 What's good Josh will Ross back again with another video. So let me check out ten worst moments of the dying days of WCW now WCW in his heyday in his prime was obviously competing with WWE in the Monday night war So it was a situation where again, oh people were tuning in they were enjoying what was happening on their television But at some point it just started to get Like embarrassingly bad to the point where booking decisions didn't make sense The the fans were starting to turn on the product because they were like confused on how things were you know How the shows and the pay-per-views were going it a lot of this It was like a lot of chaos and backstage Politicking that you could see Happening within like the storylines and the matches where it was like it was it was ruining the show They were self-sabotaging themselves it seemed like so we're gonna check out some of these moments that really led to the ultimate demise Of the product appreciate our love and support that's shown on channel. Let's get right into this one You had some iconic moments throughout their existence as a promotion throughout the 90s WCW acted as a great alternative for fans and offered an edgier and exciting product with the introduction of the new World Order as well as the introduction of the innovative and wildly celebrated cruiserweight division Unfortunately as WWE became red-hot in the late 90s WCW's quality quickly diminished and this resulted in the once popular promotion putting out some of the worst wrestling Ever seen this was particularly the case during the final years of WCW's existence specifically between 2001 join us now as WrestleMania looks at ten of the worst moments of the final dying days of WCW Subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive list also check out WrestleMania.co.uk and an on wrestling channel incredible Number 10 tank Abbott pulls out a knife a tank Abbott was one of the most interesting characters that debuted during the final years of W2W Abbott was a legitimate MMA fighter and head writer for W2W Vince Russo saw dollar signs the moment he saw him Russo would even pitch an idea which would see Abbott win the W2W title But thankfully this never materialized Abbott had some rather infamous moments during a stint in the company But one particular segment stands out for all the wrong reasons The Super Bowl pay-per-view in 2000 featured the aforementioned Abbott taking on a wrestler known as Big Al This wouldn't be a standard match as it was W2W in the year 2000 Meaning the match ended up being a leather jacket on a pole match Abbott would win the match Anything on a pole match when you look at it in hindsight is kind of cringe But a leather jacket on a pole match y'all gotta give me more context to the importance of this leather jacket Please let me know For those it's wrestling historians who know about this match in feud. Please let me know The significance of them fighting over a damn leather jacket. I just But a terrifying incident wouldn't sue shortly after Abbott would proceed to pull out a knife and place it to Big Al's throat informing everyone that he could kill him W2W quickly panned away from the commotion and W2W commentators tried to logically explain what had happened But even they were completely baffled This was an unplanned spot and it was a miracle that somebody wasn't seriously hurt Oh, wow, Oklahoma There had been some tasteless wrestling parodies over the years But the parody of Jim Ross that W2W presented in 2000 went too far The character would be known as Oklahoma and was portrayed by former WWE writer Ed Ferrara Ferrara would dress in a manner similar to JR, but he would mark JR's belts palsy Which is where the majority of the criticism from the character came WCW devoted so much time to this outrageous character that Oklahoma would even win the Cruiserweight title Which speaks volume in relation to how little WCW valued the title during the final years of the company The character quite rightly angered fans as well as people in the wrestling industry JR was beloved, respected and admired and to mock him in this manner simply wasn't going to go under the radar Yeah, that's that's that's kind of cringe. I'm gonna be honest with you That's definitely kind of cringe and Cornet would even challenge for our tough fist fight And it was so outraged at WCW's mockery of arguably wrestling's greatest commentator Number eight the blood botch A 2000 was a pivotal year for WCW's promotion as everything they tried to do to remain relevant and popular seemed to completely flop A great example of this was during the feud between former WCW world champion Kevin Nash and the new blood stable During an episode of WCW thunder Nash would be standing in the ring and a planned spot was to see a bucket of blood falling on his head However, this would ultimately fail as blood completely missed Nash I like the fact how Nash just looked at it, bro That's so funny to me. He's just so nonchalantly just All right, well that was that was a fail the stable looked completely incompetent Nash virtually no sold a botch, which was probably the smartest move Yeah Just a few weeks later a similar incident would occur as Nash was about to perform a jackknife powerbomb on Vince Russo on the outside of the ring Blood would fall from the ceiling once again and it somehow missed Nash for the second time You have one job to make sure someone stands on the spot that says X And make sure the bucket of blood falls right where it's supposed to once again Can't get the job done. It was a total disaster and borderline laughable Number seven junior bagwell on a forklift Vince Russo was obsessed with placing various items on poles during his time in wcw from leather jackets to viagra But in the year 2000 he developed this concept even further when he decided to have a duty bagwell on a forklift match The stipulation alone was enough to make fans realize that wcw was dead There was no going back But the execution of said match was beyond belief The match would be between canyon and buff bagwell and if canyon won duty would be his new valet Whilst if bagwell won duty would be free and wouldn't have to worry about any torment from the villainous canyon The match began with canyon driving to the ring with duty strapped to a forklift This is when canyon cut a promo and declared everybody knows that this match is supposed to be a duty bagwell on a pole match But I searched this entire second-rate country of canada But after searching this entire godforsaken country I couldn't find a pole that would hold that big fat battle axe The match was terrible and even featured a runner from david arkett Bagwell would win the match and he would safely be reunited with his mother who was dramatically lowered down to the ground number six goldberg's car window incident A lot of this is just ridiculous cringe The wcw was often compared to the wild west in the sense that talent did whatever they liked with no repercussions During the final years of the company wrestlers going off script was common And there was nobody with any true sense of authority to make them fall in line One of the wrestlers who wcw