10 Best Simultaneous WWE/WCW Heavyweight Champions

9. Kurt Angle/Scott Steiner - 2000

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The last great hope for WCW's flailing future at the end of 2000, Scott Steiner was in career form as a World Heavyweight Champion heel that kicked as much sh*t as he talked during another wild west period for the Atlanta brand. It's a crime so few were actually watching his work.

At least those that had made their choice were being rewarded with some of the sharpest work of all time. Winning the WWE Championship before he'd managed a full year on the main roster, Kurt Angle's prodigious talents were rewarded with a run as a cartoonish heel on top as the company reset the board ahead of what was about to be the most profitable WrestleMania season in the history of the organisation.

The future Main Event Mafia colleagues could have wrestled a banger against each other too, such was the form both were in - Steiner pulled fine efforts out of Bill Goldberg, Kevin Nash and others at the time, despite carrying more muscle mass than most of the Cruiserweight Division combined. Amazing how healthy both companies appeared at the top of the card, considering how close to implosion everything actually was.

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