Great clip 🙂 On the Kurt Angle title reign: he won it from Booker T on an episode of Smackdown, but lost it back to Booker on the next Raw 6 days later, giving Booker his 5th WCW Championship reign. Then Booker lost the belt to The Rock 20 days later at Summerslam.
After Luger won the world title, his first major challenge came from Ron Simmons. At a signing ceremony for their title match at Halloween Havoc in a two out of three falls match, there was a controversial angle where Luger invited Simmons, once his challenge had been turned back, to join his entourage, but as a chauffeur. Luger went on to retain the championship in the match by two falls to one. Eventually, Luger began to have his own issues with WCW, and the contract he had seemed to have him wrestling less and less while still collecting money. After ending his feud with Simmons, Luger had a brief feud with Rick Steiner, defeating him on the November 19 Clash of the Champions XVII.Luger's contract only required him to work a specific number of dates, and having fulfilled them he "sat out" the end of 1991 and beginning of 1992. Aside from one title defense against Masahiro Chono at WCW/New Japan Supershow II (Starrcade in Tokyo Dome), Luger did not wrestle a match until SuperBrawl II, where he lost his WCW title to Sting.
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion that existed from 1988 to 2001. It began as a promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) that appeared on the national scene under the ownership of media mogul Ted Turner and based in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to the launch of WCW as a separate promotion, the "World Championship Wrestling" name was used for a television program produced by NWA promotions Georgia Championship Wrestling and Jim Crockett Promotions on TBS; the name came from an Australian wrestling promotion of the 1970s.
With the WCW World Heavyweight Championship now vacant, Barry Windham was declared the No. 2 contender and was set to face Luger in the cage match at The Great American Bash. During the match, Harley Race and Mr. Hughes came to ringside. While Hughes kept Windham's attention, Race told Luger that "now is the time" to perform a piledriver on the distracted Windham. Luger did so and won the match, thereby winning his first WCW World Heavyweight Championship. As Flair still had the original championship belt and the new belt was not ready in time, Luger initially wore the NWA Western States Heritage Championship, which had been altered to resemble the world title.
1989 proved to be a turnaround year for WCW, with Ric Flair as both World Champion and head booker. Flair would bring in Ricky Steamboat and Terry Funk, and his pay-per-view matches with Steamboat were financially and critically successful. Young stars such as Sid Vicious, Sting, Scott Steiner, The Road Warriors, Brian Pillman, The Great Muta and Lex Luger were given major storylines and championship opportunities. In March 1990, however, Flair would be fired as head booker after WCW talent began to argue that Flair was booking things in his favor. One of these examples was Flair's refusal to drop the WCW World title to Lex Luger, as he had already promised to drop it to Sting, who himself had been injured earlier in the year. Despite high ratings climbed and had well-received shows, Flair would be eventually replaced by Ole Anderson as head booker.
During the period that WCW operated with its own World Heavyweight Championship, while also recognizing the NWA's world title, Flair left the WWF on good terms and returned to WCW, regaining the NWA title from Barry Windham in July 1993. The title was later scheduled to be dropped by Flair to Rick Rude, a title change which was exposed by the pre-taping of matches at the Disney-MGM Studios, known as the Disney tapings. The NWA board of directors, working separately from WCW, objected to the title being changed without their vote and WCW left the NWA for good in September 1993.[citation needed] WCW still legally owned and used the actual belt which represented the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, however, and Rick Rude even defended it as the "Big Gold Belt", but they could no longer use the NWA name. The title thus became known as the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship as the World Heavyweight Championship as sanctioned by fictitious subsidiary WCW International.[32] WCW claimed that WCW International still recognized the belt as a legitimate World Championship. For a short while, there were essentially two world titles up for competition in the organization, with Sting winning the WCW International title, while Flair captured the WCW World Heavyweight Championship from Big Van Vader. The two titles were unified by Flair in a match on June 23, 1994.
So the weird thing is, looking at the WCW title reigns, no one is perfect. Whereas with the WWE title, it's easy to say, "Shawn, Bret, Austin, Hogan, Rock, Cena and Reigns have carried the company, and their title runs were important." in WCW, you can't say that about many reigns. Like I agree with your guys' pick for the most part, but they're on the WCW curve. If you compared these title reigns to WWF title reigns in the same period, jeez, the WWF would murder these reigns.
