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DAVID FREAKING ARQUETTE WINS THE WCW TITLE
In 2000, after filming the
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) produced movie
Ready to Rumble, Arquette was brought into WCW
storylines. He made his first appearance on the April 12 episode of
Thunder, first sitting in the crowd then leaping into the ring to take part in a
worked confrontation with
Eric Bischoff and his
New Blood stable.
[10] Afterwards he was placed into an alliance with
Chris Kanyon and the reigning
World Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page, and with their help defeated Bischoff in a singles match in the April 24 episode of
WCW Monday Nitro.
[11] On the following
Thunder (April 26), Arquette
teamed with Page in a match against Bischoff and
Jeff Jarrett with the stipulation that whichever man got the pin would take the championship. Arquette pinned Bischoff again in the match's finish, receiving the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in the process.
[12]
During his time as champion, Arquette was mostly used as
comic relief. He only appeared on two shows as champion, the May 1
Nitro and May 7
Slamboree pay-per-view. During the former, a
vignette was shown, filmed on the set of Arquette's film
3000 Miles to Graceland, which also featured his wife, Courteney Cox, and their co-star,
Kurt Russell. In the vignette, Courtney informs Russell that Arquette is the WCW Champion, causing Russell to laugh and walk off and Arquette to chase after him with a
steel chair. In another portion of the show he's seen backstage wetting himself in fear and attempting to "give back" the belt. He did, however, successfully defend the belt against
Tank Abbott with help from Diamond Dallas Page.
[13]
He held the championship until the May 7
Slamboree pay-per-view. During the show he was booked to defend the championship again Jarrett and Page in a
Triple Cage--the same match featured in the climax of
Ready to Rumble--and ended up
turning on Page in the end, giving the victory to Jarrett.
[14] He made one final WCW appearance after Slamboree, cutting a
promo on the May 8
Nitro explaining that his entire friendship with Page and title run was a "
swerve," prompting Page to run to the ring and deliver a
Diamond Cutter to him.
[15]
In 2002, Arquette made one more appearance on a professional wrestling show, popping up in the crowd of the
February 8,
2002 episode of the
World Wrestling Federation's
SmackDown! holding up a sign reading "Former WCW World Champ."
[16]
After World Wrestling Entertainment purchased WCW, Arquette's championship run was listed as the top reason for the "failure" of
Nitro in a WWE Magazine list.
[17]