Every WCW PPV Of 2000 Ranked From Worst To Best
There are some really bad shows from WCW in 2000!
3. Slamboree
For a long time, these four words were enough to crush the spirit of any self-respecting professional wrestling fan.
WCW Champion David Arquette.
And while the Hollywood actor was inexplicably defending the title in the headliner of Slamboree 2000, the show itself really wasn’t all bad.
I mean, it wasn’t good or anything, but this is WCW in 2000, so we’re kind of grading on a sliding scale here.
It started with Chris Candido retaining his Cruiserweight Title against The Artist in a solid enough match.
Terry Funk’s Hardcore Title defence over Norman Smiley – who was accompanied by the clueless Ralphus – was demented fun.
Shawn Stasiak and Curt Hennig had a lame storyline to work with going into their match, but the bout itself was perfectly acceptable wrestling.
Prior to the US Title match with Scott Steiner, Hugh Morrus announced that he would no longer be known by that silly pun of a moniker but, going forward, would be referred to as Hugh G. Rection.
The surprisingly good match was appropriately stiff, with Freakzilla retaining.
A lame ending wasn’t enough to sully the good work put forth by Mike Awesome and Kanyon, two talents who consistently tried to swim against the tide of awfulness in latter-day WCW and could be counted on to put in a shift.
The same can’t be said for Lex Luger and Buff Bagwell, mind you. Their match here was mostly posing and rest holds.
Shane Douglas and Eric Flair’s noted real-life animosity played into their match and gave it a nice level of intensity. A terrible finish, as you might expect, but they had their working boots on before it.
Sting’s win over Vampiro was short, but fun while it lasted.
Once you get over how surreal it is to see Billy Kidman take on Hulk Hogan on a freakin’ pay-per-view, the match itself is shockingly entertaining.
So to was the spectacle that was the main event, a triple cage match like the one seen in the WCW-backed movie Ready to Rumble.
With Arquette mainly staying out of the way, Jeff Jarrett and DDP did the vast majority of the work before – SWERVE! – Arquette turned on Dallas to hand Double J the title.
