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** As an added bonus: on that same show, Tony Schiavone launched a [[Take That]] at [[Mick Foley|Mick "Mankind" Foley]] and the WWF, revealing that he was going to win the WWF Championship and sarcastically proclaiming "that'll put some butts in seats". Hundreds of thousands of fans immediately switched over to ''[[WWE Raw|Raw]]''; throughout the next few months, signs showed up on ''Raw'' that said "[[Mick Foley]] put my ass in this seat". In Schiavone's defense, he was ordered to say it by Bischoff despite not wanting to.
* The famous attempt to play [[Booker T]] and his brother Stevie Ray as what appeared to be '''slaves''' (they were called "The Posse" and supposed to be convicts). Stevie was to be called "Kole" and Booker was to be called "Kane". This was tried at a house show and met with such vehemence that it never made it to TV, as the image of two black men in shackles led to the ring by Col. Rob Parker (a rich white Southerner) [[Unfortunate Implications|raised way too many red flags]]. Booker and Stevie did initially come out as Kane and Kole, just not with the slave gimmick.
* The infamous "Drunk [[Scott Hall]]" angle from 1998 is seen as this by many [[Harsher in Hindsight|now]], with no help whatsoever from [[Real Life Writes the Plot|Real Life Writing The Plot]]. Lowlights included Hall collapsing and stumbling around the ring (often while slurring promos), some very awkward "acting" from other wrestlers (especially [[Kevin Nash]]) and, of course, Hall "vomiting" on Eric Bischoff. Hall's ex-wife went so far as to write [https://web.archive.org/web/20120306065037/http://www.fortunecity.com/olympia/wolfpac/107/hall.html an open letter] on the subject, which says ''something'' regardless of Hall's more recent problems.
* It seems ironic that WCW tried to regain the lead in the [[Monday Night Wars]] through one man whom WWE had reused earlier with limited success, The [[Ultimate Warrior]]. Warrior's stint in WCW did not go well, from a needlessly long and confusing introduction dashed with various motifs blatantly stolen from ''Batman'' to his lacking in-ring skills, fans were treated to a show that was goofier than ever. The climax was a notoriously bad match between Warrior and [[Hulk Hogan]] at ''Halloween Havoc 1998'', which Hogan won after a cheap run-in. Just to make things that little bit worse, Warrior had a number of perks and high pay hardly matching his lax workload in his contract. Also of note is that Davey Boy Smith badly injured himself on a trap door that Warrior used to enter the ring and was later fired via Fed Ex.
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