So if you were brought up on a certain generation of professional wrestling, you would spend your

Monday nights flipping from WWF to WCW before you went back to WWF and then checked out WCW.

If you go back and watch that today, though, the crazy thing is that World Championship

Wrestling actually goes off the rails pretty damn early on, as essentially the wrestlers

become the inmates in the asylum that are running the place.

Now it's totally fun to watch in 2025 because it is so nonsense. But yeah, in late 1999 when Vince Rousseau arrived, well, I'd love to tell you I understand, but I actually don't. What we can do though is we can sit down and make ourselves a cup of coffee with a Simon Miller the bald idiot, and I will tell you 15 exact moments, WCW booking stopped making sense.

Number 15, a stretcher match that actually wasn't a stretcher match.

So, the Super Bowl 1 in May 1991, Big Sid Vicious was actually done with WCW

CW because he was about to head to the WWF.

That's not how contracts work, though, because he had one last match he had to do.

So WCW booked him in a stretcher match against one El Guante, who of course would go on to be the Giant Gonzalez, just keeping you up to date. But that looks pretty woeful on paper for the reason you'll understand if you were born back then, but in many ways this could have been the worst combination possible at the time. Because due to all of the above, El Guante beats Sid in just over two minutes in what was meant to be a gimmick bout. Again, it was a stretcher match. The thing is, though, to make it even more tragic, and hold your hats for this one, Sid Vicious, didn't even leave on a stretcher as planned. He simply marched out of the building because, again, his WCW deal was done. What did he care? He'd still be able to come back in 1993. I guess if you'd ask somebody from WCW management, done, what did he care, and he'd still be able to come back in 1993.

I guess if you'd ask somebody from WCW management, they would have given you those four annoying words, card subject to change. This also comes from a time where pro wrestling just saw two big guides and decided, well, that's definitely going to draw. And hey, look, I would have watched it, but if you have a gimmick called a stretcher match, and the person the loses doesn't leave on a stretch,

huh? Well, what the flabber we even doing?

I mean, WCW also had no DQ matches that ended the disqualification, so maybe we're the fools, because some of us, myself included, watched all the way to the end. Also, I have a much better idea why the flub didn't they just do a loser leaves town match.

Number 14, Lex Luger is a mind reader.

Though yes, we're already at WCW in the year 2000s, which in many ways could be the worst

12 months for any wrestling promotion ever, at least when it comes to the creative.

It was the 15th of May episode of Nitro when fans arrived for the show to see a steel cage

dangling high above the ring. That was nothing new for the company because they love to steal cage. Sometimes they called them standard still cage matches. Sometimes they were called cage heat and on other times they were called House of Pain. Don't worry if you're crying into your serial, I am doing the same. You don't have to imagine that the audience figured this would be for the main event, but no. Instead, in the very first match, Sting wrestled Vampiro in the cage. Then later Vince Russo cornered Miss Elizabeth inside the thing and threatened to have Medusa kicks lumps out of her if she didn't do what she was told. Then Lex Luger dropped in to the top of the cage to put a stop to Vince's plans,

but just let that run through your brain for one second. This was meant to be an impromptu moment, so how the flub did Lex know about this in advance? Because he would have had to address up as a member of the ring crew, which is what he did here, just in case Vince Rousseau was planning to corner Liz, who at the time he was quite friendly with. And that is an absolute absurd decision process to go through. And why did none of his buddy say to Luga, uh, dude, this is probably not going to happen? Why don't you just have some more chicken? Just because WCW had no ideas, they also booked handicapped matches on this episode of Nitro, and an ambulance match putting Kevin Nash between Mike Orson. Yours had a world title change, because that's the way to get more people in. Let's take all of our ideas and get them done in two hours. Lex Luka wins, though, because he redbines. Number 13, Abdullah the Butcher is electrocuted. So, Bro Wrestling has booked a number of stupid on-screen cave-vap deaths over the years, and actually TNA and Lucha Underground are in for the winner of that crown. When they got it right, I tell you, it was laugh out loud, funny in the best possible way. The opposite to this would be killing Vince Perman's TV character on Raw in 2007. I mean, that was embarrassing and incredibly ill-timed. Before all of this, though, we go to WCW's Halloween Havoc 19 1991 pay-per-view, where the show opener was the Chamber of Horace match.

You've likely heard about this, because it often features on matches that are considered garbage.

It also saw Sting, the Steiner brothers, and El Guante beat Cactus Jack, Big Van Vader, Abdullah the Butch, and the Diamond Stud.

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