I’m a huge WCW fan and stuck with them right til the end, one of things that had potential in 2001 was the new cruiserweights with AJ styles, Elix Skipper, Shane helms the Jung Dragons etc along with Kidman & Rey Jr, the new division could’ve been great with the introduction of the short lived cruiser tag belts also, nobody did the cruiser/light heavyweights better than WCW ✌️
James smith yeah I totally agree I loved that they introduced the tag belts it had potential, would’ve been interesting to see if it continued in the Bischoff buyout of WCW, could’ve had Jerry Lynn, Amazing Red, low ki , Christopher Daniels etc all feature in the tag division at that time but we shall never know 👍
@@weRUNdat308 if they could have fazed out all the old guys and hired real bookers because they had a lot of good young talent that was starting to get shine in the dying days of WCW. There is a video on RUclips but can't remember the channel but it talks about what Bishoff had planned for the first PPV if he would have been able to buy WCW
Bats 1986 honestly you’re the only person I’ve ever heard say they stuck with WCW until the end. Not criticizing I think it’s great someone actually admits it since most people jumped ship during the buy out and claimed WWF/WWE allegiance the whole time. Either way it was a great time to be a fan and it hasn’t been the same since.
@@coolguy5412 That's how I first found out he had a run with the company. Mark Madden also mentioned him in one of his Wrestle Zone columns and his abysmal Nitro match against Rick Steiner featured on the Best of Nitro Volume 3 for some reason.
10 wrestlers you FORGOT wrestled in WCW ... Nobody has forgotten that Taker worked for WCW for 5 minutes. They're talking about lesser names. "Undertaker worked for WCW once" is like saying "sting worked for WCW once" ... Everyone knows and remembers.
@@its_classy the only people who dont know are people who have never given a shit about wrestling. Those of us who currently do watch, or did watch once, all know that undertaker jumped from WCW to WWF at the end of the 80s.
Yeah he didnt want to move to ohio to join ovw, which would mean his new wife would have to move back in with her parents while she finished college. AJ seems like a top notch guy
How can I forget that Jake the Snake was in WCW? Who can forget the masterpiece that is spoken only in shadows that we know as Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal? "Sting, I knew you'd come"
I knew about Davey Boy Smith's 1st WCW run when I was messing around in a Suncoast Motion Picture Company store in the mid-1990s. I never forgot, either! That makes 2 of us. LOL
@@marcus813 if I'm being honest I only knew that Davey boy Smith was in WCW because of his career threatening injury there caused by an angle they were doing with the ultimate warrior at the time
I even knew about Ahmed Johnson because wrestling RUclipsrs keep making jokes about how Booker and him fought about who got to use the letter T in their name lol
I've read similar comments they're all speculation even if Owen had stayed in WCW Vince would have still bought WCW anyway and he may or may not have repackaged Owen all we do know is that we lost a great wrestler that fateful night and in closing may Owen and all the wrestlers and wrestling personalities we've lost , love them or hate them , rest well .
@@robertclark2253 there's true to that, but you to have to keep in mind that Vince only bought WCW in 2001 therefore the equipment would be of better quality and the WWE was entering the ruthless aggression era, so it's unlikely that he would be repackaged as blue blazer.
Again speculation there's no way of telling what might happen in life which is not scripted he MIGHT be alive today if events at the Kemper hadn't gone down then again he MIGHT NOT remember anything can happen in life just as it can in WWE remember life is not scripted .
It still would be had the morons at TimeWarner not made the single biggest mistake in the history of the industry. They didn't think wrestling in general was good enough to be on TNT or TBS. Fast-forward to 2019 and what happens? Warner backflips spectacularly and puts AEW on TNT, thus admitting they were totally wrong to take WCW off the very same channel in the first place.
"Cruiserweight Tag Division. That was actually a thing." Yes, it was a thing. A GOOD thing. WCW had over 20 cruiserweights on the roster. Most people remember these. AJ Styles may surprise some since he only had 4 matches. Bruno Sammartino and Owen Hart may also be surprising to some. I thought this list may have been more rare ones like Kid Kash (Cash), RVD (Robbie V), Raven's first run (Scotty Flamingo), EZ Money (Jason B/Jett), Jerry Lynn (Mr. JL) and Paul London.
THAT Thedore Long? Did he try to make every match a "6 man tag team match playa?" Or did he try to make someone go "one on one with Mean Mark Callous"?
