7 Wrestlers WCW Gave Up On

7. The Renegade

WCW were so convinced of snagging The Ultimate Warrior's signature ahead of Uncensored '95 that they started hyping the debut at the show of "The Ultimate Surprise!".

Only, they didn't get big Jim to sign on the dotted line - yet continued to promote him anyway.

Come the pay-per-view, out ran a man something almost but not entirely unlike the Warrior, replete with slightly off facepaint and slightly off Jimmy Hart theme music. Given some fans aren't willing to believe to this very day that the actual Ultimate Warrior who appeared at WrestleMania VIII was the real deal, absolutely nobody was falling for WCW's scam.

'The Renegade', as he was known, looked like Warrior - if you squinted your brain - and he moved like Warrior. He was even pushed like Warrior, almost immediately beating Arn Anderson for the Television Championship. But this wasn't Warrior, and WCW's fans rightly rejected the lame gimmick.

When the real McCoy contacted several magazines to dispel any suggestion that this significantly smaller and significantly crapper copy was him, the game was up. Their scheme exposed, WCW quickly took the TV title off Renegade and sent him plummeting down the pecking order.