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Benoit's win was more about the years he was a mid card kinda like Ziggler. Nothing special after winning his wwe win though by ending the reign of terror and passing the torch to Orton is the true story.
Although years later Arquette actually went through the grind of becoming an actual pro wrestler so that something I can respect which makes him better than Russo!!
Booker being S tier I think is being FAR too generous. Look don't get me wrong. Booker was a great wrestler. And one of the few things I would actually commend Russo for is giving Booker a chance. HOWEVER...if you actually go back and actually watch how Booker's time on top went, he actually kind of sucked as World Champion, but that's 100% on creative, not Booker. They made Booker look like such a joke as champion. He did get some wins, but almost every week he was made to look weak and an idiot.
i would place Hogan in S tier. Him with the NWO spray painted Championship, and playing it like guitar to Voodoo child is as majestic as wrestling gets for me
Goldberg should be S Tier. His win vs Hogan is one of the best moments in WCW history.
The phrase "not on top of Luger, but behind luger in good stuff" popped me hard
Vacant is the true S Tier champion in every company.
The goat they don’t wanna tell us about
he still doesnt wanna share his key to such massive success though
Great clip 🙂 On the Kurt Angle title reign: he won it from Booker T on an episode of Smackdown, but lost it back to Booker on the next Raw 6 days later, giving Booker his 5th WCW Championship reign. Then Booker lost the belt to The Rock 20 days later at Summerslam.
Great video! Would love to see this with the WWE champions too
TNA champions as well
I think they already did WWE champions... In fact, that was the list that started all this.
Steve and Larson are the REAL S tier
# FriendoClub4LIFE
Vince Russo is not only the worst booker of all time but also the best booker of all time. So much unintentional comedy
the best thing he ever did in WCW is making Booker T the WCW Champion
After Luger won the world title, his first major challenge came from Ron Simmons. At a signing ceremony for their title match at Halloween Havoc in a two out of three falls match, there was a controversial angle where Luger invited Simmons, once his challenge had been turned back, to join his entourage, but as a chauffeur. Luger went on to retain the championship in the match by two falls to one. Eventually, Luger began to have his own issues with WCW, and the contract he had seemed to have him wrestling less and less while still collecting money. After ending his feud with Simmons, Luger had a brief feud with Rick Steiner, defeating him on the November 19 Clash of the Champions XVII.Luger's contract only required him to work a specific number of dates, and having fulfilled them he "sat out" the end of 1991 and beginning of 1992. Aside from one title defense against Masahiro Chono at WCW/New Japan Supershow II (Starrcade in Tokyo Dome), Luger did not wrestle a match until SuperBrawl II, where he lost his WCW title to Sting.
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion that existed from 1988 to 2001. It began as a promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) that appeared on the national scene under the ownership of media mogul Ted Turner and based in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to the launch of WCW as a separate promotion, the "World Championship Wrestling" name was used for a television program produced by NWA promotions Georgia Championship Wrestling and Jim Crockett Promotions on TBS; the name came from an Australian wrestling promotion of the 1970s.
With the WCW World Heavyweight Championship now vacant, Barry Windham was declared the No. 2 contender and was set to face Luger in the cage match at The Great American Bash. During the match, Harley Race and Mr. Hughes came to ringside. While Hughes kept Windham's attention, Race told Luger that "now is the time" to perform a piledriver on the distracted Windham. Luger did so and won the match, thereby winning his first WCW World Heavyweight Championship. As Flair still had the original championship belt and the new belt was not ready in time, Luger initially wore the NWA Western States Heritage Championship, which had been altered to resemble the world title.
1989 proved to be a turnaround year for WCW, with Ric Flair as both World Champion and head booker. Flair would bring in Ricky Steamboat and Terry Funk, and his pay-per-view matches with Steamboat were financially and critically successful. Young stars such as Sid Vicious, Sting, Scott Steiner, The Road Warriors, Brian Pillman, The Great Muta and Lex Luger were given major storylines and championship opportunities. In March 1990, however, Flair would be fired as head booker after WCW talent began to argue that Flair was booking things in his favor. One of these examples was Flair's refusal to drop the WCW World title to Lex Luger, as he had already promised to drop it to Sting, who himself had been injured earlier in the year. Despite high ratings climbed and had well-received shows, Flair would be eventually replaced by Ole Anderson as head booker.
