Yet another WCW dumpster fire from year 2000!

Wcw in the year 2000 was a complete dumpsterfire. Everything was strange and bad with weird gimmick matches, weird storylines and weird results. Hogan loosing to Vampiro was perhaps the weirdest result from the night. This truly was a Vince Russo inspired nightmare but was it the worst WCW episode of all time?
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[@Markyd123]

If you know a worse episode of wrestling…smack it down in the comments until it’s felt if you wanna see it challenge for the belt!

[@Kingof69ner]

TNA Impact after Bound For Glory 2010

[@koshawnard]

AEW Dynamite June 4th 2021

[@scottfitzgerald5309]

The wwe raw after Brian pillman died... The interview with his wife was really horrible idea. Also had a few homophobic insults from Bret hart to shawn Michaels

[@Sh0tgunJust1ce]

WWE NXT #32 - S3E4 Voted the worst show ever by Cagematch. Just watch it.

[@889654]

Raw after WM 39

[@B3Band]

If I were in WCW back then, I'd have a clause in my contract: $1000 bonus for every match that has a run-in on every show. I'd be a billionaire

[@jtizzle124]

You would become the Bobby Bonilla of wrestling

[@fpshooterful]

Sounds like how Russo got his contract signed.

[@arenasviscatanius]

Not that much money but it's can be another drinking game

[@BrownEyePinch]

You wouldn't have wrestled, you would have been fired

[@joshuaarmstrong377]

The dumbest thing about wcw to me was bischoff and russo injecting themselves into every scene possible and trying to act tough when they just look stoopid

[@KoolKeithProductions]

You gotta remember what wwf was doing over on the other channel at this exact time. HHH, Stephanie, Vince and Shane were pretty much the focus of every Raw and SD, and the angle was red hot. WCW just wanted their own Authority angle....but it just sucked lol

[@DaleEarnshark3]

Bischoff was trying to recapture the 1997 magic, while being a massive narcissist as usual. Russo was just a massive narcissist that wanted to make himself a star.

[@abelaldrich7831]

I agree it was just so bad smh 🙄

[@freakyzed8467]

Daphne looks like the only person there who is having fun and actually wants to do the job.

[@Bazzz87]

Unfortunately she probably was one of the few legit wrestlers back then in this era of WCW that was trying to do the work but surrounded by incompetence and major ego trips lol

[@theyamo7219]

*Daffney

[@kwizzeh]

Lucy was pretty magic with her entire gimmick in WCW. Shame what happened to her in TNA :(

[@KoolKeithProductions]

​@@kwizzehwhat happened to her? And why didn't she ever come to wwe?

[@kwizzeh]

@@KoolKeithProductions No idea why she didn't go to WWE, I just remembered she stopped appearing on WCW TV before WWE bought them. She was on the indie circuit after WCW, was off/on on TNA under a bunch of names, did a short run for XPW as a valet for Vic Grimes and did a few shows for Shimmer too. She got hurt a lot in TNA, took a lot of crazy bumps that resulted in injuries that forced her to retire in 2011. Even to the point of suing them, which was settled out of court in 2013. She had a lot of linger effects from CTE that affected her day-to-day life and it played a part in her sad decision take her own life in 2021. Her brain was donated to Boston U for CTE analysis according to her wishes.

[@HarunoSoul]

2000 WCW was like a prolonged fever dream.

[@fattiger6957]

More like Russo's wet dream

[@papalegba6796]

Lol right. Unbelievable waste of talent.

[@kidwaryodproduction]

WCW Backstage Assault portrayed the state of WCW on that time very goodly 😆 (Actually fun game)

[@theyamo7219]

So like AEW now... LOL

[@ShiaOnKick]

it was fun though. now, wwf is so boring

[@scottfitzgerald5309]

The Wall choking douglas in one scene and next scene he is laughing pushing a casket 😂

[@skillsaw777]

Mike Awesome was just thrown in an ambulance and he's also in the next scene with douglas and the casket...

