The dumbest Russo WCW episode!
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- čas přidán 5. 05. 2023
- It’s the how bad can it be belt, smack yourself one until it’s felt. We are on a mission to find the worst episode of professional wrestling and today it’s an episode of WCW Thunder from May 3rd 2000. This show was New York rules which means no referees and you have to count your own pinfall. It also festures the worst battle royal of all time and no good wrestling at all! But if you know a worst episode of wresting smack it down in the comments until it’s felt!
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This was also Macho Man's last appearance in WCW
Word? Then by definition this is one of the worst episodes ever lol dead ass
Man saw the writing on the wall and was like, “Fuck this shit, I’m going home.”
@@tnarockshardSavage hadn't been on a TV show since October 1999. This was just a one-off.
"Now pay really close attention because a lot of stuff is about to happen."
Considering the complete mess this entire show has been, that statement terrified me.
13:25 That's actually David Arquette, who was supposed to hit Jarrett with a guitar so he could fall through the stage that got gimmick'd to break. Turns out no one told him it was gonna crumple easily, so he fell through there all cause he was on top of that part of the stage.
LOL so David Arquette walked out with a guitar and immediately fell through the stage?
@@Goldenleyend He and Titus O Neill easily can formed a Tag Team name "Slippery when wet" 😆
Sounds about par for course for wcw
@@jbj7599even more par for the course for 2000 WCW was that earlier, one of Scott Steiner's freaks actually fell through the gimmicked stage and exposed it to everyone in the audience before David ate shit
That never ending battle royal had me rolling 😄😄
Yeah this episode was actually entertaining in a so bad it's good kind of way
The icing on the cake was randomly sending out the woman’s roster with no reason at all as to why it was happening 😂. Anyone would have thought that Doug Dillenger followed by the announce team actively joining the match would have been next? 😂
holy hell, I forgot how good Kimberly looked
She was bad bad
Kimberley definitely has a nice set of eyes
I popped at the Disco Inferno "How is he an inferno?" comment.
Soon as I heard Thunder 2000, I knew it'd be New York Rules somehow.....
……… Bro!
"He (Vince Russo) has never been in the men's locker room, and if he was he'd be whistling 'Strangers in Paradise.' "
Jim Cornette
Vince Russo was in over his head. Never a day where he knew/knows what he is doing when it comes to professional wrestling.
WCW in the year 2000 was legit a fever dream
Still better than Pandemic WWE
@@hia5235 true
Dying felt less painful than 2000 WCW
It _did_ feel like a fever dream!
I see Twin Peaks Season 3. Nothing from WCW 2000, nor Twin Peaks Season 3 made sense, but for some reason we keep coming back to watch the shows and the various CZcams reviews on these subjects.
Now try rewatching WCW 2000 while under the influence of melatonin and SSRI antidepressants.
10:12 "Russo looks like he's been getting a shoulder massage from Shawn stasiak"🤣 I almost spat out my teddys strawberry and cream laughing.
Replace Shawn Stasiak to Jim Cornette. 😆😆It would be best horror movie of all time.
@@kidwaryodproduction 🤣
@@firewatch814 Alternate universe when Jim Cornette was more dangerous than Meng and New Jack 😆
You should do an episode on obscure jobbers. The Gambler, Rick Fuller, Road Block, Disorderly Conduct, etc. Those guys were on TV all the time, so there has to be a story there somewhere.
How dare you call The Gambler “obscure”? The man was a legend in the squared circle.
At least he knew not to question El dandy
@@NLaBar I always love Rick Fuller and The Gambler :)
It's a shame that no one knows what happened to The Gambler after WCW career ?
Dont forget Ice Train. Greatest theme ever.
Disorderly Conduct!!! They actually had decent 7-10 minute matches on Saturday Night and did have awesome cohesion and never botched. Also never won. Also they were the Texas Hangmen under masks
12:25 The most funniest thing in this match (That you didn't included in this clip) is Macho Man doing Double Axehandle to everyone and all of them sells out like it's powerful even than Fingerpoke of Doom 😆
They sold it like Shawn Michael sells Hogan’s moves?
@@mrdude88 Macho Man enter Saitama Mode 😆
No one delivers a double axe handle like Randall Savage.
AEW before AEW.
@@LumpyAdams Haha, Funny that I talk about Randy Savage (Macho Man) and your named also Randy 😄
We can also added "Heaven is a place on Earth" to this match. And we will get AEW vibe 😄
Poor Vampiro having to hang out for all those backstage segments covered in the fake blood. They couldn't let the man take a shower? 😂
Vampiro: Can I get a towel?