During the period that WCW operated with its own World Heavyweight Championship, while also recognizing the NWA's world title, Flair left the WWF on good terms and returned to WCW, regaining the NWA title from Barry Windham in July 1993. The title was later scheduled to be dropped by Flair to Rick Rude, a title change which was exposed by the pre-taping of matches at the Disney-MGM Studios, known as the Disney tapings. The NWA board of directors, working separately from WCW, objected to the title being changed without their vote and WCW left the NWA for good in September 1993.[citation needed] WCW still legally owned and used the actual belt which represented the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, however, and Rick Rude even defended it as the "Big Gold Belt", but they could no longer use the NWA name. The title thus became known as the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship as the World Heavyweight Championship as sanctioned by fictitious subsidiary WCW International.[32] WCW claimed that WCW International still recognized the belt as a legitimate World Championship. For a short while, there were essentially two world titles up for competition in the organization, with Sting winning the WCW International title, while Flair captured the WCW World Heavyweight Championship from Big Van Vader. The two titles were unified by Flair in a match on June 23, 1994.
Goldberg, Vader and Poppa Pump got robbed.
Can't say I disagree with any of these spots even though I was at the right age to think Scott Steiner was unbeatable in 2000 lol
So the weird thing is, looking at the WCW title reigns, no one is perfect. Whereas with the WWE title, it's easy to say, "Shawn, Bret, Austin, Hogan, Rock, Cena and Reigns have carried the company, and their title runs were important." in WCW, you can't say that about many reigns. Like I agree with your guys' pick for the most part, but they're on the WCW curve. If you compared these title reigns to WWF title reigns in the same period, jeez, the WWF would murder these reigns.
HBK didn`t draw as champ in 96 so the title was put back on Bret and ratings increased instantly.
Goldburg and Booker should definitely switch. Everything else may have small movements in their own tiers but you guys did a good & fair job.
Hogan is S teir... thats bullshit
Him with the NWO spray painted Championship, and playing it like guitar to Voodoo child is as majestic as wrestling gets for me
NWO were S tier and put WCW on the map however Hogan should never have got the belt back after losing to Sting.
If you guys are ever starved for content, i would LOVE you guys reaction to Fd. signifiers video about wrestling.😮
Bro! I'm gonna make me champion, bro!
Scott Steiner = S TIER IN MY LIST!
there's a 33.5% chance I agree with you
2000 weren`t S tier though.
RIP WCW
Gone But Never Forgotten
NWO 4 LIFE 😎🤘
This is so lame
@@kinnikuboneman No its not
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Vader was absolutely dominant in WCW at one point. I''d put him S-Tier.
Not for long though.
Benoit's win was more about the years he was a mid card kinda like Ziggler. Nothing special after winning his wwe win though by ending the reign of terror and passing the torch to Orton is the true story.
I’m surprised Goldberg only had that one title reign. He held the Universal Championship more than the WCW Championship
Him losing to Nash killed his heat and they wanted Bret to be champ because Goldberg was a one pace wrestler.
Although years later Arquette actually went through the grind of becoming an actual pro wrestler so that something I can respect which makes him better than Russo!!
Kurt beat Booker, then lost it back to Booker
Booker being S tier I think is being FAR too generous.
Look don't get me wrong. Booker was a great wrestler. And one of the few things I would actually commend Russo for is giving Booker a chance.
HOWEVER...if you actually go back and actually watch how Booker's time on top went, he actually kind of sucked as World Champion, but that's 100% on creative, not Booker.
They made Booker look like such a joke as champion. He did get some wins, but almost every week he was made to look weak and an idiot.
Only 19 WcW champions ever woww
kurt got it from booker t than booker t got it back than the rock took it from booker t
No Rick rude though
Sad
Hot take: I wouldn't put Sting in the "S" tier.
Crow Sting v NWO was an S tier fued but his reign was as quick a flash, his first reign as NWA champ was awful.
benoit should have been Russo
i would place Hogan in S tier. Him with the NWO spray painted Championship, and playing it like guitar to Voodoo child is as majestic as wrestling gets for me
Yes but he kept winning it too much and main evented for too long.
If sting is not#1, I'll riot!....uh, I'll quarrel? ...nah, it's your opinions, I probably won't be bothered, lol
His first reign as NWA champ drew poor ratings and he lost the title in his first defense as crow Sting.
Scott hall/outsiders s tier. Vader s tier. Harlem heat s tier.
Vader got ruined by losing to Hogan.