WCW in 2000 did give us one thing that, to me at least, is incredibly underrated: the Triple Cage. I genuinely think either WWE or AEW need to bring it back one day, with the right talent and booking it could be great. Give me more ridiculously big cage matches in wrestling.
With the right wrestlers involved it could be amazing. I think it should be AEW that does it, since very few in the WWE could make it work. Maybe do the Blackpool Combat Club vs Christian, Nick Wayne and Luchasaurus.
WCW was actually improving in late 2000 and into 2001. It was from around the middle of the year in 99 until around the middle of 2000 when WCW was a bit of a mess. Things seemed to get a lot better around the time Scott Steiner became world champ, he had a really good run at the end of WCW.
@@RichWhiteUMthey were on closed circuit TV just like the first Mania....to say Starrcade was a territory show means that the first Wrestlemania was also simultaneously a "territory" show. The WWF was no more "national" than JCP in '85 pal. You're mistaken while thinking your insightful. Mark.
@vampirascoffin870 Not really the Cena Era. He took many L's which ppl really gloss over. And in retrospective, quite a lot of the Reign of Terror was actually a blessing in disguise. Plus, if the RoT was not under an effective heel, the wins of HBK at Survivor Series, *redacted* at Mania 20 and Batista at Mania 21 would've been flat.
I was at Fall Brawl, it was a lot better than I expected. The spot that caused Orndorff's career ending injury didn't seem that bad, but maybe it was a cumulative effect due to many years of taking bumps.
I doubt that they actually watch every ppv and every match 😂😂 some of these gotta come from what they seen from cagematch or w.e. online websites that rate matches
@@yeahyeah8439 This is the channel that has ranked every match in Mania history and every Big Show heel and face turn. I won't be surprised if they rank every match in Raw history.
Charlotte (age 7) was at Starrcade '93 to support her dad in ... *checks notes* ... a retirement match. Technically, that makes her part of a very small number of wrestlers to be "in" a main event at a WCW Starrcade and a Wrestlemania. Very technically.
I love that there's so so so many times that dirtsheets used the phrase "Former WCW World Heavyweight Champion" in their headline when referring to David Arquette but not by name
As someone currently doing a WCW 2000 watch, I am shocked you found anything good in those 12 months. You could do a "Worst Nitro 2000" show and never run out.
@@shubhanshi9042 The point is more that at least in 1995 you had two big companies who could give fans a viable option/alternative. WCW's absolute bollocksery they put out in 2000 essentially sealed their fate and gave us nearly 2 decades of WWE as the only major (in terms of US/global markets, that is) wrestling company. Not shitting on smaller companies or TNA, RoH, NJPW, etc but in terms of global marketing/appeal, none came close to what WCW had as competition to the WWE. (But aye, 1995 was shite all round...)
After the WWE PPVs ranked from worst to best was done and dusted. This would be the logical step forward and I am totes up for that. The thing about WCW in 2000 is that after hearing from almost everyone that it was bad. You let your curiosity get the better of you and watch a few shows on the network to see how bad it was. Personally, the best PPV from the last 15 months of WCW was Greed (An ironic name tbh).
You really gotta hand it to WCW in the year 2000. They had two weekly shows, and 12 PVPs that year. And they somehow made every single show look exactly the same.
The guys who ran the network hated pro wrestling and that had more to do with WCW's demise than anything. They wanted it gone when it was "good". They wanted it gone when it was profitable. Ted Turner not having he shares was the end of WCW. That being said, WCW did produce some stupid stuff in the last years.
Not really. First of all, the reason why Russo was there in the first place was because that ship was already sinking hard in 1999. Secondly, Ted Turner was no longer in charge anyway, meaning that WCW was left in the hands of people who simply couldn't care less about wrestling and were looking to attract a demographic that wanted nothing to do with wrestling anyway. Still, if Russo hadn't been there, then maybe the WCW name wouldn't have been so toxic, and maybe someone other than Vince would have bought the rights to it.
These guys spent about 36 hours watching 2000 WCW pay per views. I don't care what the video looks like. They deserve a like for submitting themselves to that hell for our amusement.
I suppose they couldn't have done a WCW version of those 'Worst WWF Matches of [insert year]' videos they've been doing recently because this video would have been about twelve hours long.
Its like u read my mind I’ve been looking for videos about wcw in 2000 bash at the beach is so memorable to me I will call it my favorite wcw thing ever because I never watched wcw at all that much things that happened in those times were soo hilariously random
I paid 29.95 to watch Mayhem 2000 live on ppv 23 years ago. The opening bout having been "Above Average" Mike Sanders vs. Kwee Wee immediately caused me to have diarrhea and I swear I saw the 29.95 floating in my stool.
