[1993-10-02-WCW-Saturday Night] Amateur Challenge

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Fans send in tapes of themselves cutting wrestling promos. Kentucky Thunder shows up along with some guy in a suit calling himself The Sandman!

[Kevin Ridge]

This set wrestling back 30 years.

[PeteF3]

Some hugely fat guy making fun of the phrase "Let me tell ya somethin'," Kentucky Thunder in a Mr. Wrestling II mask, and a black guy in a suit calling himself the Sandman.

 

"Confident or crazy? It can only be the WCW Amateur Challenge!" Clearly their intention was to show their audience as being the biggest idiots possible, which is a great thing to sell to advertisers. I mean, they were literally TRYING to insult people with this.

[ajtroma]

Truthfully, I just figured they were trying to get a cheap supply of easily blankable VHS tapes for future home video releases.

[garretta]

Am I the only person on the planet who was actually not put off by these?

 

I thought the first one was the best of the bunch, because I hate ​the phrase "Let me tell you something". What do you think you're out there to do, dumbass? Give a weather report? Read stock market quotes? It's a tic that guys use when they're trying not to go up on their lines, same as the overuse of "punk", "brother", "daddy", and every other nonsense nickname that wrestlers give each other.

 

The other two at least showed some energy, which the "professional" workers don't always manage in this day and age. I don't think either one of them had any desire to wrestle or do anything more than what we saw, but at least they look like they had fun. Are we bound to see some bad clips while this contest is running? Of course. But let's not condemn them all just because WCW dared to commit the unpardonable sin of giving their loyal fans a chance to show off and get on TV.

[soup23]

I don't think this is the worst concept on the white board in the office but it does lead to a lot of the stereotypes that people have from wrestling fans. The big guy was my favorite of the bunch.