[@kiyraherron7011]

Bro I saw the thumbnail and I was like, “did they fight in a bird cage?” 😂

[@misfire33]

It's the only kind of cage that can contain the H-A-W-K, brother!

[@bmschneider30]

A tird cage

[@Ironman1o1]

The Shat being Garret Bishoff's trainer answers so many questions.

[@alucard6919]

Moving Jeff Jarret from a mid card to a heavy weight champion is a wrestling organization death sentence.

[@kidwaryodproduction]

They should bring The Gambler back and make him Heavyweight Champion. WCW would still alive to this day.

[@upyoursdotcom]

Why does Jeff Jarrett get so much hate lmao

[@FTNerdy]

I was in the crowd for this episode of Nitro. Ahh, the memories.

[@dedklownx]

Right, show sucked but freshman me and my buddies had a freaking blast

[@WhiskeyPieSometimes]

Only in year 2000 WCW would you see Hulk Hogan wrestle a relative nobody like Vampiro as a main event on their flagship show.

[@novelaego2404]

Vampiro a nobody ? Nah

[@upyoursdotcom]

For some reason Hogan loved Vampiro and was one of the only guys he seemed to be willing to put over in any way. Vampiro. No idea why.

[@quadjaysport]

The Cat beating Booker T is just heartbreaking to see or hearing..

[@user-tl4fi6oy8d]

This was a result of full panic mode. Nothing was working. Throw as much stuff at the audience as possible and see what gets a reaction.

[@ScottyDoezntKnow]

Scott Steiner was a face at that time? I actually watched the WCW 2000/2001 train wreck and don't remember him ever being a face lol

[@NorthStarBlue1]

At that point in time people were gonna cheer him no matter what he did, so whether he was face or heel was honestly kinda irrelevant.

[@Kingof69ner]

At least this episode had wrestling matches unlike TNA Impact episode after Bound For Glory 2010 which is one of the worst episodes of a professional wrestling shows I have ever seen and I can recommend that episode

[@ReinEngel]

I thought Reid Flair was driving Terry Taylor, then I realized the video is flipped.

[@michaellee8816]

I'm so heartened at your comments about The Cat, I watched late 2000 WCW on a loop (Nitros and Thunders) and by the end any time he appeared I genuinely said "Oh no! Not The Cat....."

[@rayhs1984]

There was a short lived podcast called keep it 2000 that covered exactly how terrible WCW was that year. The hosts had real life things go on and didn't do the entire year, but what they did cover was insane.

[@fattiger6957]

I was watching at the time. It was a complete and total trainwreck.

[@Traveltheworldplease]

Great podcast

[@therealanonymous12]

A wild Slapnuts appears

[@TheFailedmessiah]

You and Jeff Jarrett need to have a nice 2 hour sit down. You and Jeff are cosmically connected.

[@kidwaryodproduction]

Agree with you. Funny that Jarrett even say "Wild Slapnuts" appears one time. 😆

[@TheMC1102]

"Could he not just have asked for the referee's shirt instead of punching him?" Maybe he did that as a nod to a certain gut-punching enthusiast from the future.

[@OneShot92i]

i always stunned how i see how Eric Bischoff had gets old within' a few years from 1997 to 1999.

[@guislarcia6423]

Stress lol

[@CaptainRedbeard.]

I about had a stroke reading this comment 😅lol.

[@mariomm9080]

i don`t think he did

[@ReinEngel]

He was going grey back in AWA.

[@weirdshitcoolideas]

Genetics lmao early grey

[@scottfitzgerald5309]

The cat trained Garrett bishoff in martial arts... Why didnt Garrett ever use that skill in tna

[@clockworkorangecassidy1114]

Because he never used any skill. Because he doesn't have any.

[@ajr2641]

Because the Cat trained him in martial arts.

[@TheFailedmessiah]

Or join the ultimate fighter show in 2005 to 2010 or whenever that show was popular for the ufc .

[@alakarxyvern4071]

RIP Daphne, she was ahead of her time but thanks to the combo of Russo and TNA Foley they ruined her.

