The WCW Championship in 2000 | Wrestling With Wregret 

Ya and he won the championship in wrestlemania XX and held it for months in till Randy orton beat him in summer slam

Tee Wew28 One Frick R/whoosh Two it’s just a joke I’m not insulting you in anyway so there’s really no reason getting angry at me for doing the joke no matter how overused it is

Let’s take it a step further, he’s also the 2004 fed ex orange bowl national champion

Vacant is also a 2-time NCAA basketball champion from 1950 & 2013

He also won 2 F1 2020 races and might win more

Carlitonsp1 should have a video of the history of vacant in wrestling

Cooro Fox yes

Huh... Didn't know that

Oh christ I remember that. What a year.

And he was the intercontinental champion!

Oh, it gets better. Tony Schiavone originally pitched putting the strap on Arquette AS A JOKE during a meeting. Russo took it seriously, and well ... here we are today.

now he is very much deserving.,

He also came back to wrestling a few years ago proving he could be a decent wrestler. Granted he shouldn't have won the title, but he wasn't the main problem with this entire situation.

Rip droz

Arquette is a good guy. At least he was an actual fan and it wasn’t his idea. I see what he did as respect but unfortunately it wasn’t shown that way.

Hell as of me typing this comment he's the current UFC Lightweight Champion and WWE Women's Tag Team Champions

And played different sports too

Also isn’t in insane how vacant has been able to win every single UFC title in every weight class for both men and women.

I honestly think people miss what he was trying to say - He was saying that since they are two people with two brains, that in literal volume he had half as much brain with only the one. The way he worded it certainly came off silly though.

It wouldn’t be wrestling without regret

It was Deactive that Stole the ECW Belt from Rhyno.

@@conradojavier7547 Deactivated is Vacant’s final form

Deactivate beat vacant in a match for it

If there was ever a time that Paul Heyman should've vacated the belt was in early 1998 when Shane Douglas got injured. But he didn't.

DanTheMan0531 Also donated to Droz too after his career ending injury...say what you want about him, but at least Arquette put others before himself during his run as champ

Mainstream attention? From David Arquette? David Arquette ain't no Mr. T or Chuck Norris

late 90's-early 00's? david was B level at best which is enough for that time period.

ALiesACheatsASteals97 you must have forgot how big He was. 3 scream movies and other endeavors. Arquette was a hotter name back then.

DanBrown0531 when your world champion thinks there's too much wrestling in Professional WRESTLING then that's how you knew WCW was going under

Thats one for every month!

Vacant actually had 6 runs

And that is just counting the WCW championship in 2000, just imagine how many belts he had if we count all belts

Dan Wepp In WWE's case... 2000 - The Year of Title Changes

I have a good question, WHO THE HELL IS THAT GUY!

Kyle Hurd you mean Chris Benoit

TheManWithoutFear no, 1999 was the year that WWF played hot potato with their belt. And look at who was writing the show: the guy who wrote WCW in 2000!

@John Volken Standing Unspecified Ft. Tall, From Parts Unknown, Weighing in at Unspecified Pounds, Vacant

And donated all of the money he earned to the families of Owen, Brian Pillman and Droz himself if I remember correctly.

The Gunslinger I did not know about that. But more of a reason to say that Arquette > Russo

The Gunslinger He did. That's why Arquette himself isn't blamed so much as...Russo.

and because at least Arquette didn't put the gold around himself.

I still say Arquette's reign could have been salvaged if he'd come out on the next Nitro, said it was only a fluke that he won the belt, that he didn't deserve it, and voluntarily gave it up. You could then have had the Page-Jarrett match on PPV for the title, and while Arquette would be on the books as a past champion, it would have been put over as "...except he pinned a non-wrestler and only got it because of a bizarre stipulation." Yes, this is one case where I think that immediately vacating the title would have actually IMPROVED matters.

Vacant will outlive Wrestling

@@lewisaino Vacant will outlive US.

Wrath

That's the theme's name

shadic1988 THANK YOU!!! It was bugging me that I couldn't remember the name of Vacant's "theme" lol

No problem. The theme is in WWE '13 if I'm not mistaken.

