Vince Russo has been a controversial figure in wrestling for almost 25 years now since gaining a lead creative role in WWE. The time in WWE created some enemies for Russo, but it didn’t get as bad until he moved to WCW. Russo was now the sole person in charge of a wrestling product instead of having the team effort in WWE with Vince McMahon filtering his ideas.

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Many wrestlers and fans blamed Russo for being a huge reason for WCW going out of business. The failure of Russo saw the show completely falling apart with ridiculous angles and new concepts that made fans scratch their heads. Find out just which WCW moments from Russo made no sense at all.

10 “The Powers That Be”

Vince Russo shoots on Hulk Hogan

The introduction of Vince Russo to WCW was rather strange with his name and face never being confirmed in 1999. Camera angles blocked his view as Russo was in a chair talking to wrestlers in his office.

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Russo was referred to as “The Powers That Be” to create mystery behind his presence. WWE never utilized Russo as an on-screen character, so fans had no reason to care about Russo. WCW eventually just started showing him with no real logic behind the mystery to start.

9 Mike Awesome’s character changes

Mike Awesome in WCW

WCW signed Mike Awesome during his impressive reign as the ECW World Champion when hitting the free agent market. Awesome appeared to be a big signing in the new era of both Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff having power.

The debut moment attacking Kevin Nash saw Awesome’s momentum grow before completing falling apart. Russo didn’t want to commit to him as a serious competitor and introduced comedic gimmicks like That 70s Guy and The Fat Chick Thrilla with no strong thoughts behind it.

8 Resetting entire product with no strong explanation

The New Blood

The New Blood was one of Vince Russo’s biggest ideas of completely rebranding WCW by essentially resetting the product. All storylines, character alignments, and title reigns ended with everything restarting that night.

This was the only instance of a major company vacating all titles to rebrand from the first night with everything changing. WCW could have added more logic to this, but Russo wanted the surprise to keep people guessing.

7 Older wrestlers in the New Blood faction

Jeff Jarrett wins the WCW Championship

The New Blood faction was meant to band together the younger wrestlers of WCW sick of the veterans holding down the top spots. Unfortunately, the angle executed by Russo just put the entire roster together outside of the legendary main eventers.

Wrestlers like Scott Steiner and Buff Bagwell had found success for years and were tied to the legendary names, so it made no sense why they were in the group. Even older wrestlers like Van Hammer and Bam Bam Bigelow spent some time in the New Blood as veterans.

6 Montreal Screwjob parody with Bret Hart winning

Bret Hart and Goldberg as WCW Tag Team Champions

Bret Hart vs Goldberg was meant to be the top story of Vince Russo’s run as two of the few legends on the roster still with strong momentum. Russo however wanted to always add a shocking ending to big matches for better or worse.

Starrcade 1999 featured Hart retaining the WCW Championship when referee Roddy Piper rang the bell without Goldberg tapping out. The angle was meant to parody the Montreal Screwjob but it just confused fans wondering why anyone would fake something so silly.

5 Jim Duggan winning title in the trash

Jim Duggan as a janitor in WCW

WCW hit rock bottom when the belts started to mean nothing during the Vince Russo era. Scott Hall didn’t care about winning the United States Championship and actually threw the once respected title in the trash.

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Russo booked Jim Duggan as a janitor and he won the title by finding it in the garbage can. Duggan was recognized as the actual champion even though he didn’t win a match and wasn’t considered a wrestler in the storyline at the time.

4 WCW Championship changing hands in tag match

David Arquette as WCW Champion

Vince Russo was criticized for changing the rules of a match without any explanation if he felt it would lead to his end result. The moment of David Arquette winning the WCW Championship made little sense to many fans in general, but the way it happened was even worse.

Arquette teamed with the champ Diamond Dallas Page against Jeff Jarrett and Eric Bischoff. The victory of Arquette pinning Bischoff won him the title even though his partner DDP was the one losing the belt to make fans scratch their heads.

3 Goldberg breaking script

Goldberg feuds with Vince Russo

The star power of Goldberg made him the biggest name on the roster when returning from an injury in 2000. Goldberg was placed into some of the worst storylines of his career and hated working for Vince Russo.

The big angle for Goldberg in 2000 featured him “breaking the script” by refusing to lose matches and by cursing out Russo. Fans were just confused since the backstage world wasn’t as easily known.

2 All the matches with various items on a pole

Judy Bagwell on a pole

Vince Russo is still made fun of today for the various stipulations of items being hung on a pole with both wrestlers trying to obtain it for the victory. The pole match was strange enough, but Russo seemingly went out of his way to book it in different ways.

Strange items like a pinata, viagra, the physical body of Judy Bagwell, and many others were placed above the ring in an attempt at comedy. The joke fans laughed at was how quickly they lost respect and interest for WCW.

1 Dustin Rhodes as Seven

Dustin Rhodes as Seven

Vince Russo convinced Dustin Rhodes to make the move from WWE to WCW when gaining power. Dustin worked well with Russo as the success of Goldust in WWE featured them collaborating on the ideas that made it thrive.

WCW teased vignettes of a mysterious and intimidating character named Seven. The gimmick was basically Dustin wearing all black with white face paint tormenting the dream of kids. Dustin debuted as Seven before disrobing and cutting a promo running down the gimmick. Fans actually had interest in Seven, so it was a let down to see Dustin burying it as himself.

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