>>17095604When they brought in Vince Russo in October 1999 and let him do whatever he wanted without filter, I should have known WCW would never recover. But I held out hope. Seeing Jeff Jarrett as WCW World Heavyweight champion was another big moment that made WCW seem small time. David Arquette was clearly just an angle, as stupid as it was. But Jarrett was nothing more than a midcard wrestler who jobbed to a woman. Seeing him go over DDP at Spring Stampede was a WTF moment. And this was supposed to be the "reboot," so it was meant to signal a new direction. And then the clencher a few months later was at Bash at the Beach 2000, specifically how the Hogan/Jarrett angle played out, and Russo going into business for himself. It really cemented the perception of WCW as a small-time promotion that had no chance of clawing its way back to the mainstream relevance it had just two years prior.