management struggled to rein in was goldberg who in late 1999 went off script and almost bled to death as a result On an episode of wcw thunder goldberg would attack a limo with a metal pipe Then went off script and smashed a window with his own hand The glass curtain archery in his arm and he was forced to go to hospital in Bro that i'm gonna be honest with you. That's that bro goldberg back then was different, bro You break a window with your bare hands, bro. You you different, bro You different for sure immediately this should have never happened Whilst nobody is truly to blame other than goldberg himself Wcw management should have had a better control over their talent This situation was a clear sign that inmates were running the asylum number five goldberg turns heel of speaking of goldberg during the late 90s goldberg's popularity skyrocketed Their approach of booking goldberg and squash matches worked wonders as goldberg gradually became the most popular baby face in all of wcw Unfortunately, things would begin to fall apart when they made the questionable decision to have clevin ash and goldberg's 173 and a win streak despite this the crowd remained pro goldberg This is until vince russo implemented the drastic and damaging decision in 2000 to turn him heel Goldberg would turn heel at the great american bash pay-per-view turning on nash and siding with russo and his new blood stable To say this heel tan flopped hard would be an understatement Goldberg looked uncomfortable in the role and fans hated it It completely killed a mystique of the former world champion and russo would ultimately take no responsibility for the failed heel tan claiming on sports kit is a legion of raw that goldberg's heart wasn't in it number four You know, how about you don't turn him heel, you know, you know Sometimes you don't have to break what ain't broken and then of course this one david arquett winning the wcw world title that's um It's a little bit much if you don't let's say so uh an actor Winning your top title in the company. Just Just put that out there the wcw world title Other world titles should be the most respected and prestigious title in a pro wrestling company 2000 wcw completely killed any ounce of credibility the big gold belt has Prominent actor david arquett would take part in a tag team match Which pitted him and world champion ddp against jeff jerry and eric bischoff The stipulation stated that whoever obtained the pimple would win the title Naturally, arquett won the match and became world champion by pinning bischoff in one of the most shocking moments in wrestling history The decision was blasted by fans and arquett still gets ridiculed and blasted for it to this very day Rousseau still likes to justify his decision to crown arquett as a champion But made a total mockery out of wcw and they once celebrated championship number three vince russo wins the wcw world title Unfortunately david arquett winning the title wasn't the only time the title became worthless In september of 2000 vince russo decided to make himself the new wcw world champion That's right. The guy who was writing the wcw product decided to make himself the world champion Which is so would take on book a tea for the title inside a steel cage on nitro The match would be heavily overbooked and featured numerous run-ins from top talent. My man has on complete football gear, bro The finish of the match came when golberg speared russo through the cage resulting in russo winning the match and being crowned a new Wcw world champion days later on thunder russo would announce that it was vacating the title as he was an arrestor Rendering the entire title change completely pointless waste of time to the finger poke of dew 1999 Looks set to be a grand show They had promised a starcade 98 rematch between kevin ash and golberg But halfway through the show golberg was arrested taking him out of the main event Hulk hogan had made his grand return to wcw as golberg's high profile replacement The main event match between hogan and ash lasted just 30 seconds After some stalling hogan would poke nash in the chest that proceeded to pin the world champion to once again Become the top guy in wcw hogan and ash would then celebrate as an nwo and nw a wolf pack would reunite This was a historic moment for all the wrong reasons as wrestling fans had completely lost faith in wcw following this stunt The january fourth edition of nitro was also the episode of nitro in which toni shavani spoiled a mankind ww title in on raw resulting in thousands upon thousands of fans changing channels and never looking back and number one I mean this Like I said backstage politicking you could see it play out on screen Like it It was just running rampant people did whatever the hell they wanted to because guess what? We can what are you gonna do about it? Like it was just it was just It it wasn't conducive of making a cohesive wrestling show It's just I want to do this because I want to and I think it's funny I think it's gonna be entertaining and half the time it wasn't entertaining like that I don't know bro. This They they they pretty much shot themselves Honestly, the wcw's bash at the beach pay-per-view in 2000 was synonymous for everything wrong about the final years of the promotion's Existence the biggest match on the show was to see hulk hogan take on jeff jerry for the title As prize of the event backstage issues between hogan and vince russo ensued Predominantly due to hogan wanting to win the title Ultimately russo decided to have jerry lay down for hogan allowing hogan to win the match This was completely planned was going to lead to a storyline where fans became fully aware of hogan's contractual backstage power Following hogan's victory hogan would cut a promo where he declared. Is this your idea russo? That's why this company is in the damn shape it's in because a bullshit like this russo then proceeded to cut a shoot promo in which he would complete Great hogan in every conceivable way and even claimed that he was a piece of shit This shoot promo was not part of the script and hogan had no idea it was about to happen This led to him departing wcw and filing a defamation of character lawsuit against russo During russo's confusing promo He would announce that jerry would take on booker t in the main event of the show As jerry was still the wcw world champion Booker t would then be crowned the new champion to close out one of the most infamous wrestling paper views of all time But they have it folks 10 of the worst moments That's when you really just think about how everything just imploded in their last years It just you can tell it made sense. It was like yep, this is the ship is sinking abandoned all hope And that's when vince did what he did And uh The rest of history so comment down below. Let me know What moment if it wasn't in here in this video? Do you think was another catalyst to the downfall of wcw? Let me know down below man But I appreciate all the love and support you guys are showing on channel Road to 150k and I am still yeah, this be the youtuber son temper world. Appreciate y'all kidding me. See y'all next one. Peace