15 Times WCW Was Better Than Literally EVERYTHING

15. SuperBrawl? More Like Super Tag Team Wrestling!

Tag team wrestling over in the WWF by mid-1991 looked like this: The Nasty Boys were champs, and they clashed with everyone from Hart Foundation duo Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart to The Legion Of Doom's Hawk and Animal. That was all well and good, and these teams did have solid matches, but WCW's star-laden SuperBrawl 1 clash proved what was possible for a doubles division that went next level.

Singles stars Sting and Lex Luger combined to take on The Steiners in what must be considered one of the finest tag bouts of all time. Put this match in front of a WWE or AEW audience today and they'd still leap out of their seats to cheer and applaud. WCW's quartet mixed superior tag chemistry (Rick and Scott, obviously) with some of the best power moves available for the era.

The way Scotty Steiner, in particular, hit suplexes, powerbombs and more was bespoke to him, and it gave people a brief teaser of what it'd be like once he went solo. This was one hell of a tag team effort - you just didn’t see tag bouts this dynamic featuring big stars on the WWF side at the time. Contrast and compare this to Hulk Hogan teaming with The Ultimate Warrior vs. Sgt. Slaughter, Colonel Adnan and General Adnan at SummerSlam the very same year.

It's night and day. Heaven and hell.

Nobody was delivering hard-hitting tag matches that also had this kind of star power on pay-per-view in 1991. You'd have needed the likes of Hogan and Warrior to develop classic New Japan skills to see that. Meanwhile, in WCW, it was happening in front of a pumped up live crowd who knew they were seeing something special.