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WHO WAS THE WORST  WCW WORLD CHAMPION
Jan 28th, 2007, 12:58pm
 
 On WCW Thunder, April 25, 2000, in Syracuse, New York, David Arquette won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
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Reply #1 - Jan 28th, 2007, 2:52pm
 
That was the worst of all time. Let's say that was 1A, then 1B would be Vince Russo on September 25, 2000 in NY. Both were total disgraces to that great belt.
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Reply #2 - Jan 28th, 2007, 3:11pm
 
just the idea of putting ANY belt on any non-wrestling person is stupid.
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Reply #3 - Jan 28th, 2007, 4:29pm
 
Both very bad choices. Russo holding the belt was more of a disgrace than anything and him beating Flair here in Richmond for Nitro made my blood boil. Needless to say 6 months after Vince Russo won the belt, WCW was shutting it's doors at a bar in Florida.
 
I say far as wrestling wise to hold the belt that was the worst was Luger and Hogan.
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Reply #4 - Jan 28th, 2007, 5:05pm
 
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just the idea of putting ANY belt on any non-wrestling person is stupid.

 
Bobby speaks the truth.  I think it is an unfortunate consequence of wrestling having gone from focus on the in-ring product to focus on entertainment product with a whole lot of bells and whistles.
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Reply #5 - Jan 28th, 2007, 5:13pm
 
I agree with all of this but as far as worst wrestling champions are concerned how about Kevin Nash
 
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Reply #6 - Jan 28th, 2007, 6:06pm
 
at least nash is/was a wrestler...sorta. i'd put him a bit above arquette and russo.
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Reply #7 - Jan 28th, 2007, 8:13pm
 
I'm sure we all desperately try to block out the Arquette & Russo fiascos.... they definitely take the cake. As far as actual wrestlers....  I think Jeff Jarrett did nothing for the World title.... I've never understood what made him so great in the eyes of wcw and nwa/tna (other than tna starting out as his daddy's promotion). To me he had no heat. Well, he had the "bad" heat.... the "we could care less about you" heat instead of the proper "I really want a face to kick your a$$" kind of heel heat.
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Reply #8 - Jan 29th, 2007, 8:35am
 
I am not counting the Russo/Arquette reigns, as the wrestling fan in me is trying desperately to forget those ever happened.  
But as far as wrestlers go the worst in my opinion was DDP. In my opinion, the only good thing he done for this business was bring us Kimberly.
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Reply #9 - Jan 29th, 2007, 4:40pm
 
have to disagree. DDP improved VASTLY in a matter of months. not only was he over, but he could actually work the crowd, and work the match. he went from nothing to a top performer in no time, as compared to many.  
as for being a world champion..he's not that good. but considering what they had to choose from AT THE TIME, he was a logical choice.
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Reply #10 - Jan 29th, 2007, 6:39pm
 
I have to agree on Kevin Nash, he made a lousy champion in WCW. Should have never put him over on Goldberg, the match had a very shitty ending and of course the next week Nash was in the middle of the ring doing the job for Hogan with the 1 finger push that really made Nash winning the belt seem meaningless.
 
I think DDP did decent as champion and yes he definitely improved over a matter of months and was over big time with the crowd. But to hold the belt a week and then drop it on Thunder to David Arquette in some fucked up match killed the belt then and there for quite some time. Of course Russo winning the belt was worse than Arquette winning it.  
 
Jeff Jarrett did the title some good but not a lot to make it really count, this was in the course of the dying days of WCW as well. But I will not say he was a bad champion, he can actually wrestle. He just needs to stop being loyal to Russo.
 
 
 
 
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Reply #11 - Jan 29th, 2007, 6:47pm
 
true. had DDP held the title for a length of time, maybe a couple months and then lost it to a credible performer, it would have been so much better.
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Reply #12 - Jan 29th, 2007, 6:48pm
 
Not counting Russo or Arquette, I'd go with Jeff Jarrett. I liked him at the time, but in retrospect, he wasn't the guy to carry the ball. His reigns just didn't hold up to the test of time.
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Reply #13 - Jan 29th, 2007, 6:51pm
 
i have to fall back to default with jarrett like i did with DDP....considering who was available at the time, he was the best choice, at that time.
that's not much of a compliment, but still the best at the time.
translated, "the time" sucked.
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Reply #14 - Jan 29th, 2007, 7:07pm
 
Sid Vicious wasn't too good either.  Sid I always thought of as a great challenger, he just never delivered as a world champion.  He was a big, 6'10 goon with a limited repertoire.  If you are going to say Nash was a bad champion then mark Sid down right next to him.
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Reply #15 - Jan 30th, 2007, 7:33pm
 
Oh my.  I was at that Syracuse show where Arquette won.  Awful.  
 
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Reply #16 - Feb 1st, 2007, 1:50pm
 
Quote from flair on Jan 30th, 2007, 7:33pm:
Oh my.  I was at that Syracuse show where Arquette won.  Awful.  


 
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Reply #17 - Feb 1st, 2007, 4:07pm
 
my opinion, besides the obvious two,  would go to ddp just never cared much for him again accept for kimberly!
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Reply #18 - Feb 2nd, 2007, 7:28pm
 
Luger 1991 , not his fault though , Flair walked and no one would have cared who was in the cage at the Bash 1991!
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Reply #19 - Feb 12th, 2007, 7:25pm
 
Vince Russo, Kevin Nash, Hulk Hogan, David Arquette (tie) 4 of the absolute worst choices for a champion ever. and it's funny because all of them but one "won" the title when they had the book (or in Hogan's case, had WCW by the balls)
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Reply #20 - Feb 15th, 2007, 8:22am
 
Quote from Dave_Pillman on Feb 12th, 2007, 7:25pm:
Vince Russo, Kevin Nash, Hulk Hogan, David Arquette (tie) 4 of the absolute worst choices for a champion ever. and it's funny because all of them but one "won" the title when they had the book (or in Hogan's case, had WCW by the balls)

 
Actually, I quite liked the match where Arquette won the belt. After that, I have to agree with you...  Grin
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Reply #21 - Apr 2nd, 2007, 5:17am
 
Quote from GarvinStomp on Jan 28th, 2007, 5:05pm:
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Bobby speaks the truth. I think it is an unfortunate consequence of wrestling having gone from focus on the in-ring product to focus on entertainment product with a whole lot of bells and whistles.

I'm surprised Rodzilla, Jay Leno, and Karl Malone didn't get any gold.  At least Rodman and Malone were athletes.
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Reply #22 - Apr 15th, 2007, 8:17am
 
Luger in 1991 , he never got that big first title win over Flair , he just won a held up title on a 1 star ppv.
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Reply #23 - Apr 18th, 2007, 3:08am
 
Jarrett/Nash/Russo/Arquette
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Reply #24 - Apr 18th, 2007, 5:53pm
 
Quote from JBLCENAFAN on Apr 15th, 2007, 8:17am:
Luger in 1991 , he never got that big first title win over Flair , he just won a held up title on a 1 star ppv.

 
Not only did he not get to beat Flair, but he never even got to win the real belt. That makeshift "World title" belt  they threw together (the Florida PWF belt with trophy plates slapped on it) after Ric bolted with the Big Gold looked horrible.
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