I actually remembered most of these... I think it was just IRS, Styles, Samartino, and Roberts that I didn't know about. In fact, the first few on the list, I remembered very well.
@bucky468 Seems he was a lower midcarder the entire time so didn't really have any real prominence. Guys that WCW weren't pushing during the Monday Night Wars easily got lost in the shuffle and forgotten.
@@reygordo Captain Mike was a bad ass, Varsity Club was the most underrated faction in wrestling. The 88-89 unit would destroy every other faction in wrestling history.
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Because not everyone is an aging grape that was 30 years old in the 90s. I know people have been isolating, but get this... there are other people of different ages out there! Get off your high horse 😆
Wcw had a great timeline from '89-'94 and we saw tons of top talent come through wcw then HHH Raven Hall and Nash Owen Hart Shane Douglas rvd 2cold Scorpio besides the legends like bulldog Austin Pillman Foley and this is a really underrated time in wrestling as it was great and you can watch most episodes of wcw Saturday night on RUclips
James smith Owen was in WCW as a singles wrestler in late 1991 to early 1992 Anvil came into WCW after the Survivor Series fiasco in late 1997 along with Davey Boy Smith .
Maybe but at the same time like many 8f the best talent wcw had eg Austin, y2j, Eddie, benoit etc... they wouldn't know how to use him right I think he would ended back at wwe/wwf at some point not that I think wwe used him right he was soo talented he could of been more but I do think they used him better than wcw could of
@@chrisrd86 Austin learned how to wrestle in WCW and is a former multiple time WCW US champ. The US title was the first major championship Austin ever held, which is probably why the WWE have kept the title around to this day (it's the only former WCW championship still active in 2023). Austin just hadn't developed his own skills as a character by that point, which is something he later did while in ECW long before he got to the WWF. Jericho's best work was while he was in WCW and it's where he developed his character. Same with Eddie and unfortunately the wife beating murderer. WCW used them all perfectly well. None of these wrestlers were developed by WWE.
Actually bounced bounced back and forth between WWF , WCW and the independent leagues between 1998 and 2001 well remembered about the neck injury though have a like.
It still would be had the morons at TimeWarner not made the single biggest mistake in the history of the industry. They didn't think wrestling in general was good enough to be on TNT or TBS. Fast-forward to 2019 and what happens? Warner backflips spectacularly and puts AEW on TNT, thus admitting they were totally wrong to take WCW off the very same channel in the first place.
I knew all of these things cuz I’m a wrestling nerd but I didn’t know entry 2 had televised matches. I thought it was just dark matches but I’m shocked about him and Ricky Morton tagged. That’s amazing
James Storm and Chris Harris appeared several times in WCW in 2000 as security for Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo during New Blood storyline, long before they became America's Most Wanted.
If Owen stays with WCW, that might’ve saved his life. WWE didn’t know what to do with good in ring workers in the Attitude Era, so they slapped a gimmick on him, and we know what happened next
ricky sanchez Blazer was initially before the attitude era yes, but it was brought back in the era. Owen died in 1999. This was the same year Jericho kidnapped and tortured Chyna. This was a year before Mae young’s hand. He died while The Godfather had hos. Owen definitely passed during the Attitude era.
@@jaronhaynes3763 Your right. I completely forgot. I remember the episode of raw that announced Owen's death. For me at the time I was 15. That was 17 years ago. I don't know why I thought he died in the new generation era. 😓 I also forgot about that Chyna Jericho angle. LOL!!! Here's a like!!
@@jaronhaynes3763 It was the best thing on TV, even had video games and full length movies beat! It's a shame anyone can't buy DVDs of each episode of any generation. I missed the creation of DX somewhere in the new generation era. Really wish I could have seen it step by step, as well as everything they ever did promo wise... I was a big DX fan during the attitude era.
Sad thing about Owen was he died just a few months before Benoit, Angle, Eddie, Jericho and Dean Malenko all went to the WWE. He would have had amazing matches with all of them.
The reality is that the WWE formally known as WWF was built from talents they stole from other promotions. Hulk Hogan, Sott Hall, Ric Flair, The Legion of Doom, Mark Calloway (aka Undertaker), HHH, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Jericho, HBK, Nash, Goldberg, Big Show, Andre the Giant, Mr PErfect, Rick Rude, Steamboat, The Dudley's and many more were all talents that the WWE stole from other promotions. Yet, MARKS will bash companies for using WWE talents, but so easily forgive and forget that the WWE was built from stealing talents from other promotions. WWE rarely developed their own mega stars. Cena, Rock and Lesnar are the few.