WCW production guy: Absolutely not.
"WHERE'S THE FUCKING TOWEL" -Vampiro, probably.
1:25
Wild Slapnuts never gets old!😂
Quick correction hawk: "Terry Funk" walking out at the end was actually then WCW champion David Arquette. Also, in case you're wondering, no, Ric Flair was not actually added to the Slamboree world title bout. Continuity? What's that?!
Random, but the jobber Roadblock would be an interesting video.
I'll never forget when Macho Man didn't show up to a match with him, and he was in the ring alone, being awkward as hell 😂
4:44 KroniK look like two giant 2000 era Matt Hardys.
Easily imagine if they're do Diving Leg Drop, Twist of Fate and Swanton Bomb.
Then go back to their stoner friend Shannon 😆
This is unintentionally the greatest Thunder episode ever. So bad it’s fantastic.
I knew someone else felt the same! So bad it's amazing!
this episode of Thunder is like if you were to ask an AI to write it
Vincu Russo was an AI. Artistic Idiot.
3:26 DDP hit Kimberly with a guitar?????
I was in the military at this time and wasn't watching wrestling too much. Can't believe I missed that
Some speculation about why KroniK is in the Millionaire’s Club - this part of their gimmick was forgotten over time. KroniK were mercenaries, like the APA. Russo literally copied almost all the midcard gimmicks from when he was in the WWF. So my guess is KroniK worked for the Millionaire’s club because they could pay them more. That’s the best explanation I can come up with.
The story about the end of the show is this; stage was gimmicked for either DDP or David Arquette, not Terry Funk, to go off the scaffolding and into it, but for whatever reason most of the talent was not clued in about it and during the battle royal Asya of all people partially went through it during her entrance or exit, I can't remember which, so for the people there the spot was already blown. To make matters worse, before the dive DDP was supposed to take, Arquette walks out and completes the collapse of the gimmicked part of the stage and falls completely through it. DDP and Jarrett are stuck up on that scaffolding now, this is an all-time disaster, and apparently DDP just winds up falling down there anyway (sounded to me like he almost didn't even let Jarrett knock him off and just fell off on his own lol) to zero reaction because of how much of a clusterfuck even by WCW standards this turned into. There are apparently several edits of this show, including one which showed all these epic screw ups, but I've actually never been able to see them and this was the first time I even saw one that showed Arquette, as the one that got aired completely edited his involvement in the show out.
5:56 That whole Mike Awesome segment was an all time laugh out loud segment. Wrestling Bios did a WCW Blunder episode and I could not stop laughing when Kevin Nash says the winner due to interference was Mike Awesome 🤣🤣🤣
Machos last appearance 😢😢
😭😭
I was at this taping when I was 14 years old. As a kid I left super happy to pretty much get to see everyone I like and hogan and Steiner fought into the crowd in front of us. I was thoroughly entertained. Tracking this down as an adult wrestling fan had me horrified and laughing hysterically at the same time!
How is he an inferno? 🤣😂😭
This is like the orignal, Frontline vs Main Event Mafia. Except, the old guys, are the good guys.
Both storylines were written by Russo himself!
Savage saving Flair is wild as hell to me.
"Overbooked" doesn't even begin to describe this, man.
I about had a stroke watching this, I can’t imagine watching it live at the time when it came out.
I was 10 during this era and even I knew as a child this show was terrible. I hung around just to see Sting, Flair and Goldberg.
Kimbely's pokies made it a better episode.
Disco Inferno, how is he an Inferno😂
My god Kimberly Page. She is just unreal. WCW had her on all time they would of won the war.
@@Teddy42O That's not normal dude.
Um no
LOL, I don’t think so the WWF had Trish Stratus and Lita Who are both better than Kimberley page.
The sad thing is this was Macho Man's last appearance in WCW He deserved alot better than this 🤬
KroniK as a tag-team were new, but Clarke and Adams started in the WWF about a decade before this show.
If there's one thing Russo learned from Cornette, it's the whole backstage shot of boots entering the arena.
WHO COULD IT BE!?!?
😂😂
I feel like this is a WCW thunder from a different timeline entirely like an alternate reality...
13:17 Hogan actually tried to suplex Kidman on Annoucer Table. But Bischoff using Baseball Bat to hit Hogan in the leg so Kidman fall to Hogan instead in a pin stance.