I think it was just for 2k14

Cyberwaste hang on “ YAYYYYYY”

This channel makes me excited for Thursday’s

Cody Quasar all around me are familiar faaaaces. Far out plaaaaaces....

Cody Quasar I told you Jim those tests came out negative.

That was a joke

#THANKYOUFUCKYOUBYE

Was that restraining order real ?

Lewis 'RamboAxMan' Ramsden Just like WWE in 2016. 👎

2017*

+Starhunter *2015

willing to bet majority of you were like 3 in 2000.

KLightningBolt everything since 2013

GRC 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😅😅

The Eddie Retro Experience not any, EVERY

in terms of stats, undoubtedly… but their promos were pretty dull

Hezekiah Ramirez i get it.

Hezekiah Ramirez I get it,very clever

I got it yes very funny

I get it lololo

I get it

Deactivate won the belt from vacant when the championship was deactivated

ethan sheehan I fucking hate biker

Sam Meloy 😂😂😂😂

(twirls wrist)

I hated hearing it when I try make entrance

Oh, you mean "wrath" from the WWE2k Games?

Actually, he won it four times, four times, four times, four times. He dropped the belt to The Rock during The Invasion and won it back to get his fifth reign.

@@dylanogg347 no you got it wrong Booker T 5th reign was defeating Kurt Angle on Raw

@@jayrusso1589 Huh...didn't know that. Kurt Angle's reign was only six days, so it's a blip on the radar when compared to Booker T's feud with The Rock.

Maverick Hunter X Same here actually, Didn’t know that about Booker T

Dylan Ogg Thanks, Cool that Booker T won the 5th on WWE,

I can see that in Chikara.

Cody Gatzke do you know who Vince Russo is?

Someone PLEASE make sure Vince NEVER reads No No's post!!!

Fortunately Dixie Carter was the last dupe. No one will hire him again in wrestling. And he is trying to get McMahon to hire him.

Ya! Wcw championship 2000 Vacant vs suicide with guest referee the masked man!

Vince McMahon likes big Texan bullies You mean Russo right?

cerealkiller nope jbl

Vince McMahon likes big Texan bullies no offense, but 2017 Jinder having the WWE Title is LIGHT YEARS BETTER than WCW 2000 (except once FREAKZILLA got the Belt).

freakzilla was amazing

#SWAFT

The fuck is a universal champion? Do you have to beat Mars's champion?

His 2nd reign was a little longer lol

Vacant was the real first two time universal champion after Roman Reigns vacated the universal title

Vacant= Undertaker LOL It's True

You are the problem with Society, Your Profile Picture Says it all

@@nikolaibelinski8133 You gotta a problem with bronies?

Nikolai Belinski people like you who hate on us are

@@nikolaibelinski8133 Jesus dude...

I see what you did there

I wouldn't! If I were the one who got to end the sad excuse for a storyline that is... shudder... A Vince Russo World Title reign I would automatically have done something great for the world. I mean it's slightly less impressive than, say, providing free medical care to civilians in Syria but the toll in human suffering is nearly as high when Vince Russo is a... gag... World Heavyweight Champion. Not all heroes wear capes, Mallory. Not all heroes wear capes.

Actually beating Russo in WCW would be a huge push....think about it, the man booked himself to beat Booker T (for the championship) and Ric Flair. I can rarely recall a time where Russo even lost a match.

The belt should have gone to Judy Bagwell.

or Ed Ferrara for cruserweight champion

I did train to wrestle many years ago yeah I'm quite rusty by this point but I would get back to training once I become wcw champion and try to at least do something with my reign to try to restore the prestige

no ufc title yet ?

​@@khesipresents1885 he's won SO MANY ufc titles to count

+Cellophane Man That's why I wait until the end ... gotta get to the good stuff first!

Wrestling With Wregret hi

Cellophane Man Ikr I've been slowly unsubbing a lot of channels lately for that reason as soon as I'm able I'll support Brian on patreon cuz I don't like to like videos only comments gotta support him somehow.

Lost King i see it the most on pokemon channels. it's like they ask for likes to get another episode tomorrow. I mean they are going to do it anyway so it's wasted speech

Wolfie Raps does that all day everyday

Brian Tioseco I am late but doesn't this means that there was no more winning streak?