Davey Boy Smith in WCW 1993 was a big deal here in the UK - it got people tuning in to Saturday afternoon on ITV once more and alerted the tabloids to WCW's existence. Sting and Davey vs Vader & Sid was THE big pushed WCW feud of 1993.
I do remember all but two working in tWCW,I really don't remember Owen Hart and Bruno Sanmartino being in the WCW. This was either because I was in the hospital having back surgery and recoverying or I was busy with my life that I didn't get to watch much of any wrestling.
Okay, I’ll give you credit. There was 1 wrestler on the list I didn’t know worked for WCW but that’s because I was just starting to watch WCW when Owen Hart debuted.
Das Wunderkind going over Hunter is so perfect. Exactly the kind of jobbing that Paul so richly deserves. Then he left for WWF so he could job out his dignity and let daddy-in-law pin him for the world title.
VK Wallstreet was a revival of Mike Rotunda's "Michael Wallstreet" character from 1990. Michael Wallstreet was mainly famous for (1) putting Mike in a shirt and tie BEFORE Irwin (2) introducing the world to Alexandra York (Terri "Marlena" Boatright-Runnells) laptop-tapping future mistress of the York Foundation whose bodyguard Mr Hughes went onto be enforcer for World champion Lex Luger and his manger Harley Race.
Kane wrestled in Smokey Mountain Wrestling and USWA and WWF/E although a former WCW tag team champion that was part of year long "Invasion" angle after the WWF bought WCW .
For the comparison of Bruno going to WCW you should of said it would of been like Shawn Michaels going to WCW . He never sold out like Higan, Flair or Brett. Even Sting eventually took that WWE money, Aside from getting fired the first time with The Rockers , he stayed true to the Fed. Him and The Deadman.
Mike Shaw : Trucker Norm /Norman the lunatic WCW 1989 -91 , Bastion Booger WWF 1993-94 . Terry Taylor : Red Rooster WWF 1988-90 Terry Taylor/Terence Taylor/Taylor Made Man WCW 1990-92 , Terrific Terry Taylor WWF 1993-94 .
Jaque Rogeau was in a tag team with his brother Raymond then he was The Mountie and then he was part of The Quebecers this team moved to WCW where they were known as The Amazing French Canadians .
I remember aj being in wcw as they were beginning to build a cruiser weights tag team division and Ahmed Johnson was set to be a huge star but that changed quickly and I don't know what wcw was thinking bringing him on?
When you think about it HHH was WWE best signing. When the Monday nights wars started it was WCW/NWO v WWE/WWF. At the time Vince wasn't sure how to respond. Shawn Micheals and HHH came up with the idea for the faction and I believe it was Shane Mcmahon came up with the DX name. Vince wasn't sure it would work, but when DX became successful he started the whole Attitude Era and WWE ended up winning the Monday nights wars. But if it wasn't for DX Vince would never have gone with the Attitude era. WCW would have won the Monday night wars and we would all be talking about who appeared in WWE before they became WCW stars.
Aj Styles was offered a deal by WWE but he turned it down at the time he was still with the fire department and wanted to stay in the Indy scene for a while and it turned out great for him as we saw what WWE did with Frankie kazarian as most people probably didn't know he was even with WWE / WWF
No one has forgotten that AJ Styles has worked for WCW seeing as that's the only footage WWE uses to talk about his pre-WWE career......
To be fair, dying days of WCW and early days of TNA look pretty similar.
@@MrMisterJW damnnnnn! Fax tho
That is not true, on Photo shoot they showed TNA pics.