This match and this segment still can find in youtube.
(It's seems my comment got deleted by CZcams glitch because I posted the link so I posted it again.)
You're commentary literally made this the funniest thing ever. I remember seeing this episode and realizing how bad it was but this made it 100 times better.
Since you asked for non WCW, August 3, 2020 of RAW is really really bad. But the Nitro the day after Starrcade 99 and New Blood Rising are both really awful.
I feel like billy kidman would be huge in today’s era. An awesome worker and underrated promo
I really dont think he had the skill in ring to believably wrestle bigger guys, I mean watch his match against Hogan.
@@marcespinoza6068Horace? Lol
@@ronburgundyspetfish9039 He wrestled Hulk on PPV, they had a month+ long feud.
He was one of my favourite wrestlers (mainly because of the dropkick) but he couldn't cut a promo to save his life.
@@silver2164 i think he had decent promos in wcw but had no promos in wwe mostly because he didnt have a character and wwe didnt care about the cruiserweights
The heels looked like total goobers here all night
I have two suggestions for future episodes: The 8/3/2009 edition of Monday Night Raw featuring Jeremy Piven as guest host, or the April 14th, 1997 episode of Monday Night Raw from South Africa. These were terrible for totally different reasons, and would be a nice departure from WCW.
Your breakdowns of theses shows are awesome 😂
So glad you finally covered this one! Probably got tired of me requesting it for this series but thank you! I knew you would love it lol
Haven’t seen one of your videos in awhile. Dude, congrats on 123K subs!
13:17 the end of that latch is the most chaotic thing I've ever seen in wrestling
Also awesome is Kimberly Page and if you don't agree, I'll rage
it wasnt terry funk, that was david arquette falling through the floor
That certainly was not “Bobby Southside” falling through the floor
Thank you for the correction now shove it 😂😂😂
@@ESC70737 it’s a Mdickie reference, there’s a wrestling game that has a wrestler who looks exactly like terry funk but his name is replaced by “Bobby Southside” it’s a hilarious name change as to why they thought of that name for funk in the mdickie line of wrestling games.
@@jiovanysoltero923 oh lol
@@jiovanysoltero923 And "Hank Slogan" always make me laugh everytime I see this name in Mdickie games.
That final battle royal segment without even looking at the screen just sounds like the biggest drug trip of all-time.
Macho Man: IT'S OVER.
Watching any Video displaying WCW from 1999 and 2000 raises some special sort of expectation in me. Stuff like weired booking, pointless segments and slapnuts doing slapnuts-things. And this..... not sure how to name it.... manges to disappoint even that low expectaions.... What a mess even for the Era.
Howerer, as per usual GREAT commentary by the one and only H.A.W.K
And if I remember it correctly that was the last time Macho Man was seen in the company. His return that night meant absolutely nothing
WTF IS HAPPENING!? The ending was beyond chaotic and confusing. Holy I wish I knew what Russo pitched in the meeting room on this episode because WTF! So much nonsense happening at once lol.
Haa! 13:22
This is the episode where David Arquette walks out to interfere and falls through the gimmicked floor that was meant for either DDP or Double J to fall through.
😆👍
I don't think I've ever noticed how small the ring was ; those ropes seem to top off at about 4 and a half ft
Oh god this episode! Wrestling Bios did a review of this and nearly got sent mental from the absolute ridiculousness of it.
One WWF one to consider is the Saturday RAW after Summerslam 1998 with nearly every match being a DQ, Kane and The Undertaker burying everyone and 2 Cold Scorpio v A WILD SLAPNUTS in the main event.
“Terry Funk” walking by was David Arquette and, he fell through the gimmicked floor that Jarret was supposed to go through. Very funny.
I'm pretty sure it was David Arquette who walked out with the guitar and then fell through the stage.
The post-Wrestlemania Raw just a few weeks ago is an all-timer for bad and maybe worse that the arena was sold out
I've smacked myself one so many times I'm starting to enjoy late stage WCW 😂
You've got post concussion syndrome mate and should go to a doctor about that.
This is one of my favourite wrestling channels on CZcams.
David Arquette actually fell into the hole too. You can see the guitar he was carrying in there lol
It's amazing how Vince Russo, despite having all these big names and a seemingly infinite budget would put shit like this. The sad thing is, that this could easily be an AEW episode with all the chaos and the poor execution.
Oh yeah, Still want that Christy Hemme in TNA episode. as well as that WCW Nitro Nov 22, 1999, and Nov 29, 1999 review.
