20 Secret Highlights Of WCW That WWE Won't Tell You About
WCW was more than just Goldberg and the nWo, although you wouldn't know it to hear WWE tell it.
World Championship Wrestling has been dead and buried for nigh on fifteen years now, and its corpse has been mined repeatedly for DVD sets, retro t-shirts, and premium video game DLC.
WWE has never been afraid to tell us about their departed rival, but their version of WCW history is skewed to say the least. We hear about Goldberg, the nWo, and maybe the cruiserweights, because that's what WCW was doing during the period they were beating WWE, but there's literal decades of strange, wonderful wrestling that barely rates a mention according to them.
This list goes beyond the obvious, and well as outside WCW's most successful periods, to paint a more accurate portrait of what was once one of the greatest promotions on Earth.
20. WCW's Musical Renaissance - 1999-2000
After 1999, it became harder and harder to find things to like in WCW. The cruiserweights were deemphasized, the nWo had fizzled out three or four separate times, and the Goldberg magic was gone. If you were a fan of cheesy music-inspired wrestling gimmicks, though, 2000 WCW was IT, man.
Hardy Boy adjacents Shannon Moore and Shane Helms teamed up with soap opera walk-on Evan Karagias to form 3-Count, the wrestling boy band. Cruiserweight placeholder Prince Iaukea became the Artist Formerly Known as Prince Iaukea and fought the Maestro, an old-timey piano guy. A baseball-themed jobber known as the Most Violent Player was transformed into a Gene Simmons impersonator during a ratings-tanking Kiss concert.
The Insane Clown Posse and the Misfits both showed up at one time or another to hang out with Vampiro. Most fondly-remembered, however, were the West Texas Rednecks, a country and western ensemble formed by definitely-not-Minnesotan Curt Hennig to battle Master P's No Limit Soldiers.