[@giantm846]

Foley?

[@TheFailedmessiah]

It was Foley forcing her into taking a bump she wasn't comfortable doing. Russo didn't want her to do that. Russo might make you do shenanigans storyline and character wise. But I think since the owen hart thing. He wouldn't make anyone do anything dangerous if they weren't comfortable. And I usually like Foley. But Foley was wrong wrong wrong here. And he somehow gets a pass

[@giantm846]

@@TheFailedmessiah How did he force her exactly?? He never held a managerial role in TNA as far as I know! And where was this reported?

[@Andreas-ip8bw]

How exactly was she "ahead of the time"? She was your stereotypical "crazy" character, something Luna Vachon, all the women in Sullivan's Army of Darkness and countless others did years/decades before.

[@mikeg2491]

@@Andreas-ip8bwshe was never behind or ahead of the times, that was when the goth subculture was at its height.

[@pepperj]

I'd watch WCW 2000 any day over today's butt steam.

[@jayhari1713]

Kat wasnt using nunchucks, he was using police night sticks

[@EnforcerX71]

Let me get this straight, on this show alone, Russo gets the better of not only Kevin Nash, but Scott Steiner? That's another terrible thing about Russo's WCW, he almost always made the wrestlers look inferior to himself. I can buy Vince McMahon doing that, he was at least as big physically than most of his talent, but that weed Russo? Please.

[@fattiger6957]

I bet Russo had a bit of an inferiority complex being around a bunch of muscleheads every day and he overcompensated when he was given absolute power in WCW.

[@DaleEarnshark3]

I've said to people elsewhere and my Dad about this very thing. Him besting Nash and Steiner, beating Ric Flair, becoming WCW Champion, and having a fucking War Games match revolve around him shows that he turned WCW into his own personal Wrestling themed Self-Insert power fantasy. Juicy Vinnie Mac is one thing, Scrawny Vinnie Ru is another.

[@NorthStarBlue1]

I wish I could have sat in on the creative meeting where they decided that instead of New Blood meaning young guys challenging the older guys holding them back, it would become "we're just going to actually pour blood on them from the ceiling and not explain it".

[@RedWolfWindgear]

I missed this segment. Good to see it back. Should do a Ring of the Hawk with Norman Smiley in WCW. That guy and Rufus always made my night back then.

[@johnbarton41]

Every damn match from middle 98 till it's death. They had someone interfere in almost every match. Worst part is I was at some of those train wreck

[@TerryB01]

2000 WCW was so bad and it was WCW's final full year. At least they made it to the new millennium.

[@charles616]

Mike Awesome pushing the casket after getting taken away in an ambulance. Classic.

[@RatedR-Rombo]

Same with Shane Douglas.

[@kurtbrowning9765]

The show was saved by Slapnuts saying “choke on that, Slapass”

[@Tullysplaytime]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TheSoulGage]

If we're being honest, what didn't go wrong for WCW in 2000?

[@AshRiot81]

Daffney was a real high point for me and one of the only reasons to still watch WCW at this time, It's quite a criminal shame the way TNA treated her!

[@PoeticProphetic]

I like how the backwards Misfit In Action t-shirts say AIM (AOL Instant messenger) 😝

[@miamimouse3167]

😂😂😂 Russo with the world title is why the company died, waaaaaaay too much baseball bat and weapons usage smh

[@gameshock2916]

10:09 Well, that is what the first steel cage in professional wrestling looked like. It was held like that in the middle of the ring and usually, there would be held by ropes from the 4 ring posts holding the cage in place. The ropes would start at the top of the ring posts and be tied onto each cage side. The original cages were chicken wire either wrapped around the ring, or constructions prepped up inside the ropes that resembled something of an MMA octagon serving the sole purpose of no escape and no interference during the match. The earliest steel cage bout was between Jack Bloomfield and Count Rossi in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 25th, 1937 where it can only be won by pinfall or knockout. Of course, wrestling back then was presented as a faux sport, and a no-escape bout inside chicken wire or fencing would be used as a brutal way to end a rivalry in the old days of professional wrestling. The cages wouldn’t be utilized for spectacular spots until a few decades later.

