Rants

WCW Sin

By Scott Keith on March 24, 2014

Usual for WCW around the time… but the main event of their PPV Sin was just… unfathomable in both implication and execution. So it's Jarrett vs Steiner vs Sid vs ??? in a four corners match. The match starts with Flair saying the fourth man will absolutely be there. The other three plod around the ring for a few minutes, Sid showing up in jean shorts, unable to do much of anything at this point in his career… Jarrett & Steiner seemingly don't care who wins as long as it's one of them… and we're all just waiting for the fourth person.

Of course, Sid jumps off the ropes and fractures his leg, which is COMPLETELY missed by the production company and the announcers as we cut to a guy wearing all black with a seriest of white belts, and with an $8 glow in the dark Jason Voorhees mask duct taped to his face. Meanwhile, Sid is just laying in the ring screaming, and no-one knows why.

So the fourth man finally gets in the ring, stomps on Sid once, Steiner drops the elbow and that's it! Oh then the guy unmasks and it's fucking ROAD WARRIOR ANIMAL? Shocking, right?

Obviously the match would have been different if Sid didn't fracture his leg but, especially when you compare it to what WWE was putting out at the time (the amazing 2001 Royal Rumble)… just what were the guys in WCW thinking? Were they even serious about competing at this point? I had been to shows in high school gyms that looked more convincing.
Well first, I'm back in town after the weekend, and no one died, so that's always a plus. Although I was doing quick updates from my phone and iPad so maybe that stemmed the tide of death.
Anyway, at this point the company was almost completely in cruise control, waiting for Eric Bischoff and Fusient to come in and do the third reboot in as many years and set up the Big Bang PPV that was supposed to revive the company or something. It's not hard to understand why Animal was given a prominent spot given who was one of the main guys running the company at the time, but man, what a disappointment. But really they all saw the writing on the wall and had all but given up at that point anyway, which is why you had guys like Haku showing up at the Rumble that month.

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