Judy Bagwell on a Pole Match
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New Blood Rising (2000)

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Towards the end, WCW liked to put things on poles, seemingly everything but the Nitro Girls, which would have made the most sense. Luckily, Judy Bagwell wasn’t hung from an actual pole but she was lifted above the ring in a forklift in a match that saw Buff against Chris Kanyon and if Kanyon won, he also won the valet services of Judy Bagwell. While there have been plenty of matches over the years where the winner will get a valet, there was just no reason she had to be suspended on a forklift. Since all of this ridiculousness wasn’t ridiculous enough, former WCW champion, David Arquette, got involved, trying to help Kanyon.

Great times. That music from Saturday night wrestling brings back so many memories

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Sid rockin the "Flip Flops of Doom" and attempted murder all in one vignette.

How much did it cost to produce these things?

Good God was WCW tough to watch near the end.

To this day, if you ask Vince Russo about this he'll tell you with a straight face, that's this was genius and the wrestling world needs more of these types of angles today.

Poor Big Ron Studd...

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That's Big Ron Reis as The Yeti.

Reis was trained by Big John Studd and was going to be a kayfabe son or nephew to John as they formed a tag team in WCW. Studd's declining health derailed that push. Then he became a member of Raven's Flock and is now most remembered for being on the receiving end of one of Goldberg's more famous Jackhammers.

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Fun fact ... if you watch when Sid is talking during the promo, you'll see Shockmaster gesturing along with him - because Fred initially thought Sid's voice was a voiceover for his character to be talking.

For your continued reading pleasure ...

"That (the glittered helmet) was just to keep my identity, keep me under wraps…The wall was increased in height…Mike Graham's the one who gave me the cue to go. I had the mask on, holes drilled in it, but then the glitter was coming through. So they took the secretary, cut off her panty hose, cut patches and glued them over the eye holes…That was to keep the glitter out of my eyes. Mike told me I had to bust the wood, bust the 5/8-inch sheetrock that made up the set; I had to hit it hard…Well, I busted it all the way to my knees, and just like a teeter-totter, I hit it so hard it blew me over the top of the bottom. Then the little helmet popped off, I turned away from the camera, and attempted to pop it back on my face, jump up, and do the promo. 'Cause I wasn't down there long, if you watch the video…Dusty Rhodes, he was there along with the rest of them. If you read their lips, there's some funny things being said…I was the one that was the most upset that night; it would have been like about a minimum of a 12-pack drive back to my house. I just got my stuff and when I was finished to head out the door, I pulled up to the Gorilla position, looked at Dusty, looked at Mike Graham, looked at the rest of them, shook my head, and walked out the door. There's no doing over a live deal. What it is is what it is."

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Shockmaster Debut

If you listen closely, once Uncle Fred fall through the wall you can hear Flair saying "Oh No...Who is this motherf**ker?" and Davey Boy Smith pipes in with "He fell flat on his f**kin ass."

Surprisingly, it's Sid who tries to save the segment by getting back on point.

that stuff is hilarious

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

God the 80s were fantastic.

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Blue Meanie brought up a good point when discussing The Shockmaster.

What was the ultimate plan? If he couldn't keep the helmet from falling off when he fell down, how in the hell was he going to participate in a match of anything else wrestling related?

Were they going to have him use it Vader style? If you do that, the problem then becomes everybody realizes it's Tugboat Thomas out there and you stop taking him seriously as a bad ass.

It was a Dusty production, so who the hell knows where it was all going to lead to.

Dusty was just looking for a "moment".

And he got a bigger one than he could've hoped for.

There wasn't any plan as to what would happen next. Hell they had Ole doing the voice backstage for Shockmaster's promo. An idea he'd used with years before with the Black Scorpion.

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Need a last minute Halloween costume?

Dye your hair blonde and provide your own face paint.



Just don't Trick or Treat with Abdullah The Butcher and or Cowboy Bob Orton while wearing this costume. Might have a medical situation on your hands if you do.

The Iron Sheik ✔@the_ironsheik
FOR THE HALLOWEEN I AM THE BIGGEST JABRONI OF THEM ALL #HappyHalloween

11. Stewart Pain
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Barry Darsow had a very nice career in wrestling. His most famous run was as Smash in the tag team Demolition, but he also managed to get some pretty atrocious gimmicks to respectable levels during his time. After all, this is the man who turned Repo Man into a credible threat. However, the gimmick with a suck he just couldn’t overpower was Stewart Pain. Some creative genius sat around trying to come up with ideas for characters and thought what the show needed was an evil golfer. So Darsow grabbed some clubs and tried to make the best of it.
The passing of golfer Payne Stewart led to the character’s name being changed to Mr. Hole-In-One Barry Darsow (and later “Putting” Barry Darsow) but it made little difference, as this golfer’s handicap was an awful gimmick.

A fixture on the dying days of WCW Saturday Night.

Come see Mr. Hole In One take on The Jungle Man Chuck Palumbo. We also have Kid Romeo going up against Angry Alan Funk, while our main event is the tag team of Mark Jindrak & Sean O'Haire vs. The Jung Dragons.

I mean, I pretty much jsut search Worst WCW and there are like 50 lists. And each one has a few new hilarious entries

God Bless Jim Herd

Jim Cornette on Herd...


The best stupid idea that Jim Herd had, there is so many of them that we could go on and on, but the best one I ever heard was when he wanted to introduce the team of the Hunchbacks. I'm sitting there in a room, and Flair had already quit as booker and I was shortly after to follow, but I was still there. I was sitting there in a room, with Jim Barnett, Jim Ross, Jim Herd, Kevin Sullivan, myself, Jody Hamilton, Terry Funk may or may not have been there, and Ole Anderson. So, Jim Herd goes off on this ten minute soliloquy of how he has come up with the greatest idea for a tag team ever, the Hunchbacks. ‘They got the big hump on their back, you know, and ya' get ‘em in there and ya' can't pin ‘em, because they got the hump on their back. So, they are an unbeatable tag team and that's how we'll sell ‘em, you can't beat these guys, because they've got humps on their backs.' He was deadly serious, because remember, the Ding Dongs made it to television and that was Herd, so he was deadly serious about this. Finally, Ole let him get it all out of his system, and Ole, bless him, wrestling's cantankerous old man. He says, ‘All right, Jim, you book the Hunchbacks, build them up, they're undefeated. Then you book them with me and Arn. As soon as I tag in, I'm going to take one of them down, I'm going to slap an arm bar on him and I'm going to make him submit. He is going to give up. I just beat your unbeatable team.' ‘Well, god dammit, Ole, you know what I mean!'… Thankfully, the Hunchbacks did not make their appearance in WCW, but by the time Herd got finished with WCW it wouldn't have really mattered anyway…"

He wanted Flair to become "Spartacus" with the helmet and everything.

In fairness to Herd, the one thing he was probably right on was wanting to make Scott Steiner champ, though some claim Scott turned him down so as not to leave his brother behind.

Love Cornette.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

One time Green Bay Packer I believe. No not the kid, the Narcissist.

JBL

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

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If my memory serves me correctly, they're burning a copy of either the Wrestling Observer or the PW Torch.

Oh, and killer boots on Hogan, man.