[@ElmoKnowsWhereYouLive5150]

"Johnny Come Nobody. Mr. Lately." ‐ Hulk Hogan

[@tuckamojo7660]

I'm pretty sure that toward the end, WCW had a 6-year-old with ADHD writing the TV😢 WCW needed to be put out of its misery a good while before it died😢

[@bobbiggle4390]

Worse. They had Russo

[@scottfitzgerald5309]

Dont think i ever seen mrs Elizabeth take a pump in her career

[@99somerville]

Never did until Russo got there. Kimberly complained on a video that he was always wanting the non wrestling women to get into the ring.

[@mikeg2491]

@@99somervilleHave to side with Russo, she was just a charity case her whole WCW run god forbid she go in and earn her living for a change. It’s not the 80s anymore.

[@Teddy42O]

Torrie Wilson & Kimberly Page 😍😍😍

[@us3l3ssknowl3dg3]

I'm more of a Stacy Keibler and Dafney guy myself

[@uberboomer8670]

All solid choices based on personality. Nothing else...

[@Hipas_Account]

@@us3l3ssknowl3dg3 You stole my exact comment!

[@bryanhodson6981]

Kimberly was on another level, absolutely unreal.

[@AquariusLeviathanProphecy]

AJ lee os🎉better

[@travis420auto6669]

A wild slapnuts appears…..🎸🎸🎸

[@jasonybarra3423]

😂

[@UltraInstinctBattousai]

WHAT THE FUCK I'M I AM WATCHING?

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

Kimberly looks cuter now than she did before, not crazy about the bangs but she's still cute

[@AxeGaijin]

"It's a swerve bro!"

[@corvega_joe]

Christ almighty I forgot how bad WCW was at the end.

[@captainsmartass3368]

Just as bad as AEW is today

[@WhoCaresAnymoreTho]

Why was jarrett stil rockin a slapnuts vest with the nWo logo on the back😂

[@lonzogibson3497]

I always look forward to the how bad can it be belt episodes. Thanks for the upload Hawk!

[@Deadpool_64]

"It didn't make any sense.." Of course, Sh*tstain was booking it!

[@luther1546]

I can't believe how old Miss Elizabeth looks. Drugs really took it out of her. Sad.

[@willshad]

She was around 40 by this point. It wasn't the drugs.

[@mikeg2491]

@@willshadeven with her age her face was bloated, that’s a hard 40.

[@theyamo7219]

LOL, I actually thought that was Dixie Carter for a second. LOL, But since this guy does most of his vids on TNA, I guess I was kind of desensitized

[@OGMattKenobi]

Oh boy...some people never ealise how awful WCW was untill they see shit like this

[@grawakendream8980]

The problem at this time in my opinion was people were booking and producing the shows from a fan standpoint, ignorant of the fact that you have to match people up in situations that they can accentuate their strengths and hide their weaknesses. You can't just pick two big names and think up some kind of gimmick match and think it'll just work out just because. Lol.

[@NcWcN1]

5:44 as the venerable DDT Digest would say, "YOU JUST DON'T POWERBOMB BILLY KIDMAN"

[@eschaton7813]

2000 was such a wild year for WCW. While very terrible at times, they were at least experimenting. Compared to 97-99 which had WAY too much nWo during that duration.

[@anonluxor470]

Was bischoff's hair starting to turn white around this time or was he using hair dye?

[@fattiger6957]

I assume he was previously dying his hair black and he just stopped around this point.

[@giantm846]

As per his autobiography, his hair started turning grey even before joining WCW, but he kept dying it black until he got bored and stopped doing so in 99 or 2000.

[@nicholaspurcell5960]

Great episode. Really enjoyed it. Keep up the good work! 🙂

[@briannovak7651]

Wow I just caught up on that playlist! Great timing!!!

