Wow! This was a disaster on a scale that is rarely reached by a professional wrestling promotion not named WCW. They decided to take an aging Forman NFL football player and put him on commentary. It was evident from the very beginning that he had zero knowledge of the business, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing if it's done properly. This was not done properly. He had no clue who any of the wrestlers were, had no idea what any of the moves were, and for whatever reason had an obsession with everyone's weight.

If YouTube had what I was looking for this would have been the spot where I would insert various clips of Donovan, but I couldn't even find the one where he asks "Who is the guy with the American flag?" He was referring to Lex Luger who had a flag on the chest of his T shirt. The best I could find is the ending of a Botchamania that had a mashup of his greatest hits.

Roddy Piper boxes Mr. T at WrestleMania 2



Full torture: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3b84kh

I watched this once for the WM review thread, and it was one of the most boring things I'd ever seen. I tried to watch it again here, and I just couldn't. So ridiculous, worked boxing matches are generally a bad idea but this took it to a whole new level. Really, the entire New York section of WM2 is an affront to entertainment, but sitting through all the other crap to see this...all the facepalms.

Implemented from 2/24/2000 - 8/19/2002, the 24/7 rule for the WWE Hardcore championship resulted in 225 different title reigns by 43 different people. Crash Holly lead the pack with 22 separate title reigns.

The following people won the hardcore title during this time:
Johnny Stamboli
Christopher Nowinski
The entirety of the Mean Street Posse
Thrasher (I believe Mosh was unsuccessful tho!)
Pat Patterson
Gerald Brisco
Funaki
Godfather's Ho
Trish Stratus
terri
Shane


Sure, The Undertaker, Jericho, Kane, Show, and Kurt Angle also held it. I'm unsure if that's a point for or against my argument though.

So the way it worked was that as long as a ref was there, the champ could be counted out anywhere. Any place. Any time. This lead us to such great moments as:

Crash Holly defending at Fun Time USA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-F-6dglOo


Against some clowns at the circus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qelt4i8zXkc

In the snow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izW8ESTzw3w


In a bar across the street:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4-Rmr4_XhE


During a massage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNeoZr9Wx98


At the airport:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XkB7e5JgU


In a hotel room:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRFPnz_HHTc

In the dressing room:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd6twlfFIxY

In an evening gown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tdOJw0AGqs

Against a wall (#2):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV-S2qFSeW8

In the Mississippi river:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r1FVfll2Gw


among many many other terrible places

Now,this was absurd. Kind of in the "this is funny" way for a brief time. It wasn't funny for 2.5 years. It was downright godawful after a few months, and then it continued for years. Get out of here with this.

If there's something that Scott Steiner knows better than math, it's politics.

The WWF decided that it would be a great idea to set up a political debate between Chris Nowinski and Scott Steiner about the Iraq war, then in its relative infancy. Nowinski, who was the heel by virtue of opposing the war, spit out the basic anti-war talking points that, at least in this instance, were obviously correct. (I mean, sorry to be slightly political, but I doubt anyone here is of a mind to defend that war at this point.) Many boos were had.



Steiner, in response, played the part of blindly patriotic pro-war caveman to perfection. I would quote from him directly, but it has that classic Scott Steiner delivery, and the text just does not do it justice. I highly recommend just clicking and watching.

My pick is The Great Debate.

Undertaker Sacrifices Dennis Knight

So, yeah, the Ministry of Darkness was probably the worst time of Undertaker's career. They went full-on occult, and there were lots of cringe worthy moments. This was the worst. Previously on Monday Night Raw, The Acolytes had kidnapped Dennis Knight. Then came this:



After an interminably long, stupid poem, Undertaker walks over to Knight, says some nonsense words, apparently cuts his own wrist (obviously fake) and "bleeds" into a chalice and makes Knight drink it, renaming him Mideon. Then he takes the knife and drags it across Mideon's chest leaving a trail of blood in the shape of Underatker's symbol, but in such a fake way that it looks more like frosting a cake.