@@shawngregory5904 that's not footage
@@MrMisterJW WCW never had Evil Tony Schiavone or 3 Elvis impersonators at once though. :P
I’m a huge WCW fan and stuck with them right til the end, one of things that had potential in 2001 was the new cruiserweights with AJ styles, Elix Skipper, Shane helms the Jung Dragons etc along with Kidman & Rey Jr, the new division could’ve been great with the introduction of the short lived cruiser tag belts also, nobody did the cruiser/light heavyweights better than WCW ✌️
Like What's wrong with cruiserweight tag titles. The person doing the list made it sound like stupid idea even though NJPW has the exact tag titles
James smith yeah I totally agree I loved that they introduced the tag belts it had potential, would’ve been interesting to see if it continued in the Bischoff buyout of WCW, could’ve had Jerry Lynn, Amazing Red, low ki , Christopher Daniels etc all feature in the tag division at that time but we shall never know 👍
I've been thinking about this lately and I totally agree... if bischoff bought wcw their new cruiserweight division would have been lit
@@weRUNdat308 if they could have fazed out all the old guys and hired real bookers because they had a lot of good young talent that was starting to get shine in the dying days of WCW. There is a video on RUclips but can't remember the channel but it talks about what Bishoff had planned for the first PPV if he would have been able to buy WCW
Bats 1986 honestly you’re the only person I’ve ever heard say they stuck with WCW until the end. Not criticizing I think it’s great someone actually admits it since most people jumped ship during the buy out and claimed WWF/WWE allegiance the whole time. Either way it was a great time to be a fan and it hasn’t been the same since.
Surprised Sandman wasn't on this list. Surely people don't remember "Hardcore Hak"
RockNRollHorrorshow I saw this comment, went and googled it and how the hell did I not know this sooner?
You just researched that lol.
I knew about Hardcore Hak. He had my favourite WCW match ever. Raven VS Hardcore Hak VS Bam Bam Bigelow
😂😂😂
@@coolguy5412 That's how I first found out he had a run with the company. Mark Madden also mentioned him in one of his Wrestle Zone columns and his abysmal Nitro match against Rick Steiner featured on the Best of Nitro Volume 3 for some reason.
I remember AJ being a part of Air Raid during WCW's dying days, but the rest of the Top Five genuinely surprised me. Good list, Adam.
Undertaker worked for WCW in 1989 as Mean Mark Callous before going to the WWF.
And he had a match against Sting
Wow when did u figure that out Capt Obvious
10 wrestlers you FORGOT wrestled in WCW ... Nobody has forgotten that Taker worked for WCW for 5 minutes. They're talking about lesser names.
"Undertaker worked for WCW once" is like saying "sting worked for WCW once" ... Everyone knows and remembers.
He's just informing people who may not know, jesus calm down.
@@its_classy the only people who dont know are people who have never given a shit about wrestling. Those of us who currently do watch, or did watch once, all know that undertaker jumped from WCW to WWF at the end of the 80s.
I read somewhere that AJ refused to go to WWE in 2001 because his wife was in college and didn't want to move the family too far from home.
Yes, true
Pretty sure he talked bout it on stone colds podcast awhile back
Yeah he didnt want to move to ohio to join ovw, which would mean his new wife would have to move back in with her parents while she finished college. AJ seems like a top notch guy
@@TJV83 *Guile's theme intensifies*
Also mentioned a few times that WWE offered him just a 500$/week deal at the time, and he knew he’d make more on the indies
Sandman as Hak should’ve been on this list
How can I forget that Jake the Snake was in WCW? Who can forget the masterpiece that is spoken only in shadows that we know as Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal?
"Sting, I knew you'd come"
Oddly enough I didn't forget that Aj Styles worked in WCW, or Triple H, or Davey boy Smith
I have failed you cultaholic
I knew about Davey Boy Smith's 1st WCW run when I was messing around in a Suncoast Motion Picture Company store in the mid-1990s. I never forgot, either! That makes 2 of us. LOL
@@marcus813 if I'm being honest I only knew that Davey boy Smith was in WCW because of his career threatening injury there caused by an angle they were doing with the ultimate warrior at the time
I remember most of them but HHH
I only knew because of the aforementioned N64 game. And that's really only because I had WWF Warzone.
I even knew about Ahmed Johnson because wrestling RUclipsrs keep making jokes about how Booker and him fought about who got to use the letter T in their name lol
That legit blows my mind about Bruno. I thought I'd know everyone on this list but kudos to you guys for stumping me on that one!
forget fantasy booking, when I think about Owen Hart staying in WCW the only thing that comes to my mind is the fact that he'd still be alive
You don't know that. Anything could have happened to the guy.
I've read similar comments they're all speculation even if Owen had stayed in WCW Vince would have still bought WCW anyway and he may or may not have repackaged Owen all we do know is that we lost a great wrestler that fateful night and in closing may Owen and all the wrestlers and wrestling personalities we've lost , love them or hate them , rest well .
@@robertclark2253 there's true to that, but you to have to keep in mind that Vince only bought WCW in 2001 therefore the equipment would be of better quality and the WWE was entering the ruthless aggression era, so it's unlikely that he would be repackaged as blue blazer.