I’ve said this before about Vince Russo and I’ll say it again-Even though Vince bombed out at WCW I understand why he did some of the thing he did back then. WCW had old talent and needed younger stars so I get why he pushed Booker T and the other young guys.Also fans at that time wanted stuff that blurred the lines of Kayfabe and reality so I get why he did some of his wild confusing storylines
The closest to a YEAR of just crap with one great storyline was 2011 in WWE my god was it horrible… So when I think of people upset about modern wrestling in WWE under my man Triple H I just think how silly they are. So much better
I'd say 2010 was utter trash. 2011 was freaking genius in comparison. Atleast 2011 had Cena vs. Punk, Orton vs. Christian and the Daniel Bryan MITB run.
The Canadan rules match should be watched it is hilarious as the show is in Canada and every crazy heelish thing done to screw over Awesome is cheered by the crowd. And to put the cherry top that sundae Bret Hart comes out to congratulate Storm like a hero as the crowd celebrate which means they knew how the crowd would react... Why do that?
As a kid I loved WCW 99-2000 until their closing watched faithfully as much as watching WWF but damn now looking back I didnt realize how bad WCW had gotten since its 96, 97 days, I did hate jeff Jarrett was annoying seeing him champion lol
I'm pretty sure the only reason Kevin Nash just didn't go out and lay down in the ring every week in 2000 WCW was because of the obscene amount of money that WCW was vomiting all over him and the fear they might vomit less when it would come time for a new contract, which never came to be because the company ended before his initial 5-year deal signed in 1996 was up.
They shouldve did a gimmick similar to Goldbergs for Mike Awesome but as a monster unbeatable heel & have it lead to a big PPV match along the line..they didnt know wtf to do at this point, it was sad as a fan of WCW since 87
Unpopular opinion: I didn't think 2000 WCW was all that bad. Maybe that's just because AEW exists today, and by comparison it's a gold field. But I remember watching it back then and enjoying it.
WCW 2000 PPVs from Best to Worst: 1. Fall Brawl: 7/10 2. Starrcade: 6/10 3. Slamboree: 4.5/10 4. Mayhem: 2/10 5. Souled Out: 1.5/10 6. Spring Stampede: 1/10 7. Super Brawl XX: 0.5/10 8. Bash of the Beach: 0.5/10 8. New Blood Rising: 0.5/10 9. Uncensored: 0/10 9. Halloween Havoc: 0/10 10. The Great American Bash: 0/10
I love the ongoing commentary bout nash's perfect hair. it makes me laugh every time
The 4 minute "2001 WCW PPVs ranked" video's gonna be fun.
Nothing involving the Sid injury is fun
I'm ain't that drunk..... wasn't it 2000 ?
WCW in 2000 did give us one thing that, to me at least, is incredibly underrated: the Triple Cage. I genuinely think either WWE or AEW need to bring it back one day, with the right talent and booking it could be great. Give me more ridiculously big cage matches in wrestling.
With the right wrestlers involved it could be amazing. I think it should be AEW that does it, since very few in the WWE could make it work. Maybe do the Blackpool Combat Club vs Christian, Nick Wayne and Luchasaurus.
The og triple cage was in 88 tho, granted the rules were a bit different.
WCW was actually improving in late 2000 and into 2001. It was from around the middle of the year in 99 until around the middle of 2000 when WCW was a bit of a mess. Things seemed to get a lot better around the time Scott Steiner became world champ, he had a really good run at the end of WCW.
"WCW's answer to Wrestlemania" despite there having been two Starrcades before the first WM
@@urbaindelva7869 Still Wrestlemania was WWF's answer to Starrcade.
@@urbaindelva7869 They were Mid-Atlantic territory shows. Mid-Atlantic is what would become WCW when Ted Turner bought the promotion.
@@RichWhiteUMthey were on closed circuit TV just like the first Mania....to say Starrcade was a territory show means that the first Wrestlemania was also simultaneously a "territory" show. The WWF was no more "national" than JCP in '85 pal. You're mistaken while thinking your insightful. Mark.
One could argue that they weren't really a "big deal" until Wrestlemania became a "big deal."
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Watching every WCW PPV from 2000 is either a tremendous act of bravery or a desperate cry for help
Like HHH reign of terror
Cena era
@vampirascoffin870 Not really the Cena Era. He took many L's which ppl really gloss over. And in retrospective, quite a lot of the Reign of Terror was actually a blessing in disguise. Plus, if the RoT was not under an effective heel, the wins of HBK at Survivor Series, *redacted* at Mania 20 and Batista at Mania 21 would've been flat.
