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Last updated 6 April 2000

WCW 2000 Uncensored from ???
19 March 2000

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Hack-Man Report of the PPV


People that know me know that I stopped giving "star" ratings a few years back and have instead adopted the rating scale of "how much money was this match worth?" At the end, I add it all up and see if the PPV as a whole was worth the sum of its matches.

1. The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Iaukea over Psychosis to retain the Cruiserweight championship in 7:22

"Hard Knox" Chris Candido joined the commentary team. Juventud was at ringside to second Psychosis. There was some good action, but Psychosis doesn't seem to try as hard as he did a few years ago in the six-man tag matches. Prince was hard to tell apart from the ref, as they were wearing the same striped shirt and black pants. Paisley was nice to look at as usual.

RATING: $1.90

2. Screamin' Demon over XS in 3:42

Lane and Rave (formerly Idol (formerly Lodi)) are apparently now known as XS, and do the DX sign, except over their head. This is to more emphasize that Lane is trying to copy Shawn Michaels (and of course the Hardy Boyz as well). Lane (who was wearing his hair in the same top-knot as the Kiss Demon) did some nice bumps over the top rope. He did his Memory Lane finisher (not called by the crack announce team) but the pin was broken up. The end came quickly with Smiley putting the Norman Conquest on Rave. Match would have been classic if it had gone another 15 minutes (and being a tag match where you can rest on the apron while your partner works, there's no reason not to have it go longer even without rest holds). Ms Hancock was ringside, but didn't dance to distract XS for a change. Lane came over and said that she wasn't "Rizat" material (ring rat). After the match, XS blamed their defeat on Hancock (who did nothing) and dragged her to the back. Demon & Norman dragged her back to the ring to dance. Norman had her do the big wiggle, then had the ref do the big wiggle.

RATING: $2.75

3. Bam Bam Bigelow and The Wall went to an apparent DQ in 3:35

I'm not a big fan of either of these guys, though Wall has started growing on me since he's taken a few wicked chair shots to the head and then started putting people through tables.

The two men brawled in the ring, brawled up the aisle, and then Wall chokeslammed BBB through a table with monitors (causing the monitors to spark unnaturally). I was expecting BBB to go through that table, but there was a platform (where MEan Gene interviewed people before the card) right next to it, so I was expecting a bigger bump.

Post-match, Crowbar & David Flair tried to attack the Wall. Wall ripped off their neck braces. David was pummeled on the concrete. Crowbar and Wall climbed up above the entrance ramp where the video wall was and Wall chokeslammed Crowbar off the scaffold down through the stage/ramp (which was probably a legit 15 to 18 feet below). This went off a lot more impressively than the New Jack/Grimes scaffold dive last weekend. For one thing the two WCW workers had a more stable platform to stand on. And they had more than a single 1x6 (or whatever) to balance on. And hopefully there was some sort of padding under the stage that Crowbar fell through (though none was apparent from the camera angles shown). I don't want to glorify bumps like this, since I don't want to see New Jack or Mae Young become crippled for life (or worse) by trying to "one up" the competition, but this bump looked spectacular. New Jack's was more of a train wreck that you couldn't turn away from. This was probably a bit safer.

RATING: $10.00 (would have been a "dud" without the final spots outside the ring)

4. Brian Knobs over Sugar Shane Helms in 3:02; Knobs over Evan Karagias in 4:17; Knobs over Shannon Moore in 6:59

This was weird. It was a "falls count anywhere" match, but apparently that means that falls count inside the ring and falls count outside the ring, but that falls don't count of a foot is under the rope (halfway between inside and outside) since Moore pinned Knobs before being pinned. Instead Brian Knobs wins his third Hardcore title from Three Count. Knobs was Knobs, but Three Count got in some nice moves. Their match against the Jung Dragons on Monday was nothing short of spectacular, though. This was the first match without eye candy at ringside.

RATING: $2.35

5. Booker & Kidman over Harlem Heat in 6:59

It was refreshing that WCW didn't fall back on the "accidental bump as face hits face and they keep toying with the breakup". Booker and Kidman won cleanly. That said, Kidman should be getting a singles push. All members of Harlem Heat suck. Stevie ray should be back to teaming with Booker T where his shortcomings can be masked. I was surprised that one of the two fat guys from HH did a dive over the steel railing. Kidman was smart enough to get out of the way rather than get injured.

RATING: $1.00

6. Vampiro over Fit Finlay in 8:45 in a Falls Count Anywhere match

Both men are notorious for working stiff, but neither seemed to be all that into this match. As expected, they brawled up through the crowd and into the men's room (was that Barnett in the stall that Vamp jumped off of?), then outside, and finally pinning Fit in the entrance way.

RATING: $1.00

7. Harris Brothers over Mamalukes in 8:48 in a no DQ match

The Mamalukes didn't do any of their big moves that I mark out for, and while I just don't care about Disco any more, I don't think *anyone* cares about the Harris Boyz, so I'm not sure why they were given the titles.