@@dupehotterthansoup true but he almost certainly wouldn't have died in an accident like that.
Again speculation there's no way of telling what might happen in life which is not scripted he MIGHT be alive today if events at the Kemper hadn't gone down then again he MIGHT NOT remember anything can happen in life just as it can in WWE remember life is not scripted .
Imagine if WCW was still alive today...and how different WWE would be today.
O.o I didn't know the game was wait for it the lame XD ooooh I know triple H is going to hit me with his sledgehammer and pedigree me
It still would be had the morons at TimeWarner not made the single biggest mistake in the history of the industry. They didn't think wrestling in general was good enough to be on TNT or TBS. Fast-forward to 2019 and what happens? Warner backflips spectacularly and puts AEW on TNT, thus admitting they were totally wrong to take WCW off the very same channel in the first place.
I was feeling pretty smug about knowing all of these and then the top 3 hit :/
That was Rotundas 3rd run in WCW not his second.
I'd like to see one of these for TNA as well, which was also a revolving door, especially early on. :p
They've made one already
"Cruiserweight Tag Division. That was actually a thing."
Yes, it was a thing. A GOOD thing. WCW had over 20 cruiserweights on the roster.
Most people remember these. AJ Styles may surprise some since he only had 4 matches. Bruno Sammartino and Owen Hart may also be surprising to some. I thought this list may have been more rare ones like Kid Kash (Cash), RVD (Robbie V), Raven's first run (Scotty Flamingo), EZ Money (Jason B/Jett), Jerry Lynn (Mr. JL) and Paul London.
you forgot RVD! he was robbie v for about a year or something.
Undertaker in 1988 as "Mean" Mark Callous. He was managed by Theodore Long.
THAT Thedore Long? Did he try to make every match a "6 man tag team match playa?" Or did he try to make someone go "one on one with Mean Mark Callous"?
IRS worked for WCW as Michael Wallstreet in the early 90’s.
I.R.S was Father of Bray Wyatt , aka Husky Harris of NeXuS (nWo of 2010s )
@@cowboymartyr1699 Can't put anything past you
@@_BigTimer85 I'm from 1920 mate.
Yes I had a WCW trading card with him on it from the early 90's
Thanks a lot Cultaholic. Now Triple H is gonna bury AJ Styles.
Lil trips knew aj was in wcw
Triple H likes wcw it’s Vince that doesn’t
Won't that mean Tripper would bury himself?
Pedigree outta nowhere
Jalen Payton I think AJ will be fine bro...
I actually remembered most of these... I think it was just IRS, Styles, Samartino, and Roberts that I didn't know about. In fact, the first few on the list, I remembered very well.
@bucky468 Seems he was a lower midcarder the entire time so didn't really have any real prominence. Guys that WCW weren't pushing during the Monday Night Wars easily got lost in the shuffle and forgotten.
You can never forget Ahmed Johnson's legendary promos in WWF War Zone, though. STEP UP TO PUNCHY
Juice make sugar
Oddly enough, I remember IRS in the York Foundation as Michael Wallstreet before he got into the WWF. Completely blanked out the NWO days.
Wrestling With Wregret will refresh your memory with Brian Zane's review of WCW Souled Out 1997 PPV!
And Michael Wallstreet introduced us to Alexandra York (Terri Runnels) my 2nd wrestling crush after Miss Elizabeth.
I remember Mike Rhotonda
In a Syracuse Orange singlet
@@reygordo Captain Mike was a bad ass, Varsity Club was the most underrated faction in wrestling. The 88-89 unit would destroy every other faction in wrestling history.
Even Charlotte Flair worked for WCW
she made appearances, charlotte was still 14 years old by time wwe buyed wcw in 2001
Seriously, how could anyone not remember HHH in WCW?
Yeah especially since he wrestled using his real name!
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how could someone remember that if they never knew to begin with? Not everyone watched both brands. I did watch both.
I’m a 2000s kid so that should be my excuse lol
Because not everyone is an aging grape that was 30 years old in the 90s. I know people have been isolating, but get this... there are other people of different ages out there!
Get off your high horse 😆
Who forgot Jarrett worked in WCW? He was Russo's boy!
Nathan Zimmerman remember that as well he was in the horseman and it didn’t work
Let that sink in Shawn stasiak got signed before AJ styles lol
Family connections. Naturally. Nepotism is a problem everywhere.