[@briannovak7651]

Kimberly makes me slobber to this day lol

[@E4hosehead]

Any thoughts of doing Edge and Kane feuds either with lita, Paul bearer or both feuds

[@reelheel5919]

After seeing this, Bischoff has no room to talk shit about AEW 🤣

[@ltheisen3327]

AEW Dynamite from 25.08.2021 was horrible. MJF at his worst, bad matches, barely any stars, Brock Anderson in the main event and overall way to much of the Cody Rhodes nepotism stable at this show

[@peace1177]

Great video brother! Such a convoluted mess… and Miss Handcock 😅

[@mightypotato]

Juggalo in the front row is peak 2000 WCW

[@Jasonwilliams21]

Wait was Shane Douglas pushing the coffin after being chocked by the wall?

[@adamandanna]

He was channeling the great Phantasio or Black scorpion, he teleported. Beat Matt hardy toi the punch.

[@NuMetalfan1996]

Imo WCW 2000 was so bad it was good. Watching WCW 2000, is like watching a Tommy Wiseau or Neil Breen movie. I recently watched my very first ever WCW 2000 episode, it was the September 11th 2000 episode of Nitro, the episode of Stacy Keibler and David Flair’s wedding, and the show was fucking hilarious, I died laughing. WCW 2000 is like a sitcom, a very funny sitcom.

[@OneShot92i]

Of course it was. It was a lot of more entertainment than these last years under Vince McMahon booking too, tho.

[@NuMetalfan1996]

@@OneShot92i WCW 2000 is more entertaining than WWE right now. I’m not really a fan of WWE currently, well I haven’t really been a fan of WWE in about 15 years.

[@philiphunn194]

Even a Neil Breen movie makes more sense than WCW 2000.

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

7:28 We have Canyon to blame for the young bucks! Guy was a phenomenal wrestler too bad he couldn’t pass it on!

[@adamandanna]

and brian cage. I think Marty Jannety trained them too. It explains why the are both the Jannety of their group. Actually that is an insult to Jannety, he could actually work.

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

@@adamandanna Yes Marty could actually work! Brian Cage is just at the level he going to stay at! He can’t get any better!

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

@@adamandanna So it three people fault!

[@DaleEarnshark3]

@@adamandanna Both of the Young Bucks want to be the Micheals of the Young Bucks, but both of the Young Bucks are the Jannety of the Young Bucks.

[@LF4L]

And to think I watched WCW back in 2000. WTF was I thinking back then?

[@captainsmartass3368]

Where you high?

[@LF4L]

@@captainsmartass3368 Probably should have been haha

[@adamandanna]

@@LF4L probably hoping it would get better. Much like AEW now, maybe it will get better. i liked the initial set up of the New blood. I liked Kidman but the roles should have been reversed. But someone like Sting being heel would be weird, i mean he kind of did it in TNA but not fully.

[@becque8228]

Marky you are on fire, 5 videos in 7 days? The Hawk doesn’t play

[@EinhanderPilotSantos]

I left 100% when they changed the logo in 1999. Thank God! I can't believe how it got even more worse year after year.

[@yetanotheruser1989]

Man just pure craziness. At least it's not boring.

[@Octavian2]

Russo stole the funeral bit from Howard Stern, who probably stole it from an earlier disc jokey.

[@jennybyford8071]

The Raw from March 23 1993, one before wrestlemania 9, I think that’s the right date.

[@noUGames]

Kimberly was so fine back in the day

[@ChrisKewl]

Me: Man, I barely remember the A-I-M group, it's been a minute... Though the shirts look cool. Producer: That's the M-I-A, you know, Misfits in Action? They just reversed the shot to duck under the copyright system. Me: Nope, never heard of them.

