The Day the Music Died
- Episode aired Jan 17, 2000
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5.1/10
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The new commissioner of WCW will be Terry Funk or Kevin Nash and the nWo.The new commissioner of WCW will be Terry Funk or Kevin Nash and the nWo.The new commissioner of WCW will be Terry Funk or Kevin Nash and the nWo.
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- TriviaKevin Nash mentions "Oz" and "Vinnie Vegas", two characters that he played in WCW in the early 1990s.
- Quotes
'Big Sexy' Kevin Nash: Wait a second, I sound like Oz up here!
- ConnectionsFeatured in WCW Monday Nitro: The Best Singles Matches of 2000 (2001)
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Only Remembered For Scott Steiner Beating Up Brutus And A Fan
This episode, taking place in the Value City Center in Colombus, Ohio, is part of the 2000 season of WCW Monday Nitro, which is the second-to-last season of the wrestling program as World Championship Wrestling continues its downward spiral that started in 1999. Here, Kevin Nash comes to power as the new commissioner of this sinking ship, and the WCW World Heavyweight title is now vacant thanks to Arn Anderson finding a fault in the match that makes the decision defunt (as a way to cover up the fact that Chris Benoit, who won the title the previous night on the 2000 edition of WCW Souled Out, managed to get Kevin Sullivan, who at the time, replace Vince Russo, to fire him alongside Perry Saturn, Dean Malenko, and Eddy Guerrero, which would lead to the Canadian Crippler who is disgraced for the act he would do in the future doing some wrestling in Japan before jumping to WWF/WWE), only for Nash to later take the also vacant WCW United States Championship back to Jeff Jarret after he calls Terry Funk's decision being done on a drunken haze.
As for the match card, starting with a match between Billy Kidman and Psychosis, the match is mostly stinkers, with the worst being the shoot fight rules match between Tank Abbott and The Maestro, which lasts less than fifteen seconds (and therefore, had to be padded out with Norman Smiley and Meng coming out to challenged Abbott after his quick win in a fight that is basically horrible). The only good thing about this episode is before the main event, Scott Steiner beats up Brutus, the mascot for the Ohio State Buckeyes, and then, even going farther by beating up a fan (actually an indy wrestler playing as a fan), but this episode shows WCW has indeed fallen far to be beyond recovery.
As for the match card, starting with a match between Billy Kidman and Psychosis, the match is mostly stinkers, with the worst being the shoot fight rules match between Tank Abbott and The Maestro, which lasts less than fifteen seconds (and therefore, had to be padded out with Norman Smiley and Meng coming out to challenged Abbott after his quick win in a fight that is basically horrible). The only good thing about this episode is before the main event, Scott Steiner beats up Brutus, the mascot for the Ohio State Buckeyes, and then, even going farther by beating up a fan (actually an indy wrestler playing as a fan), but this episode shows WCW has indeed fallen far to be beyond recovery.
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