WCW 2000 PPVs rank anywhere from “Not good” to “Holy shit, why did I waste my time and money with this?”
I never realized Rip Off the Camouflage match is just a play on ROTC until now, which stands for "Reserve Officer's Training Corps"
Sorry, Adam, but Charlotte's ppv debut was Starrcade 93, in the 'at home with the Flair family' segment at the start of the show
I was at Fall Brawl, it was a lot better than I expected. The spot that caused Orndorff's career ending injury didn't seem that bad, but maybe it was a cumulative effect due to many years of taking bumps.
He already had plenty of problems from his 80s run.
Make this a regular thing, I beg you 😂 also in honor of TNA coming back, you guys should rank their PPVs.
Right these are great !
What have we learned? Kidman carried 2000 WCW
Not really Hogan up to his actual matches carried wcw
The fact you guys went through every WCW 2000 PPV, I had to hit the like button.
I doubt that they actually watch every ppv and every match 😂😂 some of these gotta come from what they seen from cagematch or w.e. online websites that rate matches
@@yeahyeah8439 This is the channel that has ranked every match in Mania history and every Big Show heel and face turn. I won't be surprised if they rank every match in Raw history.
Charlotte (age 7) was at Starrcade '93 to support her dad in ... *checks notes* ... a retirement match. Technically, that makes her part of a very small number of wrestlers to be "in" a main event at a WCW Starrcade and a Wrestlemania. Very technically.
I hope this is a new series! Love these..
I love that there's so so so many times that dirtsheets used the phrase "Former WCW World Heavyweight Champion" in their headline when referring to David Arquette but not by name
Jack should have done this list just to force him to say miss fits in action 1000 times
Towards the end of 2000 Fall Brawl and Starrcade to early 2001 WCW started to get better but by then it was too late
We? Did you used to work there, then?
Sid's face in the thumbnail describes WCW in 2000 in a nutshell
As someone currently doing a WCW 2000 watch, I am shocked you found anything good in those 12 months. You could do a "Worst Nitro 2000" show and never run out.
That's practically what Markyd123 is doing with his "How bad can it be?" belt (shuv it until it's felt) series
There Will Be A Worst Of The WWE Which Will Take 4 Years To Do. For Every WCW Worst, There Are 20 x Worst WWE.
The most remarkable thing ia that any show of 2000 from WCW is better than actual WWE
@@pablo77bar60That's a hot take. Nothing in WWE has been that awful. Mediocre and boring many a times, but NOWHERE as company-killing.
Gonna go back and watch your 2000 PPV ranked for WWE just for comparison
WCW: A place where many post-WWF careers went to die, slowly and painfully.
Fall Brawl 2000 was good it was the first and last ever WCW PPV in NY I went there one of the best PPVs of WCW 2000
And YOU thought 1995 was the shittiest year in wrestling? 2000 was the shittiest ever in WCW history and it ultimately sealed their demise!
But in 1995 both the companies were producing shitty storylines
Can’t imagine the headache of going through WCW PPV in 2000.
It had its moments. Steiner and Kanyon as DRP are notable ones.
@@shubhanshi9042 The point is more that at least in 1995 you had two big companies who could give fans a viable option/alternative.
WCW's absolute bollocksery they put out in 2000 essentially sealed their fate and gave us nearly 2 decades of WWE as the only major (in terms of US/global markets, that is) wrestling company. Not shitting on smaller companies or TNA, RoH, NJPW, etc but in terms of global marketing/appeal, none came close to what WCW had as competition to the WWE. (But aye, 1995 was shite all round...)
The main thing is that in 95 both WCW and WWF sucked major ass.
After the WWE PPVs ranked from worst to best was done and dusted. This would be the logical step forward and I am totes up for that.
The thing about WCW in 2000 is that after hearing from almost everyone that it was bad. You let your curiosity get the better of you and watch a few shows on the network to see how bad it was.
Personally, the best PPV from the last 15 months of WCW was Greed (An ironic name tbh).
You really gotta hand it to WCW in the year 2000. They had two weekly shows, and 12 PVPs that year. And they somehow made every single show look exactly the same.
Just like WWE now!
@@MarBenedict Nah, Triple H is doing an incredible job.
@user-uz2jo5hw1b Nah, WWE is doing good now. Its great on its own, but in comparison to 2000's WCW, it's on Shawshank Redemption levels.
You were a lot kinder on NBR than I was when I covered it on a podcast a few years ago.
