WCW Bash at the Beach (2000 TV Special) User Reviews

Five Stars Mainly For Hogan Telling It As It Is

[jeremycrimsonfox · 5/10 · 2 April 2020]

This is the final Bash At The Beach Before WCW was sold to WWE. Starting with a WCW Cruiserweight Championship match between Lieutenant Loco (better known as Chavo Guerrero) and Juventud Guerrera, the card is basically horrible, especially when one of the matches is a Wedding Gown Match (seriously, who thought that was a good idea? David Flair interfered, and one of the wrestlers even goes as far as to rip the pants off the referee, with the other ripping David's off, all in all, a lame attempt to try and rip off WWE's bra and panties match gimmick).

The other gimmick match, a Graveyard match between Vampiro and The Demon (you know, that KISS-themed wrestler), which actually takes place in a graveyard, with the winner being the one who returns to the ring. A good gimmick that is exciting, with the only complaint being it does not fit well with the theme of the pay-per-view (I see it fitting in better with Halloween Havoc). However, the best thing about it is Hulk Hogan. Set to face Jeff Jarrett in a match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, Russo told Jarrett to lie down for Hogan to pin him. This would mark Hogan's final WCW appearance, as Vince would later do a shoot saying Hogan was fired and exposing his backstage politics (but not before Hogan, who was not happy with Russo's shenanigans, telling the guy that this sort of thing was the reason WCW is failing as a business (which he is right, as it would go out of business and be sold to WWE eight months later). After the shoot, the match would change to have Jeff Jarrett defend the title (which is a new belt) against Booker T. This PPV basically proves how damaged beyond repair WCW has become, that even Hogan got fed up/

Last match saved it

[amanwhorocks · 6/10 · 17 February 2015]

1. WCW Cruiserweight Title Match: Juventud Guerrera Vs. Champ-Lt. Loco - Clean victory by Lt. Loco 7/10

2. WCW Hardcore Title Match: Champ-Big Vito Vs. Norman Smiley/Ralphus - Basic brawl with things. Ralphus lost. 5.5/10

3. Wedding Gown Match: Miss Hancock Vs. Daphney - Totally waste of time. David Flair still interrupted that, and finally Hancock made herself loose. Sh*tty thing. 4/10

4. WCW World Tag Team Title Championship: Champs-The Perfect Event Vs. Kronic - Weird match: heels could clean the house? Kronic did 2 finishers to both guys and they finally got pin after clothesline from turnbuckle?? It looked unrehearsed. But they won belts. 7/10

5. Positively Kanyon Vs. Booker T. - Yeah Kanyon got PPV victory in a single match!!! Over next WCW champ in a good match. 8.5/10

6. WCW U.S. Championship: Champ-Scott Steiner Vs. Mike Awesome - Awful. Steiner couldn't did a job, even to Mike Awesome. He only can be stripped of the title, like years before. hate this kind of idiots. 4.5/10

7. Graveyard Match: The Demon Vs. Vampiro - You know, that shi* was kinda entertaining :) Vampiro won, I guess. 6/10

8. Buff Bagwell Vs. Shane Douglas - Ordinary bout. Bagwell lost, what's good 6/10

9. WCW World Heavyweight Title Match: Champ-Jeff Jarrett Vs. Hulk Hogan - You know that story about shoot/work cuz of Hogan's creative power clausule. I make it short: Jarrett laid, Hogan took belt. 2/10

10. Goldberg Vs. Kevin Nash - I like when that greatest politician Nash jobbed to Goldberg. But the match was short and sucked. Nothing special when you got Big Lazy in. 5/10

11. WCW World Heavyweight Title Match: Champ-Jeff Jarrett Vs. Booker T. - Great final. Match that does worth for it, Booker's 1st reign.. 9/10

Just bad

[mwcanadian · 3/10 · 19 May 2022]

1) WCW World Cruiserweight Title Match Lt. Loco (w/Corporal Cajun, General Rection, Major Gunns & Major Stash) (c) defeats Juventud Guerrera (w/Disco Inferno, Konnan, Rey Mysterio Jr. & Tygress): just a garbage match, it had potential, but pointless run ins destroyed it. 2 stars thanks to run ins

2) WCW Hardcore Title Match Big Vito (c) defeats Norman Smiley and Ralphus It was good for some comedy, but that was it. It's not a classic match. 3 stars for comedy only

3) Wedding Gown Match Daffney defeats Miss Hancock (w/David Flair): Awful, awful, awful!!! The only good thing is seeing Hancock strip, but if you watch wrestling for wrestling, this was awful. 0 stars!!!

4) WCW World Tag Team Title Match KroniK (Brian Adams & Bryan Clarke) defeat The Perfect Event (Chuck Palumbo & Shawn Stasiak); The match wasn't good, but the title change at least helped it, still Kronik comes off as a fake APA, Perfect Event is too green..,2 stars

5)Singles Match Positively Kanyon defeats Booker T: Match ending made NO sense at the time!! Why is Jarrett in this?? Why is DDK winning this? He's a comedy character. Good match, bad ending hurt, 3 stars

6) WCW United States Heavyweight Title Match Mike Awesome defeats Scott Steiner (w/Midajah) (c) by DQ Match ending made Scott Steiner looked like a moron, but at least the belt is off Steiner who needed to be in the main event picture at that time instead of having the US title. After this the belt goes to the best US Champion in 2000; 3 stars

7) Graveyard Match Vampiro defeats The Demon (w/Asya) This is pathetic and not even a match!!! It was complete garbage. 0 stars

8) Singles Match The Franchise defeats Buff Bagwell A very eh match and an odd run in that was confusing. 2 stars because of that

9) WCW World Heavyweight Title Match Hulk Hogan defeats Jeff Jarrett (c) Not a match, just a dumb segment. It leads to a promo from Hogan and Russo. No one knows to this day the true story since it seems all parties involved either forgot what happened or lied...not ranking this one

10 Singles Match Goldberg defeats Kevin Nash (for Scott Hall's contract): Another match with a run in, Russo seems to love run ins doesn't he?? The match is between Nash and Goldberg so of course it's not a great in ring wrestling match...2 stars

WCW World Heavyweight Title Match Booker T defeats Jeff Jarrett (c) TITLE CHANGE !!! Match wise this is a great 4 star match, my issue with it is how it was written. Why is Booker T number one contender now?? How did that happen?? He just lost earlier to comedy character Kanyon who's mocking DDP. So story wise this makes NO sense, but Booker T deserved the belt at the time so great...4 stars for the match, 1 star for story...so 3 stars.

Overall, this show was bad and clearly written by a guy who isn't much of a great monthly storyteller considering how Booker became champion basically overnight instead of pushing him to the title over the month. Put it like this in todays terms. It would be like WWE having Roman go into the PPV laying down for Cena then keeping the belt and losing to Riddle later that night. Sure he would be a good wwe champion, but it's best to book them over a month and not hot shot it. That's what WCW did here. So hot of 10, I give it a 3.