RATING: $0.30

8. Dustin Rhodes over Terry Funk in 9:02 in a Bullrope/Cowbell Match

Dustin came to the ring. Terry stood on the ramp and cut a promo. He had his left hand up a dead chicken's ass with "Dusty" written on it. He said he brought Dustin's little brother with him, and a guy jumped in the ring wearing a chicken mascot costume. Dustin beat up the mascot. This seemed to go on for 20 minutes. We were trying to figure out if this match had a higher or lower average age than last week's Rhodes cowbell PPV match. It's gotta be pretty damn close. If One of these guys had taped the cowbell to his opponent with help from the ref I would have been worried. Both guys took some nice bumps and there weren't any really bad rest holds, but the match just seemed like it was dragging, and I pretty much wanted the PPV to get over by this point.

RATING: $0.75

9. Sting over Total Package in 7:01 in a Lumberjack cast match

Before the match, Lex noticed that the odds were against him, since all the lumberjacks were guys he had broken arms of. He then called out a bunch of heels (mostly members of Harlem Heat). They were wearing casts and Lex claimed he had just broken their arms so that they would be eligible to be lumberjacks. During the match, Tank Abbott came out to KO Dillinger. Then all the lumberjacks brawled with each other to the back. The only lumberjack who was left was Vampiro. Flair came down to the ring to interfere, but Vampiro kept things even.

RATING: $0.25

10. Sid Vicious over Jeff Jarrett in 7:36 to retain the World Heavyweight Championship

Jeff mentioned beforehand that if he won, the NWO girls would get naked, which kind of gave away the finish. The Harris Boyz interfered liberally throughout the match. After about five minutes, Hogan came to ringside and did his boot to the face and leg drop on Jarrett. Scott Steiner (who had apparently been sitting in a limo for the past two hours rather than having to watch this PPV)ran to the ring after the match and laid out Hulk Hogan. Ric Flair immediately came down to beat on Hogan and they immediately went to the main event.

RATING: $0.25

11. Hulk Hogan over Ric Flair in 14:27 in a Strap Match

Flair (who was uncharacteristically not wearing any tape on his hands or wrists) bladed while sitting on the top turnbuckle. Later on Hogan had blood on his forehead, but it was unclear whether it was his own or Ric's. Not the worst match of either man's career by far, but still a blunt reminder why both men should have retired from active competition a few years ago and gone into managing or color commentary.

RATING: $1.10

After the PPV, I was saying it was pretty much a "thumbs down" (whereas most other people were saying "thumbs in the middle or slightly up"). As with most WCW PPVs, I probably would have been happier if I had turned it off half way through, as the upper half of WCW PPV cards generally blow goats.

TOTAL PPV RATING: $21.65

Nearly half of the total rating came from Crowbar's one bump, which made the rating kind of lopsided. If he hadn't taken that bump, this PPV would have been around $11.65 which would have made it the worst PPV since WWF's Survivor Series and the worst WCW PPV since Halloween Havoc. As it is, it beat out the last two WWF PPVs and was just slightly worse than ECW's PPV last week. At least it was better than Souled Out.

Thanks to CRZ for reminding me of the matches and who won what matches, saving me the time of having to take notes instead of watching and enjoying the PPV in real-time.

For comparison, here's what I thought of the PPVs I saw in the last couple of years: 

WCW Spring Stampede 1998      $24.10
WWF Unforgiven 1998           $ 9.95
WCW Slamboree 1998            $27.95
WCW Great American Bash 1998  $28.05
WWF King of the Ring 1998     $22.50
WCW Bash at the Beach 1998    $17.35
ECW Heatwave 1998             $24.90
WCW Road Wild 1998            $29.80
WWF IYH: Fully Loaded 1998    $ 6.95
WWF SummerSlam 1998           $10.20
WCW Fall Brawl 1998           $23.60
WWF Judgement Day 1998        $25.10
WCW Halloween Havoc 1998      $49.50
ECW November to Remember 1998 $25.75
WWF Survivor Series           $21.40
ECW Guilty as Charged         $26.10
WCW Souled Out 1999           $29.10
WWF Royal Rumble 1999         $23.00
WWF St Val Day Massacre 1999  $20.90
WCW SuperBrawl 1999           $21.35
WCW Uncensored 1999           $32.00
ECW Living Dangerously 1999   $25.90
WCW Spring Stampede 1999      $38.00
WCW Slamboree 1999            $21.10
ECW Hardcore Heaven 1999      $15.30
WWF King of the Ring 1999     $13.40
WCW Bash at the Beach 1999    $20.70
WWF Fully Loaded 1999         $10.80
WCW Road Wild 1999            $13.90
WWF SummerSlam 1999           $19.05
WCW Fall Brawl 1999           $12.85
ECW Ararchy Rulz 1999         $32.25
WWF No Mercy 1999             $13.00
WCW Halloween Havoc 1999      $ 3.35
ECW November to Remember 1999 $28.45
WWF Survivor Series 1999      $10.95
WCW Meyhem 1999               $17.75
WWF Armageddon 1999           $22.05
WCW Starrcade 1999            $23.65
ECW Guilty as Charged 2000    $25.70
WCW Souled Out 2000           $13.20
WWF Royal Rumble 2000         $20.00
WWF No Way Out 2000           $16.95
ECW Living Dangerously 2000   $21.80
WCW Uncensored 2000           $21.65

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