Everyone who is a fan knows Aj worked in WcW it’s common knowledge by now
Greg Valentine bounced back and forth between WWF and WCW his often time tag partner Honky Tonk Man even showed up in WCW for a few months in 1994 .
Wcw had a great timeline from '89-'94 and we saw tons of top talent come through wcw then HHH Raven Hall and Nash Owen Hart Shane Douglas rvd 2cold Scorpio besides the legends like bulldog Austin Pillman Foley and this is a really underrated time in wrestling as it was great and you can watch most episodes of wcw Saturday night on RUclips
I think you meant “request” not “release” for HHH’s singles push.
IRS spent more time in Jim Crocket/WCW than WWF, the video even shows everything he did there. Good work!
I can tell you the one huge thing that Owen Hart could have done while in WCW. He still be alive. He would’ve never died from that fall.
This was really neat. Nice job with the video
If Owen had signed with WCW he would probably still be alive.
Brian Hurley True
I don't remember Owen and The Anvil being in WCW and I'm 35 and was a WCW person
James smith Owen was in WCW as a singles wrestler in late 1991 to early 1992 Anvil came into WCW after the Survivor Series fiasco in late 1997 along with Davey Boy Smith .
Maybe but at the same time like many 8f the best talent wcw had eg Austin, y2j, Eddie, benoit etc... they wouldn't know how to use him right I think he would ended back at wwe/wwf at some point not that I think wwe used him right he was soo talented he could of been more but I do think they used him better than wcw could of
@@chrisrd86 Austin learned how to wrestle in WCW and is a former multiple time WCW US champ. The US title was the first major championship Austin ever held, which is probably why the WWE have kept the title around to this day (it's the only former WCW championship still active in 2023). Austin just hadn't developed his own skills as a character by that point, which is something he later did while in ECW long before he got to the WWF. Jericho's best work was while he was in WCW and it's where he developed his character. Same with Eddie and unfortunately the wife beating murderer. WCW used them all perfectly well. None of these wrestlers were developed by WWE.
I totally remember Jeff Jarrett being in the 4 Horsemen. How come I can remember that but nothing important? lmao
Jeff's awful outfits probably helped regarding making him memorable. :P
I recall Flair and Double A don't consider him a Horsemen
The editors have a hard-on for disco inferno.. he’s in every scene
I remember a couple of these guys WCW runs.
and before Oz he was actually part of a team called the master blasters
I remember a younger Jake Roberts in Mid Atlantic, the precursor to WCW.
The person who should be #1 on this list, yet you didn't mention, was Christopher Daniels. He wrestled like one match on Nitro and broke his neck.
Actually bounced bounced back and forth between WWF , WCW and the independent leagues between 1998 and 2001 well remembered about the neck injury though have a like.
Loved the cruiserweight tag division.. Rey mysterious & billy Kidman need to bring those to 205
It's like to the writer of this list having those titles was a joke even though NJPW had those type of titles first
Imagine if Eric Bischoff actually saved wcw the wrestling world would be so different today
It still would be had the morons at TimeWarner not made the single biggest mistake in the history of the industry. They didn't think wrestling in general was good enough to be on TNT or TBS. Fast-forward to 2019 and what happens? Warner backflips spectacularly and puts AEW on TNT, thus admitting they were totally wrong to take WCW off the very same channel in the first place.
IRS Was Michael Wallstreet before he was IRS.
Captain Mike Rotunda as well .
I knew all of these things cuz I’m a wrestling nerd but I didn’t know entry 2 had televised matches. I thought it was just dark matches but I’m shocked about him and Ricky Morton tagged. That’s amazing
Btw Rotuna was a really good wrestler, one of my favs who didnt get a lot of gold, him Arn Anderson and Val Venis.
, undertaker, kane, mick Foley, Steve Austin,
James Storm and Chris Harris appeared several times in WCW in 2000 as security for Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo during New Blood storyline, long before they became America's Most Wanted.
If Owen stays with WCW, that might’ve saved his life. WWE didn’t know what to do with good in ring workers in the Attitude Era, so they slapped a gimmick on him, and we know what happened next
Blue blazer was way before attitude era, and Hart died in the new generation era. Attitude era wasn't even an idea yet.
ricky sanchez Blazer was initially before the attitude era yes, but it was brought back in the era. Owen died in 1999. This was the same year Jericho kidnapped and tortured Chyna. This was a year before Mae young’s hand. He died while The Godfather had hos. Owen definitely passed during the Attitude era.