Love it, you should do every year for that
Adam thank you so much for putting yourself through so much pain for this list lmao
I never in my life saw the words „greatest“ and „WCW in 2000“ used in the same sentence
I honestly believe that if not for Russo, WCW would still be around. They had some amazing talent that they so terribly misused.
The guys who ran the network hated pro wrestling and that had more to do with WCW's demise than anything. They wanted it gone when it was "good". They wanted it gone when it was profitable. Ted Turner not having he shares was the end of WCW. That being said, WCW did produce some stupid stuff in the last years.
@@BoogalooBartholomew Well Russo sure doesn't seem to have been helping.
@@genesis4322 I can agree with that.
Not really. First of all, the reason why Russo was there in the first place was because that ship was already sinking hard in 1999. Secondly, Ted Turner was no longer in charge anyway, meaning that WCW was left in the hands of people who simply couldn't care less about wrestling and were looking to attract a demographic that wanted nothing to do with wrestling anyway.
Still, if Russo hadn't been there, then maybe the WCW name wouldn't have been so toxic, and maybe someone other than Vince would have bought the rights to it.
It feels wrong hearing Adam say misfits in action without Jack's rendition of their intro
Can you please do a ranking of all the clash of the champion tv cards
Can't wait for Jack to cover all of these...
I can’t think of the Harris twins any more without thinking Bikermikerlaikers
"DNA rules" with THAT photo of David and Buff... boy this could've gone a different way.
5:34 why the referee like that😂😂😂
Finally moving on to some WCW content!
These guys spent about 36 hours watching 2000 WCW pay per views. I don't care what the video looks like. They deserve a like for submitting themselves to that hell for our amusement.
If They Watch Today's WWE, They Can Get Through Anything WCW Easily.
Seeing Rey Mysterio without a mask is cursed. Who ever thought that was a good idea.
You know you had a bad year when the show headlined by David Arquette ended up being one of the better shows of the year.
Asking someone to try to find a good ppv from wcw in 2000? That's got to be some kind of torture
@JaxPillow-qf3vm saying those shows were good is a bit of a stretch
@JaxPillow-qf3vmYes. There Haven't Been A Good WWE Pay Per View In 9 Years.
Im loving the new pacitti stock videos. So corny 😂
I suppose they couldn't have done a WCW version of those 'Worst WWF Matches of [insert year]' videos they've been doing recently because this video would have been about twelve hours long.
*twelve days
Its like u read my mind I’ve been looking for videos about wcw in 2000 bash at the beach is so memorable to me I will call it my favorite wcw thing ever because I never watched wcw at all that much things that happened in those times were soo hilariously random
Y’all brave as hell!
One of the best years for the WWE though.
Year 2000 they was on fire but some reason wrestlemania 2000 wasn't all that good but every other ppv was good
@@shady3legend I think KOTR was a thumbs down but overall 2000 was a BANGER of a year.
Oh Lord. Why are you such a masochist, Mr. Pacciti?
The same reason these heroes watch terrible movies and tell us about them. They sacrifice for us and make this stuff at least entertaining. 🎉🎉
@wickedlester5320 Exactly! Love the guys. The bravery is honestly unbelievable.
I paid 29.95 to watch Mayhem 2000 live on ppv 23 years ago. The opening bout having been "Above Average" Mike Sanders vs. Kwee Wee immediately caused me to have diarrhea and I swear I saw the 29.95 floating in my stool.
Excellent video
Halfway through I thought this was going from best to worst 😂
Sounds like Mike Awesome had banger after banger
No way UA-cam got ig bots in the comments now lmao
Sadly this has been a thing for years
As someone who has also gone back to watch EVERY WCW PPV from 2000, I commend your efforts.
I'm sorry you went through that
I’ve said this before about Vince Russo and I’ll say it again-Even though Vince bombed out at WCW I understand why he did some of the thing he did back then. WCW had old talent and needed younger stars so I get why he pushed Booker T and the other young guys.Also fans at that time wanted stuff that blurred the lines of Kayfabe and reality so I get why he did some of his wild confusing storylines
20:48 is this match an/the all-time low for the career of Terry Funk?
Hold up. ALL Five of Booker T's WCW titles were won between July 2000-March 2001? Insane.
Yeah, it is not a joke when people say the WCW world title scene was ADHD on crack.
No his 5th championship was in July 2001 Yet he had 5 title reigns in just over a year He could have one decent reign during that same span.
Good effort guys but any PPV featuring Lex Luger automatically becomes the best. They also get bonus points for Jim Duggan
The closest to a YEAR of just crap with one great storyline was 2011 in WWE my god was it horrible…
So when I think of people upset about modern wrestling in WWE under my man Triple H I just think how silly they are.
