excuse to put that circus clown jericho on almost every list.

[@jamesremington8056]

Goldberg's kick saved me from having to ever watch a Brett Hart match again.

[@artfan101]

Best comment of the day. Hart is an arrogant piece of overrated camel shit.

[@kadasrichard]

@@artfan101 Overrated not, a crybaby? Definitely.