Every WCW PPV Of 2000 Ranked From Worst To Best
There are some really bad shows from WCW in 2000!
1. Starrcade
Saving the best for last, WCW put on a very entertaining Starrcade, in what turned out to be the final version of an event that had been the company’s answer to WrestleMania.
It wasn’t close to WrestleMania calibre, of course, but it was the best we’d seen from WCW in a very long time.
The pace was set in the three-team ladder match opener. Again, it’s not like the Yung Dragons, 3 Count, Evan Karaigas and Jamie Noble were on the same level as the Hardys, Dudleys and Edge and Christian, but they busted butts out there and should be proud of their efforts.
Lance Storm also deserves a lot of credit as he is likely the reason his match with Ernest Miller was as smooth as it was. Terry Funk regained the Hardcore Title in a nutty and very enjoyable match with Crowbar (another performer from the dying days of WCW who always seemed to give it a proper go).
The quality dipped a little with Kronik’s No Contest with Big Vito and Reno, followed up by an uninspired Ambulance Match between Mike Awesome and Bam Bam Bigelow.
The crowd didn’t really care about General Rection’s lethargic US Title defence against Shane Douglas – and can you really blame them?
The Bunkhouse Street Fight between The Filthy Animals, Jeff Jarrett and the Harris brothers didn’t make any sense – then again, this was WCW in 2000 and nothing made any sense – but the action sure was worth watching for spots like Mysterio getting powerbombed from the ring into a dumpster on the outside.
The Insiders won the tag straps from the Perfect Event in a match that was super over with the live crowd. Despite the match itself being basic formula fare, the reactions greatly enhanced it and made it much better than it ought to have been.
Goldberg and Lex Luger also tried in their No Holds Barred match (with Da Man’s career on the line) but this match was hardly a classic.
Two men who could overcome the rubbish were Scott Steiner and Sid Vicious, who closed out the show and WCW’s year on pay-per-view with a shockingly gripping world title match.
There were no classics and still plenty of stuff that made the eyes roll, but Starrcade 2000 was good value (if not too little too late as far as the promotion was concerned).