Who?

Nintendo Psycho r/whoosh

WCW > WWEkids

They’re doing it again

It's proven fact that WcW is worse. But WcW was ineptitude on top of ineptitude. WWE goes out of it's way to make no d#mn sense.

Wcw 2000 is absolutely worst than modern day wwe, but damn wwe sucks

WCW was fun, current WWE is not.

I keep rewinding the video when that happens

So he can't be Obama?

leave politics out of wrestling, nobody cares

We really don't need any more pro wrestling HOFers running for president

@@aztn19 Who wasn't even a wrestler. I think the celebrity wing of the Hall of Fame is stupid.

Trump supporters are traitors and will be executed as such

DaQuan McClenton I just looked it up because I wasn't sure either, Russo filed a petition against Jim Cornette.

Yup. Jimbo finally got to Vince Russo. After years of Russo challenging Jim to fights, and Jim accepting these challenges, Russo got a restraining order. What a wimp.

I'd say that 95 WWF is a pretty close second. Kevin Nash champion the entire time, the main event of wrestlemania involving a mid carder versus a football player, mable king of the ring, nash vs mable at summer slam, and all the shit gimmicks. 2000 WCW was worse, but 95 almost killed wwf.

No WWE just has old ladies giving birth to hands

Mickael M. Well 2000 DID kill WCW. 95 WWF may have been bad, but you could also see the good that was happening, as well as the fact that 95 was just a very very shitty year for wrestling as a whole really. 2000 wrestling was at its hottest and yet this is the absolute worst of WCW. 95 WWF was bad because the wrestling business as a whole was not doing well at all and no one was drawing. 2000 WCW is a whole different level of bad, not just in front of the cameras but behind the scenes as well.

They gave a title to a 10 year old boy.

BIMMOM Nash

Yeah, he did good job with killing off WCW!

@@Altern8One He meant it as a joke but Russo took him seriously.

@@EHH246 Was it a joke? Was it really?

That title is worthless now.

At least he has more title reigns than 80% of the roster today😂😂😂

^ Nor as much of a travesty in my opinion, but a big one nonerheless

I was more pointing out that it was really only the world title that was booked badly. 11 title changes (9 on TV) with only 3 vacancies (1 injury, 1 during the "reset", and 1 for story). 5 different wrestlers held the US Championship: Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner, Lance Storm, Terry Funk (house show), Gen. Hugh-G-Rection. For the mid-card title, based on changes alone, perfectly acceptable.

This little nugget devalues the World Heavyweight belt even more in my opinion. You gotta draw money somehow, but both of your big titles continue to change hands at a breakneck, confusing speed? Damn.

I am seriously sick of people trashing Roman Reigns, it has been a good year and he has never held the WWE championship and you guys still complain about him. You guys complain about him constantly, but there really is no real reason to hate on Roman Reigns. The only argument I have heard was "well the majority of people don't like him, so we are right", and going by popular opinion is such a clumsy argument. Seriously, you guys complained how cartoony the WWE is so they pushed Roman Reigns, a guy who as good in ring skill, and isn't obnoxious or cartoony, and then you guys complain how "bland" and "generic" he is. If he was stuck in the mid card for this entire time and it was Seth Rollins who was pushed as top face, you guys would be shouting "Screw Seth Rollins he injures too many people, Roman Reigns deserves a push".

...It was a joke, dude. Chill...

Roman Reigns > DammitSinged

Matej Terzić okay...let's recap he won the belt at Survivor Series lost it IMMEDIATELY to Sheamus did not win it until an episode of Raw which was at the end of 2015 or beginning 2016. He held it for a few weeks then lost it in the Royal Rumble to Triple H then won it back at Wrestlemania. Then held it until Money in the Bank lost it to Seth Rollins who immediately lost it to Dean Ambrose haven't touched a world tittle since. Also he lost his first Wrestlemania main event so it's not even like he won all three. So there's a problem with a superstar main eventing three times in a row? When people wanted Daniel Bryan to be in the World tittle picture at Wrestlemania 30 & 31 then got bitter when it didn't happen?