[@V1LL1N]

Tramp Cage, Fat Elizabeth, The Cat with Chucks, Sunny Dazed, Garrett Bischoff, Suprise Meat, Major Moons, Chavo in Action, Reid Flair driving, Fairy Tunk, Hogan...Horrace I mean, Shane Douglas Piledrivers, Smiley, and even Thumbwars...!!! This episode has it all. At least they were trying...? They missed with the blood there as well!?!?! ha ha ha ha. Spot on!....er- off. Jarrett saves us all with a guitar shot. Youre right it IS F'N BAD This video is better.

[@aqarius5740]

What's the background music in this video?

[@zerkzy842]

The Hogan-Kidman feud was odd and forgettable

[@adamandanna]

I liked it at first but a little too much of size difference and Kidman's promo skills weren't up to par. Kidman should have been a mainstay of the Cruiserweight division, Maybe if they kept the TV title he could have gone for that. But a main event talent he was not.

[@zerkzy842]

@@adamandanna Russo was just throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks. Unfortunately nothing stuck.

[@00ghostcobra]

Hell this actually seemed like a fun episode.. Nothing was taken seriously and it was just a bunch of wild none sense..

[@brandonperkins176]

WCW entered Wrestling Doomsday

[@alexytxg]

Commenting on every new video until J&J security gets a video

[@Bale4Bond]

Why don't you change your username to "El Pathetico"?

[@matthewpulama106]

Man, WCW in 2000 felt like an insane nightmare.

[@apollokid84]

did i block this wcw era from my memory, how do i not remember this?

[@mattatwell95]

I’m not fluent enough in the era but there is probably some gold bad WWE TV in the late 2000s/late 2010s

[@danhenry8163]

Seems like they were always missing Nash but really determined to eventually get it on camera with that red liquid falling from the ceiling all over him.

[@z0m813]

I cannot believe a bunch of AIM soldiers came down to help booker T

[@srgroids1]

I have never watched a wcw show start to finish I was watching wwf at the time, but I may have to apologize to Tony khan I didn’t think it was possible to book a more cartoonish nonsensical wrestling show than dynamite but this looks like a complete train wreck

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

1:52 Se we have the cat to blame!

[@chadstokes6532]

I love the green sign behind Nash at 9:29..... hahahahah

[@dwoodstwin]

People glamorize the Attitude Era but if you take away Rock, Austin, HHH, Taker, Kane and Foley… this show is what it was. Go watch the undercard during the Attitude Era.

[@novelaego2404]

nope

[@devious187]

WCW in the year 2000... every time I watch it I feel like I'm on drugs, or at least I should be

[@pibslemon9913]

Hey MarkyD since you covered WCW 2000 can I nominate Billy Kidman vs Hulk Hogan as the worst Feud Also Chief Morley for Ring of the Hawk Thanks Pib

[@yellowkangdexasthur4904]

My title reign continues. Don"t think you'll find anything from 2000 worse than that Thunder episode. Maybe something from 1993-1996 WCW?

[@omay1dragon]

What a drama show. Hogans nephew could do pro wrestling though. Some good moves

[@ColeYote]

1:40 "Instead the Cat attacks Booker with nunchucks" [Pictured: batons]

[@GregoryWeagle]

Terry Funk retiring. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂. Good one Terry, it's like only thrice and it sure wasn't nice at this point.

[@fattiger6957]

I'm pretty sure Terry started teasing his retirement even before he had a wrestling match.

[@99somerville]

3:55. Crowbar, Daffney, and David Flair were actually some of the most entertaining wrestlers in WCW at the time.

[@The80sWolf_]

I would pay Jericho to bring back Ralphus atleast one more time

[@beastmode_576]

Kung Funaki for Ring of the Hawk

[@bronxriverchinobrown2856]

BRO WTH!! I tried putting this so far in the back of my 10 yr old mind. My brain literally hurts watching this. From 95 to about Early 00 I didn’t miss one nitro … by this point it was like 8:30 pm and I’m outside playing with my friends and I’m like ahhh forget it I’m gonna continue to stay outside with my homies. I had completely checked out from WCW. It had gotten so bad.

[@Rhapsodies_In_Red]

The Ape Escape music goes perfect with late WCW😂