WCW Sin's Main Event: Messiest Wrestling Match ever?

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To review: The match is a four corners match, where Scott Steiner is to defend his WCW Title against Sid Vicious in a match that is also set to include Stablemate Jeff Jarrett, and a mystery participant to be revealed by Ric Flair who is also an ally (although that has yet to be revealed until the Pay Per View) of Scott Steiner. The story of the match is clear: The face going against all odds to try to take the world title from a heel champion, being backed by his stablemates in a Pay Per View Main event.

Then when the match actually happens, the mystery opponent has yet to arrive and it leads to the match beginning as a 3-way bout, with Scott Steiner and Jeff Jarrett ganging up on Sid.

Already this makes no sense, because instead of having a 3 on 1 advantage the whole match the heels now have only a 2 on 1 advantage.

Then the one moment from this match, for which it is extremely infamous: Sid Vicious comes off the top rope and gruesomely breaks his leg.

This puts everybody in the match in an awkward spot, Sid is in horrible agony on the mat, but there's still an angle to play out, so Scott Steiner and Jeff Jarrett have to stay in character, and can't just rush to the finish of the match.

Then the mystery man finally appears,wearing a mask and far too late for it to matter. He puts the boots to Sid, and then Scott Steiner covers for the win.

Then the Mystery Man unmasks...

And it's Road Warrior Animal.

Basically, the match was built around a simple storyline, with a mystery angle thrown in for good measure. Then, to build suspense for the mystery reveal they complicate the simple storyline further. Then after a particularly nasty botch, they leave the severely injured star laying in agony in the middle of the ring, so they can pay off the mystery angle. And then the payoff to the mystery around which the whole match was built, is really extremely disappointing.

Is there a bigger clusterf*** in wrestling history?

[Mozenrath]

It's definitely up there.

[cjh]

On top of it, this match was a heel turn for Flair.  Going into the show, it was portrayed as if Flair was bringing the mystery man to get the title off Steiner.  Knowing that, it doesn't make sense that he waited to send Animal into the ring.

[hassanchop]

The storyline of Flair's heel turn was a bit of mess. A few weeks prior there were hints of him going heel, there was footage of him hugging Luger and Bagwell who were heel at the time which he was antagonizing so there's that.

[Mozenrath]

Feb 15, 2020 21:55:39 GMT -5 cjh said:

On top of it, this match was a heel turn for Flair.  Going into the show, it was portrayed as if Flair was bringing the mystery man to get the title off Steiner.  Knowing that, it doesn't make sense that he waited to send Animal into the ring.

Right, like either just say there is no actual mystery combatant, or send them out right away. Or don't, because that's a dogshit way to end a PPV.

[Paul]

Now that I read these points, this one match sums up everything frustrating about WCW booking from the previous 3+ years.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

It's kind of hard to imagine this finish going right, even if Sid hadn't broke his leg.

[David-Arquette was in WCW 2000]

Definitely a mess of a match, and crappy for Sid, whose leg is hanging off while they let the angle play out.

[CeilingFan]

I would nominate Hogan vs. Sid at WrestleMania 8.

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Feb 15, 2020 23:35:30 GMT -5 Oh Cry Me a Screwball said:

It's kind of hard to imagine this finish going right, even if Sid hadn't broke his leg.

Well yeah, because it means yet another finish where someone intentionally threw away a world title shot for the sake of advancing an angle.

[zrowsdower]

I have never been able to watch the entire match but from reading the first post, did Sid actually try to get up at one point to get hit by the mystery person? That sounds a bit unsettling.

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Feb 16, 2020 19:08:45 GMT -5 zrowsdower said:

I have never been able to watch the entire match but from reading the first post, did Sid actually try to get up at one point to get hit by the mystery person? That sounds a bit unsettling.

If I remember correctly he didn’t try to get up but Animal did put the boots to him. Given the severity of the break it wouldn’t surprise me if he was going into shock at that point...

[Bub (BLM)]

If I were Sid I'd have straight broken character and told the ref to get EMT's now.

[Fundertaker]

Dunno, does the "shoot" NBR triple threat count as messy or just plain bad? If messy, than that.

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I don't know, that was definitely messy, but at least it can be said that the match went the way it was supposed to.

[the2ndevil]

I don’t think I’ll ever get the memory of the multiple replays of the break they showed the next night on Nitro out of my head.

Legit traumatizing.

[chronocross]

Feb 18, 2020 11:21:48 GMT -5 the2ndevil said:

I don’t think I’ll ever get the memory of the multiple replays of the break they showed the next night on Nitro out of my head.

Legit traumatizing.

They played that for the next few weeks, including a bit where they had Scott Steiner breaking a chicken bone while watching the replay, crazy.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

I think there have been messier matches.

If you're restricting to main promotions, and removing ECW from the equation... TNA has tons of examples.

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Feb 18, 2020 17:21:35 GMT -5 "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay said:

I think there have been messier matches.

If you're restricting to main promotions, and removing ECW from the equation... TNA has tons of examples.

I don’t know, I’m having trouble thinking of any of those messes even coming close in TNA or ECW...

[Malibu Albino]

Feb 18, 2020 18:08:04 GMT -5 Some Baritone guy IS REDEEMED! said:

Feb 18, 2020 17:21:35 GMT -5 "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay said:

I think there have been messier matches.

If you're restricting to main promotions, and removing ECW from the equation... TNA has tons of examples.

I don’t know, I’m having trouble thinking of any of those messes even coming close in TNA or ECW...

Jeff Hardy vs Sting and Mass Transit are two big ones. Although they both ended quicker than this did.