Halloween Havoc (2000)

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Halloween Havoc (2000)
Promotional poster featuring Sting
Promotion	World Championship Wrestling
Date	October 29, 2000
City	Las Vegas, Nevada
Venue	MGM Grand Garden Arena
Attendance	7,582[1]
Tagline(s)	The future of professional wrestling is here and now...
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous Fall Brawl Next → Millennium Final
Halloween Havoc chronology
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Halloween Havoc (2000) was the twelfth Halloween Havoc professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on October 29, 2000 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. As of 2014 the event is available on the WWE Network.^[2]

Storylines[]

The event featured professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Professional wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.^[3]

Event[]

The opening match of the show was a three-way dance for the WCW World Tag Team Championship. This match saw the champions The Natural Born Thrillers (Mark Jindrak and Sean O'Haire) defeated The Filthy Animals (Billy Kidman and Rey Misterio, Jr.) (with Konnan) and The Boogie Knights (Disqo and Alex Wright). Mysterio hit the springboard legdrop on Inferno, which enabled O’Haire to hit a Swanton on Inferno and pick up the pinfall victory.

The second match was for the WCW Hardcore Championship. This match saw Reno defeat Sgt. AWOL to retain the title. Reno hit the Roll of the Dice onto the announce table to pick up the victory. Following the match, Reno continued his assault. As the fighting moved to the backstage area, The Misfits In Action (Lt. Loco and Cpl. Cajun) and The Perfect Event (Shawn Stasiak and Chuck Palumbo) both got involved. This led to an impromptu match that saw The Misfits In Action defeat The Perfect Event after Loco hit a Tornado DDT on Palumbo.

The next match was scheduled to be a mixed tag-team match between The Filthy Animals (Konnan and Tygress) and Shane Douglas and Torrie Wilson. Before the match, Douglas came out and challenged Tygress to come out alone due to the shape Konnan would be in following his match earlier in the evening. Although she first did come out alone, Konnan eventually came out and hit a double facebuster on Douglas to pick up the victory.

The following match was a First Blood DNA match between David Flair and Buff Bagwell. Flair, on his way to the ring, brought a DNA testing kit with him which he left on the announcer’s table. Bagwell picked up the victory after hitting a Buff Blockbuster followed by a chair shot on Flair. After the match, Lex Luger made his surprise return after 5 months away. Luger appeared to be coming out to help Bagwell, however he then turned his back on him by pushing him into the ring post, causing him to bleed from the mouth. Flair grabbed his DNA kit and used it to collect blood from Bagwell.

The next match saw the WCW Cruiserweight Champion Mike Sanders face off against WCW Commissioner Ernest Miller in a non-title kickboxing match. Following the second round, Shane Douglas appeared at ringside which led to Miller fighting with him. While the two fought on the outside of the ring, Miller lost the match via countout. Sanders thus became the new commissioner of WCW.

Prior to the next match, Vampiro came to the ring and challenged Mike Awesome to put his WCW World Heavyweight Championship title match the next night on Nitro on the line during the match. Their match became a "falls count anywhere" match, despite the stipulation never being announced. Awesome picked up the victory following a powerbomb to Vampiro to retain his title shot the next night.

During the next match, Lance Storm defended his WCW United States Heavyweight Championship in a handicap match, which saw him team with Jim Duggan to take on Gen. Rection. Major Gunns, who came to the ring with Storm, distracted Storm while Rection hit the No Laughing Matter on Duggan to pick up the victory and the title, while reuniting with his former manager Gunns, as she gained her freedom from Team Canada.

In the next match Jeff Jarrett defeated Sting. While Sting made his way to the ring, a man dressed as Sting from early in his career attacked him, however Sting was able to hit the Scorpion Death Drop on him. Following this, another Sting dressed in his early 1990s look attacked him, followed by one dressed the way he did as part of the nWo Wolfpac. Toward the end of the match, while Sting had Jarrett in the Scorpion Deathlock, a Crow-era Sting came through the ring mat and pulled Sting back under with him. After Sting was able to escape, he went for the Scorpion Death Drop on Jarrett, however before he could the lights went out and another Crow Sting came from the rafters, who the real Sting hit a Scorpion Death Drop on through the announce table. Following this, another fake Sting broke a guitar over Sting’s head, followed by Jarrett breaking one over Sting’s head, enabling Jarrett to pick up the pinfall victory.

The second-to-last match of the evening was for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. The champion Booker T retained his title against Scott Steiner, after Steiner was disqualified for attacking Booker T with a lead pipe.

The final match of the evening was a no disqualification handicap elimination match between Goldberg and KroniK (Brian Adams and Bryan Clark), under the stipulation that if Goldberg lost, he would be forced to leave WCW for good. Adams came to the ring and claimed that Goldberg had not been cleared to wrestle and that the match would not take place. However, footage was then shown of Goldberg backstage receiving confirmation that he was cleared to wrestle against KroniK. Goldberg first eliminated Clark following a spear through a table which was propped upward in the corner of the ring. Goldberg then eliminated Adams after hitting a spear and a jackhammer to pick up the victory.

Results[]

Aftermath[]

Booker T continued to feud with Scott Steiner during the entire month of November, and successfully defended the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Steiner at Millennium Final. Steiner defeated Booker T to win the championship in a straitjacket steel cage match at Mayhem, and would remain champion until the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro on March 26, 2001, when he lost the championship to Booker T (who held the United States Heavyweight Championship) in a winner-take-all match.^[6]

Halloween Havoc 2000 was the final Halloween Havoc event produced by WCW, until the event was revived by WWE in 2020 as a special episode of NXT.^[7]

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