Every WCW PPV Of 2000 Ranked From Worst To Best
There are some really bad shows from WCW in 2000!
9. Souled Out
WCW entered the year 2000 in bad shape, with live attendances, television ratings, pay-per-view buyrates and just about every other metric having tanked in the months leading up to the turn of the Millennium.
You’d think they would put their best foot forward in an effort to turn the tide back, but Souled Out basically showed what kind of year it was going to be for the promotion.
In fact, the very first match did, as Dean Malenko unintentionally got himself disqualified when he bailed out of the ring in a match where the stipulation was that anyone who left the ring would be disqualified.
The Iceman looked mightily miffed in what turned out to be his final WCW appearance.
Vampiro, Crowbar and David Flair didn’t change the tone in their triple threat match. Neither did Big Vito, Johnny the Bull and the Harris Twins.
As for the evening’s fourth match, Oklahoma defeated Madusa to become WCW Cruiserweight Champion. Now let us never speak of it again.
The five-man Hardcore Title match that followed was so bad it gave credence to the theory that WCW were purposely putting on a terrible show.
Leave it to Kidman and Perry Saturn to finally get us there. It was under par for what they could do on any other day, but at least it wasn’t completely awful!
Booker T and Stevie Ray’s battle of the brothers brought us back down to Dudsville, however, and Tank Abbott and Jerry Flynn kept us there before DDP and Buff Bagwell brought us back up to mediocre with their Last Man Standing match.
Triple-duty Kidman finally tasted defeat at the hands of The Wall in a Cage Match, before Kevin Nash powerbombed Terry Funk through three chairs in an entertaining hardcore scrap.
And in the main event, Chris Benoit beat Sid to capture the vacant WCW World Title. A supposed show of goodwill from booker Kevin Sullivan to The Crippler, it was rendered pointless when Benoit – along with Saturn, Malenko and Eddie Guerrero – walked out of the company the very next night. Their loss was very much WWE’s gain and the departure of the so-called Radicalz was four more nails in the WCW coffin.
