From: voltch | #264
WCW dying.
Indeed it is!
Fully Loaded vs. Bash at the Beach
Fully Loaded's card wasn't the greatest, but it got the job done. We saw Rock/Benoit and HHH/Jericho steal the entire show, while the rest of the card waned a bit. Taker no-sold wrench-shots to squash Angle, Edge and Christian had one of their lesser quality tag team matches, and Tazz goes from beating Kurt Angle at the beginning of the year (twice) to a return squash match with Al Snow. On the plus side, Saturn finally got some kind of gold to hang onto for more than 10 seconds.
So leave it up to WCW to make a show that makes Fully Loaded look like WrestleMania by comparison. We did get a good Cruiserweight match between Chavo and Juvi, and the real main event was good, but the rest? Not so much. We saw KroniK (formerly known in WWF as Crush and Adam Bomb) beat Shawn Stasiak and Chuck Palumbo to win the tag titles, Big Vito retaining the hardcore title against Norman Smiley and Ralphus, Ms. Hancock beating Daffney in a wedding dress match when Hancock removed her dress on purpose, Scott Steiner being stripped of the US title after using the illegal Steiner Recliner, and Kanyon beating Booker T with help from Jeff Jarrett. We then later saw Scott Steiner return and go heel on us again, helping a heel Goldberg beat Kevin Nash with Scott Hall's contract on the line. Wait a minute, when was the last time Scott Hall stayed in WCW for longer than a month?
Then the hilariously bad happens; the barely-visible graveyard match between Vampiro and the KISS Demon was trying its best to be worse than the Vampiro/Sting human torch match. This was followed up with Hulk Hogan and Jeff Jarrett for the WCW world title, where not only did Hogan use the nWo theme, but Vince Russo had Jarrett lie down for Hogan. Then Russo comes out later and cuts a fake-shoot promo on Hogan, claiming that he's tired of people like Hogan holding back people like Jarrett, Booker, etc. and fires him in the process.
At the time, the promo was thought to be real, but Eric Bischoff revealed years later that Hogan was supposed to return a few months later and win a Champion vs. Champion match to unify the belts. What stopped it? Hogan threw a fit and threatened to sue when Russo called him bald. But anyway, with no Hogan, Vince Russo makes BatB's main event between Jeff Jarrett and Booker T for the WCW title, and to end a pretty damn awful show on a good note, Booker T wins his first world championship.
WWF leads 7-0
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