Well the backstage locker room and other individuals in the industry (not some angry teenagers on the internet, but real wrestlers) would disagree with you and say that Roman Reigns does deserve it.

John cena(2007), Batista(2005)

Johnny he is already in think about it

All the way baby!

Macho Mania more like minority

I like Sid

Yes,he used Wrath for Vacants theme

Space case Just like Grim's toy show.

Ddp? Heel? Does not compute

He was, but it does still make sense that costars would be friends IRL.

Russo's mom should have swallowed

BRO, That's a little hawsh bro. Believe it or not bro, my brotha Vic is much worse than me, bro.

Idk, Attitude Era?

Why does that sound like a Jim Cornette line?

Macho Mania - Although, according to Tony, he didn't "pitch" it so much as he mockingly said they should give Arquette the title. Vince claims it was a serious pitch, Tony says he was poking fun at Vince's celebrity studded sensationalist style,

Dylan Ogg Too much like common sense

+toddiwod I'm with you. I mean he has won just about every title from every wrestling promotion out there. Including tag team, women's, and Cruiserweight titles. He's also one of the most legit tough guys in the history of the business. He has won many boxing and MMA titles, in fact he is the current Bellator Heavyweight champion. How is that not Hall of Fame worthy?

Declan Ferguson Way blacker than the Rock.

Well I mean technically Ron Simmons did win it 8 years before Booker. Now allow me to point out that personally I don't believe in "race" the same way most of the world does, but I will use terms like "Black" or "White" for example so my message will be easier to get across. There have been "Black" world champions in promotions all over the country, even the world and some are currently still holding them as I write this. But I think people are most likely talking about the WWE and their lack of booking "100% Black" Superstars to win the WWE Title (R-Truth came the closest like 5 years ago, I think. He did win the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Title though, so I doubt the WWE Title matters that much to him.) Going by societal standards, The Rock is "mixed raced" and is described as "Half-Samoan" due to his mother's cultural background and since humanity still treats "mixing races" like it's a new thing, many will not recognize him as a "Black" world champion, even though his father is clearly of "African" descent. When the World Heavyweight title was owned by the WWE, if you asked any of my friends as children, the World Heavyweight title was their favorite (I liked it, but I preferred the WWE title, given that it was the REAL world title of the promotion.) and we were ecstatic when Booker T won the title, but he did so under that ridiculous "King Booker" gimmick and then Mark Henry won it years later from Randy Orton, he didn't draw as champion, but he was feuding with Randy Orton, so he didn't need to. Now that I'm older, however, I now realize that WWE's version of the title only seemed to matter when a "White" guy was holding it. When Booker and Henry won it, people looked at it as "The OTHER title" or "The B-Show Title", but when guys like, Edge, Cena, Batista (he's technically a "minority"), Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, Jericho, and even another "minority" like Rey Mysterio won the title, it was promoted even more than the WWE title at times. I'm not knocking any of these guys, though. They're all some of my favorite wrestlers, but it seems to be a common theme amongst WWE writers to not book a "Black" Superstar as a main-event star no matter how over they are and whether or not they have that "World champion look", or whatever the reason may be. Same goes for their treatment of Superstars from the UK, India, Arabia, and even Japan before Nakamura and Asuka came along. We've yet to see a "Black" guy with either world title in the current WWE. Big E might be getting a push soon. Hopefully Bobby Lashley or even Ricochet will get a shot at either world title before long. Just my insight here, I'm not speaking for anyone, but maybe the WWE is what people are talking about when complaining about there being no "Black" world champions.

@Critical Gaming Channel THAT'S THE WALL BROTHER!

When ppl say that they mean wee champion they're legit the only major wrestling company in history to nvr crown a black main champion

Wwe champ bro

AdoBlue Vacent sabotaged him at that house show to get the title!

ChubNTuck thank you for posting. Never knew the reference till now.

"Let me tell you something, brother." 🤣🤣

WickedDealer No wonder Hollywood nowadays makes shitty reboots,renakes and pointless sequels and lacking originally. They made stupid movies like The Shitty Emoji Movie.

It was a team effort

He didn't mean it like you think.

That thought also briefly crossed my mind but of course he's referring to the one day reign as world champion lol