All through wrestling’s historical past, it isn’t unusual for prime brass to throw many issues on the wall to see what sticks. Some gimmicks had been so unhealthy they need to’ve by no means seen the sunshine of day, whereas others by no means even received off the bottom.
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Throughout a current episode of “83 Weeks,” Bischoff mirrored on WCW’s relationship with KISS, and shared an thought for a pay-per-view that might’ve utilized the rock band in a major method.
“We had been going to do a pay-per-view referred to as New 12 months’s Evil,” Bischoff remembered. “We had been going to be part of the Fiesta Bowl weekend and have entry to the sphere, in order that the sphere can be break up on the 50-yard line. Down on this endzone, you bought a WCW ring, on this endzone, you bought a KISS stage. And we had been gonna open up with KISS music and go proper into our first match. And we had been gonna shuttle all night time lengthy.”
Bischoff stated he had a novel thought for the way that proposed pay-per-view would come to a climax, though he admitted on reflection it could’ve been troublesome to execute.
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“It might finish on a 3 depend on the stroke of midnight, East Coast time,” Bischoff stated. “Now, whether or not we’d’ve truly been capable of pull that off, timing-wise, eh, it would’ve gotten slightly too tough… [but] it could’ve been offered in such a approach as not solely the final pay-per-view of the outdated millennium, however ‘Will there even BE a brand new millennium?!’ I imply every kind of silly s*** we had been having enjoyable with.”
KISS did carry out on “Nitro” in August of that yr to assist unveil a brand new KISS-themed wrestler and 1999’s final “Nitro” was in reality promoted as “New 12 months’s Evil,” but it surely didn’t happen on New 12 months’s Eve.
