Sin was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on January 14, 2001, from the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. Sin replaced WCW's January PPV event, Souled Out, which was held from 1997 to 2000.
The main event was for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship between Scott Steiner, Sid Vicious, Jeff Jarrett, and a mystery man that turned out to be Animal in a Four Corners match. The WCW champion heading into Sin was Scott Steiner, who retained the title after pinning Sid Vicious, who had fractured his leg after attempting an aerial attack. The main match on the undercard was between Totally Buff (Lex Luger and Buff Bagwell) and Goldberg and DeWayne Bruce, in a match where if Goldberg lost, he would be (kayfabe) forced to leave WCW. Totally Buff won the match when Lex Luger pinned Goldberg after a Buff Blockbuster from Bagwell with Goldberg on Luger's shoulders. As a result, Goldberg was forced to leave WCW. The rights to WCW Sin have belonged to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; now WWE) since March 2001.
In 2014, all WCW pay-per-views were made available on the WWE Network.
Storylines
The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
The main feud heading into Sin, was between Scott Steiner and Sid Vicious. This feud began in November, when Vicious made his return to WCW after a 5-month absence. The feud began the weeks prior to Starrcade, when Vicious was announced as the number one contender for Steiner's WCW World Heavyweight Championship. In the main event at Starrcade, Steiner would retain his WCW World title against Vicious. However, Vicious managed to earn another championship match against Steiner at Sin, in a Four Corners match pitting himself against Steiner, Jeff Jarrett, and a mystery fourth man. On the edition of January 10 of Thunder Vicious defeated Steiner by disqualification, in a match contested for the WCW World title, thus Steiner retaining.
The secondary feud heading in to Sin, was between Goldberg and the team of Totally Buffed (Lex Luger and Buff Bagwell), and was intertwined with a feud between Goldberg and Vince Russo, who was no longer working for the company at this point. On the September 25, 2000 edition of Nitro, Goldberg inadvertently allowed Russo to become WCW World Heavyweight Champion when he speared Russo through a steel cage during his match with then-champion Booker T. Russo, as punishment, issued an ultimatum to Goldberg. In order to keep his job with WCW, he would have to duplicate his legendary undefeated streak from when he first joined the company back in 1997. If he was able to do so he would receive a shot at the world title, but any loss would result in his immediate termination. At Mayhem in November 2000, Goldberg faced and defeated Luger with his Jackhammer finisher despite Luger shoving the referee into the path of a Goldberg spear to try and get him disqualified. The two men had a rematch at Starrcade in December, where Goldberg won again despite interference from Bagwell on Luger's behalf. Bagwell then attacked Goldberg postmatch, turning on the fans and joining up with the villainous Luger with whom he had just recently been feuding. Shortly after forming the team, Totally Buffed made another effort to force Goldberg into retirement. DeWayne Bruce, a lower-card wrestler who became one of the trainers at WCW's Power Plant wrestling school, stepped up to assist his student Goldberg and both sides agreed to a tag team match at Sin.
Event
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|Tony Schiavone
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|Scott Hudson
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|Gene Okerlund
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|Mike Tenay
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|Mark Johnson
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150px|thumb|right|Chavo Guerrero Jr., who defended the [[WWE Cruiserweight Championship (1991–2007)|WCW Cruiserweight Championship at Sin]]
The first match that aired was between Chavo Guerrero Jr. and Shane Helms for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship. A back and forth match between the two, as Helms would try to execute the "Nightmare on Helms Street" on Guerrero, while Guerrero would try to execute his brainbuster. After two consecutive reversals, Guerrero would successfully execute the brainbuster on Helms then covering him for the successful pinfall, thus retaining the WCW Cruiserweight Championship. Then Gene Okerlund interviewed The Mamalukes, followed by Reno and Big Vito discussing their match and how everything would be "finished once and for all". The second match was between Reno and Big Vito. The match began in a brawl, leading to Big Vito in control. Reno attempted to hit his "Roll the Dice" on Vito, but was countered, leading to a successful second attempt where then after, Reno covered Big Vito for the victory. After the match, Knoble and Karagias assault the Jung Dragons.
The fourth match was between Ernest Miller and WCW Commissioner Mike Sanders, in a match where the WCW Commissionership and Ms. Jones' managing services were on the line.
The ninth match, and the main match on the undercard, was between Totally Buffed (Lex Luger and Buff Bagwell) and Goldberg with DeWayne Bruce in a No Disqualification tag-team match, where if Goldberg lost, he would be (kayfabe) forced to leave WCW.
The main event was between Sid Vicious, Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner, and a "mystery opponent" for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in a Four Corners match. The footage of the injury was edited out of the WWE Network version of the event. Towards the end of the match, then-WCW CEO Flair announced the arrival of the "mystery opponent", who came out wearing a mask, hiding his identity.