“Terry funk walked in, and was never seen again”
Marky there was a show I went to as a kid in Melbourne Australia. Can't remember much of it, was very young. But the main event was also a battle royal. Goldberg cleaned house but then jumped out of the ring. If you could track it down, that'd be ace! Would love to see it again.
Looking back on these episodes makes me realize I don't remember them cuz I had already stopped watching..I was big time wcw even when it was nwa/jcp in the early 80s on.. yeah I'm older than tick turds (52).. but from right around 99 I was outta therebesides switching over during raw commercials
Jesus Christ Scott looks like the hulk on the thumbnail
Big poppa pump is coming for your ladies!
I was surprise Randy Savage return i thought when he quite on nitro was before that !!!
I quit on WCW around the time Goldberg lost his belt, but I read a couple of books about the end of WCW. These reviews are really funny.
possibly the greatest comedy ive ever seen i hope you return to wrestling in the next vid
Thank God there wasn’t much Jeff Jarrett.
Funniest review you've made ever. Definitely a new champion. 😂😂😂
Asya broke the gimmicked part of the stage which is why David Arquette went through the hole.....
I live for the Wild Slapnuts
No wonder why the Millionaire's Club vs. New Blood angle was stopped cold in its tracks...
I can hear you laughing at your own commentary at 5:49.
Funny as heck!
Love this channel
10:21 is that a shoe.... 😂
@1:24 never gets old 🤣.
??? The wrestlers count their own falls? What's stopping everybody from fast counting?????
I don’t think anything can top whatever this was,
But I think we can at least try,
How about a Recent episode of TV,
Which given it’s circumstances, was one of the most Underwhelming, generic, and insulting bits of Wrestling TV in a minute,
And given reports that came out after,
It nearly shook the IWC to it’s core.
I’m talking about Monday Night Raw from April 3rd, 2023.
I didn’t think much of this show,
But a lot of people did.
It’s not gonna beat, whatever this was,
But it would be interesting to see what The Hawk thinks about this show, especially with the circumstances given.
I was 8 years old, I vividly remember Macho Man leaving the limo but keeping it on the boots for a reveal. I just appreciate you letting me think about this show again. It's been so long, I just assumed this was a Nitro lol. The Wall was way over with me too. On the playground, that's who I played as 🤷♂️
I enjoy these videos.
Congratulations Markyd123 on finding the dumbest WCW Russo episode as you had a lot of content to go through as basically every Russo WCW episode be it Nitro or Thunder were dumb so finding the dumbest is like finding the liveliest person in a morgue (when all the employees have gone home)
How about a video about the Ric Flair / Jay Lethal feud in TNA? Probably the funniest TNA has ever been or ever will ever be. WOOOOO off! Is solid comedy gold.😊
The Millionaires club was such a dumb name.
Jeez my brain is fried just from listening to Marky's words about the show. 🤯
The fact this episode happened on my birthday makes me a little sad.
2pac got shot in Vegas on my birthday, that’s my sad point.
Lol it happened a day before mine 😂😂
Scotty will probably go down as the best physique in wrestling history 98-2000 he looked like a true GENETIC FREAK
More like medical freak
I think he got too big and why he couldn't perform well...I think why his ruthless aggression wwe run failed which sucks cuz the fans was hot for him frm when his debut survivor series 02 until his first match with HHH
@@shady3legend Steiner has a muscle disorder that effects the muscles that effect the raising of one of his feet which is why we got those strange competitions between him and Triple H when he went to WWE. It's a shame as he's one of the best heels of all time and could have had a long run if given a decent storyline and the time to work it.
@@Nomed38 Didn't he have a broken foot at around that time?
Yeah, his biceps reminded me of the cartoons, when someone would flex, and then their bicep would have another bicep, lol
Great videos
Beautiful Hilariously Golden Recap😂
Hilarious episode!😂
:Kronik: may have been a new team, but Brian Adams was Crush all the way back in 80s WWE, and Brian Clark was also kind of in that early/mid 90s crew
Still better then any raw smackdown or nxt nowadays
WHO BETTA' THAN CANYON! Forget DDP, Canyon just wants DP and a NutSlap down deep in his canyon!
2:57 the rest of us drifted off as well.
How about the Raw before Revenge of the Taker in '97, where apparently it happened in south africa and in the US?
Scott Steiner's 120 day WCW Championship reign, was it any good? Video request, hurry up.