@@jaronhaynes3763 Your right. I completely forgot. I remember the episode of raw that announced Owen's death. For me at the time I was 15. That was 17 years ago. I don't know why I thought he died in the new generation era. 😓 I also forgot about that Chyna Jericho angle. LOL!!! Here's a like!!
ricky sanchez 👍🏾 I just get descriptions and videos. That era must’ve been crazy to watch through. I wasn’t old enough to remember it.
@@jaronhaynes3763 It was the best thing on TV, even had video games and full length movies beat! It's a shame anyone can't buy DVDs of each episode of any generation. I missed the creation of DX somewhere in the new generation era. Really wish I could have seen it step by step, as well as everything they ever did promo wise... I was a big DX fan during the attitude era.
If Owen Hart had stayed in WCW he might of still been alive to this very day.........
The Varsity Club was such an underrated stable.
They would of wrecked every other faction in wrestling history. They had mega heat, were funny, entertaining and brutal in the ring.
No mention of Edge, Rhino, Jerry Lynn (even though you briefly mentioned him), Rick Martel, RVD, or even Marty Jennety?
That's because they all sucked
Sad thing about Owen was he died just a few months before Benoit, Angle, Eddie, Jericho and Dean Malenko all went to the WWE. He would have had amazing matches with all of them.
What about James Storm, Kid Kash and Christopher Daniels?
Damn how racist is the wrestling business Ahmad johnson 1st black intercontinental title in the 90s lol
Keep you’re Sjw bullshit out of here.
@@evildead7597 you shut the hell up! SJWs FOR LIFE!!!
This is only ones I don't remember is Owen Hart, Bruno Sammartino being in the WCW but I remember all the rest
The reality is that the WWE formally known as WWF was built from talents they stole from other promotions. Hulk Hogan, Sott Hall, Ric Flair, The Legion of Doom, Mark Calloway (aka Undertaker), HHH, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Jericho, HBK, Nash, Goldberg, Big Show, Andre the Giant, Mr PErfect, Rick Rude, Steamboat, The Dudley's and many more were all talents that the WWE stole from other promotions. Yet, MARKS will bash companies for using WWE talents, but so easily forgive and forget that the WWE was built from stealing talents from other promotions. WWE rarely developed their own mega stars. Cena, Rock and Lesnar are the few.
Davey Boy Smith in WCW 1993 was a big deal here in the UK - it got people tuning in to Saturday afternoon on ITV once more and alerted the tabloids to WCW's existence. Sting and Davey vs Vader & Sid was THE big pushed WCW feud of 1993.
Undertaker before Mark became well the Undertaker.
A J Styles was in WWF in 1999 on WWF Metal show before WCW. This is his second run with WWE
Only 2 i Forget/ didn’t knew worked for wcw Bruno and Owen
WWF took the Jean Paul gimmick and just gave him a better name. Wcw/nwo revenge was the shit back in the day
I don't know why Jeff ever wore that strap top. It looks like it was meant for Debra lol
If you believe Bruce, Jeff brought that design with him from Memphis and thought it was cool.
Owen Hart should've been at the top of the list and rvd Hall and Nash Raven all were in wcw before the nwo era
I definitely remember Sabu in wcw when I was a kid because after the match he use to spit fireballs on people
I do remember all but two working in tWCW,I really don't remember Owen Hart and Bruno Sanmartino being in the WCW.
This was either because I was in the hospital having back surgery and recoverying or I was busy with my life that I didn't get to watch much of any wrestling.
Mike Rotunda, was in WCW in early nineties and regularly feuded with The Steiners.
I've got one for you. Bruno working for WCW is like Big Match John leaving the WWE to work for TNA!
4:25 direct quote from OSW 👍
Honorable mention: Greg Valentine, Marty Jannette, Rikishi, Billy Jack Haynes, Bob Orton, Road Dog, Nailz
What is the name of background music in the beginning ?
Okay, I’ll give you credit. There was 1 wrestler on the list I didn’t know worked for WCW but that’s because I was just starting to watch WCW when Owen Hart debuted.
Das Wunderkind going over Hunter is so perfect. Exactly the kind of jobbing that Paul so richly deserves. Then he left for WWF so he could job out his dignity and let daddy-in-law pin him for the world title.
