"What a brutal assault! This match is now no more than a street brawl! It's all action in the backstage area!" Yes, it looks like they're gonna need WCW Security to break this one up...
Gideon Kibblewhite

Forget World of Sport. Forget Big Daddy. And Kent Walton? Eat your heart out. This is all-in, no-holds-barred wrestling, American-style... and that means you get to rumble not just in the ring, but outside, in the crowd, in the locker rooms and even in the garage. In fact, there are 15 different backstage areas in which to cause chaos in WCW Mayhem, and yes - chairs and baseball bats are provided.

Bedlam reigns from the first bell of the first bout in Mayhem. Whether you're playing the mean and massive Goldberg (pictured on the game's cover) or the mysterious Masked Warrior, or any one of the game's 50 slightly squat-looking WCW wrestlers, you quickly discover that a deft flick of the Circle button sends a forearm smash crunching into your opponent, sending them sprawling to the canvas. At this point, with judicious use of the Triangle and X buttons, you can proceed to stamp, kick and jump on them at will.

By this time you've worked up a sweat, the crowd will have worked its way into a frenzy and the two WCW commentators (Bobby 'The Brain' Henan and 'Mean' Gene Okerland) will be suffering from apoplexy. In other words, it's high time you both left the ring for a spot of musical chairs (Queensbury rules, of course).

Once 'The Brain' is sufficiently outraged by this, you may feel like a jog through the curtains at the rear of the stage so you can kick-off in the media room. Then, having laid into each other with baseball bats, it's time (yawn) to return to the arena to finish your opponent off. The crowd-pleasing 'Boston crab' is a cool enough coup-de-grace, but a pin-fall will bring the house down.