I mean, death is worse, let's not pretend otherwise, but this is WCW that at one point was the land of no disqualification matches that ended in disqualifications, and one-on-one bouts that would end with a random third person winning. Honestly, if you never watched WCW in year 2000, you should change that today. So the promotion absolutely murdered a few stories and a few careers over its times. it's times. Hello, I'm the board of idiot Simon Miller and I thought today we could go through

well, some of the worst offenders and then cry, because WCW closed 24 years ago, and yet we're still talking about it. Let's go. Number 10, losing to Vince Rousseau. So I always enjoyed this one, because when Vince Rousseau did jump ship from the WWF2 WCW in 1999, he made it very clear, listen, I don't want to be the centre of attention, it's not going to have anything to do with me, I would just work diligently behind the scenes, and then within about eight seconds, he was an on-screen character and he was winning World Title Belt. Now, there were upsides him joining because, of course, people like Booker T finally got their

due, and he too won that world title. And that was at Bash at the Beach 2000, after all of that nonsense with Vince Rousseau, Hulk Hogan and Jeff Jarrett. This is always the problem when it comes to WCW, you get excited about one thing, and insie like, damn it, it happened after that. When we jump to the September after that pay-per-view, though,

Vince Rousseau did indeed beat Booker T, not once, but twice. The first came when Scott Steiner essentially took Vince Rousseau's dead body and threw it over and destroyed Booker T to get the one, two, three. And then, yes, a week later, it was a steel cage match, and Vince Russo won the big gold belt after Goldberg speared him out of the steel,

and as per WCW rules, later it was a steel cage match and Vince Russo won the big gold belt after Goldberg speared him

out of the steel and as per WCW rules whoever's feet hit the floor first was going to win

so Vince Russo was the WCW World Heavyweight Champion now remember this was done to win the WCW

hardcore fans back because earlier in the year David Arquette had also won this title.

Surprise, surprise, everybody just turned off their TV because they couldn't handle it anymore.

Now you'll probably ask yourself, well, who did Vince Rousseau lose it to? No one. Nader, zero.

He just vacated it a week later because I'm not a real wrestler.

Why the flub are you in wrestling matches?

Now all you really need to know is that Vince Rousseau essentially saw all championship belts as merely props, and yes, they are story-telling devices, but if you're a proper nerd like me and you, you know actually they do have meaning attached to them, and if your favourite wrestler ever wins one, where you have water coming out, you're seeing devices. Just about a cherry on top as well.

Do you know what Vince did to Book a Tea after this?

He made him G.I. Rassett ever wins one, where you have water coming at your seeing devices. Just about a cherry on top as well.

Do you know what Vince did to Book a Tea after this? He made him GI-Bro. I mean, that one could be in this list, but it's not. Let's move on. Number nine, insulting your own gimmick. And this happened actually during a brand new character's debut too. So even though I stand here years later, I have no idea what Dubcy W was thinking. Now, once again, did happen after Vince Russo had jumped ship and he called up Dusted Road and said, ah, hi, I know your gold dust gimmick has kind of hit a war, so why don't you come over to WCW and kind of become our version of The Undertaker, I suppose, like the character was called Seven, and one of the first videos, Seven was hanging outside a kid's bedroom window at night, saying some really weird things. Now, WCW didn't mean it to come across that way, but I've seen this video many a time and it kind of comes across that way.

On the 8th of November Nitro though, Seven then floated quite literally his way to the ring, when Dustin kind of just got rid of all the pretense, man, this gimmick absolutely sucks, I don't want to do this and I have no idea what's going on. So it was like, well, one, why did you agree to this? And two, why are we putting this on TV? Just kill the whole thing. It just ruined any potential fresh start Dustin could have had, and my personal inkling,

and I'm completely speculating here, is that the network, the Turner execs, had seen that original vignette and gone, I don't know what you're getting at here, but you cannot do anything with this character, and they actually did pull the plug, which is when Vince Russo went into work shoot mode, let's face it, that was one of his favorite things to do. It just meant we were an instant rebuilding mode and the whole point of this gimmick was to rebuild

somebody.

So as ever, say it with me, my friends, it was totally stupid.

Number eight, the other Judy Bagwell match.

So understandably when Judy Bagwell's name gets brought up, most of us remember when

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