WCW SuperBrawl 2000 (2000 TV Special) User Reviews

inc. Hall's last WCW match

[amanwhorocks · 5/10 · 6 December 2014]

1. WCW Cruiserweight Title Tournament Finals: Lash Leroux Vs. The Artist - On cruiserweight match it was one ordinary bout. Artist is our new champ. 6/10

2. WCW Hardcore Title Match: Champ-Bam Bam Bigelow Vs. Brian Knobs - Knobs won again. His second rain started here. 6/10

3. Handicap Match: Screamin' Norman Smiley Vs. 3 Count - 3 count wins. Match was to this point best of the first three. 6.5/10

4. The Demon Vs. The Wall - Terribly worked match with 2 awful wrestlers. A lot of screwed moves. And I really HATE heat machine. 3/10

5. "Take the Leather jacket from the Top" match: Big AL Vs. Tank Abbott - Gods SAKE. They tied their hands together and screamed "Bring it!" + punching each other. The Tank wanted to take big Al on back and get the Jacket with him, but on the was he lost him, so Al fell on the stairs. In last second he took knife or something and acted like he want to cut his throat. Unbealiveable. 0/10

6. Booker Vs. Big T. - match was for "who will lead th Harlem Heat" - Bokker tried hard, but Ahmed was fat in 2000(not like in WWF), and get stiffed. Get him outta WCW. That was the worst Pearl River Plunge on the planet. 4/10

7. Billy Kidman Vs. Vampiro - Far the best match of the night, but that doesn't mean much. These 2 are better wrestlers than they proved there. 7/10

8. WCW tag Team Title Match: Champs-The Mamalukes Vs. Crowar/David Flair - The goal was to tied opponent to hospital lounger. And that did champs. 7/10

Now we must look at that moron The Cat, who brings out James Brown. WCW bring me some wrestling rather. 1/10

9. Death Match: Ric Flair Vs. Terry Funk - These guys aren't lazy like Hogan or Nash/ they put some solid effort into the match. Terry piledrived Flair through the table. Weird ending, ref was blind, or what? 7/10

10. The Total Package Vs. Hogan - We are back in 80's. Immortal scullet scored again. 4/10

11. WCW World Heavyweight Triple Threat title match: Jeff Jarrett Vs. Scott Hall Vs. Champ-Sid Vicious - No DQ match, Sid retained that. Hall was seriously injured. 7/10

WCW 2000: Disaster Without Destination

[daniel-mannouch · 3/10 · 24 September 2018]

Feburary 2000 and though Souled Out was no rollercoaster, there were still some sufficient technicians on the roster to bolster the credibility of the product amongst the work shoots and tone deaf gimmicks.

Superbrawl feels more like the WCW 2000 i was expecting. Swerves, garbage brawls and dusty finishes out the wahoo, and Russo still isn't back. Iceberg dead ahead!

WCW CRUISERWEIGHT TITLE TOURNAMENT FINALS: Lash Leroux vs The Artist - Fatass Ferrara was too fat assed to be champion, so had to vacate the Thunder after the death nail on the cruiserweight division that was his match against Madusa at Souled Out. A tournament was then put on which made the belt look important again. Notice how i say look and not feel.

Leroux vs Iaukea was an average match. The days of Ultimo vs Misterio Jr were long gone by this point. The cruiserweight fad had died out and the division would never fully regain the popularity it once had. Some suggestive nut grabbing and a poorly timed finish lead to The Artist's victory and were the only memorable things about this underwhelming jerker.

WCW HARDCORE TITLE MATCH: Bam Bam Bigelow (Champion) vs Brain Knobs - Forgettable garbage brawl. Knobs wins WCW Hardcore Title LOL.

Norman Smiley vs 3 Count - State of your company when one of your most over guys is a comedy act, a good one, but still. Yeah, Smiley is going to grow on me. I can already tell that. He was a legit worker with a sense of humour about himself. Why didn't they put the U.S title on him at this point? Might as well.

3 Count is also a great gimmick. Perfect heat magnets for a smark grunge yet hyper hydro-macho crowd. Boy bands were way outstaying their welcome by 2000, so this made all the sense and therefore the cruiserweight trio were booed constantly for the right reasons.

The match went over, despite being rough around the edges. I liked it. I'll forget it too soon after.

SPECIAL (contractually obliged) MAIN EVENT: The Demon vs The Wall - Kidman vs The Wall worked well because of the David vs Goliath dynamic. That was gone here and what we have are two rough and tumble boulders botching like crazy. Punch 'n' Kick nadir.