So much better
I'd say 2010 was utter trash. 2011 was freaking genius in comparison. Atleast 2011 had Cena vs. Punk, Orton vs. Christian and the Daniel Bryan MITB run.
The Canadan rules match should be watched it is hilarious as the show is in Canada and every crazy heelish thing done to screw over Awesome is cheered by the crowd. And to put the cherry top that sundae Bret Hart comes out to congratulate Storm like a hero as the crowd celebrate which means they knew how the crowd would react...
Why do that?
They knew the Canadians would cheer their hometown natives no matter what.
@@camerondalton1495 fair enough but why do it the most heelish way possible? They turned the stadium heel
There is a reason I always say that WCW from 96-99 was the peak of the entire wrestling industry. 2000 on the other hand was certainly not that.
Wcw 2000 better than todays wwe
You haven't included Millennium Final, which for me was one of the best they did that year!
As a kid I loved WCW 99-2000 until their closing watched faithfully as much as watching WWF but damn now looking back I didnt realize how bad WCW had gotten since its 96, 97 days, I did hate jeff Jarrett was annoying seeing him champion lol
I'm pretty sure the only reason Kevin Nash just didn't go out and lay down in the ring every week in 2000 WCW was because of the obscene amount of money that WCW was vomiting all over him and the fear they might vomit less when it would come time for a new contract, which never came to be because the company ended before his initial 5-year deal signed in 1996 was up.
Okay a match for the rights to a literal letter is hilarious though 😂
I think Patciti is number one Adam on UA-cam
The bad acid trip that was wcw post 98
Bless you for doing this list because WCW 2000 was trash! Had to give you a like just for doing this list alone!
I wish WWE would bring that version of the triple cage back
That SOB vince of the wwf just had to relay on cheap thrills to bury us 6 feet under.
Missed a very crucial "Cowabungled" joke in there...
oh shit here we go.
Bash at the beach is also where the nwo was formed must be hulkster
Starcade was not NWA's answer to Wrestlemania. The first Starcade happened in 1983, a year and a half before the first Wrestlemania. It was just a
I thought vampiro was considered a pretty capable wrestler? Or did people just mark for his gimmick?
He was, these guys just decided that he sucks. He was crap at promos, but that's it.
I consider wcw 2000 so bad it was good. Like, it was just batshit stupid insane bad, and I love it.
To me, it was just painful. 1995 WCW was so bad it was good, 2000 WCW was just pain.
They shouldve did a gimmick similar to Goldbergs for Mike Awesome but as a monster unbeatable heel & have it lead to a big PPV match along the line..they didnt know wtf to do at this point, it was sad as a fan of WCW since 87
Unpopular opinion: I didn't think 2000 WCW was all that bad. Maybe that's just because AEW exists today, and by comparison it's a gold field. But I remember watching it back then and enjoying it.
What was better Wrestlemania 2000 or Starrcade 2000?
Wonder if you threw in the final 3 PPV of 2001 would rank on this list
Every Wrestling company in 2000. #1 WWE, #2 ECW, #3 every other wrestling promotion, #4 WCW
Watching anything WCW 99-2000 always remind me of that backstage assault wrestling game which was terrible, dope roster though lol
I feel like being number 1 on a list like this is like being the nicest guy in prison.
4:37 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
are you going to do a every year wcw ppv match ranked worst to best next. or did you only do it for one of the worst year in wcw
You used quite a lot of lines from Scott Keith‘s reviews 😂
Worst to Worst
Lmao half the comments are naughty bots
good video
WCW was a joe's federation that's what made it entertaining
WCW 2000 PPVs from Best to Worst:
1. Fall Brawl: 7/10
2. Starrcade: 6/10
3. Slamboree: 4.5/10
4. Mayhem: 2/10
5. Souled Out: 1.5/10
6. Spring Stampede: 1/10
7. Super Brawl XX: 0.5/10
8. Bash of the Beach: 0.5/10
8. New Blood Rising: 0.5/10
9. Uncensored: 0/10
9. Halloween Havoc: 0/10
10. The Great American Bash: 0/10
The fact there's a ( B ) rated show in a generally ( D - - ) year for WCW must be considered a miracle .
You forget the Millenium final ppv in Germany 😮
Can we get a what happened that wrestler with all the jobbers from early WWF Superstars and RAW?
They couldn't look beyond NWO and kept younger talent down.
If I were an idiot, I'd say let's look at the adjective. But I'm not an idiot, let's look at the verb, play.
Is it just me who marks out more over Pacitti's Frabbit t shirt?
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