Sid Vicious Vs. Kevin Nash Might Be The Most Confusing WCW Storyline Ever

At Souled Out 2000, Chris Benoit won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. A solid choice if not for the fact that Benoit had no intentions of staying in WCW. When Benoit left the company the WCW Commissioner Kevin Nash decided to vacate the WCW Title. Thus starting one of the strangest weeklong stories in all of WCW.

That week WCW Thunder would end up having three separate WCW World Heavyweight Championship reigns in one show, Sid Vicious would start the show as champion, end the show as champion and Kevin Nash would somehow become champion somewhere in the middle (without having a match). But the story doesn’t start there.

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Sid Vicious Wins The WCW Heavyweight Title On Nitro

That week of WCW programming would start on Monday Nitro, and the WCW Commissioner at the time, who just so happened to be Kevin Nash, declared that a new WCW World Heavyweight Champion would be crowned on Nitro. Kevin Nash was the real life booker of WCW during this time, as well as the on-air authority figure so unsurprisingly, Kevin Nash would himself in the title match. Of course he would, it’s almost like having an active wrestler as booker is a simply terrible idea.

Kevin Nash’s opponent that night would be Sid Vicious, but only if Sid Vicious could defeat Don Harris earlier in the night. If you don’t recall, Don Harris was a member of the Harris Brothers with his brother Ron Harris, identical twins who would work as cronies for the NWO 2000, the millionth iteration of the NWO. Why exactly the Harris Brothers of all people were gatekeepers for a World Championship match is anybody’s guess.

Of course, Sid Vicious did defeat Don Harris, not Ron Harris, and later that night would go on to defeat Kevin Nash to become the WCW World Heavyweight Champion. It was silly, but at least a babyface won, he outsmarted the evil bad guys and sent the fans home happy. An absolute win.

WCW could get much worse than this.

And it would.

Kevin Nash Throws A Swerve On WCW Thunder

Two night later on WCW Thunder, Kevin Nash would furiously strip Sid Vicious of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Nash would claim that Sid Vicious defeated the wrong Harris Brother on Nitro, he claimed Sid beat Ron Harris not Don Harris as the twins switched places during a commercial break. Therefore Sid’s win over Don Harris and Kevin Nash that night was null and void, and the WCW World Heavyweight title was now vacant.

Kevin Nash would then award himself the WCW World Heavyweight Championship…

So… Why didn’t he just do that in the first place?

Why put Sid Vicious (and all of us) through this charade? Why not just keep your title, Kevin Nash? Why didn’t you just never book yourself in a title match ever again? You have the power, Kevin Nash, why do you keep putting yourself in positions to lose your title?!

Well, that is exactly what Nash would do later that night on Thunder, as Kevin Nash would announce his first title defense would be a Handicap Steel Cage match where he would team with the correct Harris Brother, Don Harris, against Sid Vicious. If nothing else, Kevin Nash was at least funny in this promo, he clearly didn’t care which Harris Brother was which, differentiating them only as “the one with the tie” and “the one without the tie.”

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At the end of the night, the Handicap Steel Cage match would happen and Sid Vicious would win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship again…

The Aftermath

So, what exactly was the point of all this? Was it just a cheap way for Kevin Nash to bump up his number of title reigns? Not only is each reign ridiculous because of their short time, it’s ridiculous because Kevin Nash and several other wrestlers were legitimately allowed to book their own matches and angles, leaving us with nonsensical storylines like this one.

Or maybe Kevin Nash thought this was genuinely good TV, or least thought it was good enough to waste time for another week of WCW?

So Sid Vicious came through this ridiculous week as WCW World Heavyweight Champion. What would he do next? Well, very little. Not long after this Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo would make their grand return to WCW, strip every champion in WCW of their title, and declare a new era of WCW.