50 Best WCW Moments Ever
Ignore WWE's revisionist history today. WCW was as epic as it was crazy!
WCW is great for having a right good chuckle at how rubbish wrestling can be. There's no denying that, and yet the old WWE-beater still has legions of fans who feel their tear ducts swell when merely thinking about the place they called, "Where The Big Boys Play". Nitro, the nWo, Sting, Goldberg. Hell, even Thunder and Saturday Night can pull up chairs at this party.
What a promotion.
Sure, laughing at select stinkers from 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999 and 2000 is fun, but WCW hit the headiest of heady heights too. There's a lot of passion in these pages, and a lot of love for what World Championship Wrestling brought to the biz. Eric Bischoff can be rightly proud of what he achieved - he almost toppled the McMahon empire before 'Attitude' sorted that side out and political problems at Turner tore WCW apart.
Join us as we recap all of the best WCW had to offer. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cry again, just maybe not as much as Ric Flair did! This is a love letter penned earnestly to the three letters not-named WWF on everyone's lips in the 90s.
But whose side are you on?!
50. Harlem Heat Become 10-Time Champs
It's the most WCW of WCW things to kick off this list with a historic moment that was so utterly confusing when it happened. At Halloween Havoc 1999, Booker T and Stevie Ray teamed up to take on Brian Knobbs and Hugh Morrus as well as Konnan and Billy Kidman (who thought they were champs going in) in a three-way tag 'Street Fight'. It was something to behold.
Typical weapon-based brawling off the day took place, then the finish had everyone scratching their heads. Technically, Harlem Heat scored a pinfall backstage a few minutes before one occurred out in front of the fans. It'd take ring announcer David Penzer to thrash that out before revealing that Heat had won their 10th set of WCW Tag-Team Titles.
This was colossal for the brothers.
The maddening booking would be a portent of things to come under Vince Russo's watch, but Harlem Heat fans were happy at Havoc '99 and rightfully so. Starting this collection of iconic WCW moments off with a celebration of something the promotion definitely did right (pushing Heat and tag wrestling in general) feels good.