SKINS MATCH BRO: Big Al vs Tank Abbott: Wow, we are already here. What can i say about the skins match that has not been cap locked already? Abbot's bodyguard betrayed him and wants revenge in the worst way possible for e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e involved. They tie each other together and trade stiff/shoot/why do i care? punches. Big Al steps on Abbott's face and considering the duration, i'm surprised it hasn't made it's way onto X-tube yet.

A super awkward finish where Abbott fire carries Al up the turnbuckle, then just drops him outside the ring, head first on the stairs. Abbott grabs the jacket on the pole (Yes, this was about a jacket, you know, near killing a man) and the bell rings, thank god. Abbot then pulls out a knife and tells Al he 'could ******* kill him' and since no one told no one nothing as usual, the camera crew just cut away to the crowd and the commentators mash and mumble their way through the confusion. The bar has been lowered again. Worse than Oklahoma, this set back UFC near a decade from where they were at the time. Word's cannot describe how stupefying this match was.

RIGHT TO HARLEM HEAT LIKENESS: Booker T vs Big T - Joe Cochran (the best thing about this angle) was hired by Stevie Ray to take Booker's T, flames and music, as if his in ring ability counts for anything. Now Booker has to endure more of this overcooked crap and carry sentient refrigerator Ahmed to a half-respectable match that big Johnson completely forgot all the spots to. Feel so bad for Booker here, for reasons unintended, even when i know how it's gonna turn out for him. Ahmed wins through shenanigans.

Billy Kidman vs Vampiro - Kidman gets back his first name as he takes on epic mic fart cutter Vampiro in a match you could mistake for being on an ECW PPV in '97. Impressive, but so what? No heat, no true spectacle, nothing to fuss about.

WCW TAG TEAM TITLE SICILIAN STRETCHER MATCH: The Mamelukes (Champions) vs Crowbar and David Flair - Not according to WWE, but David Flair and Crowbar's entrance did sound a lot like NIN's Burn didn't it? Sicilian Stretcher Match sounds good to say. Perfect for this car crash fodder. Daffney screams like a banshee throughout and rings the bell one time, but this ain't Montreal!!! Overall hindrance to the match. Complete waste of her.

Disco Inferno gets sprayed with something by her and asks on commentary if his guys are winning. Funny. Inferno was good on commentary. The match was an inoffensive car crash and just as long as you forget that all the four horsemen held these belts at one time or another, it's dumb fun.

The most WCW 2000 thing on this show as Earnest 'the cat' Miller says he can produce the James Brown to spite his arch nemesis the classical Maestro, or something. So, firstly a fake fat James Brown in an even faker cape and crown comes out to waste some more PPV time. Who says that this isn't James Brown? SAYS ME. Real James Brown then comes out with half the population of Atlanta and everyone Rubes it up in his honour. Not only his appearance wasn't promoted or even made sense, Miller never got any real heat off of it. Waste of money. Waste of box office air time. A tuxedo match between Millar and Maestro would have been preferable to this.

Side note: The WWE network overdubbing of Miller's and Brown's themes is god awful. Miller's theme was actually good and fast paced and i'm sure one of Brown's hits played him down to the ring, but without any of those, what meaningfulness is lost as they shuck 'n' jive and the whole thing is even more of a painful farce because.

DEATH MATCH: Terry Funk vs Ric Flair: Best match of the night by far. Best feud as well if the hype package was anything to go by. Classic NWA style blood feud blow off. By all rights, this should be one of the least legit matches on the card, but this is WCW 2000 and this admittedly dated work had the most investment put into it and is therefore genuinely engaging. Flair and Funk sell the eskimo dat ice and that table piledriver was gnarly. It was slow, but it had heart.

The Total Package vs Hulk Hogan: Luger's entrance looked good. Sting returns to make the save. Otherwise, it's typical Hogan 80's fare.

WCW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE MATCH: Sid Vicious (Champion) vs Scott Hall vs Slapnuts: Man, this match. Harris Bros, three bumped refs, PIPER, in an arm cast. Member, he exposed hard man Bischoff! This was crap.

No Way Out 2000. Descent mid card and possibly the greatest Hell in a Cell match in WWE history. One that made Triple H. That was their answer and it made Superbrawl 2000 look pretty damn bushleague.

A combination of hack creatives, glass ceilings and rudderless booking scared off so many future prospects from the company at this point and the cracks were starting to show. The work rate was significantly worse and WCW found themselves where they were in 1995. Aging, overpaid stars at the top collecting a paycheque, cheap pop culture references telling meandering stories at the bottom. Why Booker T stayed is beyond me. No one was getting over sustainably at this point and he had to have seen that. I can hear that Brooklyn twang a mile off. We're not too far away from things going absolutely mental. The joy.