"SABU! I'MA CHOKE YOU OUT! SEE YA ON THE THIRTEENTH!"
-TaZ
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Yes i too can't remember these things i never knew.
Need to make this list again and longer.
VK Wallstreet was a revival of Mike Rotunda's "Michael Wallstreet" character from 1990. Michael Wallstreet was mainly famous for (1) putting Mike in a shirt and tie BEFORE Irwin (2) introducing the world to Alexandra York (Terri "Marlena" Boatright-Runnells) laptop-tapping future mistress of the York Foundation whose bodyguard Mr Hughes went onto be enforcer for World champion Lex Luger and his manger Harley Race.
This dude just called the Ultimo Dragon "the Ultimate Dragon", didn't he? 😑
Wcw often called him that way too earlier on...
fascinating wrestling history.... thank you
Even Cultaholic forgot Kane.
Kane wrestled in Smokey Mountain Wrestling and USWA and WWF/E although a former WCW tag team champion that was part of year long "Invasion" angle after the WWF bought WCW .
@@robertclark2253 - He actually had one match against Sting during a TV taping in 1993 as Bruiser Mastino.
Okay just watched it nothing much happened probably why I and Cultaholic forgot about it thanks for bringing it to my attention again have a like.
Jean Paul levisque and stunning Steve are my fav wcw gimmicks and characters ngl
For the comparison of Bruno going to WCW you should of said it would of been like Shawn Michaels going to WCW . He never sold out like Higan, Flair or Brett. Even Sting eventually took that WWE money, Aside from getting fired the first time with The Rockers , he stayed true to the Fed. Him and The Deadman.
If Owen hart took the wcw contract he’d still be alive
Yea knew all of these already😂. I was with wcw before and during the monday night war 😊
Mike Shaw : Trucker Norm /Norman the lunatic WCW 1989 -91 , Bastion Booger WWF 1993-94 . Terry Taylor : Red Rooster WWF 1988-90 Terry Taylor/Terence Taylor/Taylor Made Man WCW 1990-92 , Terrific Terry Taylor WWF 1993-94 .
Known as The Quebecers In WWF and The Amazing French Canadians in WCW anyone ?
Not only that, but PCO is still wrestling today!
Jaque Rogeau was in a tag team with his brother Raymond then he was The Mountie and then he was part of The Quebecers this team moved to WCW where they were known as The Amazing French Canadians .
Bruno doesn't surprise me that much seeing as he and Vince had heat for years.
It's funny as Bruno worked as a commentator for Herb Abrahams UWF
If only vince had kept his word just imagine how much better the new generation era would have been with Jake as the booker.
I didn't forget about any of these. Why are you assuming i did???
Jimmy Del Ray WWF 1993-95 , WCW 1996-97 as Jimmy Graffiti . Bob Holly WWF 1991-92 , WCW 1992-93 , WWF 1993-2006 and 2007-2009 .
Some of these blew my mind
I remember aj being in wcw as they were beginning to build a cruiser weights tag team division and Ahmed Johnson was set to be a huge star but that changed quickly and I don't know what wcw was thinking bringing him on?
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I'm pretty sure AJ styles has or had worked in every major promotion. ROH, NJPW, TNA, WCW, CZW, and WWE
Aj styles to AEW hmmm that would put bums in seats
You should do a list of 10 wrestlers who wrestled on both starrcade and WrestleMania
Adam Copeland was also in WCW before being „Edge" in WWF. He was named „Damon Striker" if i remember correctly.
yes he was
he was on thunder for a little
When you think about it HHH was WWE best signing. When the Monday nights wars started it was WCW/NWO v WWE/WWF. At the time Vince wasn't sure how to respond. Shawn Micheals and HHH came up with the idea for the faction and I believe it was Shane Mcmahon came up with the DX name. Vince wasn't sure it would work, but when DX became successful he started the whole Attitude Era and WWE ended up winning the Monday nights wars. But if it wasn't for DX Vince would never have gone with the Attitude era. WCW would have won the Monday night wars and we would all be talking about who appeared in WWE before they became WCW stars.
9:05 actually he refused to be signed because his wife was attending college and he wanted to stay with her, so he couldn't travel constantly with WWE
Aj Styles was offered a deal by WWE but he turned it down at the time he was still with the fire department and wanted to stay in the Indy scene for a while and it turned out great for him as we saw what WWE did with Frankie kazarian as most people probably didn't know he was even with WWE / WWF