10 WWE Stars You Forgot Fought For WCW During The Monday Night War
If you stared at the lights for WWE in the 80's, you were in hot demand in WCW during the 90's.
Every wrestling fan remembers where they were when Scott Hall showed up in the crowd on WCW Monday Nitro in 1996. Likewise, few of us will forget ex- WWE Champion Kevin Nash's arrival a few weeks later and his declaration of war powerbomb on Eric Bischoff.
The steady stream of ex-WWE names that would come to follow The Outsiders in 1996, in bolstering WCW's arsenal, was a veritable who's who of stars synonymous with WWE during the 80's and 90's.
As WWE names like Sean Waltman, Roddy Piper and Bret Hart ignited the Monday Night War in WCW's favour, a host of other stars made less than memorable jumps to take up infantry roles for WCW.
While the majority of these (somewhat) legendary names were key performers in WWE's rise to the top of the industry in the 1980's, many originally earned their stripes in the AWA, alongside WCW head honcho Eric Bischoff.
While a connection with Bischoff was more than likely their route to the front lines of the Monday Night War, their career trajectories showed no favouritism, as they soon found themselves as fodder for Bill Goldberg to spear and jackhammer.
10. Barry Darsow
One half of one of the greatest tag-teams in WWE history, Demolition (and perpetrator of one of the worst gimmicks in WWE history, Repo Man); Barry Darsow was a WWE stalwart from 1987 to 1993.
After an ill-fated run in WCW - both he and Dustin Rhodes were fired for bleeding during their infamous King of the Road match in 1995 - Darsow disappeared from the wrestling spotlight entirely.
Wrestling in regional promotions in his native Minnesota, Darsow made an unexpected return to WCW in 1997 during the height of the company's popularity. Returning under his own name with all the fanfare of a party horn, Darsow quickly became a forgettable undercard heel on secondary shows Worldwide and Saturday Night.
Repackaged in late 1998 under the sure-fire gimmick of villainous golf player Mr Hole-In-One, Darsow hit another air shot as his career trajectory remained consigned to jobbing to the likes of Jim Duggan on Saturday Night.
Throughout WCW's perilous 1999, Darsow, suffered a bout of amnesia, causing him to reprise his old characters Krusher Kruschev and the Blacktop Bully. He used these for the remainder of his time with the company, before departing in 2000.